If only there were a European country that is investing in the drone technology like their existence depended on it…

I’m not the OG commenter, but for me this is important because I see how gpt is replacing search, I can imagine they will play an increasing role in news. Which has two sides. One is the fact that people will read news summaries dinner by a system with a bias. Second is writing of the news with the same bias.

We’ve seen this before. Machine learning systems that were trained on past human decisions also learned biases from those decisions. Court ruling suggestions stronger for black than white. Job applicant analysis favouring men over women. Etc.

There’s a good book about that, if you’re interested: “Weapons of Math Destruction” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction

We’re all sick of the dozens of apps on our phones

That day when I realised I’m not part of “we all”.

Do I really need my calculator to have maps function?

If they’re looking for a good location, Hague is just perfect.

And do it begins. Musk wants to become the new Hitler.

How soon till we start making time travel films about going back to stop him?

Strict separation of work and personal devices, plus focus mode on my private phone for the work hours.

I often end up hyper focusing on the wrong work tasks, but at least they’re work related.

My personal experience is that there’s a direct correlation between my physical health and effectiveness of my ADHD medication.

My hypothesis is that since it’s about my brain capability to register and prioritise stimuli, the busier said brain is (with other body issues) the less likely it is too perform executive functions. This might be the general case, but since we start from the unfavorable position, it might be more debilitating for us.

(I’ve no idea why I’m using such a fancy language rn. Apologies)

So now they’re going to conscript him?

Different stims have different effect. Also 6 weeks could be too early to settle on the dosage. With those three dosage is highly personal and not related with things like age, weight, etc. Heck, sometimes one might need a booster just because they’re tired.

Good luck and congratulations with this small victory!

Fun fact. An average tenure for a CEO is 4 years. I will not be taking further questions.

I suspect it’s our moral duty to remind this as often as we can :)

Drink water. This sounds trite, but many people don’t drink enough to start with and stimulants dehydrate. So drink even more water.

Amen, brother! 🙌

I’m not saying they have easy choices. Or good choices. But they do choose. We all do. I’d even say life is all about making small, imperfect choices.

Around 100 have joined non-Russian institutes in order to continue their physics research work with Europe’s particle-physics laboratory.

Not exactly “completely out of your control”, I’d say.

Yes.

On 18 June 2020, the Russian government lifted its ban on Telegram after it agreed to “help with extremism investigations”.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/telegram-russia-ban-lift-messaging-app-encryption-download-a9573181.html

Which means KGB has full access to all messages.

Same

No, I meant an accessory as in:

An accessory is a person who assists, but does not actually participate, in the commission of a crime.

Of course we cannot. I agree with you that nobody is born evil or a criminal (even psychopaths are not guaranteed to become serial killers).

By all means, if not for propaganda, we would live in a very different world.

But the unfortunate fact is that they did consume enough of that propaganda to do nothing, or worse, follow the orders.

Yes, they are not criminals by nature, but what they do is crime or at least they are an accessory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)

the answer is - it doesn’t matter. the biggest learning from the nazi germany was that you don’t need the entire population of a country to be homicidal psychopaths. all you need is a small group of those psychopaths, control or media, propaganda and you get a perfectly functioning system where normal everyday folks go to their normal everyday jobs.

just those jobs are in gestapo. or in maintenance of gas chambers. or making food for the equally confused soldiers.

of course, we should avoid civilian casualties as much as we can (but apparently russian army is not required) but the system needs to be stopped.

russia has cancer. chemoterapy is not a pleasant procedure that affects both ill and healthy cells. the alternative is, unfortunately, to allow that cancer to spread to the entire planet.