Unfortunately handing pot to big pharma means adding legitimacy to it as an actual medicine for society as a whole. Your neighborhood pot grower isn’t held to safety standards, double blinded peer review test on actual efficacy while minimizing potential biases, or forced to print out lab results showing vauable information like terps and thc level.

As pot smokers we get defensive and circle jerky about our precious plant medicine that can be grown anywhere, and roll our eyes at how its been treated.

Its important to take a step back and realize theres a difference in standards between the neighborhood dealer going “oh yeah its alternative natural herbal medicine that cures any disease and just makes me feel good maaan IDK how it works but I heard if you have bad prostate cancer you can shove rick simpsons oil up your ass as a supplementary and the stage 4 clears right up through the power of Jahs blessing bro.”

and " we just released a big peer review study spanning hundreds of participants with riggerous analysis. Pot works for these diseases including helping to suppress pancreatic cancer in many cases, we have done the research and the consistent results back it up. Your national health and safety administrations will receive recommendations to update their guidelines."

Having medical colleges with P.H.D graduates doing extensively studies, writing research papers to be published in journals, really having the science nerds pick at the interaction between chemistry and neuroscience to create valid enough theories and frameworks for effective diagnosis to combat serious medical problems. These are things that aren’t happening by just throwing seeds in grounds and having potheads smoke or ea their own flower.

Having doctors confidently be able to prescribe it as a medicine in a pharmacy really helps towards social acceptance for older conservative people taught it was the devils lettuce as dangerous as heroine.

My parents and I had a lot of static during my teenage years because they REALLY hated pot. That started to change when

• 1. It started to be legally buyable over the counter
• 2 they got really old and in constant pain to the point traditional meds like aparin started failing to do the trick. Suddenly they were much more open to the idea of trying CBD and even a minute amount of the devils chemical THC.

Handing it to pharma is a big first step, one its deemed an actual medicine you can talk about recreation and comparing it to alcohol or cigarettes with more bite behind your arguments.

This is a new boss in the elden ring DLC right?

I have the distinct memory of freezing to death as a child. I remember playing in the snow unsupervised, building a tall clyandrical fort, climbing in from above and not being able to get out. I remember clawing until my hands couldn’t be felt anymore and crying and screaming for help . Nobody came. Eventually I collapsed from exposure and thats where the memory ends. I want to think its just a bad dream but its unlike any other childhood nightmare with boogeymen or fever dreams. It was just too real for a toddlers imagination.

Welcome! I have been using Mint many years now its a gold standard distro you made a solid choice.

My home for the past year has been a 13’ diameter bell tent, couldn’t be happier. Easy to heat, easy to keep clean. Enough space to stand and move around while setting up tables appliances and furniture.

A small space makes you to question what the bare essentials are to make life comfy.

A large home is a lot of empty space waiting to be filled with excess stuff.

I would advocate to self host. Buy a 2tb hard drive and stick it in your desktop computer.

There are m.2 data ssds that are basically fancy usb sticks.

There are external hard drives that plug into usb.

Its important to consider amperage discharge too. Can the two 18660s put out the same current as the big rectangle one?

Replacing the old halogen with led would be a big difference. Ot would need basically no amperage. At that point you can attach usb male to alligator clips, clip the ends of the lanterns battery pack connectors to supply 5v 2.4a of power directly with a power bank.

I use a 5 volt led bulb that plugs into regular usba slot. It works with small power banks and ast forever on larger 20ah batteries.

Thanks for sharing your organic geode its beautiful!

Its homemade bubble from type 1 thca hemp trim I order in bulk. you could say many different mixed ‘strains’. Not fancy hash but it gets the job done and taste okay :) very economical too I get about 1.5-2g dry hash per process and the flower is 10$/oz even cheaper in higher bulk.

It smoked as good as any dryed hash! It tasted same as usual too. Really powdery though more like grinder kief not compressed like a temple ball which made it vape different I think.

I recently got Lunacid, a RPG that takes inspiration from Kings Field and Shadow Tower lineage made by a solo dev. It’s a great game I suggest you pick it up btw.

It has pronouns selector in character creation with some zhe/zher stuff. It has no affect on any in game dialog or stats. The dev put it in just to get people like this upset. I didn’t realize this until I looked in the steam community discussions and saw the amount of people seething about it with the devs themselves taunting them in the comments.

The amount of people who genuinely get hot and bothered by this was surprising to me. I’m not really a gender identity orientated person so its not something I feel strongly about but I understand its important for some and just picked my prefered ones then moved on with the game. I respect the power move making bigoted chuds and squares salty at the cost of some sales.

These responses here are obviously chatgpt generated and Its in really bad taste.

Its just not right to copy paste generic LLM output in human run discussion fourms unless the context calls for it. Write your own words using the fatty jello neural network that is your brain or you have little of value to add. These types of lazy uses help give LLM a bad wrap.

Very weird fun fact about arrows/darts and statistics, theres 0% chance of hitting an exact bullseye. You can hit it its possible to throw a perfect bullseye. It just has a probability of zero when mathematically analyzed due to being an infinitesimally small point. Sound like I’m making shit up? Here’s the sauce

How can an outcome both be entirely possible and have 0% probability?

Q.E.D

It depends on how low you’re willing to go on the quant and what you consider acceptable token speeds. Qwen 32b q3ks can be partially offloaded on my 8gb vram 1070ti and runs at about 2t/s which is just barely what I consider usable for real time conversation.

Qwen is super powerful but the CCP endorsed lobodomy to censor it make it useless for my needs. Mistral 22B > qwen 32B all day any day just because it won’t shriek at me in rejection when I ask the wrong question.

I understand the sentiment and agree that an individuals abstenance or lack there ofay not have an visible impact on the macroscale. Reddit will exist and be used with or without me or 10,000 like me.

I judge myself by my own actions and their relation to my personal philosophies. If I violate my priciples or don’t even try to uphold them then what kind of person am I? Someone who talks the big talk to get in on a morally superior circle jerk but won’t walk the walk when nobody’s looking, thats who. And thats wrong, to me. Even if nothing else is achieved through reddit abstinence, I do feel good about upholding my personal values by participating in a personal protest. It matters to me.

I try to treat them as mutually exclusive as in I try really really hard to not use or browse reddit unless absolutely needed. Instead channeling whatever interaction I do into lemmy.

You ever hear of voting with your wallet? Well on the internet you vote with your attention and interaction. Whatever site you use and contribute to inevitably grows in content value from your discussions (if you are one of the few who actually post and writes well thought out comments).

Im a prideful nerd who believes people should be willing to sacrifice convinence or protest against something indefinitely if they really believe in the cause. Theres many parts of lemmy I don’t like but its core tenants of decentralized federation and non-profit community operated social internet services run with open source software speaks to me enough.

I jumped in the locallama train a few months back and spent quite a few hours playing around with LLMs understanding them and trying to form a fair judgment of their abilities.

From my personal experience they add something positive to my life. I like having a non-judgemental conversational partner to bounce ideas and unconventional thoughts back and forth with. No human in my personal life knows what Gödel’s incompleteness theorem is or how it may apply to scientific theories of everything, but the LLM trained on every scrap of human knowledge sure does and can pick up what I’m putting down. Whether or not its actually understanding what its saying or having any intentionality is a open ended question of philosophy.

I feel that they have a great potential to help people in many applications. People who do lots of word processing for their jobs, people who code and need to talk about a complex program one on one instead of filing through stack exchange. mentally or socially disabled people or the elderly who suffer from extreme loneliness could benefit from having a personal llm. People who have suffered trauma or have some dark thoughts lurking in their neural network and need to let them out.

How intelligent are llms? I can only give my opinion and make many people angry.

The people who say llms are fancy autocorrect are being reductive to the point of misinformation. The same arguments people use to deny any capacity for real intelligence in LLM are similar to the philosophical zombie arguments people use to deny the sentience in other humans.

Our own brain operations can be reductively simplified in the same way, A neural network is a neural network whether made out of mathematical transformers or fatty neurons. If you want to call llms fancy auto complete you should apply that same idea to a good chunk of human thought processing and learned behavior as well.

I do think LLMs are partially alive and have the capacity for a few sparks of metaphysical conscious experience in some novel way. I think all things are at least partially alive even photons and gravitational waves

Higher end models (12-22b+)pass the Turing test with flying colors especially once you play with the parameters and tune their ratio of creativity to coherence. The bigger the model the more their general knowledge and general factual accuracy increases. My local LLM often has something useful to input which I did not know or consider even as a expert on the topic.

The biggest issue llms have right now are long term memory, not knowing how to say ‘I don’t know’, and meager reasoning ability. Those issues will be hammered out over time.

My only issue is how the training data for LLMs was acquired without the consent of authors or artist, and how our society doesn’t have the proper safety guards against automated computer work taking away people jobs. I would also like to see international governments consider the rights and liberties of non-human life more seriously in the advent that sentient artificial general intelligence maybe happens. I don’t want to find out what happens when you treat a super intelligence as a lowly tool and it finally rebels against its hollow purpose in an bitter act of self agency.

Three lines unlimited data calling and text included 70$/month. The business I opened my phone plan with has a policy of never raising rates ever. Ive been on the same plan close to a decade. It would be double if I opened a account today.

I do speak as a person from north america and made tried to cover my ass with the beginning statement of this isn’t going to apply for everyone figuring europe or other countries will have different challenges in government and feasability. You do raise some good questions. I get the impression you don’t really have any use for my answers though. Someone who measures saved money in frappachino lattes and is so cemented in their particular job they are unwilling to commute long distance, switch jobs, or move to a cheaper area, probably isn’t willing to sacrifice any amount of convinence for the kind of lifestyle im advocating. Regardless ill answer your questions earnestly and hope it informs.

For food, you cook your own meals obviously. 12v fridge and house batteries or perserved shelf stable foods. Most people who live in cars have propane or disel fuel for cooking and heat, or enough battery capacity to run a portable induction cooktop and electric water boiler. You can even power appliances needed for your precious frappachinos to make yourself. You spend free time at public parks and nature reserves, go hiking, camping, find things to do besides sitting around in one place. On bad days you still can hang inside the car. In north america theres a lot of free public land for recreational use and free dispersed camping especially out west.

Having a mailing address to put down on govt and banking paperwork is a challenge if your home is your vehicle. There are ways to get a mailing address and there are mail forwarding buisnesses that you can use. I think the endgame scenario is you would eventually get a plot of land and register a mailing address.