It would be nice if they would stop pushing the update on computers that can’t run the update anyway.

Tbh the whole Darling family seemed a bit weird even back when they made those budget games.

Because it shows power to those that need to know.

As the top post says: Republicans denied it happening. They might as well have played a soccer ball to Putins feet even though they’re supposed to play on opposite sides, and then wondering why he kicked it back in their face.

They did that to show that they are in control. They can get whatever they want from a republican and spit in their face afterwards, because some idiots in the GOP are under their control.

The Russian mobsters like to remind people of their reach like that.

Its the same reason why they keep confirming people falling out of windows with two suicidal bullets to the head and such. It’s mobster whistles.

Reading the article, it says that both men and women attended the protest against rape culture in France, so the real issue is that France has a rape culture. People vs culture.

This comment section however is about a few of the signs that a few of the protesters carried, and/or the comments from the self proclaimed feminist representative who says they’ll use these protests to promote their own agenda. That’s different, because that’s a gender issue. Men vs. Women.

I understand why some people are annoyed by that, because it splits the people instead of uniting them against the primary enemy: The culture.

Anyway this is just a lemmy thread, and it doesn’t matter who is right, but it shows that even talking about it is a distraction from the “real issue”, because while we are discussing signs and rape statistics, nobody is talking about the rape culture.

I don’t know exactly what the feminist representative wants to do, or if she has a point, but I do believe that we need to be able to unite both men and women to speak freely against the culture, because rape culture is enabled by people who don’t speak about it. Alienating half of them is bad timing in that regard. To stop rape culture we need both men and women to speak against it.

I hope this makes sense. This thread has gone completely off the rails…

Looking at the Cybertruck, I think his plan is simply to destroy EVs. Same thing as Twitter.

Both companies are/were evaluated way higher than what they are worth and purchased with loans that are completely insecure, but costing very real interest.

It also looks as if Elon is doing a little totally legal “asset stripping” of the goodwill by paying out huge options to himself before the companies eventually go bust. I would not be surprised if the Saudis or other co-investors are footing the interest on the loans in the meantime. It’s a small price to pay to get rid of those companies obstructing their business.

Whatever you answer to a question like that is going to be attacked. The best way is not to answer, but reply with a different question, for instance “what are you afraid of?”

But 100 clothespins. Glue them to the back of your closet door.

Edit: example

They don’t even need “they/them” when they have ranks.

The stove top kettle might get a comeback since modern induction stoves are faster than an electric kettle. I’m about to get one and look forward to having one less appliance on the table.

They have $44 billion dollar bills to wipe away the tears.

Yes, for some things. Some tasks are better done summarized. Cleaning generally isn’t, because it easily conflicts with other tasks when not done.

I’m a rather busy family man, so if I have 20 minutes to cook a meal for the family before I have to drive someone somewhere it can really mess up the entire day schedule if the sink is full of dishes and the trash bin is topped up with unsorted garbage. So I try to be on top of it for my own sake. “Keep the tools sharp” goes for everything, even a diaper supply.

I clean up when I’m done. Never leave dishes in the sink and such. I’m not a cleaning freak or anything, it’s just that I prefer not having to deal with these kind of obstacles before I can begin doing something else in that area.

The gif is of a 2 year old Indonesian kid who made the internet rounds some years ago for smoking two packs a day and the parents “couldn"t stop him”.

He quit smoking later though.

I doubt that’s deliberate (it’s probably depending on some other task or shit that you don’t even intend to use), but it’s exactly the kind of bloat that turns people away from Windows.

Windows seems to work alright for my work pc, where I’m constantly logged into their cloud, newer switch users, logged in long enough daily to get all the updates and have IT to roll out stuff, so I hardly ever have issues there.

My personal computer is a different thing. I have several users, use it about once weekly, making it basically unbootable. As soon as I open the lid, Microsoft starts bugging me to do a shit load of things and download gigabytes of crap that Microsoft, and not I, needs me to do before I can even use it. More often than not I simply close the lid again.

It’s not unusual to meet people who don’t even have a pc these days. Most people can solve their daily stuff on any cell phone browser. I find it kinda amusing that Microsoft is pushing people that way.

You’re right. OPs second question is more specifically about vision, while I answered more broadly.

Anyway, comparing it to data from a camera is not really possible.

Analoge vs. digital and so, but also in the way that we experience it.

The minds interpretation of vision is developed after birth. It takes several weeks before an infant can recognise anything and use the eyes for any purpose. Infants are probably blissfully experiencing meaningless raw sensory inputs before that. All the pattern recognition that is used to focus on things are learned features and so also dependent on actually learning them.

I can’t find the source for this story, but allegedly there was this missionary in Africa who came across a tribe who lived in the jungle and was used to being surrounded by dense forest their entire life. He took some of them to the savannah and showed them the open view. They then tried to grab the animals that were grassing miles away. They didn’t develop a sense of perspective for things in longer distance, because they’d never experienced it.

I don’t know if it’s true, but it makes a point. Some people are better at spotting things in motion or telling colours apart etc. than others. It matters how we use vision. Even in the moment. If I ask you to count all the red things in a room, you’ll see more red things that you were generally aware of. So the focus is not just the 6° angle or whatever. It’s what your brain is recognising for the pattern at mind.

So the idea of quantifying vision to megapixels and framerate is kind of useless in understanding both vision and the brain. It’s connected.

Same with sound. Some people have proved being able to use echo localisation similar to bats. You could test their vision blindfolded and they’d still make their way through a labyrinth or whatever.

Testing senses is difficult because the brain tends to compensate in that way. It’d need to be a very precise testing method to make any kind of quantisation for a particular sense.

They definitely do show sympathy, sadness, fear and joy, which are unrelated to being rewarded with food and trained behaviour.

I don’t see why they shouldn’t have a full range of emotions. It seems simpler and more natural than developing a transactional response only.

The bigger question is what emotions even are. If it’s a chemical or biological reaction then it’d be weird if other mammals didn’t have about the same emotions as humans.

It’s difficult to see how an animal feels unless you know it well. I can mostly see how my own dog is doing, but I have no idea what mood a random dog on the street is in.

It probably depends on the seller. Amazon doesn’t buy/sell everything themselves on their site. Many things are from smaller companies using Amazon as a front end store.

Selling things to US customers can be quite complicated for European sellers and many simply choose not to. The issue being customs fees and registration for individual state sales taxes and such. It’s a pretty heavy and costly process just to send a few products. If it was possible to sell a lot of products that way, Amazon would already be doing it and could easily outcompete their own seller clients.

My work has a EU only webshop and I’ve noticed that some Americans place their orders to be delivered to a German address and get charged German sales tax. I suppose there’s some company forwarding the packages and doing the paperwork.

It is also possible to consciously alter the subconsciousness. For instance, by creating sensory input for yourself by saying things out loud to a mirror. Your ears will hear it, your eyes will see it, and your subconsciousness will then process it just the same as any other experience.

With enough repetition it will make a difference in which neurons are active whenever the brain comes to making a decision on that thing.

I don’t think it’s the brain but rather our consciousness that is limited. Our sensory inputs are always on and processed by the brain, but our consciousness is very picky and also slow.

People can sometimes recall true memories that they weren’t aware of, or react to things they didn’t think of and such.

Consciousness is also somehow lagging behind the actual decision making, but always presents itself as the cause of action.

Sort of like Windows telling you that you removed a USB stick 2 seconds after you did it and was well aware of it happening. Consciousness is like that, except it takes responsibility for it too…

When it encounters something that it didn’t predict, it’ll tell you that “yeah this happened and this is why you did that”. Quite often the explanation for doing something is made up after it happened.

This is a good thing mostly, because it allows you to react faster than having to consider your options consciousnessly. You do not need to or have time to make a conscious decision to dodge a dodgeball, but you’ll still think you did.