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Personally, I hope never. I am in one right now and there is no such thing as "brotherhood" but a grift to drain the corp like a stuck pig to the point of death. It's extremely annoying not being able to fix the problems you know exist because it's not in our contract. Or the DEEP fear of automation because my coworkers refuse to learn new skills and are timeservers and do nothing because they are protected.

If you can avoid it, stay as far away as you can. The gains do not outweigh the cost.

Rant over.

They have it because they don't spend on defense like the USA does. The US taxpayer is the world's golden goose and by means of things like NATO are subsidizing the European socialist healthcare systems.

If the USA cut it's funding in these lines Europe would be back to square one in a very shot time.

I use Bitwarden to store my passkeys. Syncs to all my devices and just works. I have very few issues with it. Also for the truly paranoid, you can run the open-source back end on your own server if you want.

https://bitwarden.com/passwordless-passkeys/

You do realize that the term "Conspiracy Theory" was created by the CIA as a psychological operation directly targeting he American public to suppress truth about the Kennedy assassination?

The truth is the game was rigged from the start.

"They" don't want you to stop, they want you to step in line. The machine will do the thinking for you.

This is what I'm talking about... Not knowing how to fix the problem should not exclude attempts to fix the problem. The logic is strange to me.

I feel like there is a group of people that *deeply* want the autism rates to continue at the rate they are at due to some strange ideation. It's hard to describe what I mean, but the closest thing I can think of is a social contagion or a society wide Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

Does that make sense?

Indeed! But more than that it's accurate.

For anyone who is familiar with the Security Now podcast there is an excellent write-up from Steve Gibson on the topic for nerds as we all work in man made caves and don't get sun. Highly recommended.

I would also recommend Dr. John Campbell's videos on the topic as he is quite thorough when reviewing the medical research.

One interesting point John makes is that if you are already sick Vit D is to slow as it needs to metabolize and calcifediol (25-hydroxyvitamin D3, the active form) is what patents need after infection.

Links:

https://www.grc.com/health/vitamin-d.htm

https://www.youtube.com/@Campbellteaching/search?query=vitam...

Cool jobs get the gender treatment. Ain't no women begging to work on an oil derrick or be a plumber.

Empowering to do what? If NASA spends all day making comics then will attract people that like making media about rockets and not rockets themselves.

If NASA makes cool rockets then they will attract people that naturally align with their mission of making cool rockets.

If you do [THING] get good at doing [THING] and you will attract people that also want to do [THING].

Medication is already mostly affordable but the hospitals are allowed to hyper-inflate prices for their shareholders.

We need to make sure the medical industry can't run like a back alley mafia loan shark before giving the crooks more money.

source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R2DKolx_zFI?feature=share

And 8 out of 10 dentists prefer Colgate...

7 Day cycles are not an abstract invention but a fact of biology.

Link to research: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27830946/

Link to full PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309898157_Seven-day...

100% agree.

I love markdown and use it for all my notes, however it really needs a native way to underline. I have been converting some older books and lectures to markdown and underline is used all the time.

If anyone has a good solution I'm all ears.

I can see a world where the US would want that to happen. If they kick the US out then the US will be free to spy on the others without needing the loopholes that 5 Eyes created in the first place.

Not a defense of Musk but no AI can or ever will be bias free. The techno oligarchs will always tune their deamon children into their own image.

Issues with AI and their function as conformity machines: https://marketoonist.com/2024/11/ai-generated-homogeneity.ht...

Pithy mildly related video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4rcBovo69fc

Rage is the fuel of the internet, but it’s fundamentally useless when it comes to seeking truth. Social media platforms are engineered to maximize engagement, and the most engaging emotion is anger. This isn’t accidental—outrage drives clicks, shares, and ad revenue. The internet has long been called a “hate machine,” and there’s plenty of truth to that.

This creates an environment where misinformation and emotional appeals spread faster than facts. When discussing complex, non-trivial topics, logic and reason are the only tools that can cut through the noise. But in a system designed to reward outrage, those tools are often drowned out.

I highly recommend Sam Vaknin's talk about Social Media toxicity.

Sources: Outrage is the most profitable emotion https://www.cityam.com/outrage-most-profitable-emotion-so-ad...

Sam Vaknin: The TRUE Toxicity of Social Media Revealed - Interview by Richard Grannon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o58mFU004hg

Can you clarify? I'm not completely understanding your position.

For people down-voting, it's no different than being told "Don't feed the bears" and Yellowstone Park. It's worse off for the animals because they become dependent.

Link to Eric Olszewski's blog on the topic: https://medium.com/@eolszewski/dont-feed-the-humans-they-wil...

The guy who killed himself outside of the Trump tower lit the fire himself. It was not a failure of the truck. In-fact the truck protected people by venting the explosion up and containing the blast. It's as wrong as counting gunshot victims as dying of COVID

Lighting a truck on fire is fundamentally different than a truck starting on fire. The fact that they are willing to count that shows me they are disingenuous.

Link for the COVID reference: https://www.freedomfoundation.com/washington/washington-heal...

It's not the spending itself that's the problem. It's the the waste in each program. The middle men and NGO's that are hovering up free money from the tax payers that is the problem.

All these programs are treated like cookie jars and everyone gets a nibble.

And is highly abused, cut it.

It's always a shame when people get used to free things because they lose the ability to provide for themselves.

I say we stop so other countries can spin up their own programs and pay for it. I have zero interest in using TAX dollars to fund medical programs outside the US.

Looks like a hit job article to bandwagon on Anti-Musk sentiment.

Yep, Timely FUD...

I would like to take this moment to point out that Obama created the framework that trump is using.

Here is a quote from NPR:

"The USDS launched in 2014 by the Obama administration in the aftermath of the botched rollout of HeathCare.gov as an office to boost the digital capabilities of the federal government. It has operated like a digital strike team of sorts, recruiting private sector experts in design and technology to work collaboratively with federal agencies on projects that make public-facing parts of the government more efficient, modern and user-friendly."

Link: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5270893/doge-united-sta...

Alignment Issue: Corporate vs. Academic Values

For businesses, it's bad optics if their "Super Intelligent AI" admits it doesn't know something. It's better to be 100% confident and wrong than to be uncertain.

That’s why they spent all that time with rebranding... AIs don’t "lie" anymore, they "hallucinate."

When you put it that way it does seem like a win win for both sides. The Trump haters get almost a year of paid vacation and the administration gets less internal drama.