If anything eventually it’ll be like gardening seeds. Where yeah, there’s a lot of hybrid seeds that might be good for certain traits, but what a bunch of gardeners really want are heirloom varieties that are more naturally-selected and therefore more reliable over multiple generations.

Not even in the Apocrypha, in Acts 12 they voted to replace Judas with Matthias. And then later in 1st Corinthians 15, Paul claimed to be an apostle. So, not even counting the apocrypha, at best Kirk would be the 15th.

My personal scores have increased by about 100 points in the last 6 months (I started getting worried about interest rates getting even worse and consolidated my credit cards under a personal loan with a definite payoff date).

At this point I really don’t care what my credit score is, but this feels like a bad time to have debt, and for once in my life I feel lucky that I’m able to be paying off debt faster than I can take on more - which really hasn’t been the case since I went to university in 2007 (and never finished for financial reasons).

With as much as I’m ready for the AI bubble to burst, Sabine Hossenfelder isn’t a very reliable source on much of anything - especially her newer videos from within the past year after she got called out for some unscientific takes on transgender care. Since then, she has kinda doubled down on her anti-science-establishment takes acting like she knows more than actual experts.

I’m not really criticizing any of her takes in this particular video (I’ll be honest I’m at work and haven’t had a chance to watch it yet), but just want to caution anyone who may watch this and start getting her videos recommended a bunch by their YouTube algorithm that she’s not considered a reliable science communicator by anyone who is.

Without hardware decoding, it will take more compute to decompress, but sites usually wait to fully roll out new codecs until hardware decoding is more ubiquitous, because of how many people use low-powered streaming sticks and Smart TVs.

Lemonade Stand mentioned and pictured? That’s gonna go to Big A’s head.

It’s not for the end user at this point, it’s for YouTube/streaming companies to spend less on bandwidth at existing resolutions. Even a 5% decrease in size for similar quality could save millions in bandwidth costs over a year for YouTube or Netflix.

I think the real reason they were hired was to give them something to do other than ask for the Epstein files all day on their podcasts. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino were both very outspoken about wanting the Epstein files released before they were given jobs leading the FBI. Honestly letting themselves show their incompetence to the world with this case may have been part of the plan all along. Make them look like the fools they are, and people will stop believing them when they inevitably decide they want to talk about Epstein again.

I agree, this doesn’t look like a deepfake. There does appear to be a quick crossfade that also explains the shifting leaves outside the window, there’s some motion blur around the time of the edit that contributes to the confusion. Admittedly, I haven’t had the time to give it a full analysis, but the rest of the video looks fine to my eyes as a film school dropout. I’m only a very part-time mod of this community so I hesitate to take down the post on my own. But if another mod wants to, I’d agree this isn’t clearly a deepfake, and probably doesn’t belong.

Even as a 90s kid I only heard half of those from the Super Mario World Special Zone level titles (along with Mondo).

I think he gave a reason for only taking the time to look at US states (may have just been time) Matt Parker of Stand-Up Maths is from the UK, and I’m sure he’s aware that other countries have states.

IIRC from a Stand-Up Maths video from a while back, there are no countries that are triple-land-locked. Which is why he looked at US states.

You could go the evil route and become a hitman as well, or rather a shitman, turning your targets into poo.

The US founding fathers decided that the president has to be at least 35, which to me implies that those individuals have had some political experience before becoming president. IMO roughly half the Senate should be under 35, and a good chunk of the House of Representatives should be under 29 considering Senate terms are 6-years long.

Not that you should have to be a “career politician” before becoming president, but it’s fairly common to want to show some experience at leadership/politics.

I’m not really a fan, but look at “Mayor” Pete Buttigeg. One of the biggest attacks against him when he ran was “being president is not the same as being a mayor” (meanwhile we’ll elect CEOs like their experience means anything, but that’s a whole other problem).

I would imagine they mean something like jellyfin/plex, which don’t necessarily get you away from torrents. Unless you want to go the slightly more legal route of ripping DVDs and Blu-rays and re-encoding everything for yourself. I say “slightly more legal” because while you are legally allowed a backup or archival copy of your own media (in the US), you still usually have to violate the DMCA to break encryption so you can rip your archival copy.

Most of us that are younger than the Boomers or maybe Gen X don’t want to count on Social Security because we’ve been hearing our whole lives that Social Security is on the chopping block because the government is in so much debt. And at this point we kinda just expect that ladder to be pulled up behind the Boomers before we get anything, because that’s already happened in so many other areas like home ownership.

I also think people need to remember that Social Security is their own money that they paid in over their lives, and they are owed it back.

And also that even though the US government has a large amount of debt, we’ve also spent the last 50 years giving tax cuts to the rich, we’d probably be just fine if we went back to a 90% marginal tax rate on the top earners like we had in the “good old days” of the 1950s.

Because both matter. It’s a spectrum, and trans rights are just one part of that spectrum: people who feel/identify entirely as though they were born in the wrong body and want to fix that. That is as much their right as those of us who may want to dress and how we like. But there are small-minded people who see that as wrong.

People who have a problem with trans people, will eventually come for those of us who don’t dress or act to fit their stereotype of what our gender should be. They just think it’s easier to scare people about that kind of body modification when we all make choices about hair length, fingernails, piercings, tattoos, etc.

Trans rights are the same rights as my right to paint my fingernails and have long hair as a man. It’s all just bodily autonomy, and there are people like my mother who see both as bad/against God. Give a bigot an inch, and they’ll take a mile.

Grew up in the great plains/midwest around the dairy industry. Had extended family who owned a smaller dairy farm. This all sounds pretty standard. Not saying it’s right, but none of it sounds new to me.

I would imagine there were plenty of people who bought modern marketing that was designed to cruelty-wash the dairy industry. The reality is there’s no way to insert yourself between an udder and a calf without cruelty, and that’s the only way to get cow’s milk. Unless we can figure out how to get milk from lab-grown organs, which probably comes with it’s own ethical issues.

The AI Apocalypse won’t be from AI gaining sentience, or becoming “god-like.” It will be evil billionaires and fools using a “Chinese Room” to gain power and control for themselves while using “AI” as a scapegoat for their cruelty.

It’s a lie to call what we have today “Artificial Intelligence” and we’re about as far from real artificial intelligence as we were 50 years ago. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something or wants to get you to submit to their authority by putting on a new, “high tech” face.

Not to go all Andrew Ryan from Bioshock (he was a deeply flawed character, and I’ll admit I’m adding a bit of my own meaning to his quote), but “No gods, no kings, only man” comes to mind. Any time someone tells you there’s a higher power with all the answers, beneath it all, it’s always just a man who wants power.

I know the Navy does march (despite the general uselessness of it for their operations), and some of the Navy vets I’ve talked with did consider it a point of pride that they could march better than other branches. But I have no clue if that is still a thing, and even if it is, I’m sure enough will deliberately do less than their best effort since it’s clearly more about Trump’s ego than honoring the Navy.