The thing is, AI doesn’t need to take over the world if the BiG tHiNkErS are so eager to replace humans regardless of its merit.

That corny ass song from a few years back:

“I don’t wanna be alive, I just wanna die today”

->

“I wanna be alive, I don’t wanna die today”

Didn’t even get the joke here because this is how I always imagined genie wishes working.

Pride, like most emotions or feelings, exists on a range. You can be proud of all of these things, including your achievements; it’s the degree to which you carry that pride that determines the “douchebaggery,” don’t you think?

The sports team, I would say, probably has the lowest “douchebaggery threshold,” as the spectator is so far removed from the team—especially for professional teams—whereas the others carry more involvement and/or stake for its community.

I’ve recently been trying to train myself to lucid dream frequently. The first thing anyone will tell you is to keep a dream journal, and holy shit does it help. Started journaling them on the 2nd of January, and even just a week later I started having very vivid dreams every night. All senses included; and as of a couple days ago, fairly critical thinking (mental math). I haven’t managed to have a “lucid dream” yet, but I’ll get there.

For the sake of completeness, a lucid dream is a dream in which you’ve become aware that you are dreaming. Whether you can control the dream or feel that it’s vivid is a separate concern.

Pretty cool stuff.

Although this wasn’t really what I was asking at the time, it’s good general advice, and I’ll try it out. Thanks for your time and input.

I’ve actually been off my meds for a minute. I haven’t had serious issues, but I definitely need to go refill…

Good analogy. Thank you for the thoughtful response!

I’ve absolutely done it before because I’m weird. Entering 1:90 (on my Kenmore microwave) ticks down 1:89… 1:88… etc. until it hits 1:00 at which point it will continue as normal to 0:59.

1:60 behaves similarly.

I have a feeling the “add 30 seconds” button will correct it to proper time format, but I’ll test it for science.

Only one in this thread willing to talk about the real problems.

All the computer mice, headphones, and keyboards…

The connector cable it comes with will spend 10,000x as much time in my hand than the item you intended to give me.

This is the way.

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Yeah, I guess left-leaning white males are just as underprivileged and oppressed as people of color and women. We should rename it to “conservative white male privilege.”

My high school had a pretty big exchange program (up until COVID) mainly from China, Vietnam, and Spain, and I hung out with them all the time after school, and some of them even more 😅. Very pleasant experience getting to know about them and where they came from, and it was always super fun and interesting to see how they would react or approach American customs or even that of the other exchange students.

Was super bummed out when COVID disrupted that.

Why are you conflating “ghetto”, “gangsta,” and black? 95% of it is about where and how you grew up.

There’s plenty of white guys who, although will never experience and understand what it’s like to live in America while black, understand the struggle of growing up in the ghettos, being socioeconomically alienated, and being pressured to look to the “gangsta” lifestyle.

These three can often overlap, but are importantly separate things. A white guy in that situation won’t know what it means to be black like I do, but I will never have a fraction of their knowledge and experience of what it means to grow up to the streets.

Thinking that they have the “one simple trick” for everything when most matters are actually a complex network of issues where there isn’t one answer.

~40 hours literally a few days ago. Had a project due date through which I procrastinated heavily. Not proud of that one.

I don’t think I experienced any hallucinations, but it sucked. What was weird was that by hour ~33, I tried going to sleep, but failed and ultimately got back up. Hopefully never again.

Edit: just occurred to me as well that of that time, I worked for 20 straight hours. Don’t be like me.

In about five hours I’m getting rinsed by my MMO of choice.

Xaku Prime Access, baby T_T

Yep. It’s hard to point that out when my reasoning gets sucked into a circular black hole.

I’m done responding. People that can be helped can read this thread in the future and maybe realize something about themselves.