The word “nice” used to mean “stupid.” It derives from the Latin “nescio” (translated: “I don’t know”) and carried over into old French. At some point, it came to be associated with generosity, the assumption being that someone stupid is too innocent or naive to be selfish.
It then got carried over into middle English, and the connotation for stupidity got dropped, making it so that the word meant “kind,” as opposed to “stupidly kind”
Ultimately, however, leftism is an intellectual position. It’s typically held by people who are either well-read, or at minimum understanding of the concept of fairness for all people (which requires abstract thinking and a good theory of mind). Very few people believe in leftism due to stupidity. That’s why it’s in Republicans’ best interest to keep people stupid.
Increasing intelligence of the general population would be a basal necessity for changing the economic system.
I don’t disagree with you, but it seems you’ve missed the point that I was trying to make. Yes, sure, the future has been predetermined in a deterministic universe. But if no person in that universe can ever figure out what that future is going to be, is there any practical distinction? To any entity within the universe, the future is completely unknown - the only thing that can be said for sure is that there is going to be a future. That is what I mean when I say that there can exist a practical free will in a deterministic universe
In my eyes, any person who would feel dread over whether or not free will exists in a deterministic universe is splitting hairs over a thought experiment where all outcomes are practically equivalent
It’s a good assumption that the average person will not care about updates, and in fact, probably would not even know if and when an update is occurring. For that reason, it’s good policy for auto-updates to be default behavior. However, there must always be an ability to opt out indefinitely
Strictly speaking, sure, but for all intents and purposes, you can still have practical free will in a deterministic universe. If a system is chaotic enough (which a human brain is almost certainly going to be), it may be theoretically possible to predict what a person is going to do, but it will always be practically impossible to actually do so.
We never say that the weather is perfectly predictable, yet it’s clearly driven by purely deterministic mechanisms
My biggest concern is not that fertility rate is low/population decline is happening, it’s that it’s happening way too quickly for society to be able to handle it.
We’re talking like 4 old people per child (estimated number). Not only would it be a massive strain on the economy to have so many elderly people/retirees to take care of, older people will also have a highly disproportionate account of political power due to their relative abundance. If it’s already such a big deal that boomers were twisting the political landscape for their gain, I shudder to think what would happen at this larger and longer scale.
All of this is going to be a breeding ground for misogyny and right-wing ideology when people start thinking that it’s [opposite gender]'s fault that they’re not living as well as they were promised by the previous generation. We’ve already seen it in South Korea, and we’re seeing it now with the rise of isolation and inceldom.
Plus, without younger people to take up the mantle, many industries that we rely on will need to downsize, and a lot of institutional knowledge will be lost. Many roles that require a “master-to-apprentice” style of learning will be lost and will be unable to recover, even if the population started growing again.
Fox News has the wrong take here, as it is wont to have. But we genuinely should be really concerned that birth rates across all developed countries are this low below replacement rate and are still dropping
Interesting, thanks for sharing that. I wasn’t aware that there has been newer research countering the tooth wear model
There’s a reason grass is so common - it’s because it’s a wildly effective life strategy. Grass is actually quite hard to eat - there’s basically no nutrition in the leaves themselves, and grass evolved to incorporate silica “needles” in its leaves, so that it wears down your teeth when you try to eat it anyways.
Not to say that it’s impossible to eat grass, but you need to undergo a ton of highly specialized adaptations to make it possible. For most animals (including humans), it’s just not worth the effort
I haven’t heard of any controversy, but I think you do important work. May not be glamorous work, but having a consistent flow of news on Lemmy helps me keep up to date on the goings-on of the world. I assume most people think similarly
To me, this reads as that Republicans want to dominate something that appears exotic to them. Same reason why, to my recollection, right-leaning people tend to favor interracial porn over left-leaning people. So it’s not that there’s a lot of trans people in red states, it’s probably that there’s very few of them. I suspect that increasing the amount of trans people in red states might actually decrease the searches for trans porn
Better safe than sorry. Take plan B. I can’t speak on the side effects, but I at least didn’t observe any when my SO took them.
Also, get tested for STD’s.
One of the important things that you learn over time in a high stress situation is that you can only commit around 70% of your effort before you start burning yourself out.
As in, yes, you can definitely try harder and get more things done, but that can only be done in very short bursts. After a while, you would not be able to bring yourself to do anything. And so, the followup lesson is that you shouldn’t beat yourself up for only committing 70%. Take some time every once in a while to ask yourself: on a scale of 1-10, where 10 is the maximum conceivable amount of effort I can imagine myself giving, how would I rate the amount of effort that I am currently putting in to my work? If your score is 8 or above, then that’s your issue. You’re experiencing burnout.
If you have work piling up but you’re already committing 70%, then you just have to acknowledge that there is more work coming than you can reasonably handle. So what can you do? I don’t really know what your current career status is, so I can’t give solid advice. But you can consider either declining to take on more work or letting some tasks fall to the wayside.
If you are concerned that your 70% effort is noticeably lower than an average person’s 70%, then that’s a different issue altogether. You might just have depression. In which case, talk to a therapist.
If you have any concerns or questions about your relationship, it is a really good idea to talk to him and sort it out before it becomes an issue.
The relationship being something other than what you wanted isn’t the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing that can happen is if you didn’t know that that was the case.
Hmm… Interesting question. Not a lot of time, on average. Even at home, there’s always some sort of management or planning to do. Always need to think about what comes next. But the busyness comes in waves. Occasionally I get a week with really nothing to do. And then, inversely, there are weeks where everything is happening all at once and it starts to feel like I can’t keep up and things are starting to slip. I’m currently in one of those weeks, but I’m sure it’ll pass. Just need to get through it. That’s the life of a researcher for you. There’s definitely a level of masochism required for this sort of lifestyle
I recommend trying out OnlyOffice. It’s free and it’s scarily similar to MS Office, to the point where there’s no learning curve and it’s impressive how they haven’t gotten sued yet. Plus, it’s got a Windows version so you can try it out without committing to Linux
I’m not a fan of LibreOffice, even with the GUI tweaks to make it look like MS Office, so I’ve been actively finding Office alternatives for a long time now. OnlyOffice is by far the best one I’ve found
If you’re curious, then I would recommend you play around with Linux before something breaks. It’s a horrible experience to have to scramble to figure out what to do when you’re tight on time - better to learn the lingo first, so that when something does break, you can switch with no learning curve.
Plus, you might end up really liking Linux anyways. That’s kinda what happened to me 2 years ago, I’m not honestly sure why I haven’t tried Linux sooner
The problem that you’re describing is that people aren’t being socialized properly. The solution to that problem isn’t to give people a chatbot, it’s to socialize them properly.
It is going to happen, and it has already happened, but that’s not really a future that we should strive for. IMO too much damage has already been done and there needs to be laws put into place to severely regulate AI companies
Nothing serious, but he’s well known for being impossible to work with. He has gotten into multiple arguments because he refuses to follow kernel development rules. When called out on it, he makes a big stink about it. Obviously his code doesn’t get merged. Then he does the exact same thing again 1 month later.
He has gotten into multiple arguments with Linus Torvalds over his refusal to simply follow the kernel development rules. During those arguments he has made cheap shots at completely unrelated people, which then drags those people into the argument.
It’s gotten to the point where apparently a significant portion of the kernel developers feel like he was negatively impacting the kernel, and Linus eventually removed his code from the kernel.
He’s what you might call a Linux lolcow. And now he’s doing even more lolcow things by… Getting weirdly attached to his LLM-sona
I mean… If we treated the sun to be just another star (ie, if the astronomers got their way), the planets would probably be called Sol b, Sol c, Sol d, Sol e, Sol f, Sol g, Sol h, and Sol i.
Sol a would be reserved for the sun, of course.
The implication is that there is a couple. The boyfriend wants the girlfriend to make out (and likely have intercourse) with another man. The girlfriend is hesitant, implying that this is entirely the boyfriend’s idea.
Interpretation: the boyfriend has a cuckhold fetish.
Application: any developer who uses Claude is cuckholding his own code