how does one become a polished gem if they won't take the first scuff

now that's something

https://youtube.com/watch/...

can we move away from oil already. apparently it's biodegradable and no microplastics in your brain

also have you ever seen hemp clothes? I've seen them in hippy shops and the quality is so high. polyester is the bane of my existence. thin, easily falls apart, static electricity messing with my hair all the time. they also absorb scents and even if you wash you won't get those scents out totally, and it seems maybe it's the breakdown of the fabric or something it starts picking up scents easier the older the item of clothing is. just fuck polyester

they make winter jackets primarily of polyester here in Canada and it drives me absolutely nuts. so much static electricity and polyester isn't even warm. AND you overheat wearing it. you find something wool though and you easily maintain temperature in the cold and easily disperse it when you go indoors. with poylester you go indoors and now you're sweating... and then you go outside and you can get a cold because you're drenched in water now lol. just so subpar

I hate when I go book shopping (aka I ask AI about books on a specific topic or question I have)

I go through like 200 suggestions, sparknotes for each one

I end up down tunnels of OTHER adjacent questions I may have, evidently, now...

and I get like 20 books for various reasons which sometimes don't even have to do with my original question

and I'll read like 4 before I burn out my curiosity lol

forgetting the reason why each of those books had appealed to me...

I mean upside I guess AI is getting better at book suggestions and summaries. it seems to manage to give me less generic things since I keep asking for that

now when am I going to find the time to read all these

I am a paradigm shift addict

ever been scared to read a book?

relatedly, has a book triggered you?

this is the first year doing taxes is uneventful... I am so freaked out by it

so I don't have to try to get access to my account on a website that randomly can't take in valid information for hours a day for 2-4 weeks?

the login just WORKED?! I didn't need to send a picture of my passport and the AI telling me I don't look like myself on suspicious as hell websites until I'm locked out?

it even PULLED PREVIOUS YEARS of information?

I have literally never had previous years pull ever succeed

here I was setting aside at least a full day at best but it's taken me under an hour

I have never heard of this and I am scared

government is too powerful if it suddenly figured out how to fix its technical issues. surveillance state now. omens of darker things to come. THE END IS NIGH

excuse me why are we fighting in the middle east

originally combustion engines used distilled alcohol farmers made in their backyards... which you can make from anything that has a sugar in it

it was more efficient than gasoline

but gasoline "had won" because they undercut the price of alcohol, gasoline lobbying the government to put a tax on alcohol and the whole prohibition thing

why are we even doing green scam. alcohol making has absolutely nothing environmentally harmful on it lol. those windmills and solar panels rot and leech chemicals into the environment, and those lithium batteries are a crazy explosion and toxic cloud hazard

humans, why.

now everyone is bitching about gasoline prices and itching to uselessly go to a war instead of Canada bothering to drill up oil under our territory that could power the world's energy consumption for the next 200 years and that's just the deposits we know about and assume are finite...

I hate humans

the green scam people say ohnooo so much food is wasted at the grocery store, we must use AI to improve the logistics and never make more than the necessary food because waste is so ungreen. ok you could make it into alcohol which is a more efficient gasoline. and no need to lug an extra ton of battery weight underneath every vehicle that now has an explosion radius of 30 meters lmao

it's like we wanna die

naked molerats are effectively immortal

high trust society but everything is a scam

strange that every company is #1 innovative best people ever

another project I can't start and instead procrastinate, wah wah wah

... actually that didn't happen with programming projects. programming is pretty fun. like solving sudokus all the time. how am I supposed to stay motivated if I'm not frustrated?!

it's harder to tell between AI and people now... because people are just speaking like AI now wtf

SIGNAL
RESONATES

I think people are losing their damned mind. Weird fucking cadence. Short sentences. Why can't it be all one thought? So here's the thing that makes me want to scream. This isn't an AI problem, this is a people problem.

cool email providers?

idk why people always suggest for you to break down tasks into smaller tasks

I find I dread starting the thing and then I'll stop what I'm doing to check the task list and then it just makes that dread feeling show up again and laziness because I crossed things off. also what's written in a list isn't EXACTLY the best way to be doing something so then I start rewriting the list to be more accurate and that gets me all miffed

ooor I could just start doing the thing and just do whatever is in front of me without any micromanaging and before I know it I'm done and I don't end up procrastinating 5 times over 7 days and instead just doing everything in one evening... because it's just "do the thing that's out of place in front of you" and it's really smooth like that

dumbest advice

now YouTube is giving me one of those disclaimer notes under a computerphile video saying "dead Internet theory" is a conspiracy theory...

what. how does that even make sense. so I guess we have to pretend there are no bots on the internet or something now

I thought 90s internet would be forever then the iphone came and the internet got corporate shillings

now the surveillance state is coming... verify ID this, save the kids (as if they care about kids)

can we go back to the 90s internet. our own blackjack, and hookers! no verify, no paypal/internet money. only grassroots memes and wholesome trolling

does it simply look pretty to me cuz I made it?

... you know the thing that kicks me most about the epstein emails

they talk way more to the point, more honestly even in their day-to-day plannings (ei being allowed to bitch that someone changes their mind a lot without getting fired), than all the corpo-speak emails and co-workers I had. that's so depressing

even pedos get better rights to expression than programmers

lol AI worms hahahaha

if AI replaces all the humans what will the humans do do you think?

went off the beaten path and the beaten path beat me

when time is a metaphor, the world is an oyster

the year is 2026 and I still don't know what AI/LLMs are useful for

other than wasting your time

instead of resolutions russians are like "how you meet the new year is how you'll spend it"

so you're effectively tricked into putting your resolutions into effect but also to enjoy yourself 😏

i think i'm realizing I liked the act of programming but had no passion for software... or taking over the world like all those techbros

weirdly enough reading autobiography of benjamin franklin is making me connect weird things. Got any favourite old-timey books you found to be enlightening?

well designed / written code is technically vanity 🤔

if they say jump,
don't ask how high: that's insubordination

necessity the mother of invention

or boredom?

that feel when you bought something years ago and today you realized it's more modular than you thought

awww hell yeah

like little christmas

> Fred is a college student who was so preoccupied with getting a term paper “just right” that he dropped out of college to work on it for an entire year to avoid the horrors of turning in a product he wasn’t entirely satisfied with

reading a book on emotional intelligence and it's quite dystopian that it's funny. I got the name of it from a highly sensitive person book praising it (so you'd think they would be sensitive and empathetic, and be able to perspective-take and all that jazz)... he also keeps talking about how cognitive capability doesn't mean better social skills but better social skills means better cognitive ability. lol

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> One of the more surprising job arenas where emotional intelligence makes a competitive difference is computer programming, where the rate at which the top 10 percent exceed average performers in producing effective programs is 320 percent. And those rare superstars, in the top 1 percent of programmers, produce a boggling 1,272 percent more than the average.9
“It’s not just computing skills that set apart the stars, but teamwork,” says Spencer. “The very best are willing to stay late to help their colleagues finish a project, or to share shortcuts they discover rather than keep them to themselves. They don’t compete—they collaborate.”

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> After hearing me give a talk on emotional intelligence, the CEO of a company—one of the ten largest in its market—told me in confidence about why, instead of grooming his chief operating officer of many years to take his place as CEO, he fired him: “He was extraordinarily talented, brilliant conceptually, a very powerful mind. He was great on the computer, knew the numbers up, down, and backward. That’s how he got to be chief operating officer.“But he was not a brilliant leader, not even particularly likable. He was often brutally acerbic. In groups he was socially awkward; he had no social graces, or even a social life. At forty-five, he had nobody he was close to, no friends. He worked all the time. He was one-dimensional; that’s why I finally let him go.
“But,” the CEO added, “if he could have done just five percent of what you’re talking about, he’d still be here.”

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so you knew he was smart because he collaborated / taught you how he thought... and this isn't the only excerpt where the author praises overtime, commitment, etc. but then the guy gets fired for having no friends. lol