I remember reading an interesting article that seemed reasonable that showed/talked about how prison labour was more efficient than slavery for capital (because the necessity of keeping the endless supply of free labour alive was less with prisoners), You bought and housed and had to keep alive slaves.

I can’t remember the source, but I am sure it was credible enough. This sort of article can only ever describe the concept using very broad brush strokes, so, ymmv. At least it is worth thinking about.

If young adults are vulnerable to exploitation why are they given the right to vote?

At what age are they no longer vulnerable and so trustworthy to vote? What about any other function in society?

You are talking complete nonsense. You are in the wrong. Your position is extremely harmful.

So, last time before I block, as I am now having to repeat myself. You do not get the right to tell consenting adults what they can and cannot do. Iran has morality police - they are called the guidance patrol: this is who you clearly think YOU are. You are not. We do not have morality police here. This attitude absolutely has contributed to the rise of Trump’s fascism, which, ironically might lead to morality police. You will fit right in.

No. It is so simple that I do not need to read beyond your first sentence. You do not get the right to call two consenting adults ‘weirdos’ for behaviour that you do not like. This is exactly the same mental state that homophobic and transphobic people adopt, and they are as convinced they are right as you are convinced you are.

Beyond this: fascists have exploited this kind of wild overstep to such a degree that is has been a contributing factor in the creation of a world I do not want. If you can disregard the law based on your personal preferences, so can they. Kindly stop it.

It really is none of your business what consenting adults get up to. There are people vulnerable to exploitation at all ages, it isn’t your job to police them.

I’m talking about pans mainly, either stainless steel of copper with a tin (I think, maybe stainless steel inner cooking surface). I have a few other bits and pieces - dutch oven type things.

I think the best thing for me is clean cooking items in the sink as I go when cooking, and maybe get myself a small dishwasher for plates and stuff.

Thanks for the reply.

Really good quality cooking equipment always says it is not dishwasher safe. I don’t know how true that actually is, but washing stuff as you cook is definitely part of the process for me, so it is fine for me to hand wash.

For the record: I particularly like cooking, and bought a load of great quality cooking stuff that will last for life when I had money - I am not being a dickhead.

Keep away from these people if you can. Focus on your own development. Keep grafting. Use it as motivation, rather than a reason to have your confidence knocked. Know that a lot of people bullshit. Part of bigotry is that it undermines the confidence of people that aren’t part of the in-group, thus maintaining the in-group’s position of advantage. It is drummed into rich white people at expensive schools for this very reason. I’ve no idea what things are like where you work/live, and I understand that trying to address this via hr might just be detrimental, but if they are breaking laws then get evidence and speak to somebody about it.

It was a perfectly reasonable response.

Maybe you haven’t noticed, but when a person does not like facts that match the reality they have (co-)constructed they must reject the fact. When they can’t do that they seek to diminish the fact by attacking the messenger.

This is what you have done here. It is boring and predictable.

Trump might not ‘fall’, but Reagan’s myth of America being that ‘shining city on a hill’ has fallen in its place. It has absolutely been exposed as complete bullshit. The same is true with regard to the likes of Musk Bezos Zuckerberg Wall Street et al, remaining at large and thriving but at the expense of a belief in capitalism.

It is hard to overcome childhood programming so it takes a while for citizens to realise. I spent a couple of months in Russia quite a while ago. I remember being told “We know our society is corrupt, you don’t know yours is.” The person that told me that was right.

I’m a Brit, the same thing has and is happening here in more or less the same way and starting at a similar time: with Thatcher’s 80’s policies that amounted to the last looting of empire, looting the remaining profitable bits of the British state itself on behalf of capital. American capital did the same thing but on a much steeper curve. We obviously display various cultural differences in response to this economic/political policy.

We even have completely credible evidence of a paedophile ring based in Westminster in the 80s that has been thoroughly brushed under the carpet. Not one mp went to Grenfell when that tower burned and children died due to avoidable issues, but they all trouped out to mourn when big ben had to be covered up for a bit due to refurbishment.

Add the abject failure of fossil-fuel-powered-[neo-liberal]-capitalism to deal with what could easily become the existential threat of climate change, and things get pretty depressing. I’m not sure when or where (as a species) we managed a fair and equitable society post-agriculture and writing. Maybe Aboriginals, or South Sea Islanders, or some of tribal Africa somewhere.

I told you I wasn’t interested in a debate. I also verified the information at the time. Now piss off.

Edit - downvote away. But you are a fool to blindly downvote away an obvious fact that contradicts the reality you have constructed. Try and learn to change mentally with new information - it will serve you well. It is foolish to think ‘literally’ originally meant ‘in fact’ or ‘in reality’ rather than ‘in literature’, so go and be foolish.

Don’t know if it’s the most stupid, because it might alleviate bed sores in a situation of long term illness but levitating about one centimetre when in rem sleep seems pretty useless.

Plenty of employers (in non-union/creative/competitive industries/in-demand roles) push employees to burn out. Doesn’t matter if you burn out you couldn’t hack it, just get the next body in.

I just quickly read a couple of discussion on the definition of ‘literally’ that don’t particularly pick up on the following, but in the ai era this doesn’t really mean anything.

I remember being told that originally used to mean ‘figuratively’. I.e. as in ‘in literature’ as opposed to ‘in reality’. This seems to be in keeping with its modern use as an intensifier.

I’m not interested in a debate on this, as it doesn’t really matter to me. I’m just passing on what I was told, and offering offering a differing perspective.

Arch really isn’t very difficult to use these days for someone with a few years debian or similar use (don’t try and use it when first trying linux).

Installing it is straightforward (albeit in a linux rather than, say, windows installation sense), and you can access preferences via the settings app.

This. Pretty sad that people in my country (UK) might have to use technology designed to help people in repressive regimes for basic access to perfectly legal and moral information whilst preserving the dignity of privacy, but here we are.

tl/dr: I identiy with some of what you say. Counseling might help but don’t expect an easy panacea. I busy myself with positive things to crowd out the negative when all else fails, and although it is hard for me to sustain that effort in my current situation, when I do that stuff it does work.

The weight of my past experiences became a burden that I haven’t been able to really manage for a long time now: traumatic childhood coupled with and exacerbated by undiagnosed ‘autism’ - in quotation marks because although it is an important part of my story, and an accurate dianosis, it is a bit of a ‘diagnosis du jour’, and nowhere near the self-image I have constructed and I struggle with how I see myself. I very much identify with your experience of having an inaccurate self-image. I came up with reasons as to why I suffered burn out that just weren’t real and need to try and deconstruct that story that I have told myself.

I understand what has happened in my life, and why and how I have ended up where I have, but that isn’t in and of itself enough for me to manage. I personally need quite a large and regimented daily program of stuff (none of it too fancy - exercise, things that give me purpose, and ultimately crowd out the negative things) just to stay on an even keel. I am often not able to sustain the effort and struggle. I need more help than is available in my current situation, and so I am not able to contribute in the manner I can - I am normally a very high achiever.

Counseling can help, but my experience was that finding a counselor that was good for me wasn’t straightforward. In fact after lots of trying I hardly managed it; one helped me through a particularly difficult period, but that was it. I am far from ‘cured’ in any meaningful sense at all.

Datacentre-hosted LLM’s have a long way to go to be accurate enough for mass deployment. It looks to me like it will take a miracle of some sort for them to manage it before this bubble pops. It could be decades or more, after all we don’t have a real understanding of how the brain works, so hoping to mimic it now seems a bit premature.

I can see RAG and fine tuning making an LLM accurate enough to be functional, enough for a range of natural language processing computing tasks (with a decent amount of human input that ultimately is used for fine-tuning). But even if just for cost reasons (in RAG’s case), you will surely want your LLM hosted locally. I don’t see a need for that data centre.

Venture capitalists/silicone valley bros might have burned through trillions to do the work to get trained LLM’s useful enough for people to run in their own organisations/at home.

A general retreat to Tor is probably necessary at this point for people who want a something like a non-tracked web culture.