Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.
Well, that’s some luck you’ve had.
I’ve actually thought about looking for an old TDI, since it’s a bit different, more resistant to American trade issues and possibly in my budget. If you’re in a rural area it actually is greener, too.
Got an expensive leather jacket as a kid, for far more money than I had paid for clothes before or have since. Assumed it was indestructible being leather. It was not that kind of leather jacket, and I managed to tear it wide open in maybe a couple weeks.
This kind of question coming up a lot is why I chose the name, haha.
Nice, you found it!
There’s probably another one somewhere poorer yet that’s stealing their thunder. China has developed to the point where workers can do more specialist things and so can charge more.
A “handmade, museum-quality reproduction” painting sounds a little bit too good to be true
Wait which part? It’s a thing, there is or was a city in China where making hand reproductions is their main industry, but it sounds like you specifically went looking so that’s not a surprise.
If you’re sus because of the price: Cheap third-world labour. Actually, you could probably find even cheaper, since $335 is still a bit. If you’re wondering if it will actually be “museum quality”, well, that’s an advertising term and not a meaningful thing in the first place. It’s all down to how experienced the particular artist is, and there’s of course a risk that they won’t ship you the thing described at all.
Am I annoyed at her? (Obviously I’m not, but she often assumes I am)
I mean, it’s not really obvious. Instant feelings don’t always make rational sense.
Like they’re setting the bar even higher for how bad I have to feel about my minor mistakes, because I’m also kind of like that.
Obviously, that doesn’t apply if you’re not.
How did you change?
I mean, it’s been around as a concept for a couple centuries. If anything I’d say that it’s “on the out” as something seriously suggested in popular discourse. It’s just that we’ve semi-accidentally built the infrastructure to implement such a thing very quickly.
But most of the people here call it necessary, preferable and even desirable.
To be clear, where’s “here”? Lemmy, your IRL location, somewhere else?
Oh, nevermind, haha.
Yep. The concept that there’s a symmetry between countries is a few degrees of separation away from many Americans, I guess. It’s not weirder to have an Australian Idol than an American one. I’ve also had conversation where they assume people in other countries are patriotic for America. Like, even in the first world we all sit around wishing we were American.
Famously, many (most?) of them can’t even identify the continents on a map. I’d be interested to see Chinese tested the same way, since I’ve heard they’re on the same level of insularity, being another massive superpower.
Wait, is it just called “Idol” there?
Months ago I would have said “yes, it’s possible”. Now, it’s become pretty clear LLMs are a dead end. They’re trained to simulate the internet and can’t do other things with any reliability.
It’s still possible with whatever the future approach to making computers smarter, though. Natural intelligence exists, and we’re made out of the same stuff as everything else, so artificial intelligence must also be possible. And, without the limits of recent evolution, an AGI could probably be made far better than us.
Don’t forget that pandemics used to be a goofy sci-fi trope, too.
Americans for the most part are only dimly aware there’s an outside world in the first place. The amount of covering up that needs to be done is minimal.
That show would have been way darker if Perry had ever employed the fact he’s a venomous mammal.
Actually, it was a missed opportunity not to go with a female Perry and have an egg-hatching subplot. Their version of the Platypus really didn’t do much.
Weirdly specific question, OP.
I kind of feel like anything gets grosser as it ages. IIRC urine also start to break down and have more ammonia, which has a smell.
That feeling when you survive the apocalypse only to get stung by a platypus and regret that you survived.
I’d expect them to stay out of it at this point, actually. They want to expand into the pacific, and the US and East Asian democracies want to stop them. Meanwhile, Australia also has affinities with now-distinct Europe, isn’t directly in the way of any of that, and depends heavily on China for trade.
And, even if it did become involved, dealing with a Chinese occupation isn’t going to be as hard as a nuclear winter or the total breakdown of modern civilisation.
I did split the question in two.
On a bit of investigation, they run a small number and have endorsed some, but there’s many more that you could tell your own node or validator to trust. What the exact interconnection is it’s hard to say from just some searching.
The lower computing requirements come from no mining, and no by-default storage of irrelevant historical data. A bank account with only one “node” and no internal network communications going back and forth would be a lot leaner yet, though, so it’s not the exact same thing.
Yep, exactly. There’s no real substitute for it if you want to use the same internet as everyone else.
It’s cool that my instance let me sign up with just an essay instead of going through all the hoops you usually have to, although we’re unsurprisingly having the very start of a spam problem.
I do, and it has, but I hate to say I can’t be sure we met. When I started out it was small and obscure but not name-basis small.