Makes sense, 16GB is sort of the new “normal” although 8GB is still quite enough for everyday casual use. “AI PCs” being a marketing term just like “AI” itself.

People will choose a workplace in which they have greater control, over one with nicer accommodations.

I find with ADHD I can focus a lot better from home but get a lot of motivation through social feedback, so the current hybrid arrangement tends to be a happy medium.

Happened with someone’s audio once, for some reason the sound of him pissing and sighing in satisfaction wasn’t getting filtered out. I just sat there wondering why nobody was muting him yet couldn’t bring myself to do it because of how funny and awkward it was.

“Religious suffering is the expression of real suffering and also a protest against it. Religion is the opium of the masses. Religion is the heart of a heatless world. Religion is the soul of soulless conditions.”

Religion isn’t a separate thing from culture that can be cleaved off like this. The form it takes is contingent on conditions of people’s lives and power structures. People also don’t make a conscious choice to believe or disbelieve in religion, if you’re an atheist you can’t just willingly choose to believe. Society is not directed by the willful actions of people’s collective beliefs like this either, it’s more a Darwinian process.

Also civil religion is a thing and it doesn’t necessarily align with what people think of “religion” but operates in a very similar way. A lot of atheists are probably adherents to aspects of civil religion without knowing or thinking of it this way.

While US sponsored military committed atrocities in Afghanistan it served their overall goal to avoid it as much as possible. We have plenty of examples where that wasn’t the case, but generally the US prefers to arm counter-revolutionaries and fascists to do what they do.

Biden was hoping this would be one and done, but the longer it goes on the more it threatens the election. Sad that it has to work this way.

That said the sentiment that, “geez this is really bad for Palestinians Biden’s polling,” that dominates a lot of the US-centric media and political discourse is pretty disgusting. It always seems to be the case that now is always the worst time to act against war in any way.

I don’t understand this either, toilets already require running water and have plenty of room to integrate bidet function. It’s not fancy tech or anything… in North America that’s sort of how they’re marketed though, with an emphasis on the settings, like its something you have to learn to use.

A lot of innovations in WiFi aren’t about having a better access point for home use.

tbf I don’t have this one, I know where everything is at all times to an insane level of detail, unless of course anything is moved or I’m trying to get things together to actually use them LOL

It’s like the weed version of Iceland’s sheep

Drugs are invoked a lot to explain and justify human behavior to some external factor. It’s like when people say Nazis were on meth as an explaination for their actions, while not applying the same logic to basically every other military using amphetamines.

RC “nootropic stack”

Sometimes I say “sympathy without empathy” for these situations lol

Truly a pioneer

I want apps to be programs again*

It’s actually super easy to root your ball controls and run a minimal install, check out some of the projects on github. Compatibility is like 90% there.

I mean I would only accept the FOSS option for my balls (or lack thereof), but yeah I want like a diabetes insulin pump but for balls. Could add a bunch of quirks and features in there too like a hardening protective mesh and RGB. Why stop there just go full tech-penis.

There are no married people playing this game

I thought they were implying something misogynist about women’s ability to plan and how the women’s plan will be considered only if the man’s fails first. Maybe that’s the way to get sex ed to where it’s needed though, “the first anti-woke birth control, putting the control back where it should be.” Wouldn’t be surprised in today’s America. /s