Drewelite

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I actually think about this. People recognize that time is a dimension of our reality, but ask: why does it only move forward? But wat if it doesn't? What if we go backwards and forwards often? But our memories are "unmade" when moving backwards and "remade" when moving forwards. We simply can only perceive the forward direction.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Is it just me, or is it surreal to read the headline "rare unsuccessful landing" when referring to a freaking rocket booster?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Thank you, this is so interesting. It really highlights how efficient these things are!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

What if they're an electrician/plumber/repair man that needs a full kit of equipment and drives all over town. A contractor building a house transporting materials. A school/church/daycare transporting kids that doesn't want to have them loose on public transport. Garbage man. Emergency services. Food delivery. Etc

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or if anyone's job or hobby requires transporting more than can be carried on a bike trailer. Anyone living rurally. Anyone famous. People with mental conditions exacerbated by being enclosed with strangers. All that being said, I'd love to see a shift towards it being more popular.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, also this is nothing new, unfortunately. See Lolis. Or maybe don't...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They do open source the model at least, which is more than you can say for any of the other major companies doing AI

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There are a lot of things that "Western" medicine took from other cultures and then turn around and brand them pseudoscience barbarians for the remainder that didn't work. Like a lot of modern concepts of psychology from India. Medicines from indigenous Americans . Etc.

Also worth noting that the remaining knowledge base was deemed "pseudoscience" by the scientific community of yesteryear and a lot has changed. I'm not promoting unproven potentially dangerous alternative medicines. But I am saying it's worth re reviewing them from time to time. The Mayans had a very modern understanding of astronomy, for example.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah the thing that is so hard is that none of the individual actions feel successful. But overtime they pay off. You have to build a guest house for happiness and keep it clean. So the next time he shows up, maybe he'll stay awhile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

All hail the nail and gear 😉

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I'm not talking about vetting pictures. I'm talking about journalists who investigate issues THEMSELVES and uncover the truth. They take their OWN pictures and post them on their website and accounts putting their credibility as collateral. We trust them, not because it's a picture, but because of who took it.

This already happened with text, people learned "Don't believe everything you read!" And invented the press to figure out the truth. It used to be a core part of our society. But people were tricked into thinking pictures and video were somehow mediums of empirical truth, just because it's HARD to fake. But never impossible. Which is worse, actually. So we neglected the press and let it collapse into a shit show because we thought we could do it ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

So, shouldn't the pretense that images are sources of truth evaporating, be a good thing?

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