Absolutes and sweeping statements are rarely true. I can't think of a fault for using local AI for scientific pursuits, nor using local AI for recreational pursuits.

Yes, but also that's what regular programs are for. If it is a repetitive task that does not require any creative input, a program can achieve it, and a programmer can be paid for it. There are few tasks that can't be automated using logic parameters.

I do agree with you that that is what AI should be used for, but I'd only support it if the AI was run locally. Commercial AI should not be centralized.

Ah! Thank you muchly!

I'm having trouble looking up all those acronyms. I know about roth 401ks, but not the other stuff.

As a futures trader, I can confirm that trading futures is gambling. Like poker, if you know what you're doing, you can make a living. Most people can't make a living playing poker, and 95% of traders are not profitable.

Oh I agree with you, and I also agree with Pratai. I personally am actively trying to push myself toward pretty much everything I listed specifically to show the people around me that it can be done and without too much difficulty.

I have also watched, and experienced first hand that telling people they're bad even by inference for not doing these things puts people into defensive mode and they just stop listening. They feel like they have to defend themselves, so that's what they do instead. In fact, it makes it more difficult to convince them later because their first impression of the idea is associated with an attack on their identity.

In sales, you do not ever tell the customer they're stupid, that they're morally wrong, that they are impoverished idiots and that's why they should buy your product even if that is all true and the product would literally change all that. You tell them about the problems that they have, and you build it up, and then you give them one singular line that suggests that your product could fix those problems but not everyone can have this product(because it requires work on their part, or it only works within a specific ecosystem).

Instead of "If you have a Facebook account, you support this piece of shit", maybe "Wow, looks like Facebook and its management are doing some immoral stuff, and wouldn't you know it they've been doing stuff like this for a while. I know that you are an upright moral person, so here are some alternatives to consider. Me and everyone else who are seeing this go down are using this specific alternative. The catch is that it is decentralized its up to us to make it the way we want it, are you free Saturday? Neat, I'll swing by in the afternoon and help you get set up"

If you use facebook, instagram, google or any of their services, a browser that is built off of chromium, a search engine that is just a google clone, use tiktok, buy nestle products, shop at target, jcpenny, walmart, fredmeyer; you're supporting the big bad billionaires. Stop it, no excuses.

Use the fediverse for everything, use startpage or duckduckgo, use firefox or a fork, make your own clothes and fire your own kitchen ware from clay, bike everywhere, and grow your own food and go vegetarian/vegan.

No, you don't want to do all that? Well you're a bad person I guess. I understand the sentiment, but you gotta market the change better or you just fall into the chorus of "you're bad unless you do what I'm doing".

Dehumanizing an entire populace because of an opinion you have about a measuring system doesn't make you better than them, it makes you a bigoted asshole.

Are you going to say the same about your ancestors who also measured things with cubits, spans, and paces? How up your own ass do you have to be to judge individuals for a culture of measuring things? It literally doesn't effect you at all if I grew up measuring things in yards and feet, as if I had a choice in the matter.

The United States of America is metric where it counts. All military, all scientific, all medical fields measure in metric. We are all taught how to use metric in school, and then we are introduced to the actual physical world where 200 years of infrastructure was built in Imperial. The system works, we don't need to change it, it would be nothing more than vanity to do so. "Arrogance" is not fitting here unless you apply it to your own argument.

well what am I saying, you’re an American

This you?

"Stay in school", you're such an ass lol

Having read a good portion of the comments in this thread and the anti-american sentiment attached, I am convinced that the only reason the US isn't wholly metric at this point is out of spite.

I know the actual reason is that it would cost too damn much to convert all the infrastructure we've built in imperial, but now I just want the USA to keep kicking everyone in the balls at the Olympics, in the military, and with global corporate supremacy just to own it to the world that they're better than all of you AND they use imperial.

Its crazy how many people upvoted this comment. Didn't realize there was so much anti-american sentiment on this platform. I get the government is shit, but insulting the general population just kinda makes you out as an ass.

Well damn, that's a really compelling argument. I will say that I'll probably keep my gas car for most stuff long range, but when my partner and I eventually grab a second car for logistical reasons, maybe I'll look into EVs? Depending on how easy they are to work on. Honestly we were gonna seek out an old Tacoma since we are gonna need a truck for farm stuff soon. Idk, tough bid.

Thank you for taking the time to reply so thoroughly, genuinely.