Stinks like electrician in here. Should also drop a pile of “forbidden confetti” aka wire jacket cuttings.

Good luck. A bit of advice… I’ve been fortunate to have had a lot of female friends through the years. Some of them I was quite keen on, some not so much but almost all of them were or are in relationships, more or less happily. Sometimes they feel strongly about me, too, and the chemistry between us is undeniable. Even worse, I often know or am friends with the husband.

The best thing you can do in that situation is keep that shit to yourself.

Be a friend, not a fucker.

I’ve never cheated on my partners but I have been the guy that chicks have cheated on their partners with. It’s not worth it and you don’t want that bad juu juu in your life.

And I have been cheated on (karma). It hurts, deeply, and you don’t want to be a participant in that even if you don’t know the dude.

The silver lining is that even if you never get in their panties or have a romantic relationship with them, if you act right you will have a solid lifelong friendship.

Women may not be mind readers but every one of them knows probably 3 dudes that want to fuck them and would try if she let her guard down. Being a good friend by respecting their relationship makes you more valuable than gold and they will appreciate you in the way close friends do, which is rare in this world.

The minute you open your mouth to tell her how you “really feel” about her is the moment the relationship sours. She probably already can tell but is ignoring it, as soon as you say it out loud, now it’s a thing and it will be awkward. She will pull away and that will be that.

If it is meant to be it will happen without you having to say anything, but if it’s not meant to be then trying to go there with her will only ruin the friendship.

Don’t fuck it up.

François de Cuvillié

Depends on the woman, but in your case it’s probably obvious.

I don’t know shit about mathematics, except that when numbers and letters collude, that’s a fucking conspiracy against me. That said, I strongly suspect that for legit mathematicians, solving thorny math problems is only half of what they do, but rather, by operating from a platform of experience, intuit the nature of numerical systems, what that means in relation to other systems, and how we use them to understand and navigate the world.

The title sounds as ridiculous as proclaiming professors of literature are worried because an LLM can parse a sentence.

There’s a fundamental knowledge, both in the specifics of systems and holistically that can only be gained by solving these quandaries through the lens of human interpretation.

I saved a lot of people on the day I decided to not be a surgeon.

Coming this Fall, a new blockbuster hit so hot you’ll definitely never get sick of hearing about it every day: The Facebook! Part 2: Reddit. “Look out FB, there’s a new turd in this punchbowl”

Coming to a news feed near you!

Don’t jump to conclusions, it’s probably just a drug deal.

Wera makes a ratchet-hammer. I don’t know how to post pictures here but you can look it up. It’s an abomination but apparently people like it.

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

In a few years all pics, movies, music, books, news, anything and anyone you don’t see in person will be completely indistinguishable from AI. And most of it will be.

You won’t even know if the Senator’s face on your tv screen belongs to a real person.

The new front on the “war” for/on your minds will open. A culmination of all physical, informational, cultural, economic, narrative, and digital reality control systems will converge.

Even more so than now, people will have no choice but to embrace whatever schema of reality they can access because there will be no way to discern real truth from the manufactured.

Paranoia will eventually give way to a rather natural “double think” envisioned by Orwell. Tropey but nevertheless prophetic.

Just a daily reminder that if you want something great, especially if it is made great by the contributions of hundreds of people, it can’t be owned by a profit oriented business. If you don’t want that great thing to be taken away and/or used against you, the ownership has to remain in the hands of the people.

Oh shit, I haven’t seen the rolfcopter in years. That brings back some memories

Downloaded and gave it 5 Stars

I would prefer not to die alone. Not only for the company in probably one of, if not the biggest, scariest, event in someone’s life, but also because of the logistics. I’d hate to be going out, unable to move while laying on the kitchen floor, and desperately, deliriously, thirsty with 2 days worth of shit caked in my pants.

That said, if going alone seems to be the case, I’ll try to arrange things in advance and face it with some degree of stoicism.

Prep cook at a small restaurant. Tell them you only want to work part-time and they’ll make it happen.

Then just put on your headphones and chop vegetables and meats for a few hours. Lowest stress position in a kitchen. And you usually have your own separate kitchen area and nobody will bother you.

‘smoking the jerk off crack’ is going in my lexicon.

Exactly where I am at right now. I’m pretty frugal; started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.

This sounds like a bunch of bullshit. And most of these testing after-action reports are nothing but marketing attempts.

They set up very specific environments, give very specific instructions with very specific libraries and tool sets then pretend to be surprised when it finally fumbles its way through it.

Especially after the conviction!

Going outside