heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
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heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
God, I am so fucking tired of this argument. This isn't a sports game, you don't get a free throw because the other guy fouled you. Yeah, Clinton should be behind bars but the fact that she's walking free doesn't make Trump immune to prosecution. The fact that otherwise intelligent people are acting like it should is baffling to me.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
Try Botswana, especially if you enjoy nature tourism. Ghana has a lot going on too, from what I hear. Stay out of the Sahel and South Africa unless you have a guide/fixer.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
This isn't new:
Turn the whole wide world into a TV show
So it's just the same game wherever you go
You never meet a soul that you don't already know
One big advertisement for the status quo
James Taylor, Slapleather, 1991
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
I'm sincerely baffled you find that statement ambiguous. I'm finding it really hard to take your reply in good faith.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
Nothing in the grandfather post indicated the poster was in favor of lowering people down. Let's try taking people at their word.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
"Raising people up" is, in fact, the exact opposite of Harrison Bergeron dystopia.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
Ah, yes. The phrase that gets trotted out whenever people want justify breaking with their alleged principles because they want to buy X.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
This entire post hinges on the idea that the Jews represented some insidious threat to Germany. The Nazi could have just, you know, not forced all the Jews into either ghettoes or camps.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
"But it was never the streets that were evil."
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
Who are these people and why should any of us care?
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
So what's everyone watching? I started Banshee this week. Pretty sure it's not going to live up to its ridiculous premise and there are way more tits than neccesary but I'm going to see where this trainwreck is headed.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
I have nothing substanitive to offer so my thanks for these fascinating posts will have to suffice.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
"Hey, we're charging you with a crime but you have to surrender to the court before we'll tell you what it is" is a really weird process.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
I'm no fan of Trump but I really don't like the charges being secret. Smacks too much of gulags and black helicoptera for my liking. Is this normal? Don't they have to say what Trump is actually being charged with?
No, because if you look into the theology of the Protestant work ethic, poverty stems from other sins (mostly sloth). It's not a sin in the way lying, adultery, or murders are sins.
ETA: Broadly speaking, Americans have a very weird relationship with money. If I have money, it's because I worked hard and was smart. If you have money, it's because you're a thieving, conniving bastard. Or, as Lighting Hopkins wrote, "It's a sin to be rich, it's a lowdown shame to be poor."
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
Conversely, I find seltzer on its own terrible. Tastes like chalk to me.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
French press black coffee. Measure your water and coffee by mass instead of volume.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
This is something I deal with. (Since I'm still dealing with it, I might not be the best source of advice, but here we are.) I've read some pop-sci type articles that human are inclined to be bi-phasic sleepers and our monophasic sleep is a relatively new cultural practice/expectation. Anecdotally I find I tend towards bi-phasic sleep when I'm not on a schedule (backpacking trips, vacations, etc). I get sleepy in the evening, doze off for a few hours, wake up for a few hours sometime in the middle of the night, and then doze back off until just a little after dawn.
Things to consider to keep you asleep:
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What's your workload like right now? Are your days jam-packed? Even if you're not stressed, sometimes open mental loops will keep the brain distracted enough to wake up. Something something evolutionary psychology sabertooth tigers, I guess.
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Be aware of when you're intaking stimulants. Caffeine can last a while in the body so I normally cut off my caffeine intake (coffee, tea, soda, etc) somewhere around 1PM.
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Keep your bedroom as dark as humanly possible. Black-out curtains have made a world of different for me. (The city council recently decided all the streetlights needs to be the equivalent of automobile high beams, lest the criminals murder us all in our sleep.)
Things I've found that help me get back to sleep:
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Read something light and undemanding for a little while. I find about 20 minutes works for me.
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Ged out of bed and do something easy and mindless. Do the dishes you decided need to be soaked, pack a lunch for the next day, etc.
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Sleep on the couch or stretch out on the floor. Sometimes just the change of scenery helps. No idea why.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
New research paper attempts to quantify which professions have to most to lose from the introduction of GPTs into the larger world. From the abstract:
Our findings indicate that approximately 80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their work tasks affected by the introduction of GPTs while around 19% of workers may see at least 50% of their tasks impacted.
The results vary by models but mathematics and math-related industries like accounting have the highest risk. The researchers overall found that "information processing industries (4-digits NAICS) exhibit high exposure, while manufacturing, agriculture, and mining demonstrate low exposure" (pg 15) and "programming and writing skills...are more susceptible to being influenced by language models."
I find myself wondering if "learn to code" from however long back will shortly become "learn to farm" or some such.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
Yeah, same thing. I couldn't remember either term when I gave it my query.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
I just started toying with it over the weekend:
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Constructing recipes for those dishes where everyone's grandmother has a different version that is the "real" one; e.g. gumbo, carne guisada, and chili.
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Helping to summarize opposition arguments, though I have discovered this requires tweaking the wording of your questions and still generates a ton of ridiculous disclaimers and throat-clearing by the bot.
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Getting specific terms for peculiar phenomena, such as "proprietary eponym"
My next attempt will be to see if it can help me diagnose issues with my other computer.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
Not the OP, but it she's happy, then yes, I'm happy too.
heavywaternettipot
Token Midwit
2yr ago
I may or may not have increased our cost estimates by 2% in response.
Oh for fuck's sake. I'm not saying the rule should be different. I am fully fucking aware Clinton broke the law and I'm not okay with her getting away with it either. Just because one thief walked does mean we should just let all thieves walk.
Edited for clarity and charity.
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