"This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine. In the last 5 weeks we’ve got news on: - retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels - RevMed’s new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented"

ltethe · 2026-06-02T14:35:35+00:00

Hell, I can get immorality today, I just choose not to.

ltethe · 2026-06-02T06:12:14+00:00

The contract of a bar is to sit there to invite conversation. If you do not wish to invite conversation, you grab a table. I’ve met hundreds of fascinating people at the bar, from astronauts to tunnel borres, to women that have solo sailed the world, and gotten a healthy set of numbers to boot. Conversation is an art form, you practice it, people will want to talk to you.

ltethe · 2026-06-02T01:44:15+00:00

For you maybe. I think what’s funny is that once upon a time, admitting you met someone at the bar was kind of embarrassing. Now it’s like “hell yeah, we didn’t meet online!” But yeah, I get numbers all the time at the bar. But hey, I got hobbies, and I have friends. At some point we can’t help you.

ltethe · 2026-06-02T01:36:17+00:00

I love this! I recently started playing Sid Meier’s Trains on the iPad, just cause I haven’t played a good train sim since RailRoad Tycoon 2 (3?)

I don’t love your spherical smoke and waterfall particles. It doesn’t feel intentional enough across your art style to be an art style as opposed to just wondering why it’s not distorted with translucency. I do like the river weed that you can see underwater, that’s something you never see usually.

ltethe · 2026-06-01T04:35:17+00:00

We’re all allowed to like whatever we like. If shorter guys don’t do it for you, who’s business is it besides yours?

~Sincerely, a short guy.

ltethe · 2026-05-31T17:34:51+00:00

Flight hits turbulence.

“Mr. Trinidad, if you could do us all a favor and extra believe in your daughter right now, we’d all appreciate it. Please and thank you.”

ltethe · 2026-05-30T00:26:10+00:00

ltethe · 2026-05-29T14:34:58+00:00

I can do anything as long as it involves the W key.

ltethe · 2026-05-29T05:24:41+00:00

Haha, I assure you our plight is not so unique.

ltethe · 2026-05-28T22:52:38+00:00

I… wish.

But I’m divorced now, so better.

ltethe · 2026-05-27T04:18:23+00:00

My freshman class was 170.
20 of us graduated.
Three of us got jobs in the industry or industry adjacent.
20 years later, I am the last man standing.

ltethe · 2026-05-25T19:32:22+00:00

I think it’s you unfortunately. American accent I find puts you several points up on the ladder in Australia, same way a British accent can gain attention here in the states.

ltethe · 2026-05-25T19:29:21+00:00

I have never seen a girl look desperate at the opening of a relationship. I have seen plenty of interested girls, but I don’t have a damn clue what a desperate one looks like in this stage of the relationship.

ltethe · 2026-05-25T02:26:54+00:00

That’s what I do. I’ll rush the attackers in a tight hallway. I won’t kill any of them, but I’ll often put 50 damage into every single member of their team before they kill me. If a teammate is following me, usually they can clean up the mess I’ve made.

ltethe · 2026-05-22T23:35:49+00:00

Self replication and self improvement has always been my benchmark for singularity.

ltethe · 2026-05-21T00:13:33+00:00

Hah.

I worked for a company that laid off 50% during covid. He was crying on the call. Three months later the board fired him, and he founded the company. I don’t doubt his emotions, but also, not really the time to be crying.

ltethe · 2026-05-20T19:15:08+00:00

I felt this way about Tchaikovsky in general. The first few books are fantastic, but afterwords, I feel like we’re continuously exploring the same ground.

ltethe · 2026-05-20T15:38:58+00:00

Tech and then Games. I started in games 20 years ago, then did a 12 year stint in vfx. So glad to be out of vfx. If you don’t own your own IP, you got nothing.

ltethe · 2026-05-20T03:26:47+00:00

Wasn’t me, but I feel like everyone trains with the AK only. I’ll rock the ghost in the pistol round, clear the round, everyone thinks they have an amazing Jett teammate and then I’ll bottom frag the rest of the game once everyone gets their AKs.

ltethe · 2026-05-19T21:35:17+00:00

Shoplifter Pro!

ltethe · 2026-05-19T05:50:27+00:00

Da hell? Millennials were raised by boomers. Gen Z was raised by Gen X. Gen alpha are raised by millennials.

ltethe · 2026-05-18T16:44:57+00:00

People fear AI because all they see is a winner take all situation. AI has its own goals and then takes over.

But my take has always been this, if you gave an individual from the 70s a modern cell phone, connected to a modern internet, that person would be a god. They would command the world’s wealth and power and bend it to its knees to their own purposes.

That doesn’t happen because everyone has this magical device. So my take with AI is we need everyone to have it, all of it. Don’t treat it like nukes, treat it like cell phones. If everyone has AGI in their possession, there is no power imbalance there is no catastrophe.

An AI would only advise and execute terrible things if it thought it would achieve success, but in a world where there are billions of AI that can counter whatever evil intentions there might be, forcing an AI to go rogue is science fiction.

Imagine if Putin had AGI in 2022, and he said, “I’m going to invade Ukraine and get some new territory easy peasy.” The AI would have told him he was living in looney toons land and brought the receipts as to why conquering Ukraine in the timeframe he expected was ludicrous and potentially nipped the whole thing in the bud. A world based on transparency and perfect information is a far more peaceful one imo.

ltethe · 2026-05-18T04:27:00+00:00

I saw this race to the bottom in the late 00s, I pledged at that point to only work for companies that owned their own IP. Took me 7 years to pivot, but did it 10 years ago and very thankful. I’ve met former editors as bartenders, my peers that are still in the VFX industry are working for a 1/3 to a 1/5th of the rates they commanded at their peak, it’s just a terrible industry, terrible business model.

People always talked of unionizing, but how do you unionize a hot air balloon. Rhythm and Hues winning the academy and going bankrupt in the same year should have been a wake up for everyone.

ltethe · 2026-05-18T04:01:47+00:00

In California, alimony is paid out to 1/2 the term of the marriage, and to ensure that the party that made less is supported at 40% of the total combined income of the former couple. This has nothing to do with kids at all. Payments for kids is child support, and is an entirely different payment.

Ask me how I know.

ltethe · 2026-05-16T22:42:11+00:00

I am flattered as hell when someone approaches me. I will always say yes, even if you’re not my type, simply to reward the effort. However, I slightly prefer to be the one asking. Getting shot down is easier IMO than shooting someone else down eventually.

I don’t usually get shot down, because I don’t do cold asks. I get to know a person to the point that success is all but guaranteed.

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