I’m pretty sure that only applies due to a majority of people being morons. There’s a vast gap between the 2% most intelligent, 1/50, and the average intelligence.

Also please put digital text on white on black instead of the other way around

black on white, ew

so I can now put my spicy pillows in the oven and tell the insurance men the internet told me to?

For a lot of languages, lots of names are just “descriptions”. Like Finnish, German — and I assume — Japanese.

Like capybara is a “water pig” in at least Finnish and German. And English usually just takes loanwords it doesn’t understand, and thus English speakers don’t think of as descriptors. “Capybara” is originally from Tupi language (spoken by indigenous Brazilians) capiuára , from capĩ ‘grass’ + uára ‘eater’.

Although the names aren’t always accurate. Like guinea pigs aren’t from Guinea. (And neither are they related to pigs, really.)

“Schwein” (=pig) was used much in the same way “deer” once was in terms of animals and “apple” was in terms of fruit. A general term. Oranges are still etymologically “Chinese apples” in Northern Europe/Nordics; variations of “appelsin” ~applechina.

Languages are fun, aren’t they?

Bullshit. It’s not about digital. It’s about who owns it.

Yeah I’m not gonna build a house with duct tape, but I most definitely like keeping a roll around, because it’s very useful in certain situations.

As of now LLM’s are little more than glorified chatbots, but I find them useful when cooking / making drinks. I’ll have an idea, query something, ask about whether it’s generally thought that x spice goes well in y dish or how the temperature of a drink will affect the layering of it or something.

It’s decent enough for that. But like for any data that’s not as stable as cooking (which is subjective at its core anyway more or less) etc, it’s not good. Movie released for instance? Nah. Because the release dates change and the batch of data it’s uses for training can have a different date than it does.

That happened in December when Kraven the Hunter was coming out. It told me it had premiered like 6 months ago when I knew it was gonna be in a week or so.

But on the other hand I once accidentally made this cool drink where I got bits of pineapple to go up and down for 10-15 minutes after served, pretty furiously. Couldn’t replicate it until I talked to Gemini for a minute. And the input would’ve been so niche it would’ve yielded no direct results online. I’d have had to refresh some basic chemistry for at least 10-20 min prolly. But now I just got the answer in one.

Decent enough.

I know AI is overhyped, but it’s also overhated. I too hate the overhyping, but I don’t hate the tool itself. It’s just not anywhere near as versatile or complex as some people make it out to be, but it’s also rather more useful than some make it out to be.

Books are going to keep doing just fine.

Books haven’t been the go to for several decades. When’s the last time you went to search something in a library before Googling it? Or hell, in general. Because we used to have to do that you know. When I was a kid and I wanted to know something, I had to cycle to library.

Now I can ask my phone about it, then ask it for the source, then check the source and I can use a search engine to find an actual book on the source on the subject.

It’s a tool.

It’s a poor craftsman who blames his tools. If you’re trying to use a hammer as a screwdriver, ofc it’s gonna suck.

Well that I can’t believe.

But their tubby little fingers aren’t nimble enough nor can they hold their attention span nor take basic instructions, so they can’t be employed for production unlike their healthier and more dutiful same aged Asian counterparts

“We told them this self-driving software isn’t for self driving, you can’t blame us” is a bit like q-tips. There’s an explicit warning on the packaging to not put them in your ear canal. But like what else do people buy them for?

Got banned for antisemitism around the time the genocide ramped up in Gaza.

And I was just criticising Israel. Things got a bit heated for the other guy apparently, and then I got brigaded and reported. I didn’t defend Hamas or advocate violence, just criticised Israel.

I believe, internationally, lots of places which have saunas also have pools or even cold pools. I imagine. Like high class gyms or smth.

But I’ve heard several stories of Finns being abroad and going to a sauna and being prevented from tossing water on the stones (löyly = it’s sort of the water and the heat that results from throwing it, roughly how you’d use “gas” in relation to cars, more gas can mean more petrol or pressing on the gas pedal harder, that sort of word), and the employees saying “you can’t do thaw to it’ll break the stove” because they don’t understand how saunas work.

And to do this to the best effect you need a proper löyly to the point you pour cold water from the löyly bucket on top of your head to bear it for a while longer for all the muscles to really warm up. And then for maximum shock quick jump to cold water, or sometimes just a snowbank. That’s common as well. Hurts like bitch though if you do it with the wrong kind of snow, like jumping on a bed of freezing razors. (The top of snow that was quite soft earlier had frozen and I didn’t see it in the dark and jumped into the bank and there was like a half an inch of raspy ice on top before I broke through to the softer snow. Or I just didn’t care being either so young as not to or so drunk as not to. Probably both.)

And if you’re gonna throw a strong löyly, or even löyly at all in a public sauna, it’s proper etiquette to ask for consent from everyone. Although now that I wrote that I have a feeling asking for consent in some non-Finnish public saunas may have a different meaning, as far as I’ve understood from popular media.

It’s perfectly commonplace to have at least a 100 degree sauna.

I think something like 140 is around the hottest I’ve been in.

The air is that temperature, but there’s also a ton of moisture in the air. You can take it for a few minutes at a time, then optimally you go take a dip off a pier into a lake or the sea. When I was in that 140c sauna it was a proper wood heated large sauna at my confirmation camp, it was on an island in the Baltic so we could run out the sauna and jump into the Baltic Sea. It wasn’t warm at all, but the intense heat of the sauna having warmed all the top tissues and muscles, you get a sort of immunity to the cold. Which lasts for a little while, and when you start getting cold enough, you go back to the sauna, and because the cool water has now cooled the skin and muscles, you get a resistance to the heat for a while.

Rinse and repeat. Literally.

This cycle supposedly has benefits for circulation and muscles.

And having done it ton in my life I don’t doubt that at all.

Usually I have to settle for the sauna in my apartment though. (I live in a cheap rental but a sauna is default in pretty much all buildings built after the 90’s.) And then either going to balcony to cool off a while or take cool shower. It’s not as nice, but it’s more or less the same.

Although I don’t rip the most out of my electric stove to get the most heat. I have it set on pretty low and I just use a lot of löyly. Probably I’d say my normal saunas are maybe around 90-110 degrees at the most. A sauna below 80 degrees is considered a “Swedish sauna”, which is to say we mock them as not being strong and manly as us and so Swedes would be afraid of having a “proper” sauna.

And to be honest the Swedes are pretty on board with this whole stereotype I guess, seeing us as mute emotionally distant brutes. Here’s a cool Swedish commercial featuring a Finnish man. They made it. (that’s not the real title though just the yt video title)

Captain Finland cucks Sweden

You know a nation of people who may not be able to articulate their understanding, but definitely have a high intuitive understanding of that?

We Finns.

100C sauna and no problem sitting on wood, but happen to touch something metal and oooh-weee.

Also same thing happens the others way around when it’s - 20c outside. I don’t think there’s many people in Finland who don’t have a core memory of what cold metal tastes like in winter, because of the resulting trauma. And it doesn’t even need to be metal to stick.

Nicely explained.

Elon and Trump are fucking cowards.

They stand no chance when some actually bad people turn up.

“I’m arguing bigger picture”

No, you’re specifically doing the opposite.

You’re taking what you did as a novelty, niche hobby in the 90’s and saying “it’s just the same now”

It literally isn’t. The difference in users is about 5.5 billion and constant access in your pocket.

over semantics of what videos were in ~95 (very low res and shit quality fyi)

Consumer digital video cameras didn’t even exist until 1995.

I’m just saying they were always there

You arguing that the “it’s the same now” is exactly the same thing as saying literature was “exactly the same” 500 years and 5000 years because they share some very base level features.

Again, the difference is users is 5.5 billion to the 90’s. Wireless connections are everywhere.

Imagine how dumb it would be to argue cars are the same as when they were invented. “They still have wheels and an engine and you steer them to go about. We had the exact same thing in 1885!”

Has your clan had a bronze orientation day yet?

That Mitchell & Webb Look - Bronze Orientation

That’s like saying cuneiform on small tablets is the same as writing after the Gutenberg press. “It’s all just symbols marked on a medium.”

But I think you know that there’s quite a difference in being able to print books on an industrial scale and a few priests knowing how to write down taxation in cuneiform on stone tablets.

I actually do have(and still use) the same computer I had in the late 90’s

My point exactly. You’re saying things haven’t changed because you’re stuck. The world has changed in 30 years. Arguably more than in any previous set of 30 year cycles.

30 000 hours uploaded every hour. In 1995 there weren’t even 30 000 websites. >5.5 billion users versus 16 million. Do you have any idea just how huge that difference is? Here’s a hint, the difference is about ~5.5 billion people.

Like what’s your crusade in arguing that “it’s all still the same” when it’s obviously completely different.

My guy, wtf were you doing in the 90’s on a computer?

Playing games.

there were video files all over the place to download and watch.

The amount of some 3 second quicktime clips doesn’t even begin to compare with today’s videos. And you’re pretending like downloading videos on a 56k modem isn’t complete garbage.

Sometimes it would take minutes for a regular html site to load. People were not browsing videos, lol. Maybe in 99 you’d have some sites for the people who had ADSL but a few clips here and there is barely comparable to 30,000 hours of material uploaded to YouTube every hour

Not really sure why you even feel the need to doubt any of this

Because you’re pretending like an incredibly niche experience you had with a thing that doesn’t even begin to compare with today is “exactly the same as it was”. No it’s not. Literally a majority of the world, ~5 billion have a smartphone. Instant access to HD videos, in their pocket, 247.

Back in 1995 there were about 16 million users, now it’s more than 5.5billion. 23,500 websites back in June 95. Now it’s more than 1.1 billion.

I’m not doubting anything. I’m calling bullshit on you pretending like there hasn’t been absolutely massive global change just because you still live in the same garage and have the same keyboard and screen.