Cleaning up after a child is not the same as general cleaning.

If you’re an adult, you can get away with daily dishes, and ither cleaning once a week, because you’re capable of taking food all the way to your mouth without dropping it, and you probably have a vague laundry organization system, and some of the time, you out stuff back where you foundil it when you’re done using it.

Kids cannot do any of that shit, so your house accumulates one week worth of responsible adult mess in about 11 minutes.

I have a confession:

When I joined, I thought ML was for Machine Learning.

Shit.

That’s super dark and super dystopian… and I feel terrible for chuckling.

A shame that John C Woods isn’t still around.

I dunno, we already have fast chargers that can go from 20% to 80% in 20 minutes. A full tank of gas still takes 5 to 15 minutes (big tanks).

I think it’s feasible that we could someday figure out chargers that are even faster than standard pumps, for a comparable mileage.

I know I’m being silly, but my brain likes numbers like 5 and 10. I can’t imagine saying 10 to 13. And a 5 degree swing in C feels too big.

Yeah, but that’s because that’s what you’re used to with the F scale.

If you were estimating a number of tablespoons of sugar, you wouldn’t be estimating in groups of 5, because that’s crazy. You’re probably more accustomed to estimating one tablespoon at a time. The same with estimating measuring cups of milk.

Or, if you don’t cook very much, for estimating walking distances, you’re not estimating in groups of 5 miles. You might group by quarter miles and say, “It’s a quarter mile away,” or a half or something.

There’s nothing special about this scale. All of the supposed benefits are the result of your familiarity with it. Had we been using °C the whole time instead, you would be estimating degrees two at a time instead of 5, and everything would be completely normal.

Celsius and L/100km are not useful or show it’s not a great system for everyday use.

This is probably just a matter of taste and convention. If everyone knew what 12°C was, then it would be perfectly fine for everyday use. Everywhere else in the world, people are using it for everyday use, and they’re doing just fine.

Same for L/100km. Oops, you specifically wanted to know how far you were going to go with 1 Liter? You can convert that just fine. But it’s just as likely that you’re looking at mpg, and you actually wanted to know how many gallons it would take for you to go from A to B, in which case you also need to do a conversion.

It might be the easiest.

For more reliable… jeez… maybe Swiss?

I have ONE.

He’s been president for a total of 8 6 years, and there’s been ONE policy that I’ve seen him pass that

1. Is actually a good thing, I think

2. Isn’t something that I would expect someone to do just by virtue of having a brain. (e.g., Operation Warp Speed was good, but also I would expect any moderately intelligent person to do the same.)

That one thing is establishing a sovereign wealth fund.

I can’t imagine any other result from a microblog that turned Publicly Traded Company.

Think of the risk to the investors, putting out language like that!

Ties are a descendent of the cravat. It’s just another way to accessorize. We used to have plain shirts and coats, and it was something to add a little pizzazz somewhere.

You might do the same thing, but with graphic tees, face piercings, tattoos, hairstyles, or any other thing that differentiates your appearance from anyone else’s. Basically, our monkey brains see other people with a cool new look, and we want it, too. That’s what happened with the necktie, once upon a time.

Exercise:

• Set a timer for 1 minute.

• Sit down and do nothing.

Do that every day. After a while, you’ll adjust and it wont be painful. Then do 2 minutes. Then do 5. Then do 15. Every day.

Here’s what happened:

You’ve lived your entire life in a bowl of cocaine. You were born into it. When your parents wanted a break, they gave you some coke. When you were good, they gave you some coke. After you completed your homework, you were allowed a little coke. When you grew up, if you feel tired, or feel like you don’t want to do something, you can have a little nose candy to recharge.

If you want to stop using so much cocaine, you can’t just go cold turkey. You need to start by being able to survive one minute at a time without it.

It’s easy to just remove the bowl of cocaine and not use cocaine. But that’s not going to help you practice choosing not to do cocaine when it is available.

“Weffy”

Factually, using AI in your education means you get less value out of that education. In every math class ever, you’ve probably heard some version of,

“I don’t care that you got the right answer. I already know that 2x^2 - 5x -3 factors into (2x + 1)(x - 3) and I already know that this information is freely available. What I care about is making sure that you can figure that out without anyone helping you.”

If you use AI to do a problem, you’re training your ability to do something that everyone else on the planet can do. If you force yourself to do it, you’re training your ability to actually think.

You actually WON’T have to do more work in the long run. Think of it as an investment. If you spend the time learning it now, properly, so that you actually understand it, then every test that your study for, for the rest of your life, will be easier, and you’ll get higher grades. Measurably.

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/ai-s-impact-on-cognitive-ability-mit-study-reveals-more-troubling-data/

Keep it up.

Well that’s true, though, right?

If you call yourself a centrist, but then support an interventionist policy that makes trans healthcare more difficult… you’re probably just wrong about being a centrist.

The same applies the other way. If you support governmental protections for trans healthcare (broadly), and enshrining basic protections across state lines, you’re, again, not a centrist.

The difference is that the latter group isn’t ashamed, so they aren’t hiding their opinions for the sake of being less controversial. We’re proudly supporting our trans friends because good people don’t take the middle ground when one side wants to e.g. prosecute their friends’ doctors for providing healthcare across state lines.

Voting Dems to protect people is equally pointless, or didn’t you read the OP?

I wouldn’t say “equally”. This is for sure a bad thing… but for every anti-trans thing Newsom does, any given Republican does two. And voting third party is functionally equivalent to not voting.

Your first priority should be being organized enough to ensure safety for your trans friends, anyway. Second is voting in the primaries so that you have a better choice than Fascist vs Diet Fascist.

After that, just be honest with yourself about the impact of your General Election vote. It’s far less important, on average, than having a single conversation with your neighbors.

It’s not a marketing problem. It’s a problem with who gets to control all of the marketing narratives.

‘Not a marketing problem, it’s a problem with markeing’…

It’s clear to me that I said two different things. Is there anything about either that you would like me to clarify?

Compare: “It’s not a strategy problem; it’s a game-design problem.”

You are referencing a 70 year old political movement as if we haven’t had 70 years of history happen since then.

I’m explicitly referring to it because of the 79 years of history. 79 years of history tends to have an effect on the public consciousness.

We surely don’t believe that the average person formed their “socialist → bad” association from exposure to socialism, right? Then, why do they believe that? Most Americans can’t even accurately describe what socialism is. How did it come to pass that they are so convinced that “socialist → bad”? If this is about the USSR, then surely the organic version of this is that everyone would be convinced “USSR → bad” instead, right?

The only reason it’s worth mentioning in this context is the resulting 79 years of shaping public opinion.

We have a crazy unbelieveable opportunity happening right now, actively, in New York, where someone openly referring to themselves as socialist is making massive moves

Yes, that’s great. I’m happy that people have the opportunity to see the impact that well-managed social policies can have. I would say that the marketing is quite good.

and D’s are actively campaigning against ‘themselves’ with more effert than we’ve seen them use in 10 years against Trump.

Yes, and that’s part of what I’m referring to when I say that it’s a problem with who gets to control all of the marketing narratives. We have a two-party system, and both parties are actively stacking the deck against anyone campaigning on good social policy.

Consider how the average person gets their political information. If both major parties have decided that it’s better if everyone believes “socialist → bad”, that’s simply what most people are going to be exposed to, and what most people are going to believe.

Mamdani is an anomaly: he happens to be so likeable, with ideas that are so popular, that this didn’t stop him from winning anyway. It also helps that paying a few thousand influencers to spam anti-leftist content can be somewhat counterbalanced by paying 200 influencers to spam pro-Mamdani content.

https://campaignlegal.org/update/campaign-finance-regulations-must-address-influencers-and-streaming-platforms-protect-voters

Hopefully driving this point home: the marketing strategy for these ideas is good, because people generally like good social policy. However, the marketing environment is biased toward whoever spends the most money.

But, I think we need a banner to gather under, don’t we?

Your typical American family hasn’t a clue… They know “socialist bad”…

This is why the specific banner probably doesn’t matter very much. The association “socialist → bad” just comes from a long-running campaign by Western Capitalists to make sure that the peasants make that association. It basically goes,

1. The USSR is bad, and
2. they are socialists, and therefore
3. socialism is bad.

And that’s enough for most people. It’s easy to highlight a country’s flaws and convince someone that the country is bad, so 1 took hold, for reasons both reasonable and unreasonable. And 2 is free because they have socialism in the name. And 3 is a common logical fallacy, but it works, because it turns out people aren’t very rational.

If we picked up the “Proletariat” banner instead, the same thing would happen.

1. The USSR is bad, and
2. they implemented some of Karl Marx’s ideas, and so
3. Karl Marx is bad, and so
4. the proletariat are bad.

It’s not a marketing problem. It’s a problem with who gets to control all of the marketing narratives.

Bad math.

1. $25 for a 50lb bag
2. Buy two.
3. Mistakenly believe that adds up to 200lb.

For anyone struggling with food prices, first, I empathize. I’ve been there. It fucking sucks. Second, when desperate, I put together a plan much like the following, and it helped me get through some hard times.

USA prices 2026-09-16

26 oz salt: $1, 0 calories, 0 protein

200 lb dry beans: $120, 300000 Cal, 20000g protein

200 lb rice: $50 $100, 330000 Cal, 2400g protein

360 tablets multivitamin: $37.50

Annual cost: $258.50 Daily calories: 1726 (suitable for a sedentary person.) Daily protein: 61 g

You can get even higher protein and lower cost if you have access to bulk soybeans. Multiply by whatever values you like to hit your calorie or protein needs.

You don’t have to eat JUST this. But if this is the majority of your meals, you have enough to survive, and in the US, you’ll actually be healthier than most of the people around you.

EDIT: updated the numbers because I’m an idiot who forgot that you need 4, 50lb bags to get to 200lb, rather than 2.