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  • I'm in the Top 10% of players in my league, but I'll never be in the Top 1%.

    Why? Because everyone there is either cheating or on something.

    Caffeine is legal and not banned by most sporting jurisdictions, so if that's the only thing you can take to enhance performance -- you take it.

    With a caffeine addiction, I can skirt Top 6% and lie to myself that I deserve that position.

  • Dreams come true
  • I suggested this term in academic circles, as a joke.

    I also suggested hallucinations ~3-6 years ago only to find out it was ALSO suggested in the 1970s.

    Inbreeding, lol

  • What keeps you going every day?
  • My lucid dreams are unspeakably realistic, comprehensively and indistinguishable from reality. It's like waking up each night into a horrible dystopia.

    In my nightmares, there's a global autocracy, a kind of maximalism of pain which forces people into mass slavery, but it's not even according to their whims, it's simply a price for existing.

    I'd go on but it's too spooky and sad.

    The rest of the time life's pretty good.

  • unqualified joy
  • Furries are simultaneously morons and rocket scientists/brain surgeons or whatever.

    Source: Talked to a dog who literally worked for NASA on the Artemis Program.

    Be nice to them, you never know when your lifesaving medication was made by a furry. :)

  • Comparison of a picture from Mars (left) to a picture from Earth (right)
  • There's a non zero chance that Mars is a remnant of the planetary impact that occured to the Earth ~ 3.5 BYA. The issue is that's a really loose hypothesis, but the speculation is that Theia - which impacted Gaia (old Earth) was an ice planet / water world, which gave us most of our oceans.

    Evidence of water evaporation on Mars therefore makes sense, as a catastrophic effect (such as planetary impact) would indeed cause the atmosphere to boil off, leaving behind these dry lakes and riverbeds.

    I personally haven't spent enough time on Mars to make a substantial conclusion, there wasn't enough time to do any science between the sheer insanity of basic survival on a planet that seems uniquely designed to kill you and crush your spirit before doing so.

    I totally approve of your analysis however, and it's proof why geologists deserve a seat on the interstellar jumpships :3

  • In Authoritarian America...
  • I live in NYC, and I read this story yesterday, and they didn't shoot the guy for hopping the turnstile / not paying the $2.90, they chased him and tried to give him a $100-150 fine; but the guy lunged at them with a knife.

    The cops panicked and began firing because they don't have H2H training, and their aim is obviously shit. It's so shit, that I think they missed their taser shot as well before hitting random people in the crowd with their sidearms.

    Not defending the police but the meme's a gross oversimplification. Those guys need more training and probably a suspension until they finish a full course of training, or a dismissal (or perhaps even up to and including manslaughter charges) depending on if the bystanders live or not.

    I wish shit like this wasn't as common as it is. So many innocent people and dogs die each month due to police incompetence.

  • If AI is so rampent and used for evil purposes. Can we not use it for good purposes like creating a personalized JARVIS like in Iron Man? Would that not be better than using it for fake images?
  • It's obvious that this question was written by a child or someone learning the English language, given your spelling mistakes, grammar use and references, however:

    ELI5:

    The answer is yes, we can have "good AI" like JARVIS, but AI is still early and doesn't make money for companies.

    Companies make money selling a product, and AI isn't a product because it isn't something that belongs to them. So they sell people's information that they get when people talk to the AI.

    But that doesn't make enough money to pay the bills for AI, so they charge subscriptions. People who pay the subscriptions want to use the AI "for evil", as you put it.

    So in the end it's about "making money" with the AI, and JARVIS does not make them money.

    If you learn a lot about computers, you'll have your own JARVIS. I have one. It takes dedication, like anything else in life. Good luck with your school project.

    Exhales

  • I wish there's always fresh and delicious food I want to eat in my fridge at all times
  • Haha this is funny because I'm actually a part time wish-granter:

    To subvert this particular wish, your phrasing is the key:

    You said:

    I wish there's always fresh and delicious food I want to eat in my fridge at all times

    So the first part of your wish is:

    There is always fresh and delicious food in the fridge

    But the second part, begins with a capitalization, a subclause to the first clause, or dependent statement:

    I want to eat in my fridge at all times

    Your fridge is now full of good food that disappears if you try to remove it outside the confines of your fridge, and now anything you eat, MUST be eaten while inside of your refrigerator (i.e: Your entire body has to inside of the refrigerator), and refrigerator implies a standard size kitchen fridge, not an industrial fridge or freezer.

    I hope you like eating nutella snack cakes huddled inside your fridge for survival now 😎

  • If you could "Eternal Sunshine" a piece of media so that you could listen to it for the first time again, what would it be?
  • Damn. Really? I guess I'm lucky. I specifically avoided watching Deep Space 9 as a kid because TNG was on.

    I'll live your dream for your buddy; I heard the show's about a non-moving ship, which still has a captain for some reason, Benjamin Sisko or something

  • AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses
  • I've been laughing at this quote for 5 minutes straight

    It's so good

    He knows he's right

    Also: I code sometimes, and all of my code is of masterpiece quality. I cannot debug my own code, I ask for outside help and we have to dismantle the NT kernel to find out what's gone wrong

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