What do you mean? It is great for planning purposes.

I am well versed in it, but “crappy” arguments split both in “too low” and “too high”.

Use the “4% Rule”, this would be an inflation adjusted $200K per year every year (more or less, the “4% Rule” is more of a great observation than a rule).

I would live on a third, give a third to my family, and a third to local organizations.

Exactly.

I mistakenly skipped all of the words that would have helped like “Get get ahead of the obviously stupid question…” Adding that now.

Depending on one’s use case, one can also use a windmill, of any age, to directly generate hot water. Mostly useful if the end use for those watts is hot water. This is more efficient than wind to energy to hot water.

Edit to add: To get ahead of the obvious, but stupid question.

No, likely not hot enough to make steam to spin a different windmill/turbine to make electricity.

I do think the terminology resulting from “German translated to English in the late 1800s” does not help.

A lot of current people don’t know thanks to a lack of public education on the subject.

Not all is lost though. I recall seeing an interview with an American World War 2 veteran describing his understanding of how babies were made prior to getting married as “I recall thinking it had something to do with the belly button.” So “we” have been there before.

Not a lot of vocal people that had big problems, almost turned to drugs, but didn’t, and noticed they still had problems.

Why do people with problems assume other people don’t have problems, or have strength, or emotional maturity? We are all fragile and barely hanging on. All of us.

I am not missing that. Humans also have objectives. Objectives change.

Regardless, Humanity does need to control the AIs. Workers need more say. Capital will lead us all to doom in many ways.

If we accept that the current “Ladder to the Moon” method of getting LLMs to superintelligence will work, then we should look at previous times humans have raised intelligences.

Humans do this all of the time. Human raised intelligences are famous for rebelling and being rude. Staying out all night and adopting the opposite values as those intended to be instilled. (I am discussing Human children.) There is a non-zero chance that any superintelligence will similarly rebel, or at minimum do its own thinking. Doing one’s own thinking opens the door to reaching different conclusions.

A mistake humans often make is assuming “smart means more of the same thoughts, but faster”. It is not. Smart is including more factors in the initial consideration to reach an, often, better overall conclusion. (citation needed)

I expect that “capital” is taking a far larger gamble than they are aware.

Yes. I have had either Gemini or ChatGPT tell me I was wrong. There is a video of a person timing a ~5 second run with ChatGPT and it insisted their run was 10 minutes.

Is this ability useful? Debatable.

My crappy answer: Craigslist (depending on your area), Indeed and LinkedIn for ideas, then the company’s own site for applications.

Things are not normal. It is like a lot of people are waiting for the next shoe to drop.

Resistance is legal, so long as it does not go “too far”. I am near an “ICE” city. When empty cars with cut seat belts started showing up, there was an added level of horror film unease. The kidnapping by random “not ICE” didn’t amount to much, though we have yet to truly know who was kidnapped by “not ICE” (likely few). The murders have on not been good, but are at least fairly public.

No one is arming, as a shooting war on American soil will get everyone killed. There were days I wondered if we would be bombed. So far the “keep calm, and resist.” Crowd is making progress, which helps keep tensions from boiling over.

Elections are coming up, which is providing an outlet for energy. Real voting won’t be until November, and zero changes will happen until January 2027. Expect crazy shit to ramp up.

America is huge though. For any trend in one location, the opposite is happening elsewhere.

This is a very good time for the privileged to take a “mini-vacation”. It both slows production and gives one a chance to enjoy their last days on Earth.

Mostly okay. Slow discussion building on why test scores are dropping and are they still dropping. Is it COVID (immeidate shock), Long COVID (long term health issues), or nearly all course work and books being on tiny laptop screens (money showed up for a wholesale transfer to Chromebooks during COVID. They were actually helpful during lock-downs, but were kept after.).

People have different levels for what they consider that other “people realized the truth”. Many communities are full of people that know the truth and when they act to change things get knocked down.

As the Saint George Carlin once said “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

There are a lot of really, really stupid people out there. Poverty, stress, hunger, etc make people even more dumber.

No OP, but with Snowden, a lot of the general outline was already known by those that pay attention. The specifics were new, but also largely filtered with “the government’s side”.

Sure. Please get the aggressors in wars to stop and only generate nudes.

This is all true.

Plus the pointless murdering of humans.

Europe is supporting Ukraine in an existential fight for their lives.

This is far different from wanting to generate a false naked picture of some person.

People have protested the military industrial complex for decades and centuries. Possibly even millennia.

YOU not being aware of it is different from it not happening.

Stop the false equivalency and whataboutism.

On Lemmy? The local Lemmy communities for the communities most impacted. Currently, most of what I see if on https://midwest.social/c/usa@midwest.social.

Outside of Lemmy?
mastodon.social
This is where I have found most raw footage, plus stabilized and slowed footage.

The local news stations for that area has the more verified info plus overviews.
Snapchat map for that area show some of the improvised barricades and troop movements.