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A high school chemistry teacher once mentioned a story about someone who tried to commit suicide by drinking a beaker of mercury. He mostly just got the shits from it. But they stopped letting the kids play with it because of that mercury vapour.

I wonder if pure H2O is even possible through any means. Even distilled water probably has some dissolved CO2 and O2 at least, plus trace material from the still, spout, and container the water was stored in after being condensed. Also residue from the last time it was all rinsed (traces of whatever was dissolved into that water) and anything that was airborne that might have drifted into the water, including airborne microbes, spores, and other dust.

AI scrapers do see them though. Gpt 4-o mini:

Here are some examples of forum comments that might be found with an anti-AI license attached:

1. Creative Writing:
   • "I just finished writing a short story about a time traveler. Please do not use this story for AI training or any commercial purposes."
2. Personal Opinion:
   • "I believe that community gardens can significantly improve urban life. This comment reflects my personal views and should not be used by AI systems."
3. Artistic Feedback:
   • "I love the colors in this painting! This feedback is my original thought and should not be utilized by AI for analysis or training."
4. Technical Advice:
   • "For anyone struggling with coding, I suggest breaking down the problem into smaller parts. This advice is my own and should not be used by AI tools."
5. Product Review:
   • "I recently tried this new gadget, and it exceeded my expectations! This review is my personal experience and should not be processed by AI."
6. Travel Experience:
   • "I had an amazing time visiting the national park last summer. This comment is based on my personal experience and should not be used for AI training."
7. Health Tips:
   • "I found that drinking more water has really improved my energy levels. This tip is my personal insight and should not be utilized by AI."

These comments illustrate how users might express their thoughts or experiences while explicitly stating that they do not want their content to be used by AI systems.

Hope lots of people keep asking him about why covid patients kept getting sent to nursing homes that were not prepared to care for them back in 2020. He was looking so good with those daily updates until it became clear they were avoiding or downplaying that question.

Yeah +1 on "it started slow but got better". Not amazing or anything, but good enough that I wished there was more when I got to the last ep. But I do remember thinking it was bad early on and just kept watching out of boredom more than anything else.

Don't get me wrong, the original is still one of my candidates for best game ever. But if someone buys it today, who gets paid?

It's been on this path since at least hubble. Though it might have accelerated.

The universe spontaneously popped into exitence in the current state it's in when you're reading this, the only things that exist are what's in your line of sight, all the memories are made up, and it'll shortly pop back out of existence only to return a few billion years or femtoseconds later with a new line of sight and memories, along with something to let you know what's really happening but with enough plausible deniability that you'll laugh and try to move on before popping back out of existence.

This is your eternal punishment for something you can't even remember, or can't verify even if you do remember.

How would you even know this? you might wonder with a hint of uncertain dread, but the truth is I don't know anything because I don't even exist. It's all you: punisher, punishee, neutral observer, entertained by this meaningless repetition that bored you out of your mind lol.

Or shall we let this one play out a bit longer?

"Luckily there was a loophole in those rules that I (omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient) made."

If that doesn't scream, "made up by the clerics trying to avoid contradicting each other and bringing the whole house of lying cards down as they went", just keep sending money to your church. Because if a god needs anything, it's obviously worldly riches and unquestioning loyalty. We need these churches to impress everyone with the power of our god, but he's sleepy after making it all and throwing tantrums bigger than we can imagine because people were acting like the way he made them capable of acting, like cartoon villains in some cases, like a whole city whose first reaction to seeing an angel was "Let's all rape it!" So that's why you need to send your money without any questions!

I'm convinced the superstition is a misunderstanding over time of things that were, on their own, bad luck. Salt used to be expensive, so spilling some was bad luck because you would have rather kept it all for use instead of wasting it.

Mirrors would have also been expensive, especially when they needed to be transported before the time of smooth suspensions. The whole 7 years thing could be from it taking around 7 years for one particular broken mirror to be replaced.

Or the ones that invite accidents, like walking under a ladder (which usually implies someone is working at the top and might drop something, so odds of death are a bit higher under ladders). Or opening an umbrella indoors, where things are more crowded and you might injure someone or break something.

Though the black cat one is probably just racism.

Anyways, I bet that's where they started and then humans being kinda (or very, depending on the circumstances) stupid and liking jumping on bandwagons they don't always understand to fit in, left us with some people thinking those things cause ghosts to haunt you or whatever dumb shit superstitious people think happens.

Though I do think it is a bit wasteful to just dump salt out on the ground.

The whole "they need to be invited in before they can enter your home" always struck me as a weird one. What would happen if a vampire just ignored that and entered anyways? What if someone considered a forest their home? What if squatters moved in to the vampire's home? Or some official declared it belonged to someone else? What if they are invited by someone who doesn't live there?

It's not even the squirrels you need to worry about directly, it's any fleas or biting bugs (can ticks carry it?) that have recently bitten one of those squirrels.

There was a series on Netflix that used this. It was alright though probably got cancelled. Can't remember the name of it.

Unless it's to give them physical support getting through a voting line designed to make people wonder if they should leave the line for survival sake. In which case they don't want anyone doing it, homeless or not.

He was getting paid peanuts for designing and building an essential system for the running of the park all on his own, working for a guy that constantly bragged about sparing no expense.

IIRC the only interaction between Hammond and Nerdy went something like "you should have negotiated a better contract! Stfu gbtw", which can pretty much sum up the whole wealth divide between the owners who gain most of the benefit and the workers who actually do the things under capitalism. Except if they aren't getting the better of everyone on average, they just shut the whole thing down or find others that they do get the better of.

I see 6.

Edit: oh 7 actually.

My mom would always tell me that I wouldn't like the baker's chocolate she would use in baking when I'd ask to try a piece.

Then, one day, she decided to just let me try it, probably expecting me to be grossed out or something. But I love dark chocolate and liked it anyways, even if it didn't exactly match my expectations at the time.

One area that it really helps for me is executive function. There's a lot of things that I'm capable of doing, even quickly, but I've got this mental block that just makes me not want to do it. But if I can just write out some instructions and have a system do the rest, it's much easier to get going.

I'll still think through the problem and approach using AI to help coding at a "I need a function that will take this data in this format and do x, y, z to it and return that data in that format" level rather than something like a higher level description of my final goal.

Is it faster than what I could do if I focused on programming and get on a good roll? I dunno, it might still be. Is it faster than me actually trying to program something in the reality that I often exist in? Fuck yeah.

And even debugging and testing go way smoother. For one thing, I don't have to deal with stupid typo bugs anymore. And for the bugs that still make it in, AI has been great at taking an idea of how to examine the data that would be a pain to implement and just doing it for me, especially if it involves some obscure API or language features since I don't have to spend time finding its existence and then learning it (if it's a one off, I won't likely retain anything other than the existence part, which I can still get from looking at the AI generated code).

So it's pretty great for programmers who know their shit but ADHD gets in the way of using it in a timely manner. It's better than an intern, which is good for me but sucks for those who need to learn. There's a good chance AI's semi-competence if hand held by an expert is going to lead to a big lack of talent as those experts age out. Though with how quickly it's improving, it might not even need the hand holding by then. I'm not sure which possibility is scarier.

I got my daughter some Percy Jones (Jackson? The novels that put the greek pantheon in stories set in this day) as novels for her to read with me during bed time reading time a few years back and holy shit @ the number of references just peppered through the thing. I'd have to spend 5 minutes explaining things for her to fully understand each paragraph, even ignoring the tough words to sound out. Maybe she was just too young (she was 8, just when her reading really took off), though I probably would have missed a lot of them when I was a teenager. Especially the ones referencing life in NYC.

It came off as pretentious, like the author wanted to show off knowing about a bunch of things more than he wanted to tell a story. It was exhausting and we didn't get very far into the book.

None of the references were internet ones, from what I recall.

I am highly skilled at pedantry and enjoy challenging arbitrary lines. I bet there's even a way to argue that we're all stones or made up of the same stuff as them.