We had to memorise South East Asia and its capitals. You had it easy. Look up the capital of Brunei.
We weren't advised to use mnemonics
If you count a plastic tub you do
Something I recall from youth: expert - ex is a has-been, spurt is a drip under pressure; so an expert is a has-been drip under pressure
I don't think it's funny to me anymore, but had I ever seen anyone in that shirt it'd have been the funniest thing to say when I was 14
Also there was no need in Italy and Greece. Britain invented steam engines because they needed a better way to pump water out of their mines, people worked out later that they could use these engines to power a cart, a digging machine, a rail machine. They needed mines for heating fuel due to the cold climate, they needed coal fired heat for their metallurgy
You need reasons to invent stuff (necessity is the mother of invention) and you're not going to get much reason in a perfect climate with all the food you need coming from the sea and land all year
Britain already had rails for human and horse drawn carts
Good for us as we wouldn't exist without the world going exactly as it has (I guess unless you're from a culture that didn't get conquered/settled and has been quite insular), but imagine where technology would be if industrial civilisation had been continuous from so early
Sometimes it's not good here. We only have 25 million people and we drive on the left, so we miss out on quite a few vehicles
AI tools are pretty good in Photoshop; they're pretty good in copilot; Ukraine claims they're good at guiding a drone to a Russian bomber (though they also hit decommissioned aircraft). I think you only see the use of less specialised AI used to generate low quality text and soulless images
I feel like there's a bit of trying to scare the kid off from that life course and get married like a proper person in that letter
What, jessvj is not baffled? That's an odd thing to study
I think you're fairly safe here. People using AI tools professionally generally like them, only overuse and careless use are seen as bad here
Out on general Lemmy though you'll get down votes for comments in favour of AI
Imagine getting that design past review
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