Hmm. I think lane-assist probably makes people worse at driving. Anything that lets people pay less attention on the road does, it trains drivers to be less alert. Adaptive cruise and automatic braking are probably a net benefit but “car safety” is not trending in the right direction.

Have we collectively lost the ability to detect a shoop? The alteration is glaringly obvious—the right side is clearly clone stamped and it’s blurry at the join of the C and u.

AI crap is worse than not commenting.

Hating Communists has always been an acceptable form of bigotry. You don’t have to listen to what they say, just dismiss them (and insult them!) for wanting a world that doesn’t run on money.

Stop this ecofascist shit.

We can support the current population, it’s just not profitable or popular to do so.

Birthrates naturally level off as societies develop. Many are already seeing negative growth.

Our current standard of living is mostly predicated on offshoring the suffering and waste to the global South, but even that could be comfortably leveled off if we weren’t living under Capitalism.

We don’t need large AI farms, we need empathy. The techbros will not save us.

Depends entirely on where the rat came from. I wouldn’t eat a New York city garbage rat but I see nothing wrong with a woods rat. People eat woods animals all the time, including rabbit and squirrel.

they’re not public

This is a huge issue, honestly. Discord’s search function is awful and you have to find the right server before you can even try to find the information. Any standard search engine can find a post in a classic forum.

Also, scrolling through giant pages of constantly updating chatter is a miserable interface. Split it up into pages!

ALSO, Discord has poor tools for managing everything. You can’t merge topics or move posts, that should be day 1 stuff.

That’s just the Twitch brainrot. People that want forums back (including me) do not want to be in a room with 13k people. That’s not a community, it’s so much bigger than the monkeysphere.

I was never made to “tutor” but my assigned groups for projects were conspicuously full of problem children I was expected to balance.

I like math just fine up until trigonometry and at that point my brain just can’t hold onto it. Failed college calculus three times. There’s something about the formulas and rules and applications that isn’t intuitive for me at that level. I’m much better at the Earth Sciences and had no problems with chemistry.

“Liking” math isn’t really accurate either. I don’t care about math, I care about things that require math. Geometry and algebra are useful in a ton of other disciplines and activities. Playing with numbers doesn’t make me feel smart or accomplished the way a puzzle does.

I’ve never felt existential dread while contemplating life or death or the scale of the universe so being comfortable with mortality I guess.

“keikaku means plan”

My familiarity with Japanese jazz is very limited to even the “obvious” ones are a treat.

In the interests of fair trade, here’s a scattering of what I’ve enjoyed lately. Some of it has a similar sound but there’s a lot of variance in the “jazz fusion” space and I like experimental stuff:

• Peela
• Lydian Collective
• Giraffes? Giraffes!
  • More Skin With Milk-Mouth remains excellent
• KNOWER
  • Their latest album in particular, as well as the most recent solo work of constituent parts Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi
• DOMi & JD BECK
• Jacob Mann
  • Jacob Mann Big Band is more traditional and I’m a sucker for a good brass section
• the olllam
  • I don’t actually know how to describe this but Irish folk is involved and “with pure crystalll teeth” fills me with dopamine
• Sungazer
• The Fearless Flyers
  • Tailwind is a really good album
• Moon Hooch
  • They’re silly and frenetic but I did say I’m a sucker for brass

Any specific recommendations? I’ve been into prog/jazz/funk for the last few years (thanks to Louis Cole’s various projects for opening that door) and I know Japan has a strong scene.

That’s the spirit!

(According to certain styles of manners, which are of course entirely arbitrary and subjective)

Born and raised in the PNW, it’s a combination of climate change and more development of green spaces. Trees and wetlands do a LOT to keep the local temperature down, high-rises and parking lots do the opposite.

It’s hard to generalize any aspect of life in the US because of how damn big it is. People in metropolitan areas can get by just fine without a personal vehicle but it’s much harder in the suburbs and all but impossible in rural communities unless you’re very self-sufficient. I live near a city (Seattle), sufficiently so that I can easily walk to a bus and connect with the regional transit system. If that was my only option I’d have to majorly restructure my life, but it could be done.

Considering how little disposable income most Americans I know have, you must be truly fucked.

I think “agendered” is the best description for me as well and I share your perspective. AMAB and kinda lazy so dude stuff is the default but I can’t internalize the idea of gender dys/euphoria. (Body dysphoria makes sense to me, it seems to me like an entirely different thing than gender presentation which has a huge spectrum and varies wildly across cultures)