The uses of “ACHOO syndrome”!

Aka the photic sneeze reflex.

Apparently not everyone has this reflex.

I will say, as a tax payer, if you are eligible for them, FUCKING TAKE THEM! Take every ¢ you can make reasonable use of!

I pay into the pool to provide a safety net to everyone. I’ve bounced off it myself, when I was younger. I want to know that it is doing its job for those that need it.

Proviso, I’m based in the UK. I’m quite sure a lot of tax payers, world wide, feel the same and would also give you “permission”.

It might be higher than you think. Unfortunately, IQ is only a proxy for intelligence. With “normal” people, it’s quite a reasonable proxy. At the extremes it begins to break down.

It might be worth trying him on some of the easier IQ tests. Autistic minds tend to like focused puzzles, which make up the bulk of IQ tests. That’s actually the source of the “idiot savant” stereotype. A massive over-focus on a small subset of “puzzles”

Fully agreed that it needs to be done right. I’m definitely not the best person to try and write it.

It also needs to be area specific. A predominantly republican area would need a different message to a predominantly black community.

Has Amazon ever actually said it wouldn’t sell the results of face tracking to data brokers? I can easily see it happening. It’s a lot of tasty data to them.

Dating isn’t about fitting in with the 95% of people that don’t match your vibe. It’s about finding the 5% that do.

Wear your weirdness proudly, it left fellow weirdos find you!

A better option might be a leafleting campaign.

It would need to bypass the “I’ve nothing to hide” effect. E.g. “Does your friend have an ex they don’t want to know where they are? Facial recognition would easily put them on your doorstep. Would you like a visit from them?”

Leaning on the ICE issues right now would also work in some areas.

If someone mocked up a few variants for different demographics, that could actually help.

Also, does anyone know an easy layman alternative to ring, that is more ethical?

It had far less of that at the start. It was a boiled frog effect for me. I realised I was just fighting through corporate trash to find a few gems, rather than filtering trash from a sea of gems.

The loss of 3rd party apps just gave me the impetus to jump ship.

Their biggest problem is media capture. With the loss of twitter to Musk, there’s no large scale organisation path that hasn’t been captured.

As the phrase goes. “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”

I’m UK based btw. I had my tangles with the police at protests in my younger days. It’s intimidating, even when nominally peaceful. I have a lot of respect for those of you willing to face off against the nastier crowd control methods.

It’s worth noting that there is still a huge difference between what you dealt/deal with and shoot-to-kill military weapons fire.

If I thought it would help, I would (unhappily) deal with tear gas etc. I’m too old, with too much to lose to risk rubber bullets etc, but respect those that would. VERY few people would face gunfire without the ability to fire back. The American Left is not at the point where they are willing to escalate to that point.

I’m not American. I’m only aware of them in passing. It’s not the sort of thing we learn about in school, over here.

In its defence, that assumed it was properly funded. Its actual funding was very limited.

I believe most of the critical problems have been solved. The only major one left is keeping the reactor walls stable. They have a tendency to transmute, which causes multiple problems.

In France, the worst they will likely be met with is water cannons, tear gas, and potentially rubber bullets/beanbag rounds.

In America, it’s more likely to be automatic assault rifles.

In an ideal world, you have conservatives and revolutionaries. The revolutionaries want to make changes to try and make things even better. The conservatives act to maintain the status quo. When they balance properly then you get steady change, but slow enough to detect and fix cascading problems/failures.

In this situation, the centralists act as the balance point, being swayed one way or the other to set the path.

Unfortunately the only place this is actually close to accurate is Sci-Fi novels.

The paradox of tolerance disappears when you look at it as a social contract. “I agree to tolerate your weirdness, that doesn’t significantly affect me, if you do the same in turn.” Add in “If you back me when someone breaks the contract, and I will back you in turn.” and you get a very good basis to build on. You end up with a few grey areas, but 95% is obvious.

I can think about ideas without either visualisations or inner monologue. My inner monologue is mainly for mapping ideas to a “transmittable” state. I also have to force visualisations.

The best description I can give is multiple interacting “data streams”. E.g. a cat won’t be an image of a cat, it would be a mapping vaguely akin to how a computer game tracks things, a collection of data on pose, limb length, join angles etc. It doesn’t use actual numbers. It’s akin to how you know the angle of your elbow, without knowing the angle in degrees.

My inner monologue’s main use mapping from this internal data blob into something that I can explain to others.

I thought that only applied to steam keys?

You can sell your game for whatever you want elsewhere, but if you want them to be able to install via steam, you can’t undercut steam itself.

Men in sheds is now fairly international. It’s primarily aimed is at retired or disadvantaged men. Most are not gender limiting however. They often do a lot of community outreach stuff too.

For younger demographics, makerspaces (aka hackspaces or hackerspaces) fill a similar role. You don’t need to go in with any particular knowledge, just an attitude of making new friends.

Also, don’t be afraid to use groups as jumping off points. Often members will be involved in other activities that might suit you better.

Even for DIY this might be sensible. I know what my time is worth to me in $. Add in a % correction for semi enjoyable tasks and I have an easy yardstick for what is reasonable.

On both IOS and android, you can activate the camera without unlocking the phone. On android it’s via a double click of the power button, by default. This makes it far more difficult to delete it quickly.

Combined with an auto upload script makes their job a lot harder.

I agree its one of the few uses.

The ai gives the correct terminology, you can then cut it out of the loop for reliable information on the subject.