mythrwy

22 ms·

361.
by mythrwy 3y ago
I don't think you understand the history of the area nor what has taken place. Which is understandable if the lens is Western media. The British were after Crimea 180 years ago. (see charge of the light brigade) It's a big prize.
362.
by mythrwy 3y ago
I know what the word means. I also know history and have been following events there closely for over a decade. I am old. I watched the fall of the Soviet Union. I watched Serbia. I watched Georgia. And what I say is true. There are multipl
363.
by mythrwy 3y ago
It's an imperial war instigated by multiple parties. Not one party. And the Ukrainian people are paying for it in blood.
364.
by mythrwy 3y ago
Maybe the US didn't enter WWII with the idea of making a profit. I don't know. But what is undeniable is the US exited WWII in a very good position and lots of profits were made.
365.
by mythrwy 3y ago
I suspect he may have had a preemptive opinion on that even though he wasn't around any more when it started. “WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is t
366.
by mythrwy 3y ago
I'm suspicious of permaculture because I had a friend back in the early 2000s that got into it with a local group and it seemed almost like a cult and they didn't produce enough food to feed a couple of hamsters that I saw. He did
367.
by mythrwy 3y ago
Hey there fellow RO hacker! I'd like to plug https://www.freshwatersystems.com/ . I built a system that does around 150 gallons a day from undersink parts, some filters, pumps, an IBC tote tank I got at the feed store a
368.
by mythrwy 3y ago
It depends on how hard your water is, but if it's very hard and the RO system gets lots of use, you need a softener or anti-scalant injector that injects a small amount of chemical which prevents scale buildup. If you don't do thi
369.
by mythrwy 3y ago
That actually explains... a lot.
370.
by mythrwy 3y ago
How about book deals and overpriced speaking tours after they leave office? There are so many ways potential bribery is legal. It seems so few good people want to be politicians. I wouldn't want to do it at all for instance (and not cl
371.
by mythrwy 3y ago
I think there are over 40 churches descended from the teachings of Joseph Smith now (someone knowledgeable once told me this, I don't have a source). Most of them are very small. An initial split occurred before leaving Missouri with a
372.
by mythrwy 3y ago
This did happen and it was egregious, but there is slightly more to the story (not that it makes it ok). Years ago in Arizona I worked with a guy who was a descendant of John D. Lee who was the ringleader and later executed for his role in
373.
by mythrwy 3y ago
Same reason we might watch an course video on SQL in the evening after work?
374.
by mythrwy 3y ago
Or some bosses I've had. I actually can't wait to start reporting to GPT, how much crazier can it be?
375.
by mythrwy 3y ago
2011-2012 I wrote an inventory management system. It's a "single page app". Using jQuery. Python backend. I truly hope nobody else ever has to work on it (now there are real single page libraries) but it still works and has b
376.
by mythrwy 3y ago
I asked gpt-4 this question: "A swan, a chicken and three mice are on the banks of the river. The mice wish to go to the other side so the swan offers to carry them. The mice climb on the swan's back. How many animals are on each
377.
by mythrwy 3y ago
Given what you say, and I tend to agree with Zappa, maybe the better solution will eventually be, keep the AI and get rid of the politicians.
378.
by mythrwy 3y ago
Yep. The danger isn't really schizophrenia, that can happen but it's rare. It's exactly what you state. You can't sleepwalk your way through 30 years of life and be a sharp normal person with a regular life and good thin
379.
by mythrwy 4y ago
I'm not any kind of proponent of hard drugs, but yes, I do think legalization and control of fentanyl would be much less costly then what we have going on now. Not like we have done with cannabis though, that obviously would be a disas
380.
by mythrwy 4y ago
Pedants and akshuallies and firm believers in the sanctity of useless rules should also be encouraged to take a bong toke from time to time. It's very good for clearing those conditions right up.
381.
by mythrwy 4y ago
Marijuana has it's uses. It's good to get a different perspective sometimes. It's good to become less judgmental. It's good to let go of the unimportant obsessions and ambitions of life sometimes and concentrate on the l
382.
by mythrwy 4y ago
The article states moths are more efficient pollinators _at night_. But many types flowers close at night (tulips and hibiscus for instance). So presumably moths don't pollinate those and we still need daytime pollinators.
383.
by mythrwy 4y ago
I have wild honey bees in my yard (New Mexico) and have seen them in other places. I believe they are Africanized but just looking I can't tell the difference. At any rate, in warm areas of the US there are many feral old world bees.
384.
by mythrwy 4y ago
But I know so many grumpy old engineers and IT people! Every job has it's hazards. I say try a number of them myself. Manual work is good for people, especially young people (in my opinion). I don't know about 30 years of back bre
385.
by mythrwy 4y ago
Really depends on the person. Learn something though, as many things as you can in as many areas as you can. You never know what might pan out. Most important thing: Learn to make things happen. Learn to "do stuff". A lot of peopl
386.
by mythrwy 4y ago
Who is this "we" you are referring to? In other words, when I control my thoughts, what is doing the controlling? (see George Gurdjieff's philosophy which speaks to this issue of the `mechanical vs the conscious`, but please
387.
by mythrwy 4y ago
So maybe we should try both at the same time! (just throwing out ideas here)
388.
by mythrwy 4y ago
Yes. Additionally I'm not moving across the country to live in a strange and expensive city to work on your CRUD app. There is no way back, even at 2X or 3x more.
389.
by mythrwy 4y ago
Would you settle for "behave exactly as if they had some form of intelligence"? Because from where I sit it's a distinction without a meaningful difference.
390.
by mythrwy 4y ago
"Conservatives have waged a targeted attack on US education by shifting the federal and state tax burden to students." What? Do you mean college used to be paid for by taxes and now students have to pay for it and that's why

More ›