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From the Cambridge dictionary:

kidnap: to take a person away illegally by force, usually in order to demand money in exchange for releasing them.

The "usually" refers to the money, but the part that is "always" is the existence of an intent.

There was no intent here. This was a mistake, not on purpose. Nobody would say, unless to make a joke, "i was kidnapped by an elevator" Because the elevator works automatically, it has no intent to take the person by force and hold them hostage.

Can't believe i had to type this down.

What if you also number the legs, but with an error like: 1,2,3,5,6. Or 1,2,3, ,4.

Being unconcerned with goodness and morality is literally the definition of evil. Megacorps are sociopathic and evil by design. The only thing that matters is shareholder value, not ethics or morals. Morals and ethics only seem to have value, if they result in increased value for tye shareholder, which again is the only thing that these sociopathic entities are concerned with.

For those that like simpler ways (although dependent on Google) NotebookLM does all that in 2 clicks. And you can ask it questions about it, references are provided.

By then the singularity will have been achieved.

It's fascinating how most people still don't get it.

ASI is basically a god. This is the ultimate solution (or problem). It will push us to the singularity, and create an utopia or drive humanity to extinction. Imagine someone who is so smart that would win every single nobel prize available, and make multiple discoveries in a matter of a year. And now multiply this person's intelligence by 100 (most likely more, but 100 is already hard enough to grasp). There's no point in investing in anything else. An investment in ASI is an investment in everything (could be a bad one though, depending on the outcome).

The government is banking on being able to control it, which is also pretty funny. It's like a pet hamster thinking they can dictate what a human does.

"The president is allowed to do all presidential things without having to worry about whether it will be deemed illegal."

"Such a problem this thing called 'law' that people made, doesn't let me govern. If only i could do everything i want without having to concern myself with such petty things."

I can't believe this is the type of argument people are using to defend this abysmal situation. The US should have invested more in teaching kids about fascism and identifying its signs. Unbelievable that people are so blind to what's going on.

There is a condition called aleythimia. People who have been emotionally neglected have not been mirrored and told what they're feeling "You look exhausted" "It's normal to feel guilty in that situation." "I understand that you feel so conflicted."

I talk with people in this circle, and in fact, giving a name to emotion, making it a concrete thing, instead of just this bodily feeling and cloud in the mind, gives it relief and allows it to be fully expressed and understood. It makes each emotion a separate entity in a sea of previously undefined emotions.

When we talk with people with alexythimia they often say they feel "pain" to describe some discomfort. And in fact they do. But when they realize they are actually feeling guilt, or confusion, or anxiety, which are all uncomfortable, not only you can see them feeling relief, as now it makes sense what they're feeling, but the emotion becomes a specific thing. Confusion becomes identifiable from stress, instead of just being called "Pain" and with this, it can be identified as two separate feelings and not just one. They see now that this feeling of not knowing what to do is a clear different thing than the other one where they feel there is an important event coming and they don't feel prepared for it, instead of both just being uncomfortable.

So imo, the word, "primarily" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Am i the only one that often presses the dot key by mistake when going for the space? Would it be possible to add an option to make the space key a bit smaller on the right side so there's more space between the two keys and prevent this?

Swiftkey by Microsoft also supports this.

Technically, only 1 male is needed

It sounded like a sociopath. All emotions are faked, they're both just doing what they think is more appropriate in that situation since they have no feelings on their own to guide them. And the lack of empathy becomes clear, it's all just cognitive. When the GPT voice was talking about the dog it was incredibly objectifying, got triggered from my ex. "What an adorable fluffy ball" "cute little thing".

The reason we feel creeped out is because at an instinctual level we know people (and now things) with no empathy and inauthentic are dangerous. They don't really care or feel, just pretend to.

They are still getting ASML machines yes, just not the EUV ones.

You say it's an incredibly well used word. I say it's not used enough.

I don't see a disagreement. I'll say it again: It's not talked about enough.

>On that note, houses are unquestionably more valuable today.

No. They are better, not necessarily more valuable.

Simple example:

Today you can get a phone with a chip more powerful than the best supercomputers 50 years ago. Is today's chip more valuable (ie. price-value) than that supercomputer? No. An equivalent supercomputer back then would cost WAY more. You're bringing other variables into play and confusing things. Technology has improved, manufacturing costs have gone WAY down for higher quality products. The fact that we can get higher quality things nowadays has little to do with purchasing power and everything to do with science and technology. The fact we can afford a better quality house nowadays, is also much more related to material improvements, manufacturing, logistics, overall system efficiency (transportation, company competition,...) improvements than purchasing power.

What we can compare is what other poster's are doing: time vs functions. For example, working time needed to have an average place to live in by the time's standards. And if you do that, you'll see today it requires A LOT more working time.

If you knew even a little bit about trauma, you'd know it's not even up for debate at this point that trauma is a huge setback in life.

Your risk of bad relationships, emotional dysregulation, physical ailments and diseases, stress, life unsatisfaction, (...) all increase as your ACE score increases.

I keep repeating myself at this point, but trauma is the biggest epidemic with the most negative consequences that isn't being talked about enough.

>These songs don't have any hooks. Melodies don't get repeated. They all just meander along.

Yet. This is the worst it will ever be. Enjoy.

Small pet-peeve with title: Everything is math/predictable. We just may or may not be able to predict it with current knowledge.

It's mostly screen size... Life happens, and of the two, the phone is the one with you. Wherever I go, i carry my phone, but not my laptop. I take pictures with it, so they're stored there. I take screenshots, and share stuff with friends, gets saved on my phone. I browse on the phone on the bus/subway wherever. Browser history gets saved there, opened tabs, etc.

Bringing photos, saved stuff to computer all takes an extra step. For most of the time I need a digital device, the phone is good enough, and most importantly - it's with me. Not just when i get home.

When high productivity is needed, then yes, laptop is king. But if somehow we could have the same productivity on a device, 10x smaller that I can carry with me, why wouldn't I start doing everything on that device? That's why smartphone is king.

Here I am, a lonely soul, who discovers music through youtube mixes... Am i missing something by not using spotify?

It's not ASML's fault that 20 years ago when Martin van den Brink (CTO) went full steam to develop EUV everyone laughed at him saying EUV would be impossible to achieve. Their monopoly is well deserved. Other companies have a few years to catch up for full fault of their own.

The people that hire expats are usually Dutch. Ask them why they hire expats, why they even make booths on other countries and do cold-calls (emails, linkedin) to convince them to go to NL. They're the ones with the answer of where the benefits are going to.

2003 Honda fit owner here @ 180Mm. Outside regular maintenance, not once have I had to take it to the mechanics. Zero issues. This car was the pinnacle.

Who the hell cares that one's phone is going out of support? This anal obsession with OS updates for some people is honestly appalling. If the phone doesn't get updated every micro second the sky is falling and the phone becomes a dangerous place. What are you doing on your phone that you need to be on top of OS security so badly? Browsing on the dark web? Going to sketchy sites? Have no password savers or 2nd factor auth? I had a Samsung galaxy S7 until less than a year ago. Had ZERO issues. Now calculate how many years I was out of support. I have now a Pixel 4a5G. I will only trade it for another for the same reason I did with the S7 - when it becomes too slow. Or it explodes, or turns to dust.

Let's stop with this nonsense. Women are not inherently better people than men in any general way. That is some serious propaganda going on there. If for some reason they don't abuse others physically then they do it emotionally. However, it turns out they actually do it physically.

Taken from someone else:

"Men are the biggest abusers."

No. In fact, women initiate domestic violence more than men.[1]

    “Analyzing data gathered from 11,370 respondents, researchers found that “half of [violent relationships] were reciprocally violent. In non-reciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more that 70% of the cases.” Out of all the respondents, a quarter of the women admitted to perpetrating the domestic violence and, when the violence was reciprocal, women were often the ones to have been the first to strike.

    Reciprocal violence was more dangerous for the victim, both men and women, than was nonreciprocal violence. In fact, men in relationships with reciprocal violence were reportedly injured more often (25.2%) than were women in relationships with nonreciprocal violence (20.0%); this is important as violence perpetrated by women is often seen as not serious.[2]

"Oh, but reciprocal violence is because women are only defending themselves against men!"

    Reciprocal partner violence does not appear to be only comprised of self-defensive acts of violence. Several studies have found that [in cases of reciprocal violence] men and women initiate violence against an intimate partner at approximately the same rate.

"That can't be right. Everyone knows women are less violent than men."

    Women are at least as likely as men to kill their children—more so if one counts killings of newborns—and account for more than half of child maltreatment perpetrators.[3][4]

"What about the fact that it is well known that most violent crimes are committed by men?"[5]

    But, whatever explains the higher levels of male violence—biology, culture or both—the indisputable fact is that it’s directed primarily at other males: in 2010, men were the victims in almost four out of five homicides [6] and almost two-thirds of robberies and non-domestic aggravated assaults [7]. Family and intimate relationships—the one area feminists often identify as a key battleground in the war on women—are also an area in which women are most likely to be violent [8], and not just in response to male aggression but toward children, elders, female relatives or partners, and non-violent men, according to a study published in the Journal of Family Violence.

How will your typical new age western feminist react to this?

    For the most part, feminists’ reactions to reports of female violence toward men have ranged from dismissal to outright hostility. Straus [9] chronicles a troubling history of attempts to suppress research on the subject, including intimidation of heretical scholars of both sexes and tendentious interpretation of the data to portray women’s violence as defensive. In the early 1990s, when laws mandating arrest in domestic violence resulted in a spike of dual arrests and arrests of women, battered women’s advocates complained that the laws were “backfiring on victims,” claiming that women were being punished for lashing back at their abusers.

Some excerpts taken from: The Surprising Truth About Women and Violence [10]

Feel free to copy paste it whenever someone like the above poster posit that men are the biggest abusers.

[1] https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2005...

[2] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

[3] http://www.jaapl.org/content/35/1/74.full.pdf

[4] http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files /cb/cm2012.pdf#page=76

[5] http://users.soc.umn.edu/%7Euggen/Lauritsen_CRIM_09.pdf

[6] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/c...

[7] http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv10.pdf

[8] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/226871004_The_two_fa...

[9] https://web.archive.org/web/20140708085504/https://www.socio...

[10] https://time.com/2921491/hope-solo-women-violence/

"Because X is done like this, then Y should also be done like this."

Cannot see any fault in this argument.

And no, the end result is not the same if in reality one is more productive then the other.

You claim to like it.

Let's see: If you were paid regardless of going to work or working or not, would you still keep going there and doing your job?

Firstly, cognitive dissonance is not really being used well here and I don't like it being so trivialized. What OP feels is more guilt and confusion that his friend is worse paid than him and yet has to work harder. Cognitive dissonance is holding two conflicting beliefs at the same time in a way that creates a mental toll. What happens in abusive relationships or example when a person is told "i love you" while being hurt. Or when your gut feeling tells you something wrong is happening, but you're told everything is right. Cognitive dissonance feels almost like physical pain.

And about your comment:

SW aren't well paid because of how much money they generate or how hard they are to replace.

1- I'm not sure why you say this but SW are not that difficult to replace. There's plenty of SW around for everyone.

2- What actually determines the fact that SW are so well paid is just luck and time. What do I mean by this?

2.1 The profit margins in software services are the biggest. An easy example is Amazon. Initially a simple bookstore. Then a e-commerce shop. This is what Amazon is. And yet their margins for this is about 1% and for their cloud services is about 40%. Amazon CAN afford to pay SW well not because it generates more money, but because it has huge profit margins. And why is that?

2.2 Because it just so happens tech is VERY NEW and has changed everything far too fast for the market to adapt. Consumer physical products have been manufactured and sold for decades. Agriculture is a much more essential service than SW and it's some of the worst paid industry. Their profit margins are close to zero. All the money that could be extract has been, capitalism has done a good job of making it cheap for consumers. But tech? The world of mega corporations, monopolies and duopolies, there is often no such thing.

It's not about value to the world SW provide, money SW generate or hard to replace. If you really want to talk about value to the world there are many other careers that do. SW isn't one of them. SW are just well paid, due to luck, timing of being born right now, and the fact market is very new and hasn't adapted yet, that's it. Enjoy.

I agree with original statement. But we can get there with a little thinking:

It is a fact people's view's are becoming more polarized. Some google searches will get you there. This is due to people now more than ever always having access to others who agree with their views, and ignore people who don't. This is the age of tinder swiping and (un)following (un)subsribing. People have become more replaceable. Agree with this person? This forum? Be there. Disagree? Leave. Like this person? Keep them. Dislike? Ghost them. We meet more people now than we ever meet in humanity's history. The need to learn how to deal with different views is going away, when you can always hide from them and go for places that have supporting views. The need for respectful disagreement is getting lower.

In the past there wasn't as much this choice. In the extreme, nomadic times, you had the same people all your life. Now we are at the other extreme. I'm not surprised that people's relationships are getting more and more superficial, and more temporary. There's always a "us" vs "them" to be had somewhere. With so many people, what used to be sporadic outliers, are now in massive numbers. Even if they still belong to the extremes of the natural distribution.

As we know, these people also tend to be more vocal, "the vocal minority" as it is usually referred, very opinionated, who defend their views to the end.

Then you could also add the fact the emotional trauma is spreading, although this one will make many people scratch their heads. Emotional trauma increases what we refer in psychology as negative affectivity "(...)a broad personality trait that refers to the stable tendency to experience negative emotion". Disagreeableness being one of the most typical ways in which this manifests itself.

Add to this the easyness of being anonymous, being rude without consequences and you get a perfect recipe for at any point you have a conversation online, getting obnoxious, opinionated, rude and disagreeable replies. The step from online conversation to IRL isn't that much of a step at this point, and it still makes sense the same is happening.

This is not a deduction, but a inference. But it fits everything i've just said: it's becoming more difficult to have an opinion, and not be attacked, shamed, mocked or invalidated by it.

It's becoming increasingly rare to hear "I see your point. What I in my view makes more sense is..." and instead "You're wrong, you have no clue what you're talking about and you should go hide yourself."

That phone is amazing. Headphone jack + Notification Led + great size + good photos + good battery + nice design. I used it until a few months ago. Unfortunately, it was getting somewhat sluggish for normal use.

I got the Google pixel 4a 5g and tbh couldn't be happier. Still, if the S7 was faster I would keep using it.