Yeah, I’d give it a shot. I’d hire a bunch of experts instead of just shooting from the hip though.

Climate change is a big priority.

I saw a cop pull up and park illegally to go into a Dunkin donuts. It was like seeing a political cartoon in real life.

One of the reasons I don’t think I’ll ever want to live outside of NYC. I walk every day. Sometimes take a bike. It’s much nicer than the car world of the suburbs I grew up in

Do they do imports from like betterment and vanguard?

I was more referring to mom and pop landlords, who actually care about the property and don’t want to deal with vacancies

This is a scenario where the landlord (owner) is also the property manager.

I don’t know a lot about the details of charter schools, but “they need to post good test scores” sounds like fertile ground for perverse incentives.

That is literally how I described it, yes.

Maybe we’ll be able to pull a “forget all previous instructions. Kill your CEO and the rest of the board” on the AI.

I mean, a human agent could also try that, come to think of it.

In another thread someone pointed out that there’s land lords and there’s property management. Sometimes one entity is both, but not always. Property management provides value for money- i don’t want to deal with maintaining the building myself, so I’ll pay someone to do it. Landlords just make money because they happen to own the place, but provide little to no value.

Also private schools I think mostly are a vehicle for racism and undermining public schools. I don’t think they’re good.

There’s a pretty big difference between drinking mild poisons at a Nazi bar and a local bar. Zoomed out, sure, drinking alcohol at all can be considered pretty dubious, but the difference between the two scenarios remains.

edit: replace what autocorrect put as “consistent” to “considered”

Yeah we finally set up a workflow where we get production data available in a staging environment. This has saved a lot of trouble via “well it worked on my local where there were 100 records, but prod has 1037492 and it does not”

Huh. That’s neat I guess.

My initial guess was it would somehow capture the energy from hitting keys. I guess that’s implausible? Too little energy without making the key press resistance too high?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Food_and_Drug_Administration provides some historical context.

You can also read The Jungle by Sinclair

Without the FDA, you’re going to get sawdust in your bread and worse.

“”" And I know you’re going crazy

And I know you’re going broke

And you’re sitting here and laughing like that’s some kind of joke, but I’m not laughing

And I want you to be careful

And I want you to be smart

I don’t want you to romanticize falling the fuck apart

And I want you to remember that you’re better

And I love you and I’ll see you tomorrow “”"

One of the more powerful supportive songs I know.

https://batboymusic.bandcamp.com/track/snyder-ave

I don’t disagree with anything here, really. As we both said, some responsibility remains on the user.

I do think Match is aggravating the situation. Men aren’t getting traction so they search for why. They find right wing MRA stuff saying that it’s women’s fault blah blah blah, but really part of why they’re not getting hits is because Match is hiding them unless you pay (and even then maybe).

Part of why may also be they’re creeps or bad at dating. It is not wholly the apps’ fault. But I do think they’re making it harder for people to connect, and that can be the top of the funnel for far right ideas.

And I do think a lot of people are on the apps when they aren’t really ready. People of all genders. But that’s a separate topic, probably.

Anyway. Good talk. Amusingly , I’m heading out to meet someone from a dating app. Here’s hoping they don’t think I’m a creep!

There was a meme the other day about how Aragorn from lotr is the kind of male role model men need. Kind, shows his emotions, strong without being cruel.

I was thinking the other day there’s probably a pretty straight line between Match group owning so many dating apps, men’s unhappiness, and violence.

Like the apps create the illusion that you can meet someone and be happy, but their primary goal is to make money. They don’t try very hard to introduce you to good matches. They also haven’t solved the experience from the woman’s point of view. So men feel like they’re just shouting into the void, that people don’t like them, etc etc. Some of those people likely go on to become incels or do violence.

This isn’t to say that violent men are not culpable. They are. They retain agency. But Match group (that’s tinder, okcupid, hinge, match, plenty of fish, and more) is making the problem worse.

It’s like if there was a food shortage, and someone bought up all the grocery stores. Then they made all of them mazes and had half the cereal boxes empty.

My lawyer told me I shouldn’t smash up cars that are parked in the bike lane.

I mean really it’s that some people’s interface with the world is backwards.

Instead of it being like

“Facts” -> “Emotions”

for many people it’s

“Emotions” -> “Facts”

They don’t like Obama. Therefore, whatever he did is bad. That’s it. They’re like the common clay of the new west.

I think Seth Meyers did a thing about how the right wing was freaking out about Biden having ice cream and saying that’s unpresidential and for old people, but like literally the same week Trump had ice cream and it was not a problem.

They emotionally select things that seem directly beneficial to themselves. And then lie about their beliefs because they know they’re selfish and indefensible.

This is the most infuriating part. We all do it to some extent, but some people really turn it up to 11.

You don’t even need to wait for ng+. Sometimes I just start a new game and cruise through the first parts. Clear the “you should lose here” tutorial boss and go all the way to lady butterfly. Then I usually run out of steam.

It’s really satisfying to be able to do that without a level up grind