Only if you’re using the Chrome extension, maybe. This is just Google trying to kill even the memory of Google Reader by fucking with the biggest competitor to social media in Chrome.

Source: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.18.712572v1.full

A lot of medicinal compounds are alkaloids, which are naturally bitter

So, either you’re accusing me of tone policing and engaging with me anyway, or you’re not accusing me of tone policing yet continue to meander off topic anyway. XD

To be frank, I don’t care about your tone, I’m concerned with the disconnect between what you say the topic is (why people feel a certain way) and how you’re choosing to engage (insisting on another perspective instead).

In what way is making a counter point disingenuous?

It reveals that your intent is not to comprehend another perspective, but to insist upon your own.

Why do I need to just blindly accept what someone says without any pushback?

The thing that you’re being asked to accept is that this someone believes what they say they believe.

Nobody’s asking you to blindly assume that this someone is being honest, but making a counterpoint is not the same thing as asking clarifying questions to better understand their perspective or probe it for the inconsistencies that would indicate deception.

I’d like to argue that this isn’t a slow collapse, but a remarkably rapid one. The Roman Empire, for example, took almost 300 years from the Antonine Plague that halted it’s growth before the last western emperor was deposed, or almost 500 years if counting from Julius Ceasar and the eruption at Pompei.

The USA, by contrast, entered its decline a mere 25 years ago when it expended vast resources attempting to conquer the Graveyard of Empires, and only just last year ceded its position as global hegemon to China. At this rate, the American Empire might only last another generation or two.

My intent was to try to understand why people feel the way they feel. If I disagree with a reason someone has, am I just supposed to be like “oh, ok”, and move on?

Make up your mind, is your point to understand why people feel the way they feel or to convince them to feel in a way you agree with?

Am I not supposed to give any rebuttal to any points whatsoever

Rebuttals are for arguments, not for understanding.

If you can’t look at things from their perspective then you should be asking questions, not trying to convince them that their perspective is wrong.

The early days of “AI” were a full generation before the beginning of the internet, as it was formalized as an academic field back in the 50’s while ARPANET didn’t start admitting non-Defense users until the 80’s.

Are you saying I am being disingenuous in my intentions by making counter points in a discussion?

Yes, that’s very clearly what’s happening here.

The two are inseperable. The scale of large language models means they can only be trained by those who are able to spend hundreds of millions on data harvesting and compute.

Faraday cage, but it’s just a dog crate wrapped in aluminum foil.

As usual, shot placement is key. I imagine the navigation sensors are fragile enough that a small air rifle could do enough damage to disable them, but a .22 would definitely do it and maybe even be enough to lock up a knee or shoulder joint.

Short version, distillation isn’t a chemical process but a simple physical state change from liquid to gas and back. Alcohol vapors can be explosive when mixed with Oxygen in an appropriate ratio, but there generally is no potential source of ignition between the boiling chamber and the cooling chamber and the expanding vapors push the oxygen out of the system early on in a production cycle.

Producing meth, however, is a multi-step process requiring both chemical and physical state changes with a panoply of reagents and waste products which are corrosive, toxic, flammable, explosive, or even potentially radioactive. Some of those waste products are gasses that react explosively with air, or volatile organic compounds which have to be vented from the production equipment and subsequently settle and condense into a residue that contaminates all surfaces in or near the meth lab. That residue can include substances which ignite spontaneously on contact with water, further increasing the risk of fire or explosion and turning any firefighting operations into a hazmat operation.

This exact sequence of events has happened to me too. XD

Nah, if Youtube blocks adblockers then I’ll just waste my time elsewhere.

Misread that as “Midwest Counties”.

Oh hey, that’s almost exactly the kind of cyberpunk dystopia that I grew up reading fiction about:

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

I mean, the Flipper Zero is just a computer with a few radios built-in.

I think the only one they share with most smart glasses is Bluetooth which might potentially have some vulnerabilities which could be exploited, but there are also expansion cards for the Flipper Zero that add everything from wifi and ethernet ports to high-powered IR blasters, so the real question is how vulnerable smart glasses are.

And the truth is, they’re vulnerable by default because they rely on corpo servers to operate like any other “smart” device. Any flaw in the security of the glasses themselves barely holds a candle to the fact that they forward everything to Facebook or some other big tech brand name with a financial interest in monetizing your data.

Yeah, the hype is really leaning on that singularitarian angle and the investor class is massively overextended.

I’m glad that the general public is finally getting on down the hype cycle, this peak of inflated expectations has lasted way too long, but it should have been obvious three years ago.

Like, I get that I’m supposedly brighter and better educated than most folks, but I really don’t feel like you need college level coursework in futures studies to be able to avoid obvious scams like cryptocurrency and “AI”.

I feel like it has to be deliberate, a product of marketing effects, because some of the most interesting new technologies have languished in obscurity for years because their potential is disintermediative and wouldn’t offer a path to further expanding the corporate dominion over computing.

Folks don’t seem to realize what LLMs are, if they did then they wouldn’t be wasting trillions trying to stuff them in everything.

Like, yes, it is a minor technological miracle that we can build these massively-multidimensional maps of human language use and use them to chart human-like vectors through language space that remain coherent for tens of thousands of tokens, but there’s no way you can chain these stochastic parrots together to get around the fact that a computer cannot be held responsible, algorithms have no agency no matter how much you call them “agents”, and the people who let chatbots make decisions must ultimately be culpable for them.

It’s not “AI”, it’s a n-th dimensional globe and the ruler we use to draw lines on that globe. Like all globes, it is at best a useful fiction representing a limited perspective on a much wider world.