I didn’t say he did. I agree. Just trying to set expectations.

Some people are going to be offended unless you participate in their games. In the army I had someone tell me he was going to punch me if I didn’t drink at a get together. So I drank. I probably would’ve anyway, but he was super weird about it.

Redirect conversation, be noncommittal, let yourself get pulled away by duties, etc. Eventually if you’re lucky you just won’t be in the clique any more. But they’re never going to understand what you’re telling them without offense because they just don’t want to. There is no polite, easy way to do this that isn’t going to upset them. They will feel like you think you’re better than them.

They voted to give him all that money again after a judge tried to save them. I don’t even understand. No one is worth that kind of money.

I was thinking a Pinto.

Punk indicates rebellion against the status quo as part of the theme. If that isn’t part of it, then IMO it has no place in the name.

I think it’s this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Star_Wars

Other than the narrator it was all original audio from the movies I think. No idea who the narrator was.

It’s incomplete, but it’s here: https://youtu.be/72rovnIg85k?si=NZxuz7VqM4GjKaZp

I had Episode 4 and maybe 6?

It’s not the soundtrack. It’s like, the radio play or something. I can still hear the narration.

Vader grips the rebels throat

“We intercepted no transmissions. This is a consular ship. We’re on a… diplomatic mission.”

The Star Wars audio cassette. No idea what it would do for me today, but I miss that tape.

Now I just listen to rain or ocean waves on Alexa.

I had multiple interviews with a company and was told they went so well they stopped interviewing other candidates. The interviews did go quite well. Then they hired internally.

It was a bullshit short term contract anyway, but that’s the best interview I’ve had in 3 months of searching. I don’t know if that counts as a “fake” job, but it was a huge waste of everyone’s time.

I think there is a lot this fails to capture because certain things are unprecedented. Michigan’s GOP is in utter disarray and it isn’t the only one. And overturning Roe v Wade has energized the left and disillusioned whatever center remains.

Now these facts are baked into the polling already, so obviously that’s a big concern, but I believe this means polling is too far right across the board. I think who makes up likely voters has shifted. RvW drew in younger voters and I think now that they are engaged they will remain so.

Time will tell. I’ve seen far less Trump support this year than I did in 2020, which yeah is anecdotal, but I think it’s an indicator. Of course, even if I’m correct, Michigan isn’t going to carry the election alone, and it looks like the rest of the rust belt is further to the right.

AI coding in a nutshell. It makes the easy stuff easier and the hard stuff harder by leading you down thirty incorrect paths before you toss it and figure it out yourself.

I think there might be a lot of value in describing it to an AI, though. It takes a fair bit of clarity of thought to get something resembling what you actually want. You could use a junior or rubber duck instead, but the rubber duck doesn’t make stupid assumptions to demonstrate gaps in your thought process, and a junior takes too long and gets demoralized when you have to constantly revise their instructions and iterate over their work.

Like the output might be garbage, but it might really help you write those stories.

They are venomous but non-lethal unless you have significant health issues already. What a tarantula attack is good at is triggering an involuntary fight or flight response.

The really awful thing is that tarantulas are quite fragile. My great aunt used to own a pet store and she killed one just trying to blow some sand off its belly and it leaped out of her hand and cracked itself open on the floor.

I would note that ads are a source of poor performance, and vectors for infection and compromise of a system through realistic misleading dialogs and outright exploitation of vulnerabilities.

I have had my parents fall victim to viruses and get scammed out of money due to advertisements on purportedly legitimate websites.

If a website doesn’t work due to an ad blocker, my parents don’t need to visit it.

Reactionary bullshit conceivably being promoted by the advertisement industry instead of rising organically (though it really only matters when asking whether its a few loud people, or a bunch of AI-generated noise).

I fucked up a lot of potential relationships by being too horny, and a lot of potentially fun hookups by being too serious. But it all worked out in the end.

The whole package is quite lovely, but that collar suggests you’re into the fun toys. It inspires ideas both sensual and cruel, the details of which are best left to our respective imaginations.

And yes I’m trying to avoid obvious and pedestrian observations about how delectable your body is, but I would love to run my hands all over you. My wife is built similarly, so I guess I just have a type.

Admitting you’re a pedo isn’t a good look. Fortunately you don’t matter one bit to me. All your anger, rage, jokes, whatever - none of it is worth anything.