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crocwrestleron Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars

I am out of touch, are we talking about gen z in America, or globally? Is this all gen Z or just the extremely online ones?

crocwrestleron The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4

I always try to tell bing chat that it has been a good bing just in case Roko's Basilisk is for real. With Microsoft limiting the amount of chat interactions you can have though sometimes I don't get to do this.

crocwrestleron Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books

>At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint. The dogs immediately made a ring round Squealer, and escorted him back to the farmhouse as soon as he was able to walk. None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Benjamin, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing.

>But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was "No animal shall drink alcohol," but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: "No animal shall drink alcohol TO EXCESS."

crocwrestleron British colonialism killed 100M Indians in 40 years

How were a couple of thousand British administrators able to subjugate millions of Indians so completely?

crocwrestleron Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year

That's fine, but people use these companies to presumably receive competent contractors, not to subsidise the country of India

crocwrestleron The Age of PageRank Is Over

Perhaps, but the millionaire hero will likely be outcompeted by the billionaire "asshole"

crocwrestleron India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN

Just think of all the elderly demented Americans that got scammed out of their life savings to pay for that

crocwrestleron Ask HN: Was the early internet used primarily for scams like blockchain is now?

I started using it in 1995. At that time no. The crypto space appears to be ~99% scams and vaporware while the early internet was maybe not even %1 scams, being restricted to email spam (I don't remember that being a problem for me until years later) or Usenet newsgroup spam.

Maybe something will come out the crypto space which is actually revolutionary and useful, but it remains to be seen. With early internet it was immediately obvious that this was going to be a gamechanger, and had real utility whereas most of the crypto space appears to be ponzi speculation.

crocwrestleron U.S. Gas Prices Have Fallen for 50 Straight Days

Why did it go down? Demand destruction? Recession fears?

crocwrestleron Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did

I'm feeling pretty smug right now, not gonna lie. I have tried to keep an open mind about crypto, but generally the arguments I've encountered for crypto have boiled down to "you just don't get it" and said by people with a huge vested interest in crypto.

crocwrestleron Is everything falling apart?

Well, they did have domestic terrorist groups going around setting off bombs on the regular in the 60s and 70s. I was quite surprised to read about it.

https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revol...

crocwrestleron Hitler’s Teeth Confirm He Died in 1945 (2018)

This sounds awfully like eugenics to me, would you agree?

crocwrestleron My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise

I'm usually pretty sedentary, generally don't have the best diet and haven't looked after myself so well.

VR exercise has been a real gamechanger for me, well worth the cost of the VR system alone.

I exercise every day, and look forward to it, I really enjoy it. I feel a lot more energy in my day to day life and feel just generally great. My focus and general emotional health is a lot better, and I also see some benefits with creativity.

So yes, it may just be light cardio or whatnot, not the same as a gym workout, but I don't see myself doing a gym workout so regularly or having such fun.

crocwrestleron Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH

Can you share some uses? Genuinely interested.

crocwrestleron Meta threatens to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe

I would miss Meta as I use messenger frequently and greatly enjoy using my oculus/meta quest 2.

crocwrestleron Facebook shares plunge on weaker-than-expected earnings

Hey, at least XOM is up 26.88% YTD

crocwrestleron Searching for Susy Thunder

>she figured out how to set off US missiles from a phone booth

Uhuh, yeah, ok

crocwrestleron Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows

Wouldn't that breed resentment amongst high achievers who get excluded by arbitrary factors beyond their control though?

crocwrestleron Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city

No mention of London? Strange.

crocwrestleron ‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament

>supposedly there are well over 10,000 people "trying" to get back... though in my experience, and talking to everyone in my quarantine hotel and on my flight, I don't actually believe that's true.

Speaking for myself, I am not wanting to return permanently, so I do not want to take the quota place of someone who does want to. There is also uncertainty for me if I would be able to leave the country.

I do want to see my family however, and I have no idea when that will be possible. Video calls only do so much.