Ok, just renewed my domains for another 5 years. Cost a bit of cash to do, but I can't imagine my life without my websites now (I might be broken?)
The fact that Canada -- and not nice vancouver or sunny toronto, but actual Canada with winters that can reach -40C -- has tent cities is a national shame, and it happened under "Canada's natural ruling party".
Foraging for food out of necessity isn't a big leap.
Foraging for food out of necessity isn't a big leap.
Worst part isn't linear, it's exponential.
If you don't have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, nobody likes it. If you do have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, you'll be disproportionately rewarded for making something viral.
On the fediverse, every once in awhile I'll post a meme that does great, and other times I post something substantial on Yugoslavia and get pretty little engagement. But it's fine, people will see what they want to see and they won't see what they don't want to see, but who follow me will get everything -- post about Yugoslavia and the meme post. On big tech, the fact that I make a post about Yugoslavia it's typically going to mean that nobody sees my meme post because I pounded myself into the dirt through the algorithm.
If you don't have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, nobody likes it. If you do have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, you'll be disproportionately rewarded for making something viral.
On the fediverse, every once in awhile I'll post a meme that does great, and other times I post something substantial on Yugoslavia and get pretty little engagement. But it's fine, people will see what they want to see and they won't see what they don't want to see, but who follow me will get everything -- post about Yugoslavia and the meme post. On big tech, the fact that I make a post about Yugoslavia it's typically going to mean that nobody sees my meme post because I pounded myself into the dirt through the algorithm.
It's crazy that Yugoslavia split into so many countries afterwards. Tito was either a brilliant leader or totally screwed up the whole region.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo.
Either he was keeping a region that was destined to be split up into a thousand little countries together, or his actions fueled tensions that caused a region that could have been unified or mostly unified to become deeply balkanized.
By the way, I never realized until editing this post that Yugoslavia is actually part of the Balkan peninsula, meaning the use of the word balkanized is deeply fitting and in fact the country was formed in response to the Balkan wars where in the first war the Ottomans were expelled and in the second the different Balkan states were warring with each other pre-WWI and then World War I, both of which resulted in a large number of countries that were partially hostile to one another -- World War 1 was in fact caused as a direct result of the Balkan conflict, with a Serbian nationalist killing Franz Ferdinand)
Holy crap there's a lot of important history jammed into what from a map looks like a country changing into other countries!
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo.
Either he was keeping a region that was destined to be split up into a thousand little countries together, or his actions fueled tensions that caused a region that could have been unified or mostly unified to become deeply balkanized.
By the way, I never realized until editing this post that Yugoslavia is actually part of the Balkan peninsula, meaning the use of the word balkanized is deeply fitting and in fact the country was formed in response to the Balkan wars where in the first war the Ottomans were expelled and in the second the different Balkan states were warring with each other pre-WWI and then World War I, both of which resulted in a large number of countries that were partially hostile to one another -- World War 1 was in fact caused as a direct result of the Balkan conflict, with a Serbian nationalist killing Franz Ferdinand)
Holy crap there's a lot of important history jammed into what from a map looks like a country changing into other countries!
Ackshually inflation has averaged 2% as long as you ignore food shelter and transportation but if you need to buy an IBM XT it's cheaper than ever!
Kindle is perfect for me because I travel a lot for work and carrying 162 paperbacks with me isn't practical for either me or the poor airport security, but I try to read dead tree books to my son at home because there's something iconic about reading from a thick leather bound hardcover book.
I guess I'd have to move to audio books if I couldn't read anymore. Short form media kind of loses it's luster.
I guess I'd have to move to audio books if I couldn't read anymore. Short form media kind of loses it's luster.
In my country, the boomers re-elected the liberals to own Trump. Basically the only demographic voting that way.
I made a conscious decision to start reading again a few years back, but prior to that I read hardly at all. There's a limited number of hours in the day, and it's a habit that you need to get into.
I do have to admit most of the stuff that I read is absolute trash. But it's trash that I find entertaining, and unfortunately a lot of Western media really doesn't seem to care about whether something is entertaining or not. (And to an extent I guess I'm not stuck in traffic I am traffic -- I hope people find Future sepsis entertaining when I publish it later this year, but I do have to admit I'm writing it because it's a story I'm enjoying telling, rather than a story that I know someone else will enjoy reading)
I do have to admit most of the stuff that I read is absolute trash. But it's trash that I find entertaining, and unfortunately a lot of Western media really doesn't seem to care about whether something is entertaining or not. (And to an extent I guess I'm not stuck in traffic I am traffic -- I hope people find Future sepsis entertaining when I publish it later this year, but I do have to admit I'm writing it because it's a story I'm enjoying telling, rather than a story that I know someone else will enjoy reading)
Apple considering raising iPhone prices -- unlike what they've been doing for the past 15 years where they've been raising iPhone prices.
“I honestly do not know how to bodyslam anyone,”
That's actually an impressively stupid thing to say. "I'm in charge of a city but I don't know how to make my body slam against another person's body" wow! Innocent of all charges! I
I don't believe that he doesn't know how to body slam anyone, it's not the sort of thing that you need specific knowledge to do. The claim that you don't know how to slam your body against someone else is just stupid. You don't need to be taught how to slam your body against someone else. It is sub-epistemological knowledge, similar to instinctually knowing how to open your eyes. "Nobody ever taught me how to look in a direction!!" Bullshit even if true. My 3 year old can body slam me by virtue or just being a human being who learned how to move.
Is this guy's lawyer an AI who has never used a human body before?
That's actually an impressively stupid thing to say. "I'm in charge of a city but I don't know how to make my body slam against another person's body" wow! Innocent of all charges! I
I don't believe that he doesn't know how to body slam anyone, it's not the sort of thing that you need specific knowledge to do. The claim that you don't know how to slam your body against someone else is just stupid. You don't need to be taught how to slam your body against someone else. It is sub-epistemological knowledge, similar to instinctually knowing how to open your eyes. "Nobody ever taught me how to look in a direction!!" Bullshit even if true. My 3 year old can body slam me by virtue or just being a human being who learned how to move.
Is this guy's lawyer an AI who has never used a human body before?
We're all part of a chain of life that goes back so far we can't actually imagine in our minds how long it is, going back to the first flickers or life on Earth. Our ancestors survived the oxygen catastrophe and the ensuing global ice age, the meteor that killed the dinosaurs and the formation of pangea which formed a super-desert.
Which is amazing. Life is a miracle. We are small links in a chain that is incredibly long and may still be incredibly long from here on out.
So happy mother's day to all the mothers of the past who endured hardships our wonderful civilization can't even imagine, as well as those today doing work we don't consider as elemental as it really is.
Which is amazing. Life is a miracle. We are small links in a chain that is incredibly long and may still be incredibly long from here on out.
So happy mother's day to all the mothers of the past who endured hardships our wonderful civilization can't even imagine, as well as those today doing work we don't consider as elemental as it really is.
It's like "wow, that's pretty bad. Probably shouldn't have illegally entered the country, then your kids and grandkids wouldn't have gotten arrested."
How much US debt growth was off budget and isn't going through now due to some of the small auditing changes?
Former Justice Souter died.
We'd probably disagree politically, but it was a sad day when he retired 10-15 years ago. He often spoke during hearings and near the end of his tenure on the supreme Court I had a big habit of listening to supreme Court hearings on oyez.
He always had something funny to say. He seemed to understand the law of course, but it was always pretty nice having some levity in the middle of court cases that tended to be extremely dry. I looked forward to Souters wit.
I'm glad he was able to have a nice long retirement, he seemed like a good guy.
We'd probably disagree politically, but it was a sad day when he retired 10-15 years ago. He often spoke during hearings and near the end of his tenure on the supreme Court I had a big habit of listening to supreme Court hearings on oyez.
He always had something funny to say. He seemed to understand the law of course, but it was always pretty nice having some levity in the middle of court cases that tended to be extremely dry. I looked forward to Souters wit.
I'm glad he was able to have a nice long retirement, he seemed like a good guy.
I just saw a video talking about how "men don't ask women for advice on dating because men bad".
Reality is, women will tell you what worked for them, but that's dumb advice for men because they're women -- the whole experience of being a woman is fundamentally different than being a man, especially in dating.
In college, my mom gave me advice like "Just talk to women on the bus!" Well she was a decent looking middle-aged woman at the time, she could just strike up a conversation, and most men would find her perfectly tolerable. Women's mental space isn't like that. Women are much more defensive, especially with strange men. The concept of a "Barrage of bore" of guys trying to get with a pretty girl every day from their 16th birthday onwards is real. Women typically have too many men expressing interest and need to pare down the number of men asking, most men outside of the top 1% typically don't have virtually any women expressing interest and need to gin up leads to have someone to accept or reject in the first place.
Eventually I did date, and I got married, and I had to use totally different techniques than women did because I'm not a woman. I had to figure out how to seem safe, how to seem interesting, and how to be fun.
In the book "Self-made man", Norah Vincent talks about dating in her man disguise. I read the book all the way back in 2005, and the chapter on dating was the descent into darkness for Vincent. She went into it going "Stupid men, I'm a lesbian, I'll show these stupid men how to get women", but the pain she experienced realizing how she was treated as a man was palpable. It was clear that the simple acts of getting a new haircut, wearing a suit, binding her chest, and gluing some stubble to her face put her in a completely different class of person and she didn't realize she was going to walk into something like that.
Many people have also completed the experience of creating a dating profile of the opposite sex to see what it's like, and for women they're shocked at the silence even when they made their dream guy, and for men they're shocked at how they're inundated by attention even when they make a horrible woman.
"Just be nice and respectful" -- no, just be nice and respectful and don't be a sycophant and don't be boring, be exciting and fun and make her feel like you could be dangerous but not to her. She wants you to be dominant but to walk a fine line where you're dominant without being domineering. It's a load of paradoxes because human beings are paradoxical.
The whole "nice guy" syndrome is in a sense a reaction to guys who did listen to women and get frustrated that the advice is bad. "I was fuckin nice just like you told me, and instead of getting a girlfriend I got a girl friend. This is bullshit I didn't want a girl friend." -- A woman who followed men's advice would likely face a similar but different frustration if she were following men's dating advice. She can't bang every guy who hits on her who seems nice. In fact, we do see that on dating apps, were women end up having sex with men who are really attractive, but they find they can't actually get a boyfriend, she just gets a friend with benefits.
By the way, I later realized that as a man I was filled with similar paradoxes. When a man hasn't had the girlfriend who wants sex all the time but actually all the time, the hot girlfriend who is also too crazy, the fun girlfriend who doesn't have any responsibility, you start to realize you don't want what you think you wanted.
Consider two groups. One lives in a fortress with a granary, the other lives on the steppe. What do you do if under attack? For the first group, you hunger down behind safe walls and eat your accumulated grain until the enemy loses interest and leaves. For the second group, you run away on your horses because you can probably outrun them. Both are legitimate tactics, but totally unapplicable to one another.
You can say "that's not fair!" -- but life isn't fair, and the quicker you learn that, the happier life will be.
Reality is, women will tell you what worked for them, but that's dumb advice for men because they're women -- the whole experience of being a woman is fundamentally different than being a man, especially in dating.
In college, my mom gave me advice like "Just talk to women on the bus!" Well she was a decent looking middle-aged woman at the time, she could just strike up a conversation, and most men would find her perfectly tolerable. Women's mental space isn't like that. Women are much more defensive, especially with strange men. The concept of a "Barrage of bore" of guys trying to get with a pretty girl every day from their 16th birthday onwards is real. Women typically have too many men expressing interest and need to pare down the number of men asking, most men outside of the top 1% typically don't have virtually any women expressing interest and need to gin up leads to have someone to accept or reject in the first place.
Eventually I did date, and I got married, and I had to use totally different techniques than women did because I'm not a woman. I had to figure out how to seem safe, how to seem interesting, and how to be fun.
In the book "Self-made man", Norah Vincent talks about dating in her man disguise. I read the book all the way back in 2005, and the chapter on dating was the descent into darkness for Vincent. She went into it going "Stupid men, I'm a lesbian, I'll show these stupid men how to get women", but the pain she experienced realizing how she was treated as a man was palpable. It was clear that the simple acts of getting a new haircut, wearing a suit, binding her chest, and gluing some stubble to her face put her in a completely different class of person and she didn't realize she was going to walk into something like that.
Many people have also completed the experience of creating a dating profile of the opposite sex to see what it's like, and for women they're shocked at the silence even when they made their dream guy, and for men they're shocked at how they're inundated by attention even when they make a horrible woman.
"Just be nice and respectful" -- no, just be nice and respectful and don't be a sycophant and don't be boring, be exciting and fun and make her feel like you could be dangerous but not to her. She wants you to be dominant but to walk a fine line where you're dominant without being domineering. It's a load of paradoxes because human beings are paradoxical.
The whole "nice guy" syndrome is in a sense a reaction to guys who did listen to women and get frustrated that the advice is bad. "I was fuckin nice just like you told me, and instead of getting a girlfriend I got a girl friend. This is bullshit I didn't want a girl friend." -- A woman who followed men's advice would likely face a similar but different frustration if she were following men's dating advice. She can't bang every guy who hits on her who seems nice. In fact, we do see that on dating apps, were women end up having sex with men who are really attractive, but they find they can't actually get a boyfriend, she just gets a friend with benefits.
By the way, I later realized that as a man I was filled with similar paradoxes. When a man hasn't had the girlfriend who wants sex all the time but actually all the time, the hot girlfriend who is also too crazy, the fun girlfriend who doesn't have any responsibility, you start to realize you don't want what you think you wanted.
Consider two groups. One lives in a fortress with a granary, the other lives on the steppe. What do you do if under attack? For the first group, you hunger down behind safe walls and eat your accumulated grain until the enemy loses interest and leaves. For the second group, you run away on your horses because you can probably outrun them. Both are legitimate tactics, but totally unapplicable to one another.
You can say "that's not fair!" -- but life isn't fair, and the quicker you learn that, the happier life will be.