We had a class called Consumer Math in High School which taught all of that stuff, like how to make a budget, buying a first car, taking out a mortgage, doing taxes. It was a remedial class for the “dumb” kids. Everyone else took the standard Pre Algebra > Algebra > Trig > Calc path. So dumb.

Yesterday I offhand suggested not using so much soviet imagery in order to make communism and socialism more attractive to people, they really didn’t like that. I mean I understand the symbols have a rich history but so did the swastika. Eh.

I think once you are banned that’s it, the appeal process that they say isn’t automated is certainly automated and I doubt anyone looks at that stuff. You are a number.

Honestly if people want communism and socialism to be taken seriously you gotta drop all the soviet imagery.

I feel like there’s something wrong with me and I’m at a disadvantage for being like that when it should absolutely fucking be the other way around.

Kinda sad, been with MS on PC since MS-DOS 5, by no means a good company, but feels like the end of an era. For me at least. Oh well, see you on Linux, I’ll probably be kicking myself for not switching years ago.

We don’t need AI, we have the answers to most of our problems already, we’re just being kept from implementing them or they are just too inconvenient for us.

Lol, welcome to the world, the olds will not give anyone a leg up anywhere. I say that as someone who’s almost 50.

Starting to just want a landline and a PDA/mp3 player lol. Maybe there is something to the theory the guys ranting in the tin foil hats are time travelers. Or sages at least.

Before every game: A SHOWDOWN FOR THE AGES, TWO TEAMS ENTER, WHO WILL WIN, WITNESS HISTORY AS THESE TWO LEGENDARY TEAMS BATTLE IT OUT IN THE GAME OF THE CENTURY

Not Stephen King, but The Thief of Always by Clive Barker would be a great starter book by a fellow horror writer.

The Russian government’s use of criminals is nothing new

Well, I would never suspect a crime syndicate of being involved in crime.

Oh I know I’m still reeling from the hypocrisy after 8 years of Catholic school and that was over 30 years ago.

Well we know Jesus famously hated prisoners and poors. /s

catapults exist, you know

Thanks for the deep dive, yeah that seems really suspicious, the pdf of that study definitely looks like it was paid for by someone with an agenda, seems to be the opposite of what I suspected, going towards alarmism. I feel like anyone who’s up for taking a survey on AI is already into AI so it’s pretty skewed. I suppose one thing from that study did make some sense:

Many people who are using AI relationship technologies report that they prefer AI communication over engaging with a real person in a genuine relationship.

Sure, everyone loves a sycophant who hangs on their every word and agrees with them all the time… for a while at least.

So it was an oral report? I’ll get my coat… That’s interesting to know, I mean I would be willing to sit in the chair all night if it meant it was a lot cheaper, and I doubt I’m alone so it’s interesting to hear about that. It’s too bad there aren’t options at least, besides you know, flying to another country, which is also cost prohibitive to most.

One in five are you god damn fucking serious? I keep hearing about this, it’s feeling like astroturfing to make it seem/feel normal. If people don’t even need each other anymore it’s over we’re fucked.

Well, I did that, I spent a lot of time in the dentist chair getting all fixed up, so fear and pain aren’t really a factor. Shame, sure, I neglected them again due to depression and whatever cocktail of mental health problems I have, they were kinda messed up from the start and I never got braces. I have a partial denture in front so I don’t think that particular thing could happen to me but that’s scary. I’ve been taking regular care of whats left so idk, when I get insurance again I’ll have to see.

I’ve been hearing about amazing dental tech for a long time now it seems but we’re still using mostly the same stuff sans mercury amalgams, and the cost is still fucking insane. Please just help people. I’ve been wanting to fix my teeth so long but it’s just too much for what I need done.