Flaco update this morning. Cities are full of hazards for birds of prey. It was nice to think of Flaco being free and living his best life, but he would have been safer in the zoo. I still can’t say that seems like the better option. The enclosures for owls always seem so small in zoos.
Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and how people use their computers, to detect and predict how someone is feeling. It can be used in the workplace, for hiring, etc. Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are...
New York City officials investigated the structural stability of a Chabad synagogue complex where chaos erupted this week over a secret passageway, leading to arrests.
This article leaves A LOT of questions unanswered. To the point where it almost seems to intentionally obfuscate whatever is actually going on here. People were throwing desks because some young people dug a secret tunnel that they refused to vacate? And no one knows why? Doubt.
Because of the nature of time, the universe is in a constant state of becoming something else. Everything is changing all the time. But, because of the Laws of Conservation of Energy and Mass, there is always part of what was before persisting in what is now. For example, a fire burns logs, releasing the kinetic energy as heat, water vapor, carbon dioxide, etc. The heat dissipates because the atmosphere is very large, but it doesn’t dissappear, it just gets diluted. The water vapor is released into the atmosphere, and those molecules become moisture in a cloud and turn into rain, continuing in the water cycle. In a metaphorical sense, your past selves have “burned” and “released” what you are now. You may consider your past selves dead, but the molecules that made them continue to exist as your current self, even if those molecules are rearranged or are slightly different (we eat food and excrete waste, so our molecules are regularly being exchanged with other molecules in the environment). Those same molecules were once inside the sun. Before that, those molecules existed at the beginning of the universe. So, in a way, yes we are constantly dying and being transformed, but the stuff that we are made of can never die. We are just constantly changing, along with the universe, because we are part of the universe.
It’s been almost 8 months since I graduated Uni. No one wants to hire a student with no experience. Been living in my parents basement for all that time. Been working nearly every single day trying to better myself for a job to no avail. Been drowning in debt for nearly 10 years. Mom hasn’t been able to work due to health...
I’ve felt this way quite often in my life, including recently, and I usually get through it by focusing on the small moments that I can enjoy. But reading your words and thinking about that feeling again this time made me think “I should do a random act of kindness for someone”. It sounds cheesy and kinda pointless, but helping someone else or doing a random nice thing for someone else can sometimes make the world seem like a better place. And when the world seems like a better place, it has the potential to become that. I guess it’s the old “be the change you want to see in the world” thing.
This is all stuff people have told me over the years when I’ve sought help for depression, and I usually brushed it off, to be honest. But I empathize with your words, and I wouldn’t want anyone else to feel the hopelessness about the world that I’ve felt, so I thought “maybe a niceness would prevent that feeling for someone else”.
Idk, I’m rambling now, but I hope this makes sense. And I hope you (and I) find a way to feel better about the potential of our world, as opposed to its apparent current state.
And when those people eventually get caught, they would be dealt with by the populace. Consequences for people’s actions is the same deterrent that currently “stops” people from stealing shit all the time (i.e. people still steal shit with the existence of police)
I think you’re probably right, but a world where robots do art and humans do the tedious manual labor sounds eerily similar to the world we live in. At least, it is not outside the realm of possibility.
A lot of news that comes out about the environment, climate change, and the like is very dispiriting. Has anyone seen a Lemmy community geared towards uplifting stories in the area? Species that are recovering, rivers that are being cleaned up, microbes being developed to eat plastic, that sort of thing.
I was able to quit cocaine, cigarettes, and alcohol and of those 3, cigarettes was the hardest to quit, with alcohol being a close second. I don’t want to get into a discussion about the roles of behavioral addiction vs. chemical addiction when trying to quit something, but sugar has been just as difficult as alcohol and nicotine, if not more so. It doesn’t help that it is seemingly everywhere and included in all the food. It’s not as easy as “I’ll just stop having ice cream”, of course anyone can do that. If you start paying attention to all the foods sugar is added too and try to avoid those foods, you really have to completely rethink your whole approach to food (where to buy, the role it plays in your life, i.e. why you eat) and spend a lot more energy trying to find “healthy” foods.
Whales are speaking in secret language using ‘alphabet of clicks’ (www.the-sun.com)
Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime activity
Targeted excellence (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Predictions on the state of work in the year 2000 (feddit.de)
Flaco, Central Park Owl, Died With High Levels of Rat Poison in System (www.nytimes.com)
Flaco update this morning. Cities are full of hazards for birds of prey. It was nice to think of Flaco being free and living his best life, but he would have been safer in the zoo. I still can’t say that seems like the better option. The enclosures for owls always seem so small in zoos.
Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood (theconversation.com)
Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and how people use their computers, to detect and predict how someone is feeling. It can be used in the workplace, for hiring, etc. Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are...
cats can't vote in the primaries (lemmy.world)
DOB issues vacate orders over 'underground tunnel' after chaos erupts at NYC synagogue (abcnews.go.com)
New York City officials investigated the structural stability of a Chabad synagogue complex where chaos erupted this week over a secret passageway, leading to arrests.
MLA outraged by ‘gift’ of magic mushrooms, coca leaf from B.C. drug activist | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Anyone else experience the feelings that you are constantly dying?
I don’t know how to express or articulate my thoughts and my vocabulary and grammar gets messed up the more I write so I will just write simply....
The Santa is good. The coal is bad. (lemmy.world)
What's the most absurd thing you've seen someone refuse to do because of toxic masculinity?
Inequality could cause violence on streets economist warns (www.heraldscotland.com)
No shit sherlock
Bubble Pup (image.civitai.com)
(RalFinger) (2023)...
few people know Gordon Shumway was originally slated to play lt. worf. (i fixed it!) (cdn.catsweat.com)
The longer I'm stuck in this world the more I understand why villains in movies want to destroy it.
It’s been almost 8 months since I graduated Uni. No one wants to hire a student with no experience. Been living in my parents basement for all that time. Been working nearly every single day trying to better myself for a job to no avail. Been drowning in debt for nearly 10 years. Mom hasn’t been able to work due to health...
What would a police free future look like? (washingtonsocialist.mdcdsa.org)
I'm pulling for ya, my dudes (lemmy.world)
in the future a voice actor will probably be a person who provides a library of voice clips to train an AI on
Americans - I Need Help Choosing A Bourbon
I’ve got a mate whos a big fan of Bourbon. He’s tried all the standard brands like Buffalo Trace, JD, Jim Beam and Wild Turkey....
Uplifting Green News?
A lot of news that comes out about the environment, climate change, and the like is very dispiriting. Has anyone seen a Lemmy community geared towards uplifting stories in the area? Species that are recovering, rivers that are being cleaned up, microbes being developed to eat plastic, that sort of thing.
So all that brutalist architecture, what if we just painted it? Not one colour, patterns to break it up.
Has this been done somewhere?...
Keeping the lights on tonight (lemmy.world)
Is Sugar really as addictive as Cocaine/drugs in general?
Modified post. Read the edit at the buttom....
America is Socialist for War (lemmy.world)