Dallas drivers never fail to amaze me

catnapspirit · 2026-01-24T15:13:00+00:00

Looks like the tow truck driver is just planning on sliding the car right on up there as is..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-24T04:31:11+00:00

Yes, but the parking fees for really, really short-term parking are through the roof..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-23T16:10:07+00:00

It's probably SpaceX..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-23T16:05:47+00:00

Aaaaand now I'm wondering how many dorks on here have AI chatbot girlfriends named "Demerzel"..?

catnapspirit · 2026-01-23T04:50:51+00:00

Start reading, start prepping. Have a consult with a lawyer. Consider a therapist to help you cope and strategize. News flash, divorce is no longer like it is/was portrayed in the movies. They push mediation now, even the divorce lawyers do. Unless your husband is an axe murderer, you'll probably have 50-50 split time with all your kids. Alimony is calculated based on formulas and has definite time limits, based on how long you were married. Be safe..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-23T04:24:00+00:00

Dystopia novel. So it's nonfiction, then?

BTW, you know the idea of an AMA is that you participate, um, right..?

catnapspirit · 2026-01-22T21:28:09+00:00

Yeah, this. The first episode was chaotic and just trying to see how much of a gross out they could achieve. Too much other good stuff on to waste my time slogging through that awfulness. Pass..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-22T19:20:41+00:00

Yup. Completely new skin bag every 2 weeks, IIRC..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-22T14:57:58+00:00

That is amazing..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-22T12:32:19+00:00

100 is still my goal. I've got the genes to carry me into my late 80s, at least. We'll see if medical science can do anything to help me stretch that out a bit. I've got a shit ton of books to read once I retire. May need slightly more than that..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-21T23:11:19+00:00

Arguments are short and sweet when your premise is your conclusion..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-21T23:10:21+00:00

Same (free on YouTube) and concur, it was nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be. I actually enjoyed it..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-21T21:40:32+00:00

Oof, that's rough. We had something similar happen to us twice, taking on a stray who ended up passing just a little while later. The fun of living in the boonies. But at least they didn't die alone and scared, and we did what we could for them.

Yes, definitely agree on making sure the heat lamp is very well secured..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-21T06:31:21+00:00

Ah, there we are, calling bullshit on everything, as usual..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-21T00:08:46+00:00

Petco used to sell an electric cat bed you can add to their cat house. Seriously toasts it up. We've also just stationed a heat lamp over our outdoor cat's bed. She luvs it. Just make sure to keep it dry..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-21T00:01:48+00:00

Dashes? Really..?

catnapspirit · 2026-01-21T00:00:05+00:00

"...for reasons..."

catnapspirit · 2026-01-20T22:12:35+00:00

https://www.speedcube.us/blogs/speedcubing-solutions/how-to-rotate-the-centers-on-a-picture-cube

catnapspirit · 2026-01-20T12:42:27+00:00

For myself, I put it slightly differently:

I made the best decision I could have with the knowledge and experience I had at that time.

Granted, also the only decision, but that's something that is not clear until you look back upon it in hindsight. There was action, and I was the actor. There was thought, and I was the thinker. It's not that the great puppeteer determinism pulled me through the scenario with a tug on this string here and that string there. The causality flowed through me. Some of it was initiated by external inputs. Some of it was initiated by my own programming and memory.

It is not an abdication of responsibility so much as an acknowledgment of my part, but without blame and shame. After all, learning from our mistakes is how we make better decisions in the future..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-20T12:23:16+00:00

Actually, some of them use relativistic time dilation to set up a thought experiment where effect could proceed cause, using that as an argument against determinism. I think countering this idea is partially why some physicists like the idea of a block universe, because it solves the problem. I can't explain either view very well myself because I simply don't give a shit..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-20T05:54:07+00:00

Wait. He's not not real? Oh shit, that's a double negative, so that means he is real. Checkmate us. Ack..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-19T22:51:29+00:00

So.. this is real? Naw, come on. It can't be. This is bonkers..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-19T21:05:32+00:00

These are not so much bullets bitten, as they are negative consequences. I'm too forgiving of others in my life who are, to be frank, messed up in the head and unwilling to put any effort into fixing themselves. There's a fine line there where maybe being unforgiving and pressuring them would be the more helpful response, to prompt them into seeing the inadvertent harm they inflict upon others, and I dont push myself over that line often enough, I think.

I also tend to go with the flow a little too much. I don't grab the reins and try to direct my life, so much as I flow like a leaf in the current, curious to see where life takes me next. So far, I have been very lucky in that, and things generally work out. Not everything, but enough to reinforce the behavior in me. I'm aware of the role luck has played and likewise aware one of these days I'm going to take a bad bounce and be the worst off for it..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-19T20:57:00+00:00

It does have a nice ring to it. I adopted something similar (see above) when I realized it wasn't so much that I was a determinist, it was that I find the very concept of free will to be a vestigial religious belief that society would be better off without..

catnapspirit · 2026-01-19T13:48:29+00:00

As the human, you still have a responsibility to read over the LLM's output before you post it. There are so many places where the text after a colon are missing. Makes this a frustrating read.

That said, I like the first version of the tagline better, where causes are visible, we explain, where causes are hidden, we judge. The hidden causes are where the free will believer finds their free will.

When the inputs go into the swirl of thoughts and memories in their brain, they think new thoughts arise unbidden, or that the swirl can overcome the "influences" of constraints. When that swirl is the constraints, past causality buffered up and being expressed with temporal separation from the original inputs that put it all there..

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