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Melobol

@ Melobol @lemmy.ml

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  • What is a thing you can fix with another thing that is not the intended thing, but it's actually better than the intended thing in some senses?

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  • I have couple "redneck engineering" solutions I can think of. But most of the time it is out of necessity because it needs to be done on the spot, or a real thing does not exist. Ohh and I don't have a 3d printer to solve it elegantly.Examples that I can think of: an LED controller right now is being cooled by a repurposed coller affixed with a metal clamp. It is better bc it works.I'm using a plastic lid under a mason jar ring lid, with an x cut in it for a watering tube. Better than not having any lid on.

  • Which food gives you the best bowel movement?

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  • I like grinding chia seeds and soaking them overnight in milk (it takes a while to mix) - then put it in the morning cereal.

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    How does one get hookups off dating apps as an average looking dude?

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  • The first step is always acknowledging the problem. And in these cases it's always the "females" fault.

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    How does one get hookups off dating apps as an average looking dude?

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  • Honestly based on your comments in this thread, you have some self improvement to do.Saltiness is never attractive, and boy - you sound salty.

  • What is a useful or interesting product under $100 that you wouldn’t normally think to buy?

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  • Glass Tupperware, if you look all your plastic ones I bet they are scratched - melted or otherwise damaged. All those missing parts end up in the food.

  • Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far

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  • Ahh that makes kinda sense!Tho I'm not interested much in porn - I am very pissed about credit card companies deciding for the users of what they can purchase or not. I believe crypto will help a lot with these overreaches in the future.

  • Your brain is looking out for you, whether you want it or not.

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  • Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far

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  • Since I am out of loop - my bias is still: why wouldn't (furry) porn be profitable? :D

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    Which kind of alcohol gives you the worst hangover?

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  • Synthetic wine made without grapes? I'm just guessing but based on 'common knowledge' it is bad.

  • What's the first thing you'd do with a Star Trek holodeck?

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  • Can I use to learn the technology of the Star Trek era?Steal all the patterns Invent unlimited energy, the safe teleportation not the crappy one from early ages, replicator technology, cancer cure, and medicine.

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  • Probably it is a bad idea. But life is nothing but choices either good or bad we have to learn live with.

    My first concern is the birth control. And what happens if it fails.

    There are other good ideas in the thread: to charge a token amount of rent with a rental agreement. You have to have a way of legally remove an unwanted guest.

    Probably having some strict rules put in writing for her - even if she is a real angel - would help also in the long run.

    Most people won't spend their life wih their high school sweetheart. This is a very strong thing you have to able to defend both kids from. They need the freedom of the ability to break up without putting any one in an awkward situation. The convenience should not lock the girl into a situation that she could have been better out of. Or the boy would feel guilt so he wouldn't break up with her, so she won't turn "homeless". You can never know.

    Maybe getting her a student apartment somewhere else would be a way better option. Maybe there are goverment or student grants for her to apply?

  • xkcd #3149: Measure Twice, Cut Once

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  • This should be cross posted to the woodworking community :)

  • We don’t memorize phone numbers anymore, we rely on GPS to tell us where to go and Facebook reminds us of birthdays. What else will we stop remembering once AI remembers everything for us?

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  • Spell check is one of those.Writing our own letters. That was actually a skill

  • What’s a piece of advice you got as a kid that still sticks with you?

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  • Literal translation it is a bit funnier in original:"If you're bored, sharpen a stick and stick it up your butt so you resemble a donkey more."Basically there is 0 reason to be bored in this life.

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  • The frowning upon is religion based values. On the other hand multipe wives and no other husbands allowed is also religion based.Next question would be why is same sex marriage frowned upon?

    There is a reason why ancient societies were matriarchy based. It was always easy to tell who the mother was. And because of that the wealth was tied to the mother's bloodline instead of the father's.If you want a real - future proof inheritance system: leave everything to the mother than as she dies the children get everything.

    One on one pairing is more fair with big numbers. You no longer have to take your brother's widow as a wife, you do not need to marry to make sure you have one extra goat to milk ar having a maid and incubator for the next generation.Humans generally speaking do not need to make more than 2 kids. Your bloodline won't die out because of modern medicine. Nobody's bloodline worth anything anyway. Your genes are not that superior.

    So there is no logical reason to support a one sided marriage system.Now open polyamory where everyone is on board, equal, open about it and can leave any time - go ahead that totally green light from me.

  • Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says

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  • I do not agree that efficiency is good.If its is good, we would live like we keep pigs and chickens in meat farms. More efficient is to eat bug based protein, and why waste time on eating instead of 100% meal replacement foods.Why keep people with disabilities or with different "colors of skin" (insert any other thing there) from the most "efficient" ones?The best way to think is Matrix-esqe pods for humans and living in a simulation.Only bad part of that picture is that we are not needed at all.

    And these are the dark points of unlimited change.We all know capitalism is very bad for the majority. We know big money do not care about marginalized groups. These are all just numbers. And at the end you and I we are all numbers that can be cut. I'm probably not going to be alive, but I hope for a bright future for the upcoming generations. The problem is that I do see AI potentially darkening their skies.Don't get me wrong AI can be a great tool if you learn how to use it. But the benefits are not going to be in the people hands.

    We need a general society overhaul where not the profit is the only thing that matters. Efficiency is good when you burn renewable wooden pellets and you want to get the most out of the chemical reaction. Efficiency is good when you are using the minimum amount of material to build something (with 3x oversized safety measures). But efficiency in AI and in social terms are going to be a problem.

    Humans will not have worry free lives in current society. All the replaced labor keeps the earnings in the stockholders hands. But this went really far from AI. Sorry for the rant, but I do worry for the future.I believe blindly accepting something before even attempting to look into the pitfalls not a great idea. And we never see all the pitfalls coming.

  • Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says

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  • Good enough is the keyword in a lot of things. That's how fast fashion got this big.

  • Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says

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  • The worry is deeper than just different changes in production. Not all progress is good, think of the broken branches of the evolution.The fact that us don't teach kids how to write already took a lot of different childhood development and later brain development and memory improvement out of the run.Qith ai now drawing, writing and music became a single sentence prompt. So why keep all those things? Why literally waste time developing a skill that you can not sell? Sure for fun...And you are bringing up efficiency. Efficiency is just a buzzword that big companies are using to replace human labor. How much more efficient is a bank where you have 4 machine and one human teller? Or a fast food restaurant where the upfront employee just delivers the food to the counter and you can only place order with a computer.There is a point where our monkey brains can't compete and won't be able to exist without human to human stuff. But I don't need to worry in 2 years we will be not able to differentiate between ai and humans. And we can just fake that connection for the rest of our efficient lifes.I'm not against improving stuff, but qhere this is focused won't help us in the long run...

  • Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says

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  • I'm not sure at this point. The sewing machine was just automated stitching. It is more similar to Photos and landscape painters, only it is worse.With the creative AI basically most of the visual art skills went to "I'm going to pay 100$ for AI to do this instead 20K and waiting 30 days for the project". Soon doctors, therapists and teachers will look down the barrel. "Why pay for one therapy session for 150 or I can have an AI friend for 20 a month".In the past you were able to train yourself to use sewing machine or learn how to operate cameras and develop photos. Now I don't even have any idea where it goes.