Become a dog. They’re the happiest people I know.

“Tell me you work in America without telling me you work in America”

Big orders for single people, especially for stuff like curry, pizza and chinese, could just mean they’re buying several meals at once and are going to freeze it for later on. Think of it as meal prepping without having to cook.

As a 54 year old who has just had two weeks of agony because he forgot his age and tried to deadlift a 225kg motorbike by himself, I’m going to skip this one because I clearly haven’t learned anything.

“That’s a great question!” </ai>

The truth is, we don’t need AI to have misinformation, and AI is not the biggest problem in the current post-truth society. There has been a war going on globally in undermining truth for a long time. The old saying, “The first casualty in war is truth” is invalid now, because truth is no longer relevant and lies are weaponised like never before in history. People don’t want to be certain of something, their first reaction to news is to react at a deep and emotional level and the science of misinformation is highly refined and successful in making most people react in a certain way. It takes effort and training not to do that, and most of us can’t.

Journalists have been warning us about this for decades but integrity costs money, and that funding has been under attack too. It’s pretty depressing whichever way you look at it.

If I was in my 20s, I’d be off like a shot.

At 30, I’d think for about 5 minutes before doing it.

At 40 I’d try to have a backup plan in place.

Now I’m in my 50s, I’d cling onto that safe and boring job like a limpet.

Anyone throughout time?

Disraeli?

Abraham Lincoln again?

Muhatma Ghandi?

Arnold Schwarzenegger. He would be already if he was allowed.

But honestly, at this point, anyone who wasn’t entirely evil.

Ask for specific examples of where you failed to deliver work as per your contract.

Username checks out.

I’d probably cut it off.

25 years ago I got into playing Unreal Tournament.

I still talk daily with some of the people from that community across several countries. We’ve never met, never will, but we’ve shared stuff that our real families don’t know.

You can’t properly hate somewhere until you’ve lived there…

If you think you’ll be safe, then go. Travel broadens the mind, even if you go with preconceived ideas.

Just built a new pc, the first for a few years but probably the 20th or so I’ve made in total. This one’s a home server, replacing an HP ML110 Gen 9. It’s running proxmox with a dozen linux vms and is performing very well so far.

• Ryzen 5700X
• ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-PLUS, AMD B550 (Full linux compatibility)
• 48gb of ddr4 (32 new, 16 re-used)
• 2tb nvram (I have a nas for bigger storage)

Cheap PSU, half a case nailed to a wall (seriously. I keep it in a cupboard). A fanless gpu just to get it booting. Stock cpu fan and that’s about it. Idles at around 50 watts, which is less than half of the ML, and is almost silent.

Not sick, no. But if I know it’s AI, it does have less value to me. It can still be an amusing distraction if it was cleverly prompted, but there’s no thought gone into the generation.

Real art reflects not only the technical skill of the artist, but the effort they put in, their life experiences that made them look at something in a particular way, and their soul. No matter how good AI gets technically, it’ll never have that. But maybe it will be able to fake something that’s almost indistiguishable, like how lab grown diamonds can only be told from natural diamonds by someone with many years of experience.

Why do you view it with such horror? Do you see it as the start of AI taking over everything and the end of humanity?

I do it with my wife. For us, it’s a way of:

• Learning about the other’s day and what they do - whether that’s work or pleasure. I think that’s a big part of being in a relationship.
• If something’s happened that has made one of us happy/sad, sharing that helps us support the other. It also lets them know when there’s something going on that might affect our relationship. Even if they can’t help, it’s good to know there’s a problem so they don’t think it’s about them when I’m unduly quiet or down.
• As someone who sometimes doesn’t understand things obvious to others, it can be handy for a second opinion, or ask what they thought was meant. It also helps me post-process the day’s events and square them away.

If I didn’t have an SO, I’d probably do the same with my dog; although it might be a bit more one sided.

1970s, uk, aged around 4 or 5, walking down the stairs carrying a glass when I tripped, Cut my right hand up pretty bad. My mum wrapped my hand in a towel and rushed me to a nearby army base where the medic did an effective but clumsy job of stitching me up - I still have a big scar but no movement damage.

I have no memory of it, but my father certainly does. When he came home from work to find the house with its doors wide open, blood everywhere, and nobody around, he kind of freaked out.

I drilled a 100mm diameter hole through to the outside of the house and have a 120mm pc fan blowing air directly out from the cupboard through that. Possibly not an option for everyone, but as a householder with power tools, it seemed like a good idea.

The PC itself is just a motherboard screwed to a flat shelf, with a bracket to hold the graphics card steady.

Works well most of the time, although in recent 30’c ambient temperature, it got up to around 37c in there when I was playing a modern game. My CPU is only 65w but I’ve got a new graphics card and that creates a lot more heat when it’s working hard.

My gaming pc lives in a soundproof cupboard 5m away without a case because quietness is more important to me than any visual element, so any RGB thing gets avoided, or turned off.

I can appreciate a very colour coordinated and well put together “gaming” computer in a purely aesthetic sense. Some are genuinely pretty and I get that some folk take a lot of pleasure out of making something that looks beautiful and best of luck to them. But I’m not one of them.

Known 35 years next month. Married 35 years in November.