Haha!
But…yeah. This is how I make friends in real life, though.
Edit: Now I am checking timestamps to see if my needlessly using the word “cromulent” in another thread comment might have helped inspire this delight…
Edit 2: Just a coincidence. And evidence that I live this meme, too.
I think I understand this pitch to be:
“Insider trading isn’t insider trading if it’s done under religious trappings and with an AI in the middle.”
Normally I hate AI news. But if someone is promising an AI that will debate endlessly with the Bible as it’s foundational knowledge…well, I think that could make the world a better place - by wasting the time of people with nothing better to contribute to society than debate about the Bible.
Maybe they can do that in a corner, somewhere, instead of interrupting those who understood the Bible in a single read and are feeding the hungry and caring for windows and orphans.
I find that con artists don’t like to communicate slowly. It makes them uncomfortable.
Oh its the old marry me and have some kids sting. Oldest trick in the book.
Like Talor Tominsons comedy bit:
“Oh, are you going to stay loyally by my side for a lifetime and die of old age holding hands in matching medical beds? Is that your dating move?!”
Oof. Hopefully a security professional will slap some sense into someone before it gets out of beta.
Should have pulled the blue lever harder. Pulling the blue lever also slows the trolley down sometimes, at least locally, for some of the people tied to the tracks.
I’ve heard that war is good for business.
Lots of huge corporation owners are suffering from making a long series of head-up-their-own-ass stupid choices, right now.
Now they must choose between hiring experienced advisors to guide a slow chain of reasonable pro-social long term profitable choices - or starting a bloody war.
I know which choice I’m expecting.
“Blow up the damn ship, Picard!”
But really, Viola Davis’ entire performance carries the whole film and makes every important moment land.
Yes. Starfinder has planets, and some planets have caves.
Congratulations!
Infinity is effectively just bullshit.
I’m fond of pointing out to my students that there’s a very practical reason to care about “infinity” in math:
While nothing ever reaches “infinity”, things absolutely do reach a point where they violently fly to pieces and catch on fire.
So I teach my students to substitute the phrase “explodes and catches on fire” where they see an equation that “approaches infinity”.
I find it helps them pay attention to a subject that is otherwise bullshit. Infinity itself is bullshit, but it has a place in math: telling us when to quickly duck behind a good solid oak table.
This is a great plan, but it is critical to not be the person to notify each guest. Infinite calls to inconvenience infinite people sounds like hell.
I feel like my odds of avoiding getting my ass kicked are better inconveniencing just one person.
Well said. Particularly
out of a distaste for a harsh and cruel world
I want to respond (with agreement) to:
treat others as you want to be treated,"
Treat others as they ask to be treated is much better.
But I do believe that both benefit from an intentional practice of self-empathy.
I have to constantly remind myself to treat me like I treat others.
I do, as well.
I treat others. I despise myself and have great empathy for others
I said that to myself before, as well.
But I discovered my empathy for others became surprisingly more effective after I started an intentional practice of self-empathy.
but that’s certainly not universal
Certainly. This is what worked for me, and my relationships.
The golden rule does not work. What if I like to be treated like shit?
Agreed. But it is a good default place to we start.
The real skill is empathy - to understand how the other person wants to be treated.
My empathy for others became much more effective after I started practicing empathy for myself.
It was a bit eye opening, to me, to realize how much impact a practice of self-empathy made in my relationships.
Lots of folks replying don’t seem believe in self empathy.
That makes me sad.
Self empathy is the foundation of empathy toward others.
The golden rule - treat others as I want to be treated - only really became effective, for my friends, after I learned to treat myself well.
Sorry, I left off the sarcasm tag. I’m not confident that this will help anything.