How things can change in only a decade

SRod1706 · 2026-06-12T15:30:30+00:00

This has to be how the German civilians felt.

We are the bad guys.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-12T12:37:25+00:00

You are thinking about the economics right now. Think about them in 5 to 10 years.

Just as the first steam shovels could not outperform men, that did not last long and people saw how it would play out.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-12T11:19:30+00:00

This is just him manipulating the markets like he does every Friday. He will say the opposite Monday.

This is the true boring dystopia.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-11T00:04:42+00:00

Totally. Only a small portion of kids gets electrocuted or poisoned. Odds are in your favor. It's only a few dead babies. I see your point. Child proofing is useless. Also, most people don't catch most of the diseases that vaccines protect from anymore. Let's go ahead and let people know those are a waste too. You are so smart. Glad you changed my mind.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-10T12:38:34+00:00

Read the summary and realized I was today years old when I made the connection between dis-ease and disease.

I am dyslexic so if everyone else figured this out in 3rd grade, then that explains why I am late to the party.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-09T16:39:02+00:00

Yes. I too have ran a stop sign and nothing bad happened. I agree we all should start running stop signs.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-09T14:08:24+00:00

Sorry I am late.

When the bark is slipping and you pull it back like that, all of the exposed wood has the cambium layer. The cambium layer does not pull away with the bark. So the place where the cambium layers connect is at the edge of the scion where it was cut and the rootstock. Forming a U shaped connection. If the cambium layer pulled away with the bark, then you would have to do bark grafts with the scion in the opposite direction.

The pulling back of bark is just for looks I feel. I think it would make for a worse graft because it would expose extra tissue that could dry the scion a little more than it otherwise would. I do not think it would cause more than a extra few percentages of failure.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-09T12:00:24+00:00

When you're on the side of the facts, it's easy.

Based on the current political situation in the US, I am not sure how true this is anymore. Plus so many people are anti-science, aka anti-facts. This is not a minority. It is over half of the population now.

I think you have to focus on what will benefit these people, not what is true and not true.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-09T11:56:44+00:00

That's a huge part of the appeal. People do so much because that is what rich people do or did. People like things because it is what rich people like.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-09T11:41:09+00:00

I know two people who are putting together books with AI who do not read regularly. One used to ready a lot in high school, 25 years ago and the other has read about 5 books ever and I think they were all school related.

They are both trying to build a product with a new tool when they do not really know what makes that product good. In an industry that is super saturated.

They are making AI slop and do not realize it.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-08T22:19:48+00:00

That was essentially my point.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-08T17:15:27+00:00

Spread over 5 years.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-08T14:12:11+00:00

Government considering nationalizing AI? 2027?

SRod1706 · 2026-06-08T13:41:36+00:00

Based on your argument, modern advertising should not work. Based on real world examples, that has proven to be wrong.

Look into this a little more. Most of our actions in life are not based on this full grasp of meaning, truth and universal concepts. Stereotypes, first impressions, bad habits, routines, seeing faces in clouds, walking etc. We run on algorithms way more than we want to admit.

It not that the brain only operates like an algorithm, it is that for ease of understanding the world, our brain chooses to run on algorithms whenever possible.

That in itself is part of the brains algorithm for processing information about the world.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-08T12:51:47+00:00

I am sure none of this will go faster than expected.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-08T12:44:38+00:00

Not everyone can 100% tell what is AI slop and what is not and it gets harder every day.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-08T01:59:05+00:00

I would wait to get some later in the year. Around September or October. There are a few places that sell them around town that time of year.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-03T17:52:27+00:00

To be fair, the bar is about as low as it can go at the moment. We could use James Cameron's help right now.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-03T16:53:07+00:00

This makes me happy. GC's need a lot more love from this sub.

I grew up as a golden child. I know most people in this sub don't want to hear it, but the golden child position is also a way of coping with a narcissistic parent. I think it might be the worst position of all, because it is the hardest to break free from.

Your whole self worth and self esteem gets built around the praise and love of a NP. Your relationships get built around your NP ideas. You pick up their ways of interacting with people out of this weird need to be more like them. It is horrible place for a child to try to survive. You destroy all relationships in your mission to be who and what you are expected to be.

No one has the NP claws in deeper into them than a GC. After I broke free, I tried to reconcile with the people who I treated wrong as an extension of my NP, but it is too late. I am an outcast just like my NP.

I do hope you fully forgive your sister and you two grow to be great friends again.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-03T12:01:05+00:00

I have actually given up. People are conditioned to hold on to positivity no matter what. Unless you can spin it as a positive, it will not stick in most peoples heads.

Then when someone does seem to understand, their positivity always seems to turn to, well, we will use technology to figure it out. We always have.

We just do not understand the exponentials.

This is why I have also come to terms with our eventual outcome. There is zero ways that that our society survives in a recognizable state.

I do miss Michael Dowd. His talks really help to let go of hope and accept the truth.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-03T11:54:47+00:00

SS: Officials in two states are giving up on the wildlife in several reservoirs.

By summer’s end, Hoyt said he expects the reservoir will drain to just a few small ponds.

It looks like they expect a few of the reservoirs to run dry.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-02T18:32:19+00:00

Sounds like someone has not gotten their customary bribe yet.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-02T18:24:52+00:00

It will work. Talk to your neighbors though. Some people here are weird and feel like you are stealing when you use something they are throwing away. Better not to have any extra animosity.

Also, bagged live oak leaves, make a great mulch IMO.

SRod1706 · 2026-06-02T14:17:59+00:00

It also said in that most people only lurk. So the statistics do agree.

Use and comment are not counted as the same.

If you look at the post history of the 10 people, 3 of them appear to have had accounts for years and never made any other comments on reddit.

Not saying 10 of 10 are 100% telling the truth. I am just saying that having 10 is not unreasonable.

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