I honestly have no clue what’s going to happen next, but I think Mandami has proven a lot of the people in the US are getting fed up with the status quo, especially this right wing laissez faire policies the current administration embodies. It’s going to be interesting to see where things end up if this momentum continues.
I know of no factory for “vegan” food that kills the male workers days after they are born, and keeps the female workers in confined spaces for their entire lives, while forcibly impregnating them to ensure there will be a future population of workers. But please go on.
Right now AI companies are doing what they used to say drug dealers do “Hey it’s free! Why don’t you give it a try?” And once you get hooked they jack up the price.
In all my years I’ve never come across someone giving away free street drugs, but AI companies do it all the time. The problem is once the funding dries up, I suspect the real price of some of these services is going to be astronomical. They are giving away millions, if not billions of dollars of services free or deeply discounted all in the hopes of “gaining market share”.
When the bubble pops we will likely start seeing the actual cost of some of these services.
Mix in the fact that if you’ve ever used some of these AI services you’ll find most of the time you have to babysit the LLM to give you what you want and not go all haywire on you.
With our current level of technology I think we are in a place where we are only really able to augment some of our workers workflow. I really can’t see replacing the full staff of a large to mid-sized company considering the cost and efficiency of these products.
That said I think the genie is out of the bottle, and AI services are here for good. What the landscape will look like in the next few years I really can’t say. More people/companies may choose to run LLM’s locally on their own machines/servers trained on very specific use cases as that might be more cost effective than what our current generation entails.
As a man I’ve always assumed this was the correct approach. I’ll keep myself groomed as long as you keep yourself groomed, this always struck me as the respectful thing to do.
I spent the entirety of my high school years dating one girl, at the time I was in the thick of things and didn’t realize it, but it wasn’t until we broke up that I realized how disfunctional we/she were and made me realize that my life with her was the exact opposite of everything I wanted out of life.
I spent five years with her and was on a fast track to a very different life, and I hopped off that train at the very last moment.
I refuse to argue with my wife, I try to be compassionate to those around me, strive for financial stability, and take care of my body and mind. All things I didn’t have with my first real girlfriend from high school.
Furthermore her constant pregnancy scares (yes I wore protection, every time.) taught me that I have zero urge to be a parent. Every time she told me she might be expecting, but subsequently refused to take a pregnancy test, my entire existence was filled with dread. I couldn’t contemplate a single possibility where having a child resulted in anything good.
That might be my biggest visible ‘scar’ from those days the circumstances of my life and finances are drastically different, but that revelation remains consistent.
Some of the countries with the large percentages of vegetarians, vegans or predominantly plant forward diets such as India or South East Asia are not wealthy by Western standards. Eating a ‘healthy’ plant forward diet does not have to be an expensive affair.
The perception that a plant based diet is a wealthy western modern invention is white washing its unglamorous origins as a traditional eastern diet, especially in Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, etc cultures.
To dismiss a plant forward diet because not everyone can afford to eat impossible burgers 7x a week is disingenuous, as people were eating diets with little to no meat for centuries before faux ‘beuf’ plant minces were invented.
I think you are looking at this from the wrong perspective, I think you are discounting sexual selection as a basis of why humans have long hair. I suspect the advantage is less this helps me to survive, and more this helps me to find a mate.
Another response pointed out the advantages of having dense curly hair and how and why we evolved with that, I think our ancestors used that starting point as a means of signaling health, youth, and vitality. And from there different hair types evolved as an expression of sexual selection.
We evolved to have heads of long thick hair because our ancestors found it attractive. And to this day it continues to be used (subconsciously or consciously) as a means of determining the sexual health of a potential mate.
If you think about it, when we get old or sick the hair is one of the first things to falter, not having a head of long thick hair doesn’t necessarily mean you are unhealthy, but it is also difficult to maintain a head of full shiny head of hair without having a level of health and vitality.
Tldr: I think to this day hair is used as an indicator of sexual health from a potential mate, having long, thick hair can signal that health from a distance, and would be a distinct advantage in spreading those genes.
Ah that makes so much sense, thanks for clarifying! Manufacturers are legally allowed to lie to consumers, that’s much better!
Legally how can you state it is 100% juice when the first ingredient is filtered water, then you add the cochineal extract, and the acorbic acid. I mean it’s mostly juice but it’s clearly not 100% juice. I feel like this is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
My main, high spec audio production laptop is running Windows, my work device is a Mac, I have a Chromebook for when I’m working out, and I have an old Dell running Linux mint which has become my main beater laptop. I guess you can say I’m ambidextrous.
Totally watched Elliot Hulse back in the day as well, I never quite understood how working out and self improvement became an entry point for MAGA and right wing authoritarian, but it did.
Back in the day I would watch the Hodge twins, they had a channel on gym culture and another where they would joke around about obscure current events.
Last I saw them they had gone full tilt maga and mainly discussed politics, yeaaa no. I’m out.
I’m personally not a fan of following recipes, but my wife loves cookbooks. A few of her go to are:
Veganomicon - By Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero
And The How Not to Die Cookbook By Michael Greger, Gene Stone
Word on the street is she’s been hit by, she’s been struck by, a smooth criminal.
Even if they were to try this, I honestly do not think he will live much past 2028. He is already about 80 years old, in poor health with an ever degrading mental capacity. They really can’t be planning for him to be around forever.
Hell even Trump himself keeps talking about building a legacy, which suggests to me that he knows his days are numbered.
Mine also did, but it didn’t really work for me that well to be honest.
So you’re saying we all need to learn to trim trees as a backup plan?
The problem is that there are no industries or jobs that are entirely safe in the long term. Yes white collar jobs are most at risk at the moment, but I see no reason to believe manual labor wouldn’t be at risk after 5-10 years. I literally don’t know what we are supposed to do?
My mother was the farthest thing from affectionate, my parents were divorced so my father wasn’t around that much when I was growing up.
I’m not sure “gentle” is the first word I would use to describe myself, but as an adult I’ve dedicated my life to adopting animals in need. Generally it’s hard to build trust with an animal if you do not have a “gentle” side.
Maybe it was the animals who taught me how they wanted to be treated, but I can sure as hell say it wasn’t my mother who taught me how to be warm and affectionate.
Curious, what would you recommend the Americans do?