There’s a certain mood to someone who speaks in all caps.

I hope the little guy got all fixed up.

Thanks, I hate it.

AI is the embodiment of “oh no, anyways”

I hear you, but 5% seems high for that.

Wayyyyyy more than that is wasted.

If you got into the country, what’s to stop ICE from picking you up and sending you to a prison in another country?

Hold up.

83% have a driver’s license but 88% have a car?

So 5% of Americans either have a car for the hell of it, or they drive without a license?

And there’s only 3% that are atheists? More people drive without a license than are atheists?

Excuse me?

If these numbers are correct, the US is more fucked than I thought.

My guess is hand/got holds for climbing up the cliff face. Basically an outdoor ladder.

I might be wrong

Almost all of mine are lightbulbs, because RGB.

- Full time sysadmin and it support guy.

I’ve lived long enough to know that I need to have a system of: a place for everything and everything in its place.

… Now if I could only implement that, that’d be great…

Well, I’m sure a human domicile would be a bit more robust than “alligator Alcatraz” so instead of 8 days, it might take more like… 8 weeks? To build something comparable for the homeless?

Depending on how complex each housing unit is (bathrooms/kitchens/whatever) possibly more or less. Idk.

But knowing that the world runs on capitalist dollars, there’s no profit in it. They can’t pay rent, they don’t have any money, and they would actively cost you money, either in property tax, water, power, and/or food… Not to mention any replacement costs for any fixtures or furniture that’s damaged/stolen.

Not saying the unhoused are thieves, but a nontrivial number of them are desperate, and desperate people do things that they otherwise wouldn’t consider doing.

In any case, the solution to the homeless “problem” (being that people are homeless at all) is not just housing, but also community services to get any drug users into their respective rehabilitation programs, and anyone willing and able to work, into job placements… Mental health services…

All of these things cost money and don’t yield any profits, so I understand why they’re not done. That doesn’t mean I’m ok with it not being done, it’s a shame that we’ve left a portion of the population to fend for themselves on the streets and we almost universally dehumanize them as less than a person because they’re homeless. They’re people. We should take care of them because they’re people.

No child left behind, but anyone post highschool that’s living on the streets, fuck them… I guess.

None of us did.

I didn’t get a say in whether or not to be born. I’m just here now and I have to deal with all of this shit.

It’s not AI.

There’s one big tell that I don’t think AI is advanced enough to replicate.

Op took this picture though a window that had multiple panes of glass. So there’s an echo of the image from the secondary reflections between the panes of glass.

I also can’t spot and of the debris in the shot blending into itself. Everything seems to be complete objects.

But that reflection? I’ve never seen AI do anything like that.

In case anyone doesn’t quite see what’s going on here, the image is taken from inside (lights seem to be off from where the camera is), through thermal glass into a concrete window space, which is common for places that have basements so the window can serve as an emergency exit (even if you need to break it to get out)…

Looks like there’s some kind of evergreen tree not far from where the window is, given the debris in the photo.

Great shot OP.

I can see why, it looks AI as hell…

I think it looks nice. AI or not.

I’d have to stare at it for longer than I have to decide if it’s AI. So until I can do that, I’m going to trust the OP until I can verify their claims.

Edit: definitely not AI. Nice shot OP.

29 days “lost” at sea, is therapy for all of the external bullshit we deal with every fucking day.

By “we” I mean people in society, not just men. Everyone struggles with making their way in “this world” we built for ourselves. We made it to be this horrible.

I felt this comment.

Thanks, I hate it.

While I’m certain he would deserve the pain and suffering of a slow death while his coverage denied any life saving treatment… I’m honestly not sad that it was quick.

Quick or slow, it’s one less profiteering glutton in the world, and I can’t be mad about that.

Canada. It’s generally easy and free (no direct cost to me). I try to avoid having to go to my doctor whenever possible and I live with a nurse (and my doc knows that). Usually when I send him a message, either by email or by calling, he’ll have a follow up question or two (sometimes none) then decide a course of action and move right to implementation. Sometimes that’s sending a script to my local pharmacy, sometimes that’s a referral to a specialist. Who knows? I haven’t seen the guy in years. But if he made the request for me to go in, I would without hesitation.

I know my experience isn’t the same as others, since my doctor and my spouse have actually worked together; but still. It’s all free and there’s usually minimal waiting.

The only significant delays I’ve heard of in Canadian healthcare relate to major procedures when the issue is non-critical. Like getting an MRI as a precaution, to make sure things aren’t messed up or something (IDK what MRIs are used to diagnose, I am not a doctor).

Everything is triaged, so if you’re not actively dying from a thing, and you need a big piece of equipment to scan you to figure something out, you’re going to be waiting a while.

All good points, and I especially agree about the cable seeking part (working in IT we refer to it as a fiber seeking backhoe, but the same principle applies).

As for a grid connection, I’m not sure 200kW is strictly required for just a backhoe, but if we’re taking the example to a practical place of EVs running the show rather than diesel, all of the construction equipment charging at once is probably going to need 200kW combined to charge, if not more; so the point stands IMO.

Just as a mental exercise, thinking about the backhoe specifically, getting it connected to a grid, IMO, would basically require that a temporary structure be erected over where it will be operating to provide a line to the unit from above, since it may need to turn any/all direction(s). Which assumes that it’s working in a location where there is free space over the work area, and any time the unit is moved the grid attachment scaffolding would need to go with it.

I imagine the power line would run up one of the legs of the scaffold, to a mid point, then there would be a tensioner on an “extension cable” (of sorts), to the backhoe to avoid any slack that could be caught up in the normal operation of the vehicle.

Needless to say, this is a lot more work and bluntly, wildly impractical for construction use.

I’m just saying it could work, but there’s no way in hell any construction company is jumping through the hoops to make it work, even if a backhoe company built one, which they won’t because it’s wildly impractical and nobody would ever buy one.

Thinking economically about it, there’s probably 10,000 cars being driven for every construction vehicle in use, so it’s not exactly a large target to focus on. IMO, one of the bigger areas where we should be trying to save emissions is in marine travel. Specifically large cargo ships. With commerce being as international as it is, and only increasing in demand, those ships are running almost 24/7, usually on diesel or another fossil fuel.

Solving that problem would probably have a much larger impact than trying to get construction crews off of using diesel in their equipment.

Just a thought.