Rhaedas

"But at least you have a job!"

Maybe. Thank you. Nightmares now unlocked again.

Thanks for that on the label "liberal". I grew up thinking of myself as a Gen-X liberal, and somewhere along the line missed it changing meaning. So for the longest time I'd hear it referred to negatively and by certain groups, and was so confused. I hate labels. I prefer to discuss ideas to understand the true meaning, and the online culture has slowly killed that form of communication.

16GB is plenty for even older model setups. Now they've got a few models designed so you load just parts of the model onto the GPU (Mixture of Experts) and use the CPU for less referenced sections, so you get both reasonable speed and a much more complex model.

I watched a video yesterday of someone climbing down a high rise on a tether to work on an A/C unit. Even seeing all the steps in protection and redundant safety measures. Nope. Not me.

Then there was one long ago I saw of a guy doing maintenance on a radio tower. Climbed up the interior ladder most of the way, then got on the outside to get to the part he was checking. At one point he had to disconnect and reconnect his safety line because of stuff in the way. NOPE.

You're just one of the ones who understands things more, and is confused that other people don't. It's okay though, as we can always invoke another well known XKCD and treat someone who doesn't get it as one of the ten thousand. Don't make fun of them, educate them.

The average person probably can't tell you which way is west without looking at their phone, or point to where the Sun probably is during the day if it's cloudy.

Hopefully it's more from actual improvements than recategorizing how people are counted. "He's got a tent. Not homeless."

I get the point, reduce the suffering when you're at the moment. This is what I don't look forward to as well, not death itself, but dying in whatever form it takes. But know that any suffering is also finite, even the long ones, and hopefully you can avoid the few longer versions.

But for now, live for the moment. You get one shot at this, so don't spend it worrying about something that hasn't happened yet. Enjoy life, observe the details around you that we tend to block out as noise. Find ways to record and pass them on to others.

You're right. "All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." People deal with shit while they can, rather than changing.

But the phrase mentioned is an old one used against people who finally had enough for whatever reason, and always leaves off why they've had enough, and what gave them enough motive to change to something else. One could say that the increase of "nobody wants to work anymore" is a signal of a new wave of quiet rebellion.

The lesson is that people shouldn't have to settle for things because they don't have a choice. In anything. Work, relationships, health, food.

"Nobody wants to work anymore..." is always an incomplete sentence. "for these wages", "under these conditions", "for little gain", etc.

No, they don't, and shouldn't have put up with it this long.

The two sources of energy don't have to be competition. Those on either side trying to make that happen are just defeating the fight against fossil fuels. They want the squabbling to distract from their dominance.