This reminds me of a strange recurring experience I used to have with electronics in my house.
In that house,on certain days of the week at midnight, something that sounded like recordings of political speeches from WW2 would be audibly (but faintly so) from all of stationary electronics. It was so faint, that it was usually hard to pinpoint any one source, and the words used weren't understandable, so it usually sounded like it was coming from everywhere all at once, and like it was an old recording.
This would happen even if they were unplugged. Even if my power went out.
I though I was either going crazy, or my house was literally haunted by hitlers ghost.
Well one day I was in my car and recognized something on the radio that reminded me of this spooky problem I had.
It was the signon of a Catholic am radio station that opened up with Gregorian chanting, and a sermon. This signon happened at the same time on the same days of every week.
Turns out, the wiring in that house was somehow functioning as an am radio receiver, and some common components would vibrate out the audio encoded in the radio signal.
It would involve serious consideration of the opinions you don't agree with, rather than just qualifying them in the most hyperbolic and dismissive way possible. Hopefully ai is better capable of this sort of reasoning than people are.
And ultimately, every sort of trust system requires bootstrapping on points of centralization.
People are like 'well yeah obviously' but no, not obviously in everyway to everyone. And the statistics will not save you when someone finds the next oopsie that can steal your investment, and there will always be a next one. Neither will any institutions.
"I can get back to school and wage slavery at any point in my life later"
I wouldn't be so sure. You ever wonder why older people are always talking about 'the good ole days'? It isn't because the world was better, it's because they were better equipped to live in it.
Similarly, the average American has fallen out of love with pop culture, since it isn't actually popular culture, it's the fringes of culture trying to drive the status quo.
It can't actually succeed though, because it doesn't agree with itself. At best it can help humanize the fringes. At worst, it will do the opposite because it tells the status quo that out of all of the multitudes of valid ways there are to be, theirs is the least valid.
Well Microsoft is pivoting into being a cloud services provider, the OS provides ui integrations for these services to make them more compelling, but the thing itself isn't the OS.
I'm with you, and I was right about the apple watch. This(vr in general) feels like a one-off of the next big thing, like the pda was to the smartphone.
That's probably it. I don't know enough about the product or THC chemistry pharmacology to say, but I've talked to some users who say they got a THC high from them, one of which was my mother who thought it was a cbd product when she bought them.
The stuff I am talking about lists a percentage of THC on the packaging and people are buying it almost exclusively to get high.
I was dubious at first too, but I have talked to several people who have used them and they say they are getting a THC high, and the packaging even communicates the THC content.
But I have no reciepts. It could be an entirely illegal Enterprise given the proprietor.
In that house,on certain days of the week at midnight, something that sounded like recordings of political speeches from WW2 would be audibly (but faintly so) from all of stationary electronics. It was so faint, that it was usually hard to pinpoint any one source, and the words used weren't understandable, so it usually sounded like it was coming from everywhere all at once, and like it was an old recording.
This would happen even if they were unplugged. Even if my power went out.
I though I was either going crazy, or my house was literally haunted by hitlers ghost.
Well one day I was in my car and recognized something on the radio that reminded me of this spooky problem I had.
It was the signon of a Catholic am radio station that opened up with Gregorian chanting, and a sermon. This signon happened at the same time on the same days of every week.
Turns out, the wiring in that house was somehow functioning as an am radio receiver, and some common components would vibrate out the audio encoded in the radio signal.