If an actor studies all data available on your grandma, manages to mimic her voice and looks, and then starts a conversation with you, acting as your grandma; are you then talking to a ghost? Cause that is what an AI does: learn to predict the behaviour of your grandma, and then act out those predictions.

I remember using mumble in a time when smartphones weren’t even a thing yet. Love to see the open source tool outlive everything else!

I’d argue that it may not happen for individuals. But our DNA? Our culture? Or knowledge? I’m pretty sure these things will travel the stars one day.

Don’t forget to slow blink at the kitty and look away for a bit every now and then.

Since google is blocked, google maps is also blocked. Hence, make sure to have a good alternative available. Bing maps, Apple maps, or OSM.

My guess is that he is a DnD player that has to flash out the background of his character, so the DM can start using characters from his background.

With Dirt Rally, you get a pretty damn good simulation experience for a fraction of the cost, a minimal time investment, and zero of the risks. All you need is a PC and a decent steeringwheel.

I started dancing 2 years ago in my early 30s. Salsa/bachata specifically. Never danced a step before then (or at least: not while sober). After a 2 years of practise, I now regularly get compliments at the festivals/parties, and the ladies at the dance school like it when I’m joining the lessons, since I can lead well. I’m still no expert, but I certainly get a lot of joy from it. And for the record: I’m a slightly overweight nerd who is certainly not nimble or agile. I also hate rythm games, I suck at those, but dancing on the beat is so much easier!

My point is: it’s worth trying. Find a dance school that teaches salsa and/or bachata, and go for it. If you find the right people, you will stay motivated, and it gets more and more fun!

There is one conversion that I use every now and then: liter to kilo: A liter of water weighs about a kilo.

Helpful to compare groceries when some products use weight and others volume. For example, I can buy 1kg buckets of yoghurt. I then know that those buckets hold about 1 liter. Handy when re-using the buckets.

To be fair, joining the Russian army does make planning the rest of your life a lot easier.

Fortunately your heating pad has brough a laptop for you to work on!

Yeah, this one is just messed up. They use binary to display the individual characters of a decimal number. This makes it wayyy harder to read than a proper binary clock.

Why would the needs of someone doing more hazardous work be higher? What do they need more food/housing/entertainment/luxury for? I guess more healthcare needs, but I don’t think that is going to convince someone to do the hazardous work.

As soon as you reward because of the hazardous working environment, it is nolonger distribution based on needs of the individual, but based on demand for the job. Rewarding based on supply and demand is capitalistic, not communistic.

Note that I’m no supporter of either (or any) Ideology. I believe we should apply the concepts of different ideologies where they make the most sense. In this case, applying capitalism to attract people into undesirable jobs, makes sense.

I see this definition of communism more lately, but the dictionary definition of communism absolutely does not rewards based on work. It rewards based on need. To the point where money can be abolished altogether. What you describe sounds like socialism, where the distribution of goods is based on contribution, rather than need.

I feel like a lot of discussions surrounding communism have this issue, where people do not have the definition of communism aligned properly. Where did you learn your definition of communism? And where can one read about it? What I have been taught aligns very well with Wikipedia.

Yup. Same here. I suspect she’d rather die than lose the oppertunity to become a grandparent.

I once visited a museum in Split where they had the lifework of a guy on display: dozens of scenes filled with taxidermy frogs going about their human like lives.

Seeing the overwhelming amount of acceptance in the other comments is amazing. But I do need to play advocate of the devil for a second here, and mention moderation.

I assume this concent will not be in English.

But if the existing moderators do not speak the language of the content, then they cannot effectively moderate. This makes it a massive risk to allow non-english content on your instance with only English speaking moderators. Hence, I would only recommend posting such concent to instances that are natively speaking the language. For example, German and Dutch content almost exclusively exists on German and Dutch instances respectively.

No need to have a good response. I’m with you in being a bit weirded out by it. I just felt I shouldn’t be alone in my state of being weirded out by this.

It’s a real sport nowadays: https://www.rulesofsport.com/sports/quidditch.html

As a European, this sounds like a rude and slightly exaggerated way of asking a normal question. A bad way to start, but probably not something that will get you kicked out of an interview in 30 seconds.