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You see a baby on the second floor in a burning building. It’s crying. Its screams trigger your fight or flight response. Though you know going into that burning building will harm you, your will to act compels you to go save that baby and end its suffering.

You go in, the flames all around you, but you can barely feel them because you are so concentrated on reaching that baby.

You get to the baby. Your flight response now kicks in. You jump out the window. You break your ankle, but you can’t feel it, because your sense of duty and accomplishment of saving that child and the cheers from the community overwhelm your own internal nervous system.

That’s empathy. When your feelings for others override your feelings for yourself. When the extrinsic reward from the community can override your intrinsic experience.

Granted, an extreme example.

Gregorian chant can be very relaxing in the right moment.

Blathering Blatherskites!
Great Scott! Great Googly Moogly Narf! Blech Hot Dog! Hot diggity! Salad! Biscuits! Corn Nuggets! Nerfherder Awoooguhhhh! Ballyhoo Farfegnugen To the mattresses! What in tarnation? Shoo whee

Agreed, if AI can pass the bar AND the defendant’s right to a public attorney is unavailable due to resource and time constraints, then this is a whole lot better than the plea deals that some defendants are being coerced to sign without a public defender.

And let’s not kid ourselves. Most of the existing public defenders are probably using AI to support their case nowadays anyway.

• Get some catfish and some cornflour and an egg. Cut the catfish into nuggets. Dip in the egg wash. Roll lightly in the cornflour and salt/pepper mixture. Fill a pan with oil. Deep fry. Yum!
• Get some mahi mahi. Place on some tin foil. Add a pat of butter on top of each. Grill it up until flaky but not dried out. Salt to taste. mahi is so mild, like no fish flavor. Delish!
• Get a tuna steak. Soak it in a bit of ponzu sauce. Get an iron skillet nice and hot with a little splash of oil. Toast some sesame seeds on it. Put those to the side. Then get your tuna and sear it on all sides. Add a dash of salt (if you want, the ponzu may be salty enough) and the seeds. Enjoy.
• if you like spicy, get a good blackened seasoning, it can help mask the fish flavor
• also, try sushi, but like from a good place. Rolls will hide the taste much better than sashimi, which is meant to showcase the fish. Fresh sushi (yellowtail, salmon, tuna, mackerel) has almost no fish taste. Eel has a steak like taste, but can be a bit fishy. Do not go for urchin, it’s like a straight up fish umami bomb.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/10/24/us/arizona-dnc-office-shootings-suspect-thursday

How does this not curdle?

I have some engineering concerns.

For one, reducing the turbulence area and increasing the air intake at that angle is going to create a vortex effect near the intake. This could lead to dangerous cavitation and knocking effects. It’s likely will require splitting the power train into two chambers, with an internal membrane. My suggestion is somewhere near the Mason carpetbagger and the Dixon scalawag.

For two, I think that was genius what you’ve done with the reduction of the diffuser, minimizing drag, but where, my friend, do you plan to dispose of all the waste products? We don’t want those infecting the rest of the machine, and I think it’s disingenuous to think we can just empty those right out into the environment without some kind of regulatory backlash.

Do you want nationalism? Because that seems like a good way to get it.

Interesting perspective. Counterpoint - my line of business is seeing more customers move away from on-prem licenses and instead prefer SaaS cloud hosted solutions.

The reasons being: 1) Quicker turnaround time for customer service requests 2) product knowledge expertise 3) lower internal IT resource demands 4) SaaS usually being cheaper than license in the short term 5) the intrinsic value of owned licenses being lower than what was sold due to product lifecycles, user adoption, security constraints, etc. 6) lower perceived switching costs with SaaS.

I’m genuinely curious, why do you feel SaaS is an inferior product? What makes it the devil’s work?

And FWIW, I realize I’m typing this on a FOSS application. I absolutely see the value in FOSS, it’s why I switched from Reddit 2 years ago, but I’m not kidding myself, the devs here gotta eat too and, just like KBin, they could jump ship any day if they chose to.

The Man of Culture

Not sure I would trust a biscuit on set nor anywhere nearby. That seems like an easy way to get “I can’t believe it’s not butter” on your buttered biscuit.

You should practice more kindness to yourself. Realize that there are people out there who know you and who c̷͔͉̟̲̙̟̭̒̀̔̾̈͝ͅa̸͈̠̗̠̲̣̬͆̕ͅr̵̼̭̗͍͂̅ͅe̷͈̹̬̬͖̥͖̊ ̷̤̥̥͉̥̳̝͘a̴̡̨̪̳͎̭̠̞͆͒͝͝b̴̥̆̈́̊̑͋̄̉͠ọ̷͖͎̭̩̀̅͊̏͗̕̚ử̶͔̖̭͇͆͜t̵̰̣͙̔̇́̀̽̐̓͘ ̴̩͓̖̱̿͂͜y̵̢̪͉̙͕͍̌͋͊̍͆͘͜͝o̴͙͕̫̟̗͛̏u̴̬͒̿̆͌̀.

You had the perfect word to fit in there and instead you went with “gone”!? Come on man!

Conflicted. I’ll give you my top 4 considerations.

• Pro 1: The reason a lot of these folks become billionaires is because they are able to sell an idea and execute on it. I think that’s admirable. I think it’s aspirational. I think that is part of the human condition.
• Pro 2: Additionally, they’re billionaires because society made them billionaires. Often, they founded a company (or got in on the ground floor), then issued stock to investors. More and more investor’s piled on. It’s a bit like winning the lottery, only that you (the aspirational billionaire) have some effect in the outcome. Again, I think this is part of the human condition. Civilizations, tribes, companies, whatever you call them, for some bizarre reason that I personally don’t quite grasp, prefer to have a leader, or at least will defer to one.
• Con 1: Many people can be millionaires. It’s not easy, but with the right vision, gumption, financial know-how, time and a bit of luck, someone pursuing this effort can do so. But, it takes a certain kind of person to be a 100+ millionaire or even billionaire. I think we have enough historical evidence of the type I’m describing - greedy, predatory, manipulative, aggressive, sociopathic. These traits can flourish in business, but I don’t think that these are traits that we should encourage in society as a whole. It gives me some gratitude that, for every 1 megalomaniacal billionaire in the world, there were 1000s of lookalikes who flailed.
• Con 2: Rent-seeking behavior and loot dragons. Nothing pisses me off more than a self-entitled dumbass whose entire being is resting on the laurels of a family legacy. I think once the great person’s first generation passes, that most of their remaining horde should be returned for the public good. While I do think a certain amount should be endowed to the next generation so that they are equipped to pursue their own marvel, I do think society resources made these people and society should be able to take them back.

Final Fantasy 1 - It wasn’t the first RPG, but it pretty much defined the series. It still has tons of playability, I revisit it more or less every 5 years. I still have yet to beat Warmech, and only have encountered him a handful of times.

But most of all, it’s the game that saved Squaresoft. If it had failed, we would have missed out on so many great games, including ones also mentioned in this post.

Runners up have to be Donkey Kong, which brought us Mario, which in turn restored vitality into the at home console game industry, and Double Dragon, which brought us PVP and Co-op combat.

Honorable mention would have to be that Simpsons arcade game where Marge can fight with the vacuum cleaner and TMNT 2 - Two classic, very difficult, drain your change jar games. I’d throw Mega man 2 into that mix as well.

I used it the other day to redact names from a spreadsheet. It got 90% of them, saving me about 90 minutes of work. It has helped clean up anomalies in databases (typos, inconsistencies in standardized data sets, capitalization errors, etc). It also helped me spruce up our RFP templates by adding definitions for standard terminology in our industry (which I revised where needed, but it helped to have a foundation to build from).

As mentioned in a different post, I use it for DND storylines, poems, silly work jokes and prompts to help make up bed time stories.

My wife uses it to help proofread her papers and make recommendations on how to improve them.

I use it more often now than google search. If it’s a topic important enough that I want to verify, then I’ll do a deeper dive into articles or Wikipedia, which is exactly what I did before AI.

So yea, it’s like the personal assistant that I otherwise didn’t have.

True story. His brother inspected my house. Very very thorough and very very serious guy, which I suppose is what you want in a home inspector.

Suffice to say, Jim took all of the funny gene in that family.

Sure it is buddy, sure it is.

I used to be a heartthrob like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

And now I’m 89.5% sexier!