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  • I started self hosting AI to learn more about it, and I have come to the conclusion that it really depends on the AI if its bad or not.

    For instance, Google’s AI results and just literal dog shit. It is just so factually bad its incredible even. Microsoft also sucks. And this is why everyone doesn’t like AI. The two most common ways people see AI (Google search and Windows 11) is just complete horse shit. They should not roll them out, absolutely disastrous decision on their part all because they were feeling FOMO. For example, I asked microsoft’s AI if the ‘New’ outlook had this feature from ‘classic’ outlook. It said it did. An hour later, I found it didn’t actually have that feature. Fucking ridiculous that Microsoft’s own AI doesn’t know their own software. Embarrassing. Did they not give it their own documentation?

    But ‘dedicated’ AI like ChatGPT and Deepseek I can trust to be factual with a 95% success rate. Current events is it’s worse subject.







  • Religion, in my honest opinion, did help humanity progress way back in the day. But has been outdated and overstayed it’s welcome.

    Take the story of Moses (assuming the general story is true of him freeing slaves). He freed slaves, how? Through religion. Was there another way to do this? Not really. Slaves didn’t know how to read or write, so communicating privately was difficult. Besides, they were stupid by design, they couldn’t even think of a way to escape together. They couldn’t organize together to free themselves. But religion bypassed all of that. And that, is powerful.

    And then once they were free, it evolved into a moral/judicial system to once again help them organize and able to live with each other. We simply don’t need it anymore. And since it is essentially a “vibes based” law system, it gets in the way of actual progress now. Also kind of the point of the New Testament, “forgot the old testament, that’s bad now”. We need a ‘modern testament’ that basically says, “good job, you all made it out of the shithole together, you don’t need me (God) anymore.”



  • Definitely lucky.

    The city I currently live in is making a HUGE push for public transportation. Fixing roads, adding a ton of bike lanes, lighting up paved trails thought the city, adding train station stops, free parking garages, and MAKING ALL BUSES FREE FOR EVERYONE. You can even call a bus to come pick you up. Its actually insane what they have done in the last year or two.

    Not moving anytime soon thats for sure.


  • I am American.

    I have moved to a place that has a grocery store within 5 minutes of walking and is a GAME CHANGER for me.

    The last place I lived at, 30 min drive to the grocery store in the other town. Yes, there were not grocery stores in the town I lived in.

    In college, I had to walk an hour (one way) to get to the grocery store. Which was technically about the same time as busses, since every stop was an hour wait.

    When I was traveling, stopped in Bakersfield because its the only place in that God forsaken area. I was eating a burger and saw a book store across the street. But it was a very busy street, and I didn’t see any crosswalks. So I pulled up google maps, and low behold, 15 min walk to get to the bookstore that was literally across the street from me. 5 min drive.

    Yes US’s infrastructure is just that bad. You are lucky if you get sidewalks in rural areas.







  • I’ve just described to you a person that really wanted to learn something, and did it. Put in hours of mental and physical effort. And your response is that nobody wants to learn, and that people only learn what they want to learn? Which is self-evident and vacuous.

    No need to be rude man. You also described the same person as unwilling to learn something. And I didn’t say that person wanted to learn or not, I generalized and said people don’t want to learn.

    I believe we are both trying to say the same thing with different emphasis.

    You are emphasizing that people do like to learn, but there are external forces that encourage/convince them not to.

    I am emphasizing that people don’t like to learn, unless they want to overcome the external forces. I just don’t buy the excuse of external factors stopping people from learning, that’s part of the learning process.

    Your example talks about a person building a pc. Yes it takes time, energy, money, and learning. But it also has A TON of resources to help with that on the internet, definitely makes it easier. It is now a famously recommended project for anybody, even kids. It was also something that is ‘new’ to them, I assume.

    Typing this out made me realize a distinction I failed to bring up. People do like to learn, but people HATE to UN-learn ideas. The person in your example wanted to learn something new, but did not want to unlearn the iphone walled garden.