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Kid at the after school program I work at recently switched schools and hes loving it and told me excitedly about his science project on the bus.

The previous charter school kicked him out because of behavior issues, so he had to start at a public school. The charter school in question is more like a prison than a school and doesn’t actually seem to teach anything. The little dude on the bus literally said “They’re teaching me science!!!” and I was both like happy for him and a little heart broken at the same time, like… did they not teach you science at the charter school?

Regardless, that he was happy about science and his new school kind of made me smile.

Things that also make me smile that are uh… less wholesome:

-Playing violent video games

-Fuckin’

-Outsmarting people

I don’t know if my anxiety would allow me to explicitly state that I’m flirting with someone. I may force myself to try that though.

I wish I could ask if they were flirting with me, but I’m pretty sure there are a lot of contexts where if I asked they’d say no because I asked even though the true answer was yes. And if the true answer actually was no, then they’d suddenly probably just become uncomfortable. Both results are just a loss.

I hate it.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I’ve gotten pretty OK at flirt detection, but it uses like 100% of my concentration and focus and its exhausting. Usually worth it though.

I’m so tired of this guy.

Scientific advancements often seem like the only good news we ever seem to get.

Of course, medical reversal of Alzheimer’s is not the same as reversing the brain damage that was already caused by it. Its more like they’ve potentially identified a way of stopping the bleeding, depending on how transferable this or a similar method is to humans.

6 cancellations and 7 delays? That’s an omen.

So what we need is medication that makes you want to exercise.

There is no purpose to a bad person suffering, but I’d be lying if I said would not feel gleeful catharsis if certain powerful people’s finger nails were ripped out, their eye’s gouged, their balls smashed, their individual teeth crushed and ripped out, their skin then flayed off their bodies, and then their whole bodies set on fire to finish them off.

This will only ban the explicitly or obvious AI music. There will be stealth tracks or tracks that have AI created elements mixed in with real ones.

Still, this is a good idea if only to prevent their service from being spammed with low quality garbage.

The issue isn’t talking to women. The issue is talking to people you are attracted to.

I’m bi but I’m not attracted everyone. And I can tell you it takes a lot more from me to talk to someone I’m attracted to and I don’t think I could easily just be normal friends with someone I badly want to fuck and just have normal conversations with them.

Maybe. It does imply a desire to be free if that quote resonates, but his actions don’t seem to indicate seeking social freedom from his current set of friends.

There was one point when he got drunk and confided in me that he thought he really had no real friends and had an emotional melt down. But this was a long time ago and as far as I know, nothing has changed for him since then other than a new job.

I do think his defensiveness of Rogan is fraying, if only because Joe Rogan is becoming increasingly bad at managing his own image. He stopped watching Rogan back when he started charging for his show so it was probably inevitable.

He probably wouldn’t watch any political or joe rogan deconstruction video I send him though.

I think I know what you mean. He lacks “broad” compassion and is intellectually a coward. If you think those are prerequisites for being a good person, he isn’t one.

What I should have said is he is empathetic and inter-personally does what normal good people do in the immediate context of people around him, including helping strangers. Even going out of his way to do so.

This is a problem for all social media. Eventually every social media site that allows users to post anything will be bombarded to a degree that it will be impossible to find humans. It will be functionally impossible to moderate. And outside of that there will be whole ecosystems of fake AI generated websites will pop up with scams and propaganda. The internet will become a trash fire and people will have no choice but to eat the burning trash or touch grass.

People who were comfortable never leaving their house other than for work will either become schizophrenic zombies or will get cabin fever and desperately seek connection offline.

EDIT: And I say this as someone who doesn’t intrinsically hate AI.

My younger brother loves Tyler Durden quotes. One in particular “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

I’m not sure why that one jumps out at him, dude makes more money than me. I do want to say though that hes genuinely a good person in most ways, hes completely surrounded by frothing at the mouth rightwingers but maintains that he is a centrist. And he says stuff that implies left wing and anarchist beliefs but constantly defends rightwing figures when I shit talk them around him. Most notably Joe Rogan.

Hes just badly propagandized and would end up being socially isolated if he started actually identifying as left wing because all of his friends would stop talking to him. And he refuses to move and make new friends. Its depressing.

Unironically true.

Not out of the goodness of their heart but to drive sales and foster a customer base willing to return.

I think this is partially true, but also I legit think Gabe Newell is ideologically a market anarchist that legitimately loves video games as a medium. He probably could have (more safely) made even more money doing something else considering his early Microsoft connections and ability but he didn’t.

Unfortunately as a result, the moment hes dead Valve might be in trouble long term. Depends on who takes over afterward and how they want to direct Valve. Pierre-Loup Griffais or Lawrence Yang seem possible given how successful Steam Deck has been. Its hard to get a read on them. They seem smart and well meaning though.

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Cops are literally selected for a lack of intellect. Being too smart can disqualify you from police service under some police chiefs/sheriffs.

Tisn’t