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I’m not sophisticated enough to enjoy abstract art. Maybe AI will bring abstract software projects to the world next.
I can imagine all the people staring at these software projects amazed at the genius it must have taken to create them. :)
Are you talking to someone else?
This seems like an unnecessary threat based in your bias.
Chatgpt seems to concur.
It is both scary to watch and yet fun to be alive to see it come to fruition.
It is occurring in every dimension, including the ability to track who buys and sells with crypto currencies along with the ability to punish or reward people based on ai hardware software infrastructure deployments.
Thats because I’m going by actual measurements. Not predictions based on evidence.
Im not dismissing anything. I’m just saying, when a measurement was taken in my region in 1925 it was warmer then than it was 100 years later in 2025.
Where i live, we had the coldest winter on record in 30 years. I’m going with that.
It's like this in a lot of places now. We're seeing climate change in the interval of a generation. It's absolutely scary.
I have lived in the same place my whole life. The weather and seasons are effectively the same, from the day i was born until now. Both observationally and by way of looking at average daily temperatures.
You should consider thinking of people as precious, rather than these odd fine tuned segregated negative groups seemingly based on skin color, political leanings or social status.
They refuse to look critically at the trade offs. I don’t even know how thats possible at this point.
Everything in life has trade offs. Everything.
It really feels like we are in the middle of a recession.
I don’t believe they last as long as a natural gas boiler, so the total cost of ownership needs to take that into account.
They now make really efficient refrigerators for your kitchen that you get to throw out every 2-5 years.
Finally, people don't really care about the truth.
What is truth? Pontius Pilate
This is what minimum wage deals with to some extent. Governments decide what jobs may exist based on how much a company can pay to do the job.
I learned once (on npr when i used to listen to it) that when you hear some new information, you should immediately think the opposite. This gives you the ability to not subconsciously weight the idea you heard higher than you should. After all, for every point in life a reasonable counter point exists. I've done this for many years and I do believe the practice has helped me not blindly believe things.
You could be a millionaire if you are right.
I'd probably ask "Why 5 times?" and then it would be game on.
I imagine it's intended to be a feature. You can instantly listen to any of your songs on any device.
They should have just left it on the local drive as well. Terrible.
American government was intended to be limited. That would limit the number of people, and the power that they have in government.
Today, our government is huge, and has a lot of power. This means that often times the people that get into government aren't doing it as a servant to the people, but instead as a service to themselves.
We need more servants. Viewing this reality and calling it Apathy or not Apathy is a perspective. We are all free to our perspective, and I think the wider variety, the better.
Aha! So maybe Trump does have a way to turn off the internet!
When you decide to start a business, often times, you'll be doing lots of things you don't really want to be doing for that business. Like filing paperwork with the state or making sure your taxes are done on time. This stuff adds up and there is a lot of it.
To start a business, you really have to enjoy the product you are building enough to cover the work you don't want to do and enough to no longer do some things you enjoy doing in your life, as you may no longer have time for it.
Starting a real business is a challenge. I would suggest, if you do have an idea, try to build it. If you can build the idea, you might want to consider starting a business around it.
Most of those scenarios, however, would never happen, because human organizations are nowhere near that efficient.
Actually, taxes are taken to pay for this, right? By simply not taking the taxes, people could be free to make better decisions with that money.
Yes, but the analogy isn't accurate, in the sense that when things do fail in a C system, it's probably not that hard to fix.
Ha! Yes, aren't we all.
This is the "abstinence-only sex education
For the record, I don't think your stupid if you have a child accidentally.
However, once you do accidentally have a child, the results are often not pretty, and I will feel bad watching as you deal with the consequences of your poorly thought out decision.
Regarding programming, I can't see the relationship you make at all.
If you write a good program, well good job. If you write a bad program, you are probably going to write a better one next time. (Ever look back at your old code?)
It takes practice to get good, and the more we work at it, the better we'll get. Just keep trying.
I usually travel with my family. I'm afraid if I opt out, they'll make an example out of me, and I'll ruin my family vacation.
The more drunk people take public transportation, the more I'd want to avoid it. The more I'd want my wife to avoid it.
Private business is good at solving problems with out the need for government intervention and higher taxes. If you are going to get drunk and you need to get from point A to point B, use Uber or call a taxi.
I appreciate that point of view.
I would state that the behavior occurring was already unconstitutional, as we are all created equal and we all have equal rights. This was a founding principle.
The question is, do you have equal rights on my private property? The law says yes. It's disappointing we need a law to get us that far. We had to give up individual liberty, by allowing laws to move into our personal lives, in order to give equal rights to others?
I don't respect people of other nationalities because there is a law to do so. What new impact did the law have on people's hearts? What impact does the Bible have on a persons heart when it says to "love thy neighbor like thyself".
Even with the Civil Rights acts, we have a heightened sense of urgency in the united states, where the media reports violence between white and black people frequently. A new law won't stop this, but a change of heart just might.
Our founders did that hard work for us. The Bill of Rights and the constitution explain what freedoms we are granted and as well why we are granted them (inalienable rights from our Creator). Previously throughout history, rights were granted to people from their government, through laws.
These concepts were flipped upside down, and if you study why, you'll see the reason is Biblical principles. All you have to do is read many founding documents to see this.
John Adams wrote "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Why would he say this? Think about it.
I'm not experienced enough to describe or explain why America has done bad things throughout history. We all make mistakes, and we are all unique. I'm sure corruption existed throughout our history. My personal feeling is that between 1900 and say now, Americans are more willing to reject the reasoning that gave it freedom to accept the reasoning that will take it away.
This rejection starts not only at the bottom but at the top. Many Ivy League colleges were founded to educate and raise missionaries. Why? Perhaps to spread the message of freedom and liberty. What are they doing now? The exact opposite. Think about that.
Many here will argue it's a good thing. So be it, but it doesn't make it anymore true than the message I'm sharing.
"A Christian Manifesto" by Francis A. Schaeffer gives a reason why.
Our creator inspires freedom and love. When we follow him we seek to spread freedom to not only ourselves but to others as well. A population willingly adopting the new testament Biblical principles will spread freedom willingly.
The humanist world view on the other hand has no moral absolutes and must enforce the popular or elected rules onto the majority by force.
America has been slowly transitioning from a Bible believing nation to a humanist world view. The result is predictable, the loss of individual freedom and the increase in the use of force to preserve the lack of these freedoms.
I enjoy the New American Standard Bible (NASB). It's easy to read and is very similar to the King James Version (KJV). Others I know enjoy the New King James Version. I recommend starting in the new testament and reading Matthew through Romans if you are a first time reader. Read those several times through and see what the Bible (the Word of God) has to offer!