TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
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TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
7hr ago
Really gotta read Atlas Shrugged. Tried The Fountainhead when I was like 19 and while I remember a lot from it, and even fondly, it kinda put me off Rand for a long time.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
20hr ago
ra-ra-workers-of-the-world-unite
What would be the opposite of this?
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
2d ago
There is no obvious line. Getting squeezed through a vagina is a pretty absurd standard for the beginning of personhood. I doubt they'll stop at pre-birth either; Singer and his cohorts argue that it should be fine to 'abort' one-year olds.
And why not? This sort of behavior has been pretty normal throughout human history. As usual, post-Christian fish have no clue about the water they've been swimming in.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
2d ago
Everyone seems to assume suicide but, given the context, unintentional overdose seems like a viable alternative scenario. Am I missing something?
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
3d ago
It can be hard to see at the time but being single is vastly better than being with the wrong woman.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
5d ago
I'm wondering whether AI will invent its own mathematical notation, superior to ours, and if so whether it will even be comprehensible to us. You may still have a role as a translator at some point... though I guess it'll probably be better at that too.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
7d ago
fell victim to Muggeridge's Law during the Obama era
If anything you undersold this. I ultimately liked the movie but it was jarring how on the nose it was, and contemplating how this used to be obvious satire when now it's, if anything, so much worse than portrayed left me unamused and depressed. (I was also, in retrospect, coming down with a nasty flu and am still fighting it a couple days later).
Still it definitely has its moments and belongs in the set of 'movies like that worth watching'. Ended appropriately. Also I have a soft spot for some of the minor actors. Always nice to see early Matt Ross, who made my favorite movie, Captain Fantastic.
I'm currently considering suing a certain company for fraudulent inducement and was astonished when my attorney told me their likely defense would be that I should have known better than to trust them in the first place. Apparently that's a real defense that works.
This might make me sound more dumb than I am; the context is that I kept providing services to them as they got later and later on payment. I didn't buy a bridge or anything.
So the idea is that given their track record of not paying on time or in some cases at all, it's on me for continuing to move forward in good faith no matter how many new agreements we signed.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
And thank goodness for that. Can you imagine?
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
I think something like this happened in late Republican Rome.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
9d ago
I don't care how nice you are, but I think it would be appropriate to actually disagree with his points here and ideally back up your rebuttals instead of accusing someone of delusion.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
9d ago
Is the issue here with the word 'paid' rather than 'released'?
I think that's a pretty crucial difference, yeah.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
10d ago
Yeah, we used to go every week and I'd come home with like 8 books and read half of them. Wish my kids could have that experience.
One daughter is now going to a private school that has its own pretty good library, though they only go up through grade 8, so unfortunately limited for someone at her reading level.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
10d ago
Worst cut is definitely something like top round.
Ah, yeah.
I do like, and purchase and eat, filet; it's just, as you say, pretty dependent upon some kind of fat sauce (I'm a huge fan of steak au poivre which generally wants filet) or an elaborate construction like a beef wellington, where it's saved by all the duxelles and buttery pastry. But I have seen people buy and cook filet 'mignon' (def not) with just salt and pepper, and then muscle through it with their molars, the whole time convinced it's a great steak.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
10d ago
Thankfully not. I just work there occasionally.
Great post. Tangentially,
for hundreds of miles around me, public libraries are cutting hours or shutting down.
Good. Took my kids to one once. Nothing like when I was young. The homeless people aside, the whole place was a temple of wokeness and the books belonged in a bonfire. I'm aghast that my tax money is going to support this establishment, just as I am when I drive past the local elementary school and see 'progress' flags and coded anti-white messaging in the wall murals. And that's before we get to all the trans stuff in both.
Down with all of it, I say. I'd pay twice as much in the relevant taxes to be rid of them. If I could send the people who've been running them to prison I'd do that too.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
Yes, that's definitely been something we plan to look into, and I'm not sure why we haven't gotten around to it yet. The economics make perfect sense and I'm more than happy to use all the weird cuts that would come along with it. Probably I should put Claude on the case.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
For some reason this took me a lot of effort to parse but, yeah, that does make sense.
Some of it's also just the legal environment. Easily half the time I spend running my business goes toward managing insurance and compliance stuff instead of actually accomplishing any kind of productive work. And those costs apply to every level of every transaction, so prices balloon all around. Granted this is also directly downstream of overregulation.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
I work in a very different field but consistently find that those of my clients which are least profitable are also by far the most troublesome.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
Learning to sharpen a knife on a sharpening stone sounds much more difficult than it actually is, and totally worth doing. I touch mine up all the time and it does make cooking more joyful.
I'd say check out some youtube videos, and you probably should, but in my experience they all make it seem much more stressful and involved than it is when you're actually doing it.
Don't overthink it, I'd say. Get a whetstone, wet it, scrape knife over it in a common-sense way and angle, repeat for the other side, then go back and do a few more strokes on each side. I like to use the printer-paper cut test to verify that it's acceptably sharp, but mostly don't really bother any more.
Rinse and dry the knife before applying to food.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
Here the chuck roast I'm buying is $10.99/pound whereas the flank steak is usually more like $27.
But most people probably aren't feeding a wife who insists that every piece of meat be organic, pasture-raised, and from an animal with an endowment set up such that buddhist monks will be praying for them in perpetuity; etc.
Ah -- yeah, haven't cared for them the couple times I've tried, but that mainly did have to do with their, uh, take on meat. The 'tocino' was particularly egregious. Can totally believe their veggie options are good.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
11d ago
Not a Chipotle enjoyer, generally, and when I go I don't get a burrito but I believe you.
Where do you like in SF? I find that the tortilla matters more than almost any other particular.
I use Claude constantly and it's fantastic. Then again, I'm not using it to write code, which sounds like your specific problem.
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