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  • US military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to punish Iran

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  • Religious targets? You get bonus points if you start a holy war.

  • Apple to debut smart glasses in 2027 with focus on privacy: report

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  • If you glue an iPod nano on a pair of old sunglasses, you could technically call them privacy respecting smart glasses. Obvious, that’s not what they’re actually going to do though.

  • If you had the "opportunity" to get an abdominal/pelvic MRI that wasn't entirely medically necessary, would you do it?

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  • It depends. Many people have something odd going on here and there, but most of it doesn't really require medical intervention. Some of those things actually go away sooner or later anyway, so an intervention can do more harm than good. Chances are, it's just going to freak you out for nothing, and cost you money.

    The thing is, you never know. There's always a chance that something truly horrifying is brewing inside you, and ignoring it is going to cost you your life, or worse. What if you're one of the lucky few who need to get something fixed before it becomes a serious issue? Who knows.

    The way I see it, the expected value of this equation is pretty harmless. If you feel completely normal, it's probably nothing.

  • If you had the "opportunity" to get an abdominal/pelvic MRI that wasn't entirely medically necessary, would you do it?

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  • The more you look, the more you’ll find. Those pictures may give you answers you didn’t want to hear.

  • Work stress can turn people gay, claims Malaysian minister

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  • LOL. What a classic move. The fastest way to world peace is to invade every nation and murder everyone.

  • Work stress can turn people gay, claims Malaysian minister

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  • It all makes sense now. When you max out your straightness value, but keep on pushing, you cause an integer overflow. That’s a sneaky way to end up being super gay.

  • Work stress can turn people gay, claims Malaysian minister

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  • Can’t they just hire gay people in the first place? Can’t turn gay if you’re already gay.

    Or maybe working hard could make you super gay… or straight? I don’t know how this works.

  • SpaceX Stock Plummets to Record Low Near $120 After Seven-Day Slump

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  • Sounds like a great plan. I’ll get my popcorn. 🍿

  • Where is the best site for job hunting?

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  • Pro tip: Go where the work is.

    If it's in the middle of nowhere, the company has to take whatever its given. This means that there's hardly any competition, and even a recent graduate can get a decent job. As long as your degree is at least a little bit relevant, you'll get the job easily. The locals who also applied are just drunken idiots who barely know how to read.

  • how would you intuitively define "progress"?

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  • Would you like some radium water? It was considered highly progressive in the early 1900s since it utilised this fancy new thing called radiation. Borderline magical stuff when you think about it.

  • how would you intuitively define "progress"?

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  • We had electric cars at first. Lead acid batteries were pretty miserable a hundred years ago, so no wonder why gasoline and diesel took over so quickly. That was progress in the 1900s, because gasoline was just so much more practical in every way.

    Currently, we’re transitioning back to electric cars, but this time we have vastly superior batteries. Today’s progress means we’re driving cars that pollute less than their predecessors. Even when you get less range, it’s still counted as progress because priorities have shifted. That’s not exactly full circle, but it’s close enough.

    With bisons and whales we’re really trying to come full circle. About a hundred years ago, we were driving both groups towards extinction, but now we’re trying to get those numbers back to normal. Both directions were viewed as progress because priorities have changed so much.

    Either way, decisions were made based on what the situation called for at the time. As the world changes, more information becomes available, and different things become important. These things shape decisions all the time. Perhaps future generations will look down on us building all these wind mills instead of developing fusion reactors.

  • how would you intuitively define "progress"?

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  • To me, progress is change in a desired direction. When a lumber mill is built, that’s progress to the company and employees. When the same mill gets decommissioned 20 years later, that’s seen as progress by environmentalists.

    The term itself doesn’t define the direction or goals. People who use it take care of those things.

  • Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips

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  • Yes

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  • You need the following:

    • Plastic pipes
    • end caps
    • wool yarn
    • table salt
    • citric acid
    • soy lecithin
    • shampoo
    • alarm clock
    • popcorn

    Leave all of it scattered on the table and let your friend's imagination run wild.

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  • Yes. Nothing lasts forever.

    For millennia, horses used to be crucial for everyday life. Nowadays, we have cars, airplanes and other CO2 emitting atrocities that made horses effectively obsolete. Before the petrochemical industry changed the world, it was very hard to imagine life without horses. When was the last time you saw someone plow a field with a horse? Oh, you haven't even worked on the fields. Oh, boy has the world changed in unbelievable ways.

    For centuries, paper letters were the standard form of long distance communication. Before the internet, it would have been pretty impossible to imagine life without letters. When was the last time you received, let alone wrote one of those? Yeah, the world has changed, now hasn't it.

    Sooner or later, all the famous sites will be obsolete, just like oil lamps, gas stoves, and quills. Currently, it's pretty hard to imagine what that new thing would be. Usually, these changes happen gradually. Eventually, you just realize you haven't used that old thing in a while, because you've been using the new thing for such a long time.

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  • They ran out of money long before LLMs took over the search business.

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  • Besides, regular TV channels and their programs suck. Nothing of value was lost when I decided skip connecting my TV cable. It's basically a glorified display now, and the computer provides all the videos I could ever want.

    You could think of it as a "smart TV" setup of sorts, since the computer is smart and can do so much more than any smart TV out there. You can watch all sorts of streaming stuff on it, it can block ads, and even YouTube is barely tolerable now that I installed sponsor block. I've even installed Steam on the PC and played some simple games on it. It's not quite a console yet, but after a few upgrades it could be.

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  • That’s why you get a computer, slap it under a large TV or display and watch online videos with ublock origin on. The computer gets the ethernet while the TV gets the HDMI.

  • Billionaire CEO: Work-Life Balance Is For The Weak

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  • I’m beginning to see a pattern here. Billionaires say we don’t need balance or unions, but those are the things that actually improve the quality of my life. So, the billionaires are effectively saying I shouldn’t enjoy my life.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    chaosCruiser @futurology.today

    Does anyone else feel worried when you see a big number in the Lemmy notification inbox?

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    Will LLMs make finding answers online a thing of the past?

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    If you were a butterfly, which flowers would you choose?