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Seems like your whole social life was dependent on your partner? Which tends to happen with men and is - in my and many others eyes- not healthy for a relationship. Invest in your social life, as you would in other aspects (work/health/fin), and start building.

The start up cost is vulnerability: if you meet someone you like to be friends with you need to essentially tell them 'I like you, I want to have you as my friend, I want to spend time with you, lets' hang'. The vulnerability and awkwardness are the initial price.

Did you read Deleuze's Logique de la sensation?

Yes I read him in french. Unfamiliar with Clouscard. Not a fan of Baudrillar either.

Deleuze, Bourdieu, Malebranche, ...

I find it incredibly satisfying to stretch my brain with books that are inaccessible on the first read.

Brussels/Belgium is full of them.

My favorites are the Clockarium, Museum of the Art Deco Ceramic Clock. (https://www.clockarium.org/ Check out the video, its is magnificent.)

And The Sewer Museum: Experience an authentic sewer, stroll along the Senne and discover the little-known but ever so important profession of a sewage worker. Descend deep into the bowels of the city for this unique experience! https://sewermuseum.brussels/

One thing that I wonder though is how we will draw the line. If I'm writing a piece and do a Google search, and in that way invoke BERT under the hood, is anything that I write afterwards "AI-tainted"? What about the grammar checker? Or the spot removal tool in photoshop or gimp? Or the AI voice that reads back to me my own article so that I can find prose issues?

And that brings the other problem: do the general public really know the extent of AI use today, never mind in the future?

The line is drawn at human ownership/responsibility. A piece of content can be 'AI tainted' or '100% produced by AI', what makes the difference is if a human takes the responsibility of the end product or not.

Thanks. My dad has it too.

Thanks! And I completely agree, I generally do the same. I don't sign up without a sense of the value.

I put the sign up wall - reluctantly - recently because people are not inclined to suggest their favorite quiet spots. And I need to grow the quiet map to make it liveable for me. Currently its all on my dime & time.

It needs to stay a free platform for users. It's not the affluent that live next to railways, share rooms, can escape to the countryside.

So I put the sign up wall so I at least have the possibility to send an email every once in awhile, to reach out to the interested users. To encourage them to add a quiet spot. I have not send such email since I created it 7 months ago.

I'm not happy with this "solution" but have not found a better way. Would welcome any advice or input.

ps: If you like, I'll send you an entry code.

1 earn an income with my passion project https://QuietNearMe.com

2 play more, more humor, more laughs

3 expand social circle, make new friends

I did not read the whole wikipedia page and my eye caught these subtitles:

- Nazi collaboration - Role in emission cheating software - Role in Astongate greenwashing campaign

Trees are a good sound absorber. Which creates a healthier soundscape : less noise, reduced stress, lower rates of heart disease.

cf https://www.treehugger.com/how-do-trees-reduce-noise-polluti...