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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: AI to make life richer and more meaningful |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2023, 3:58 am
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Replies: 10
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| We already have things like Alexa that can answer limited questions. If you have an Alexa device, say to it, "Alexa, you sure are a lot of fun." Repeating it produced: "Sorry, I don't know that one" or "Sorry, I'm not sure" or "Sorry, I don't know that". That... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Retirement -- What to do? |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2023, 3:54 am
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Replies: 16
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| You can also volunteer to do something of interest. Being OK, or even happy, alone doesn't automatically mean that the other benefits of being out and about aren't relevant. In a lot of cases the only necessary requirements to volunteer are a clean background check and willingness to commit to doin... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2023, 3:37 am
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Replies: 3,768
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| This isn't weird except that it seems to relate to a theme I've had in occasional dreams (i.e. multiple years apart) since I was a teenager. I don't remember how old I was, but I was still in school when I had a dream in which I was in a small airplane by myself flying north. I had a map and it mere... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Fishing is immoral |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2023, 3:29 am
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Replies: 81
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| Please tell me how the people of 10,000 years ago survived when it was hotter than now. They not only survived, but they thrived and started building the foundations of the civilization that we enjoy today. But there were far fewer mouths to feed, with food production being a locally maintainable a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Fishing is immoral |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2023, 8:35 pm
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Replies: 81
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| The climate now is changing faster than ever--at least since humans have been on the planet. https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/09/ar6-wg1-20210809-pr/ According to this chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology#/media/File:All_palaeotemps.svg for the past 10,000 years, temperatures have been s... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Fishing is immoral |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2023, 4:53 pm
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Replies: 81
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| There is nothing to panic about. Depends on where you live. Where I am, winters are a LOT milder than they used to be. We get a few more hot days in summer. It used to be that very few homes had air conditioning. Now, most of us do. No more ice fishing on the bay. Within a few decades, my area will... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: AI to make life richer and more meaningful |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2023, 3:26 pm
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Replies: 10
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| We already have things like Alexa that can answer limited questions. If you have an Alexa device, say to it, "Alexa, you sure are a lot of fun." With much more AI, imagine how we could potentially have computers that can take on multiple personalities and engage in meaningful discussions w... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Fishing is immoral |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2023, 3:00 pm
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Replies: 81
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| It’ll never come to that, though. Worst case scenario: Human industrialists destroy the environment and trigger Armageddon. Whoever is left is forced to adapt to a world without the offending means of production. The planet will eventually repair itself and support a growing human population. The c... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Fishing is immoral |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2023, 4:45 pm
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Replies: 81
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| Common human food sources, ranked by morality of killing them for food, from "least moral" to "most moral", my opinion, with basic reasoning: 6) Plants and fungi - not sentient. More and more research is showing sentience in plants and fungi. Controversial, but serious discussio... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Fishing is immoral |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2023, 4:40 pm
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Replies: 81
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| Fishing is immoral and should be illegal. Ban fishing. The equivalent of fishing would be drowning a bunch of mammals and watching them die slowly. The only legal fishing should be bow fishing or gun fishing. The way they could legalize traditional fishing is through bb fishing, it would require 2 ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2023, 4:32 pm
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Replies: 7,789
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| i've tried to lucid dream for decades and failed, i seem to lack something in my brain that allows it. i can't be hypnotized either. I've had lucid dreams off and on for years. One of the most common types of lucid dreams that I have had involve reading something and then forcing myself to reread i... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 06 Mar 2023, 4:29 pm
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| I had a dream the other day in which I woke up and started to get out of bed but when I looked down at the floor, I saw a rattlesnake tail sticking out from under the bed. I ended up catching the rattlesnake (not by hand) and putting it into a bucket so that I could relocate him to a local prairie d... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Making Bread |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2023, 12:10 pm
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Replies: 6
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| If I'm not mistaken, spelt is a tetraploid wheat so you are right that it did predate the hexaploid wheat that is so common today. It appears that I am wrong. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelt , spelt is a hexaploid wheat, not a tetraploid wheat. So it has only been around at most ab... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Making Bread |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2023, 12:03 pm
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| Good work, sir. I've never ground my own grain but I've made bread from spelt flour before. A few people in my family don't get on with this new fangled 'wheat' and we'd heard they might be able to tolerate spelt better. I found the full whole grain flour a bit much, heavy and dense, but a 50/50 mi... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Making Bread |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2023, 12:01 pm
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| Today we are making bread. We have been doing this for years. It is a really tasty bread. We use a grain called Spelt. This grain originated a few thousand years before man began to use wheat to make flour. So this is an old way of making bread. I have several plastic containers of spelt stored awa... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 22 Feb 2023, 11:47 am
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Replies: 7,789
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| I had a dream the other night in which I was talking to someone and saw a rattlesnake repeatedly striking one of the guy's legs. The guy was completely unaware of the rattlesnake strikes. It turned out that the leg the rattlesnake was striking was an an artificial leg because his leg had been amputa... |
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