GuyIncognito

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on Bad chakras · c/palestine · 2 pts · 80d

it's easy, if you take a spiritual practice from another culture and turn it into a self-help/"wellness" practice, you're a hitler. Sorry, I don't make the rules

on NATO · c/memes · 6 pts · 80d

nato is a heckin' epic defensive alliance that is completely isolated from either its own actions or the actions of its members. it is an ideal, a pure monad representing the defence of the free world against authoritarianism. the "free world" is also a pure monad that has nothing to do with the actions of any of its members.

That too. I went from a 1998 sedan to a 2010 hatchback, and the latter feels like it has good visibility because of the tall window, but the A-pillar will block pedestrians in the crosswalk, and even mask whole cars. I have to bob my head around from side to side to be confident I'm not about to hit something while turning.

My understanding is that it has to do with updated rollover safety requirements that came in in the mid-late 2000s. They have to be able to support something like 2.5 times their weight on the roof, making all of the pillars thicker. Combined with additional overall weight from other crash regulations, this means that A-pillars are yet bigger. Cars have become much safer for occupants at the expense of safety for pedestrians, who are not part of the equation as pedestrians are subhuman.

An automated factory employing machine learning algorithms is very different from an LLM chatbot. They both get lumped together as "AI" (which doesn't exist), but machine learning is actually useful

e: to get more specific, machine learning "AI" does things like predict how molecules will bind to proteins, for purposes of creating novel pharmaceuticals or whatever. a far cry from "@grok is this real"