Here is level 1. If someone agrees to be my lemmy workout buddy I’ll share level 2;) There are 3 levels but I’ve never finished level 3 it’s too hard I just start over level 2.

I enjoy trying to keep walks just below the sweating point, glad to see I’m not the only one paying attention to this ha

Visible ones are, but strong abdominal muscles are good for other things like back support and that bit is not made in the kitchen!

Being shitty is much easier and takes much less effort so it prevails wherever people don’t collectively resist it.

Caveat that I don’t weigh a lot and am girl, but gym people are always incredulous when I tell them I get visible abs by doing 15 min of floor exercises every 2-3 days.

I’ve fallen out of the habit lately and this post is motivating me to put in the effort!

Exactly what Charlie Kirk would want! More censorship!

Depends on the context, but almost always a strawman imo.

Evil is simpler and easier to pull off than good (because you don’t have to value everyone in your equation), so “reasonable” compromises with evil compounded enough times leads to some pretty evil outcomes.

Why would I do this to me?!?!

Yeah it makes no sense. Did a deal with the devil I guess.

I demand satisfaction, good sir!

I agree let’s bring back dueling for politicians

Indian food is really good in Britain

It would be like requiring age verification to subscribe to an RSS feed

my cousin’s cat catches lizards and iguanas, I can’t imagine he’d leave frogs off the list

Where you gunna sleep tonight?

I’m not nervous about LLMs in that regard. I think sentience will have to be a biological phenomenon. I think people who were hopeful that consciousness happens spontaneously with enough processing power were wrong. Currently we can clone biological things quite well but we haven’t managed to give something the spark of life without biological input.

I also think humans are more than happy to anthropomorphize everything. There’s the famous example of telling someone the name of a pencil then snapping it in half. This makes me worried that people will be more than willing to treat LLMs as conscious regardless of their lack of mind.

Once at 5:30am Mr Mac stopped the bus on a train crossing slope, the bus started sliding backwards down the hill until someone at the back said “Mr. Mac, I think we’re on a hill.”

Mr. Mac also once swiped off someone’s side mirror and kept driving.

Absolute legend.

I think that might be it!

Idk what it was called but there was a movie where a group of people got trapped in a flooded underpass that I watched at 7 or so that gave me recurring nightmares for years.

Also I saw Munich in theaters when I was 13 because my mom thought it would be an informative historical film and we ended up having to sneak out (I’ve only left a movie once since then! Some terrible christmas comedy).

https://electronicintifada.net/content/winston-churchills-racist-legacy-palestine/30481

I’ve really enjoyed Busuu (created by Chegg, a US company) for learning eng—> spanish and eng —>german. Their free version has annoying ads but it does give you a chance to test the interface. The yearly subscription fee isn’t bad for the premium version that gets rid of ads. I’ve taken traditional classes and also used various apps like duolingo. Busuu strikes a happy medium between immersion and clear, digestible grammar explanation. I also like their review area (for vocab and grammar topics).

The platform doesn’t support Vietnamese yet but has chinese, japanese, and spanish of the ones you mentioned.