Its fine.

Best advice I can give you is start where you are with what you have.

What you need will become apparent as you do.

Now I really want to see an apocalypse movie where a family follows a cat through the apocalypse and survives.

An often undervalued part of the experience is who you’re watching it with.

What I meant to imply is that if we can give persona to inanimate objects just because they happen to move, it makes sense that something that can be spoken to would cause an even larger reaction.

I do tech support for a few different law firms in my area, and AI companies that offer document ingest and processing are crawling out of every crack.

Some of them are pretty good and they take into account the hallucination issues and offer direct links to the quotes that they’re pulling and I mean it’s an area where things are developing and soon it should be easier for a lawyer to put on more cases or to charge less per case because being a lawyer becomes so much easier.

For instance, there are soft science, social interaction areas where AI is doing wonders.

Specifically, in the field of law, now that lawyers have learned not to rely on AI for citations, they are instead offloading hundreds of thousands or millions of pages of documents that they were never actually going to read, and getting salient results from allowing an AI to scan through them to pull out interesting talking points.

Pulling out these interesting talking points and fact checking them and, you know, A/B testing the ways to interact and bring them in front of the jury with an AI has made it so that many law firms are getting thousands or millions of dollars more on a lawsuit than they anticipated.

And you may be against American law for all of its frivolous plaintiffs’ lawsuits or something, but each of these outcomes are decided by human beings, and there are real damages that are lifelong that are being addressed by these lawsuits, or at least in some way compensated.

The more money these plaintiffs get for the injuries that they have to live with for the rest of their lives, the better for them, and AI made the difference.

Not that lawyers are fundamentally incapable or uncaring, but for every one, I don’t know who the fuck is a super lawyer nowadays, but you know, for every, you know, madman lawyer on the planet, there’s 999 that are working hard and just do not have the raw plot armor Deus Ex Machina dropping everything directly into their lap to solve all of their problems that they would need to operate at that level.

And yes, if you want to be particular, a human being should have done the work. A human being can do the work. A human being is actually being paid to do the work. But when you can offload grunt work to a computer and get usable results from it that improves a human’s life, that’s the whole fucking reason why we invented computers in the first place.

People put googly eyes on their roombas and apologize to them when they bump into them.

You can try, but all of you is on fire, and if the fire goes out you die

That’s one thing I love about my YMCA.

I decided to cancel my gym membership because I was doing too much work to go to the gym and I didn’t want to waste the money.

Walked in and said “Hey, I’d like to cancel my membership” and they said “No problem. Your membership ends at the end of the month. Please come back when you’ve got your shit together and want to rejoin.”

I probably could have done it over the phone.

I think my favorite form of combustion is the slow and gradual oxidization of all life on this planet that leads us all towards inescapable death.

It happens so slow that it can take 120 years to finally burn you to a crisp, but it will always, always destroy you, and there’s nothing you can do to escape it.

My childhood family computer had the old D&D games from the gold box where you had a wheel you had to pull out and align it every single time you played to get the code symbol to put in in order to play the game.

In retrospect, that was kind of cool, even if it’s diabolical.

I have been told that the reason their publically available training, problem solving, and educational material is so terrible is because there is a secret printed guidebook somewhere that makes everything make sense and if everyone had it it could negatively impact the windows economy.

I do not know if that is true, but I have been told it and it does kind of explain why sites like learn.microsoft.com are so terrible that I would rather reread the world book encyclopedia 1969 edition from A to Z including the index than try to figure out how to run a single powershell command from the educational materials available on that site.

If I ever make a game I’m including at least 7 pieces of deep lore in the manual and one clue that you would only figure out by rtfm

I think happiness is more generally defined as the absence of things that make you unhappy rather than a tangible thing itself.

Kind of like how cold is defined by the absence of heat.

The issue is, is that people think that happiness is a concrete thing, and so when they are asked if they are happy, they start looking for some like joyous positive, buoyant, radiant, plus in their lives.

And then, when they don’t find it, it makes them wonder if they are not happy.

Happiness is the capacity to be engaged with your life under your own volition.

If you have that, even if you don’t feel the way you think happiness should feel, you are happy.

Happiness is not contentment.

Happiness is not joy.

Happiness is not a warm blanket on a cold winter’s day.

Happiness is being alive and present in your center.

If you feel like you are not happy, that is what you should aim for. All of the other things will work themselves out in the process.

Today I was floating down a river and there was a duck that landed in the water and the duck quacked and I quacked back and the duck quacked in response.

So basically you can assume that I am a Disney princess.

So you want to be a wizard by Diane Duane.

Yep, coastal side, where most of the population is, you got extremely leftist, uh, highly armed, and willing to fight people of all sorts of different varieties. And then, on the other side of the mountain, you’ve got highly right, highly trusted, highly armed, motherfuckers of all different types.

If it came down to it, I honestly believe the Liberals could defeat the Republicans if you isolated each state and made them duke it out, but I wouldn’t imagine that it would be a clean sweep. I think that in California it would be a decisive victory and in Washington and Oregon it would be more to the skin of the teeth.

Oregon used to run a fucking backwoods castration farm where trans people would go to get castrated for $500 and all of the cops fucking knew about it and they just looked the other fucking way.

Like, the fact that these idiots would look at South Oregon and be like, “Oh yeah, no, just roll the fuck in, it’s not gonna be a problem,” just goes to show how good Oregon has been at hiding how fucking vicious they would actually be.

Like, America could be losing 99 to 0 amd it comes down to fucking Oregon and we would fucking steamroll those bitches.

99 to 100 is still our win

Those button gaps simply exist to express to you continuously how poor you are.

Yeah, I’m a feminist. I’m also a masculinist.

Basically, if there’s not a good reason to prevent you from doing something, you shouldn’t be fucking prevented from doing it.

Who or what you were born as, or what you identify as, in and of itself, is not a good fucking reason.

Motherfuckers that try to prevent other people from living their own lives because of their own assumptions need to fucking fuck off.