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If so do you use it? i do lot of sports and it'd be cool to get one, osmo action 4 is on sale rn for 300e. I also like that you can take time lapse videos on these small cameras, useful when you are not doing any sports and still wanna use camera.
And he exercised fabulous trigger discipline.
>This point was driven home when Richard Dawkins spoke up about it. Through his own words, he proved quite clearly that a lot of men just don’t get it. Here’s what happened, boiled down from a video post Skepchick Rebecca Watson made about this (she tells this story starting at 4m30s into the video at that link). Rebecca was a speaker at a conference recently. After her talk and a late evening of socializing with attendees at the bar, she got on an elevator to go to her room. She found herself alone on the elevator with a man presumably also an attendee. He said he “found her very interesting”, and would she like to get some coffee in his hotel room? Rebecca turned him down, and in her video talks about how uncomfortable that made her feel. If the story ended here there would be obvious things to say about it (obvious to me, at least, but not everyone, as will become quite clear). This man may have had nothing but noble intentions, but that doesn’t matter. Being alone in an elevator with a man late at night is uncomfortable for any woman, even if the man is silent. But when he hits on her? There’s no way to avoid a predatory vibe here, and that’s unacceptable. A situation like this can lead to sexual assault; I just read in the news here in Boulder that a few days ago a relatively innocent situation turned into assault. This isn’t some rare event; it happens a lot and most women are all-too painfully aware of it. ... What's the solution? Women ride elevators alone? It becomes criminalized to chat with a woman in an elevator late at night..? Illegal to pick gals up unless they are in a completely public place? But yeah, Dawkins tees off on her *in the above link.* I am not a fan of atheism at all but funny article.
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I had to fight to get Chat GTP to recite the Saint Benedict medal prayer. It would consistently give me wrong data until I backed it into a corner. I fed it the prayer line by line, said it knew what prayer those lines were from, and even then fed me back the wrong prayer. I had to call it out on giving me wrong info, then finally I got the prayer. It gave me wrong info on purpose.
Stumbled upon this idea in some reading: > They include churches, cafes, bars, clubs, community centers, public libraries, gyms, bookstores, makerspaces, stoops, parks, theaters, and opera houses, among others. Do you think there are a lack of them, or lack of utilization of them, or are there ways we could improve or participate in a "third place" in our lives more?
cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/18708 > I bind to myself today > > The strong virtue of the Invocation of the Trinity: > > I believe the Trinity in the Unity > > The Creator of the Universe. > > > > I bind to myself today > > The virtue of the Incarnation of Christ with His Baptism, > > The virtue of His crucifixion with His burial, > > The virtue of His Resurrection with His Ascension, > > The virtue of His coming on the Judgement Day. > > > > I bind to myself today > > The virtue of the love of seraphim, > > In the obedience of angels, > > In the hope of resurrection unto reward, > > In prayers of Patriarchs, > > In predictions of Prophets, > > In preaching of Apostles, > > In faith of Confessors, > > In purity of holy Virgins, > > In deeds of righteous men. > > > > I bind to myself today > > The power of Heaven, > > The light of the sun, > > The brightness of the moon, > > The splendour of fire, > > The flashing of lightning, > > The swiftness of wind, > > The depth of sea, > > The stability of earth, > > The compactness of rocks. > > > > I bind to myself today > > God's Power to guide me, > > God's Might to uphold me, > > God's Wisdom to teach me, > > God's Eye to watch over me, > > God's Ear to hear me, > > God's Word to give me speech, > > God's Hand to guide me, > > God's Way to lie before me, > > God's Shield to shelter me, > > God's Host to secure me, > > Against the snares of demons, > > Against the seductions of vices, > > Against the lusts of nature, > > Against everyone who meditates injury to me, > > Whether far or near, > > Whether few or with many. > > > > I invoke today all these virtues > > Against every hostile merciless power > > Which may assail my body and my soul, > > Against the incantations of false prophets, > > Against the black laws of heathenism, > > Against the false laws of heresy, > > Against the deceits of idolatry, > > Against the spells of women, and smiths, and druids, > > Against every knowledge that binds the soul of man. > > > > Christ, protect me today > > Against every poison, against burning, > > Against drowning, against death-wound, > > That I may receive abundant reward. > > > > Christ with me, Christ before me, > > Christ behind me, Christ within me, > > Christ beneath me, Christ above me, > > Christ at my right, Christ at my left, > > Christ in the fort, > > Christ in the chariot seat, > > Christ in the poop [deck], > > Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me, > > Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks to me, > > Christ in every eye that sees me, > > Christ in every ear that hears me. > > > > I bind to myself today > > The strong virtue of an invocation of the Trinity, > > I believe the Trinity in the Unity > > The Creator of the Universe.
I did not have Hattian Cannibal Gangs on my 2024 bingo card.
cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/14244 > > Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and eat pie.
cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/13325 > Uhhh I guess I've seen a lot of people concerned about AI destroying jobs recently but I remember some years back... we were kind of rooting for AI to destroy some jobs? > > The doctors, lawyers, and other such professions have had legally held monopolies on their professions, creating artificial barriers to competition... I was very much looking forward to their "professions" being leveled for having defended such destructive compulsory environments, from schools to workplaces. > > Much to silence the critics that say, "would you really want your doctor to have a degree from 'youtube university'?" (answer: yes, in some cases, indeed) I can now look forward to AI replacing such doctors, with the normies not complaining about it. > > Of course, the various "professionals" agreeing to voluntarily allow competition to their professions (to allow for schools to open in competition and to not require licenses to practice certain professions) would be an acceptable alternative. But since these "professionals" refuse to give up their (stolen?) privileges, I guess I (we?) were rooting for AI to destroy their (taken?) privileges in this way. > > Anyone else still have this attitude? (I suppose some of the other disrupted "unregulated" or less regulated industries are more collateral damage in this "attack")
>She has co-written 11 UK number-ones, more than any other female artist in chart history. She remains the only female performer to top the charts as a solo artist, as part of a duo, quartet, and quintet. With twelve UK number-one singles, she is the second female artist – and the first British female artist – with most singles at number one in the United Kingdom. With a total of fourteen songs that have received the number one in Britain (including double A-sides), Chisholm is the female artist with most songs at number one in the UK ranking history.[16][17][18] Her work has earned her several awards, including three World Music Awards, five Brit Awards, three American Music Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, eight Billboard special awards, three MTV Europe Music Awards, one MTV Video Music Award, ten ASCAP awards, and one Juno Award.[19] As a solo artist, Chisholm has sold more than 30 million albums, singles and collaborations, and has earned over 334 worldwide certifications, including 43 silver, gold and platinum certifications as a solo artist. From her Wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_C
Almost half of Democrats want someone besides President Biden at the top of their party’s 2024 ticket — and former first lady Michelle Obama is the leading choice to replace him, according to a new poll. About 48% of the Democratic voters polled said they approve of the party “finding another candidate to replace Joe Biden before the election in November,” compared to 38% who disapprove, said the Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday. But only 33% of Democrats believe a ballot shakeup is likely to happen.
I am not a huge Matrix fan but I liked this.
cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/2141 > > Box86 can be found on https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 > > > Box64 can be found on https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64
Last month, Yahoo News reported CIA officials had drawn up options for former U.S. President Donald Trump's administration for dealing with Assange while he was holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, including assassinating or kidnapping him. A CIA spokesman declined to comment on the Yahoo report. The U.S. government lawyer who is leading the prosecution of Assange did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "This (Yahoo report) is a game changer going into the appeal because it shows the true nature, the true origins, the true criminality of the U.S. actions against Julian," his fiancee Stella Moris, with whom Assange has had two children, told reporters. WikiLeaks came to prominence when it began to publish thousands of secret classified files and diplomatic cables in 2010. Soon afterwards Sweden sought Assange's extradition from Britain over allegations of sex crimes. When he lost that case against extradition in 2012, he fled to the Ecuadorean embassy.
(Not going to link to the article because I don't necessarily agree with the view but it's probably findable based on the title.) Author makes an interesting argument that art was kind of attacked by entertainment, which is now being attacked with "addictive distraction". He breaks it down and argues everything is being replaced with something quick and addictive; instead of a longer film, or shorter youtubes, there's just quick tiktok video clips. Instead of a written letter, or quicker email, it's just short texts. And so on, "addictive distractions". So, for example the entertainment industry, he mentions, is losing a lot of money, and he argues that entertainment is competing with these "addictive distractions" that will overtake it. I guess I feel a little neutral about the "addictive distractions"; like in chemistry, you can extract useful chemicals from something else, and make a concentrated solution. You can have a vitamin C pill that's a high concentration of vitamin C. This is good for health. Drug chemists can also make highly addictive drugs with chemistry. This is dangerous for health. So in itself I find "addictive distractions" to be able to be good or bad. There was some pushback in comments against the article; one pointed out that a lot of tiktoks for example are educational (which I've also experienced). So I guess rather than think "addictive distractions" are bad, maybe we could try to figure out how to create "good addictive distractions"? I definitely don't lament having to watch an hour long video to gain insights I could get from a 30 second clip. Yet I think perhaps some "addictive distractions" should be created that point to the importance of the longer formats for certain applications, as they have their place too (by analogy, a short tiktok explaining the importance of longer youtube videos or full length films). Anyway, what are your thoughts on the trends towards these short quick "addictive distractions"?
I am a married man, but this hardcore NYC chick is amazing. Love her like a sister, lol.
I'm not entirely sure how to describe this issue, but sometimes I see builds on various DIY websites and... it kind of feels like "reinventing the wheel"? I saw an interesting clock design someone made but... we already have functional clocks. (This is the project I have in mind, which I definitely find interesting in spite of this critique: https://www.instructables.com/Geneva-Clock/) There's a place for art, but sometimes I feel these projects are just duplicating efforts needlessly. There's the idea of the existence of multiple "linux distros" which might be a bit fragmented... it begs a question if a lot of them needed to be created? Aren't there are lot of "good enough" existing "efficient" solutions to some of these problems, like a distro that "just works" so other problems can be worked on and solved instead? Do you ever feel like some use of technology is contrary to a spirit of progress? (I say this with full awareness some "impractical" designs can lead to new practical applications, or there is the valid choice of different projects for "aesthetic" reasons. Still with these things said, some of these projects still seem "backward", in a way. To use the clock example... people struggled to be able to create a reliable way to tell time at one point. We have many automated clocks available today... it's a solved problem. It seems kind of "backward" to play around with all kinds of new ways to tell time, when we have an adequate way.)
>Taking this hint, Vattimo pursues what he calls “weak thought.” Resigned to imprisonment in metaphysics, this thinking hopes gradually to bend metaphysics toward dissolution. Weak thought questions “strong” claims, truth assertions brandishing as their ultimate warrants anachronistic, termite-ridden metaphysical cudgels. The trick to weak thought is to work strategically with the erosion of foundations rather than to react futilely against this nihilistic trend. Religious fundamentalists, rightist politicians, and nostalgic graspers after fading metaphysical reality generally: these forces stand in emancipation’s way. Vattimo argues that to counter reactionary philosophical arguments, governmental policies, and social movements with claims that emancipation better corresponds to some foundational truth only buttresses the roadblocks to liberation. Rather, in any given situation, Vattimo, practicing weak thought, searches out the nihilistic crowbar useful to help further dismantle cracking foundations and to bring forward emancipation-friendly political alternatives. In mood and attitude, these alternatives embody a mellow nihilism: “comfortingly soft, warm, and rich in color or tone and lacking any harsh, brash, or jarring quality […] good-humored, tolerant, and approachable, especially as a result of long experience or a relaxed atmosphere ” (Encarta World English Dictionary). [More notes below]
In the U.S., capitalism is often associated with the right wing politically, but a lot of capitalist technology threatens the traditional order of things, and many large corporations promote radically leftwing values. Does "capitalism" need to be understood to be something leftwing at times, or a bit more neutral in its orientations then?
*I wrote this reply to a post on one of those shite reddit alternatives, but I doubt it'll be productive there and regardless I'm happy with the work I put into it so I thought I'd repost it here.* The OP was saying that concerns about the left trying to make kids gay or trans are caused by Christianity. The mental model those guys are working off of is completely wrong. Not much direct research has been done, but the impression I get is that a surprising amount of the post-2016 right aren't lifelong Christians (or even Christians at all even now, belonging to factions such as libertarianism which isn't tied to religion at all), and aren't even lifelong conservatives. A lot of them vocally supported Obama in 2008 if they're that old. the support for gay marriage among Republicans has approached 50%, which is a massive increase over the previous support near 20%. Moreover, you may be surprised to find that not everyone who is concerned about what's going on is a conservative or a republican either. Protecting children from people who hope to cause them harm is a universal human value, and likely is derived from instincts far before that. It's really important to understand the recent history of conservatism, because it's a rapidly changing landscape. On one hand, you have traditional liberals who are now considered conservative for not rushing headlong enough into the latest thing, and on the other hand you have openly far right factions and they aren't hiding their open contempt for other factions for not being extreme enough, and they aren't hiding their opinions on things like women, black people, and jews. In that respect, I see a lot of people working off a playbook that's out of date and coming to wildly wrong conclusions on a wide variety of topics from that false model. After the Republicans got crushed in 2008 they had to go back to the chalkboard and find new strategies that would work in a new world. People made fun of some of the attempts such as the tea party, but that resulted in a lot of new ideas and new blood coming into the party. Many other conservative parties around the world needed to do the same thing because they faced similar defeats. As a result, around the world parties that were considered completely outside the overton window for being conservative are gaining ground. AFD in Germany, Fratelli d'Italia in Italy, and even the far right populist PPC got more votes than the green party in Canada in the recent election, and in the next election the Conservatives are on track to win a massive majority. This isn't happening because they're telling the same stories they were 15 years ago, it's happening because they're finding new stories to tell while their left-wing opponents are just quadrupling down on the stories they told 15 years ago that don't represent a reality in 2024. Conservatism isn't just Christianity therefore, it's a much flatter, much wider thing including a lot of the cultural consensus from 15 years ago and a lot of stuff that would be considered literally unspeakable 15 years ago. If you want to blame someone for making people think they're trying to make kids gay or trans, you should probably blame all the idiots who were recorded saying they wanted to make kids gay or trans. You should blame people who use the phrase "not so secret gay agenda" positively in describing what they're doing in their work on kids shows. You should blame the people who put out musical numbers singing "We'll convert your children!". As well, you should blame the people who have decided that starting to transition children in schools while explicitly keeping it secret from parents is a hill they want to die on. In some of the cases I'm referring to they claim to be just joking, but it is the contemporary left that drew the line in the sand that if you joke about anything you're advocating for the most extreme thing you can imagine with respect to that thing. If you care deeply about your kids, and someone is "joking" about doing something you find unspeakable to your kids, why take a chance and why not just believe them? In the 1970s and 1980s, there was something called the "Satanic Panic". The police questioned kids about certain things and eventually they got stories from these kids that led to the arrest of dozens of people. The problem at that time is it was all false. One kid claimed the cultists killed and ate and forced him to eat his friend (who was very much alive). Police scoured airports looking for airplanes that could land secretly in a residential neighborhood, fly a child to mexico to be molested, then returned to the same neighborhood in the same day. Another kid spoke of a complex series of tunnels under a town that the cultists used for their satanic rituals, and when it was checked there were no tunnels. In the end, it turned out that all the people accused ended up being innocent, and what we learned from that is that we need to be very careful when trying to figure stuff out from kids because they want to tell us things we want to hear. Today there's a completely different method of questioning children in criminal cases exactly because we know kids are impressionable and we need to be careful about finding the truth and not just the answers that are convenient to us. In the same way, to be responsible we need to be extremely careful about giving kids drugs or surgery that permanently modify the path of their bodies solely because they tell us they are something. Compare the way "trans kids" are being treated by politicans and the media, and even if you assume good faith and that it isn't intentional, it's impossible to see the behavior as anything but manipulative and dangerous from a completely secular viewpoint. Telling kids that if they assume a certain characteristics that they're so loved and so wanted and so supported and they're being mistreated by everyone around them that just doesn't know how special they are and giving the same message all the time -- of course a bunch of kids will go "oh, well if that's what the important adults want me to be then that's what I'll be". Now, one important piece of the puzzle with respect to "trans kids" is that someone who questions their sexuality isn't going to ask anyone to surgically alter their bodies, which would be why that piece of the puzzle is particularly contentious. Different studies of kids trans kids showed that between 60 and over 90% of kids who expressed confusion about their gender identity ended up the gender identity of their birth after 18 without treatment. If nothing else, that should raise serious questions about whether treatment of any kind before the age of 18 is ethical, considering you could potentially end up causing needless harm to 9 kids for every 1 kid you help. There is certainly a lot of research disputing these findings, and in fact the number of articles saying "nuh uh" absolutely dwarfs the actual claims, but as a politically charged issue there's an obvious concern about politically induced bias here, which makes me want to believe the older studies from before this was such a front and center topic. You can disagree, but I'm sure my skepticism of "new study shows everything political movement claims is true" is not so unreasonable. If I'm not going to believe creationists when they spit out a flood of studies 'proving' the world is only 8000 years old, why would I believe trans youth ideologues when they spit out a flood of studies seemingly solely in response to being challenged politically? There has been an explosion in the number of kids identifying as trans. Now, it could be that we're just living in the gayest, transest time in the history of the world, but when we're dealing with numbers increasing by many orders of magnitude, it's equally possible that there's an element of social contaigen. Some people might claim that social contaigen is absurd and wouldn't cause people to do something as extreme as this. The thing is, it is uncontroversial that there is an element of social contaigen in cutting, anorexia and suicide which are both purely harmful, and recreational drug use which can be quite harmful. Given the basis of the Hippocratic oath, medicine should be politically Conservative but practically conservative and be very careful about implementing new treatments, particularly on a very large scale, particularly when the effects of those treatments are so overwhelmingly dire. Fundamentally modifying and fundamentally damaging sex organs and primary and secondary sexual characteristics is something we have to be very careful about doing and nobody should be jumping for joy at the idea that it's something that we have to do, in the same way that no one should be jumping for joy at the idea that they should need an organ transplant. Another important thing to remember is that there is a solid history in the 20th century of medical ideologies or technologies that become wildly popular and end up proving to be somewhat evil. Tommy Douglas, the founder of Canadian healthcare, was a vocal proponent of eugenics. The prefrontal lobotomy eventually ended up coming to be considered an example of barbarism but when it was first invented was considered a miracle cure. Prior to the 20th century, cocaine was considered so fantastic that Sigmund Freud himself wrote a book called on cocaine which was about how much he thought cocaine was a beneficial drug. All of these are cautionary tales about simply accepting the current orthodoxy on a current medical treatment. You'll note that none of these are religious arguments. You don't need to believe in any God to look at the above. You can be a hard atheist and look at the facts above and be concerned because you don't want people hurting your kids for their political ideology. If you think that it's solely due to christianity that someone would look at the above and be concerned then you're fundamentally misunderstanding people around you. Now to give everything a broad view, just because something ends up being bad in the way that it's implemented doesn't necessarily mean that it is entirely bad. Eugenics taken to it it's extremes horrible and immoral, but some individuals with major genetic diseases choose independently not to have kids because of the risks involved. Prefrontal lobotomies as a carry-all for anything that could heal you is obviously absolutely horrific and terrible, but it is still very occasionally used for very specific situations. I believe that even cocaine has legitimate medical applications, and if it doesn't then certainly it's cousin opiates or something that are quite dangerous and should not be thrown around thoughtlessly but have incredible levels of therapeutic benefit. I would even go so far as to say that there may be situations where very early intervention in transgender cases could be tremendously beneficial, but I think that the data is clearly showing you have to be very careful and being a political topic the way it is I don't think it's being treated very carefully. 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keto is interesting but im borderline underweight, any diet changes i could make to improve life quality? my diet is pretty avg, i eat everything except vegan crap.