There’s a Midwest focused instance and I wouldn’t call that division. They’re not trying to exclude East and west coasters. They don’t hate southerners. It’s just similar people gathering to talk about the things they have in common, which in this instance are midwesterner things. It’s the same for women. It’d be nice to have a place to talk about things that women have in common and experience that men don’t. If it was anything like the 2XChromosomes subreddit then men wouldn’t be banned, and plenty of men comment, it’s just that the topic of conversation focuses on women and women’s experiences. Having a place for people, especially women, to talk about women’s issues and experiences isn’t anymore divisive than having a midwestern instance or a European instance. And it would be a good place for men to look into to learn more about what life is like as a woman. If men feel they don’t have a place to talk about men’s problems, then they should also make an instance specifically for talking about men’s experiences

Sounds like I have a pretty similar office job and I used to have similar problems with the exhaustion. There’s a few things that really helped I think. The first was to be more active at work. Obviously there’s a limit to what you can do, but don’t pass up any opportunity to get up, walk around, and stretch your legs. If you can take a break/lunch outside then do that. If you have some days where you don’t have too much work to do and it kinda feels like you’re just sitting there with no sense of time, or you’re just watching videos to pass the time, try to find something to do instead. Pick up any trash/misplaced things around the office, reorganize files, have a chat with co workers. This all helps to prevent the exhaustion, I’ve found. Then, when I’m out of work, I try to have non-gaming things to do. Like family dinners on fridays. This helps me feel like I do more than just sit behind a desk all day every day, and it makes it feel like more of a treat when I do sit down to game. I don’t know if these will work for you, but they’re worth a shot if you haven’t tried them I guess

Thank you! This helps a lot bc I was worried I’d have to become a Linux master just to use one of these emulators

Jfc I got my first today and was like “oh wow it’s real.” Can’t believe some people are getting multiple a day. That would be annoying as hell

I’ve been seriously considering getting the anbernic sp but I know nothing about Linux (interested in Linux, hence being here, but not a tech person so), and very little about emulation honestly. Do you have any recommendations or advice for beginners? I’ve tried reading guides that say they’re for beginners but then they talk about knulli and stuff and I get real confused

Atheists and Buddhists aren’t christians? I was gonna say do you mean religious, but atheists aren’t religious either

Now someone should make another where Mai and Ty Lee are the normal ones and breakdown Azula is the odd one out

My big problems with AI are the climate cost and the unethical way that a lot of these models have been trained. If they can fix those, then yeah I don’t have an issue with people using it when it’s appropriate but currently lots of people are using it out of sheer laziness. If corpos are just using it to badly replace workers and kids are using it instead of learning how to write a fucking paragraph properly, then yeah, I’ll hate on AI

Right? Like I’d LOVE to be proven wrong and for this to actually help our economy and the middle class. It’s just that I’m realistic and can see that this is much more likely to lead us to a recession instead

The drive thru pharmacy I go to just has like a shelf thingy they can lift and push down. Not one of those cool tubes :(

Oh shit you’re right. I think I vaguely remember banks having those when I was really young. I mostly remember the suckers they’d give us tho. Fuck those things are cool tho. We should bring them back

Wait those pneumatic tube things are real?? I always thought it was like 1960s sci-fi. Like what they thought the future would be like

Based on how the first attempt went, I feel like “how easy it will be” isn’t going to be too much of a roadblock either

Yes, but not even the sexy kind of vampire

Critical thinking and communication are crucial life skills that people need to develop regardless of what job they do. Even if technology becomes so advanced that we have computer chips in our brains so that we can constantly search the web, we’ll still need critical thinking and communication skills. One major way we develop those skills is by going to school and doing things like math homework, taking notes, and putting the things we learned into coherent essays. We might learn more effective ways to learn these skills in the future, but that will still require the student to do the work themselves. Just bc they can pass their classes using AI, doesn’t mean they’re actually achieving the purpose of the class. Literally part of the reason why there are kids thinking that LLMs are search engines that will answer their questions with facts 100% of the time is bc those kids lack the critical thinking and reading comprehension skills to properly understand what LLMs are and what they should actually be used for. If we were to say, “actually it’s fine for kids to just use AI to spit out the right answers on their homework bc they’ll always have an AI on their phone in their pocket. Plus who needs critical thinking” then we’re leaving those kids vulnerable to manipulation by those who control what the AI’s say, just like how the lack of proper education already present in the USA leaves kids (who then grow into adults) vulnerable to propaganda

Wdym “using your own words is less effective than having AI speak for you”? Learning how to express yourself and communicate with others is a crucial life skill, and if a kid struggles with that then they should receive the properly education and support to learn, not given an AI and told to just use that instead

AI can be useful for certain things, I just think the majority of people are using it for shit that’s not actually making their life better. For example, students using it to write essays, summarize paragraphs for notes, etc. It makes their short-term work easier, but it doesn’t actually help them learn. Yeah, taking notes is annoying, but being able to read/hear something and then put it in your own words helps develop critical thinking and teaches you to synthesize information. I get companies having AI chatbots for answering simple questions that direct you to a real person if your question is too complicated or specific. But LLMs aren’t search engines and shit like a lot of people use them as

It took me a moment to notice the edit lol

I mean, I’ve heard of them, but I think the first time I saw an actual picture of a hare, that didn’t just look like a cute bunny, was after I turned 18

This is why we have both the house of reps and the senate. The house of reps means that states with a high population get adequate representation, and the senate means that states with lower populations can still have a say instead of having no chance of outvoting the high pop states