Gasp

I’m so dumb. I didn’t even know I had to enable that… God it should physically hurt to be this stupid

The technology exists. Simply bias cut the two dogs and pile them into a larger roll. It is especially advantageous when you sauté the pieces for extra browning.

All the same… Name one town that does not need to be any hotter at all!

Kroner capitalism? 🤔

They can lose multiple wars at once - but they can make it super ugly the whole time

Most stressful job imaginable

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Commenting just to counterbalance - my wedding was like six friends at a rose garden without permission. My parents are separated and my wife’s weren’t great with travel, so we eloped.

Honey is money

Ballsy move, bet the stock price would go up. They should try it.

They’ve literally never had this much more, proportionally. If this isn’t too much, there’s no such thing.

I comprehend it fine. UK life, no car, train only for going on five years. Cheaper than owning a car, even with the occasional taxi ride. Get more steps in, too.

Ed Neumeier can write a script that is both smart and entertaining… as long as it specifically satirizes late 20th century American fascism.

Ah yes, antisocial insecurity

It is nice. I’ll try to come up with more recs later when I’m at my computer.

Space Sprouts: calm, cosy, whimsical, physics based.

Opus Magnum: machine-building puzzles loosely based on alchemical lore. The puzzle objectives tie into a story that is kind of just window dressing, but interesting enough.

Cheers, yeah. Maybe we just need pen pals. :)

Yeah I like the take that LLMs are a fascist artifact. They reduce language, our most valuable way of connecting with others, solving problems, sharing knowledge, etc. into a thing you pay not to think about and for output that is frequently wrong and cannot know when it’s wrong.

Okay, so I can take onboard the idea that the written word has become an amalgam of speech-to-text bullshit and internet newspeak has eroded the quality and lucidity of our discourse, but the only thing I’d take away from you is that when I speak of an oral tradition, I’m referring to a cultural body of knowledge that is transmitted orally which often involves long group sessions of oratory importantly based on rote memorization. What we do orally in our culture does not compare to the depth and richness and (this is key) the mental faculties that accompany such a cultural tradition.

I think the main problem with the technology of writing (combined with the loss of oral traditions) is that now all the knowledge is an object which can be destroyed, rather than a living memory. Arguably this has stopped being so much of a danger with the massively redundant nature of print and digital media, but we’ve been burned before - library of Alexandia, e.g.

One thing I like about an oral tradition is the inherent communitarian aspect of that medium, the idea that in order to gain knowledge you had to go talk to people and they’d speak it to you, mind-to-mind. Building not just strength in a community upon transmission, but the kind of understanding that comes from having it explained to you by someone who knows you. Learning from strangers and books often falls short of a true mind-meld. And the verbal skills you get from living in an oral tradition are something we can only guess at.

I’m content with written words though. They’re some of my favourite things about life, actually.