Almost all mammals have some form of secondary sex characteristic used to attract a mate, caused by hormone differences between the sexes.

Breasts are an example of secondary sex characteristics in humans, much like visible muscles are a secondary sex characteristic in human males, caused by testosterone. You may not find breasts particularly interesting, which is totally cool, but it's also understandable why many humans do, as secondary sex characteristics are often evolved specifically for that purpose.

Very fitting and fun read, thanks for sharing it!

Alphafold was definitely a better era for intentional AI use, assuming that's the kind of thing you mean.

After the U.S. has continued intentionally delaying and "misplacing" materiel that EU countries have paid for, this just doesn't seem like a good idea. I get the impression the U.S. will run away with the money.

One of the many reasons that using centralized exchanges and custodians defeats the purpose of using cryptocurrencies at all.

Provincially the Conservatives are campaigning on privatizing healthcare. They also do not whip votes on abortion rights, and routinely put forward bills to ban it. Some Conservative party members literally met with the U.S admin to ask for support in seceding from Canada.

It may have once been true that a Canadian Conservative would be closer to the Democratic party, but the landscape is changing.

The Liberals are hardly a labour party, I'd say by this metric both of them are backwards.

I had the exact same realization recently when our internet went down for a few days. I have a local LLM on my PC, and used it as a fake Google search, and to help me troubleshoot a couple programs. Not always accurate, but it did feel cool to have basically an internet search on my disconnected computer.

There's an open question here about best practice, because ultimately shifting labour capacity from humans to machines should be inherently good, if its labour we did not want to be doing. I'd rather have machines capable of doing everything from my laundry to large data analysis, among many other things that don't interest me.

The problem tends to arise in how the transition happens. If capitalists continue to separate labour from surplus value, it's entirely possible that the benefits of automation are only experienced by capitalists, and the humans who were producing the labour are left destitute.

Really I would like to see a better regulatory environment mixed with stronger social support systems, so the benefits of automation are felt by everybody. Sometimes it feels like the focus shifts to stopping automation, when in my mind best practice should be to mitigate externalities and spread out the benefits.

Lol, I do realize that! I just had this on my mind when the post drifted up, and figured the topic would make sense.

Really curious where this goes. I support everybody's right to self determination, which includes the Québécois, but also the Anishinaabeg, Inuit, and the many other Indigenous peoples currently living on those lands.

I think this becomes increasingly complex because Quebec sits on both unceded territory as well as treaty land, so separation would have to deal with the legal hurdles associated with both.