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I can do one better, “so you’re probably wondering why I’m naked and pissing on the floor”.

Anything with a lid roughly like this one. Wide Nalgene-compatible mouth for filling and screwing on the appropriately-sized bottle you feel like that day or had to replace, and has smaller drinking-hole with an attached screw-on cap.

Agreed in principle, however in practice great wealth/income inequalities tend to compound.

Wealth and political spending bleeds into decision-making, leading to policies that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the less so.

“Excess wealth” tend to disappear from ‘Main Street’ and the kind of normal circulation that directly generates +life_quality, into Wall Street circlejerks.

“Excess wealth” also tends to seek safe harbor in concrete assets. Every investor tilts eg. the supply and demand of housing a bit more into the demand side, which leads to rising costs for people wanting to buy a house to own, since the supply of good lots can’t increase as much.

Depends entirely on how complicated your income/expenditure is. This year was the first time in 10 years or more that I needed to add to my pre-filled tax notice (major reno, deductions worth it). I may have missed out on a few hundred € of deductions in that time, but my simple life has always been listed immediately correct: Income from work done in the country, benefits, voluntary retirement insurance, stocks&funds wins, losses, dividends. Finland.

[Youtube] Unsolicited advice: How to live in a meaningless world (Absurdism explained/Albert Camus)

I’m not defending AI consciousness/sentience (however we define them), but IMHO your arguments aren’t particularly relevant/convincing. Why couldn’t consciousness exist in brief flashes? Isn’t the “would it even be the same consciousness” same as any sci-fi “clone with identical memories” thought experiment: if a LLM were conscious then each conversation history would be a “self”. And yes, it would be in some vague state of death/hibernation/non-existance when not propmpted.

Necessary background: When we started dating, both the husband and me were homebodies. As the years have gone by, I’ve developed a taste for going out and experiencing stuff, especially music stuff, that doesn’t even match his taste. Nonetheless I tend to ask him to come along, and he categorigally says no.

He gave me the gift of coming with me to one event of my choosing, per month, for a year. ❤ It was wonderful.

I’m still acquaintances with someone I now know killed one of their parents. Was told by someone else and confirmed on my own, he hasn’t mentioned it.

I hope I haven’t let it impact our relationship. I don’t wholly know the context and he served his time, should be allowed a fresh start without it being dug up again and again.

Fair. Different cultures, expectations, personal communication styles, degrees of bluntness.

“What are you looking for in a relationship/partner” and “how do you feel about having children” are, like, the top two questions people (should) want to know on a first date. Framing them as “tests” rather than “basic stuff the people need to naturally agree on for a relationship to work” is rather gross.

I’d add general lifestyle/attitude towards money and saving, and political engagement in the “may get arrested for civil disobedience for a cause” sense.

Fish is the nutritional super-meat due to long-chain omega-3:s and vitamin D.

Is it only Graphene? I vaguely recall having had it on DivestOS (RIP), which was a Lineage fork.

Edit: Any app, duh, yes, silly me. Don’t remember if it was possible for all of them.

IMHO if you only care about Google sucking your data and not other privacy/security, the most important question isn’t between OSes as much as it’s between:

1. No Google apps (GAPPS); honestly good ol’ LineageOS is just fine. If you don’t install Google spyware you don’t have Google spyware, just the connectivity check and dns. Which you can probably change. Major con, many applications installed from Play store (through Aurora store, apk, whatever) and practically all notifications you’d receive from them stop working.

2. MicroG; open source GAPPS replacement that tries to send as little data as possible to Google, while keeping Play store apps & push notifications working. /e/, iodé, Lineage for MicroG, Lineage but add microG manually during installation, formerly CalyxOS…

3. Add GAPPS but try to handicap it somehow (incl. GrapheneOS work profile isolation); I don’t remember if it’s eg. possible to block them from accessing the Internet on non-GrapheneOS phones, by app permissions or eg. NetGuard?

If we’re taking into account other privacy and security, then GrapheneOS by a mile.

It mulled in the background for about 30 years to process, and then I came to the conscious conclusion that out of all the possible equally pointless reasons to hang around, for me satisfying my curiosities and improving the world for my fellow experience-capable-beings are the ones I want to do. Of course I still slip into mind-numbing distractions a lot, that’s just being human in the world we live in.

That, and that practically, what are the options anyway? No point in ending it early, or wasting your finite life on something you don’t actually want.

My choice of philosophy is absurdism, honestly because I think it sounds more fun than “optimistic nihilism” or “existentialism”. IMHO there’s a whole host of philosophies that basically suggest the same guide to living well, with different emphasis (for example):

1. Figure out what you want (<- 20th century existentialism)
2. Do it the best you can (<- stoicism, confucianism)
3. Don’t let the other stuff distract you (<- stoicism, buddhism)

buttmonkey → b8y

I’d read b8y as “baby”, so absolutely ❤ this. Was this intended, am I an idiot for not reading the others as anything?

There’s really strong diminishing returns in healthcare. Improve hygiene, chop away obvious cancer, a dozen other simple types of surgery, and basic meds in obvious cases? Stuff like that probably gets you 60% to where contemporary best practice is, for 5% of the cost. Autonomous LLM doctors would fit in great here.

And in developed countries, a medically trained LLM as a “second opinion” is IMHO an excellent use case of the technology. Provided the doctors managed to maintain medical thinking, keep up to date with their own knowledge, and bother to look into patient histories to the same degree as before. Which is a big if, they’re only human too.

I know, it’s mostly the comments making fun of “bland european cuisine” that got to me; plural, so didn’t respond under one. The meme doesn’t even mention Europe. Sorry, should have been clearer.

And sure, you can say that soy sauce is spice, or that the scallions and sesame oil in scallion pancakes are a spice, or that the soup portion of french onion soup is nothing but spice… Personally, I think in those cases what you call “spice” is one of the ingredients being celebrated (or in the case of soy sauce, sometimes just a way to add liquid salt). Such as in the case of spaghetti aglio e olio, garlic is the thing (along with quality ingredients), whereas in spicy foods it’s nearly always about the balanced spice blend. Even in something like chili, the peppers play a smaller part.

Okay, that chicken looks disgusting, but really. Minimalist cooking celebrating the ingredients without leaning into spices is a whole thing. Sashimi? Cong you bing? Tamago gohan? Spaghetti aglio e olio? Fresh bread or “new potatoes” with butter? Finnish salmon soup (clear or creamy)? How could you not appreciate those just as much as a well-seasoned flavor bomb?

Also to defend european cuisine, yes chicken is boring, that’s why actual European recipes would also drown it other stuff: coq au vin, arroz con pollo (Spanish variant), frango piri-piri, chicken paprikash, Kyiv chicken…

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