When it comes to psychology, I think Peterson has a lot of valuable insights.

When it comes to anything else I just wish he would shut his mouth.

That combination of feelings really sums up a lot of Joe’s guests.

I love graphene. I wish I had taken the plunge sooner.

The ONLY acceptable apology at this point is a complete roll back and a full announcement of the direction they plan to take the company in for the next 5+ years.

They’ve absolutely lost the trust of devs, designers and hobbyists.

More relevant than ever?

Kind of like Idiocracy.

Crazy People (1990)

A feel like I can’t describe it. It blows taboo and political correctness up to expose the BS in the advertising industry. It’s fun and cute and I swear nobody has seen it.

Iirc these headsets require your Facebook login to function at all?

Nope nope nope.

Last time I took my EV in for service the guy just told me to come back in 6 months. Truly hilarious.

No spark plugs, oil changes, no transmission fluid, nothing to leak. No air filter or fuel filter or vacuum hoses or plug wires or whatever they are going to try and sell you.

Plus, fewer brake jobs because of regenerative braking.

I miss a manual transmission but I don’t think I’ll ever go back to gas.

No, you’re not understanding.

They save money by only producing the luxury model. Then they disable the feature electronically.

But to prevent you from just jailbreaking the car, they need to have a system to monitor your status. So they need to be able to check and update software that you can’t control, etc etc.

It’s still greed, but it’s like greed with extra steps.

People were objecting to the subscription, but they should have been objective to the locked features.

They’ll never stop the shitification, it maximizes profit.

My wife and I hope to be in a similar situation in a few years.

I’ve stopped mentioning it because there was so much negative reaction and I’m tired of explaining. I usually just blurt out whatever is on my mind but this is now among the things I treat as taboo.

What people need to realize is that there are different kinds of people. All kinds of people. There are greedy, corrupt, evil business owners, landlords, politicians, lawyers, cops, etc. But it’s not the job that is the problem. It’s the people.

The only thing that makes the world better is when better people go into those professions. And the only way that happens is if we appropriately respect the importance of the role.

We aren’t interested in price gouging some struggling family that is having trouble making ends meet. We just want to cover maintenance and taxes. If you treat us and our home with respect we will treat you with respect.

I feel like that’s how it should be.

Great point. I greatly* prefer the convenience of having my steam library.

On the flip side I pirated most of the old nes/SNES games that are harder to emulate well.

I legitimately did, I stopped pirating except for old obscure stuff that I couldn’t find anywhere.

Sorry to be contrarian here, but at the high competitive level chess is a cardiovascular challenge. If you listen to serious chess players talk about playing it’s not just a simple mental exercise.

High performing chess players have a higher HRV. Chess grandmasters might be sitting still but their body is undergoing a high degree of stress. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-14359-001

Men statistically have higher HRV on average, and the outliers are even more extreme. https://www.whoop.com/ca/en/thelocker/normal-hrv-range-age-gender/

So when you enter into a competitive environment it’s just nicer to know you have a MORE level playing field.

I know chess specifically is controversial with regards to gender stuff and I’m not saying it’s perfect. I’m just saying that there are real reasons to support separate brackets.

It’s cult of personality shit.

It’s something Madison talked about in her Twitter rant.

For most of these people it’s their dream job, and they don’t believe they’ll be able to do it on their own. For many of them they tried to do it on their own for years before joining LMG.

So they’ll do anything to try and hold onto the fantasy. Including destroy themselves and the quality of their work. Which is really why the mental health of the company is in the shitter.

I mean this honestly: I like many of the team members and I hope that LMG is able to fix itself… But I don’t know if it’s possible.

Streisand effect.

It’s not “not-quite-self-driving” though, it’s literal garbage. It’s cruise control, lane assist and brake assist. The robot vision in use is horrible.

There are Tesla engineers bad mouthing the system openly.

Musk is a scammer and they need to issue an apology for all of the claims around autopilot, probably pay a great deal of money, and then change the name and advertising around it.

Oh, and also this guy should never drive again.

I’ve started going down this rabbit hole. The takeaway is that if we define intelligence as “ability to solve problems”, we’ve already created artificial intelligence. It’s not flawless, but it’s remarkable.

There’s the concept of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or Artificial Consciousness which people are somewhat obsessed with, that we’ll create an artificial mind that thinks like a human mind does.

But that’s not really how we do things. Think about how we walk, and then look at a bicycle. A car. A train. A plane. The things we make look and work nothing like we do, and they do the things we do significantly better than we do them.

I expect AI to be a very similar monster.

If you’re curious about this kind of conversation I’d highly recommend looking for books or podcasts by Joscha Bach, he did 3 amazing episodes with Lex.

It’s not just the material, it’s the specific weave too I think?

I’m not originally heat tolerant, personally, so when I visited Cuba I brought a lot of linen clothes and they did wonders. Just pants and tunics, and a brimmed hat. I looked like a drug lord but never overheated.

Advertising is 100% an arms race. It’s probably one of the most destructive things to the social fabric and goodwill in society right now.

Proactive truth, honesty, and disclosure should be the priority of companies when reaching the market. Instead we get entertainment, vague claims and absurd lies.

I don’t know why people have such a hard time understanding this.

You don’t know Spacey and you don’t know the accusers. Just because there are 9 of them doesn’t make it rape.

I don’t have any doubt that he “used” fame and the authority provided by celebrity to get people to agree to things that they may not have really wanted.

There’s a chasm between being an egomaniac and being a predator.