How many bits is a /s mask?

I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to chew them. I don’t know how you’re supposed to get any of the oyster flavour otherwise.

What’s wrong with the chargers? We have one of those brushes here and it just lives on the charger when not in use. We’ve never had any issues.

Only if you eat it under your umbrella

Sounds like we need instance level karma where instances can upvote/downvote other instances, and user karma is scaled based on that number. I don’t know if it’ll be healthy, but it does sound like fun, especially if users get a say in the instance’s vote.

Vaguely remember that fire can be made by rubbing two sticks together.

Try to make fire.

Fail.

Get kicked out of tribe for wasting time with sticks instead of helping with the hunt.

If you’re interested in AR, you should pay attention to AI too since it looks like the two fields will be intersecting very soon, if not already. Meta has been putting a lot of work into dense point tracking models with very impressive results. It’s probably safe to assume AR is their intended application of the tech given their investments in the Meta-verse.

Things are rough, but I’ll have all the time in the world to rest when I’m dead. So why not give it my all and see where it takes us?

This feels like psychologist or neurologist territory.

I don’t know if it’s the same in Europe, but here in Canada, I’ve only seen the option to trade in old phones when you’re buying one of the fancier phones with a bunch of bells and whistles I don’t need. There no way they would give me enough for this phone to make up for the price difference.

Also, 40 months is an unusually long time to be holding on to the same phone? What?

I need the knife to cut food at my destination though

Japanese has cute curvy symbols interleaved with some BIG scary symbols.

It would suck extra hard to lie in bed planning out the nice breakfast you’re going to make for your partner and learn afterwards that they’ll never get to enjoy it.

Changing the voting system involves changing the law, doesn’t it? Can’t you just revert the ban in that very same bill?

Edit: Ah, I just saw in another comment that this affects lower levels of government that wouldn’t have the power to make this change.

In what sense “don’t understand”?

In any of the senses you’ve listed or haven’t listed. My point was that the outcome of the situation doesn’t change regardless of the cause of the ignorance. What it does affect is how you address the problem.

Ok, and what should be done about it?

A start would be acknowledging the existence of a problem so that we can start looking for a solution. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and what I think would be nice is if we had something akin to a direct democracy where people could vote on the areas where they are experts. For most people, that would be their own lives and the problems they face, so they essentially vote on what problems to fix rather than how to fix them. Let the experts take care of figuring out how to do the fixing. There’s still the problem of how to find good subject experts in domains where you’re not an expert yourself and keeping them accountable. I don’t have a good answer for those right now.

If the specialist cannot explain to the common population in a concise way the implications of carrying out a project of that size so that they can make a sensible choice in a vote,

There’s no concise way to explain something complicated to a layperson that doesn’t end with “trust me, I’m the expert”.

then the problem lies with the specialist, not the population. Giving that kind of explanation is education.

Shifting the blame doesn’t make the problem disappear. Whether the population is uneducated because of a lack of qualified specialists, or simply due to being incapable of understanding the information, the outcome is the same. You still have uninformed people making decisions.

I agree. Mass all the way. It’s especially complicated when the liquids are viscous and stick to your measuring vessel.

The only time volume is permitted is if it’s too light for a typical kitchen scale to measure.

I think you may have forgotten some of the context when you responded. We already have a consensus among experts that IQ isn’t intelligence. That’s not up for debate anymore. The question is whether or not intelligence can be measured, and the semantic question of defining intelligence is very important here. You can’t answer “how do we measure X?” without first defining what “X” is.

You would first need to define intelligence before you can measure it. We’re still nowhere near any kind of agreement on that first step.

I also apparently have high IQ according to online tests and my mind still glazes over conversations even when it’s a topic that I’m supposedly an expert on. I know all the words. If you were then down and I read them, I’ll be able to make perfect sense of them. But a real time conversation? Forget it.