Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Yet another great example of how easily people accept a headline as fact when it supports their prior beliefs. It really shows how gullible people can be - even when they probably think of themselves as critical media consumers, at least compared to the average Reddit user.
With my bike - always
I’d love to hear that. I had a 9" 300W Jamo for almost two decades but it broke beyond repair. I got a 150W one for free as a replacement and even that sounds decend - 1200 watts must kick your socks off.
Well of course not - that’s the value of the company. You can’t buy anything with it. The same goes for wealthy individuals: just because someone’s net worth is in the billions doesn’t mean they have that kind of cash on hand.
My own setup cost around 700€ and honestly, I think it sounds much better. Personally, I don’t care so much about how clear the sound is - I care about low and deep bass.
Well, I’m objectively better than them at speaking multiple languages but that’s about it. I don’t see why I should feel better about myself as a whole because of that. There are other things I’m good at as well as ones I’m not.
That’s still not how it works. Company stocks are worth exactly what people are willing to pay for them.
That’s really cool. I’ve been planning on ordering some prints, framing them and doing a photo collage on my wall. I think I’ll include this.
It’s charity done by following certain principles. Nothing about it is tied to being wealthy, though that obviously helps as is the case with charity in general.
You’re correct.
By what logic? Can’t normal people donate money to effective causes?
Climate change is not an existential threat to humanity. That’s not to say it isn’t real or that it’s not a serious problem worth solving, but many people seem to believe it’s equivalent to an asteroid wiping out the entire human species and rendering the earth inhabitable - and that’s simply not true. That is not the consensus among credible climate scientists, so I genuinely don’t know where that idea came from.
Exaggerating real issues like this is extremely unhelpful. It creates unnecessary anxiety for people who take those claims at face value, and it erodes trust in science once they realize the reality is less apocalyptic than what they were led to believe.
It boggles my mind why would anyone want to talk to an LLM when there are all these calm, open-minded, and delightfully reasonable people to chat with here instead?
But if that’s what you enjoyed then that is what you’d do and it would make you happy.
I disagree. It might be enjoyable in the moment, but looking back, it wouldn’t be something I’m glad I did. Happiness is a fleeting emotion - what most people actually want is a deeper sense of contentment. And I don’t think chasing hedonistic pleasures gives us that.
I don’t look back fondly on the countless hours I’ve wasted staring at screens, but I do cherish the memories of doing difficult, effortful things - even the ones that weren’t all that enjoyable in the moment - because they left me feeling satisfied and proud afterward.
I think the saying “money doesn’t bring happiness” is one of those unlearnable lessons - something you’ll never truly believe until you experience it firsthand.
I’m self-employed contractor and find my work quite meaningful, yet I still dream of living off passive income and never having to work again. But honestly, I’m almost certain my life would spiral out of control if that ever became reality. Work is what the rest of my life is built around - it’s why I get up in the morning. I’d like to think I’d find meaning elsewhere, and maybe that’s true, but I’m skeptical. I’m almost certainly just kidding myself when I think that I would. I’d just sit at home smoking weed and watching YouTube videos.
I don’t think work itself is the problem - it’s the soul-crushing drudgery people are forced to endure to survive, where there’s no sense of meaning or gratitude. Especially in jobs where you can’t even see the results of what you’ve done. If you’re sweeping streets, at least you’re outdoors, you talk to people, and at the end of the day you can see what you accomplished. But if you spend eight hours entering numbers into Excel in a toxic office environment, then of course it feels meaningless.
I don’t know what kind of mask they’re using, but a standard oxygen mask at a hospital doesn’t exactly vent the exhale either. It provides a constant flow of gas into the mask, maintaining positive pressure so every inhalation comes through the mask and every exhalation escapes around it.
It doesn’t take many breaths of nitrogen to pass out - likely not enough time for CO₂ levels to rise significantly anyway. The issue with CO₂ isn’t that it’s painful but that it triggers panic, since that buildup is what causes the sensation of suffocation, not the lack of oxygen itself. In either case, the cause of death is still suffocation - they’re simply not getting oxygen.
LLMs ironically fail the Turing test not because they don’t sound human enough, but because they’re too knowledgeable to be mistaken for a real person.
My solution was to be born in the country with the cleanest tap water.
Nitrogen is a quick and painless way to do it if done properly. That’s the gas used in those suicide capsules in the Netherlands as well. My understanding is that the two main issues with it (besides the fact of death penalty itself) are loose fitting masks and the inmate prolonging the inevitable by holding their breath.
That’s very different from 15% of all reddit content being that.