So, robotic limbs kind of exist to a degree in the prototype stage, but like, a robot arm by itself isnt going to let you casually lift 100lbs regardless of how advanced the arm itself is, unless you also have a spine, legs and attachment for that arm capable of handling that lifting too, or some kind of wearable exoskeleton to take the weight off those areas

Literally like a scene from a comedy movie except even that parody president was less incoherent. Itd be almost funny in a sad sort of way if he wasnt, well, in charge of a massive military. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hs8mRs_k6j0?start=17&end=36

Tbf, a lot of the “classic” conspiracy theories would legit be quite horrifying were they actually true, they just tend to be so ridiculous that its very hard to seriously contemplate them.

Ah yes, eugenics, famously a position that has proven helpful in the past. /s

I dont have this newest gen6 plus, just the slightly less new gen6 with e/os, but I wouldn’t imagine the difference is huge. Has generally worked about as well as any regular android phone Ive had, with a few minor annoyances like the “paste” button for text often being invisible, such that I just have to press where it should be to make it work.

Interesting to see this project is still going, I havent seen much about it since leaving reddit during the API protest.

I mean, aren’t most of these “scientists find microbe that eats plastic” stories just them finding something in the wild that already has such an adaptation, rather than engineering something new? The idea that a plastic eating organism makes plastic nonviable to use anymore is a bit like saying that we can’t make stuff out of wood, paper, natural fibers like cotton or wool, etc, because those things will degrade given the right circumstances and time.

I lock the door out of habit any time I’m in there, even if I’m home alone and just shaving my face or something.

Evidently at least some humans find them impressive, to have named them after a mythological hyper-predator.

If it was “mean” or “average” then sure, median not so much

From what I’ve heard, being not AI generated was part of why it became popular, something along the lines of “at least they were willing to make bad looking art themselves instead of having a machine do it for them” or such. This just based on posts about it in my mastodon feed tho as I’m not on any Chinese social medias, so take that with a grain of salt.

I would say that spore was a bit ahead of its time, except I cant think of anything thats come out since that is really like it beyond direct attempts to copy it, which have always been rather incomplete. I cant shake the feeling that an attempt to make something equivalent with modern hardware capabilities would be amazing, flawed design or no, but I guess with the reputation the game has, that isnt likely to happen any time soon

honestly I think no mans sky would be one of the worst examples for what Im thinking of. it goes back to the bit about how a purely generated story would be pretty flat and that I suspect that to make npc’s distinct, there would need to be a good bit of existing character lore and unique dialogue for the AI to work with; most no mans sky NPCs are so similar to eachother that even with not-repeating dialogue, they’d still sound stale. I think you’d want something like skyrim, where the world is big and open but not so big and open that each character cant have a writer give them a little bit of backstory to build off of.

I get what this is saying, and I partly agree, but at the same time, I still think that open world video game npc dialogue is one of the few cases where “program that generates plausible sounding strings of text” could actually be mildly useful. Yes, if you generate everything procedurally, especially the actual story, the result is going to feel rather flat, but I think this misses any middle ground between having all dialogue dynamically generated and having it all be a prewritten human script. For example, suppose that an NPC had conventionally human-written dialogue for the most plot-important conversations, like giving a quest, cutscenes, a player’s first visit to a location, etc, just as these sorts of games have now, but during less important conversations or once the prewritten dialogue was exhausted, it would switch to generating new dialogue, using a human-written backstory and the prewritten dialogue for that character as part its prompt to keep every character from sounding exactly the same. Such a “shift” past what the writers had written for a character would be noticeable, sure, but so is just having that character repeat itself over and over, the utility wouldnt be to have AI write the story instead of the devs but instead to make the point in which that character’s part in the story is done less immersion breaking.

I can’t tell if this is supposed to be saying that Trump under there is what is contaminating all that taylor farms produce, or if its that Trump thinks this would be a good hiding spot because nobody would expect to find him around vegetables

not really big on fires actually. Indoors they make the air too smoky and just seem obsolete for the purpose, and I dont really enjoy being outside enough to want to do camping or such like that would necessitate an outdoor fire.

That being said, sugar is also harmful and I do have a sweet tooth- its not that the thing is harmful that bothers me per se so much as the degree and obviousness of the harm. Even if I was to enjoy being around a fire, the effect from campfire smoke is slow and non-obvious, it doesnt literally make you watch your friends act temporarily brain damaged while theyre in the area of effect, and its the anxiety over if friends taking it will cause themselves harm, and the existential horror of contemplating reducing one’s own mental functioning on purpose, that really emphasizes to me the toxicity alcohol has.

Somehow most of the things that we label “drugs” (like illegal stuff not like prescriptions) don’t throw me for quite the same mental loop, because I’m not legally and socially permitted to just buy those if I felt like it the way I could with alcohol. It feels less jarring to be reminded of an aspect of society that you’ve opted not to participate in to the point of it’s existence slipping one’s mind, if that thing isn’t made conveniently available in the first place

Every so often I’m reminded that alcohol really is a thing that exists and I end up going through the mental loop of processing that people actually do drink poison recreationally and that it’s not just some omnipresent fiction trope.

Is it really a lot for an RC hobbyist? The only RC hobbyist I’ve personally met had a whole garage filled (as in no room for an actual car in said garage because even the middle had more tables of it to fit planes and tools that wouldn’t go on the walls) with stuff like this. That’s a sample size of one of course but I didn’t get the impression from him talking about his stuff and about his RC plane buddies that he felt that he had an unusually large amount for someone really into that hobby.

Whenever this meme comes up, I like to mention Courland’s colonial empire if you can even call it that