What? Never. This is totally pure. Absolutely straight… Er, wait, no…

It’s absolutely for your benefit! Oh, wait, did you say user? I thought shareholder. No, you can get in line for the rectal probing with everyone else.

‘Not like that, Steve!’

Psst. Hey, mister. Wanna buy some queer? I’ll trade you for that watch.

It was half joking, but realistically, the cat is basically innocent, stuck in the care of a person who refuses to listen to reason in favor of their irrational beliefs, like a kid raised by a religious zealot. I won’t actually say the poster should go commit whatever crime cat kidnapping is, but I would say their friend may not be capable of making sound decisions, which inherently makes them untrustworthy, which makes their friendship dubious. If you can’t trust someone, they’re not really a friend.

Looks like America. How about instead you attach day-glo orange blunderbusses so you can shoot drivers who attempt to murder you with their cars. Deadly weapon to defend against deadly weapon seems fair.

VPNs help your privacy against ISPs, not cookie tracking and malware like Facebook.

Complete wipe? Probably not. Change on a scale so deep and wide as to render their relation to what we are currently as relevant as our relation to a nautilus? Yeah. Pretty much guaranteed. Deep time has seen more worlds made of this planet than you could ever imagine surviving.

There seems to be a bit of an odd relation between its value and cost. Building a model and setting up a data center is horrifically expensive, so LLMs as a service have to be just as expensive. But the stuff that can be done by LLMs is low stakes, low thought work, like copy writing, chatbot customer service answering the same 30 FAQs but crashing out on anything else, summarizing this morning’s headlines, etc. The price on these things is still being hashed out but it’s looking a lot like using AI is like hiring Anthropic for $100,000/yr. to replace a person who only gets paid $45,000/yr.

What?

~Offer not valid with or without purchase. Cash value of this alliance is 1/100 of one penny. Offer not redeemable outside liberal democracies. Alliance developed prior to Tuesday has expired. Alliance developed Wednesday or later is too immature to be exchanged. Alliance must be relinquished to company at time of purchase.~

Where is my grip on reality (not socially comfortable consensus delusion, but reality) failing?

I think I’m getting the mental model. It took me a minute to get how it cycles.

I think the material reduces entropy(atomic disorder), which is transformed into heat energy. Then you take that heat and move it elsewhere, say, into some coolant. Then that heated coolant is moved away, so when the power is deactivated the material re-entropizes(?), which transforms the same amount of heat in the material back into entropy, dropping its temperature.

I think the idea then is to use one way valves to let the expanded coolant move toward a heat sink side and then allow in fresh coolant from the heat source side. It’s not ‘solid state’ if you include the coolant system but it has definitely far fewer moving parts and far less friction than a common household heat pump.

Pretty much. They’re going for the pithy, stolen witticism about ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’ the bald guy posted. People who care more about getting the dunk on ‘bad’ people than helping them understand are just being selfish.

Take the cat. Be the Cat Protective Services the cat needs. Then find real friends who aren’t so delusional they probably shouldn’t be considered legally capable of giving consent.

I’m trying to understand. Is this a material that behaves as if compressed when electrified?

Not what he asked, but okay.

Is it respect or fear? Maybe it’s because a man feeling like his social status is being threatened by the possibility of ‘having his woman stolen from him’ is quite possibly stupid enough to initiate deadly violence over it, while a harassed woman is much less likely to initiate violence, and might even just acquiesce out of fear of his possible violence.

One of the grand, society wide problems (at least in the English speaking world, my experience with other parts is limited) is the way in which people, in an effort to avoid hitting people’s feelings, and to keep things simple for children, have stretched the word ‘friend’ to gloss over important distinctions between different relationships.

In order to avoid hurting people’s feelings, they point at a coworker who they share memes with over the company slack channels and say ‘friend’ even though they never speak outside of those memes, they don’t know anything about each other, and they wouldn’t trust them with anything more meaningful than a meme.

In order to avoid having to explain the difference between different kinds of relationship (which they quite possibly don’t know themselves) to kids, adults point at the kid their kid shares a classroom with and loves like a brother, and the kid who puts their kid through mild physical torture on a nearly daily basis, and calls them both ‘friend.’ How is the kid supposed to acknowledge the difference they have no words for outside of making hand waving gestures How are they supposed to teach their own kids the difference if they don’t learn it?

English has the words friend, buddy, coworker, pal, comrade, ally, mate, classmate, bunkmate, playmate, acquaintance, companion, partner, associate, chum, bro, and more, but because people are too lazy, ignorant, or socially anxious, they all end up as ‘friend.’

It is possible to think of time as a ‘line’ with events strung on it like flags/tags.

Some people believe there are points at which events seem like they could result in different outcomes, like flipping a coin. They flip a coin and it comes up ‘heads’ but they can imagine a world where the flip came up ‘tails.’

Some people even think both the ‘heads’ world and the ‘tails’ world are equally real, just that people in one cannot interact with the other. Both worlds continue forever.

These are ‘parallel’ or ‘alternate’ timelines.