You see a baby on the second floor in a burning building. It’s crying. Its screams trigger your fight or flight response. Though you know going into that burning building will harm you, your will to act compels you to go save that baby and end its suffering.

You go in, the flames all around you, but you can barely feel them because you are so concentrated on reaching that baby.

You get to the baby. Your flight response now kicks in. You jump out the window. You break your ankle, but you can’t feel it, because your sense of duty and accomplishment of saving that child and the cheers from the community overwhelm your own internal nervous system.

That’s empathy. When your feelings for others override your feelings for yourself. When the extrinsic reward from the community can override your intrinsic experience.

Granted, an extreme example.

I wonder, if multiple people called him at the same time, would it rip up the space-beetle continuum?

Gregorian chant can be very relaxing in the right moment.

They say that a beam of light doesn’t understand time. That if you were to travel at the speed of light, a ray of light would just be one long line with a start and end point.

They also say that a beam of light has infinite possibilities to get to a destination, and the destinations it can get to are infinite as well. As in life, it’s all in the journey. The journey can be as short or as winding as you choose to make it.

But that makes me wonder about things like pi. It’s a journey that is never ending. If a ray of light followed the path of pi, though it gets ever closer, it never reaches its final destination. It is truly immortal.

And if that’s the case, then that must mean universes, in some way, until the numbers stop numbering, are too.

Blathering Blatherskites!
Great Scott! Great Googly Moogly Narf! Blech Hot Dog! Hot diggity! Salad! Biscuits! Corn Nuggets! Nerfherder Awoooguhhhh! Ballyhoo Farfegnugen To the mattresses! What in tarnation? Shoo whee

Agreed, if AI can pass the bar AND the defendant’s right to a public attorney is unavailable due to resource and time constraints, then this is a whole lot better than the plea deals that some defendants are being coerced to sign without a public defender.

And let’s not kid ourselves. Most of the existing public defenders are probably using AI to support their case nowadays anyway.

• Get some catfish and some cornflour and an egg. Cut the catfish into nuggets. Dip in the egg wash. Roll lightly in the cornflour and salt/pepper mixture. Fill a pan with oil. Deep fry. Yum!
• Get some mahi mahi. Place on some tin foil. Add a pat of butter on top of each. Grill it up until flaky but not dried out. Salt to taste. mahi is so mild, like no fish flavor. Delish!
• Get a tuna steak. Soak it in a bit of ponzu sauce. Get an iron skillet nice and hot with a little splash of oil. Toast some sesame seeds on it. Put those to the side. Then get your tuna and sear it on all sides. Add a dash of salt (if you want, the ponzu may be salty enough) and the seeds. Enjoy.
• if you like spicy, get a good blackened seasoning, it can help mask the fish flavor
• also, try sushi, but like from a good place. Rolls will hide the taste much better than sashimi, which is meant to showcase the fish. Fresh sushi (yellowtail, salmon, tuna, mackerel) has almost no fish taste. Eel has a steak like taste, but can be a bit fishy. Do not go for urchin, it’s like a straight up fish umami bomb.

Dude reaches out for community, in the right forum for that matter, and you cast a stone. Why are you here stranger?

This is the way. Person does one thing that you don’t like, they should be excommunicated. Crush any opposition who doesn’t live up to the purity test. Doubly so if it’s a woman.

You know who were also purists…

It’s almost like no one in the West is going to be good enough to live up to your standards, hmm….

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Hey my guy, I know you were just cracking a joke about teeth hair… but I just want you to know that your joke was insensitive and it really hurt my feelings.

I have a condition and hair on my teeth is not something I can control, okay? So can we stop with the teeth hair jokes?

Teeth hair.

Well, you are missing out.

Sure, buy the 50 lbs of honey now. Convert it to mead. Profit.

Throw some blues in there and baby, you got a stew going.

Same as it ever was.

• Until AI can do it, they need warm bodies to do their bidding.
• Until AI can do it, they need warm bodies to fight their wars.
• The dumber and more obedient, the better.

They want to rule, not participate. Same as it ever was.

Never go bud to mouth.

It also has a chance of being a million dollars.

1. When you’re chasing your next meal, you don’t have time to complain. Western society enables us to shift our priorities to higher levels on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
2. Feelings project differently in different cultures. For example, Spanish speaking people often align depression with physical exhaustion.
3. You many not know the people well enough to know their most intimate thoughts and intentions. Complaining in autocratic societies could be considered dissent and get you killed.
4. Similar to 3, they may be treating you as a D-list celebrity or a tourist because they have something to gain from doing so. Refer to point 1.
5. Consider the audience. Who are the kind of people who have frequent access to Internet in these countries and would want to talk to Western citizens?

We are mad and we’re getting madder. We just haven’t hit the fever pitch yet. There hasn’t been a catalyst.

But eventually there will be one and we’ll be able to coalesce around it. Seems like Moscow Musk is starting to be the foil, but so could a number of other things: egg prices, bid flu, new Hoovervilles. Something will make it happen.

Now is the time to plan and prepare.

How does this not curdle?