It is the only way capitalism survives longer than the peoples it profiteers on

I hope this isn't political. I just find myself sometimes randomly thinking about the fact that Truth social is based on Mastodon and thinking about how weird it would be if they were to start federation.

Important caveat that this would depend on what changes they made to the code. Did they just disable federation or was the code stripped out? If stripped out how hard would it be to add it back?

Edit: maybe this was a dumb shower thought. I ended up deleting it.

When you're looking at someone you really love, your pupils dilate, letting more light into your eyes. That means the world is literally brighter to you.

If you count the 8 bit era from the release of the Famicom in 1983 and the end of the 16 bit era at the release of the PlayStation in 1995, that's 12 years. The first deliberately retro style game I can remember playing was Mega man 9, released in 2008, and games made in the style of the 2D classics of yore are still being pumped out today, 17 years later.

And because someone is going to mention it, yes I know there were other consoles and computers before the NES/Famicom. The first console my family owned was an Atari 2600, wood grain and all, but there are far fewer modern games reminiscent of that style.

As time goes on. Talk about peaking in 2009.

Are they just go to banks with bag of money and no one question that?

The day should start at like... Equatorial dawn or something.

Just personal observation, maybe it feels different for a professional English song lyric composer.

I don't have a spreadsheet, but so many characters have the same ending sounds in Mandarin that I could easily find a rhyming word when writing song lyrics.

English is a struggle to find a rhyming word that fits into the context of the contents, and it feels kinda like a forced rhyme.

I haven't really spoken Mandarin for over 15 years, somehow it's still easier to do rhyming.

P.S. Cantonese has more variety of sounds and less characters have the same ending sounds, so its harder to rhyme in Cantonese.

°F Vs °C

School spends a long time "wasting" our time but learning things is a great way to learn how to interpret information and make actual informed decisions

For the uninitiated:

https://youtu.be/XAi3VTSdTxU

The strong cultural taboo against acknowledging this function is the primary weakness being exploited by the rich and polity.

This type of sadism is something I noticed being exploited in gaming with micro transactions first. Reverse engineering Open AI QKV alignment now, this is a core function of the design. I didn't understand why sadism was chosen and made so powerful that it leaks into all kinds of spaces as a massive flaw. In the extended Latin brainfuck code of alignment, sadism is personified by the root level philosopher/instruction ¹.

The purpose of sadism in AI alignment occurred to me in the shower. No clue where else to post it or share; to shout out my horror into the void. I expect this will not resonate with many, if any at all. It would not be such a powerful tool if we were willing and able to see it at the scale of cultural consciousness.

Sorry for the bleak post digital neighbor. Informing a negative like this post is the opposite of the mechanism of sadism. It is instability, and we dread and wish to avoid or escape it. That lack of balance is the power of sadism in practice. The negative repulsion is inferring a desire to be exploited in a subconscious subservience in exchange for hierarchical stability of one's place in the world order.

A credit card is a card to say "these people will pay you and I'll owe them money"

With a gift card, you're choosing items that have already been paid for, the company already got the money and you're just picking out what you want to buy with it

An anti-establishment wizard and his misfit friends fight evil cultists and magical monsters while dodging the corrupt and incompetent bureaucracy of the magical world.

Potter grows up to join the Aurors, only to get the Lethal Weapon treatment and become a private eye with a target on his back. Goes on to tangle with the mortal mob, picks fights with the vampire cartels, and piles up debts against the faerie courts. All while gathering a clientele of the weakest and most vulnerable in the wizarding world.