My caveat to this is that many of the foundational individuals to stoicism, as well as present influencers, are members of the upper class, and while there are a lot of great ideas in there, stoicism can often be distilled into a philosophy of rugged individualism which is more easily achieved with wealth, power, and privilege.

I am of the opinion that stoicism is good, but a disproportional number of those who practice it are often out of touch.

I frequently forget that chrome is installed on my phone. The only time I’m forced to use it is about once a year when I order Papa John’s Pizza takeout. Their checkout page doesn’t seem to work in any other browser.

Welp, I tried folks. Sorry!

Probably the most significant one was Gore vs Bush, as Bush’s victory probably led to the war in Iraq and the impending global climate disaster.

The best one to play with is chat gpt’s paid subscription, but some excellent free voice ai are Google Gemini, meta’s WhatsApp ai chat, hume.ai, and chat gpt’s free voice chat.

Playing hangman or 20 questions with friends and a voice ai is objectively hilarious. None of them can really do it properly

😅 holy shit, this church is based

Something which clarified Zuck’s behavior in my mind was an interview where he said something along the lines of, “I could sell meta for x amount of dollars, but then I’d just start another company anyways, so I might as well not.”

The guy isn’t doing what financially makes sense. He’s Uber rich and working on whatever projects he thinks are cool. I wish Zuck would stop sucking in all his other ways, but he just doesn’t care about whether his ideas are going to succeed or not.

Congratulations! … [Cries in Florida man tears]

I freaking hate RLS

Me clicking this article

I actually don’t think this is shocking or something that needs to be “investigated.” Other than the sketchy website that doesn’t secure user’s data, that is.

Actual child abuse / grooming happens on social media, chat services, and local churches. Not in a one on one between a user and a llm.

I’d love to know if domestic cats are capable of this sort of way finding, or if it was coincidence.

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It does help explain why Western propaganda has been ineffective at bringing about reunification. I mean, if your parents and grandparents are telling you genuine facts over the decades about the US blowing your shit up, then why should you believe idealistic Western propaganda? Everything just sounds like lies.

Israel is going to get itself destroyed.

Tons of people already are. The following site is useful for searching papers using ai https://consensus.app/

I do wonder, hypothetically, if free Linux distros had 80% of the consumer market, would we see just as many dangerous exploits and malware as we do on Windows today? It seems to me that the consumer community is so small that it’s hard to say if it’s secure or just obscure.

I understand in theory Linux is more secure… But are individual users really not opening themselves up to attacks, downloading foss software right and left? Using built in stores? Wine emulation?

In the US there are sub $200 reverse osmosis units. They waste some water, but overall the cost and convenience is better than water delivery or bottles. I used one when I lived in a rental with poor quality well water.

Maaaaan… I could never run for office. I’m not a Nazi, but they’d find my old furry art in 12 seconds.