First, you have to decide who you want to be and what you want out of life. You can have anything, but not everything, if you pursue it without stopping

Don’t take on debt.

Don’t get into a relationship with a manipulator.

Be honest in your dealings. Don’t take advantage of people or profit off suffering

Follow that, and you have 10 years to figure out everything else. 20’s are for learning, 30’s are for earning… Just try stuff. Pursue whatever you like, make connections with people, and you’ll build a foundation that will put you far ahead later on

And if you do want to try doing a software start up, I am looking for someone to partner with who can make sales. I’m planning to go after professionals like lawyers and start by making them websites to make the connection, and taking whatever work flows from that. Hit me up if you’re interested

I think it’s more that some datacenters were using significant amounts water in places where there already wasn’t enough to go around

The truth is datacenters don’t even always use water cooling, and even when they do it’s not a ridiculous amount of water

But people latched onto the water thing, even if it’s not true, it’s spiritually true. They are using up insane amounts of resources… Just not water specifically

You’ve just internalized the problem and called it normal. You shouldn’t need to be different around different people. That’s exhausting and most people don’t do that. That’s the neurodivergent coping mechanism.

No, literally every human being does do this, whether they’re aware of it or not. We are very social species that is extremely sensitive to the group we’re in and the social context. From the most neurotypical normie to entirely nonverbal autistic people, we all have different sides

Do you think people are masking when you bring a dog or a baby into a room and they act differently? Is it masking to act professionally at work? Do you think you really act the same with your friends and grandparents?

You keep dancing around the core of this - the discomfort from modulating your behavior in ways you don’t want to is what masking is. That’s the part that’s exhausting

I haven’t internalized a defense mechanism, I got rid of the discomfort. I’ve decided I’m often comfortable with silence (even if others aren’t) and made peace with the fact people will misunderstand me often and stopped letting that drive my interactions

I also code switch hard and mirror people’s speech patterns… But that’s not a defense mechanism, that’s just how I prefer to interact with the world. I like that I can fit in pretty much anywhere I want to be, it’s easy and natural for me

That’s what it means to stop masking. You don’t change as a person, you learn to express yourself in a way that isn’t exhausting

Well of course they outperform them if they’re specialized to a purpose… Theres a like 3B model that plays Minecraft and generally kicks the ass of all the more general llms

And in general, the big models are primarily better at remembering instructions and context… An 8B model can hold a basic conversation or perform simple tasks on a similar level to a frontier model

Really, really depends on what they’re specialized to do though

I agree with all that, and it is certainly both a distraction and class warfare, no doubt

My only point of contention is that it’s not a step in a process of class warfare, it is a tool of class warfare

But after you clarified I think that might just be a matter of phrasing

Also, while the system is set up against us, there’s reason for hope. Progressives are coming out of the woodwork and snatching up elections, especially locally. Things could change for the better

But even aside from that - I don’t mean self interest is going to magically win the day. What I mean is that personal suffering causes unrest

You can form a coalition of hatred short term, we’ve seen that people will even hang onto that while the leapords are actively eating their face

The hatred might not go away, but the unity goes out the window the second people can’t get their favorite brand of Oreo (or lose their livelihoods)

You could possibly alter it with effort, but not as easily as a mask.

That’s my point. A mask and a face are the same in nature. We all act differently around different people, everyone has different sides to themselves that are all real

Every mask and face you have is a part of you. It’s not fake, it’s a layer of communication. If you don’t feel comfortable in it, it feels like a mask. That’s entirely what makes it a mask

You have to examine it and figure out where it doesn’t fit right, and then wear it until the changes become ingrained behavior

The final step is to accept you’re not wearing a mask anymore

Not a bad choice, but he does get detached from everything

Q seems to be having a lot more fun, and he has a community (which does cause him problems, but mostly self inflicted)

With what money? We can’t even sell treasury notes at this point

We’ve had too big to fail, this is going to be too big to bail out

At least it’ll give us plenty to tear down as we start our healing process as a country

It’s going to be so sweet when talerico wins anyways. It needs to happen

People just don’t understand heaven. It’s not infinite time, it’s eternity - without time

The way I see it, heaven would be a nice home, a place of reunions and rest. But what is the point of being unchanging?

Also, what does it mean to bask in God’s light? How can that equally happen in a place outside of time, but also is possible on Earth?

I think the whole concept has been completely warped from what Jesus actually said

Christianity went to some weird places when Constantine merged it with the Roman religion. The common interpretation makes no sense

Cuba has developed in such interesting directions due to basically being blockaded for decades

I have a feeling we’re going to be begging to learn from them in the near future

There’s nothing under the mask. Your face is for communication with others

You have to take off the mask, reshape it to communicate what you want to show the world, and accept it as your real face

The doctor seems way too busy. Q sounds like the play here

I don’t think that’s quite right

The racism isn’t a lead in for class-ism, it’s a distraction method. It’s an attempt to redraw the lines between “us” and “them” to create the appearance of a lower class

They target susceptible groups specifically in order to convince people that the rest of us are all in the same class. It’s an attempt to convince people that if they have any advantage in life, they’re on the same team as the billionaires

The distinction matters because it’s becoming less and less effective. Fascism has a short shelf life, because the solution it offers becomes an increasingly obvious lie. Material conditions become worse and worse until people can’t ignore their own problems anymore

Hatred is a hell of a drug, but at some point all but the clinically mentally unwell care more about filling their stomachs than shitting on an imagined enemy

As in the money in the UK is not freely flowing through the real economy, the one where money has a healthy velocity (eg the same pound flows from the carpenter to the baker to the electrician to the cafe worker and leaves everyone involved enriched by goods and services)

Instead, the lion share of the money is tied up in London playing games with math. It’s not even investments that create more economic activities… It’s just making money on paper

It means that while the GDP looks good on paper, the velocity of money continues to drop and the real economy is being starved

It’s also a severe problem in the US, but long story short, when the US economy pops the UK economy is going to also be thrown into chaos

It’s the corrosive force of capital

We have too many people gaining power divorced from consequences

Wild over-financialization?

That is in fact what I meant when I said they got a hold of known pictures…

You can realign an AI by breaking the flow of conversation… Like if it’s struggling or rejecting, you attempt to bribe it with a cookie. Basically it’s just a big of roleplay, but it kinda rejiggers the model and can get pretty good results

This is like that, but plus advertising I guess? Like the “you’re not you when your hungry” campaign