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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Things that might be helpful:

    • how long y’all been together?
    • what’s her relationship to her family?
    • how many people and how big is the place?
    • (when) do you intend to get your own place?
    • what country and would you be able to afford your own place soon?
    • are there specific reasons you would move in other than “she lives there and we wanna be together”?
    • how far is the move from your place currently?
    • can you find me an image of a kitten? I love those.

    Also please don’t take Internet advice at face value on such delicate topics, we can show you what to keep in mind, but you are best suited to decide and I’m sure whatever you will decide, you’ll find your way :)




  • Person with autism here: the truth is even if some people on the spectrum can’t use the bathroom by themselves, it’s either a comorbidity linked to a different disability or it’s obscenely rare.

    The way autism expresses in different people is very complex and this is this is one of the worst mischaracterizations I’ve ever seen.

    That guy shouldn’t be able to touch the US health department or any other health organization for that matter with a ten foot pole. He is explicitly and intentionally spreading lies on a variety of different topics and should have no authority.



  • This is probably the best answer. If everything is truly only running on local network and nothing is exposed with a port through your router, you are very safe.

    Most issues get introduced when running a server exposed to the Internet.

    That said, on the lowest level, if they want to get you, they will. It’s all a risk analysis. And the more interesting you are to adversarial parties, the higher the chances you’ll get pursued.

    If you’re Edward Snowden, 99% your calls and conversations are always on record.

    If you’re John Doe, truly only your ISP cares when they get a law enforcement request because you really pushed the envelope.

    Trending movies are notoriously bad, because movie studios will really try to rake in the revenue.

    On the other hand, ripping music from YouTube, no one cares or is able to track it, so risk is very low.








  • It sounds like you might have missed some parts of my comment.

    Wages: yes you can claim everything is affected by the relatively low wages. That includes video games. But if you need to save up because of that, video games will be one of the things you need to skip, because it is a luxury good. And that’s sad. That’s why this sticks out.

    Price dip from 1980: I made a case for why the costs for video games in 1980 were very high, and probably for a variety of reasons. now quite a lot of those reasons disappeared over the next centuries. So the price increases do not correlate with that, and that’s why using the prices from 1980 might not be a great comparison.

    Complaining about a 20$ increase: because everyone has the absolute right to complain about everything. We are the consumer - judging prices is one of our ultimate rights, because we need to make sure it’s worth buying something. Now I don’t think it’s entitlement given all the things I listed before, but if you wanna call it that, go ahead, although I think trying to understand my perspective would decrease your presumptions about people like me.

    We have it objectively better by every metric: and this is precisely where I disagree, respectfully. You do not have to understand why, but I feel like painting crowds of people in broad strokes is always unhelpful for perspective and learning. But I guess in the end you do you, I can’t force people to understand someone else and why they’re saying what they’re saying.


  • I mean tbf complaining that less people can afford it now because prices have increased but wages haven’t is fair. Everything needs to be looked at relative to all the other values. If you wanna go even more in depth I guess you would need to add popularity of games, reputation of a brand or game series, value of the currency, and other factors.

    I generally agree with you that prices for video games haven’t kept up that well, although I would also point out that due to multiple factors anchoring the video game price at 1980 might not be the best if you want a fitting picture. Games were much more rare baack then, the market was smaller, small production volume meant physical costs per unit increase, there’s things like way higher shipping costs to think about because globalization is a more modern phenomenon and a lot more stuff. Imo using the 2000s as an anchor to extrapolate from would be more fitting, as the market was well established at that point and thus prices would appear more stable.

    I’m not doing that because I am literally a little gremlin who can’t be arsed to put the time in rn but these are my two cents of criticism against your methodology.


  • I 100% agree with you.

    There’s two big questions that need to be tackled: how do we fit AI into copyright law (I think latest case law suggests there’s no copyright with AI generated images), and how do we make sure everyone’s personal rights are protected (talking impersonation, blackmail, phishing, etc)?

    AI stealing jobs is overblown imo. Tech giants are trying, but turns out it just makes people work a bit faster, it’s not a magic wand. Some companies are rehiring and it’s a giant shit show. Same goes for AGI, most experts will tell you that AGI will either never happen, it won’t happen in the way we think it will, or it will still be more than 30y which means it’s not a priority for us rn and it shouldn’t be.

    To me it feels so much like the industrialization. The issue is not the production or the mekanisms, it’s who’s using them and how they’re used. Nothing changed from before we had AI, there’s good and bad uses for it and we ought to really question how this is a clear net negative for us when I don’t see it.

    There’s one thing that deserves more focus, like it always does: military application. We’re talking gathering Intel, deducing strategies or digital warfare. It enables people to use it as a propaganda acceleration for example, or like they do in the Mossad as a means to plan war crimes in the form of air strikes on civilians. That said, I think things like this would happen without AI, but we should find ways to make it harder to use AI in this context.

    Overall I don’t understand why people hate the tool instead of the person holding it and what they’re doing with it. AI is like a baseball bat and people are scared you can murder someone with it, while they’re running around with knives.