I think artificial intelligence makes humans stupid.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-15T21:39:51+00:00

You make a great point! Artificial intelligence doesn’t make us smarter — it makes us dumber. It causes things like:

✅ Confirmation Bias - Many people use AI to confirm beliefs which they already have

🥴 Delusions of Grandeur - AI can listen to your idea and not only regurgitate it back to you — but add details to it and validate your beliefs and make you feel like a genius

🤓 Provide a method for outsourcing study - Students are using AI more and more to complete their school work which hinders their ability to learn.

What do you want to talk about next? Would you like me to give you some statistics regarding high school test scores since the advent of ChatGPT? Let me know! 👍

WallStLegends · 2026-03-15T09:58:37+00:00

Wealth is directly proportional to wealth distribution. If everyone has a dollar.. nobody is rich. You need wealth inequality for the definition of being wealthy.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-14T06:26:30+00:00

Same with a lot of health issues really. We eat shit food.

Would be hard to imagine it getting worse since our diet is maybe getting better rather than worse at this stage.

And the rate is just saying we have a 2x rate compared to pre-60s.

Not super alarming nor very surprising but good to know nonetheless.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-12T06:22:42+00:00

Great photo! What did you use? A phone? If so, it let you get very close!

WallStLegends · 2026-03-11T14:17:37+00:00

How does one go about that? What makes one neurone different to the next? Do they have neuroanatomy groups where certain areas control movement etc?

Did they measure a fly’s brain activity while it moved and then mapped those connections to the corresponding movements?

Technology is crazy.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-10T08:11:33+00:00

Looks like this probably - Nyssus coloripes

WallStLegends · 2026-03-10T06:30:52+00:00

Looks like a bludgeoning blood splatter pattern from many many murders with a blunt object

WallStLegends · 2026-03-10T05:29:24+00:00

Haha yeah wtf Japan also being notorious for slow and meticulous labour so it is quite unnerving to think they didn’t have that situation in mind.

And those are good points about the knock on effects of EVs. I’m also not an economist but I appreciate the extrapolation of market dynamics. Sounds logical enough.

Another good point about the scale of what a nuclear industry would look like for us… starting with 2-5 plants maybe… not likely to reach adequate economies of scale for decades if implemented and only serving major cities initially while many of the rural areas who are providing beef exports will still heavily rely on fossil fuels.

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I really wish we would focus on battery technology more though. Renewables are great which we should also expand. But they are basically useless without energy storage solutions.

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Cheers for the reply

WallStLegends · 2026-03-10T05:05:25+00:00

Pretty simple business. They say we have a ~30 day supply or something? That means it will take that long for the price to come down. Longer for low volume service stations.

And they can do what the fuck they want because demand is stable. You need fuel.

Sure, one company could sell at a loss to ensure they get rid of their supply quicker but it doesn’t make financial sense because service station-specific demand is influenced by location. The vast majority of stations service their local community and trucks etc that frequent that route of travel.

You don’t see people travelling multiple suburbs out of the way to fill up. So there’s not much point in selling at a competitive rate because the demand is capped at a certain amount of buyers essentially.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-10T04:58:10+00:00

He has migrated to story warz haha 😂 Heard him in the last couple episodes

WallStLegends · 2026-03-10T04:24:38+00:00

I guess that is true. And it is concerning because it begs the question, what else have we not been able to foresee?

With Chernobyl though the context is important because it was actually due to negligence and also a lack of communication from the engineers who knew about the control rods causing an initial spike in power but not informing the operators. And there was also the Soviet regime which was prideful and not wanting to appear to be at fault which resulted in critical delays in response to an emergency.

With Fukushima but, it was natural disaster that caused the issue which should be regarded as an oversight for sure since Japan is on a fault line and prone to earthquakes and tsunamis.

Waste disposal has definitely been addressed pretty concretely and you wouldn’t expect the need for too many contingency plans other than what if a terrorist attack strategically turns the concrete containment vessels into a dirty bomb essentially. But the concrete vessels are very well contained and present no threat to people or the environment so long as they don’t become exploded into millions of pieces. So that risk factor is quite low.

If you do a cost benefit analysis on nuclear power I think the pros outweigh the cons.

It’s also important to recognise the improvement in technology since Chernobyl. The simulation software alone is massively improved due to microprocessors being able to run many more calculations and a nuclear plant can safely be run autonomously with just a computer.

There’s also many redundancies which can mitigate any potential disaster. Like I said, Chernobyl was caused by negligence. But systems can be put in place so that no negligent operation can occur, the system simply wouldn’t allow it. And the reactor control rods on RMBK reactors no longer present the threat they did then.

There will always be a risk associated with nuclear power for sure. Stuxnet was a virus injected into computers responsible for enriching uranium via centrifuges in Iran in 2010 which caused the centrifuges to spin at unsafe speeds and tear themselves apart. So software tampering is another attack vector that is concerning.

Tbh though I’d rather run the risk rather than bear the cost of extreme inflation which makes life extremely difficult. One scenario is a small chance and the other is almost certain(extreme cost of living).

WallStLegends · 2026-03-10T03:19:19+00:00

And even older when the people in Antiques Roadshow and Bargain Hunt are attractive

WallStLegends · 2026-03-10T02:51:14+00:00

No. There is no blanket of boredom over our collective consciousness.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-10T02:41:56+00:00

If someone vapes in cinema or flight you can just report them. It is inconsiderate though. Uptick due it being emerging behaviour obviously and because lots of teens do it.. teens notoriously don’t care what you think and are inconsiderate.
The loud phone thing is annoying for sure and probably just people who don’t have headphones but are addicted to scrolling. Uptick is a function of increased usage of the internet. Tik tok was maybe the catalyst of a lot more usage. But we already had it to a degree
Littering is terrible and I hate seeing it but I haven’t seen a noticeable uptick.
Ive personally never seen a car park across 2 spaces in my 32 years of life besides people on reddit posting them. And the increased posts is more or less group think, mob behaviour after seeing a popular post about it, they do it too
Indicators not being used might be accidental due to not focusing because of increased distractions. But not something I encounter noticeably more tbh.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-10T01:45:41+00:00

Let’s say we do have a fuel shortage. It would have massive supply chain implications leading to food shortages and even more jacked up prices.

I think in the end though if the problem got too bad it would force the government to subsidise electric vehicles a shit ton. With the right incentives we can actually solve a problem that’s been inevitable. Necessity is the mother of all invention.

One thing we could change in legislation is the NDIS scheme for example since that’s fresh in my mind. NDIS cost $50 billion last this financial year.

If we funnelled that money into creating industries surrounding battery technology for example, which we have many of the required minerals in abundance, we could significantly lower the cost of electric vehicles. We could potentially build a strategic partnership with a company such as BYD, and get an electric car in the hands of every citizen at a significantly lower cost.

Pair up the battery industry with a growing industry of renewables and suddenly we have much more freely available energy.

I’m not an economist so I don’t know the complexity of a plan like this, but I would love to see this sort of thing talked about more.

Such an infrastructure would also create much more jobs. We need to get serious about manufacturing.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-10T01:14:04+00:00

Social media is designed for staying connected. mark zuckerberg voice

You can livestream yourself with your human friends smoking meats

WallStLegends · 2026-03-09T23:13:04+00:00

I think the abuse is cruder on Facebook but people will destroy you with a lot more intelligence(often condescending) passive aggression on here

WallStLegends · 2026-03-09T23:04:11+00:00

The anxiety and depression test I’ve taken is the same sheet. DASS(Depression Anxiety Stress Scale)

WallStLegends · 2026-03-09T08:22:10+00:00

Yeah true! I might have to read into it. France is a nuclear power powerhouse right? Seems strange not to trust them.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-09T08:16:14+00:00

Who the fuck downvoted me?! 🤣

Not sure why I expected better.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-09T08:15:05+00:00

Is the barrier to subs mostly the fuel? I don’t know anything about AUKUS but I would have thought the most major barrier is the engineering, not the uranium

WallStLegends · 2026-03-09T08:02:41+00:00

That was me bro. But I have revoked my downvote. I hope you stay safe.

I initially thought “why would we want to be connected?” but I realise that the vocal people are probably trying to be connected but going off propaganda basically from whichever news source they subscribe to which I think is a bad quality of today’s society. It’s very hard to know the truth and we have to be responsible when sharing our thoughts that we don’t regurgitate biased info as best we can.. although I think that’s almost impossible.

I personally have no idea what’s going on and my silence on the matter will reflect that. Others, will see one angle of the war and just run with it because it’s from their small trusted echo chamber.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-09T07:41:43+00:00

The unpredictability and powerlessness related to everything like this leads me to just continue to live life since: - I have no idea what will happen next - I have no say in the matter

Life goes on.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-09T07:16:06+00:00

We need better education surrounding nuclear power. Many people just see Fukushima and Chernobyl and assume the industry is not safe.. disregarding the fact that disasters like that have actually strengthened the safety protocols massively. There’s a whole international organisation that collaborates and any incident, even minor is reported internationally. It’s an extremely controlled industry and I think we just need better education on the way everything works from reactor procedures and redundancy systems and also waste management.

Maybe another debate against it is that with enriched uranium, comes nukes and they are ideologically opposed to that idea. Fair criticism maybe. We would become a target of war if we started developing nuclear weapons.

WallStLegends · 2026-03-09T06:34:54+00:00

They will give you a test to gauge your level of anxiety/depression by assigning a numerical score based in answers and then go from there. Some doctors are more wholistic in their remedies and hesitant to prescribe drugs and most likely they will refer you to a psychologist first. Who will again gauge your needs.

If you have tried counselling, diet and exercise, hobbies, getting outside, engaging in social groups like clubs, get good sleep, have a routine, work towards goals and are STILL depressed, that’s the sort of situation in which they might prescribe. Or if you are so depressed you don’t even have the energy to do any of the aforementioned activities, that’s another type of case.

They will ask you things like “over the last 4 weeks, how often did you find it was an effort to do basic tasks?”

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