the vacuuming on the bed is also hilarious

but also it CRAWLED ONTO A BED while also doing an action with one free hand

robots have a funny physiology in where their mass is distributed (and the general lack of it at all - neo is 66 lbs, G1 is 77)

humans have more muscle in the butt and thighs which counterbalances leaning over like this, but robots aren't distributed like that; can't just copy the same posture

also, being able to full squat is a huge upgrade from neo which seemingly can't really reach lower than its knees (and it's very slow and awkward to even get there)

pay attention next time you empty a dishwasher or do chores in your house - it's a lot of frequent bending down!

I do think it's a bit adorable when my system prompt is to be direct and no fluff and then gpt spends a lot of time saying "the short answer, the too-the-point answer, the no-fluff answer, is this:"

it is true, a lot of my life is flavored by the local context of living downhill (to the east) of the rocky mountains and their river runoff that floods us just as often as droughts us

it's probably merely tricky to make such contextual messaging when trying to do big conservation campaigns

oh man, when those cups of 'em go on sale at costco I am a fiend

sure, but like, that's still just in the greater loop?

it either ends up in the ground water or ends up in clouds that rain it back into the rivers we take it from

in any case, it's never being _destroyed_

could be! it was certainly in the zeitgeist. we were going to reduce reuse and recycle our way out of everything

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also, maybe, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006

I remember all my teachers nodding along with that

my conspiracy from Strongtowns is that most cities kick the infrastructure can down the road a lot and the 90's-00's just happened to be an era where the median city was getting old enough to be hitting the recommended lifespan of their stuff

totally, I grew up in a farm town and remember specific drought summers and things. the other year we had a water main break and went into conservation mode because at some usage level certain neighborhoods would simply run dry

but in day to day running life that's just not how it works

at worst you could argue the energy cost of running the filtration and such is non-zero, but also I don't think any amount of sink-running or shower-taking I'm doing is anywhere close to adding up to the amount of water we casually just lose into the ground every day:

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like, I've participated in and raised thousands of dollars to drill water wells in kenya, and that's actual mutable water that they materially did not have and cannot be reclaimed

but we lived in a city with a water treatment plant? anything you pour down the drain just gets filtered and comes back

I know exactly what that photo smells like, haha

wait, did they make generative slop for their poster about abolishing the horrors of generative slop

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I have an android phone with the gemini assistant and the voice synthesis is decent, but the tool-use is a little derpy (I think merely right now there's just no MCP for phone apps)

would suspect siri just copy-pastes their notes for the apple side, and hopefully some better OS level integration

speech specifically is outside of my world, but I'm of the impression that they're surprisingly not as expensive as one would think -- possibly even in the realm of the straight text generation by itself