The technological advancement of the robots is jaw dropping.

But, this is still just AI slop. Ultimately it’s no more useful than generating silly meme pictures to post on Facebook. It’s still worthless. It’s one thing to be able to pull off pre-programmed and choreographed dances, and another to actually do something useful. When you watch any of these robots actually try to do something useful then it’s clear that the companies still have a long way to go.

As impressive as these dances are, even a simple task like loading a dishwasher is going to be orders of magnitude more complicated to train.

Hello, my fellow Episkopol! I’m new here myself too. If you start one up I’ll subscribe!

That… Is some fucked up shit.

A few pieces of advice:

1. Get off of online social networks. Online social networks are bad for your still developing brain. This is not a criticism of you, only that you are a teenager and have a teenagers brain, and that there is a lot of really good psychological evidence coming out showing that being active in online social networks is really bad for you. I recommend that you delete all of your accounts and just enjoy being a teenager. (I swear, after a few weeks you really won’t miss it as much as you think you might.)

2. You aren’t over reacting. You are a teenager dating a teenager. If he’s not reacting to your texts we quickly as you like, that cool. So it’s not working out. Break up with him. It’s not going to get better. You really can still be friends at this point, and odds are your relationship probably wasn’t going to survive the post-high school-to-college distance anyway. Shrug it off, go buy a cute shirt for yourself and just enjoy being a teenager.

That’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure. My family eats at least one a week.

Actually you need more than a few.

Remember, when push comes to shove, not a single Republican voted to remove him from office after he tried to kill them.

No that’s not it.

There are just a few left in the GOP that are smart enough to realize that the White “Christian” state that is developing isn’t going to put them on top like they thought it would…

In Dallas, you can get one at Sam’s Club or Costco for $5.

And “old” in this case means “cooked this morning”.

Rotisserie chicken is like the absolute cheapest food a person can buy.

Me: I promise I won’t go on car dependancy rants tonight

Walks one block down the street

Me: Okay! Listen can I just point one thing out…

Her: so what are you interested in?

Me: Mostly how car dependent suburban development has eroded all forms of social capital and has torn our communities apart so completely that it’s functionally impossible to even call or neighborhoods and towns “communities” anymore. … But, uh, what are you interested in?

Synopsis: Social media is really bad for kids. Especially girls. But bad for boys too. Delay your kid’s exposure to social media for as long as possible.

They were so… Innocent.

Like, everyone trusted everyone. Like, sure perfect stranger online, I don’t mind telling you my real name, home address, and age. What’s the harm?

I jump between social networks every few years. My social network path has gone from AOL chat groups, to Yahoo News groups, to Facebook for a few years, to Twitter, to Mastodon, to Reddit.

Last week I decided to test Lemmy out. Best thing I can say about it is that it’s not any worse than all the others. Which is a pretty good compliment really, considering the resources and network advantages that all the others have.

Everyone here should read “The Anxious Generation”.

NATO is one of those instances where I generally agree with Trump on the issue at hand, and then strongly disagree with him on the solutions to the issue.

Like going back to his first administration, I actually agreed with Trump that NATO is a bad deal for America, and also even a bad deal for the other NATO nations. But the solution back then should have been a slow 10-15 year dissolution of NATO. Give Europe time to reorganize themselves, and then end the cold war era alliance. If we has started that process in 2016, Europe would be ten years further along in their own self reliance.

(Where Trump got everything wrong was that instead of actually developing a realistic plan for the dissolution of NATO, he just used the threat of America immediately pulling out to extort our friends.)

Of course we were joking. I kind of thought that would be obvious.

You are right. I should just deal with it.

Europe would be better off just developing their own weapons systems rather than trying to hack a 35.