Naming problems is okay. Do that. Name them. Try to find solutions. That doesn’t make you a doomer.
Telling other people to not be happy, and be engaged without pointing to a specific problem does.
All I’m saying is that Big Tech and AI bots peddle and foment defeatism. Look at climate change propaganda if nothing else.
Yeah, but doomerism doesn’t help engagement.
Doomscrolling and commenting in echo chambers is not engagement, it’s the way the system traps you. Being merry at Christmas, then helping your neighbour and building community so that you can set a mansion on fire together is engagement.
Jokes aside though, let’s say you live in Europe (this is a European platform, so let’s default to that). Here is the way to get engaged: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/
Look at the Stop Killing Games initiative. You can do what that guy did. If you don’t feel that you can shoulder that level of engagement, then just get your ID, go through the list on the website, and sign the petitions you think are worthy. Takes almost zero effort, zero money and it makes a difference since these are legally binding petitions. Tell your friends, coworkers and family too.
Then go find out what political parties are campaigning around you, find one that is closest to your vision of society, and help their activists trudge through the snow to get people out to vote next time. Or if you don’t feel like trudging through snow yourself, just brew a bunch of hot tea and take it out to them to make them feel supported.
Go join an union.
Or go volunteer, or at least donate to an organisation that does something good. Put your time or money into something worthwhile. You can plant a tree or buy a combat drone, depending on your priorities, but everyone is taking donations, and every little bit helps.
You can acknowledge that shit’s fucked, and still be happy in your community. In fact, building and sharing that happiness is the biggest way you can help stop this. The people doing this, and the people supporting them are not happy people, and one of the biggest reasons they are doing this are because they are not happy people.
I felt exactly the same way with (combat) flight sims.
Without VR, a lot of it was practicing maneuvers and attitudes as the target or the airfield would be out of my view most of the time. With VR, it just feels right, you can just keep the target in sight and move yourself into position. Your sense of distance and attitude is also 100% better. I can fly altitudes better, dogfight much better and so on.
You also get a much better sense of the whole plane, how big it is, how it moves around, and it also is tons more immersive. I can do 2 hour flights without getting bored easy in VR - not that you don’t get hella tired from that.
grounded (supposedly)
Yeah I think you’re right, there is no way they are flying around with so many unsecured articles in the cabin. Or maybe the world would get lucky and the pilots would decide to lock the cockpit door and practice stall and spin recovery.
It really seems to be made by one of those devs who think Android is by default an inferior platform, and that anything outside the iOS “ecosystem” is by default insecure.
Also yeah, no plans to make a desktop app.
That’d block google and youtube, even outside a VPN.
I’ll be honest, your technique makes the half done sketch look better and closer to what I’d consider a finished piece than the AI copy.
It fucked up your lines and made them uninteresting. I like the original better.
I’m neither militantly anti-AI nor an artist, I just think AI is kinda shit at doing things.
Property is a social construct. It’s just a way for all of us to make sense of living with each other.
The kid owned that door through a consensus, just as you own your things, even as an adult. If that was an illusion, so is all your property.
Point is, don’t be a dick.
That’s what I love about my native Hungarian, even pronouns are ungendered.
Everything else is stupid complicated though. We have tonal harmony to worry about instead.
I guess the idea is that humanoid robots ideally require no adjustment to the factory, they can just use the tools made for human workers.
You could be more supportive. Men have issues specifically hurting them too, and not dismissing that fact won’t make women’s issues less relevant.
Could we just be more supportive to each other?
In case it’s not just a joke, basically if you press the entire pedal, that’s rudder, and if you push with your toes and “rotate” the pedal forwards, that’s the wheel brake. If you apply the wheel brake, your ankle stays in the same spot, but your foot tilts forward.
At least that’s how it is in most planes, I’ve never flown a 737, only small ones and an A321 simulator.
In Hungarian, to pull a woman is in fact slang meaning to have sex with her.
Simple words are usually those that stayed with a language the longest.
Hungarian also has a very high percentage of loanwords, and a lot of those very old ancient non-compound non-calque non-loanwords are single syllable.
Like:
Horse = Ló
Road = Út
Bridge = Híd
Army = Had
Herd of horses = Mén
We took that into Hungarian
Fog = Tooth
Kerék = Wheel
Fogaskerék = Toothywheel = Cog
(at foot pedals) “Push both to brake (after you land), push one or the other to turn”
Doesn’t the 737 have toe brakes?
Software engineers are among the best paid employees, and are not licensed.
I got sucked into the two Pathfinder games they made, I want to wait out Rogue Trader’s last DLC before playing it
Read the whole comment, it’s sarcasm
Most egirls would be better at being world leaders tbh