i think #3 is your greatest limiter. i expect more people have at least some kind of spiritual / meaning-making impulse than don’t, by a large margin.

thank you!

you can’t even accept a bottle of water while waiting to vote! the rules are different for us and them.

yeah, i don’t think a job exists where i could sustain that for any period of time before my inevitable mental and physical collapse.

i find it kind of creepy that this meme makes a joke of strangulation.

apple IIc

edit - that was the first computer in my home as a kid. i think the first computer i used was a commodore at school.

til chitin isn’t just a bug thing, and i am disturbed. somehow eating mushrooms is now akin to eating bugs at this moment. 😩

there is no inherent meaning to life.

i choose to continue living each day because a) i am still enjoying myself enough to stick around, b) i’m a chicken and nothing has motivated me to voluntarily face quicker death just yet, c) i am committed to not fucking up my kids in that particular way if i can continue to avoid it, and d) i do work that matters and eases the suffering of others to create meaning for myself.

be me, sneaking outside at work to vape while my coworker brings a literal gallon of coffee everyday.

nicotine certainly has been demonized in the last few decades.

nah, i also enjoy pointing and laughing when i see a cybertruck on the highway

edit (and at the people driving them)

my tamagotchi 😢

there was a story here recently about a lot of scamming happening on truth social. so yeah.

i remember that post, was actually hoping to find it again as there had been some great recommendations! glad you mentioned it here.

i sent it to my teenagers. i see what they’re up to.

i could say a lot in response to your comment about the benefits and shortcomings of algorithms (or put another way, screening tools or assessments), but i’m tired.

i will just point out this, for anyone reading.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2573025/

i am exceedingly troubled that something which is commonly regarded as indicating very high risk when working with victims of domestic violence was ignored in the cited case (disclaimer - i haven’t read the article). if the algorithm fails to consider history of strangulation, it’s garbage. if the user of the algorithm did not include that information (and it was disclosed to them), or keyed it incorrectly, they made an egregious error or omission.

i suppose, without getting into it, i would add - 35 questions (ie established statistical risk factors) is a good amount. large categories are fine. no screening tool is totally accurate, because we can’t predict the future or have total and complete understanding of complex situations. tools are only useful to people trained to use them and with accurate data and inputs. screening tools and algorithms must find a balance between accurate capture and avoiding false positives.

i have learned something as well. it’s a word that’s familiar to me in clinical context, i had not really thought about it as something linguists and creative language-smiths are thinking about until looking it up just now. 🙂

baby doesn’t have clear words yet, but he has body language and gesture, eye contact, prosody, shared attention, the give and take pacing of interaction. baby has picked up a good deal about how casual, comfortable conversation with the guys or a close family member works!

but why? why paintbrushes?

holy shit, that’s cool! i had not seen this style, thank you!

apparently western-wear is a thing in Japan. and honestly, they rock it better than we do!