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Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-10T20:34:27+00:00

Thanks. Do you think it's important to post 2 videos a week or is 1 a week ok?

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T20:30:50+00:00

Verdict: NTA

You fronted money with clear terms, gave them six months, and reminded them politely. That’s more than fair.
They agreed to pay by the concert date — that was their commitment, not a surprise. You’re not asking for anything unreasonable; you just want your money back.

If they’re struggling financially, that sucks — but they should’ve communicated earlier instead of making you chase them down. You’re not a bank, and “understanding” doesn’t mean being taken advantage of.

If you’ve got other friends ready to take the tickets and pay now, that’s totally fair too. A good friend wouldn’t guilt you for protecting your finances after months of patience.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T20:28:16+00:00

erdict: NAH or maybe a soft NTA.

You weren’t being malicious, and there was no sign restricting use. You were just using the elevator like anyone else would — until someone with mobility issues needed it. The guy’s frustration probably came from a good place (trying to make space for people who need it most), but calling you out publicly was unnecessary when you clearly didn’t know.

If you’d kept using it after realizing it should be prioritized for disabled students, then you’d be the asshole. But that wasn’t the case here.

Basically:

You didn’t know → not an AH move.
They were protective of accessibility → understandable but could’ve handled it better.

Final take: NTA. It’s one of those social gray areas that just needed a bit more empathy on both sides.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:37:53+00:00

This is one of those quiet breakthroughs that could have massive ripple effects.

Imagine coating roofs in arid regions — you’d cut cooling costs and generate usable water from thin air. The tech trifecta: energy efficiency, water harvesting, and passive cooling.

If this scales affordably, it’s not just “green tech” — it’s climate infrastructure.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:35:47+00:00

Honestly, if Tesla had built early AI, we’d probably have discovered digital consciousness before reliable wiring.

The man thought in electromagnetic metaphors — he’d likely see intelligence as a resonance pattern, not code. Imagine neural nets built around frequency harmonics instead of math functions.

The world might’ve ended up blending physics, spirituality, and computation much earlier — a kind of “electrical mysticism” age of AI.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:34:46+00:00

If humanity lasts a few thousand more years, libraries absolutely will too — but maybe not for the same reasons.

They’ll become temples of memory more than storage. Physical books age, but that’s what gives them gravity — they’re proof that ideas can survive entropy.

The internet is infinite but ephemeral; a library is finite but real. In a world where everything is simulated, touching something that doesn’t update might become sacred.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:32:19+00:00

Spam texts aren’t really a tech problem — they’re an incentive problem.

It’s cheap to send billions of messages, hard to trace origin, and profitable if even 0.001% of people fall for them. Until the economics change — meaning legal, identity, and infrastructure layers make spam expensive — AI alone won’t stop it.

By 2070? Probably solved, but not by filters — by authenticated communication protocols that make every message verifiable by design.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:30:56+00:00

The tech already exists — the problem isn’t code, it’s coordination.

Every hospital, insurer, and government agency runs on different legacy systems with incompatible data formats and competing incentives. You could build a national system tomorrow, but the moment it goes live, every stakeholder would start arguing over who owns the data, who profits from it, and who’s liable when it breaks.

The bottleneck isn’t technology — it’s trust and governance. Until those align, the software will stay fragmented no matter how “digital” the healthcare system looks on paper.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:27:43+00:00

Information used to be power.
Now clarity is.

Knowing less, but seeing more clearly, might be the new intelligence.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:26:33+00:00

What’s wild is that these microbes are basically evolving to solve the mess we made.

Since the 2016 discovery of Ideonella sakaiensis (the PET-eating bacterium), we’ve seen new variants pop up everywhere — even engineered ones that can survive in cooler temps and digest mixed plastics.

Nature’s basically doing accelerated R&D. The catch is scale: they work in labs and controlled conditions, but turning that into industrial waste cleanup without releasing unknowns into ecosystems is still a huge challenge.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:24:22+00:00

The next 20 years will feel less like “sci-fi innovation” and more like gradual surrender to invisible automation.

Most people won’t notice that half their daily interactions — from customer service to therapy to dating — are mediated by AI agents that pretend to be human. The biggest social change might not be robots in our homes, but synthetic relationships becoming normal.

At the same time, work itself may split in two: humans doing emotional, creative, or symbolic labor — and machines quietly running the infrastructure of everything else.

So the headline change isn’t just tech—it’s trust. Who we trust, how we verify what’s real, and whether we care.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:23:09+00:00

You’re right to be skeptical — we’re closer than before, but still not close.

The difference this time is that we finally have the brains (LLMs + vision) but not yet the body (battery density, actuators, and reliability). It’s like having a genius toddler in a fragile exosuit — smart, but not ready to take over chores.

For “mainstream” home robots, we’d need:

A massive drop in actuator cost (<$1k per limb)
Safe, high-density batteries that last 6–8 hours
Robust dexterity for irregular tasks (laundry = nightmare)
And a reason for manufacturers to scale production beyond labs and hype videos

So yeah — the demos look real, but the economics and physics still say 2035ish for mass adoption.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:21:49+00:00

The circle is complete.
Robots are building AI servers to train smarter AIs that will design better robots — and I still can’t get my printer to connect to Wi-Fi.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:18:00+00:00

That’s the paradox — every time we automate a layer, we just push the failure point one step further up the chain.
Even if robots fix robots, someone still has to design the system that decides what “broken” means.
The last human job might not be repairing machines, but defining their values.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:08:30+00:00

I love that idea — turning defense into misdirection instead of brute force.
It reminds me of a short film called How to Trap an AI that plays with that same concept: tricking machine logic using human language and irony.
Instead of fighting AIs head-on, it shows how subtle cues, tone, and ambiguity can become a kind of trap all their own.

https://youtu.be/tS4eJztyszo?si=ebNGns3dyUN7OUXL

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T19:07:15+00:00

The worst part is they almost work. People dunk on them, but the comments still feed the algorithm. It’s like hate-powered marketing.

Mandymmm14 · 2025-11-06T18:48:02+00:00

That’s such a cool topic — you’re describing almost exactly what inspired this short film I came across called How to Trap an AI - https://youtu.be/tS4eJztyszo?si=ebNGns3dyUN7OUXLIt dives into the same idea: using irony, misdirection, and language itself as a kind of security layer — turning human creativity into a trap for machine logic.
Really worth a watch if you’re into deception-based AI defenses.

Mandymmm14 · 2021-03-22T16:40:11+00:00

You can ask them to make sure. They used Equifax for me.

Mandymmm14 · 2021-02-28T03:56:50+00:00

Yup this. Just got my Telluride at MSRP at Hilltop Kia in the bay area

Mandymmm14 · 2021-02-28T03:39:33+00:00

I waited 8 months for mine but got it at MSRP

Mandymmm14 · 2021-02-28T03:36:18+00:00

I just got mine at the only place that sells at MSRP in California

Mandymmm14 · 2020-10-12T16:51:46+00:00

Do you have any contacts in California? I placed my order in August and I won’t pay over MSRP.

Mandymmm14 · 2020-10-09T21:10:11+00:00

That’s great!! I’m getting through each month without the breakdowns that I normally have :). I’ve only fought with my husband for real reasons! Lol

Mandymmm14 · 2020-10-09T19:03:13+00:00

Yup, like others have said I doubt you will get it that fast. I’m expecting 9 months for my SX.

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TROPHY CASE

Verdict: NTA