I mean pigs and dogs are not that far off.

Im not big on bettering myself as an independent activity. Like I have done the gym thing but I prefer to use a standing desk, get around by walking or biking. Try to have time to enjoy walking my dog and do things like bring the mail to neighbors. Find ways to be active. Similarly I don’t use smartphones and will do deep breathing semi mediation when waiting but also might take in the sights and sounds around me or if literature is available and seems decent will read through it. When shopping I double check the per unit costs because they can be wrong or just to use a common unit when they liste them differently to get the best deal. I play games like suduko and now clues by sam. might start doing brackets. I take advantage of opportunities like splunk having some hands on sessions for free lately. Work on my personal technology. I just get more like this the older I get. Its hard enough keeping up with everything. Honestly im kinda always like this. I hate doing something and just getting one thing out of it. The more I can accomplish kinda passively the better.

Yeah I did not respond to all your points. I did the first because it seems like you think all of what I was saying was in related to the same thing and it was not and you still seem to think. I did not move on to your second point as the first misunderstanding is rather severe. I really don’t want to keep expanding as I had two things to say and you had two points about it so im trying to get the one straightened out. So let me know if we have cleared up that my paragraph is not all about changing societal norms and I can reply to your second and longer response if you like. So Im horrible at making proper paragraphs and such but this is how it should have looked:

im fine with trans people and non discrimination but my whole life sex and gender terms were one and the same for me and most folks in everyday language. The idea of identifying pronouns for myself seems laughable to me. Im a big believer in simple solutions. Got some temp work at a place with genderless bathrooms that had the full floor to ceiling doors. Its a bit wierd to wash my hands with girls but its not like im naked. There is all sorts of language things going out of fashion (online) and folks are like just learn it but look despite decades of school my spelling and grammar are atrocious because habits don’t change easily and no one is even forcing me to study or anything now. On top of it, like it or not for the internet folks, it has no bearing in the outside world which is still basically jugging along at its own pace. It will over time for sure but it won’t happen as quickly as early adopters would like.

Also I pretty much don’t like any type of censorship of fictinal things (this is the start of a second and independent response to the post. it could have been two responses but I was having a zoom zoom train of thought thing. this paragprah is not related to the previous. real quick this second paragraph is about censorship in general. so like while I might like the subject matter of fictional literature I don’t like it being banned). Reality and fiction are two different things to me. Although modern ability to fake things is making identifying something as real as tough. I don’t want claims of it being high end fakes as letting folks get away with crimes.

so ones that are trained exclusively on well known and quality texts in fields along with transcripts of famous debates and such. Right now they kinda just amass a lot of input without any attempt to curate high quality training material.

sorry also to clarify I don not thing one of your eyes is worse (which when I reread sourta sounds like it) but that the picture that is kinda one huge eye is like. aaaahhhhhhhh! save me from the demon eye.

No more than someone who starts a local philosophy club at the library.

since it started I have not seen any posts except for its general meta one. no idea why. People have made some pretty severe claims about the place.

AH! I was not ready for pictures of eyeballs looking at me. No dig on you and your eyes look fine but im wondering if anyone else gets a little creeped out by pictures of just eyes and I think maybe one eye is worse.

What sucks is that it should be a good thing. I think it could be better and hopefully we will see open source trained things that come out where more thought is put into the inputs to raise the quality.

I like excite over yahoo pre 2000’s

I mean not the last time but as I look back over my life there is this point in time where my wife and I lived in the city in a neighborhood just out city center in a two flat. I worked at a research university and while the pay was low it had benefits and we could pay our monthly nut. It was 3 miles away and I could walk, bike, or take the bus. I would often walk in the morning and my wife would take the dog and there was this park about a mile or so away and we would have a little kiss goodbye and I would keep going to work while she walked the dog through the park and back home. We could spur of the moment grab food from close by places or any grocery item we wanted by walking. It was glorious. The lab I worked in was a research lab and interesting as heck on a day to day basis and collaborated globally. We had folks from japan practically every other summer doing research as well as many eurpean companies. Oh also my wife and I were barely in our thirties. it was sweet.

wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. Now im really grossed out by elden ring.

came in and did a ctrl f because I know other folks are going to mention it. Top tv series for me is firefly and top movie is lotr. I literally have a shelf displaying my dvds of just those above all the other media in a place of honor.

pretty sure im not going to be in the survival group.

I kinda feel that way about like people just asking me how things are going because it feels like I have not been able to give a decent answer for long periods one of which I am in now. I will say I don’t talk much about the environment anymore simply because we are so far down the unstoppable decline and partially because the effects are hitting our present day so much that the effects are basically day to day and much of the reason things are like they are now. We are a finite snake eating its tail.

heck I thought we would have self driving cars by 2015 at one point.

nope. its been fine to me.

no idea what instances have eliminated it. I don’t like voting as a community thing but would love it and an expanded version of it for you personal account and your home feed. Basically I would love an algorithm the way it should be. Not about getting views or engagement but purely by your stated preferences. trust cafe does something like this where everying can be ranked 0-100 and defaults to 50.

elden ring. was expecting to quit at any point because of how bitching it could be. ended up getting through it between sorcery and tasty cheese.

Yeah I don’t find especiall persuasive myself but let me tell you. You want to control a population then make sure they have kids. Because nothing is going to matter for that person at that point over their kids (or most people anyway). So voting wise anyway you basically have this large group that are going to go ape trump on anyone suggesting it. Changing the school day has issues because its time has to fit with parents major work schedules. so the 9 to 5. The school day starts just after 8 partially so they can drop off the kids then go to work. No idea how they are picking them up but I can say my wfh places was pretty easy going with parents being on meetings while in the car picking up kids or taking 20 mins to do it.