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"it's a shame" is a common English colloquialism that means "that's sad", or maybe "that saddens me". No actual shamefulness is usually implied by the phrase. Weird, but there it is.

There's all sorts of things I have no interest in learning because they seem unspeakably dull.

That some people don't want to spend time learning the thing that you happen to find interesting doesn't mean they're wasting their lives.

So yes, the extremely privileged

Question for those conversant in blender: I'm pretty good with parametric CAD (solidworks and fusion) but have never touched Blender. I've been curious about Blender but I have no artistic or sculptural skills. I use 3D cad for both 3d printed objects and machining.

Is Blender worth learning for somebody who probably couldn't make a snake out of playdoh?

This is confusing. If I accept your statement, then it seems:

1) The democrats hypocritically supports offshoring while claiming to support workers

2) The republicans explicitly (prior to Trump, but MAGA is not very similar to traditional Republicans) support corporations and offshoring as a mechanism for increased profits

And so we blame "the left"?

Blaming this on the amorphous "left" is extraordinary, when offshoring has been a 40 year project of corporate America and "shareholder returns at any cost". A neoliberal global order has been the traditional Republican platform.

Even further, those who have traditionally been most vocal about second amendment rights are currently the biggest cheerleaders for the current authoritarian trend. Quite the plot twist.

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What color is your skin?

Perfect use of AI assisted coding - a domain expert creating a focused, relatively straightforward (from a programming perspective) app.

@sungam, if your research agenda includes creating AI models for skin cancer, feel free to reach out (email in profile), I make a tool intended to help pure clinical researchers incorporate AI into their research programmes.

Like clicking a button on Facebook to wish someone a happy birthday.

> Any knowledge is composed from imperfect abstractions, the edge cases of which we don't know.

That is a pretty concrete epistemological statement. Is it true?

That's not just a game, or a "gotcha". Any discussion about "truth" eventually ends up with the question of what it means to know something, a subject about which you seem to be fairly confident.

People interested in this might also appreciate this small channel: a no-holds-barred 5 axis machine with expected sub-micron precision. I've learned a lot about what kind of components are available when budget is not an issue (I'll bet this machine will cost 100k by the time it's done). https://www.youtube.com/@kasramehraky9283

But remain open to the possibility it's not your good taste that is making you unpopular at parties.

I own a blender made by KitchenAid. I am allowed to blend strawberries that have not been approved by KitchenAid. I can make an Onion Banana Durian smoothie if I want. Calling Apple product appliances is a slur to appliance makers

Agree, feels pretty straw-man. Where are these never-built-anything academics? Lean startup's Steve Blank, maybe? Who did, what, 11 startups before moving into academia?

We are about to have 35% tariffs applied to our resource-based economy, with the explicit message that the goal is to destroy our economy. Words matter when they come from your head of state, and the "30 seconds ago" excuse gets old 6 months in. If you think that Trump, having already deployed the US military on US soil against US citizens, would hesitate to send troops into Canada if he thought he could get away with it, you're utterly delusional. He's a psychopathic mad-king, and you apparently are delighted to fiddle while he burns down Rome.

You don't threaten to invade sovereign nations and then brush it off with "oh, ya know, Trump being Trump", especially when Trump being Trump already includes crossing all sorts of lines nobody thought he would cross.

It's clear you would happily murder any Canadian or Dane you were ordered to, as long as you were given the order by Trump. I'm done responding, you're the enemy of my country and my family.

Trump has threatened to invade Canada, "maybe, we'll see". He has said he will destroy Canada's economy until we beg to be admitted as a territory of the US. You clearly don't think that's a big deal. Many Canadians do.

Ah yes, "exacting young man debunks charming tale with touching moral, to the benefit of nobody". A tale as old as time.

You keep isolating the discussion to tariffs, and ignoring the US hostility to former allies, including threatening to invade two NATO members, as well as US support for Russia against the west in active wars.

Tariffs can be a reasonable policy (although not when implemented like this... rejuvenating manufacturing by imposing huge tariffs on raw materials? Really?) but when people talk about the US abandoning the western democracies they're not talking exclusively or even primarily about tariffs.

Saying the equivalent of "Oh, that's just Trump talk" is nonsense. Everybody thought Trump's support for Russia was just talk. He's deployed active military on US soil. He's ignored the judiciary and is progressively neutering them. All that was "just Trump being Trump" before he did it. The man is a mad king and half of America is happy to follow him for the lolz.

It's working great! For certain companies.

This quote could only come from somebody that knows nothing about trades. Examine any "high style" cabinet from the federal period, or any other period really. The backs of highboys are the worst, rough-sawn, uneven, knot-riddled pieces the cabinetmaker had.

A craftsman knows where to apply his effort.

Your country has threatened, out of nowhere, to annex my country - until now America's oldest and most steadfast ally - or failing that to destroy our economy until we capitulate.

I do not feel united. And, echoing you, how is that not unreliable?

> without west being united

If that is true, perhaps the US should stop destroying the western alliance.

This is a good way to look at it, but perhaps a new unit, like range per hour? Since mph is alreday a unit of velocity.

But where is my chocolate cupcake recipe?

Corporations. European politics can be captured by large corporations the same way the US has been. It was unthinkable in the US, 50 years ago, that corporations would call the shots politically. It can happen elsewhere as well.

It doesn't have to be China or any other country. It can be corporations who move to capture the governments in other countries the way they've done in the US.

If there's not some backstory that explains this, it's actually disgusting.

Facial expressions were mandatory in ASL, at least according to my teacher. The best analogy I can think of is of a tonal language, where raised eyebrows, a somewhat astonished look, or a frown with a furrowed brow are the tones.