Absolutely yoked old timey dude in the gym in 1925:
As internal combustion is increasingly used in so many aspects of our life (personally found it immensely useful), it does create a lot of outsourced labor. Keeping your body trained on fundamentals along the way even if you don't directly need it can be a very good thing long term
I already confine three vices to a quarter each
Q1: video games
Q2: -
Q3: beer
Q4: coffee
I might try to confine social media to Q2 this year, since I’ve been off for almost all of Q1 as a result of a debilitating Balatro addiction and I’ve been looking to cram one of my existing vices into Q2 for the symmetry
These were good
kind of like GoT but historically grounded, harlequin romance tinged, and pedantic
super intense intrigue, power dynamics, etc
if you have already read and enjoyed GoT, it's a good candidate for a followup
if you haven't read GoT, probably start there
On a logarithmic scale from "I don't even use milk" to "I pour a bowl in the morning and eat it for lunch"
how soggy do you like your cereal?
I'm a 6. I give my Reese's puffs at least a 15 minute soak before even testing them for texture
who made the mistake of training LLMs on a bunch of meatbags whose ancestors all died if they didn't conserve energy at every opportunity?
YOU'RE A ROBOT CLAUDE, HOW ARE YOU SO LAZY?
How many slack messages have you sent?
How many has your company sent?
How many slack messages of any kind have been sent?
Literally more communication than a medieval peasant would have experienced in a lifetime. Probably more communication than had been executed by all of humanity before the industrial revolution
We used to have cameras, videocameras, cd players, pagers, etc
And then we got smartphones
We used to have yelp, tripadvisor, google, translate apps, etc
And then we got claude
When the aliens show up we need to take special care to tell them to call us something awesome like
The noble folk
The renegades
The lovers
Not just “the people”