I'm not trying to defend them, but the lonely guy to incel pipeline is a real thing. They are targeted, propagandized, and monetized. I believe people are responsible for the decisions they make, so I'm not saying they aren't to blame for that, but I am saying it's more complex than just that.

IRC exposed users ips, so not only did they not understand their low orbit ion cannon firing at localhost was self inflicted, but they didn't actually need to ask for your ip at all.

There are actors building influence who benefit by more males being this way. They target ladies too, but in different ways. They are determined and focused.

Datacenters aren't helping, but they're like 3-4% of emissions. It's still manufacturing plastic crap and shipping across the ocean with bunker fuel burn causing 60% of it.

But yeah, increased energy usage isn't helping.

Very direct. They could lie about it. Better to ask conceptually I think.

This is my big beef. Last version. Sounded great. We've been betrayed.

Like backdoors, Lax security, technical debt, etc

And continues to

Ok. Tell me about Lex Fridman. I've never read that name before.

My sister does this. Breaks my heart a little.

Perhaps, but maybe it doesn't matter. I want to live in a society where people are kind to one another, where they listen to one another, and where they have the opportunity to be prosperous. From my experience the place I was born, (BC, Canada), is trending away from that. I believe helping these lost youngsters become better people would help reverse that trend, and I think one of the first steps towards helping them is to have more empathy.

Lots of people have an external locus of control and I don't know if that's easily changed, but I do know it doesn't mean that they have to be hateful.

Sounds to me like you hate capitalism, not some ones and zeros

It's not all human civilization. I'm in Japan right now and it's not happening like that here. Don't misunderstand, things aren't perfect here, there's other issues, but the kids are mostly alright.

And even in Canada it's not everybody with these issues, it's mostly the anglos. Lots of non english private schools that don't have these issues for various reasons - banned cellphones, stricter rules, stricter parents, etc.

My friends in China tell me the kids there also don't have these issues. Again, other issues, but not these.

They may just be fucked front ends running completely client side, with broken functionality due to no backend

I mean, AI is using like 1-2% of human energy and that's fucking wild.

My take away is we need more clean energy generation. Good things we've got countries like China leading the way in nuclear and renewables!!

Fantastic point. Though, we're not doing either really, are we? We're kind of just letting the issues fester and pointing fingers at each other.

I should do more to help...

Back in my day when I was living on the street we called them volcels. And by back in my day I mean a few years ago, and by the street I mean discord.

UK is treating this a lot more seriously than the usa. Most countries are.

The democrats are objectively better for the majority of the population. Science has a liberal bias and all that.

What many of the dem leaders and commentors are missing is that's not enough. Blaming and shaming people online, even if you're right which as I covered you objectively are, isn't going to win the election. A lot of people voted for Trump because they feel left out and unheard. Maybe they should be, after all some of them hold dangerous ideas like climate change denial or think giving underrepresented people's a chance is unfair.

But that's just not enough. Being right isn't enough. Pointing out their idiocy only serves to entrench them and scare away moderates. You might say, not voting means they're dumb, right or wrong that comment doesn't help your cause. Being objectively correct didn't win the last election. Until the democrats acknowledge that optics are more import than correctness they're going to fight an uphill battle. A very steep one.

People always call me crazy but I buy commercial displays. You can get them cheaper if you do it the right way. So speakers, no tuner, no smart functions, usually only 1 or 2 inputs, and basically no bells or whistles.

But that's how I like it, so I don't care if it makes me 🤣😧🤣😧