Sexually? Absolutely. Do you stop growing? Of course

But there’s no age of developmental maturity for your brain. It’s a popsci myth

Brain development never stops

Cool, well just ignore everything that doesn’t support your point I guess. Not like I laid out the breadcrumbs or anything

Excuse me for wanting an actual dialogue

Just imagine him slamming together hulk hands going “it’s sundar-ing time” at the R&D offices. Then one by one punching out monitors and telling employees “you’ve been sundered”

I’m pretty sure that’s how it happened

LMAO how is it a thin premise?

This isn’t some conspiracy theory, it’s an example of scientific bias. There’s experts in botany and anthropology that have already written books on the Aquery and food forests… We know quite a lot about them actually

This new study is just corroborating existing evidence we already have through lidar analysis via satellite

Which is all well and good, they’re just not nearly half as mysterious as the tone of the article makes them sound

It’s so crazy to me how Google went from like, a full decade ahead of the rest of the world in AI to unable to complete with the better hobbyists

Enshitification is a hell of a drug

Another point is that civilisation is in many ways an extension of mass agriculture, which would presumably have been the case here. Meaning, I expect that these peoples cleared a lot of land at one time, which was later recovered by the Amazon jungles.

Actually they used food forests - the entire Amazon has been heavily cultivated by human selection

Families would each have their own little food forest, which was more cultivated than farmed to have their selection. But the cool thing about that practice is that it instills an idea of “I liked this fruit, so I’ll plant the seeds when I’m done”, which results in plentiful food and game animals everywhere

How do we know all this? Their descendants are still around and still do this! It’s wild that they’re being called a lost civilization

When the Spanish first explored the Amazon River, they reported the banks were absolutely crawling with people. When they returned most of them were gone, probably because of diseases brought by the explorers

But for some reason those accounts were just dismissed by history, even though descendents of the survivors are still living there today

Actually, flock isn’t a camera company, their actual product is systems that link all available cameras and monitoring devices into a panopticon interface

So I’m almost certain these are flock cameras, or at least hook into the same system

I think it’s more indicative of pathological lying

It’s actually good UX practices to do this. You light up a path to get a result (pressing the start button to continue to the menu), and then a large segment of people will continue to press start, even if they’ve previously stumbled upon the fact that any button will work

It’s like picking a home server in the fediverse. You can tell them it doesn’t matter what they pick, but a lot of people will be intimidated and nervous about having to make the choice. It’s a major problem for adoption

You also don’t have to tell computer minded people inconsequential rules, they’ll figure it out themselves pretty quick

So by choosing an arbitrary button for the instruction, you remove a meaningless “choice” that genuinely lowers the friction for a large chuck of the population

There are also people who, if you tell them to press any key, they will happily mash the function keys and be confused and upset that unexpected things are happening

There’s even a select few who will physically look for the any key every time just to make sure it’s not suddenly been added to their keyboard, and there are even the special few that will hit the power button and get angry because they think you’ve caused them to break their computer

Some of these people have higher degrees too…I didn’t believe it until I saw it for myself

Instead of being a death notice it’s a pre-death notice, if you will. He has been moved to a longer-care facility, wherever that may be, and his handlers don’t want to deal with the rightful backlash of the rest of us knowing the truth.

He was probably braindead on arrival IMO. Kinda both legally dead but also you can drag out the official date for ages

It would also explain why the videos of the ambulance looked so unhurried and why his wife immediately left to visit China

I understand the prosecution on this one. Luigi is way too hot for television

Think of the economic damage alone, the lost productivity alone…

Borders are about land, it makes sense to have clarity of laws

The modern border is absurd though. Applying it to living things is batshit crazy

People live where they live, they always have. If you integrate successfully, you definitionally live in a place. You can’t be removed without causing harm, both to you and to society. Just like a deer or a tree, it’s crazy to turn it into a matter of paperwork

I think we should go back to the rule of a year and a day. If you manage to live somewhere for a year without anyone noticing, permanent residency should be granted automatically as a measure of the state simply acknowledging reality

Counterpoint - that’s ineffective messaging. It doesn’t win over people not already on board

Instead, if you focus on concrete material conditions, like affordability and healthcare, nearly everyone agrees. Or in the case of flock, you roll it in with datacenters and the AI bubble in general

Winning under a banner of socialism is impractical, but socialist policies are rapidly rising in popularity across the board. If it goes down easier calling it progressivism, who cares? I just want good things

Red Sun at noon, asphyxiation soon

Let’s be honest, that ship has sailed, years ago. At least now there’s closure

Although indie tools are getting better and better, a spiritual successor is very nice possible

Yep… Truly insane that it’s legal to make a company pay for itself like that. It’s a recipe for anti-competitive practice sauce a main course of destruction of wealth creating capabilities

You’re supposed to admit to your actions openly for civil disobedience. It gives you standing to challenge and opportunity to drag things to light. Even now, everyone being tried for this creates headlines that unattributed destruction does not

At higher levels, it can also clog the justice system and make it expensive to continue targeted policies

Without all that, it’s just property destruction. Flock could probably have examples made of people caught (seeing as somehow they seem able to sidestep the law), but that frames the issue in a better way for flock

Taking the justice system head on is just a much more effective method of forcing change… Granted at a personal cost, although getting caught by the big brother machines themselves seems likely

Or it could be for political advantage…I mean, the cameras are wildly unpopular and badasses who cut (or shoot) through red tape are very much currently in style

Yeah, I agree. It wasn’t exactly subtle in it’s messaging, and the story felt like just an excuse to display dystopian ideas

I’d compare it to 1984, which was similar in that the ideas communicated were the main point, but it also had a strong narrative that much better communicated the human experience of those ideas

It would be bad. Having more distance between decision makers and the impact of those decisions is not good

It means everything must be boiled down to metrics, and when you make decisions based on metrics you tend to ignore externalities and miss large parts of the picture

It also means every power hungry asshole is going to be drawn to the world government like moths to a flame. It’ll instantly become a very political environment, where human well-being becomes the chips in a games of power