Yeah, and a simple arm movement could put it back

It’s proportional

No? I just expect acknowledgement. Just a little head nod or basically any sound

I’m not a doorman. I’m holding the door so you feel like you’re in a slightly friendlier world, I didn’t have to do this. I don’t expect others to do it for me, but my day gets a little better when they do.

These little interactions are how a society feels friendly. It’s the fabric of civilization

When you walk through like you’re entitled to have doors held for you, then fuck you. You’re snubbing someone trying to make the world a slightly friendlier place

Yes? Obviously? Someone else got mildly publicly embarrassed for not being polite to a stranger

As someone who does the little things like hold the door for others, I think to myself “okay, asshole” every time doesn’t acknowledge it. It makes me just a little more hesitant to do it in the future

When someone does get called out for it, it’s incredibly vindicating. Even seeing it second hand is validating

There’s such a thing as a good Karen. Society does need Karens, but we need them to call out people making the world a worse place in little ways like this

Yeah, but social punishment for rudeness is how you get a world where strangers are polite to each other

Causing a tiny inconvenience for yourself is worth it

… What?

Gatekeep at the grocery store. It’s easier to resist eating a full tub of Oreos by deciding not to buy them in the first place

It’s easier to moderate what platforms you use than it is to resist their affect on you. Restrict where and how you are exposed to short form video and what kinds of social media you use

Also, take magnesium glycinate, but not on an empty stomach. Basically everyone with ADHD has a magnesium deficiency that makes the symptoms way worse

I do feel like sampling your own farts is helpful… Like it’s a gut biome health check

I’m sure it smells like shit though

They’re becoming closer and closer to it though. Scary court decisions are being made, it won’t be long before someone tests it as a legal argument

Theoretically? Probably, I rarely touched windows outside of Windows centric shops. Practically, you’re going to have to make that a much more blurry line

There’s going to be times you have to deal with Windows. That can be as little as “effectively never” depending on your path and choices, but if you’re a hardliner it’s going to close doors on you just for picking a dumb hill to die on

I think it’s golden retrievers, they’re basically required to keep them from getting an anxiety disorder

Cheetahs aren’t dangerous, they’re big zoomy cats

Since they min-maxed for speed, they’re not very strong and don’t really fight for their food, they get bullied easily

Why I signed up to go through this hellscape

It’s not. Maybe they’ll fail, maybe it can’t math out, but it’s not vaporware

Limited trade… There were full on global trade networks through most of human history. Ironically, not as much across the Atlantic, because civilization in the Americas was centered on the West coast

But you find all sorts of stuff turning up everywhere. Not much of it, and most of it is lost to history, but enough to establish that global trade networks were the norm and not the exception

It seems promising, they’re acting like they’re close. They’ve been promising concrete deliverables, I think they’re supposed to have a working model that can actually capture the energy next year

You never know, but they’re called Triton if you want to check them out. They don’t share progress often, but when they do it seems pretty candid about their progress

It doesn’t anymore… It crashed like 5x today, and that’s not including the times where it froze for 5+ minutes and recovered

=3

Because companies don’t do R&D anymore, they fund startups and aquire them when they’re ripe

Being able to replace workers with AI is a holy Grail for capitalism, and so a ton of companies have poured their saved up “R&D funds” in order to get in early

I think they’re too big to bail out at this point

Also, no one wants US bonds right now, so we couldn’t borrow our way out of it even if we wanted to. We’d just have to print like a trillion or more dollars all at once

That’s kinda how therapy works. It’s 90% getting you talking, and 10% offering compensation strategies they’ve heard before