I grew up somewhere where it didn’t cool down a lot at night and the only solution was to sleep in front of a fan. Sometimes I could get the fan to blow directly into the sheets and sort of balloon them out which was pleasant.

Where I live now it cools at night so I can open the windows at night and close them up during the day. Sometimes I close the curtains too if it will be extreme. I open the windows and create a cross draft when it cools down.

Those ice/fan pseudo a/c setups don’t work well.

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, eh?

I know a couple where the guy is quite a lot older and less attractive than the girl and guys will legit regularly confront the girl at the bar or at concerts and stuff being like “why are you with this guy” visibly upset

Stahp llm philosophy makes no sense if you think about the mechanics of what it is doing. Think about what it accomplishes and how and what kind of truths it can potentially shed light on given those constraints. Do a little more philosophy irl if you don’t understand how this cannot accomplish anything philosophically useful.

Similarly, if you read the silicon valley artificial intelligence pseudo-research happening specifically from the computer science perspective right now it’s kind of hilarious how much of it is elementary takes on well established philosophical questions that people think they’re discovering for the first time. Look up neuralese if you want an example. Classic example of silicon valley being so excited it ‘invented’ the taxi.

Extremely empathetic lol

I live in an apartment building so for a lot of movies I have to put on the subtitles because it would be rude to turn the volume up enough to hear the dialogue clearly. They always mix the gunshots like 8dB above the dialogue!

US midwest — I was taught both versions in school but we focused more on latin american/mexican spanish which more people around us spoke.

Nextdoor does this haha

Less of a bot problem, more influence over the features added, no ads, no dealing with mergers or shareholders or ceos, anyone can build software to interact with it, code is open source and auditable, if you don’t want to deal with moderators you can self host. A lot of people left reddit because reddit was acting like a bully.

I hope more people join so that niche communities can form but I’m happy to make do with less people for the time being.

Thanks for the summary! I’m willing to go to $100 or so, but I kind of want 2 which makes me want to go for something cheaper just to explore. I have been looking at some of the ones on etsy. Lilygo seems very sleak. I need to ponder further.

Do you have any recommendations for cheap/simple starters that don’t need a phone?

FIFA peace prize in shambles

I like to think that sentence finishing has something to do with brain synchronization

Mcdonald’s did a promotional video where the ceo (this guy^) ate their new burger on camera to show even the ceo likes their burgers, but people thought he seemed like he’d never eaten a burger and now he’s presumed reptilian until further proof.

Google will probably filter these out of results now so it’s harder to tell. glad it was exposed though

Agreed, I just think we need to nurture how people relate to/ground their opinions before theory can take root properly. Currently both science and politics are treated like sophistry—it’s all a matter of argument

What I think is especially unhelpful is people who have not read enough theory to understand what they are talking about (let alone considered it in the context it was written), but they are passionate about an issue so they try to debate people using the logic of that theory and they end up just making the theory seem like nonsense because they didn’t understand it. Only in the context of debate does it make sense to argue for a theory you don’t really grasp. Debate is about winning an argument but not about what is ‘true’ or ‘right’. I would rather that person just stick to their guns on the basics of whatever the argument is over (ie. genocide is bad no exceptions). This way they stand firmly on their own feet but can also have confidence in their reasons even without a nuanced historical perspective of how things got to where they are.

Anyway I love reading and discussing theory and philosophy (including your guides) and find it extremely rich and rewarding. It should be used as fodder to help you think rather than a guidebook to inform what you should think.

I like the anarchist tendency to encourage thinking for yourself because I think outsourcing political opinions and generally the narrative that politics is too complicated for the layman to fully grasp goes a long way in enabling a world where everything is treated as sophistry leaving gaps for people to blindly follow ideologues. Something similar happened with science and now we have folks ‘debating’ things that are clear as day if you just look.

Encouraging each person to think for themselves isn’t to say everyone should live in a private conspiracy. I think everyone should take a course in propositional logic or higher because it truly helps your brain sort through information more clearly and quicker, and makes you much sharper at catching sophistry.

In ourselves we should try to note when we hit that point in an argument when we are arguing just to win. At that point we should (potentially apologize) and bow out. Arguing just to win is unhelpful.

Theory is much more helpful once you have your feet under you. You are committed to dignity for all. That is a strong position to assess the world from. The categories are quite clear. Once you are here reading theory, especially examples of successful revolutionary projects, helps you understand the types of tools and approaches you might use (or avoid) to bring about change. It also saves lives to avoid strategies that commonly fail.

An incredibly big brain way to lose your money!

Third frame: After purchasing the pen B uses the pen as collateral to take an additional loan from A