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[Eric Blank]

I wouldn't doubt if it was a bunch of teenagers. Its basically priority #1 for american teenagers to wreck everything they think they can get away with. You can't be a cool kid unless you break all the rules while stoned.

[RedKing]

#MetalLivesMatter

[hops]

Well, the second prototype should have machine guns then.

[Bauglir]

I didn't know you could do machine learning on video cards.

Lot of neural net implementations amount to a fuckload of vector arithmetic, and GPUs do that very efficiently compared to CPUs.

[Helgoland]

#Number5 #MetalLivesMatter

[hops]

I wouldn't doubt if it was a bunch of teenagers. Its basically priority #1 for american teenagers to wreck everything they think they can get away with. You can't be a cool kid unless you break all the rules while stoned.

tbh if it went to Asia, especially around SEA, then it'd probably be dismantled and melted down for the metal parts.

[Tack]

Nothing I do means anything.

I used to believe that.
I used to believe that nothing anybody ever did meant anything.
But now I've been informed that my kids will be going to school via boat because of rampant global warming.

So now I know that I can personally play a hand in the destruction of humanity.

[Trapezohedron]

My very own point of view is screwed up silly.

Can't ever look at the world without a tinge of tragedy, despair, hopelessness and auto-confirming biases. I can still find happiness in this "imperfect" world, but I'm ultimately too out of it to be of any optimistic help.

Everyone needs you for some reason. If you fulfill said reason, they stop being relevant to you, and likewise you to them.

[Tiruin]

Everyone needs you for some reason. If you fulfill said reason, they stop being relevant to you, and likewise you to them.

Methinks this plays a big role with that PoV o_o
It's incomplete...and stops far short of the intent of people [that, or you've been living in a rough neighborhood with inefficiency and such ]
That ain't how everyone is though. Take that note as hope.

[Tack]

Exactly. A person can never become redundant to another person because they carry the promise of being useful for another thing later.

[Gunner-Chan]

Exactly. A person can never become redundant to another person because they carry the promise of being useful for another thing later.

You'd say that, but that implies said person wasn't using you in the end. In my case that was definitely true at least.

I'm more disappointed in myself for letting that mess happen at this point, though i'm over it. ... Besides the spite. That's there still.

[Tack]

*shrug*. I consider myself as using all of my friends, and vice versa. That's company.
On the note of spite however, I'm pretty sure we've had a falling out in the past at least as big as this. Shappens. Life continues, usually.

[Trapezohedron]

I'm not entirely sure hope helps, since Tack's observation quite literally supports my own point of view in my own biased ways.

In a perfect, contractual world, you stop being relevant the moment you execute your obligations. But, people know they can use you for something else. Perhaps some emotional support? Perhaps, a different "contract", or as would be more commonly known to people, favors and tasks. They can't quite throw you away yet.

They stop relying on you provided you fulfill your purpose of friendship/labor/whatever, or when they find a better substitute.

As for intent... That's 'nother whole can of worms.

There is no such thing as unconditional love.

By that extension, my biases include the concept of true love in it. People tend to fall in love because you're who you are, in that very second. Given that you change for a bit, they might try to nudge you back into that path. "Don't change. Don't ever change."

But are you really in love with that person? Or are you just simply in love with the memory of that person, or who they once were? It's hard to say. Divorce statistics say that commitment is a major issue (73%), also Unrealistic Expectations (43%). My biases tell me that part of said unrealistic expectations involve how the person actually lives their lives beyond just dating and etc. This changes your point of view, makes you question your love for said person, and bring up divorce when it comes to it.

Considering my parents just up and left me (and my brothers) alone due to matters of finance, my view is really screwed.

[WillowLuman]

That is a bleak view indeed :c

I'd very much disagree, though life has probably been kinder to me than some others.

[Tack]

They stop relying on you provided you fulfill your purpose of friendship/labor/whatever, or when they find a better substitute.

Eh. Most people need more love than one person has the energy to give. That's why we have multiple friends. Especially if you're after a specific style of something. For instance, my friends don't exactly come to me for sympathy, they come to me for humor. Strangely enough, humans are all unique butterflies so even if there was another -sympathy +humor friend they had, they wouldn't have my unique style of personality. That's the thing you tend to miss when bridges are burnt.

As for change and divorce and whatnot, I'd disagree. Everyone changes, everyone else notices it and usually goes along with it. It's all about knowing the difference between positive and negative change, yo.