that’s true. i was lucky to get out relatively unscathed. can we go back to the way it was, without the actual virus this time though?

how fucked up is our world that the pandemic was actually better?

no, it’s naturally aspirated

Yeah, that’s about right. When my daughter was born, they sent a bill for 100k because of complications.

we’re going to see a collapse in our lives due to climate change, I’m convinced. I’ve decided to become the town’s brewer, supposing i can get my hands on enough grain. if we survive the first few years, our new society might be better than this capitalist hellscape we’ve created for ourselves. especially if those billionaires are safely locked away underground…

i was thinking about this the other day. In an end of the world as we know it scenario, gasoline will be gone in short order, so most cars will no longer be able to run. which is great.

However, diesels can be modded to run on other fuels, even used cooking oil. So in theory, if you can get some kind of oil, you can run your diesel. It’s also possible to mod a regular combustion engine to run on ethanol. ethanol is just 100% alcohol. You can make it yourself if you have a still. Albeit, you’d have to have a shitload of grain to get a full tank, you’d still be able to get some fuel every now and then.

All that being said. If civilization as we know it comes to an end, that just means that we won’t be as connected as we are now. but we’ll still be human, we’ll still want to trade goods, services, art and ideas. You’ll need to connect with your neighbors and cooperate to survive. one will grow something, one will grow something else, one will teach, one will heal, one will brew beers. everyone will meet in the square to exchange their goods and knowledge. so, i guess, if you run out of fuel, just get a horse, or borrow the neighbor’s.

and the look of abject horror on the other guy’s face is amazing.

oh that’s good, i won’t have to listen to him any more. bah dum tiss

control suppress

am i taking crazy pills? There’s literally no other way to look at it. It’s a tautology, if you are paying google for youtube premium, then you’re paying google.

ok, but why though?

to get youtube premium, you have to pay for a subscription, google owns youtube. therefore, you are paying google.

They took an oath to do no harm, so they should really be helping the clot to take him out as fast as possible

Shouldn’t pokemon be catch, tag and release, then?

No

when i say the output of my ml, i mean, i give the prediction and confidence score. for instance, if there’s a process that has a high probability of being late based on the inputs, I’ll say it’ll be late, with the confidence. that’s completely different from feeding the figures into a gpt and saying whatever the llm will say.

and when i say “ml” i mean a model I trained on specific data to do a very specific thing. there’s no prompting, and no chatlike output. it’s not a language model

What’s worse is that management conflates the two all the time, and whenever i give the outputs of my own ML algorithm, they think that it’s an LLM output. and then they ask me to just ask chat gpt to do any damn thing that i would usually do myself, or feed into my ml to predict.

I hate that ai just means llm now. ML can actually be useful to make predictions based on past trends. And it’s not nearly as power hungry

Apparently, that’s a fly agaric, which some sources on the internet say can be used to get you high. I still wouldn’t do it unless an actual mycologist told me that it was okay

deep ocean would be better for this, you can shed heat easier and also, we can turn it into a reef when the world finally realizes that AI is stupid and a waste of resources.