Flint’s water is okay now
I’ve never really followed X (nor Twitter), Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, etc. so I basically live under a rock. Sometimes I ask dumb questions to try to understand people a little better. Apologies if my questions inadvertently offend anyone. I mean no harm.
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The ol’ Catholic bazookamera
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Conforms to Marxist theories regarding the proletariat.
3·7 days agoMaybe it’s both. I would guess that men’s feet would get tipped more than no feet, but less than women’s feet.
When I had to hire people, I was much more interested in seeing a portfolio than a degree.
It depends on what the job is though. I definitely want my doctor to have a degree
Not in a troy ounce though
SpaceX is by far the cheapest way to launch a satellite. As a taxpayer, that seems like a good choice, IMO.
I think NASA and SpaceX might fit different personality types. Cool new tech in a bit more of a “startup” type of environment/culture/pace vs. slow-moving government work with lots of beaurocracy. Some people thrive in one and hate working in the other.
(Just a guess based on experience in “tech”. I don’t actually know what it’s like to work for either)
Does it? People used to get excited and SpaceX’s achievements and milestones too, back when rockets weren’t reusable yet. I think it has just become so routine now.
Also, there were humans on board. Also, moon.
Also, SpaceX and NASA both have teams of engineers (and some of them have worked for both).
To be clear: I’m not defending Elon here. I’m just pointing out the ridiculousness of posts like these.
There are huge public datasets that are often used for pretraining. Common Crawl and C4 are probably the most prominent, but there are others.
There are also big public datasets available for fine-running and instruction tuning.
The open weight models are getting pretty powerful, thanks to some Chinese labs.
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Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification DatabaseEnglish
55·10 days agoiPhones save old notifications in a database? Why?
🤔 is it even a shitpost at all?
So you would have preferred her to refrain from helping the boy because of their differences in skin color? Isn’t that… wildly racist? Wanting the child to suffer more just because of race? Because it might resemble some cinematic/literary trope?
I suppose this is a decent reminder to limit my social media consumption. This is gross.
Do you really think that people who have the skills to repair the water treatment plant are going to just deal with sewage backing up into their home because they don’t want to do the work?
In their own city’s infrastructure? No, probably not. But that doesn’t quite clear things up, so I’ll throw out some numbers as an example:
- Let’s say, on average, ~100 pumps need repair/maintenance at any given time.
- Only 50 people have the skills to fix those industrial pumps[1].
Do an average of 50 cities have sewage backing up at any given time? How do you fill that gap?
Also, do you have an example of a society that functions like this today? Maybe I’m just stuck thinking inside a box because the society I’m most familiar with is not like that. If so, an example might be helpful.
Obviously only a VERY small fraction of those 50 would be willing to travel to whatever town needs the repair, learn the schematics of their pump model, then swim through their excrement to blindly fix it. But probably easier to just focus on a simpler set of numbers. ↩︎
Maybe many would, but also, many would not.
In a society in which everyone can choose whatever career they want, all for the same “pay”/outcome/whatever it’s called in a moneyless society, I would bet that most people would choose not to do these things.
When the demand for such tasks outweighs the number of people who are both willing and skilled to do those jobs, what can be done to meet the demand?
Btw, I’m not asking rhetorically - I’m genuinely curious. If there isn’t enough people to serve such an important job for society, what can be done?
Some people have to dress up in a special suit and swim through raw sewage to repair a big pump - and they have to do it blindly because the sewage is opaque.
Some people have an even dirtier job: They have to clean off that guy’s shitty suit before he can take it off. They might have to do it multiple times if he needs to come out to take another look at schematics.
They do it because it pays very well. It pays very well because nobody wants to do it.
It depends on the person. I’ve known people who are much more motivated by money. Some of them ended up in prison, some are doing quite well, and some are still trying.
Honestly, I sometimes wish I were more money-motivated. I’m very lucky that my passion happens to earn a good salary (for now), but I gave up my business for it.
Does that matter to them? I assumed not, but I don’t really know what they think about rocket launches, so maybe I shouldn’t assume





It is cleaner before reaching the urethra, but not sterile.