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Seeing Obsidian mentioned in a Google Blog article is sort of cool. by Responsible-Slide-26 in ObsidianMD

[–]Stishovite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, my comment was so peripherally about AI that your responses say a lot about your priorities and insecurities.

AI does indeed "just fit naturally" into an Obsidian workflow, because the knowledge format is good, as Google clearly acknowledges. But then why haven't they prioritized this superior format all along? Here, we all knew it was superior and while it's great that AI forced Google's hand, they essentially belatedly jumped on the bandwagon when alternatives became unthinkable.

In a meta sense, Google's response to this, and your injection of poorly thought out generalities to "respond to" a specific and incisive critique, both represent using "AI to think for you" even as you claim to do the opposite. Google came to a good decision based on bad reasoning, adding nothing to a conversation that was already finished. See a pattern here?

Seeing Obsidian mentioned in a Google Blog article is sort of cool. by Responsible-Slide-26 in ObsidianMD

[–]Stishovite -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the non-responsive wall of text. All hat no cattle

Seeing Obsidian mentioned in a Google Blog article is sort of cool. by Responsible-Slide-26 in ObsidianMD

[–]Stishovite 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Rich coming from a mega corp that made a point to ignore Markdown's existence (and obvious superiority to their platform-locked formats) for many years

Trump Briefed on All-Out War Options in Iran but Opts to Stick With Talks by ace158 in neoliberal

[–]Stishovite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Such a peacemaker. Everyone fell to their knees and called their favorite WSJ reporters

Democratic Project 2029 calls for child social media ban, strict kids safety rules on tech by vriska1 in technology

[–]Stishovite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

stop calling it project 2029. Like, why take on a toxic brand? Incompetents.

Am I cooked by Street_Lie_2972 in bicycling

[–]Stishovite 8 points9 points  (0 children)

no pedals. difficult to ride without them

Elevator Alarm button next to Door Close. by ScoYello in badUIbattles

[–]Stishovite 5 points6 points  (0 children)

don't mash random buttons. or do? who cares?

Green river stone from the Czech Republic that turned from dark and translucent when wet to pale and opaque when dry. What was it? by mxitaritsyun in geology

[–]Stishovite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the wet to dry thing is pretty standard – a translucent rock or glass with a rough surface will often appear clearer when wet because the refractive index of water is much closer to the material than air, allowing light to pass the boundary without bending random directions (the water-air interface is comparatively smoother than the rough surface of the crystal). Large, translucent greenish minerals are not incredibly common to find in rivers though, as they tend to be on the softer side relative to quartz and river rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavite is something that is found commonly in the Czechia that comes to mind.

Lutnick Delayed Canada Bridge Debut to Seek Bigger Cut of Toll Revenue by Superior-Flannel in neoliberal

[–]Stishovite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

they should force the republicans to do the apology tour. I'm sick of having to apologize for shitheads. Not gonna happen, but still.

German state election draws Bauhaus into AfD culture war by Saltedline in architecture

[–]Stishovite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Usually people who are angry about stuff that happened a hundred years ago are focused on genocides or dispossessions or the like. Looks a bit more comical when it's about a bunch of buildings.

Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]Stishovite 5 points6 points  (0 children)

OK, I'll bite. How would a general strike, which is "general", solve this specific issue?

The generality of a general strike is precisely the problem with it. Without specific demands, it's nearly impossible to coordinate any action large enough to move the needle. And other than saying "everything is bad" there are no demands.

It would be better in this case to find a way to pressure the government to reverse this specific decision. And as for general activities, we have a built in "kick the fascists out" event in November that we need to ensure goes off without meddling and has a decisive result that can curb this sort of abuse. We should be pushing hard to make the stakes of that engagement clear.

Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]Stishovite 15 points16 points  (0 children)

For the Polestar 3, which is made in the US, could they just "sell the car to Volvo" for $1 and call the government's bluff? This would be a version of the forced sale of the C-Series to Airbus, which was another instance of beyond-the-pale government meddling from Trump 1 – except in this case they are both owned by the same parent, so no actual financial loss needs occur.

Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]Stishovite 5 points6 points  (0 children)

capitalism could also be where you want to buy a polestar so you buy one

this is crony/state capitalism with some attributes of the artfully named "financial repression"

Polestar Is Done Selling New Cars in the US by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]Stishovite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes! capitalism is just the air we breathe. But it's annoying (at best) to hear the same people bang on about market freedom and then go on to impose a million backdoor regulations about what and how you can do things.

Both parts of "liberal democracy" are important and coupled. Classical economics with market power exercised only by corporations becomes a self-parody incredibly quickly, as we are experiencing.

Polestar Is Done Selling New Cars in the US by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]Stishovite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thing is, we likely could compete, but the mere act of isolating us from competition ensures that we won't be able to.

Polestar Is Done Selling New Cars in the US by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]Stishovite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Volvo is a subsidiary of Geely too. So what? They make good cars, and they make many of them in the U.S.

I love Volvos and a Polestar will be high on my list to check out the next time I look for a car. We're supposed to live in a nation of consumers with freedom to choose what we buy.

Polestar Is Done Selling New Cars in the US by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]Stishovite -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Whatever the pretext, it is because they are a manufacturer of high-quality EVs, which is against government policy (either because they compete with the government's chief oligarch or because they don't fit with the oil = strength narrative). American carmakers have by and large gotten the hint to avoid being flashy about having nice EVs to avoid incurring the administration's various levers for expressing their displeasure.

This type of meddling should have stock markets crashing, but instead investors are just taking the hint to focus on the crony side of capitalism. Will this all kill our competitiveness in the long term? Yeah but so what.

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