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Looking forward to one that will let me touch grass from my computer.

> For the record, psychology research has demonstrated that humans do not think in language. This was a popular myth started by someone in the 1930's or so, I think, leading to authoritarian ideas about thought control via language control

Are you describing strong linguistic relativity here? I was under the impression the weak form still held under study (e.g. names of colors being the popular example).

I haven't encountered the notion that "humans do not think in language." Is there a paper or keyword I can look up?

> does that imply that there is no shared american culture?

I think you might've convinced me of this just with your comment.

Also, flip "religion" and "culture" and the post still (mostly) works, though I don't think that proves anything.

The moral/preference idea is closer, but you get a lot of gray areas like sports teams and Sunday roasts (complete with threat of excommunication for non-adherence).

Papers with claims that don't match their citations aren't a new phenomenon, so probably nothing.

We used to be able to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. Being influencable by advertising is a moral failing. </s>

$EvilCompany releases a waste-eating bacteria to cover up their waste dumping. It works, but it might be doing more harm than good. (That's not the synopsis of the book, just the part I'm guessing they're referring to).

I think this has been done before, as early as 2022, according to this article: https://globalnews.ca/news/8583562/drone-delivery-organ-tran...

I'd actually assumed it'd be commonplace by now, but I can't find too many stories about it.

You're betting that someone's going to get a jail sentence for this? Because I doubt it.

> everyone had the same jokes

I wonder? Surely total viewership across those few channels was less than an episode of Friends in the 90s.

And I'd bet people watched less television and engaged in other activities, maybe came up with some jokes of their own.

(Doesn't really have anything to do with your point, sorry)

If the Unabomber had used an LLM instead of composing his manifesto manually, he may not have been caught in the manner he was.

It's okay if you don't like every comment you read. You don't have to make it a thing and you don't have to tell us. It's better for yourself and for us if you silently move on. There are so many comments.

Talking about various aspects of the article is the entire point of the comment thread. Meta-discussion about what's worth commenting on is not.

Renoir's kind of "pop" as far as Impressionists go. Laypeople like him because his work is easy to look at, but trained artists can find a lot to fault in his technique and composition. He was also kind of an asshole.

From TFA:

> Normal Google Applications (T2), S0 RCE: $75,000 base × 1.2 for exceptional report quality.

"Easy" isn't a factor in calculating the bounty.

> giant phallic object behind the actor

They could do that with green screen, so that's not relevant. Of course, now they can put the phallus anywhere else, and that's more of a problem.

Even more than that, anything to keep people out will also block some legitimate users.

There's also some propaganda power in maintaining a widely-cited encyclopedia (and maybe a psyops angle).

They're fragment links, so you can use your browser's back button to go back to where you were.

Unrelated to the article: Roadside Picnic inspired a movie called Stalker, which in turn inspired the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series.

> Roads are entirely subsidized by people.

I think this isn't strictly true, and heavy vehicles in the US have to pay a "Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax." Whether that's commensurate to the damage they do, I don't know.

Realistically ACs have timers, so you're really only optimizing for days where you go off-schedule.

Can confirm. I'm pretty sure it's Keaton Patti's writing, "forced a bot to watch 1000 hours of..." is his shtick. It's all hand written to read like an exaggerated, comedic Markov chain output.

It is just about piracy. Sony's repeatedly demonstrated they don't care about their users' safety (see: numerous high profile data leaks), and these bootloader exploits aren't the sort of thing a virus can exploit.

> (basically Rock Band, and very latency sensitive)

I contest that rhythm games are the least latency sensitive. You'll automatically adjust to (consistent) latency and not notice it. You also don't get much feedback unless you miss a note.

There are private clinics like Medcan, which you can pay for checkups, referrals, etc., so it's not all single payer. You usually end up in the same queue for MRIs though, so it doesn't help there.

> he's old.

He's only 82, and he's got a billion-dollar nonprofit dedicated to keeping him healthy. Don't count on him being on the way out.

I assume you're talking about Impossible Burger and its ilk. Stuff like methylcellulose (non-digestible fiber) and L-Tryptophan (present in meat and eggs, added here to supplement nutrition) sound scary, but they're everywhere as boring nutritional additives.

The only odd one is soy leghemoglobin, which comes from soybeans but mimics meat hemoglobin. It's just part of the legume, though.

The only troubling thing on the ingredients list is how much oil they put into it, but you can make the same complaint with 70/30 meat burgers. The macros are bad, but most burgers are.

I hope you use fresh turmeric for your Indian meal, because the powdered stuff is sometimes adulterated with lead oxide.

> the ultra processed soy beans and various chemical binders wearing a meat Halloween costume.

This reads like propaganda. Take tofurkey for example, it's just seitan and tofu and the same "chemical binders" you'll see in every other product in the freezer aisle.

And tofu is only as "ultra-processed" as cheese or bread is.

I don't think this is always true; mature security teams consider their threat models. There's just a lot of Schneier groupies in the field as well...

Replace "goal" with "solution" and it makes sense. Otherwise (trite) you might solve the wrong problem.

I don't think it was just the random generation; Desktop Adventures didn't quite have the depth of a rogue game.

Not etymologically related, just homophones; barb (from French) and barbarian (from Greek) have distinct roots.