Easy. You put it in your backpack under the seat in front of you with a long cable. Now no one knows it exists, but your bag is within arms reach so the battery is too

Yeah we do too… Just for some reason we never got around to making that actually illegal. It’s just frowned upon

Not unless you also swallow something that will explode if you get tasered

You really have to have an explosion already for c4 to explode

Yes and no… They’re very similar conceptually and ingredients wise, but the experience is very different. Frying the outside really firms it up like a French fry, and you get that flavor and texture all around. They also sometimes will add weird things like olives and raisins to it, which is still good, but I don’t particularly like those to start with so I might be biased

You’ve got the right idea of what it is, but you really have to experience it for yourself - a lot of South and Central American countries have their own versions that are very similar, so if you go to a Latino restaurant that isn’t Mexican or Peruvian chicken, you’ll probably be able to find it.

I’ve never tried adding jalapenos to the onion topping though… That sounds delicious. I might have to make that, it is a great topping and adding some heat to it sounds even better

Papa reyeñas(sp?). They’re so good, it’s basically mashed potatoes with ground beef mix inside, then fried/seared and baked until it sorta looks like a potato again. Then you take finely sliced red onions and soak them in lime juice for 12 hours so they get less harsh and use it like a topping

Honestly, I know how to do all off the top of my head except how long to boil the potatoes…I just would never put that much effort into my meals, so I would need a reason to cook it for others. There’s also a lot of cleanup, you need a frying pan you need a frying pan you wash twice, a big bowl, a masher, an oven dish, a lime squeezer, Tupperware (or a ziplock, but I get enough plastic), a knife, a spatula, and whatever serving dishes

I don’t enjoy cooking, but I’m pretty good at it when I want to be… But I have to want to be

Honestly, it’s scale. It dillutes the humanity to nothing, and all that remains is our worst selfish impulses

Communities become so large that bonds and reputation mean nothing. We create organizations to try to artificially recreate that, and they grow so large their primary purpose is to self purpetuate

It’s hard to muster up the will to hurt people right in front of you, it’s much easier if you can abstract it all to rules and numbers, and separate the actor from the decision maker

I think the only way something like communism works is like the fediverse - we need to find a way to weave ourselves into small communities that can act together. You can’t let power sit anywhere for long, or you’ll draw in power hungry sociopaths like flies - but inside a community they have to keep on good terms with others

We still have to collaborate, but if we shared methods and designs openly we could produce a lot of stuff locally. We don’t have to always be scaling up - if you have a thousand people, you don’t have to produce a 100k phones a year to make a phone. Working at that small scale even let’s you get creative and make better things - there’s all sorts of technologies that we don’t have access to only because they can’t be produced at scale

Plus it means people would be smarter and more skilled… Capitalism wants people to be interchangeable cogs, and that makes for craftsman that require a whole supply chain to be useful. Giving up scale means you have to make things last and be easily reparable. It means picking and choosing between your priorities

You had me at communication. That’s like 95% of any relationship… Literally everything is up in the air … Except being on the same page

Why does noone support my 4d earth theory?

Know what? I endorse it. Aside from the cyber truck, if you want to pretend, ok take that as “I was bamboozled”. But the cyber truck… There’s no hiding that. There’s no hiding the timeframe on that. You can’t just call that POS a Toyota

Sorry, but that’s a bridge too far. Deal with the consequences… It’s just spray paint, if anything it’s protective compared to the lack of any kind of paint. Take it on the chin

I mean, they’re ruining their search anyways. It’s almost unusable at this point, it’s like asking for relevant ads and two year old Reddit posts

Is it censorship? Did they decide to just straight up sell SEO? Are websites locking down and blocking their crawlers to stop AI training crawlers?

I legitimately find Bing to be better at this point, but whatever they’re doing it’s maddening. Even better AI assisted web searches kinda suck because the data fed into them is more of the same

But solid chance they’re trying to boost Gemini, which has been a shockingly bad llm for a company that basically wrote the book on AI not too long ago

I think forking android could be viable if they put some weight behind it

The difference between this and fireOS is they’re almost guaranteed sales. No foreign government is going to stick with an American company if they have a comparable option from a reliable ally at this point… That’s got to be hundreds of millions of sales on that front alone

If they can make something good, polish it for a few years, and demonstrate they can lock it down that’s almost guaranteed sales. And if they use that opportunity to further improve for a couple generations, they could become a real contender

The only question is will they throw enough resources at it and will they stick with improving it without giving up too early

When you’re a billionaire. Then it turns out, you’re just giving your heart to the crowd. And then, when you fund and speak at Nazi party rallies overseas, you’re just fighting “woke” or something. And when you agree that “Jews are doing ethnic replacement” on Twitter, you just have to take pictures at a concentration camp and you’re a “friend of Israel”

But I do enjoy when people get fired because they think they can do it too

The most effective thing he could do to help grok… Or really anything he “does”… Succeed is to be as far as possible from them

If he fucked off to a desert island never to return, they’d all probably improve drastically. He has the Trump touch, anything he touches turns to shit

That being said, I wish he won here. I encourage billionaires to be spiteful to one another, and honestly this seems like it should be illegal anyways

That’s not true at all, they’re super helpful. I use them almost every day, they save me an insane amount of time and energy

What I don’t do is rely on it. I’m the developer, I know what’s going on, it has the memory of a goldfish. It also spits out code near instantly… Which I then read through and usually fix

But it makes less mistakes than I do writing dumb repetitive code. It will, 95% of the time, correctly tell me something in half the time it would take me to look it up, if not less

It’s nowhere close to a worker replacement, but it’s damn good at empowering people to do what they do

A few months ago, I would’ve said how people try to engage you in good faith and how people would read walls of text and engage

Lately I feel people are scared and angry. Which is totally reasonable, but has some of the best parts of our communities

We also probably got a lot of new refugees and more interest from botters… But I used to get love with near every message I posted. Or at least honest engagement. Now? I get way less replies, and way more of them are reading into something I didn’t say

Security is not obscurity, and while obscurity can slow down a bad actor, it is not security and is not reliable

Transparency can lead to security through outside audit, the more eyes on it the more will security holes will be noticed

It’s crazy how this simple thing I was taught on day 1 of my job just can’t be properly understood by people. Not even just non -technical people - across the board we have constant leaks, in part because we don’t collaborate to build together nearly enough

Oh sure… But basically you’re burning the boats. Everyone you know is dead, now you either integrate or die. There’s no going back, only forward

I’m not saying it would be seamless or wouldn’t cause issues, but humans naturally readjust to the people around them. Assuming they got some support integrating, their values and habits would quickly move towards the average. And the average for us is a huge range depending on culture, subculture, and even online microcultures

I think deepseek shook them enough to realize what should have been obvious for a while… Brute force doesn’t beat new techniques, and spending the most might not be the safest bet

There’s a ton of new techniques being developed all the time to do things more efficiently, and if you don’t need a crazy context window, in many use cases you can get away with much smaller models that don’t need massive datacenters

On that note, why do we assume the human wouldn’t quickly adjust? My grandma went from horse carriages to getting upset if Netflix isn’t working

Yeah, they’d be like “holy fuck, what is that shiny rectangle with shifting text???” But if everyone around them was just like “yeah, it’s a phone, they’re pretty great and everyone has them, check out these neat videos of humans doing incredible things” they’d be shocked, maybe afraid, maybe entranced… And 5 years later, they’d have a phone too and probably fit in with an unusual appreciation for random conveniences

Well Google was basically that - it revolutionized search, which made the Internet accessible for casual users

And it worked - Google put more into R&D moon shots than anyone… Except the economic META has changed, and everything innovative just ended up in the Google graveyard before it had a chance to mature

Bell Labs worked because they threw excess piles of money at the best people they could find, and they gave them autonomy. They gave them time, and let them build things with no clear application for their company

Today, that money goes into stock buybacks, executive bonuses, and buying out promising startups. Stock prices this quarter are all that matters, and R&D only raises stock prices when it promises insane growth or quick monetization