yamazakiwi

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Comment · 1 year ago
The amount of intelligence to suggest there will be an attack on specific places at specific times is contextual and not comparably equal.

Every time I hear or read that expression, I stop taking the comment seriously because it attempts to shut down dialogue with a cute, esoteric phrase instead of fostering a discussion about a serious retrospective.

Comment · 1 year ago
Not able to get into it legally or without consequence, it is not infallible.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you are talking about an adult I don't believe you lol

And if it is true... it is not a common experience and would have external factors contributing to this behavior.

Additionally, using IQ to qualify someone's intelligence is a signal, so I'll just not go into it deeper since we will disagree as I find your anecdote juvenile, straight up exaggeration, or a complete lie to serve your opinion.

Plausibly this could happen if you had the ego of a 16 year old or were socially disabled, and it would be alleviated over time through experience. I'm not trying to be rude but you sound like a Tiktok conspirator and I'm old enough and experienced enough to smell bullshit.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'm losing braincells relying on Google Search shoving ad riddled trash in my face and even worse AI results. Gemini frequently just straight up lies to me. Saying the opposite of the truth so frequently I have experienced negative consequences in real life believing it.

The only people who are being homogenized or "down-graded" by Chat GPT are people who wouldn't have sought other sophisticated strategies in the first place, and those who understand that Chat GPT is a tool and understand how it works, and it's context, can utilize it efficiently with great positive effect.

Obviously Chat GPT is not perfect but it doesn't need to be perfect to be useful. For a search user, Google Search has not been effective for so long it's unbelievable people still use it. That is, if you believe search should be a helpful tool with utility and not a product made to generate maximum revenue at the cost of search experience.

Would you say that people were losing braincells using google in 2010 to look up an animal fact instead of going to a library and opening an encyclopedia?

Comment · 1 year ago
Same in Korea, just on the other side of the road, very polite and professional, no one breaks rules for the most part, even in Major Cities.

I know a lot of foreigners like Japan for motorcycling specifically because you can "white line" in most places, and the drivers are attentive.

The one quirk I thought was most interesting was Crab Angle Stops or when at a T shape stop lights that have an additional stop light 20 feet further from the intersection. Sometimes the cars will align diagonally to allow more traffic per light and let whoever is in front have a better angle to see traffic on small roads with poor visibility. Then when the light turns green the diagonally aligned cars move back to normal.

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Officially, the 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act) doesn’t say “you must angle.” It just requires drivers to stop at the line and confirm safety before entering.

The diagonal stop is more of a local driving custom (practical adaptation) rather than a codified rule.

Comment · 1 year ago
Nah I did Ayahuasca and I'm an empathetic person who most would consider normal or at least well-adjusted. If it's drug related it would most definitely be something else.

I’m inclined to believe your upbringing plays a much larger role.

Comment · 1 year ago
From people who would harm them?

Oh you're that anti-games, anti-porn guy, best to ignore anything you say.

Comment · 1 year ago
If I use the scroll bar or touchpad it's not too bad, but using a scroll wheel is causing me immense pain.

The design otherwise looks great, I just cannot be arsed to follow the flow they're forcing.

Comment · 1 year ago
Well they probably consider many people's music taste basic because a lot of music consumers aren't actually "in to" music. They just want pop with catchy cycles, memorable lyrics, and na na na's. Anything that falls outside of that is too much exploration for them.

Most of these playlists are uninspired, but I never took CEO's to be big music heads anyway. Most CEO's are into basic entertainment because they deprioritize exploring it.

Comment · 1 year ago
A lot of people use it for cooking and other categories as well.

Techies are also great for network growth and verification for other users, and act as community managers indirectly.

Comment · 1 year ago
Rarely is it collaborative and the onus is on the learner to understand the benefit with no context into the importance or relevance of the information. My point is that the value is lost frequently because of human behavior.
Comment · 1 year ago
Wisdom tends to resemble shallow aphorisms despite being framed as universal. Rather than interrogating wisdom's relevance or depth, many people simply repeat it uncritically as a shortcut to insight. This reflects more about how people use wisdom than the content itself, but I believe that behavior contributes to our perception of the importance of wisdom.

It frequently reduces complex problems into comfortable oversimplifications.

Maybe you don't think that is real wisdom, and maybe that's sort of your point, but then what does real wisdom look like? Should wisdom make you considerate of the multiple contexts it does and doesn't affect? Maybe the issue is we need to better understand how to evaluate and use wisdom. People who truly understand a piece of wisdom should communicate deeply rather than parroting platitudes.

Also to be frank, wisdom is a way of controlling how others perceive a problem, and is a great way to manipulate others by propping up ultimatums or forcing scope. Much of past wisdom is unhelpful or highly irrelevant to modern life.

e.g. "Good things come to those who wait."

Passive waiting rarely produces results. Initiative, timing, and strategic action tend to matter more than patience.

Comment · 1 year ago
Nicknames include variations like Mikey, Mickey, Mikail, Big Michael, Little Michael, Gas Station Michael, Angry Michael, Tony (obligatory wrong name your group uses because there were already too many Michaels and this Michael liked his middle name)

and Mike.

Comment · 1 year ago
If you're at sea too?

Officers make good many anyway, but that's pretty funny imagining execs yelling at you to pay your bill.

Comment · 1 year ago
Big base, very strict when I was there. There was an international incident with a Marine right off base of Yoko before I arrived so it's possible they were tighter on rules than usual.

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