tangible

One in ten year events have turned into one in two year events.

Kagi, Soundcloud, Bear.

Bear is so much better than Apple Notes.

I’m also seeing a lot of reasonable, even-handed takes on AI getting upvoted in that thread, tbh. The most downvoted comment is one saying that “AI is fascism”.

40-plus, I wanted a non-American alternative to reddit.

Or if you are HR would you see it as a negative if you received an application with no existent LinkedIn account?

Not HR but hiring manager, one of the best guys I hired has no LinkedIn account and I didn’t mind. I go purely by resume and interview.

Weightlifting, genealogy, soccer, reading, travel, chess, cycling

Sounds a bit old-timey. I refuse to believe that there are people younger than 60 years old with that name.

Interstellar, The Day after Tomorrow, Deep Impact.

Nice, so we can just send you to instances I don’t like.

I have some Usenet posts from the late 90s that are still there. My oldest actively maintained internet presence is probably my LinkedIn account, which I registered in 2008.

I did, on numerous occasions, and it rocked. I’ve seen most countries in Europe, with the notable exception of Ukraine, which I hope to visit in the future.

If it’s your first time solo traveling I’d start out with a long weekend or a week and see if it’s for you. Also, making friends while traveling is super easy, even for introverted people.

Vivaldi.

What is the point of making up a scenario in your head to get mad at?

In my time, longcat was long and we LIKED it!

It sucks that things are like this now. It was very different when I was in my 20s, and as a result I met up with a ton of people and had lots of fun.

Depending on timeframe and definition of what colonization entails.

This won’t help the poor countries, they will have the technological knowledge but not the budget. All it will do is give billionaires the ability to travel to some far-off planet, like Elon Mu… you know what, I agree.

Counterpoint: intervention exists on an multi-dimensional axis with different causes, methods of intervening, and potential outcomes. I don’t want to assign moral equivalence to intervention in the Rwanda genocide (morally justified, but didn’t happen) vs. American involvement in the libration of Europe from Nazi Germany (morally justified, did happen) and the Vietnam War (morally very dodgy, took place nonetheless)

Money is basically the ring from Lord of the rings. You can’t have it without it changing you. I’ve had the dubious pleasure of knowing a great many millionaires and they’re all miserable bastards pretending that they’re not. Their families hate them, most of them are alcoholics and drug addicts. They hate themselves even more and their money doesn’t mean anything to them so they use it to impress others or hurt them, just so they can feel something. It’s all a disgustingly wasteful, tragic act.

Money, like all abstractions, inherently alienates us from human essence. It’s the price we pay for a prosperous society that functions at scale and efficiency. A Faustian bargain of sorts.

For existence, our existence in general: the earth had to form in just the right place in space, and the temperature and oxygen levels had to level out to a specific point for humanoids to form and grow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis

That said, if those circumstances were different, we would not be around to observe them. But we are, so the only outcome is that it will always feel miraculous.