imafraidofmuricans
imafraidofmuricans t1_jdsuzrq wrote
Reply to Why are humanoid robots so hard? by JayR_97
Because why build a robot that looks like a human when you can build special purpose machines?
It's just almost always more efficient to adapt a process to be easier for a machine, than to adapt a machine to function as a human.
If you want a machine that bakes bread, you do not need to replicate the intricate hand motions a baker does when kneading the dough. You just put some spinning dough hooks that smacks the dough around.
Why build a hand to grab and use a saw, when you can attach a spinning blade to a motor?
So what's left, where a humanoid robot would be better than something purpose built? Well, not that many, and none that generate any profit. Caretakers? Maybe, but there is no money in that, the wages are horribly low so labour is cheaper anyway, and making a robot seem caring.. well.
The human form is just kinda shit for fast automated work.
imafraidofmuricans t1_jcgxrad wrote
Reply to comment by solo_loso in Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply. by chrisdh79
If you put a sensor in your own home, yes.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j9tfdt9 wrote
Reply to comment by jamcdonald120 in Face of man banned from every women's toilets in UK by Elsa87
But..
What?
Do you think there are fucking force fields stopping people who present as male from entering bathrooms?
This post is literally that.
A cis man, entirely without pretending to be or being transgender, went into women's bathroom. How are you fucking solving that you fucking moron?
imafraidofmuricans t1_j9p1lp6 wrote
Reply to comment by digitalbilly in NASA confirms 1,000lb meteorite slammed into Texas | As good time as any for European Space Agency to announce a 2030 asteoroid-spotting mission by chrisdh79
Anyone located on the rock
imafraidofmuricans t1_j9hddx4 wrote
Reply to comment by not2bad4fifty in I made a spy balloon simulator that runs on real atmospheric data! by import_torch-nn
I'm not sure how'd work. I assume there has to be multiple starts that end up in the same end point.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j9esbkz wrote
Reply to comment by SilasX in UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics by james8475
So.. why weren't they mass-reporting crypto bros? A group that make a ton of shady income and famously hates the government and taxes?
Since you so sincerely believe it was done as justice.
Like.. they did it with the express purpose to harass people they hate, entirely based on the assumption that "dumb women" wouldn't understand that you have to declare income. Literally nothing came of it, either, besides some people's lives being made needlessly stressful. Because, surprise, women are perfectly capable of declaring their taxes. Even if they get naked on camera.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j9ern7i wrote
Reply to comment by ZhugeSimp in UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics by james8475
Why are you going on the base assumption that they don't pay taxes? I mean I know why, "lol dumb women" is the first thought in your head when you wake up every day, but don't you think flooding a government office with thousands of entirely unbased accusations might be a bit fucking stupid?
imafraidofmuricans t1_j95f1a7 wrote
Reply to comment by ChrisFromIT in Child labor in the United States costs $15,138 per child. by VoE_Monkey_Overlord
The children don't deserve to lose their job?
imafraidofmuricans t1_j95eru4 wrote
Reply to comment by ChrisFromIT in Child labor in the United States costs $15,138 per child. by VoE_Monkey_Overlord
>If you make it double the amount of profit they brought it, that is a good way to pretty much shutdown the business.
Oh no.
Anyway.
Ib4 "the people who just let it happen will lose their jobs". Well, dont you believe in the free market and that another company will appear and fill the niche? Besides, if they were employing children they probably weren't that good of an employer to the adults.
We can compromise and nationalize them instead. Or, if you want to keep things "small government" we can forcefully redistribute ownership to the employees.
Any fine less than potential loss of everything will literally just be a cost of doing business. Something you cover with insurance.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j7lkcv8 wrote
Reply to comment by QuestionableAI in 15 million people live in possible flood path for melting glaciers | Glacial lakes can cause flooding if an ice or rock dam holding back the water fails, an analysis has found by chrisdh79
Neanderthals did not live in the areas mentioned, and we are pretty sure they got a combination of beaten to death and interbred.
Also what the hell are you talking about?
imafraidofmuricans t1_j7aseg7 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Indiana man dies after falling from Puerto Rico cliff while filming a TikTok video by Qlanger
Speaking of fitness: functional empathy. Lacking that, which you do, means you are less fit than the rest of us, as humans are a collective species.
Just thought you'd like to know that.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j72fp93 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in ‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city - Workers describe a peak production season marred by labor protests and Covid-19 chaos, right as Apple reconsiders its China supply chain. by speckz
What a weird comment. Nobody claimed it was perfect. Every model does not have its pros and cons, that's just objectively false.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j72fhx4 wrote
Reply to comment by ackillesBAC in ‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city - Workers describe a peak production season marred by labor protests and Covid-19 chaos, right as Apple reconsiders its China supply chain. by speckz
Because they are replaced by starvation?
You talk as if the jobs have to be shit. THEY DONT.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j72fexp wrote
Reply to comment by animal56 in ‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city - Workers describe a peak production season marred by labor protests and Covid-19 chaos, right as Apple reconsiders its China supply chain. by speckz
Oh well that's fine then. Good thing we killed all workers right movement's everywhere.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j6nwozk wrote
Reply to Signage in my office building by sinesquaredtheta
Haha, Kids Bad
Fuck off.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j6nwl8l wrote
Reply to comment by _beNZed in Signage in my office building by sinesquaredtheta
Whiny adults who can't keep themselves from saying "kids these days" every fucking five minutes?
imafraidofmuricans t1_j6jje1n wrote
Reply to comment by alloowishus in Barbra Streisand (1970s) by ShoKKa_
Only if you force her to wear it.
People can wear whatever they themselves want.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j6cph1h wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Massive fire breaks out at oil refinery in Iran by slc73
My guy, nothing is more a staple of religion than bloody infighting.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j5zsut5 wrote
Reply to comment by ExchangeKooky8166 in U.S. GDP rose 2.9% in the fourth quarter, more than expected even as recession fears loom by Intrepid-Astronaut41
Humans progressed under feudalism, as well. That's a nonsense argument.
At best you are doing your own circle jerk of how smart and reasonable and centrist you are. You haven't exactly revealed information that leftists don't already know. You've just severely misunderstood leftism because you haven't ever looked in to it, you are just assuming you already know everything there is to know about it.
The alternative to feudalism was also worse. Does that make feudalism good? Does that make feudalism "the best we can do"? No, if course not.
You are arguing that what we have is the best that we can do because you can't imagine an alternative. But you haven't even tried.
"History is full of full -on socialist regimes in lesser countries that fell". That really sums it up for me. You know nothing about the history of socialism. Because that's s complete nonsense statement. You don't even do the bare minimum of asking "how did they define socialism" and "how did it fail". There was no intellectual process. You just assume you already know everything.
Is it a failure of socialism if the US murders your government?
Is a country socialist because they say they are, or because they perform socialism? Can a country be socialist if it does not fulfill the basic principles of socialism?
Then the final question for you: if socialism is inherently a failure, why does this mean there is no alternative to capitalism? Why is suffering of others (you aren't sacrificing yourself doing near slave labor, it's always somebody else) necessary?
Compare your own country to Bangladesh. Would you accept their working conditions? Why not? Why do you think you deserve better but they don't? Are they not equals?
imafraidofmuricans t1_j4mltvh wrote
Reply to comment by member_of_the_order in New suicide hotline 3 digit 988 receiving half a million more calls texts, and chats since starting than prior 10 digit number by Inkling2424
But a percentage tells you even less.
"40% increase in replies to your comment!" when you go from 1 comment to 4.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j2513j5 wrote
Reply to comment by cyphersaint in Ford used a quantum computer to find better EV battery materials by upyoars
In that case, we are doomed.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j204dai wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Finland gets floating LNG terminal to replace Russian gas by AmethystOrator
I replaced a 7 min train commute with a 1h bike ride for a while. Entirely reasonable, sometimes.
imafraidofmuricans t1_j2047x1 wrote
Reply to comment by JPR_FI in Finland gets floating LNG terminal to replace Russian gas by AmethystOrator
No I think the other post was supposed to be a reply but they clicked wrong
imafraidofmuricans t1_j0kjjjm wrote
Reply to comment by doomer_irl in NASA's DART asteroid smash flung 2 million pounds of rock into space by shellystarzz
The entire planets favorite unit of measurement
imafraidofmuricans t1_jea64sm wrote
Reply to comment by KingAltair2255 in A Display Cabinet full of Uranium Glass at a local Antique Shop. by I-Was_Never-Here
Toxic to make