Exactly. I do not care if everyone thought I was mega-MechaHitler Stalin III if something I did resulted in us becoming a multi-planetary species with active eugenics and some notion of real progress.
Lord, I just don’t care. Think what you want while I do what I will.
You Have Misunderstood Friendship.
The idea that people should simply exclude half the human population from the pool of potential friends is extraordinary to me. If you genuinely cannot fathom why anyone would ever have a friend of the opposite sex, I would suggest that you cannot really fathom friendship at all.
I know that one has been in my “Links” posts, but wanted to say a little bit about this. I also find it nearly-unutterably idiotic the idea that men and women cannot be friends. I’m extremely grateful for my women friends. I am not “orbiting” them (whatever that means); they are not orbiting me. We hang out. We do fun things. We watch movies. We share thoughts, ideas, and advice. We laugh. We visit museums. We go to restaurants. Just like male friends (though most of my friends are in fact women).
The fear beneath the dogmatic claim that heterosexual men and women cannot be friends is, of course, that friendship might lead to romantic or sexual attraction, with all the complications that could follow, particularly if one or both people are already in relationships. But this concern reflects a curiously immature understanding of human relationships. Mature human beings generally move through the world encountering many attractive people while simply not acting on that fact. Attraction does not compel any action and, in partnered adults with rudimentary impulse control, it generally functions as an observation that passes through the mind and passes out again.
Exactly. I find all my women friends beautiful in different ways. That does not mean we have to sleep together. Anyway, why in hell would I want to hang out with someone of either gender I did not find attractive or interesting in some way? Sounds stupid, like something a clown would do. And I’ve spent my life attempting to avoid clownish shit.
Men who cannot be friends with women and vice versa are intellectually stunted and not full human beings. Simple as that.
Nika Prevc world record ski jump.
Nika is very sleek-a.
Pretty wild for a brother and sister to hold a world record at the same time. That looks like so much fun but I’d so die if I attempted something like that.
The economist idea that AI is not eliminating jobs is ludicrous. Of course it is. The best models now can do about 95% of 10% people’s jobs already. All white collar, of course. In a few years, it’ll be 40% of white collar jobs.
That MBAs won’t cut jobs like Freddy Kruger slicing up people is fucking absurd. Of course they are and will.
¡Qué canción tan divertida! Se pone cada vez mejor a medida que avanza.
Fucking incredible mic setup. That’s how you do it (if you have the money).
Not a real music video, but a sweet little song by a woman giving off strong Wednesday Addams vibes. I like it.
Europe’s struggling auto sector eyes defense contract lifeline.
AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web.
Reddit's CEO wants to “anonymously” verify human identity through FaceID.
Sophisticated drones attacked the US base where we store the nuclear bombers.
Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find.
Negative West Texas Gas Prices Reveal Mismatch in Global Energy.
What The AI Consciousness Question Conceals.
Psychology researchers identify a key emotional pattern among procrastinators.
Excessive smartphone habits tied to emotional dysregulation in the brain.
The pain of social rejection. As far as the brain is concerned, a broken heart may not be so different from a broken arm. And women claim men getting rejected all the time is “no big deal.” BULLSHIT.
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip.
They are under police scrutiny because they do things like larceny, assault and gang rape. Those are all very good reasons.
Islamophobia is fake. Islam is our enemy.
This clownery is just someone who has a bullshit job and doesn’t know how to use the tools.
AI can be extremely useful — if you work with it correctly. For instance, today, using something I’d already developed in ChatGPT, I fed a questionnaire a company sent in (for an RFP) to my custom ChatGPT project. The normal time it would’ve taken me to complete a long questionnaire like this is a couple of hours.
Including the time it took me to verify it and tweak it after, it took five minutes. AI saved me one hour and 55 minutes, and produced a better result than I probably would have.
Like any tool, AI does not work if you don’t use it correctly. If you use a slide rule as a rock hammer, you’re gonna have a bad time. Why can’t people get that through their heads?
Another example. The other day, I ran a fairly complex financial analysis in ChatGPT. If I’d done it myself it would’ve taken 4-6 hours.
ChatGPT completed it (fully correctly, with some small tweaks) in 30 minutes. It also resulted in us saving about $5,000 a month in Azure costs. Real money, not whatever pretend shit the Twitter doof is going on about.
If you use the tool not like a damn clown, it can make you vastly more productive. But the crucial part is: do not be a huge fucking clown. And that’s where most people fail.
The first step should’ve been not to allow feral third worlders to gang-rape her. That would’ve prevented everything after.
And everyone who claims that they only eat 800 calories a day and still gain weight is lying, lying, lying. Have to be, as that’s physically impossible.
I once saw a dude who maintained, “I only eat about 1,000 calories a day” routinely eat ~1,300 calorie breakfasts in front of me. He wasn’t counting his 300 calorie drink, nor any of the copious toppings he added to that breakfast. I never saw what he had for dinner (only breakfast and lunch), but I estimate if dinner was anything like the rest, he was consuming around 3,500 calories per diem. He was mystified why he was not losing weight on his “diet.”
This is how most people — for lack of a better word — think.
Tonight, I was trying to think of which song I had listened to the most times in my life all the way through. And that’s difficult, as I listened to quite a few songs in high school over and over again in a way that I just do not tend to now.
A solid guess is “Bells Ring” by Mazzy Star. Damn, I must’ve queued that song up dozens of times in a row for a few years; it felt like its own tiny world to explore.
Incidentally, I saw that performance above the first and only time it aired. I even recorded it on VHS. Not sure why that version is cut off at the end, but that’s a great one despite the poor audio. In most ways, it betters the album version. I think Hope’s performance in particular is superior in the live edition. She sounds more pouty, somehow more depressedly impassioned, and more mysterious there. The album version is more sterile and more restrained despite using electric instruments.
The album version, though, does have a damn fine outro.
The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos.
Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you “verify” the bug remains unfixed. They did that to my bug report about Finder (still unfixed to this day).
Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant.
Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN’s truck.
At least 40% of Russia's oil export capacity halted, Reuters calculations show.
The Sun Is 'Glitching.' Scientists Investigated and Solved a Cosmic Mystery.
The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data.
The Social-Media Shakedown Begins.
Trump’s Ambivalence on Taiwan Opens a Historic Opportunity for China.
The claim that men and women cannot be friends says more about you than about friendship.
2026’S historic snow drought is bad news for the West.
Iran Is Applying the Lessons of Russia’s Drone Warfare Against America.
She uncovered a terrifying lab hidden in California, with alleged ties to China.
The Long-Term Decline of the U.S. Jobs Ladder.
Local Opposition Is Slowing A.I. Data Centers. Wall Street Has Noticed.
America Depends Less on Oil Than Ever.
