Vanth

Because I don't see a reason to change. And changing would cost a lot of money and effort and impact. You're the one proposing a change - why?

No. Why should we?

You asked, I answered. Thinking about what right wing weirdos and perverts might do when in power is absolutely part of why I care about my digital privacy.

Law enforcement used Facebook private messages to investigate and prosecute a woman for an "illegal abortion". This is not a hypothetical, this happened.

I care about my privacy because I don't want right-wing weirdos and perverts incarcerating me for controlling my own body.

There are more reasons. This is just the one most recently in the news as a glaring red flag real-life example.

Found within my own home/possessions, a jolly rancher hard candy.

Out in the wild, a geocache. I go searching for them intentionally on occasion, but I also just spot one while I'm not looking and those are my fave. Especially the really tiny ones, "oh, that bolt on that stop sign looks a little weird. Hey, it's a nano cache!"

I also go hiking a lot and it's always fun finding plants I have high confidence that they are edible. I cooked up quite a bit of wild fern this spring, now it's berries and mushrooms.

I'm pretty darn explicit when I invite a person over to help with beer what it will entail; lots of cleaning, wear comfy clothes that can get wet and dirty, there will be heat and weird smells, and a small amount of physical labor. Still want to come? Cool. If not? Swing by in 4-6 weeks to enjoy a beer with me after it's fermented and carbonated.

And I never invite more than one, maybe two people. Anymore than that and folks are just standing around, unable to participate. If you have a genuine interest in teaching on your end, and a genuine interest to learn from a friend or two, I would recommend changing your approach to how you plan these events and try again. It sounds fun but one-teaching-a-group sounds like very challenging logistics.

And/or the socialization. Maybe the intention to listen and learn was there, but overcome by the excitement of socializing with friendly people.

I throw them in a box and never use them again. My USB cable box is a rats nest of at least a hundred cables. Why? Because I might need them some day. Even those stupid mini-Bs and UC-E6 for cameras that broke a decade ago. No labels necessary, just procrastination.

If a friend invited me over and they launched into an unsolicited cooking lesson, I would think they are a pretentious twat, lol. There's always context of course, but I'm not looking for friends who push their knowledge on me without my invitation.

Mutual interests, or expressed interest to learn more in either direction, groovy. One way info dumping, nope.

Listen I brew beer. It can get kinda repetitive and boring. Sometimes I invite friends over to keep me company and I don't lecture on sanitization and chemistry because that's not what they came for. The occasional friend does want to learn about brewing, they express that wish, and then I explain some things to them. Some friendships are good for the former, some for the latter, and it's on you to navigate which is which.

That is one of the many hypotheses that tries to resolve the Paradox. Everything everyone has replied to me with so far is part of one existing hypothesis or another. Like I said, it's a good read.

Are you familiar with Fermi's Paradox? Great Wikipedia rabbit hole to fall down whenever I can't sleep.

I think today I like the zoo / star trek hypothesis. There's advanced aliens out there. They know about us. They are choosing not to interfere. At least not until we reach some technological milestone that may still be beyond our current comprehension.

I'm not entirely sold on the argument I lay out here, but this is where I would start were I to defend using chatGPT in school as they laid out in their experiment.

It's a tool. Just like a calculator. If a kid learns and does all their homework with a calculator, then suddenly it's taken away for a test, of course they will do poorly. Contrary to what we were warned about as kids though, each of us does carry a calculator around in our pocket at nearly all times.

We're not far off from having an AI assistant with us 24/7 is feasible. Why not teach kids to use the tools they will have in their pocket for the rest of their lives?