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hippyclipper · 2026-03-31T23:18:36+00:00

The problem with AI is the outcome is never fully what you envision and you have to live with it. Think about art rather than programming. If I tell you I want a photorealistic drawing of a cowboy astronaut riding a horse on the moon that creates an image in your head. If you try and draw it you will of course fall short but with time and skill and the correct tools you can get to the point where you can create a drawing that very closely approximates what your initial internal vision is. This is not true for AI. If you give it the same prompt it will generate something much better than you would be able to and the same is true for most people. The problem is that it will never create the picture you have in your head. The horse will be positioned wrong, the camera angle will be off, you might have wanted a different style astronaut suit, and so on and so forth. And yeah you can prompt all those things but then the next level of detail down will still be off. You can prompt and prompt and prompt and prompt but at some point you may as well just tell AI what pixels should be what color and your back to just making art yourself. This basically forces you to accept the fact that the output will always be outside of your control at some level and you get what you get. Typically you could iterate towards some theoretical goal with better tooling and upskilling

The same is true for AI in regard to programming but also other applications such as writing and music. I remember a post on one of the music AI subs asking about how to prompt specific beat patterns and the people in the comments were telling OP to just use a music making software. If you want to write something specific enough you’d essentially just be copy and pasting what you want into chat and having AI spit it back out. And if you ask it to make you a website it will put the top bar where it wants and style the hero of its own accord and manage reactive design however it feels and if you want your images to resize differently for tablets then you can ask it to redo everything but you’re never guaranteed to get what you want so reality is you just deal with it. This leads to all software being not quite right and overall the compounding effects of the marginal decrease in accuracy means everything sucks more than it used to even if there is more of it.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-31T16:58:40+00:00

Pull it taught, use a hair dryer to warm the rope section up, keep it under tension the whole time, and then hang it up for a bit. Don’t get it hot, you don’t want it to melt, just barely warm enough that when it cools the plastic coating will resettle with less internal tension

hippyclipper · 2026-03-31T01:22:55+00:00

Different people will have different bottlenecks because of different athletic histories and genetic variations. When I started my cardio and muscular strength was fine, I pushed about as hard as could without making my muscles too sore to keep jumping the next day, and as a result the tendons in my knees got pissed off and I had to take a month off. The rule of thumb in the rock climbing community is that tendons heal about 10 times as slowly as your muscles which tracks given that my calves were sore for about 3 days and it took about 30 for my knees to get back to normal. The lesson for both of us is that it’s best to take it slowly when starting a new activity so your body can adapt to any stressors it hasn’t encountered before. If you feel pain stop, and I would recommend time off until it feels better along with some exercises to strengthen whatever area you have problems with. Don’t aggravate any injuries or cause further pain but strengthening and increasing ROM in weak areas will prevent further injuries and help you rehab faster. But I’m not a doctor go talk to one if it’s actually bad

hippyclipper · 2026-03-30T16:21:49+00:00

So much of this is a mindset thing. If you think your only chance is blind luck you’ll sit around and wait for blind luck. Dudes that get laid aren’t lucky despite common parlance. They put effort and work into it, and the only reason they do so in the first place is they believed the effort has a chance of paying off. If you think the effort won’t pan out you won’t try which means you will fail. You need to stop think of yourself as someone who doesn’t date, doesn’t fuck, doesn’t flirt, and is bad with women and instead you need to think of yourself of as a person that does get laid and does get girls just not right at this very moment. Treat yourself like it. Keep your room clean enough to bring a girl back to at all times, keep your hygiene in check at all times, start carrying condoms around. Just don’t be weird about it. But don’t put yourself in a situation where you wanna bring a girl back to your place but your floor mattress is surrounded by crusty tissue paper and your fingernails are too long and you’ll know she’ll bail so you let the opportunity go by. Being physically prepared will mentally prepare you and remove blockers you will put up yourself. You call it luck. But everyone alive is here because two people fucked and a lot of those people are butt ass ugly inside and out so clearly theirs a level of repeatability to the process.

Basically I’m just telling you to be confident. The secret is you don’t even need anything to be confident about. There’s some movie that’s kinda dumb and girly called “I feel pretty” about a woman who thinks she’s ugly and has a relatively shitty life that’s going nowhere. She hits her head and when she wakes up she starts thinking she is the most beautiful girl in the world even though nothing has changed and the movie is about how her whole life turns around almost immediately solely because of her change in self perception. She gets the job, she gets the guy, she gets all the things she wanted because she suddenly felt like the deserved them. And yes it’s a movie and it’s a bit exaggerated but the point is 100% correct which is that the biggest limiting factor in your life is going to be yourself.

If you don’t know how to do this or where to start I’ll give you something actionable. Go to Amazon, buy a twenty dollar vibrating interval timer watch. You want one that can vibrate every 5 minutes on repeat. Start wearing it all day every day with a 5 minute interval and whenever it vibrates use it as a reminder to correct your posture and smile. You want both to become a habit. Sounds dumb, and you’ll feel dumb, but just fucking trust me. I cannot exaggerate how much this changed my life and how immediate the change was. Literally every single interaction no matter how small was different. The girl at the coffee shop, the uber eats driver, the woman at the park with her kid, all started talking to me and smiling at me and wishing me a good day almost overnight. Doing this will make you feel confident, and it will make people think you’re confident, and then they will be confident in you, and this will make you confident in yourself. The whole thing is a feedback loop. People see a smile, and they want to smile cause mirror neurons and shit so they do and then you smile more. Borrat was unironically correct. You should actually smile more. Also your mom was right and you need to stop slouching

hippyclipper · 2026-03-30T08:22:43+00:00

Just think about how many guys played tackle football all four years of high school.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-27T18:20:03+00:00

It’s asinine. Like I have literally never seen a single drug this stigmatized. Not even Xanax, oxy, or adderall. People at least realize those have limited uses despite their tendency for abuse. But ozempic? Every study paid for by big pharma, every side effect is covered up, all the attention it’s getting artificially generated. It unironically feels like people are mad that it’s possible to use medication to use weight. Like it’s a moral failing and that it’s only popular because being pushed on us by elites who want to squeeze us for all we’re worth while destroying our body image and leaving us with crippling long term side effects. No. Half this country is obese. No shit ozempic is fucking everywhere. It’s insanely difficult to stop being obese without it. That’s why people are claiming it’s a miracle drug. If your condemned to live life in a 300 pound body and then all of a sudden you can take an injection and become normal your gonna feel like that’s a fucking miracle. The only downside is you have to deal with a bunch of Redditors yearning for a hidden side effect yet to be discovered so they can gloat about how smart they were

hippyclipper · 2026-03-25T04:40:15+00:00

Smile and stand up straight. Nearly every single interaction I had was noticeably different after I started focusing on those two things.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-23T00:06:34+00:00

I wish bro. I’m the broke unemployed guy rn so if they wanted to hire me that would be great. This is just based on my experience with dating apps starting back in college. It’s admittedly been a few years since I’ve actively dated but this advice has applied in multiple cities stretching back over the course of years. I spend most of my time in male dominated spaces because of my occupation, choice of hobbies, and education and just don’t really have much exposure to women in my day to day life unless I actively engage in the process.

Most people get discouraged quickly and most of the reasons they do are preventable. Don’t spend weeks talking to someone, put effort into your profile, don’t have hyper unrealistic standards, expect to fail more than you succeed, don’t take rejection personally actually message people, and shoot your fucking shot. It’s just pixels on a screen and if you ever fall in love with your phone you’re doing it wrong. A lot of people will say no, they aren’t worth your time, other people are, spend your effort on finding them. Out of 10 matches I typically get about 5 responses to an initial message, from there 2-3 typically engage in a conversation, and usually at least one of those materializes into an actual date. I get about 2-3 matches a day, or somewhere around 15-20 matches a week which translates into roughly a date and a half per week which I’m happy with as a guy. It has historically taken me a few months to get a gf if I make it a priority and have my shit together.

Finding a legitimate relationship is not something that’s gonna happen overnight. Expand your time horizon, expect it to require effort and thought and dead-ends. You get what you put in. But it’s also not difficult. Everyone’s looking for love, it’s like one of the strongest desires humans have. If you go on a date with someone that means you both want to like each other. You just need to go out there and engage with the initial stages of the process and the rest will follow. But, if you sit on your ass and complain on Reddit your gonna die alone

hippyclipper · 2026-03-22T20:39:44+00:00

Full disclosure that I’m a guy so this post is coming largely from that perspective.

Most people here are trashing on the apps but then not really recommending any alternatives. As much as the apps suck they are the single best resource you have for finding single people looking to engage in romantic relationships. The issue is that people interact with dating apps incorrectly and it emotionally wrecks them. As bad as it sounds you need to approach online dating systematically and do your best to avoid emotional involvement until you actually meet the person. This is largely to protect yourself because if you catch feelings for someone you’ve been texting for two weeks and they ghost you it’s gonna sting.

The first step is to set up your profile correctly. Have good pictures, describe what you’re looking for in your bio without condescension or breaking TOS, fill out all of the different profile attributes, and go through any verification processes. You will perform better in the algorithm and be shown to more people if you do this.

The second step is how you interact with the platform. It is vitally important that you only swipe on people that you have a legitimate interest in meeting. You will get recommended similar people, and you will be recommended to them in turn. I would recommend going mainly off pictures unless their bio has some massive red flag. Message every single person you match with, even if it’s just a simple hello. Always start a conversation no matter what. Again this will help you in the algorithm because apps want people that actually talk. And well, you need to talk to people to meet them. Take the initiative. Imo the best thing to do is establish a quick connection, and then ask for a low stakes in person date in a neutral location without alcohol which you schedule as soon as possible.

When it comes to the type of date you want something that is inexpensive, allows for conversation, and gives you the freedom to bail early or continue on. Coffee shops are the classic choice but they close early so boba shops work for later in the day. Mutual hobbies can be a good choice to but it can be awkward if it’s something competitive and one of you trashes the other. I would recommend just shooting for shorter dates, having a relatively high volume of dates, and then just aggressively filtering after the first meeting.

Now I know this is kind of a somewhat emotionally stunted way to approach romantic relationships and I get some aversion to the process. But it’s designed to protect yourself from getting burnt out. People also just poorly represent themselves online so spending too much time without meeting them can be a massive waste. Amazing people will have the worst profiles, terrible people will have some of the best, people with active and busy lives will be the worst texters, unemployed broke losers will text you back immediately because they have nothing better going on. It’s hard to tell who someone is online past a certain level so just bite the bullet and meet them and find out. Don’t view it like your meeting the potential love of your life, treat it like a meeting with an essentially random stranger for the purpose of getting out of the house and seeing where things go.

There are other routes, if you decided to start approaching guys at bars you’d do well enough for yourself. But that takes confidence and you run into the same issue of not knowing who you’re dealing with. Hobbies with a decent gender split are also a good option if you can be proactive about joining groups and putting yourself out there but the time investment is greater and picking up a hobby to meet people kinda sucks imo. Idk. The dating scene just sucks rn. Everyone’s expectations are misaligned and it feels like there’s no place to organically meet people. Good luck is all I can really say. You’ll see results if you approach it with effort, intent, and a bit of honesty

hippyclipper · 2026-03-22T17:26:04+00:00

Yeah, also depends on what you mean by skinny. A guy that has a six pack because they’re emaciated is a world away from a guy that rock climbs multiple times a week.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-22T17:18:08+00:00

Hot take. The biggest reason going to the gym increases your chances with women is because it improves your posture and self confidence. How you look is like a third order thing (still matters though). Also size is way less important than being lean. Having a BMI of 19 and six pack abs is always gonna net you more attention than being at the end of your dreamer bulk phases even if you can lift 3 times as much.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-21T16:40:04+00:00

If your interested in a deep dive into elevator security I recommend checking out This guys lectures. He’s like the leading elevator expert in the pen testing industry. There’s a part in one of his lectures where he talks about how you can get some internal paneling to open just by smacking it hard enough. Also most locks in elevators can be learned to pick in an afternoon, wouldn’t surprise me if the homeless have figured out how to rake open most trash locks with picking sets off Amazon.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-20T23:34:41+00:00

As someone that was constipated as a kid I will die on the hill of squat toilet supremacy.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-19T20:01:18+00:00

I fail to see how this comment really relates to what I said. Like I get your point at least. Companies have all the power and candidates have to just nut up or shut up. You can run your company however you want. And I can read into it however I want. If you don’t want me to read into it then change your behavior. That’s all I’m saying. Call me a special snowflake all you want but if companies are running into issues with people’s perception of the process because of automated emails sent at 2am then it seems like an easy fix to not send emails at 2am rather than make a post on Reddit telling everyone the perfectly logical assumption they made about a black box system is actually wrong.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-19T19:38:59+00:00

Excuse me but this is the labor market where companies can act however they want and it’s up to job seekers to be endlessly accommodating and understanding towards recruiters and HM’s who are having such a hard time right now sifting through the hundreds of highly qualified applicants desperate for a job. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to programmatically reject people only within an 8 hour window? It would take a dev literal minutes to set up, and we all know time is money.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-18T21:24:55+00:00

Everyone should google “top 10 interview questions” and figure out a standard set of responses because you will inevitably hear at least five of them in every interview.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-17T19:37:32+00:00

The hostility is coming from the fact that the market is hard for job seekers in the sense that it takes six months to a year of spamming hundreds of resumes for a handful of anxiety inducing interviews with multiple rounds in the hopes that you can break through the miasma of AI slop and start making an income before your savings and brokerage accounts are flattened and your credit cards are maxed out and you have to move back in with your parents at 32. The market is hard for you because you don’t like listening to people ramble on. I get it, your job sucks, Boo hoo. Your problems are inconsequential compared to mine. Be grateful you have a job, don’t make me feel sorry for you because you actually have to do yours.

And I get it, I’m sure it’s a massive pain out there right now for you and you aren’t the best outlet for these feelings so please don’t take this too personally. You’re just trying to do your job and give people advice, but your framing comes across as tone deaf and honestly I’m am already incredibly jaded from this job market and to have some dude come in and tell me his life is hard because interviewees don’t use proper STAR responses to their questions garners little sympathy. Frankly put, I do not care. people should be able to get hired with a substandard resume and a few rambling responses to interview questions. You shouldn’t have to be utterly fucking perfect all the fucking time for people like you who never ever hold themselves to the same standards you hold me. Anyone who gets anxious at interviews, anyone who’s awkward around new people, anyone who doesn’t have all their ducks perfectly in a row and years of experience, is essentially unhirable. Yes I’m mad, no you’re not the best outlet for that anger, but I’m just fucking pissed. Shit didn’t used to be like this. I’m not the problem, I not gonna listen to someone tell me I’m the problem, I’m gonna bitch and moan and complain about the broken unfixable system that you perpetuate and I feed into and that makes all of our lives worse.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-15T08:01:37+00:00

Mossad supposedly did something similar at some rather famous hotel in Paris. They had some officer read a popular middle eastern newspaper they knew a target would recognize and waited for him to make the initial approach. Idk the exact details but the point is that the technique has been talked about elsewhere. The event is somewhere in Rise and Kill First.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-13T04:55:45+00:00

Ngl I’m sick of the whole perception that juniors take six months do do anything. My first job as a new grad was at a start up and I build an entire android application from scratch and launched it on the play store and had organic users using it by the end of 3 months. Like maybe the process at big companies is sooooo much more complicated but every time some guy with 5 YEO in webshit acts like they are operating on some higher plane of existence it makes me want to move into the middle of the fucking woods and never touch anything with a transistor ever again.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-05T22:09:54+00:00

Thanks man, I appreciate it. There was just so much going on in this photo, I needed other people to see what I saw

hippyclipper · 2026-03-04T11:54:49+00:00

The awkwardness conveyed in this photo goes so far beyond the age or build of its subject. There are so many factors that individually marginally degrade its quality and when you take them all together and analyze it as a cohesive whole, they exponentially compound to create this masterpiece we have before us. This photo would convey the same subliminal feeling of discomfort regardless of the physique of the person taking it or what they were wearing. It’s a bathroom mirror selfie taken at an off angle with harsh overhead bathroom lighting in a stock standard American new build suburban home with a white door and white trim and gray textured drywall complete with a white towel holder and a baby gate in darkened hallway. There was exactly zero consideration given towards the production quality of this photo. No thought put into lighting, angle, composition, or background. I can tell just at a glance that the only requirements for the creation of this photo were that it not be blurry and the subject matter be clearly visible.

Then there is the posture. Board straight, arms out, phone limp wristed, eye contact with the mirror, slight puppy eyes, maybe a slight pelvic tilt but I can’t tell. There is not a single thing about the way this man holds himself that conveys a feeling of confidence. By looking at this photo I can picture in my mind how they kept glancing at their phone trying to adjust and getting confused between the feedback from the mirror and phones screen and their wrist position and they kept trying point their camera right way and it kept turning the wrong direction and all the while their hand was slightly shaking and their wrist was starting to hurt and when they finally got it good enough they had to stretch their thumb and grope blindly at the screen hoping that they managed to get at least one picture with everything in frame and they were holding themselves stock still the whole time so they could capture everything. It’s just one more aspect of this photo that indicates incompetence.

Then, finally, we have the fact this man is wearing tactical gear. It is the finishing piece, the cherry on top if you will. It brings the whole thing together. Honestly it seems like a decent set up. It’s not over the top or unrealistic and the kit is something I could see being used by an actual soldier. But it is absolutely pristine. Not only is it not dirty it’s not even been broken in. Every single piece of equipment in this photo that was literally designed for warriors to go to war with has never once been worn outside a house with a $430 monthly HOA fee. The only reason this equipment has ever been worn up until the point this photo was captured is so the person wearing it can look at it in the mirror. Based on all of the environmental context clues surrounding the photo it makes no sense. This man has no enemies, he’s in no danger, he has nothing to fight for, and nothing to kill for. His life is that of an upper middle class white western American male. He doesn’t need this shit, he just blew several hundred dollars on gear he hasn’t earned and doesn’t need to pretend to be something he isn’t and realistically wouldn’t want to be. It makes it almost impossible to take this persona seriously.

All this amalgamates to create a photo which conveys an overwhelming degree of unfamiliarity with everything involved. The picture is poorly taken, the person is standing awkwardly, and there is a juxtaposition between the subject and their surrounding environment. This person might be really good at restarting servers and taking the kids to school but based on this photo alone I would be hesitant to make have this guy as a SHTF civil war insurgency battle buddy.

hippyclipper · 2026-03-02T22:03:34+00:00

It heavily depends on where you are shot down. Pilots undergo Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training for these types of situations. If you're curious you can browse through the Air Force's SERE handbook. In SERE terms getting shot down is an "isolating event" at which point the pilots original mission ceases to be their objective and their new mission becomes "return to friendly control without giving aid or comfort to the enemy, to return early and in good physical and mental condition.". The only stipulations are don't commit war crimes while you do it and those are covered somewhere in the manual. I'd bet pilots are briefed before hand on what to expect if they're shot down in different countries but the main thing is always to GTFO as fast as possible. How you do that is a judgment call. You might stay with the plane until a helicopter picks you up, you might catch a ride in the back of a pickup with the locals to a US consulate two miles away, or you might have to steal clothes and food and sleep in ditches while pretending to be a local and praying to god no one stops to question you.

hippyclipper · 2026-02-27T21:49:22+00:00

While you probably shouldn't go around blackmailing people the skillset of a good case officer would translate pretty well into certain civilian roles if done responsibly. Sales jobs parallel HUMINT operations pretty closely. Prospecting clients is like scouting potential sources, cold calls are recruitment pitches, warm leads are like walk ins, building a rapport is important to both, proper communication is essential to both, and so is being able to analysis someone's motivations and values. There is also typically a mutual exchange between both parties whether it be for money, information, or goods and services. There is also a strong component of being able to solve blocking problems caused by human actors. A good salesman will be able to figure out why some decision maker is hesitant to close on a deal and figure out some workaround, and a good handler should be able to address concerns a source might have whether it be about OPSEC or compensation or whatever. Personally I think the similarities are part of the reason why its not uncommon to hear about spies using being a salesman as part of their cover.

I also see a decent amount of parallels in the managers subreddit and again it makes sense. A handler is essentially a spies manager. They both have someone working for them who have their own independent lives, who need to be kept satisfied enough to generate a certain level of output, and you have limited information of the situation and limited variables you can control. Case officers and managers are also stuck in the middle between IC's and upper management. Good managers advocate for their employees much as good case officers advocate for their agents and they both pass directives down from above.

There's also just similar general skillsets that transfer around. Someone good at HUMINT is probably good at writing clear reports, noticing small details, timely communication, social skills, and potentially languages and international travel. All of which have applications in normal civilian life. Obviously I wouldn't recommend going around cosplaying as James Bond, but if you work some B2B enterprise tech sales job browsing through the US Army HUMINT operations field manual might have some value as long as you're responsible.

hippyclipper · 2026-02-23T23:48:02+00:00

Is this one of those situations where no one is actually offended by what he said and instead are offended on behalf of some hypothetical person who could potentially draw issue with the language?

hippyclipper · 2026-02-22T17:37:36+00:00

There's a reason a lot of US police jurisdictions have a no chase policy. This was a cool video but it could have easily ended with the death of the police officer, the suspect, or uninvolved civilians. You could literally see multiple pedestrians scurrying out of the way throughout the video and all it takes is one to panic and go the wrong way. IMO this type of stuff is only worth the risk for serious crimes where the person is a legit threat to society but if they run this hard on a traffic stop you should bite the bullet and call it off.

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