☭CommieWolf☆

Only surprise here for me is Venezuela and Nicaragua. Like seriously… still?

They really ought to try, their soft power in the world is alarmingly bad considering the potential. How on earth is Occupied Korean media more widespread and mainstream than Chinese?

Okay now you’re being a bit ridiculous, the precise reason I say 5 fingers isn’t strictly necessary is because I have experience working at workshops with people with missing digits. Hell, if you’ve ever had broken fingers for a any long periods of time, you would also be able to get used to making do with two of them stuck together (effectively giving you just 4 fingers, I would know). Even the discomfort you’re alleging to is completely pointless, because while yes our tools are made to feel comfortable with 5 fingers, with some slight adjustment, we can use them just as efficiently with less. This has nothing to do with robotics, because unlike humans, they aren’t “used to” having any number of fingers, so it makes no difference to them whether they have 5, 4, or 3, Boston dynamics knows this well enough that their robot arms have just 3 claws, and that’s still capable of practically any basic manual task. I am not saying humans don’t need 5 fingers (It certainly helps), I’m saying robots do not need them, and especially for the kind of job shown in the video.

The assumption that we need to strive for human-like design isn’t really accurate. Maybe in the future, but right now the amount of energy and effort required for bipedal balance and movement is not worth it for the very minor advantages of such machines. Being upright and bipedal is a huge engineering headache that we’re barely managing to cope with in robots today, which simply isn’t needed for most tasks. Neverminded having 5 fully operable digits, which even humans really only need when playing musical instruments. I’m not doubting the potential, I’m just skeptical about this particular implementation when there are way cheaper and more convenient/logical options around. Seems a little PR stunt-y.

why do they have to be humanoid? Seems a bit unnecessary. The boston dynamics dog with an arm on it’s back could do the same job, no?

I feel like every couple of weeks someone ends up in your current headspace and posts something like this. I wonder how many average US Americans are thinking the same. Probably not so many, considering the sampling bias of Lemmygrad, but it’s a little humorous to imagine some years down the line Cuba and China having a substantial population of recently arrived disillusioned US migrant communities, a sort of reverse Gusano effect.

I’d disagree, genius doesn’t necessarily have a moral dimension to it. A lot of things can be the product of genius, but the application is what can be measured through whether it is commendable or insidious. If there is one thing I can say the US really does better than any country on earth, it is propaganda, and the methodology and apparatus that was developed to propagate and instill these beliefs took a lot of research and “geniuses” to get it to where it is. Now of course the way they used this talent to further destabilizing propaganda, lies, and capitalist realism is of course morally reprehensible and should be condemned, but their effectiveness cannot be denied. Much like how the Manhattan Project was a product of brilliant physics and engineering, but the weapons it created were used for some of the cruelest killings in history.

If only you and @poland weren’t the only two who seem to have ever played it, I feel a lot more people would see just how much Civ 7 borrowed from Humankind, I’ve seen not so many other’s realize the amount of simlarities.

This woman has been on all sides of all issues and says whatever she has to to survive and keep her career afloat. Either she’s incredibly slimy and just a clever politician, or she’s an insidious, carefully crafter psyop.

Welcome to the grad’ friend. We’ve got a fairly interesting recurring cast around here, I’m sure you’ll fit in.

Was it a landslide victory? Or was it somewhat close?

I prefer it when the sun’s up later, makes me feel like I’m very productive and have a whole lot of day ahead of me.

we have the china bad times here on lemmygrad, if that counts.

… what’s just capitalism?

I agree, something about new lego just doesn’t seem like it’s lego anymore. I wouldn’t have known at first glance.

Something like this just has more soul

Michael Parenti said it beautifully: Any aid from a capitalist country is when money is taken from the poor people of a rich country and given to the rich people of a poor country

Specifically only mentioned Arabs and Arab countries, this guy is almost certainly a racist PoS, the fact he’s bringing up football as if that matters to anything, massive red flag.

Second to last paragraph this guy showed his ass. Conveniently not mentioning the one real benefit of learning French, being able to communicate with half of Africa, which apparently isn’t worthwhile because they’re “poor”, piss off.

Man, it’s over. Syria is lost. It will be lifetimes before things recover there.

cuz quirky and cool