Ad revenue. It is harder to block ads on mobile than it is on desktop.

There was no "I have not donated, I would not donate" option in your survey, so if your intention is to understand how people are thinking about donations I think your survey needs some work.

"I'll see you on the other side." Works both ways.

I went on omegle not too long ago actually and the thing I remember was that the text version of the website was inundated with bots.

You had to skip through maybe 10-15 bots before you would find that one real person, and even then it was hit or miss whether they would actually want to stay and have a conversation.

Another thing: the constant "asl" as the top of every conversation; it's like people were trying to use it as a hook-up / dating / sexting app rather than it's actual purpose of connecting with people from around the world. I think that mission got lost somewhere.

Source

“Open”AI. This blocking manoeuvre kills progress.

Share with them generated videos of us hanging out with other alien species, having a good time, etc. and make it seem like they’re missing out.

People have been getting crushed by machines since the industrial age began; machines are inherently dangerous, there is so much that could have been done to prevent this from happening.

Sounds like Google+ all over again...

I'm likely staying. I've gotten used to lemmy now.

3 days is all it took.

I didn't come here because of the blackout though, I came here in protest; going back to Reddit while they haven't changed their policy wouldn't be helpful.

Everything is fine, up until this bit:

Twenty-seven plus two is twenty-nine.

The total amount given to the troll and sons were 27 sheep (25 and the sons kept 2).

Where it gets confused is saying "The trolls kept 2" as if this were 2 more sheep on top of the 27 sheep. This leads to you erroneously getting to 29 sheep somehow. The 2 sheep are part of the 27, you can't do this.

The 3 other sheep out of the original 30 are now with the shepherders after the sons came and returned them.

The idea that it's theoretically possible that we would be able to simulate a universe of our own leads to the hypothesis that we could be living in a simulation ourselves.

5: 1, 0, 0, 10, 100. (or 4 if uniqueness matters).

I've been down your road and I know it can be scary. Things seem out-of-place, there's no inherent meaning. I'm sitting at my desk trying to decipher the meaning of life. I get a few notes in where I come to this resolution:

• There is no meaning.
• Life's meaning is what you make of it.
• Every discovery of meaning simply sparks the search for greater meaning.
• There can be no satisfying final meaning for everything.

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This is something I stick with for a while, that you have to invent your own meaning. I would look out for goals, values, something that I could tie the sail of life to that would keep it from blowing about all over the place. I was looking for an anchor. I felt that there was an inherent need to tie it down with something, anything. Perhaps we can do this for short periods of time, though as we all learn: every time that anchor is uprooted, which it inevitably is, the façade comes crashing down, the sail blows everywhere again, and you inevitably spin out of control until another anchor is found.

It wasn't until much later, sitting at my desk, that I found the solution. It was almost on accident really. I am sitting there reading this book called The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer, and I am reading this chapter on death. There is something the way it expanded on the idea of life, how death is the one to grant life to you, how life itself is a gift. Without the consciousness, there truly is nothing. The fact of experience is something which is the gift, and we often hide from that gift by shielding ourselves. Life itself serves as its own meaning.

The moment I found this I felt more at peace. There was never any need to tie life down with an anchor, life itself was coming in through my senses and that was meaning in its own right. The sail blowing all over the place is meaning. The anchor served as an attempt at protection, though I would no longer be participating in this protection. If I continued to tie life down in this way, I would not be able to experience that which is life. I now want to experience more of life. I let the flow of life pass through me, without creating blocks, or doing anything to disrupt this flow. Life just pours in through my senses. This serves me well, and I expect it would serve you well too.

I mean. . . not immediately, right?

The lumps in the sand are where they bury the bodies

Border of the table != border of the board, jsyk.

7 trillion is not 73 trillion.

Edit: Just saw the 7.8 trillion figure for the US to switch to 100% renewables by 2050. That’s a long time to wait.

I had to look up what cuckold is, though honestly you do you. "Cuckold" sounds kind of derogatory, kind of like the N word.

As long as everyone on-board is consenting, I don't see a problem.

The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer talks about loneliness.

Loneliness happens when you've:

1. Blocked an experience of loneliness inside of you and;
2. That experience is being triggered through similar events.

Instead of changing the world to accommodate your thorn, to avoid feeling the thorn, you want to accept that you're going to eventually have to face the thorn in order to get rid of it. Go through life, allow the thorn to be triggered, be aware of the sensations that arise, and then work on relaxing and releasing it as it comes up.

Once the thorn is gone, as long as you stay open and don't allow another thorn to wedge itself in there, you will be free.

You mention you're particularly extroverted; I wonder how much of that behaviour is based on resolving an inner loneliness. I'm also one for social situations, though I do it for a completely different reason: I love people. I just really like them. That doesn't go away.