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note to self: hot metal and cold metal look the same

are they just reinventing clippy but now it will remind you about eating your daily recommended pebble?

you're using up enough paracetamol to kill a horse small herd of horses before it goes bad?

i don't think there are limits on paracetamol, but there are limits on codeine and such, you need ID for that. it's just that nobody needs this in these amounts

i'm starting to think there's something wrong with healthcare out there!

americans you have paracetamol pills packed 100 per box? biggest common box out there is 50, and usual 20 per

hotdog is s sandwich, poptart is a sanwich, ravioli is a sandwich, this really does not narrow down anything

or any other arty, or any competent ATGM, or bomber drone, or mines (perhaps also laid by a drone), or FPVs detonated on command (with EFPs or something like segment of MON-100 mine)

…and that means retirees will literally starve and live on the streets? I don’t think it will. It will just be less luxurious.

you might think that japanese boomers have generational wealth in form of real estate. this is not really the case, especially for rural population. houses aren't built to last, lose value like motherfucker and are commonly demolished after 20-30 years, in part because people don't like second hand, in part because there's no point of building anything sturdier if typhoon or earthquake takes it. there is some newer construction that is intended to last longer, but it's not a very common thing. so a reverse mortgage type thing won't exist there, and yeah lots of people will get shafted by these conditions

i think that conspiracy theories are more about feeling special about knowing some secret knowledge, lots of people fall for this and even create conspiracy theories without realizing, no matter how smart they are

this is an effect known for almost 60 years now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

that's no news, that's China's final warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China's_final_warning

landlord beige

one struggle https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/young-chinese-are-too-fat-and-masturbate-too-much-to-pass-army-fitness-tests-a3617881.html

wait, how much compute would they need for this, ignore patent absurdity of it all for a minute? would they wrap it up under 1 quadrillion dollars?

there is a common criticism of charities in general: these give some random unelected unaccountable Specialest Billionaire Boy, along with army of weirdos willing to catch a bullet for him, outsized influence over what might be millions of people. there's also magic of money in that that big donors will be able to steer charities to serve their own goals, under threat of withdrawing funding

want to distribute resources from people who don't need them to people who do? at scale? in a way that works? it's called "welfare state with progressive taxation" but EAs don't like taxing billionaires out of existence, because it takes away their control, and also takes away funding for machine god cult and ultimately makes them unimportant. my point is, some meanings of altruism don't collide head on with being a libertarian control freak

crazy how techbros understand consent (to be recorded all the time) only when it impacts them personally (i assume that was the main problem)

you realize they had one in the past?

milei? bukele?

i assume this is in relation to this cognitohazard