It is, but you need to balance your life towards it by minimising the amount of time you waste, which is not to be confused with time spent relaxing.

If you can cycle to work, or work on a hobby/side projects while on public transit to work, that time is no longer wasted.

If you have hobbies near where you live or where you work, you’ll be spending less time going to or from your hobbies and more time doing them.

If you need to/are prescribed them, take stimulants, anti-depressants, or sleeping pills, because otherwise you’ll take longer not doing things and have less energy for the things you actually want to do.

It’d be a small model run locally, taking up maybe half a GB of VRAM

AI generated visuals and music are one thing, but one use of AI in that category is giving NPCs actually interesting things to say.

Currently, without AI, they have one or two lines about the weather, or the general state of affairs, but if you can pass an LLM the current state of the world and the player’s recent actions, then run the output through a tts model tuned to a distinct voice to, you’d be making the world feel way deeper than it is now with much more insightful interactions. You could maybe go even further and add infinite mini-quests in a similar manner, but it’s better to start off small.

AI doesn’t have to replace, and the best studios will use it to enhance and add to their art, the average ones will avoid it, and the worst ones will use it to replace art.

That’s not even Japan, any European country has that as standard on showers

Elon is one thing, but the Grok developers have recently done a surprisingly good job at making it neutral and unbiased in matters of opinion, but also allowing it to tell people they’re wrong in matters of fact, which is why there’s so many screenshots around of conspiracy theorists getting shut down by it.

I can’t say whether this will be the same, but if the devs take “without bias” to actually mean “without bias,” rather than what Elon intends it to mean, it could actually be somewhat useful to filter out obvious promotional content and any small levels of bias.

Seattle, Portland, Atlanta and Denver famously being uninhabited wasteland right?

“Inspired word of God” differs by denomination though right?

I could be wrong, but I thought some viewed it as the exact word of God, others as the word of God as interpreted by the prophets

Counterpoint: London.

It’s easy to complain, with it being £2.80/$3.70 for a single zone peak single, the frequent strikes, the noise, etc. but the trains are at worst every 5 minutes or so, they have the most frequent rail service in the world (Victoria Line), they’re constantly making improvements (Elizabeth Line, Battersea extension), it has fairly good coverage (when including national rail for south London), overnight service, and the busses are absolutely amazing.

Is it on par with Seoul & Singapore? No. But it’s certainly significantly better than most cities worldwide.

Or they just don’t know if they’ll want to raise children later…

Sure you could say they should adopt, but they may see some value in the experience of supporting their partner as they go through childbirth in forming a bond to the child.

The flags are the nationalities, he gave germany as an answer

that’s the joke

Same energy as “how can you claim to be tolerant if you don’t tolerate fascism”

I went to four different cities in China and at least a significant proportion of people seemed very selfish and out for themselves across the board, I’m not going to say never but it’s definitely at the bottom of my list of places to return to.

I don’t think it’s ok.

I think it’s not the state’s job to dictate whether people can do it. I have the exact same opinion for cheating.

Yeah nah.

People (normal people) like having their messages, facebook comments, whatever else coming up somewhere even more accessible than their phone in their pocket.

It depends how you define “racial hate” and how you define mental or social harm. I also do mean social harm, not societal, meaning to catch things like sunset communities (ie restricting where people can live, or where they can go), rather than “society is worse off because of people’s opinions.”

Again, in my opinion, it depends on intent. If you make a post on your blog with 200 followers saying “I’m tired of X race moving to my city,” I don’t think that should be illegal, even if it is disgusting behaviour. If you post it to (eg) a community group for those people, I’d say it should be illegal.

That said, I’m very liberal on policing, so believe that the state shouldn’t be responsible for policing morality, which people may not like when they realise it involves making things that are pretty much objectively immoral legal, regardless of what they are.

I would say intent matters and while it’s impossible to truly determine it, we still have a distinction for murder/manslaughter and negligence.

If a politician lies or hides something for personal gain, that should be illegal, but there’s so much stuff the state does where it’s best if the general public don’t know, public order would probably break down pretty quickly otherwise.

Same with racial hate. If it’s just stating an opinion, fine, I probably don’t agree but go ahead. If you’re actively trying to harm (mentally, economically, socially or physically) that group, or inciting others to do the same, then that’s not fine.

Everyone has a different definition, but yeah generally free speech in an ideal sense extends to just before you start causing what a reasonable person would concern harm to someone.

I agree that authoritarian governments’ versions of events usually vary from misleading to downright false, but I used a direct quotation from the article linked in the post, so if you have issues with the veracity then take it up with the post author or Wikipedia editors.

I haven’t disputed the indiscriminate slaughter post-insurgency, or that there were some instances of it before the insurgency, it’s just that it wasn’t a direct causation, and if you have time in the title to specify cause and effect, then you should do the most direct cause and most direct effect, not the one which makes your favoured group look the most innocent.

Taken directly from the linked article:

A general strike was later organized by the Workers’ Party of South Korea (WPSK) from February to March 1948. The WPSK launched an insurgency in April 1948, attacking police and Northwest Youth League members stationed on Jeju who had been mobilized to suppress the protests by force.[1]: 166–167 [6] The First Republic of Korea under President Syngman Rhee escalated the suppression of the uprising from August 1948, declaring martial law in November and beginning an “eradication campaign” against rebel forces in the rural areas of Jeju in March 1949, defeating them within two months. This resulting campaign has led to the event being called the Jeju massacre.

The escalation by the government came in August, after the insurgency had been launched, and I don’t think it’s up for debate that after this point the government forces were slaughtering indiscriminately.

Thanks once again for proving my point that you’re being disingenuous, in this case by incorrectly representing the timeline, when once again the facts are on your side and you don’t need to make an unjustified slaughter of a country’s own people look any less justified.

I haven’t once defended Rhee Syngman, all I’ve done is say you make yourselves look untrustworthy and suspicious by misrepresenting the truth, even when you don’t need to.