Not in the market for a smart watch, but noted: don’t buy Fitbit.

I see some love in this thread for Garmin… Any other good options?

Most redditors who aren’t willing to bend over and take whatever Spez wants to shove into their asses have already switched to Lemmy.

We’ll get a few stragglers, but I wouldn’t expect much of a reaction at this point.

Oh there’s plenty of good science I can think of!

How many coprolites can be cut in two by a single motion of a guillotine blade?

Does a coprolite puree make a viable fertilizer?

How do coprolites hold up against extremes in temperature, pressure, or acceleration? Exposure to acids, bases, enzymatics, radiation?

So much valuable data!

the word “Coprolite” simply meaning fossilized dung.

I think I just found my new label for describing our ruling class.

We live in a coprocracy, run by coprolites.

Idk. Trump is a symptom, not the illness. Once he’s out of the equation, there are plenty of other neonazis to fill the vacuum.

I hope your right though.

A lot of the rightwing rats that have jumped ship have swam to the libertarian party, so maaaaaybe we’ll see that grow to replace the GOP. I’d call that a best-case scenario: they’re bat-shit crazy, but they at least stand for something other than contrarianism and hatred. The LP would make a more sane competition to the blue team.

I don’t see that actually happening though. Cult 45 will just flock to some other dipshit like Desantis, and another election or two down the road we’ll be doing the same ol’ dance.

He’s got all the charisma you’d expect a snot-nosed faux-crying-at-trial murderous teenager would have.

Isn’t that like every rightwing talking head under the age of 40? The red team eats that shit up.

He’s a mascot for the GOP - I doubt he’d have that hard a time getting a job at Fox or some other misinformation distributor.

Prison cells are pretty safe.

They really ought to just stamp that shit directly onto the food.

Surely it’s not that our planet is dying, we can’t afford shit like a roof over our heads / food / kids / health coverage, our rights are dropping like flies, christofascism is fucking rampant, and the Nazis are back…

No, it’s social media! Surely that’s what’s getting everyone all fuckered up.

Yeah people have absolutely been contesting the use of the term AI in videogames since it started being used in that context, because it’s not AI.

It didn’t cause the stir it does today because it was so commonly understood as a misnomer. It’s like when someone says they’re going to nuke a plate of food - obviously nuke in this context means something much, much, much less than an actual nuke, but we use it anyway despite being technically incorrect cuz there’s a common understanding of what we actually mean.

Marketing now-a-days is pitching LLMs (microwaves) as actual AI (nukes), but the difference is people aren’t just using it as intentional hyperbole - they think we have real, actual AI.

If/when we ever create real AI, it’s going to be a confusing day for humanity lol “…but we’ve had this for years…?”

I do see an older version of the book on the Libgen link.

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Well shit, I was just bitching about Elsevier in another thread! Since this thread might attract some brains with the experience I need, if you know a good way save a chapter from their digital textbooks, please share! Frustrated with how restrictive the textbooks THAT I PAID FULL PRICE FOR are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart_Halsted

Tldr, the doctor that came up with the medical residency program was an absolute coke-head and apparently expected everyone seeking that MD to work accordingly.

Fast forward to today… cocaine is a bit better controlled, but that seems to be about all that’s changed lol.

I’m just a surgical tech, but from practically day 1 seeing what our medical residents go through struck me as 1) this is slavery, and 2) this is super, SUPER unsafe for the resident and any patients that get within arm’s reach of them. What the actual fuck!

I’m definitely not happy with Biden supporting genocide, but the alternative is way worse. Biden is the least bad option with any hope of victory, so he’ll be getting my very frustrated but strategically sound vote.

Moved from way north to way south for a job.

Don’t miss the cold, don’t miss the ice, kinda miss the snow but also remember how quickly its charm wears off.

Fucking LOVE not having to shovel snow or scrape ice.

Fucking HATE the hellish heat here.

Overall the pros and cons kinda just balance out in terms of the local climate… the make or break is the other factors like job opportunities, family, etc.

Economy is a huge one. If minimum wage kept pace with cost of living, it’d be something like $30 per hour today. That’s one of the hardest points to drive to older folks, cuz they see shit like pushes for $15 and think it’s ridiculous cuz theirs was only $5 and think we’re asking for three times more than what they earned; and simultaneously that the difference is only a factor of three. The cost of everything has left our earning potential in the dust, so we’re having to cut things like health insurance just to keep a roof over our head. Boomers had it WAY easy financially, but so many of them feel like they have a super human work ethic cuz they paid for college by working a summer… that shit doesn’t work anymore.

Climate is another hard hitter. We’re actively watching a mass extinction event kick off, and we know what needs to happen to fix it, but the people with the power to do anything about it don’t give a fuck, so the rest of us get to just watch helplessly as our planet dies. This situation is going to be worse and worse for every incoming generation, so shouldering our potential kids with that burden would be one of the cruelest things we’re capable of.

Then there’s culture. You’d think we’d have at least made some progress here, but no. The Nazis are back, white supremacism is rampant, and christofascism is a rapidly growing cancer that our political and justice systems don’t seem able or willing to address. All it takes is a meme on Facebook for WAY too many parents to abandon their children’s safety by denying them vaccines. Women are being denied healthcare and imprisoned for things like a miscarriage.

…and that’s today. Everything I mentioned is in a nose dive, so how much worse is it going to be in 5? 10? 50 years?

Who in their right mind would look at the dumpster fire we live in and think “Yup! This is a suitable environment to raise a kid!”? I know a lot of people just want their ‘bundle of joy’ but that’s completely ignoring the kid’s perspective - damning them to all ^that is selfish to a borderline evil extent.

We’re fucked, but our kids are WAY more fucked.