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Cake day: September 16th, 2023

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  • Well Europe had the benefit of full sovereignty over the entire continent, instead of investing in infrastructure it was all just plundered in the name of profits for the honeland

    I mean, don’t get me wrong I know that China is not doing anything of pure benevolency, still having China as a partner is better than being a colony I guess

    I believe that a better counterargument would be: “well when Europe was relevant to the african continent electricity wasn’t even deployed in all of Europe”




  • You (and the other guy that replied) are indeed thinking of usury (which is a very evil thing, even frowned upon by most religions), which is the situation of lending assets to for the sake of profit

    Debt on the other hand is a more general concept, did you ever borrow a pen from another person? While you were writing you were in debt for that pen (but this is a silly example that can be disregarded)

    Did your parents take care of you as a child? In most cultures, thar means you’re in debt and owe them care when they get old (though I understand that this varies from culture to culture, but the idea is there anyway) If you are friendly to your neighbors and they invite you home to dinner several times, you are also expected to pay back the favor sometime down the road, this is another form of debt

    To sum it up, debt is much more intrinsic to our behavior as humans than we usually think, even though “formal debt” might not be





  • Oh, I didn’t know they do links now

    In this case I’ll give you that it can be useful (mostly in reading several recipes and summarizing), but personally I’m still going to do the old school web search (if anything, just to exercise my information retrieval skill, which I believe is important)


  • I respectfully disagree, while you might be able to get some pointers, I would not trust LLMs with the ingredients quantities (given that replacing a number or measure unit is quite easy and would go unnoticed)

    So while I could understand asking: “should I put bell peppers on this dish?”, I would never trust it’s answer to “how much bell pepper should I put in the recipe?” (Which I believe is what recipes are about)