[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

What could possibly go wrong? Better ask for forgiveness then plant permissions!

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

"...37%.... That means nearly one in four..."

Eh, no it doesn't, it means nearly two in five. Which is worse.

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

"Because we got paid, cause we got paid, cause we got pa-aid!"

To the tune of "Then I got high" by Afroman.

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago

I must have missed the climate activist getting arrested because of protonmail. Any link or a name to search from?

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago

To me, the most sneerable thing in that article is where they assume a mechanical brain will evolve from ChatGPT and then assume a sufficiently large quantum computer to run it on. And then start figuring out how to port the future mechanical brain to the quantum computer. All to be able to run an old thought experiment that at least I understood as highlighting the absurdity of focusing on the human brain part in the collapse of a wave function.

Once we build two trains that can run near the speed of light we will be able to test some of Einstein's thought experiments. Better get cracking on how we can get enough coal onboard to run the trains long enough to get the experiments done.

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago

Shouldn't they be fans of The Culture? And didn't The Culture have people changing gender for any reason (including curiosity), and it was accepted?

(It was years since I read those books, so I could confuse it with something else.)

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 6 months ago

And here I thought it was easy to find high schoolers that are both wrong and sure of themselves.

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago

A song of ice and fire, or possibly its adaptation Game of Thrones.

There is a character named Arya who goes to assassin school where they brain wash students to become " no one". In the books this grant the ability to pretend to be someone else, and with some magic they can also change their looks. In the TV series it's that plus Kung Fu fighting. The books were better (Hollywood can't compete with the power of your imagination)

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago

Saving that link if I come across someone who has bought the "it may be a small risk, but what if?"

What if the moon got mad at us?

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago

Banning trans women on Tumblr who are mad at him for them being harassed through the platform: Important.

Feuding with said trans women on Twitter: Important.

Explaining their decision to sell the users data: Not important.

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 11 months ago

Stop jaywalking!

You have 15 seconds to comply!

10 seconds!

5 seconds!

Sidewalk turned into a smoking crater

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

I must have missed the class in material physics where they explained that all material has a generic "strength" that determine which material can cut which. Is it perhaps abbreviated STR?

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