DreadIlk

@akhivae Genetics sets the potential. I doubt africans can maintain high culture. Sure there maybe different cultures due to other factors, but they will all be relative primitive.

Compare second-generation South Asian immigrant youth to their genetically identical grandparents, and you will see how the role genetics plays in culture is close to non existent.

@uisbg1 I learned to just ignore most people. Intellectual honesty toward your self is very rare, it shows in close groups on in only discussion.

The funniest part of course is acting like everything is fine and Dandy in Kiev.

@BecomingCritter Rest.

I've been feeling so run down. Is there anything that took you from feeling low energy and lethargic to feeling, yknow, alive?

@SolLunix Personal deductions and first couple of grand are not federally taxed.

Corporation: "We made $4B but spent $3.9B so we only owe taxes on $100M." Government: "Totally reasonable." You: "I made $60K but spent $58K on survival." Government: "You owe taxes on $60K." You: "That's not—" Government: "File by May 15."

@sh1pman @msvetov Could not agree more. Maybe it's our human lot in life to see others bring ruin.

@DreadIlk @msvetov Such is the national mentality. Also, tired of incompetent and/or treacherous leaders that lead us from one crisis to another.

У меня до сих пор не укладывается в голове, как можно было променять участие в ИИ революции на войну против Украины. Момент, когда Россия была выведена из большой цивилизационной игры. Дай бог на десятилетия, а не навсегда.

@sh1pman @msvetov 2/2 claud literally thinks in Russian on cyber security topics because most of material on it comes from you guys. We spent a fortune on what we have, this kind of spending is not always justified and the lead is transitory.

@sh1pman @msvetov Why are so many Russians in love with the west? Like you guys can't stop shitting on your own civilization. What do you mean you are missing out? You literally have full access to AI as anyone else. It's open on internet. 1/2

@ErikAndThoughts @shagbark_hick @ride_enjoyer @LexLiberty76 Vibes? You deny retards exist?

@DreadIlk @shagbark_hick @ride_enjoyer @LexLiberty76 So it's just vibes?

Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all. I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem. While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives. My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition. Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.

@ErikAndThoughts @shagbark_hick @ride_enjoyer @LexLiberty76 You think we go around IQ testing people? It's short hand for some people are dumb and of low potential.

@shagbark_hick @DreadIlk @ride_enjoyer @LexLiberty76 IQ is a garbage statistic and anyone who thinks it isn't is low IQ.

@shagbark_hick @ride_enjoyer @LexLiberty76 Everything comes down to IQ. That ensures there will always be failures and that you can't treat every kid the same. Differentiation between kids needs to start much sooner than it does now.

My friend, I have not stated for even a second that I think homeschooling should be "banned." I'm not even sure that state intervention would help per se. I'm just not sure that homeschooling is anything but a bandaid fix for a structural problem, with wildly variable and occasionally criminally insufficient results. People lionize it and hype it as if homeschooling is a sure-shot shangri-la, awesome thing that must proliferate..... but there are some pretty large segments of that world that are as dysfunctional as public school or, occasionally, worse. Might work for some families, might not work for others IMO

@TheBrownestHat @politicalmath A lot of people younger then boomers are not planning on kids either.

@politicalmath Do you really think the boomers have riots and civil war in them?

My solution to getting people to have more kids is to change social security so that you only get the social security that your kids are paying into the system This would be briefly hilarious before the riots and eventual civil war

@kitten_beloved Probably a self correcting problem a couple of generations down the line.

But even this misses the point: people asking "can we afford" to have another kid don't really want kids If you want kids, you have them and then build the rest of your life around making the numbers work And that question has more to do with mobile games than paid daycare

Neither side will have significantly more babies But Sasse is much closer to understanding the problem than these endless misguided material analyses "Sure, paid child care and leave hasn't halted fertility decline in any country that has tried it... but it might work for us"

@travis4nh Is the plan to break them up later and then move.

They don't call NH "the granite state" for nothing. (the one closest to the bucket is prob about 4' x 3' x 3'. A tiny machine like this can't pull a rock like that out, but it can roll / side it out via an access ramp that it can dig)

@ThePrimalDino Wait forget the landing. Why not build out an underwater city before the water comes up.

My personal opinion is that the first crewed Mars landing shouldn’t be on any portion of the planet that might end up underneath an ocean. Terraforming isn’t a question of if, but how long it will take, and I don’t want to see our equivalent of Apollo 11 drowned under an ocean.

@pika_nekopanda Yum

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@RichardHanania It's not. Probably need to have separate sexes teaching. One these girls are unstable and can cause damage to the students. Second we probably shouldn't allow them into teaching roles where this temptation exists.

They're getting hotter and this is continually getting more ridiculous.

@jondelarroz @RobertPicardo I loved the first book. Will be picking up the next two when I have time. Also highly recommend the audio version for anyone who is into audiobooks.

Space Fleet Academy Year 3 is out today. We have officially created a longer series than Starfleet Academy and beat them in every single way possible. Have you picked up your copy yet? And has @robertpicardo?

@AntonioSitongLi Damn you moved fast. Pre ordered.

Introducing NORI L1. The best robot under $1,000. Pre-order today. Ships summer 2026.

@xwanyex Physical constraints.

I don’t have to be convinced that LLM’s make programmers more productive. But where’s all the stuff? We’ve now had months and months of 100x or 1000x programmet productivity improvements. Where’s all the stuff they’re building?

@ArtisanAles1 I'm not sitting out. We are still being crushed because Trump decided to back stab half the coalition whose primary problem was the wars.

“I’m going to sit out the midterms to teach the republicans a lesson.”