Zos_Kia

What’s weird about the mental gymnastics is that a respiratory virus pandemic is the risk factor of the century. It was a probability of 100% that this would end up happening, the only question was when and where.

But people will take the numerous calls to caution that were issued in the decades prior, and use them as proofs that something shady went on. What can you do …

I agree that it is ridiculous to claim that it is impossible and outright dismiss the idea. Nobody can say it doesn’t come from there and proving a negative is impossible. However there are a number of reasons which make the Wuhan thing a lot less suspicious than it seems at first glance.

Wuhan is the 7th largest Chinese city, and is among the most prolific research cities in China, so of course you’d have a lot of virology labs there and that would be the most probable location for coronavirus-related research. Remember that coronaviruses were kind of a hot topic in Asia after the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s.

Respiratory viruses, obviously, thrive in high-density population centers, so it would stand to reason that a 13 million inhabitants agglomeration would be at the center of this kind of thing.

To put this into perspective : if COVID had appeared in France, near some podunk town of 30K inhabitants that just happens to have a coronavirus-related lab - OK that would be super suspicious. But most likely it would have originated near Paris which is the largest population center in the whole region. Well that’s also where the Pasteur Institute is, and the Pasteur Institute being the largest virology research center in the country is the most likely place where you’d find coronavirus research. All of a sudden that would be a lot less shady.

Who cares? It’s tempting but don’t make a world view out of some interaction with randos. You’ll just burn out.

It feels like you’re asking in bad faith. You’ve never ever had toxic interactions within leftist spaces ? That sounds amazing i’d love to know your local scene.

In my town there’s this anarchist collective who own a screen press and rent it out dirt cheap to projects they like. The operator of the machine is a judgemental asshole who talks down to everyone. What can you do ? Volunteers are hard to come by especially with his skill set. So while everyone tries to work around him the experience always ends up being somewhat toxic.

Or there’s this queer/feminist group that i sometimes help out with social media shit. Governance is supposed to be collegial but there’s an inherent power structure to the group which biases all decisions. Making a good point is often less important than making it to the right persons at the right moment, and eliciting the right feelings from them. It’s ultimately toxic especially for the younger ones who learn to power-play rather than focus on objectives. But still, the world is a better place with them in it.

Those are just examples from my limited and superficial experience in these matters. At the end of the day, whatever space you operate in, you have to tolerate some toxicity otherwise everything grinds to a stop.

I mean it’s obvious when you involve yourself with local activist groups. Egos, factions, infighting… We’re not immune to toxicity, no human groups are.

There’s some decent money to be made in null shipping. For one thing, fuel costs are very low.

Not that much actually! There’s not even any bass for the first verse, as it punches in at the first chorus. By the end, the strings appear to come a bit forward in the mix, and there are 2, maybe 3 additional vocal tracks but no additional instruments that I can hear.

We tried to cover it with my band, but it sounded really boring. Upon listening closely to it, I was surprised by how minimalist it actually is. I mean there’s barely anything on the track! Some piano, some strings, and drum and bass of course.

It was a happy surprise to find that it’s one of those songs that are carried by the pure energy of the vocalist, which makes it very tricky to cover unless you go a very lateral route and “re-genre” it.

It’s very rare that the backend language significantly affects performance. In 99% of apps you could have the most optimized backend written directly in machine language, and you’d just shave off milliseconds.

That’s because in web development most of the latency comes from i/o (network requests, database access, file access), not from computation being slow.

It’s not just statistics. To produce a somewhat coherent sentence in English you need a model of the English language AND a world model.

If you ask a question like “an apple is on a glass, what happens if I remove the glass”, the correct answer (“the apple will fall”) is not a statistical property of the English language, but an emergent property of the world model.

Same here, I’ve been using it for years both on mobile and desktop, and I can’t remember the last time I’ve had to open chrome for a specific website

YOLO, say NO-NO Isolate yourself and just roll solo Be carefOLO

I think the trap is that you should look for accounts that seem extra normal. Those are your typical bot accounts. Impeccable spelling, and more elaborate structure than you’d typically find in a social media comment, but very “locally plausible” content.

In my experience accounts that seem weird are run by weird humans.

Same experience here, performance is mediocre at best on an established code base. Recall tends to drop sharply as the context expands leading to a lot of errors.

I’ve found coding agents to be great at bootstrapping projects on popular stacks, but once you reach a certain size it’s better to either make it work on isolated files, or code manually and rely on the auto complete.

Yeah same. It was our first theater experience together and we had a blast. The movie is aggressively mediocre although it does have a few moments.

If there had been a technological civilization before ours we would notice the depletion of natural resources, especially metal ore and fossil fuels.

The sad truth is we only have this one shot. If we collapse, there is no way another civilization reaches our technological level. All the easy to access fuel and resources have been pumped and used, so they wouldn’t have the energy and materials required to start industrializing. They’d be stuck on a depleted planet with no realistic way to escape it.

Nah the thing you’re trying to describe is just basic social awareness.

OP asked for advice, not horny role play. You leaning into their kink is icky at best.