I thought those were the alert for the parking warden to come and see of you need a ticket for your illegal parking.

TFW you need more than one upvote.

Optimistic Nihilism, is quite a good philosophical framework.

But I would recommend a mixture of optimistic nihilism and stoicism.

If nothing has any inherent meaning, the things you chose to be meaningful are as valid as any other choice.

Fair, antecedent is usually referring to a singular event/trigger.

Also 100% on board with GIF ignoring the original authors intent.

That is the “antecedent”,

Antecedent: A preceding occurrence, cause, or event.

I remember trying to play online quake in the 90’s, I live in new Zealand… We had dial up, my latency was around the 5s mark. I have up pretty quick.

If I wanted to play multiplayer games, it was taking my desktop computer to a friends house, connecting them together with 10Mb BNC networking, and don’t forget the 50ohm terminators.

A friend spent a week trying to download the original pirated version on XP, the couple of hundred meg file would get stopped for various reasons.

I have my full name as a gmail account, I got it as soon as it possible. firstname.lastname@gmail.com

It’s not just a metaphor, when people say things like “picture yourself in X”, or “just imagine the audience naked”.

Others can actually see things in their mind.

Which was very quickly followed by, “getting a song stick in your head” means you can actually hear a song over and over in your mind. How annoying.

This seems like some king of super power. I was 40…

I agree, this should be a tick box exercise at best.

We teach it in schools, it is the first language of the vast bulk of kiwis…we write all out legal documentation in English.

The way to avoid the culture war is just to tick the box and don’t mention it.

When they next try the bait, just say “oh yes, that was an oversight, it is already done”. Dismiss the concern, and when they claim victory, give them a “well done, but we do have more important things to work on now” type response.

I was going to say:

You know it’s cold, he is wearing shoes.

This is one area where I think AI can make a real contribution; I get that there are major privacy concerns etc…but step back from the detail for a sec and imagine what this could be.

A caveat: I am an AI skeptic, through and through. A lot of the places AI is being shoehorned into are idiotic.

Saying the above, I would love something like this for my sparkies and fitters; rather than them making notes about what they did during the day, they just wear a headset and quickly make a voice note about they are doing, which is auto transcribed and loaded against the work order, when they go to the stores the headset picks up a beacon and the assistant asks what they are getting and what job it is for. So many issues are caused at stores by stuff not being booked out correctly. At the end of the day; they review and correct for 10-15 minutes to ensure accuracy; rather than sitting around trying to remember what they did 8 hrs ago, after 4 breakdowns and six interruptions.

It is unreasonable to have every person with a personal assistant; but basically every job would benefit from having an assistant.

Preferably this would all happen on device; and the reviewed text is all that is sent. Trust would be the biggest hurdle; especially for the teams I work with, a lot of tech skeptics…but they all use facebook!!!

The ability to hold two contradicting truths in your mind is a sign of either advanced thinking or idiocy.

To use your example.

The fact that the US are not the good guys and the fact that Iran are also not the good guys, are seemingly contradictory truths.

Pretty much.

Though three have been since documented cases of untreated rabies not being fatal, the numbers are very low.

So whilst we know rabies is pretty much the deadliest disease, this is only of untreated.

Getting the treatment before it his your nervous system/brain; is almost always successful.

With a specific mix of spiteful grumpiness toward windows and a naive optimism, born of youth and abundant nerd resource at university.

That and a stoic acceptance that shit breaks, but it also broke on win 95, 98, XP and especially millennium edition. Which is the timeframe I switched in.

Going full time was fully enabled by reliable virtualization. When I could run a win XP VM and expect no issues in a work day, I was about to ditch windows as my main OS. Over time, I used fewer windows only applications, now I barely need the VM.

You don’t ration Discworld, you reread it every 5 years.

And maybe revisit a favourite or six every other year.

Cactus outdoor.

I had one for around 9 years. It got stolen, not sure how long they last, but there are ones in the wild that are over 30.

It would be for just a couple minutes.

Narrator: that couple of minutes turned into many hours in the hospital.

Agreed, I subscribe to a bunch of political stuff…but it is nice to take a mental health moment and laugh at somehting.

It is pretty funny!

How to dad vs Kiwi Olympians and sports stars.

I think that the ability to give the Nats an option that is not ACT or NZF holds huge value.

I don’t think Nats are going to do well this time around. But if they do enough; and it either ACT or Op…I know who I would want them to go with.