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Dinosaur fossils? I don't know about the magazine but the podcast they do "science quickly" just had a bit on the future of Medicare For All.

I mean, that's about as political as you can get. I do not believe they're approaching the issue as anything other then an advocate. Which is fine.

They should just be aware that they are picking their audience. And they will dance to the tune of that audience.

That almost makes me want to play a game of Monopoly.

No. No. No. Don't ruin it for me.

I'd take that 214,000 figure with at least a grain of salt. That's the number he was asking to get paid back. Call me crazy but I don't totally trust him when it comes to details.

Woody Allen's line was that “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” and he's absolutely right.

Attacks never get better or stay the same. They only get worse.

  The instruction from the US Army high command to the young officer sent to end his fellow marine’s insurrection is unambiguous: “Terminate with extreme prejudice.”

Technically they were all in the Army none were in the Marines.

Buddhists have been trying to master desire for a very long time. Who knew the answer was just to build a better LLM.

I tend to think the nature of desire is that it's never satisfied. The Red Queen says run as fast as you can to stay where you are and twice as fast again to get anywhere.

We'd all think we were Captain Kirk in that situation I think. We'd somehow manage to kill all 6 people trying to come up with a solution that avoids anyone getting killed. Except for the actual Captain Kirk of course, who would do just what we wanted.

Read Smith's Theory Of Moral Sentiment. Especially his comparison between reading about a faraway disaster and a more personal loss. It's been awhile but I think Smith would say there's a difference between how people would think about that choice and what they would do.

The joke I heard was:

Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate that.

That's a no for me - it seems like it would be a bear to use for more then 5 minutes.

I'm not sure if I feel the same way about skeuomorphism as a general design philosophy. Maybe this is just the wrong metaphor?

"not into dogs".

That's OK, most of the single woman I know don't care if you like pets or not. As for how you look that's not a huge problem - again most of those same women have expectations in the looks department that are best described as average. And you're gainfully employed! This is better and better.

The only thing I can suggest is to put yourself in a position to meet more women because the more actual real life women you meet the better the chance of finding one that feels that spark.

  So far as I know (and maybe you can come up with more) there are two solid ways of meeting women.  One is to hang out where they are.  This is tricky because the closer this gets to a cattle call (think going out to a bar ) the more artificial and tricky this gets.  Dating apps are like that but in spades.  

  Option two is those woman who didn't "feel the spark".  Here me out.

  Here's what you say.  "This clearly isn't working out for you.  But rather then this being a total loss, want to get to get together with some friends of mine and just hang out as friends?"  or even, "Hey, you have friends - maybe there's no spark here but how about if I hang out with your friends?".

  See, if you have female friends it's like another person helping you find someone to be not single with.  Woman are a gregarious lot and they tend to both know a lot of people and to know a lot of women.  I trust that it's not hard to see how this can work.

   Eh, that's how it worked for me but your millage may vary.

I like the idea that this was something like The Producers.

  Get some money from investors to make show
  Have a giant party
  Oh no AI deleted the show!
  Go home and nurse hangover.

I mean yeah but you can always go one step back for root cause.

Why did they pick that insane option? Why was it available to them?

One of my co-workers in security always seems to think that just saying "No." is the job. If someone is asking to do something stupid you say No, and then you talk to them to figure out what the goal is and the n you help them to get to that place.