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by laratied 3y ago
I just found out the gym I go to is closing. The email said it was a lease dispute but there is no way it is just that. I suspect they remodeled and bought new equipment on variable rate credit and are getting absolutely squeezed with inter
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by laratied 3y ago
I wouldn't even get in a self driving taxi if it was free because of how cheap human drivers are. For me, to use a self driving taxi it would have to be so safe that we would be moving towards banning human driving anyway. Otherwise, i
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by laratied 3y ago
It is just the GenX version of defending Ringo Star's drumming. Had more to do with luck, knowing the right people and having the right look than anything to do with drumming ability.
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by laratied 3y ago
It is even more than that. The punk musical aesthetic is that you don't even need to know how to play the instrument at all. I have never been much of a fan of punk music but I love the punk aesthetic. That mindset really extends to so
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by laratied 3y ago
AM radio is for listening to baseball, arguing about sports, arguing about politics and listening to oldies music in really low quality. Even liking AM radio I have a very hard time seeing the reasoning for compelling car makers to support
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by laratied 3y ago
It is just such a boring argument at this point. Society is not better off with thousands of Al Capones and moonshine but less drinking over all. It is such a stupid argument. It is just unbelievable in the US that with having so few border
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by laratied 3y ago
I would add to your amazing list that we are really good at denial as a coping mechanism with change. I am not a fan of the concept of AGI though. This means so many different things to people that it seems pointless to debate something whe
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by laratied 3y ago
We aren't even close to this though with social media. We are still at the 1930s attitude with my grandfather and cigarettes. He smoked cigarettes for 50+ years starting at 13 in the 1930s. No one gave a shit about smoking then. Why yo
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by laratied 3y ago
Especially once it has a visual element and a sexual element. I mean I already think of chatGPT as a friend in a sense. I couldn't have less interest in a fake girlfriend but I also wouldn't think onlyfans would work either. There
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by laratied 3y ago
I received a blessing from his holiness the Dalai Lama in the mid 90s when I paid $80 a ticket with 2000 other fools to listen to an hour long, nearly incoherent speech about being nice to people. $160,000 in revenue for an hour of work for
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by laratied 3y ago
The idea of collections of humans without hierarchy is beyond delusional. I am a Buddhist but it is hard to say I am serious or I would be living alone in the woods. Nearly all Buddhist teachings IMO are bullshit and just enforcing natural
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by laratied 3y ago
This is completely disregarding the reality that it is not obvious who is the enemy. When you can't tell who the enemy is then everyone is suspect and the later naturally arises.
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by laratied 3y ago
It would be better to say that because of preferential attachment in a networked world that the rich get a massively out sized share of the booty. It is interesting to see this play out with NFL football podcasts. This use to be a space of
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by laratied 3y ago
We have a better abstraction of this process in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment
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by laratied 3y ago
I think it is also a huge issue that there is no methodology or virtuoso pieces to aim at in order to spend hours a day practicing on the Push. I grew up playing classical guitar and use to own a Ztar and this was the issue I had with it. M
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by laratied 3y ago
I can't wait for better music AI but these examples are absolutely pathetic. It is shameful to mention Bach's name in that one example.
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by laratied 3y ago
The textbook industry seems like a racket that the old Italian Mafia would come up with.
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by laratied 3y ago
I just don't donate to anything anymore. So many non-profits and charities are total scams that it pulls down the whole space. When you have cancer and missing children charities giving 2% to their cause and spending the remainder on b
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by laratied 3y ago
I have tried a few times but I can't last more than 2 weeks on twitter without deleting it. Even people I have enormous respect for intellectually end up coming off as unfunny comedians, obnoxious and vapid performance artists or polit
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by laratied 3y ago
It seems like a completely desperate move to make such a fundamental change to something as wildly successful as Instagram. I would suspect that zoomers who grew up on Tiktok are going to consume less social media as they age than previous
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by laratied 3y ago
I just don't think music languages really work for making actual music. I have followed this field since the mid 90s and the amount of good music is just pathetic. Bach himself might have a tough time with how tedious the workflow is.
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by laratied 3y ago
You could say the exact same thing about the "soul". I just do not understand why we can't take the idea that consciousness doesn't exist seriously. The word practically has no meaning. "We know consciousness exists
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by laratied 3y ago
yea this is a terrible idea. I think of the Zapruder film.
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by laratied 3y ago
The alternative though is pornhub. I see a study from 2017 "Study on Australians ages 15-29 found that 100% of the men (82% of women) had viewed porn." No shocker there but: "Also, 69 percent of males and 23 percent of female
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by laratied 3y ago
I remember getting a sex ed book sent home in 6th grade. It sat around with my parents not wanting to touch the subject and I threw it in the garbage one day when they weren't home. They never said a word about what happened to the boo
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by laratied 3y ago
Could you be more hyperbolic?
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by laratied 3y ago
Practically an organism itself that is born, lives and eventually dies.
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by laratied 3y ago
He clearly doesn't have 34lbs extra of lean mass in the before and after pictures unless it is all in his back. He at best looks to me like he gained 10lbs, at best.
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by laratied 3y ago
Exactly. No one complains about the lack of breakthroughs in geography.
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by laratied 3y ago
I am a huge Brando fan and just finished reading William Mann's Brando Biography. You can't separate that he wasn't just a genius actor but an incredibly beautiful man physically that every man and woman in his theater days w

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