The only real argument against lab-grown meat is that it might not reduce emissions that much. But even if lab-grown meat has an equivalent carbon footprint to farm-grown, there is still a critical difference: we don’t have to kill innocent creatures to produce it.

In the 21st century, we can easily maintain a nutritious, balanced diet without consuming anything produced by an animal. For this fact alone, humans should be reorienting our entire food chain away from animal-based products, because most animal products are produced via factory farms that functionally torture animals from birth to slaughter. But eating meat is so embedded in our culture - we like the taste of it, and most people don’t have to face the harsh reality of slaughtering innocent creatures to produce it, so for most people it’s actually HARDER to go vegan than it is to just go with the flow.

I hate these “debates” about lab-grown meat for this reason, because to me the controversy seems made up. There are literally no downsides, it just solves this “momentum” problem overnight. Even if the emissions are equivalent, it’s still a net gain for the planet because we dramatically reduce suffering worldwide.

yeah maybe those people need their own work requirements and accountability structure

yeah that’s different from what I am describing. That’s the bs work requirement for welfare/TANF - in that case, they don’t care at all about finding a good match for you, they just care that you are doing something to find any job. EDIT: My bad you were talking about unemployment work requirements, which are similar but not exactly the same thing. Still bullshit imo - if they aren’t going to actually try to match you with a job that is a good fit, they might as well just let you search on your own. The unemployment has a time limit, and you can only qualify for it in specific situations. I don’t get why they have to also enforce a work requirement, as if you chose to be laid off from your previous job.

I tried airvpn, but found it confusing in some regards. ProtonVPN is easier to use and it has served me well, despite the recent controversy around it. The only real annoyance is that it randomly selects a new port to forward every time you connect, so you have to manually update that in your client. Quantum is a nifty tool that will read your ProtonVPN logs and automatically complete this step for you, if you use qBittorrent.

I mean sure except if I don’t want to do violence and I don’t want to adhere to rigid military standards then there is no place for me in the military. That leaves out most people.

Where the hell are you shopping that you have to make small talk?

Basically anywhere in the US besides Aldi. And Aldi works fine because the cashiers are trained to skip small talk, scan everything quickly, drop it directly into the cart, and then leave me to go bag my groceries in peace without having to rush.

If people can’t even interact with each other on a surface level like that it’s no wonder we’re all so lonely and depressed.

I’m happy for you extroverts to go use the cashier checkout lanes if you are that desperate for small talk. I can small talk, but I don’t like it, esp in scenarios like this where i’m focused on other tasks. The interaction is not fun, it does not liven up my day. It’s just draining.

Now social interaction with my friends? Social interaction at a party? That shit fills me up, but i’m not going to the grocery store to get my social fix.

From the article:

Instead, the future of hiring may require abandoning the résumé altogether in favor of methods that AI can’t easily replicate—live problem-solving sessions, portfolio reviews, or trial work periods, just to name a few ideas.

Are those the best solutions? I don’t exactly know, the problem is bigger than any one person can solve. But any of those would probably be better solutions than what we’ve been doing the past 20 years.

In my ideal world, people don’t have to go through any this bs to get a job. People don’t have to become their own salesperson just to get a job with a living wage. Maybe this is too communist for some people, but it would be nice if some government body just matched me with a job that matched my skillset and education, and then they guaranteed a living wage. If I work the job and I don’t like it, they let me pick one of my secondary matches. I don’t want to have to think about this shit, I’m not entrepreneurial and I don’t want to be entrepreneurial. In this scenario, I would think employers would also save a mint on recruiting costs.

Right there with u man. If LLMs mean the death of the modern resume process, I say good fucking riddance. Maybe the only good thing we’ve gotten out of LLMs.

i’m right there with you. i’m at the point where i will go self-checkout even if the line is shorter for the cashier. I checkout faster than most cashiers. I don’t like having to rush with laying everything out and then rush to bag it before the next person. I usually have headphones in at the store to tune all the bs out, I don’t want to take them out to make small talk with an 18 year old for 2 minutes while they fumble with my groceries. Self-checkout is just better at this point.

as others have pointed out, this article is from February, which is like a year ago in techbro-time. If Nadella truly meant what he said, Microsoft would have scaled back AI spending by now.

Controlling women’s bodies is how they control women. The best way to fight it is to remind all the people in our lives that all body shapes are beautiful, and weight is not an accurate indicator of health. Spread the word, and the skinnytok message loses its power.

this is really wild. we live in an era where a cyberattack can break the food supply chain. I hate how dependent I am on grocery stores, but also i don’t really like or have time for any of the alternative solutions.

Midjourney is a product that is being sold for money. Midjourney is making money off of providing users with unauthorized images of Disney and Universal characters. Midjourney is not making up original characters that happen to look like the licensed characters; they are just producing the characters themselves:

For example, if a Midjourney subscriber prompts the AI tool to generate an image of Darth Vader, it immediately obliges, according to the plaintiffs, and the same occurs for images of Minions.

Furthermore, we know that Midjourney obtained the ability to generate these images by training on Disney’s and Universal’s copyrighted properties. This is why Midjourney knows these characters by name.

To your example, I think one big difference is that if you make a digital drawing of Mickey Mouse and then print it out, you are not going on to share that image with a global marketplace of other Epson users. Additionally, you also need an uncommon level of drawing skill to produce a drawing that is so convincing that people may confuse it for Disney’s own work. Midjourney has a social page where users share their creations, and those pages are littered with people’s low-effort generations of licensed characters:

With Midjourney, any doofus can generate an image of Mickey Mouse flipping off Goofy, and it will look good enough that most people will think Disney made it. If the internet is littered with images like this, it reduces the value of Disney’s properties.

holy moly i had no clue that was what pennywise looked like. did NOT expect that aesthetic haha

Thx for this tip! It’s really saving me on a specific show that I wasn’t able to find on any tracker.

Interesting. I figured since this post is in a Beehaw community they would be invisible to everyone, but good to know.

It is important to do demonstrations like this in the hopes that the general public will understand the limitations of this tech.

THIS is the thing. The general public’s perception of ChatGPT is basically whatever OpenAI’s marketing department tells them to believe, plus their single memory of that one time they tested out ChatGPT and it was pretty impressive. Right now, OpenAI is telling everyone that they are a few years away from Artificial General Intelligence. Tests like this one demonstrate how wrong OpenAI is in that assertion.

not sure why people are downvoting this

downvotes are not allowed on beehaw fyi

How did u find 25 public trackers that aren’t blocked by cloud flare?

Wow, finally, a feel-good tech story.