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The games are quirky and too many use the crank, IMO. That said, if you want something a bit more unique than everything else it’s a fun toy.

I find Apple's Maps directions to be slightly better, nowadays. They're more intuitive.

I've noticed it in my friend group. My friends will freely talk about parenting and how great it is until one of the childless (by choice) friends show up. It's like we don't want them to feel bad or make it seem like we're criticizing their choice.

Also, I've definitely seen pro-parenthood posts be downvoted on Reddit. I don't mean anything obnoxious, just literally people talking about how they like parenting or how rewarding it is when it's relevant to the conversation. Obviously that's a super liberal group and that's where we see almost all of the decline, though.

I didn't say it was the only rewarding thing you can do, but it's probably the most rewarding thing that is attainable for most people.

Don't get me wrong, I think the problem is multifaceted, but don't you think it's odd that in very disparate cultures they're practically all having the same issue, but only in places that have first world-type amenities? Yes, there are odd groups here and there that don't conform, but the trend to that affect is worldwide. And again, this is when we know our hormones are definitely getting disrupted.

"Personally as a male I don’t mind having kids but if I were a woman no way in hell would I have one."

I don't understand that. Why? If anything I've heard the opposite most of my life, where men are afraid to have kids for child support reasons.

It sounds like we just need something like..national borders, eh ;)

It’s a nice goal, but no thank you. In my opinion, more of the world needs to be all but quarantined.

That’s not massive, though. Make it 96GB at $2,000 (ok, probably impossible right now, but they could have before the surge in prices) and you’ll see developers work really hard to make AI tooling work for their cards, CUDA be damned. The same goes for AMD.

It’s like they both want to rely on market segmentation for VRAM too but fail to realize that it’s their only potential inroad right now.

I don’t necessarily disagree with your overall point, but for some reason at least in US society you’re no longer allowed to broadly talk having kids like you used to be able to. Let me break that norm for a second.

So, are other activities more fun than child rearing? Often, yeah. Definitely less stressful. Rewarding? Not in a million goddamned years. Nothing, absolutely nothing, compares to when your kid first walks, talks, tackles a problem they had a hard time doing before, or tells you that they love spending time with you completely unprompted.

For what it’s worth, I personally think a good portion of the birth rate dropping is environmental. Maybe it’s plastics, pfas, or something else nobody is looking at. Some people still have an urge to have kids, completely separate from the urge to have sex. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that testosterone and sperm counts have been dropping among humans and dogs, and that the deliberately child free people I know all veer on the (forgive the derisive slang term, but I don’t know how else to get the point across) “soyboy” type of person - both male and female.

That potential pollution aspect also explains this happening to industrial societies.

Just spray Fix-a-Flat everywhere.

Or coat the outside with a soapy water solution.

I wish that would have worked for me - we had oral tests. 2 years of French in high school and one semester at college - what an absolute waste of time. How much French do I know now? Basically none. The same goes for everyone in my life that did Spanish instead in high school.

Part of what we could do during this upset is re-prioritize.

I'm a man, and when I was a teenage boy I was tired. All the time. My feet had also shrunk and I lost some height. This all started after a bad concussion, though I'm not sure if he made the connection on that last point.

My doctor's diagnosis? Depression. Oh, and my foot arch must be getting higher.

My sister's best friend going up lost her dad because he was told that the pain from recent dental work couldn't be that bad and that he should just tough it out. The infection broke through into his brain and he died very quickly.

My dad almost died from lupus because doctors wouldn't test him for it because it primarily affects women.

Women, statistically, are more neurotic. I'm sure that affects how doctors diagnose them, and it shouldn't. However, I don't like things like what you're describing to be attributed to misogyny. It could be, but it also could just be that doctors focus way too much on horses when it could actually be a zebra. Hopefully LLMs will help with that - when GPT 3 or so came out way back when, one of the first things I did to test it was to give it what I knew about my condition at the time. It told me 3 tests I should have done, one of which was correct, and one of which I still haven't managed to get a doctor to give me after trying for many years.

If you blame it on misogyny the actual problem won't get fixed.

Capture One, however, does.

The vast majority of that was fuel.

Hair transplants are probably affordable enough for 90% of people on HN.

Am I wrong for thinking “good” for a lot of those points? Many are either harmful (I still haven’t heard what we actually expect to gain from gain-of-function research that makes up for the potential cost) to absolute wastes of taxpayer dollars.

Alzheimer’s research would probably be the easiest one to point to.

And I’d argue all fields could use more dissenting opinions and new options. I don’t know if this would be the path to that but keep in mind there have been many things historically where someone needed to take a leap of faith to go against the current dogma.

I'm not sure if you have seen a kid with genuine bad ADHD then. Absolutely nothing will hold their attention.

Jesus Christ dude.

First off, adults play video games too. I think they’re actually the leading consumers, though I don’t care to look that up. Second, people like entertainment. Videogames are certainly no less important than movies, TV, or most novels. Entertainment can be important. Personally I find really hard videogames to be meditative and it’s bad for my mental health when I can’t get some time now and again to play some. I also made most of my adult friend group as a teen playing Halo together in a cabin multiple times per week.

I’m guessing you at least consume some sort of entertainment, so to say something like that is incredibly hypocritical.

> The houses built in the 60s aren't affordable either.

Far, far more people and the same amount of land.

> Average families aren't buying prepared food and they have a washing machine from the 90s they bought on craigslist.

Well, that's just not true. The average person is absolutely terrible with their money. Not only are they buying prepared food, they're paying someone to drive it to their house.

> Past generations absolutely protected their kids from cigarettes and alcohol.

I'm sorry, but what? Cigarettes, sure. Alcohol? Binge drinking was absolutely rampant at my school, and I don't think I'm alone. Don't get me wrong, some parents just buried their heads in the sand, but unless you're giving them a breathalyzer when they get home and severely punishing them all the time it's pretty hard to prevent.

A dick move or just really prescient?

That's a pretty big exception.

That’s a silly way to look at it. Surely people can realize that something made through natural processes has more of an appeal than something made in a factory?

That said, most of the gems I’ve purchased in my life have been lab grown.

People liked them because they’re colorless, sparkly, and hard.

The absolute favorite activity of my dog is to chase groups of turkeys that are in our yard. She’s only 15 pounds (and 15 years old now) and has never caught one, but I think being in the middle of a group of 20 turkeys all desperately trying to fly up to trees quickly is quite the experience for her.

She’s never caught one, even the younger ones. It seems like they can actually fly easier than the adults.

To your point, if we had truly unlimited context to the point where at least that instance of a model could “learn” and have what seems like a continuous “consciousness” I think many of us would think that we’ve attained AGI.

Right now we have an incredibly smart thing with severe short term memory loss, and it’s hard for us to reconcile that as it’s so different from us.

Just what kind of evidence do you suppose they could have?

It wouldn’t be the first time an industry got bogged down by prior knowledge. Hell, it happens to all of us.

To be fair, my assumption on that line was always that they were saying they're balancing out the overall news world. Still dirty, of course. Regardless, everyone knows how they lean.

What grinds my gears is NPR. Every member drive they explicitly talk about how their coverage is fair and unbiased, which is way more egregious than some tagline. As far as having a bias and not owning up to it, I think they're the worst offenders right now.

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