Glad you got that! Its a major point in talking about social programs. If you can see this in college programs you can see the benefit when applied to social programs as well. Not sure if I can convince you of that too. But it’s always nice to get a response of “that makes sense” in this context.

Not really the same. Charging for this would discourage people from using it. They have to make a choice on feeling safe vs. spending money.

This gives everyone the option and subsidizes it to the entire community.

This is exactly why socializing things like this is beneficial.

Every service has a cost. That cost is the value of the labor being provided. But we decide as a society that providing services like this benefits everyone living in society. Regardless of if they use it directly or not.

When people say “free” in this context that’s what they mean. They mean the decision based on personal finance is removed.

We don’t want people choosing personal finance over safety or health. Removing that dependency benefits everyone.

I hate capitalism. This guy is a symbol of wholesome good hearted teaching and entertainment. But somehow after you die people can suck the profits out of that until every time I see his face somewhere I have to be reminded that we live in a world that didn’t deserve him.

Do we have to let every fucking part of our culture be reduced to a damn dollar sign?

Yeah. Just do what normal autistic people like me do. Put earbuds in both ears.

As a power bottom I’m offended you would even consider this idiot to put in that much effort.

I don’t know why but “Bear Share” became a joke between me and my friends. It was like we made fun of one kid for using it instead of whatever we were using at the time. I don’t remember why but that’s all I remember about it. Makes me laugh now. Joking with one of our friends about what P2P client was the best.

Torrent scene is still alive and well. Actually has been revived pretty heavily since streaming services have gone to shit. MP3s are easy enough to just rip from youtube using yt-dlp. Supports more than just yt despite the name. That has all the info about it but you probably want to update to the nightly versions since they are more likely to be up to date.

Back in my day we would chemically castrate people that used computers! They were modern day witches!

Better? This was the one I remember running Windows 95. I’m actually shocked at how white this one is. Was everything tinted more back in the 90s? Like going to Mexico in a movie. I feel like it adds a filter.

Off the top of my head others I remember were: Kazaa, Morpheus, Frostwire (when limewire went to shit). I’d say Kazaa was the one I used the most though during its time. Moved to torrents for movies/tv shows pretty quickly and limewire/frostwire for mp3s. Piratebay, ISOHunt, Demonoid (god i was so happy getting an invite there at 13 years old), mininova.

I was an addict. Would download shit I didn’t need and just use it because. Literally spent years learning how to animate in 3dsMax just because my brother in law told me that he “stole” a program that cost thousands of dollars. I think the keygen I downloaded for that was actually my first “letter” from Comcast. It scared the shit out of me at 14.

I had to buy a portable DVD-R drive to recover some old movies I made with friends as a kid. I felt old. The sound of the scratched disk trying to be read brought back trauma from when my first PS2 died.

lol

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4058?gQT=1

These are extremely EXTREMELY reliable at detecting physical obstructions. There is no reason but stupidity or being cheap to not implement redundancy into a safety system. This isn’t about implementing “good enough” software. This is about a design choice forced on Tesla engineers by a complete idiot that doubles down on his stupidity when faced with criticism by actually intelligent people.

I think it’s a good example of how vastly over hyped a lot of AI stuff is though. Any person could tell that that was a wall from hundreds of feet away. You can even tell in the video and it would be more obvious in real life with actual depth perception.

The entire problem with AI are corner cases. This is just taking that corner case to an absurd level. But it’s not much different than the real world case of a Tesla vehicle getting confused on a highway if a billboard ad has a stop sign on it.

Did he in the video?

Someone with a better singing voice than me needs to remix this classic.

https://youtu.be/C44Zk6yFsso

That’s what they meant by “uphill both ways”. Probably referring to having to cross the equator twice. This makes so much sense now.

Sublime. It’s more like notepad++ but will serve the purpose.

Yeah they just want to collect every single bit of data you have. AI is a data collection tool. A reason to send everything you type or use to their servers. I swapped to Linux fully over 4 years ago and my windows 10 install is still sitting on my older SSD drive. It’s a good reminder to format that thing and use it as a backup drive in my Unraid setup.

Districts still matter when it comes to voter suppression measures. Less polling stations, requiring voters vote only in their district, purging voters, etc.