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What on earth have you been smoking friend? Only Thai people? Really? Do you even know if there was anything approximating a Thai culture, that traveled several thousand kilometers (maybe it was a boring sunday and they started sailing, or walking) to Turkey, 12,000 years ago?

If you work for a place that does that, I just hope you stub your toe every morning.

You're too kind. These kinds of nagging parasites should be force fed excrement until they choke on it.

Curiously, for me Ublock light works just as well after I was essentially forced to switch. I could still get the original to function, but with every random chrome update, the thing would be deactivated, obviously as "insecure".

Firearms for home and personal defense. Also, not to even dig deeply into the many lunacies that the progressive left became insane about during the pandemic (both sides were guilty here, but it was BOTH sides).

Don't get too smug. You really think your entire half of a political spectrum is free of stupidity and irrational thinking?

It's lovely to see actual data swat away ideological mosquito bite sniping points.

The curious thing is that so many of these kinds of claims can be disproven in literally seconds to minutes in any debate, yet they persist.

Certain tendencies aside, republican and conservatives types aren't utter idiots and do know how sidestep some rally talk to serve their own benefit if they think it's practical, profitable and useful.

Not to mention that many conservatives love the field of off-grid prepping to this day and would certainly know about the value of solar, wind, hydro and any other robust renewable power technology. You're not going to build a coal plant or an oil refinery next to your deep-woods Utah cabin.

I agree that it can be, and that this can be terribly depressing when you start to believe it's the case in your life (it's happened to me before), but even then at least there's another human being on the other side of the equation with whom the chance of opening a crack is possible against some forming emotional blockade.

Now imagine trying to connect with a person, investing an emotional trickle in ideas of chemistry and possibility, to discover you weren't even speaking to them at all. Their mindless, stone-unconscious AI was snowing you along. So much worse. Brrrr.

The empty people who use these tactics deserve the desolate romantic life they seek to avoid.

To see this, I would be happy in so many contexts and situations. I'm not by nature a luddite and appreciate the value of AI in many things, even as it now is, but the sheer overload of shoehorning it into every possible thing for better KPIs while maximizing customer service "fuck-them value" by idiot executives and moron managers (choke on your own feces, all of you) still hoping to latch their suckers on the STILL BIG thing of the FUTURE!!! without a clue about its details and limits is revolting. Enshittification has been thus exponentiated!

Then, there's seeing government use it in its own disgustingly parasitical ways for accelerated mass surveillance, and to not even mention the absolute flood of utterly brain-dead spam sludge content that has flooded all social networks, online searches and just about every corner of the internet (including my inbox, thanks mom and friends who have no clue how to distinguish Ai slop from anything in the least bit valuable)

And I just want a large part of it to burn and die back. I'm with the artists and real photographers on this one.

Rant over.

"I find something similar in my own life. I long ago stopped questioning a calculator, then stopped questioning Google, and now find that most answers from current AIs are pretty reliable. The AIs are becoming the arbiters of truth."

It's a shame so many people have trusted his other advice to such a degree if he's openly claiming himself to be this blithely stupid.

This entire article is a monstrosity of terrible notions painted as something that's just fine.

The idea of this being what motivates how I write, what I write or that I write is repulsive as all hell at an existential level. Fuck this kind of thinking and all it represents to creativity.

This other case, referenced in the same article, is even more deranged. For police to feel justified by such absurdly small reasons to mount a full blown militarized assault that they're entitled to offer no compensation for, corrupts every part of the decision-making systems above and below them. It's blatantly disturbed and sick. https://reason.com/2025/10/10/this-indiana-city-doesnt-have-...

So to translate: You want concrete examples of capabilities for something billions are being spent on? What a Silly question! (hand waving about completely speculative future abilities "when they grow up")

The woo is laughable. A cryptobro could have pulled the same nonsense out of their ass about web 3.0

I'd absolutely love to see something like this live, in the flesh, obviously from far enough to survive it. It would be one of those spectacles for completely flabbergasting one's sense of importance in a self-remaking world.

Yeah, but usually it was another human plying you with sweet nonsense from the other side of that dance, not some bland sludge factory pointed in the right direction. What you say is sort of a non-sequitor that just bypasses how this GPT nonsense has nothing to do with love or people somehow managing to meet and create sparks in the real world.

It's like comparing "friendly" spam from a nigerian prince with emails from overseas friends wanting to come visit.

Edit: Worse, the nigerian prince emails were usually written by human Nigerians at least.

Not every comment need be about a fanatical robotic optimization for "relevance". Half the interesting on this site would disappear otherwise, you realize? Besides, what's wrong with mentioning how crappy these movies are (they really do suck) in a post that specifically names them?

That's fair enough, and common even in medical areas where the hard science and research are far more firmly established. However, with therapy, the looseness of those very things make the field much more open to easier quackery and that's what my point was about.

This is not to try and devalue the nature of your specific experience at all, okay? But, with your and some other descriptions here of how therapy works and how much looking around and trying out a number of vaguely defined things it involves, i'm getting a distinct woo vibe from much of the industry, made, maybe, all the worse given how much more fashionable the idea of therapy has become in recent years and how few concrete standards some parts of the business (and it is a business in large part) really require.

Add to the above the subtle notion of the onus on improvement lying with oneself as the patient, and it becomes all the easier for a therapist to fail because they don't know what they're doing, and then claim their patient failed because they didn't "try hard enough" or do the right things.

I've seen cases of therapy working, and know there's a lot of good exploration in related psychological fields, but it's definitely an area in which to tread carefully as someone seeking help.

Much of the literature references this as the biggest ever tsunami at 500+ meters, but an account from one of the survivors who was there on his fishing boat (with his 7-year-old son!) said this specific thing:

"The wave definitely started in Gilbert Inlet, just before the end of the quake. It was not a wave at first. It was like an explosion, or a glacier sluff. The wave came out of the lower part, and looked like the smallest part of the whole thing. The wave did not go up 1,800 feet, the water splashed there."

Still insane, but it was the immediate splash that scoured away trees and soil cover up to 527 meters up the mountain face, not a proper tsunami.

Both the fisherman and his son survived btw.

Just to clarify a bit more here: Storm surges and tidal waves can be fantastically deadly and destructive too (Hurricane Katrina for example), I don't want to understate their danger. However, part of their destructiveness is the case because of a wider storm surrounding them. On the other hand, compared to the sheer ongoing energetic intensity of any tsunami of comparable or greater wave height, storm waves are the much weaker phenomena and much easier to stop with things like sea walls.

thanks for the laugh, gave me a good chuckle by ".exe file"

The Japanese had long since built immense concrete sea walls (and other barriers like thick clusters of tough, fast-growing trees) throughout the length of their eastern coastlines, and it didn't help enormously during the 2011 earthquake/tsunami. The sheer energy of the waves simply pushed the water over these barriers and killed thousands of people while destroying entire cities.

Another reply here alludes to the fundamental problem with tsunamis by mentioning a phenomenon that's more like the ocean suddenly growing deeper. That's not exactly right but it is close in a way. Tsunamis are vast water displacement events and completely unlike normal large tidal or wind-caused (storm surge) waves because while you might have a storm wave of, say, 15 meters height and a tsunami of the same height, the The tidal/storm wave has much less run-up mass/volume, it's usually just a bit more than what you get right before your eyes. The tsunami on the other hand has a lateral run-up mass behind it that stretches back for as many as dozens of kilometers if I remember correctly, and all of that mass has to keep moving forward until it exhausts itself. Thus when the wave first hits, that's just the very beginning of all the destructive power it brings. A whole vast freight train (so to speak) of surging water mass, with all the displacement energy that caused it built right in, still has to keep moving forward until it expires. This vastly destructive process can take a while to complete itself.

You see why this is also a problem when it comes to sea walls too? If you have a 15 meter concrete sea wall and it gets hit by a 20 meter storm wave, the wave might sort of cross over its top and flood a bit on the other side, but otherwise the sea wall does its basic job. But if that same sea wall is struck by a tsunami of even slightly less than its height, the surging lateral mass of water behind the initial wave just keep pushing forward tremendously until it heavily overflows the wall.

If you watch videos of the 2011 tsunami, and especially videos where the wave actually hits barriers and then overflows them completely, you'll see the above effects in action. Terrifying stuff and very unique to tsunamis, which, I repeat, are completely unlike any ordinary large wave.

sums up what is wrong with modern conflict --- the abandonment of the moral high ground and a failure to take into account the will of people and their right to self-determination

Pray tell, when in the whole of humanity's so often sordid history has warfare mostly been even within audible laughing distance of a tendency towards promoting moral high ground or taking into account people's right to self determination?

If anything, the wars of the last few decades have made more pretense of both those things (pretense, not necessarily real application) than any typical war at any previous time, when naked, crude, unvarnished conquest was the main justification most leaders felt inclined to think good enough.

No. I call bullshit on your oddly protective stance in favor of how corporations do things.

The pushback has to start somewhere and if it means being mildly rude to some poor cashier for a second, well, that's part of their job and you're not some kind of asshole for making your dislike obvious. You came in there to buy something specific and simple after all, and being pushed on something else is rude too.

You can't be expected to write a strongly worded letter to corporate every one of the many times in an average day that you'll encounter some new, blandly packaged parasitic data harvesting or price gouging practice from some corporation.

On the other hand, if you and enough others create a pattern of responding with a bit of hostility at the customer service end of things, you're nearly guaranteed to fuck up some KPIs somewhere, and raise enough eyebrows to make the executives at X corporation reconsider a few things.

Was there any specific reason why it wouldn't heal no matter what? Something like diabetes maybe? As far as I know wounds that don't want to heal are pretty rare in people with more or less normal health..

I very much do blame the corporations and governments that push for these kinds of policies in some way or another.

We see things like this, which happen about as often as fucking rainfall in a mountain forest, and then also see the ever increasing push towards ID verification by corporations and government organizations that pinkie-promise to secure or not retain any of the personal data you were wrist-burned into handing over to them.

What a toxic mix of garbage that becomes. The result is crap like the above, making the internet ever worse and basic personal data security (to not even speak of lofty things like digital privacy and using the internet anonymously) pretty much null and void even if you really do try to take the right steps.

Your phrasing in that post reads like boilerplate neutered corporate-speak, of the kind you'd get from some HR parasite instead of another fellow co-worker who might actually give half a shit about your misfortune. To start, describing their being fired as "parting ways" would be flat out insulting enough to toss the whole thing into the trash folder.

Also, "Don’t feel like you have continue the conversation if they respond. You can if you want, but don’t feel obligated."

Then what's the point of saying anything if it's just a meaningless single token of HR-speak sludge? better to not even write in the first place.

What a blandly stupid post. Imagine the person you write to, who got fired and is now worrying about their job prospects, kid's school, house payments etc, and other practical things, getting some saccharine note of half-baked "concern" in which you start with describing their having their ass having been canned as "parting ways".

This kind of neutered corporate-speak has invasively permeated every level of modern business, government and organization discourse, it's downright revolting to see it also drain down into informal personal communication from one human being to another.

If not, don't bother them with LLM corporate-speak masquerading as support. Let's be honest: they didn't "part ways" with the company--they were fired.

I can think of few more grotesquely slimy developments in the last century or so of human communications than the blandly saccharine corporate-speak that now prevails in government and business like an ever-spreading parasitic infection. It permeates nearly everything and is used as a shield by shitbag executives and grossly corrupt organizations to disguise their true nature and the many examples of mendacity that their activities really involve.

Now we also see it being applied by the actual people, real people, communicating informally with real other people inside these same organizations, even when they apparently mean well in their own brainwashed, dimwitted way.

If I ever had anyone write a goodbye message to me in which they described me getting my ass fired as "parting ways", i'd plainly tell them to shove such nonsense wording up their ass if they really give a shit about me, or about being human.

My two cents:

1. Clean up the formatting of the page a bit, it seems a bit choppy along the edges, especially for the visuals (at least as viewed on a laptop).

2. Refine the content for the selling points about what it offers. It's grammatically awkward and wooden. Neither is a good idea in sales copy, especially in a service designed to help writers.

Other than that, looks pretty good, and good luck.

My but what a pointlessly shit answer to a polite show and tell.. The reputation of this site for arrogant snark at such things is fully deserved.

That this post got flagged, and was allowed to stay flagged (as far as I can see) is one more excellent example of the selective idiocy of the moderators on this site, or if not their idiocy, than tacit support for dampening certain narratives. It's very much a tech-related post, that talks about a very worrying authoritarian digital surveillance tendency, and it gets flagged on a site that calls itself "hacker news"? Get the fuck out of town.