Just get drones to drop a trail of food to a POW camp.

I used to work with Ukrainian contractors at a company I left before the war started. I always wonder if those guys are doing ok. I guess as the picture shows, being a software dev doesn’t mean you stay out of combat.

Great now some fancy restaurant is gonna start offering a basket of fries cooked in lavender oil for $200.

My go-to is to grab a used samsung galaxy from Ebay. Usually the best bang for the buck. The reasonably new ones have no headphone jack, but the solid dongles (not the flexible ones) work pretty well for that.

Have no social life, it’s much cheaper.

But in all seriousness, if you have to have a social life, limit your spending on that stuff. Restaurant and bar tabs can add up quickly. Budget, limit your drinking, and if you don’t wanna limit your drinking, at least do some cheap drinking at home first.

“I’m really great at reading people/spotting BS/etc.” It seems like almost invariably this is said by people who are quick to make assumptions about people and as a result, are terrible at figuring out what someone is actually thinking.

To predict what jobs AI will replace, you need to know both of the following:

1. What’s special about the human mind that makes people necessary for completing certain tasks
2. What AI can do to replicate or replace those special features

This guy has an MA in industrial engineering and an MBA, and has been in business his whole career. He has no knowledge of psychology and whatever knowledge of AI that he’s picked up on the side as part of his work.

He’s not the guy to ask. And yet, I feel like this is the only kind of guy anyone asks.

In my experience it’s so they can listen to exactly nothing you say in response and then say “oh you’ve totally been brainwashed” before refuting points I never even came close to making.

A few names that may need translation:

• ARK - Cathie Wood’s fund, no surprises there
• Kingdom Holdings - Saudi royals (along with Alwaleed Bin Talal)
• Pershing Square - Bill Ackman’s fund (guy who made headlines recently for getting university presidents fired for not shutting down Palestinian protesters
• Q-Tetris Holding - Qatari fund, not sure how connected to royals it is
• VYC25 - UAE fund, not sure how connected to royals it is
• Scott Nolan - founders fund (Peter Thiel) guy
• X holdings - Elon Musk’s LLC for limiting his losses in this whole charade

Not an exhaustive list, didn’t look up all the names.

Leaders in tech have to be good at raising money from rich investors, lenders, etc… Most of these people aren’t tech people. They’re hedge fund managers, bankers, or just people with lots of money. So consider the following 2 strategies:

Strategy A: Be realistic. Explain the positives and the negatives. The tech looks promising, but the future is uncertain. It’s a risky investment that could pay off massively, but it probably won’t. You the CEO know a lot about the topic, but you’re still just a guy, not a miracle worker.

Strategy B: Just focus on the plus side. It will succeed, and it’ll succeed way more than anyone expects. Not only that, you the CEO are an unstoppable hardworking galaxy brain genius who sleeps on the factory floor. They should be so lucky to get to invest in your company.

Which of these is more likely to work with investors who don’t know tech? And which is most likely to be the strategy chosen by leaders who are narcissistic and deceitful? The answer is the same.

Supreme court: “To ensure that babies are put in their place, former presidents must enjoy total infant punting immunity.”

If it was a dude it would be like William Hung, everyone would still laugh at him but would also be kinda rooting for him. People are right to laugh at Raygun, but the conspiracies about her getting ahead because of her husband have a sexist vibe to them.

Of course the point of likening it to a virus is to compare it the involuntary nature of a viral infection, even though must people have a voluntary role to play in accepting ideas. So if you take something into your body with full consent, knowing it will reproduce itself, I guess that’s more mind sex? That sounds a lot less harmful.

I bet this started as a troll and then everyone lost the plot

source did not disappoint:

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It’s a tradition in the Russian army:

Bushnell vaguely recalled a game called “cuckoo” in which officers turned off the lights, hid behind couches and chairs, and took potshots at one another when someone yelled “cuckoo.”

When the leaders treat the soldiers like their lives don’t matter, it’s only a matter of time before they start to believe the same thing themselves.

This is what I see a lot of from Elon supporters - holding him to a much lower standard than themselves. You say you have a similar situation, but then you still recognize that Putin is utter and complete shit. Well, Elon doesn’t and uses his child’s transition as an excuse to believe all sorts of horrible things. You can feel free to look down on him and would be correct to do so.

He’s said nothing about it on his twitter, instead doing the usual boosting of misinformation about US politics. The silence says a lot.

I’m old enough to remember life before the apps. I could never figure out how to make that work. Approaching girls was stressful and hard and there was a lot of ambiguity because you’d need like some ulterior motive for talking to them and then would have to shift to dating which I never had the confidence to do. Like I’d offer to send her some class notes or something and I’d get her email. But then what?

Just walking up to a random girl and saying:

I think you look cool, wanna grab some coffee?

Would have an extremely low success rate I’m sure. Girls need to feel comfortable first, after all strangers who approach you in a public place tend to be people you’d rather not talk to. Now if you’re at a bar and a friend introduces you and you have a conversation first, well that could work and it’s kinda how my parents and older cousins met in the pre-app days. But if you’re me in college and you’re an engineering nerd and have only a handful of equally nerdy friends, those conversations are hard to come by. And that’s the role the apps filled for me - the introduction.