I just had the phonics monkey

Read about the Weimar government, the economic crash, the street battles and the Freikorps, etc. Btw they targeted Jews and Communists first.

Ah yes, mob “justice” always works so well.

The Nazis started under MUCH different circumstances. Also constantly comparing everyone and everything to “Nazis” makes you sound hysterical.

Best quote:

“To Geuter, a computer scientist who has been writing about the social, political, and structural impact of tech for two decades, AI is the “most aggressive” example of “technologies that are not done ‘for us’ but ‘to us.’””

I stock up when I see them at a reasonable price. They’ll last a few weeks.

The Time Cube so I could rebuild society.

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

https://web.archive.org/web/19981212033445/http://www.timecube.com/

Even better version: https://web.archive.org/web/20120224094852/http://www.timecube.com/

This just shows how speculative the whole AI obsession has been. Wildly unstable and subject to huge shifts since its value isn’t based on anything solid.

The determination to make us use it whether we want to or not really makes me resent it.

Even in Europe most rural small towns I saw in, say, the Alsace region had a bus line at best but most used cars.

The change to electric scooters was the most noticeable thing in China. It was especially noticeable after coming from Vietnam where they still choke on scooter exhaust. In China they like to ride on the sidewalk also so you get the shit scared out of you when someone comes right up behind you without a sound.

When the internet was still young I entered an online drawing to win a vacation on a travel website. I never really thought much of it. One day I decided to answer the phone even though we got lots of telemarketers. The woman was from the travel company and said I’d won a rafting trip in CO and that this had been their third and final attempt to reach me. It was totally legit, they paid for the flight, rafting trip and rental car. Due to low river levels the trip was moved to the San Juan river in UT though. It was an awesome trip. We even paid some extra to keep the rental car longer to add some extra sightseeing days to the trip.

Not speaking up for my wants and needs. Being a “soldier” and sucking everything up just creates resentment and gives the other person the mistaken assumption that you are ok with everything. It is ok to say “I don’t agree” or “I don’t like this” as long as you do it respectfully.

One thing I’ve found in life is that extremists of any ilk have more in common than differences, they just wave different colored flags.

Reddit is mostly left

It is very rigid in its ideologies, even more so than reddit.

Unfunny, she asked if I was dating her because she had blonde hair. Well duh, yah part of dating is that you are physically attracted to that person but her accusing me of being that shallow guaranteed I wouldn’t go out with her again. “You are a judgemental shit.”

Conversely why do we act horrified that someone in the past didn’t act according to standards that only exist today and pressures that don’t.

My wife does this with index cards. I have to try to figure out what she wrote down (1? l?) and she crosses out an old one and writes the new one in a random spot so I have to study the card to find the live pw.

I’d be open to using a pw manager then I read the comments here and everyone is suggesting different apps, arguing over how inconvenient one or the other it, various issues, etc. It doesn’t make me feel like taking action if everything feels sketchy.