“Jesus hung out with prostitutes”
Yes, He did. And when asked why, He said “it’s the sick who need a doctor”
But if you call the sexually immoral “sick,” liberals will freak out
His goal was not inclusion, but redemption
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.
>boot my old windows laptop
>its been force-upgraded to windows11
>sign in with microslop account
>immediately get blindingly bright pop up: “finish setting up your machine with Copilot”
>no ty, click “setup later”
>turn down Xbox gamepass offer
>turn down Copilot 365 offer
>unpin LinkedIn shortcut
>open edge to redownload Brave
>have to find it in Bing
>disable OneDrive (it’s erroring out anyway asking for money, ransoming my files)
>unpin copilot shortcut
>disable Copilot Recall spyware
>run windows update
>click shutdown, but it restarts instead
>blindingly bright pop-up “finish setting up your machine with Copilot”
>copilot shortcut enabled again
>try to use the start menu search bar
>hangs then returns “search with Copilot”
>click, it opens LinkedIn instead
>want to close it but it’s frozen
>open legendary programmer Dave W Plumber’s award winning software, Task Manager
>238 processes called copilot.exe
>mutter expletive
>Cortana Copilot pops up, “I can help with that!” and freezes
>Defender flagged it as malware
>immediately get another pop-up
>”OneDrive has run out of space! Your files are no longer accessible!”
>about to lose it
>I’ll just play a game, boot up CoD
>pop-up asking to enable Copilot gaming assistant
This is Miyamoto. Filming is underway for the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda in a lush, natural setting, with Bo Bragason-san who will play Zelda and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth-san who will play Link (1/2).
This guy upgraded from The iPhone 3G to the iPhone 17 pro
He vlogged the entire process and it looks like a video taken in a completely different era of the internet
🇧🇷 It turns out @markmanson was mostly right about Brazil
Over the last 2 years my Brazil ETF lost 16%, so I sold it
I also visited Brazil many more times (most recent just a few weeks ago) and while I still love it a lot, I think the problems are just a lot deeper than I thought on my first trip
Most Brazilians I meet are actively trying to leave the country, either moving to Europe or the US
The other Brazilians I meet who want to stay are often quite delusional about their country: thinking it's a great place to invest (they gladly overlook that the Brazilian Real currency is almost ALWAYS decreasing in value compared to USD, "but why would you need USD if you live in Brazil?"). Many literally do not realize they are getting poorer and poorer every year, not so much domestically but definitely internationally, due to their currency.
The legacy of Spanish/Portuguese conquest in Latin America has left such strong echoes of corruption that are hard to escape even today
Maybe the bigger problem is that one side of the country that don't have money will keep voting people in to power that promise free money, and you see that all over South America repeatedly
Which is why Javier Milei was such a great thing to happen to Argentina
But then there ARE people trying to improve it, like David Vélez, the founder of NuBank, the Brazilian Revolut, who somehow managed to create a modern fintech in a country full of corruption (how? I have no clue)
Brazil does feel much more modern than Europe (but then what doesn't these days?), there's actually startups, the AC works, there's the payment system Pix, service and food quality is top-tier here etc.
Yet the endless issue with Brazil is that it's just not safe, and it probably will never be. Again here you think "there must be an easy fix?". But then you realize that the Brazilian cartels are already infiltrated in each layer of society up to the Senate and president (aka a "narco state"). How much influence they have, who knows, but many think they have some
And you can escape the safety issue, a bit. You can move south. South Brazil is much safer. Curitiba is one of those cities where you see many people from Rio and Sao Paulo move out once they have kids and don't wanna be robbed at gunpoint anymore. And yes Curitiba is safe. Still dangerous though.
Brazil is always "slightly" different than the other countries in South America, because it's Portuguese, and their culture really is a lot different. And in many ways it's more like the United States than South America. But it's also not so different from the other countries in South America. It's the same corruption, the same security issues, the same never ending bullshit.
And for many Brazilians it's easier to just GTFO and go elsewhere than muddle through the quicksand that is building a life in Brazil
One interesting thing I see is that some of the "rich" Brazilian Instagram influencers are now trying to speak in American English (with a super obvious thick accent) and one woman I saw even acts like she's American but she's not? Which I assume must be some shame of being associated with Brazil?
Which brings me to the extreme rich poor divide you see in Brazil. As a foreigner at my gf's grandma party, I practice my Portuguese and proudly tell I have been a big fan of Baile Funk listening it when @diplo started doing mix tapes of it around 2003. I'm quickly told it's better not to talk about the favelas with grandma. Which is funny of course. But also then I think that's interesting right? There's such a divide here between North and South and rich and poor. I don't think people in Brazil are racist at all though, they're so mixed, it's practically impossible to be. But they're highly classicist. A lot here is about wealth classes
Many of these structural issues are just sad because apart from that it's such a beautiful country with honestly some of the nicest people I've ever met. Easily up there with Thai and Filipino, and again so similar!
I hope Brazil can make it but just like many of the Brazilians who leave, I simply don't have the patience to wait my whole life for that, that is if it ever even happens at all?
🇧🇷 Ordem e Progresso 🇧🇷
I'll keep hoping for progress...
(The motto "Ordem e Progresso" (Order and Progress) on the flag of Brazil is inspired by Auguste Comte’s motto of positivism, "Love as the beginning, and order as the base; progress as the end.")
Fiz uma compra internacional na Amazon de um livro. Por algum motivo, meus dados foram vazados para uma transportadora falsa, que tenta um golpe de pagamento falso de guia da Receita Federal. Já adianto onde o vazamento dos dados deve estar: Nos Correios. Tem mais:
Essa pedrada foi composta por Phil Collins para o filme Tarzan de 1999.
Feita com trechos da Bíblia, ela ganhou o Oscar de melhor canção original, o que irritou alguns nomes da indústria.