Hmm ... Bike Courier sounds more like an ideal job in a 15 minute walkable city. In most parts of the US, not so much.

While I agree the price is ridiculous (especially as a non drinker lol) I'm not convinced it's AI. Looking up Brewskey on an image search, you can find images of similar cans going back 3yrs. Very diverse styles, with common themes of monocle and hops.

That said, trying to find literally any info on artists both past and present is proving difficult. Most info is just about how they make their IPAs and any mention of art is all "the art of brewing" which isn't what I'm after. There are quite a few beer can artists out there though so I bet someone willing to search Instagram or something might be able to find an artist who contributed to Brewskey.

My God that camera is way too easy to "accidentally" tamper with, lol. At the very least, my kids greese covered finger tips while I stroll by.

The real question is who has an unsaved lesson plan open on their laptop. Just fuckin' improv style teaching method.

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe" turns out predicted the rise of AI image generation. Except I suppose that's "Ceci n'est pas de l'art."

Relax, it's 41.6% of 500 republican primary voters. A combined majority chose Trump, Congress or Corporations, which frankly are all good answers.

And again, these are GOP primary voters- although they have an open primary so it may include some Democrats and Independents. Just, not as many as registered Republicans.

And yet it's still weirdly expensive at home. I remember when a pound of ground beef was a couple bucks, tops. Now I've seen it as high as $9, albeit the lean kind.

This data is a few years old so we can already answer that: they crashed their economy by not raising inflation rates after COVID, then elected a woman who wants to be the next Margaret Thatcher. The love of capitalism is fucking them quite hard right now, lol

Can confirm; I teach statistics and allow take home exams. I don't even really need guardrails on the math-- if you cheat via LLM, your answer is almost always hilariously wrong.

I was curious about the posts mentioned so I took a look at your history and can kinda see why. The Linux one didn't make too much sense to me but people were generally nice to you, although understandable skeptical since you're talking about hardware not working. Honestly you had a bit of a meltdown in that thread, which I think contributed more to the down votes than the initial opinion (like you said, text brings out a worse version of yourself).

The political ones, I mostly pieced together genecide denial (?) which has generally been very unpopular here. To be fair, that was more than a year ago, although what was unpopular then has aged even worse, what with people in Europe getting arrested for pro-Palastinian views and such.

I'm not saying the behavior of mods and such were justified, of course, just... y'know, two sides of the story. You're in the right to express your views and seek discussion, but others have an equal right to call you out on it-- especially if you get defensive and rude over polite, reasonable responses.

But that's just my two cents. I only ever comment, and I've had moments with people being rude or misunderstanding my intent. It happens, as social media is just that way.

I mean, he included Japan and South Korea, among others that aren't strictly "Western." They are all US allies, though, which makes sense for a US Senator.

That's a fairly broad take that didn't really apply to me. I wanted to impact education policy in the US because I noticed how decrepit it was. I was denied that opportunity but managed to get some top tier data analytic skills through the process that I could capitalize on if I was willing to work in the private sector (such as health insurance or financial industry predictive models). There is still massive demand for those skills.

But I don't do that, not because of sunk cost but because I don't want to contribute to systems I find immoral. I took a job in a Psychology department, which isn't my field, since it lets me teach while taking care of my children.

You are right, though, the research field has some serious issues that need to be resolved. There has been some push for open source materials that people can contribute to, but given the current state of affairs globally, it's not something people can really deal with right now.

That said, a PhD in any research profession is a passion project. You don't do it for money, but for intellectual curiosity or some other reason. Towards that end, they should be stubborn -- they're already rejecting the idea that education is a means towards profit.

Unfortunately, that also means most PhDs are already wealthy going into it (especially those who can actually afford to finish) which means, at least in education and politics, those perspectives dominate the field. It's a real problem when they don't understand how 99% of the rest of us live.

Out of curiosity, which field did you need to leave? Each has their own problems.