But I think that with concerns about climate change and carbon, we should be going to great lengths to see how we can adapt existing buildings.
Hear hear
Although it feels slightly dated nowadays, I loved how futuristic this style felt back then.
Yeah – I wasn't expecting nature to make plastics biodegradable sooner than we did.
That sounds sensible. Yes I have exactly the same line of thinking.
Who will take Sanders's place as the voice of the traditional Left when he dies? I love him but we have to prepare for this contingency
I would also support a wealth cap at eg. $10M, or a rule to a similar effect
Hoffentlich hat er nicht vor mit der AfD zu regieren
The Annual Global Orgasm for Peace
https://lemmy.world/comment/13285762
Opinion: robots with human likeness should be outlawed
Currently, talking to a face is the ultimate guarantee that you are communicating with a human (and on a subconscious level makes you try to relate, empathise, etc.). If humanoid robot technology eventually surpasses the Uncanny Valley, discovering that I'm talking to a humanoid with an LLM and that my intuitions had been betrayed would undermine the instinctive trust I give to the other party when I see a human face. This would degrade my social interactions across the board, because I'd live in constant suspicion that the humans I was talking to weren't actually human.
It is for this reason I think it should be the law that humanoid robots must be clearly differentiated from humans. Or at least that people should have the right to opt out from encountering realistic-looking humanoids.
Autumn leaves from satellite
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/collection/1692/fall-colors
Has the orange season come to your part of the world yet?
Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress?
I've just been reading about how in the future, AI will allow us to speak with animals, and people will be able to communicate telepathically and live in their own VR worlds. (etc., etc.)
Man, this isn't a world I want to live in. I'm so tired of the constant paradigm shifting that you have to put your brain through with each innovation. I wish technology just stayed frozen in the 1980s – there would be so much less uncertainty in my life and I could just focus on being a human.
Innovation keeps being forced on you and I just feel tired. >!And I'm only just in my 20s!< Is this ok? Is this valid? When resisting it is a loser's game...
Quire should become the correct spelling for the word 'choir'.
It would be far more consistent with the pronunciation of other similar words.
Could someone please try installing this? I'd be really curious to see what Windows 7 on a Steam Deck would look like!
A KDE Plasma theme that aims to replicate the look and feel of Windows 7.
Parents signing pact to withhold smartphones from kids until 14
Online pledge by Smartphone Free Childhood signed by at least one parent at 6,537 schools
Don't have the patience to watch football? Jenga contests have an ADHD-friendly pace.
Just discovered this.
Why do I start feeling depressed when everything in life suddenly starts going my way?
Has anyone gotten this feeling before? For a long time my life was forced to go in a direction I didn't want it to but I had no choice but to passively accept and deal with where I was being lead. So I think it might be a learnt behavior. I know this isn't a relationship_advice thing but it feels relevant. (Fyi I am not a vulnerable girl being exploited, but perhaps advice applicable to them might help me too)
How much should I let dating potential influence where I live?
I grew up in (foreign) country A but then moved back to my home country (B) with my parents. I plan to move back to country A eventually because I feel 100% at home in the culture there, but am just a bit unsure about the timing. The problem is that I'd like to get into dating (I'm 21) and country A has a really low amount of people of my type, whereas the country I'm originally from (B) has plenty (but I only feel 70-80% at home here). So I'm thinking I might postpone my move back to country A where this won't really be possible until in a couple of years when I'm more happy to settle down. I wanted to ask you older folks if you think this is a wise idea.
Special Interests vs interests of the market
I have Special Interests (pixel-perfect UIs, the overall 'feel' of software, old computers, obsolete media like floppies, useless machines, etc.) that my brain finds extremely stimulating and rewarding and I'm able to devote hours to creating things that scratch these itches. Unfortunately neither the job market, nor anyone else actually, sees beauty there where I see it and so they will not value it (that includes financially). Meanwhile, there are other things like machine learning or cell biology that my brain is also very well equipped for but I don't spend time learning them because they don't draw me to them the way my SIs do (I have ADHD so the stimulation level of activities is quite decisive). This is a handicap because it leaves me fixated on several irrelevant things which I did not choose. How do you guys deal with this?
Jobs similar to translation?
I'm a student looking for a part time job to make some money. Since I'm a native speaker of two languages, I thought translating might be nice since it fills quite a unique niche where
- the job can be done wholly on a computer, ie. remotely, giving me freedom, but
- the job is not technical in nature, but rather very intuition-heavy, giving the logical part of my brain time to rest after studying for my engineering degree.
Translating really does feel like doing art in comparison to eg. programming, and I find it genuinely relaxing. The problem is that translators are increasingly being replaced by AI and this will continue in the future, meaning it will be hard for me to get a job in this field. So I wanted to ask you if you can think of any other jobs I could try that fill this niche – remote but intuitive. Any ideas?