Woah. She’s like a female version of Darth Maul, but without any clothes on.

Kinda badass, NGL

6th grade biology class in the United States, 2001 AD.

The teacher slaps up a diagram of a cell and organelles.

30-45 children all looking around the room, not exactly paying attention

She points to the various organelles, trying to explain their purpose, the golgi complex, ribosomes…

“And the mitochondria”

“Is the power house of the cell”

Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes.

It then enters the collective unconscious of English speakers.

I was in the room where it happened.

Linkin Park - In The End.mp3.exe

My favorite take on this is playing a hegemonic technologically advanced, wartime empire in Stellaris.

Any time a new species contacts mine, if they open the door with: “Why you no build boats” or “prepare to be enslaved!” or “Die Xeno Scum!”; we crack their planet and pyromatically defenestrate their king(s)/leaders/hivemind.

It had made my fictional galaxy-space grand strategy a dark forest, where the AI learned to be afraid of reaching out, owing to the many (only stories, through selection bias), where contacting my species resulted in annihilation.

We’re not evil, it was always just like:

Us: "We come in peace, would you like to trade coffee for advanced energy storage devices? , and the other civs/Ai would look at “relative military strength” and respond with [-90] “Bullshit, Prepare for War!” and then turn around and beg for ceasefire/white peace the second the Shipyard-Titans enter into their home system at the edge of the screen.

Parasitic-Wasp-Slavers: “Clearly we have made a mistake, it said your military was 26,000 points, but we didn’t comprehend peacetime versus wartime military scaling”

Us: “You said, I quote, your children will be sold as snacks on street corner food vendors and your adult population will toil in our mines.”

Parasitic-Wasp-Slavers: "Oh, did we say that? Clearly uh, shit, well, come on you know how it is different cultures, right? You can’t judge us from on high just because we {insert enormous amount of moral relativism here}"

P.S: Do a cultural or scientific victory in every Sid Meier CIV game if you actually want to win.

I’m sorry friend; I still feel that childhood demiurge of “the game”.

I got teary eyed this morning playing a particularly satisfying VR title.

I guess my advice is: Try virtual reality gaming.

I have the opposite – almost all vegetation has a taste and it’s quite good.

Basil? Yes. Garlic… Cabbage Spinach Asparagus Broccoli Carrots! Peppers! Beets!

I just made a huge pot of Borscht last night with beets, carrots, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, basil and olive oil - it’s going to feed me for days!

Feel bad for the people missing out on how tasty Earth plants are

No, you’re right

Hyperthymesia is the medical term

An overactive hypothalamus which holds onto all memories in an obsessive manner regardless of their relevancy or emotional content, cooperating with the hippocampus.

If the brain were a person, a hyperthymesic brain has OCD.

I would know, I have one.

The name of the Buy Mode music of the 2001 Life Simulation Game The Sims is named “Mall Rat” by Jerry Martin.

:)

I’m probably going to upset a few Star Wars fans with this, but in the original version that I saw of the New Hope / Ep4, both Han and Greedo have their blaster pistols drawn under the table, and Han shoots Greedo first.

I’ve seen the entire internet argue about who shot first, but the irony is that if he didn’t shoot first he would get shot by Greedo and the story would end right there.

It wasn’t murder, it was quickdraw. :)

So, artificial selection instead of natural selection

Go for it 👍

They would “turn into” unremarkable humans. Is the purpose of the simulation to depress the people seeking IVF, or is there a eugenics component involved?

Okay cool, but why?

Does Obama lose re-election or something?

February 16th, 2011, why?

TLDR: ROCM is AMD’s variant for general purpose compute on GPUs, like CUDA is for NVIDIA.

OpenAI being for profit.

I use ROCM extensively (I write, design and train my own AIs/LLMs) and it’s annoying of an acronym, especially in command lines:

--rocm-6.6.7.2-dev1  --cuda

But I figure it’s a four letter acronym to match “CUDA”.

I also pronounce it “Rock’em” in verbal versus “Koo’dah” (Barracuda).

Everything is about marketing and goodwill. You can just say something has “blast processing” and fail to elaborate.

Hello fellow time traveler

Reminds me of The Monumental monks from Demon’s Souls

“Meow, don’t hang up the phone. I’ve drank a potion that has given me human speech for exactly 20 minutes.”

(Heavy breathing)

“I have spent the last 19 minutes learning how to use a cell phone to try to call you in order to tell you the deep secret of the meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow meow”

They got their old man sigh in text form

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_planet

Lel