Not exactly the same but seeing actual people, talking to them, interacting vs. watching something on a computer screen is also no where near the same thing.

You can watch a video of someone eating an A5 wagyu steak, but I’d rather eat a less expensive steak myself. Pixels vs reality…

If they actually use the real login form, most websites block an account after X attempts. Sometimes for 1-24 hours, sometimes until you do a PW reset

Sometimes I wish I could do that, just ignore all logic and believe what you want.

So those people starving in Africa? Oh no God’s plan.

People getting killed in Gaza? Also God’s plan

That Kirk guy getting shot? Evil left, nothing to do with God.

Immigrants trying to find a better life in a different country? The worst people, nothing to do with God.

Aunt Marget died of cancer? Poor Marget, she was just unlucky,

It did not help she had no health insurance? No thats not it, that’s communism

For child toys that beep I used to put some tape on the speaker holes. But my kid used to take it off. You can cut a wire or desolder, but my simpe fix was a glob of glue directly on the speaker it turns it down like 80%. So some sound, but definitely not as annoying.

Everyone is falling for the “lets turn different age groups against each other instead of fixing actual problems” thing

Do you have a link or image?

I’m not even sure what you are trying to say here, science and empathy are 2 very different things. This is a very oversimplified version, but science should only be about answering if assumptions we have are true or false, based on enough evidence.

Wanted to say the same, the uncle Sam hat might just as wel be replaced by an EU hat.

Crackerius

How, is united healtcare bankrupt? Did they change and approve everyone? AFAIK they are just as scummy with a different CEO.

I have a 5 year old kid that only wants to pee standing but (despite me telling him not to) he never lifts the seat. Unfortunately some guys never seem to grow beyond 5 years old…

Well yeah, but way too many lazy guys just pee.

As a guy please leave it up, when I need to poop I really don’t want to sit on a seat with pee splatter all over. If it’s really unisex I think most women rather put it down than sit on a wet toiletseat.

And as a second point, we all know that when companies or people depend on AI the price to use that AI will go up to the point where it is almost as expensive as having actual people doing the job. All these billions poured in AI need to be earned back, so now your business will fail unless you basically pay them whatever they ask.

I started using them back in the day, when most phones had a very limited launcher. I have used nova for many years, it has a ton of customization options. I’m not sure how it is these days, but previous phones also came with thing that I did not like and could not disable or remove. Like a permanent Google search bar, or the Google assistant being a dedicated page on your home screen.

I can totally understand, the American example would be.

As a kid you are told about Santa Clause and his little helper elfs.

Now that you are an adult you have learned that the elves are actually based on slaves and the color of their skin is als based on that (let’s just imagine elves and slaves have the same skin color)

To you it’s just an elf and you never associated them with history or slavery. If fact as a kid you are told they have this color from the chimney.

So in reality both are true, people that grew up with zwarte Piet are not necessarily racist, but the entire tradition is based on historical context and therefore racist.

I’m not from Japan, I’m from Europe. I understand how fucked up the US is for regular hard working people. That is why those people should be paid a living wage, not depend on the kindness of people tipping. This entire system needs to be replaced, and it can start from either the government or people refusing to tip. If people stop tipping wages are going up, or restaurants basically can’t find people willing to do it anymore.

Thank god in the Netherlands we first have to have the zwartepieten discussie.

For anyone out of the loop this is a tradition that is changing but some boomers get really mad about changing it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet

I’m just going to say it, I kind of like her Christmas song, just hearing it once or twice around Christmas is fine (for me).

I don’t listen to radio or watch (cable) TV, so I don’t get bombarded with Christmas songs. It’s like one of those hipster beers with ingredients like strawberry short cake, in small doses it’s fine.