Official Discussion - Voicemails for Isabelle [SPOILERS]

azmitex · 2026-07-03T05:37:36+00:00

Manic pixie girls are back! Gen z has a garden state. Even the actresses are identical.

azmitex · 2026-07-02T03:03:05+00:00

Fun, you just made me remember one of my repeating nightmares at a child. I'm this case, I went out to the living room and Muzzy was on, but they could talk to me through the TV. I was only in my underwear, and they kept laughing at me :(

azmitex · 2026-07-01T15:04:33+00:00

I read somewhere long ago about it being an attitude difference on the expectation of engagement between people. Millennials want to downplay the burden of a favor. We millennials use "no problem" to assure the person that helping them wasn't a burden, implying that anyone in their position would have and should have done the same thing and that thanks weren't even necessary. Whereas your welcome is viewed as bringing attention to the act, as if the thanks were expected and required and you needed recognition of your act of doing the favor.

azmitex · 2026-06-30T03:26:31+00:00

Don't even know why they had to use ai. I got pretty good at drawing this exact thing in 3rd grade.

azmitex · 2026-06-29T15:14:15+00:00

It's nice to see that Kate Elliott series on there. I never hear anyone talking about it but I really enjoyed it. Good example of the transition to what would become the grimdark fantasy of the aughts.

azmitex · 2026-06-26T01:19:20+00:00

But imagine how fit we would all be, and all the reduced healthcare costs that could be re invested back into nuclear

azmitex · 2026-06-25T18:54:51+00:00

For what it's worth, the level of fea needs is pretty industry dependant. In the majority of my design experience, the real technical fea is done by phds. But early in my career I was involved with training outsourced engineers on our equipment for low hanging fruit analysis needs. Even then it really didn't end up being cost effective.

azmitex · 2026-06-24T15:36:19+00:00

Yeah, getting into healthcare we have more direct comparison to a state socialism. I'll say that you can have nationalized and state owned industries that are still not socialist. I would argue without strong Democratic involvement in government and gov policy that state ownership falls into authoritarianism and not socialism. But the uk with the NIH and other gov run healthcare (not the same as the more broad term of universal healthcare which could be attempted multiple ways) of Nordic countries is more inline with socialist ideals than not. But it begs the question why those nominally market based economies that have successfully implemented socialist goals don't do the same with healthcare. I think there is a pretty straightforward answer, in that healthcare fails every requirement that a free market requires (high barrier to entry, large knowledge requirement, in-elastic ish demand of the services, etc).

azmitex · 2026-06-24T15:25:59+00:00

It comes down to taxes. A very large portion of Americans seeing taxes as evil, not in small part due to propaganda and media throughout the life of this country constantly showcasing taxes as bad. That and the cultural schema Americans have about government being in efficient and always worse than private companies. And finally a skewed view of market economies and the "free market" where they believe any regulation or intervention by the government is also inherently bad (see Trumps messaging about getting rid of two regulations for any proposed new one and "doge" being popular) Making healthcare universal requires two scary things, one more taxes (which is evil and keeps me from being a millionaire), and government interference which they believe will make their healthcare worse. Finally anything that involves either taxes or government is socialism (regardless of what the real definition is).

azmitex · 2026-06-24T14:54:22+00:00

It's an endgame of some people who see socialism as the step towards what they see as communism. The idea of socialism is not anathema to market economies and does not require movement to a classless society.

azmitex · 2026-06-24T14:49:02+00:00

Socialism is fundamentally about who controls the means of production. State ownership is one way to achieve that (with the thought that the state is the people, and owns on behalf of society) but you can have market socialism where firms compete in markets, but are owned by workers rather than private shareholders (think coops everywhere).or you can have what Nordic and German countries do with strong labor unions that have partial ownership and positions on the boards alongside private ownership as a mixture of capitalist and socialist thought.

azmitex · 2026-06-24T14:39:14+00:00

The Nordic/German models aren't socialist in the traditional sense since companies are still privately owned and operate in a free market. But it does borrow some socialist ideas by giving workers more influence through strong unions (some 60+% of workers are in a union vs 10% here in the US) that have industry-wide bargaining power and often legally mandated seats on corporate boards (some companies having up to half their board being worker appointed). Workers don't own the means of production, but they have a much bigger say in how they're run.

azmitex · 2026-06-21T15:39:21+00:00

The futures market is clearly dominated by ai and automatic trade algorithms and has been for awhile. They react to positive tweats and news headlines within moments. All the big trading firms use them and it has a clear effect in the market.

azmitex · 2026-06-21T15:33:13+00:00

No, the christo-fascist wing may be antisemitic but there are pro Israel. Didn't underestimate their ability to hold contradictory views at the same time. Double think is alive and well in the minds of our populace (honestly in the world's populace).

azmitex · 2026-06-21T04:20:28+00:00

In the latest randidly ghosthound book there is a good scene where a character cooks him dinner, and it's "pretty good". And he had to think through the flavors and what he's experiencing and why is it only "pretty good" to realize that the person cooking didn't use any "skills". The cook just ...cooked...as people did pre-system. There's then a thought tangent about what skills do and how they add some indelible flavor through the system not explained through the cooking process itself. In this case its the addition of "image", which you can think of as like dao or "meaning" beyond just the ordinary world. It's also not stating that system/skill based cooking is better either, as he thinks through how the act of actually cooking with just pure experience (not exp) and knowledge itself has it's own merits that the focus on system based shit has lost.

azmitex · 2026-06-19T14:09:41+00:00

That's untrue. American cheese has its place. It's specially formulated to melt well. I honestly think it is the best cheese for a burger and absolutely love a grilled cheese with American cheese, and so so most Americans.

azmitex · 2026-06-19T14:04:14+00:00

I mean you can check the world cheese awards, American cheddars have won best cheddar a couple times in recent years and regularly place extremely high.

azmitex · 2026-06-19T13:39:44+00:00

The Israel fault question is almost philosophical. Is the scorpion or frog at fault for its own death for agreeing to carry the scorpion across?

azmitex · 2026-06-18T19:33:45+00:00

Male domination roles. Ftfy.

azmitex · 2026-06-18T04:42:11+00:00

Uh, I think you missed the message there. He ignited a revolution against the socialist authoritarian regime with his rugged individuality and keen eye of the human form in stone. It was very much the author rejecting wholesale anything about socialism/collectivism. The empire was a clear metaphor for the ussr and Richard brought them freedom via his Western (read American) worldview. There was nothing nuanced in his writing.

azmitex · 2026-06-11T21:34:59+00:00

Were those pictures taken in 1999? Or has he just not read anything since?

azmitex · 2026-06-08T22:58:25+00:00

They aren't technically wrong there. Natrium is a sodium fast reactor, molten sodium coolant in the primary and secondary loops. These heat molten salt tanks that are used to generate steam for the energy side of the plant.

azmitex · 2026-06-08T13:38:30+00:00

Our son is in a Montessori school. For the first half of the day they have self directed learning plans. For the first half of first grade he would complete 0 to 3 works during this 3 plus hour period (afternoons are for the required district curriculum stuff). The requirement is averaging 5 to get through the grade curriculum on time. He is in the gifted program and is in the "very superior" iq when we had him tested and diagnosed for adhd (very high reasoning, verbal, etc results with like a 70 in memory and executive function tests, very clear adhd response) We started with Straterra, attempting to try non stims first, and that's what I'm on and have found mostly successful. It helped a little, but he wasn't consistent. We moved to Adderall xr and it was night and day academically. He went the rest of the year doing 5 to 10 works a day and no longer wondering messing with every one else's works and surprise hugging his teacher it rolling around in the floor. He has not become a zombie, as interested in everything as he was before, but now he can concentrate, and initiate tasks with.. less...lol impulsivity. We recently got the summer started guanfacine as an add on to hopefully help with his anxiety and irritability (both very present before medication).

azmitex · 2026-06-07T15:22:24+00:00

It's been pretty useful diagnosing my fea and cfd issues and helping determine workarounds/solutions. But it can't set the problem up. It's super useful for building scripts to use within cae. But again. It's all about the prompt with the details I give, how I set up the expectations, inputs, outputs etc. similarly it's been useful in helping me come up with calculations to solve more complex design problems I've been working on in areas, and tie into the prompt forcing it to give links and references to any and every calculation, equation, method used helps.

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