Anyone I’ve ever heard talking about the non-aggression principle spat red flags faster than a machine gun.

At best, they’re truly so dense and unsympathetic they don’t recognize actions that aren’t directly or intentionally causing harm do still cause harm (example, the free state project people leaving food out for black bears “because they can” without thought for their neighbors who then have to deal with more bears). At worst, it’s rape apologia (crap like statutory rape doesn’t exist because that minor “totally asked for it” and the rape didn’t cause physical damage).

What a fun read, ty. I went to the Talk page hoping for some back and forth about ensuring the description of the project was unbiased. Nope, nada, surpised there aren’t any free state project fans within the ranks of Wikipedia editing volunteers who would have something to say.

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8290307/

Under the bills, some kinds of local telecom projects would be approved automatically if a city or town doesn’t rule within a deadline set by Congress.

The tl;dr

Here’s an Article on the survey I’ve been seeing referenced lately that shows among the population surveyed, men and women are reporting similar rates of loneliness.

As to why it’s being called the male loneliness epidemic, well, I have personal opinions on that. Mostly that problems affecting men are far more likely to get sympathy, attention, and funding. How many times are issues affecting primarily women just hand-waved away as less important?

If he somehow does start getting held accountable for this, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries will twist themselves into pretzels to somehow throw him a lifeline. And it wouldn’t even make me assume Schumer or Jeffries are in the Epstein files, I think they’re just so cowardly and worthless they’d help Trump without getting anything out of it.

Ditto, and I switched from high-weight/low-reps to lower-weight/higher reps. Like instead of sets of 3-5, doing sets of 10-20. I recover better and It’s safer to do alone in the home gym.

Mix of both. My job requires a lot of collaboration on some things, and others require deep dives into really dry texts that I prefer to do solo.

I prefer remote work. I’m on video calls with people all over the world most days so there’s no reason to be in any specific location. Home allows for no commute time, privacy, better lunch, so many reasons.

No AI replacement for tasks so far. The company I work for has an internal client that is supposed to answer queries based on all those dry texts mentioned above. But when I tested I found 16/20 attempts came back with inaccurate information on initial query and I would say roughly one third of those would not be reasonably caught by someone not very familiar with the texts like I am.

I think there are some opportunities for AI, more along the lines of automating standard workflows, but I have no time to build them because they’ve already fired 3/4 of my team in advance of “expected efficiencies thanks to AI”. I’m also not an IT / Digital Tools person. Nothing about my job is related to building AI tools and they haven’t provided us with skills-appropriate tools. So my team is just prioritizing and saying “no” to the bottom half of the list we no longer have capacity to support. I feel increasingly insecure in my job every time we say “no” but I also won’t push my team to work an obscene number of hours per week.

Sink. I brush my teeth twice a day. Brushing only when I shower would be revolting.

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Some yes, some no. For those I do stay friends with, I still take a break and go low/no contact with them for a while before resuming friendship. I need it to draw a line, so to speak, between the old relationship and friendship.

I’ve also had guys want to “remain friends” while they really meant hookup buddy. A break helps suss out those who are disingenuous with their stated intentions.

Curing versus cured. You don’t need goggles and respirator and gloves once the resin is cured.

I would not get into a pool blindfolded. There might be corpses in there.

Large enough I am not faced with the reality of a corpse.

I don’t see any corpses when I’m at the beach. I know they’re out there in theory, but they’re a distant enough concept I don’t worry.

Great Lake sized lake with body on other side? Same.

A small lake/pond where I can see the area in which the corpse is floating? Perhaps even smell it? Or speak with a person who saw it? Hard pass.

Olympic sized pool? I can see the corpse. Hard pass.

Dal or similar? Lots of lentils for protein and fiber.

liberals will never view cops as human enough to have mental health issues

I take issue with this. It’s because I see cops as humans with all the mental issues and trauma that I think we load too many expectations on them while simultaneously absolving them when they abuse their power.

Narrow the scope of policing. Have more social services and emergency mental health resources so cops aren’t expected to do all that. And hold cops responsible when they do abuse the power they have.

Just popped up in my rss feed about the Gracias donation. $20 million from Musk’s buddy and DOGE douche. Keepin’ it classy, UofC.

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World" by Joseph Menn

If just looking for a casual, non-technical read, this is a good one. It led me to a few rabbit holes to dive down deeper.

Smaller towns are still a little more open to tours. It’s worth asking.

I had portraits taken above a clarifying pond for… reasons. The folks at the plant were very accommodating. I sent them a 4x6 print and a thank you card; I assume it will stay on their break room fridge until someone comes along with a weirder request.