While not bitter in particular, it is disheartening to see yet another VC-funded social network gain traction, especially under the guise of freedom and decentralization it doesn’t fulfill in the slightest.
Sadly, marketing works, and people just flock to where the ads lead them. And the wheel of Internet history takes a turn over and over again, as people are doomed to repeat their mistakes.
Doesn’t it mean there’s only 1 node NSA has to attack - your VPN?
Kinda renders Tor over it pointless.
Hmm, interesting. Thanks!
What does it mean to sustain magnetic activity without being magnetic? What defines magnetic activity?
You seem to have succeeded!
Yeah, kids focusing too much on their robot instead of other people is one of my concerns.
A robot can teach the kid all the right things, but it will never give a kid the real social experience, which can get rough if a kid is not sufficiently exposed to it right from the start. Even now, as real human communication moves online in a large part, children grow up increasingly socially anxious and maladapted. From that position, I’m quite uncomfortable with “study from home” trends as well, as school is one of the key venues for IRL child-child interactions.
On the other hand, I wonder what would happen if all kids first developed with perfect robots and then started interacting with one another. But that’s a subject for yet another unethical experiment.
I see!
I have relatively high intelligence, have a job that allows me to work at my own pace and combine it with study and other activities, I have good friends and a supportive, caring, active and housewifely partner, my mother is alive and well.
Generally, a good set for a fulfilling life :)
What are the genuine use cases for such a robot? For when the kid has issues communicating with other people?
Here I agree, it’s an unnecessary pain, and the counting words are often super counter-intuitive
That’s a powerful randomization
Yep, that’d probably end up better.
Jedi took Anakin as a small boy away from his mother and told him “not to worry” about her (a slave on a hostile planet), because apparently experiencing fear is a slippery slope towards becoming an evil mass murderer (warrior of the Dark Side).
Then, when she was killed, he was not allowed to grieve, either.
Then Anakin got visions of Padmé, his wife, dying in childbirth, all while Jedi restricted any marriages to begin with and essentially have cut him out of any counseling, while Yoda doubled down on “ignore your feelings” line.
The entire story of Anakin on the Light Side is the story of everyone neglecting the absolute base emotions he has experienced and trying to raise him as a “tough man” he never was.
Palpatine has seen all of it unfolding, and he knew very well Anakin wasn’t an emotionless robot Jedi wanted to make of him, and all it took was exploiting Anakin’s raising wave of anxiety over Padmé’s fate along with his desperate escape into careerism to switch him to the Dark Side, where he, as Darth Vader, will end up destroying worlds and commanding an authoritarian dystopia.
Star Wars is a story about toxic masculinity ending up galactically consequential
Hell yes
Just use one character and there you have your plural
It was weird in the very beginning, but it’s good and I love it!
Absolutely worth getting used to, way less headaches
Also, in case of any doubt, contact whoever supposedly sent you this directly.
In this case, contact USPS and ask if this is correct.
You getting disappointed in your choice over a while
For example, if your wish is to live forever, genie can grant you that, and you meant to live forever and you will, and only over time you realize you made a hell for yourself.