I was really psyched about AI when it first hit my news feed. Now I’m less than impressed. Most generalist AI platforms get things wrong constantly. Having an LLM trained on specific things, like math or science or maybe law, I could see being useful.

We’re at the “AI everything” phase instead of the “AI what makes sense” phase.

Papers Please

Those look like the hamburger helper hands 🤨

These are the comments I look for when I link articles, especially if I don’t fully understand the topic at hand. Thank you for your insight!

Total be clear I’m in favor of more public transit than less. Our city was never meant to have this many people or cars on the road. If we can shift away from individuals in cars, that’s a huge win for Seattle.

Good question 🤔

We don’t grow our crops in a desert. They grow in very specific regions of the world, often in areas that are suitable due to natural formations and easily obtainable water. Most of Canada is forested land that is uninhabited with no infrastructure such as roads, running water, or electricity - not to mention there has never been a large agricultural presence in those areas, so it would have to be started from scratch, if it is possible at all.

When you say we’ll huddle around the proverbial fires, it might be a very small human population. Our civilization (likely including both of us) probably won’t be around at that point.

Plants don’t grow without light. Plants can’t survive extreme heat and drought.

Once it gets too hot or too dry to grow crops, it won’t matter anymore. Call me a doomer, but we aren’t doing enough to stop that future from happening.

As a native Seattleite, I try my best to at least acknowledge people with a head bob. Sometimes I’m not feeling a conversation and just try to shut it down quickly.

“Your dog is beautiful!” “Oh yeah, haha, she’s a good girl.” - and keep walking

When I was younger I stopped by QFC and got a cup of chicken noodle soup. For whatever reason, I just couldn’t wait to eat it when I got home. I straddled straddled wheel with my elbows while eating it with a spoon while on the highway going 60. I am not sure if I should be alive at this point.

I’m wondering how exactly it will be enforced. Not only that, but it looks like it would just shuffle these people to other areas of the city.

If you look at what I’ve posted previously, you can see I post more center-left content that anything else. There have been several stores shuttered recently in downtown and Saks is just the latest.

If this same question had been posed from the Seattle Times, what would your answer have been?

My vote is it’s easier for people to buy online without the hassle for going to a brick and mortar store, but I could be mistaken.

I had my gallbladder taken out years ago, so my feces is not as solid as most people’s. The TP is to scrape what the bidet doesn’t get, and the towels are only for drying, not for wiping up shit (I don’t want to put shit in my washing machine). I use about 75-80% less toilet paper than I did before and my ass is cleaner.

I had a fixed bidet and it got water all over. I switches to a wand style bidet and it was a fucking game changer. I can focus specifically on where I want and my ass is clean, even after Chipotle lunches.

I ended up getting a bunch of small towels and a bucket. So I rinse, dry my cheeks with a small towel, wipe with two squares of TP, then dry again with the towel and toss it in a bucket for washing with my regular towels.

I said the same thing the other day. They don’t care. They just want results. It could be a ham sandwich that is starting to mold, and if the ham sandwich got the same results, there would be morons out there wearing ham sandwich hats.

Citation needed. I know you’re trying to be funny, but there’s actually a lot of evidence going back to 2012 that internet pornography addiction is an actual issue for many people.

Watching pornographic pictures on the Internet: role of sexual arousal ratings and psychological-psychiatric symptoms for using Internet sex sites excessively - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21117979/

Pornographic picture processing interferes with working memory performance - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23167900/

Neural and behavioral correlates of sexual stimuli anticipation point to addiction-like mechanisms in compulsive sexual behavior disorder - https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2006/11/2/article-p520.xml#B12

There are anecdotal reports of antisocial behavior, erectile dysfunction, etc in many small communities. I think yourbrainonporn.com is a good primer and rebootnation is a forum with people trying and failing to stop masterbating even to their own detriment. Make your own decision though.

Wow I haven’t thought of destiny of an emperor in decades. One of my childhood friends had a copy and let me borrow it. It took forever but I managed to beat it. Box art was weird but cool.

Hawaiian with jalapeño and red pepper flakes

Very well done. I loved it but won’t watch it again

There are other games like Hacker Evolution but none that are Hollywood-esque like Uplink