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Mexico City needs this badly. It would be beautiful if it wasn't for the smog and noise of traffic.

My partner convinced me to use the Starbucks app for incentives. Unsurprisingly within months, the company doubled the points requirements for all rewards. I now have a dollar and change held hostage on it, but refuse to keep topping it up. I imagine there are many people in my situation.

I once lent my copy to a friend of a friend prone to conspiratorial thinking, who professed to be open-minded and interested in my viewpoint. A few years later, after many reminders, he returned it to me. I asked him what he thought of it. He said he never read it, but it made for a great paper weight. This was the first of many realizations for me that magical thinking cannot be altered with logic.

Why do they link it to stress and not to the virus? Personally, I still deal with major digestive issues, primarily acid and silent reflux, after getting really sick from the second vaccination. (I'm not ruling out that I could have caught covid just before the vax, though my test was negative.) Prior to this, I was someone who had never once experienced reflux. Never took a Tums, etc. Now I'm on PPIs (Nexium basically), seemingly forever. What makes me think the symptoms are not due to anxiety is that they frequently hit me when my thoughts are elsewhere and not stressed or I'm asleep.

I recently discovered Tinker WriterDeck OS (https://tinker.sh/), which I’d been meaning to try, but this sounds like an even easier solution for repurposing old laptops and writing without distraction.

I desperately want to do this type of walking, but I live in a major city. There’s always something to distract me, which is great for boredom perhaps, but ruins any sense of zen or reflection. I would say half of every walk involves people yelling, loud vehicles, and louder music. Noise-cancelling headphones are only useful for distraction through podcasts and music, not for decompressing. I’m starting to wonder if the solution, the sad solution, is to walk on a treadmill at a gym during off-peak hours.

Does this kind of service really need a subscription? Immediate turn off.

This is explained better in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/artificial-intelligence/#...

I was reading a Reddit thread on this, and not a single person there understood this. It isn’t good news, but it’s being severely misinterpreted.

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LinkedIn is now silent for me besides spam.

Yeah, wealth can be a great boon for developing talent. It's annoying for the rest of us peasants, but talent is talent.... A rich kid may lack a hard-knock life, which is great fodder for writing. But, she or he may be privately tutored in, say, world literature from a young age and given 1-on-1 access to great minds.

I wouldn't say PKD is gravitas. He is often funny and has a workingman prose. Gibson, yes. Though, I find his later works, like Peripheral, less stylized and serious.

I barely remember 2049. I remember so much of the original. Ridley Scott and team created the world from scratch and mastered the atmosphere. 2049 is very good, but it's basically a requel.

Great, I’ll eat my cat.

It love it.

For the hell of it, I looked at the Chinese translation offered in the nav. I can’t read Chinese, so I wonder what someone who can read it thinks, but it looks very cluttered to me. (I know font options are very limited compared to English.) Interestingly, it also uses different photos.

The first Evil Dead 2 poster is weirding me out because it looks just like it was made by early Dalle-2/HuggingFace AI.

Where does he talk about this? I’m interested in reading it

Odd plan. The invasion is at, what, ~500k casualties? This also assumes massive assimilation.

Yeah, some of these comments are clearly made by people who don't actually know the history of art.

Unfortunately, the newest (beta) version of the MiniMac emulator doesn't work for my silicon Macbook Air.

I loved Suikoden 1 & 2 as a kid. I had no idea it was considered such a great. I couldn't talk to anyone about it then. Final Fantasy 7 soon took over the landscape. I wonder if it still holds up.

In a better world, if every country agreed not to destroy each other for a decade and applied their defense budgets, it's doable. Global defense budget is approximately 2.2 trillion as of 2022, according to Statista. Granted, that would cause of a lot of unemployment.

Are you still finding clients for static websites and Wordpress? I got out of that game six years ago and am considering getting back in as a side-hustle. It seems though that most of that freelance work has dried up.

Doesn’t preventing discrimination based on income level cover that?

This is my takeaway as well.

You are being downvoted because it’s obvious that a cabal of hyper intelligent dogs fits the full body of evidence better than any other explanation.

I commend this person for his capacity to write under such duress and depression. I have experienced my own tragedies over the years and during such times I can only escape.

Funny I agree with you on everything but the Momoa part. With the exception of Game of Thrones, he always plays himself. He basically always comes off as a marvel character. I thought he and Chalamet were miscast.

I predict AI will make virtual reality finally take off, and it will open new worlds. I don’t really know what that will mean for humanity, culture, and the economy.