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Wooden-Importance t1_jeg9gmr wrote

Reply to How long is to long of a commute. by bluecommet84

One hour and 10 minutes each way is 2 hours and 20 minutes per day of commuting. (in good weather)

A little over 11 1/2 hours per week of commuting. (in good weather)

~50 hours per month of commuting. (in good weather)

You need to consider gas prices and wear and tear on your vehicle.

Whether it's worth it or not is up to you.

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MadamKitsune t1_jeg9fgd wrote

Reply to I (F26) put myself first for my mental health in our relationship and I don’t know if it was the right thing to do. 5yrs bf (M26) by yinyanyin

Take the trip without him. Spend three days looking after yourself and examining the relationship as a whole. At the end of it all ask yourself if you are looking forward to seeing him again and going back to how things are between you. Anything other than a definite yes means its time to call it quits.

Relationships can't be 'sunshine and roses around the door' all the time but the overall general vibe should be happy and fulfilled, not frustrated and drained, which sounds liike where you are. It's very possible that you've simply outgrown him and a break might be just the clarity you need to accept that.

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Smellz_Of_Elderberry t1_jeg9est wrote

Reply to comment by AlFrankensrevenge in There's wild manipulation of news regarding the "AI research pause" letter. by QuartzPuffyStar

Hackers got a powerful new tool.. ya, and so did the hundreds of millions more people who work against said hackers.

Ai is a force multiplier. You could easily have used the same argument against cell phones.. "well criminals will get instant communication! And then they can use that against us" yes? And the whole population also gets access to instant communication, so now they can call for help from anywhere.. and the ability to collectively organize FAR more efficiently. Out of fear, you would hold millions of people back..

> Nation states just got a powerful new tool of social control. Just take the latest open source code and make some tweaks to insert their biases and agendas.

Nation states will already have access.. an international board would be created for the benefit of those nation states... (but not for the people which they rule over)

You are afraid of how individuals might use it.. When you should be afraid of how mega powers who on a daily basis throw people into cages to be raped, or bomb people in countries they can't point to on a map, will use the technology after they have become the official gate keepers..

I would rather be dead than live in a world in which only the unelected elite get the keys to ai. Which is what happens without open source.

Luckily, there are plenty of principled people who will continue to develop such technology and make it available to all mankind, even if such a tyrannical international elite body determines no one but their royally decreed few shall have that privilege.

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