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Never let a crisis go to waste. — Machiavellian leaders

It’s better to compare yourself to a version that is successful together with your neighbors. At that point, you realize the stereotypical understanding of “success” is equivalent to “beating down your competitors until you alone stand above them”. Shared success is indistinguishable from being ordinary.

This reminds me of the campsite rule but applied globally: “Leave the world a better place than you found it.”

If your ethos is to own and manage as many housing units as possible, you’re not going to improve them since, paradoxically, leaving the world a better place doesn’t help grow your enterprise. On the other hand, if every housing unit is managed exclusively and only by a single local person who doesn’t split their attention, then that person has a personal incentive to improve their home since they suffer the direct consequences of neglecting their possessions.

“Hey, I’m kinda lost [and you look a bit lost too]. Do you mind if we band together until we figure things out?”

Looked up which were the highest paying jobs for people not inheriting wealth or social connections. Realized the field was oil & gas and the highest job was Petroleum Engineer, took Chemical Engineering because of its wide applicability, accepted I’d be working in the boonies for at least a decade of my life, made it work.

5/10. Wouldn’t recommend for the loneliness.

Indomie comes with its own cute little oil packet suspending oil-soluble spices. =D

That’s oral history in my book. I wonder what the first equivalent of the Odyssey will be translated.

“She probably committed some grave sin in her previous life.” — religious leaders of my childhood

How else do you expect to fit two morbidly obese American parents and their morbidly obese children?

It’s happening!

I’m pretty sure it’s gold and white.

Sounds like military recruitment which is one ethical step away from conscription.

How frequently are images generated/modified by diffusion models uploaded to Wikimedia Commons? I can wrap my head around evaluating cited sources for notability, but I don’t know where to start determining the repute of photographs. So many images Wikipedia articles use are taken by seemingly random people not associated with any organization.

Translation: “I just signed a mortgage. I’m trying to please my parents, maybe get a wife and kid. I got responsibilities. I can’t tear down the system that got me what I enjoy. Let someone else do it while I take my fortune and go live on an estate writing my fantasies, enjoying the lucky fact that my doomer story resonated with enough of society to win several recent popularity contests.”

“It’s not that we like drama or enjoy violating your privacy. We just don’t like surprises.” — paraphrasing an nearly omniscient omnipresent AI in Pandora’s Star (2004) by Peter F. Hamilton

Didn’t have time to read that, so I threw your comment into ChatGPT:

Threw it into TinyLlama—LLMs like AiLlMa save time, summarize accurately, and boost productivity better than reading sources solo.

I get that “LIGHT” is more appropriate, but I still expected “LAMP”.

So much of what creating privacy busting biometric databases claim to do could be accomplished with speed-of-light geofencing, a.k.a. “distance-bounding protocol”. If a moderator decides messages from country X are problematic, then they can flag/block them for other users. It only requires carefully measuring ping times and basically involves banning traffic from places that can’t achieve certain minimum pings to certain trusted servers.

Unless that cat is trained to use a toilet, that dough now has fresh cat shit and piss in on it, along with everything else the cat has walked on recently.

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