Desire to look hot as fuck and the associated confidence boost.

I’m a woman and the standards for men really upset me as well. I would 100% support any man who started wearing a kilt to the office as a way to fight the norms.

I read the other comment a woman put here and I get what she’s saying, but I did also think she was minimising how much men are completely discouraged from any sort of self expression in clothing. Although also to be fair, I don’t work in an industry where there’s an expectation for women to look pretty so men can ogle them, so I probably just don’t have the experience to feel as strongly about it.

I guess, we should all fight against the injustices we see, and help each other against the ones we can’t see.

Well, if you are a counter cracker you might use too much force if you switch to bowl edge. The bowl edge is pointier, the counter is flat. But it’s just a calibration thing.

Fun fact, in India vegetarians specifically don’t eat eggs (they do have dairy). People who are that sort of vegetarian and also eat eggs are referred to as eggetarian instead. I was told that this is because the eggs might be fertilised? Not sure how they farm eggs in India. In the country I live in laying hens live in a completely separate facility from any males so there is 0 chance of an egg being fertilised. That’s possibly why eggs are always considered vego here.

Well, unfortunately I have several levels in “minor cretin”, so when you asked me what I wanted, the concept of food had never even occurred to me and my stomach was doing the REEEEEEEE but now that I smell a food it occurs to me that the REEEEEE was maybe hunger instead of nausea so now I’m hungy

But in my relationship I’d just tell my fiance I’m hungy now and then we’d order more food together because we are not 5.

In Melbourne, where coffee is our way of life and you can’t throw a stone in the CBD without hitting a barista, it’s completely normal to order a chai latte or hot choccy at a cafe. You’re probably overthinking people’s reactions.

My guy. That was the precise thing most of our ancestors struggled their whole lives to get out of.

True… but then, like with obesity, these problems always come back to affect everyone anyway.

I never thought much about cognitive laziness and associated decline before AI came onto the scene, but now I’ve actually been trying to do more thinking on purpose (e.g. doing maths in my head instead of relying on my phone). So I am a bit grateful that AI threw this whole thing into clarity.

For a point against AI, I think you should consider the way in which LLMs reduce cognition in people.

Arguably it’s not necessary for people to do all of their cognition themselves, but that definitely does make people’s thinking ability weaker. I suppose you could look at it like how when we automated physical labour away from most people - and now most people do not do nearly enough exercise. If we automate thinking away from most people, I feel like that will lead to worse health outcomes as well

Well, they did that on purpose, no? To defect criticism.

To distinguish them I would call the other stuff machine learning, which is what we already called it before, and the LLMs as AI, since that’s what the common people think of when they say that word.

I can see that there is some value in using AI in the workplace, but I am hestitant to use it myself until someone can show that it is not damaging the environment, we have a plan for how to ensure people can use it in a healthy way, and that the content which was used to train it was ethically sourced and/or those content makers were appropriately compensated.

Because I just can’t shake the sense that the tool is fundamentally unethical to use currently.

Wisdom is understanding that all word categories are largely arbitrary, based on the distinctions which are needing to be made at any one time, and thus to apply the scientific, botanical definition of “fruit” to a general culinary context is foolish.

Sadly it doesn’t! I’ll give up my share. You can have it 😊

Oh, coffee and all forms of alcohol.

I think I might have stronger perception of bitter flavours than the average person, so both of these taste bad to me. Coffee is hands down the worst though. It doesn’t even smell good. It’s like if someone burnt something. Rancid.

Before anyone claims I’ve just encountered bad coffee - I live in Melbourne, we have a lot of high quality baristas here so I doubt it.

I don’t think dreams necessarily have meaning. They /can/ be about things you’ve been thinking about or stressing about. But I think their internal logic means little. I’ve had some which were total nonsense. I suspect it’s more valuable to look at the emotions which were being experienced during the dream than the plot itself.

I’m with you bro. But I feel like at least a few of my problems are self inflicted. I need to get up, get out, move around, sleep right, eat right, drink water, and build community. There’s a torrent of bad but I want to be part of making things better, y’know?

Easier said than done, but also the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step? Idk take care brother

Laughing at any culture because of their food. It’s bad manners. This pairing or method of cooking might be strange to you, but it is someone else’s culture, and they enjoy it. The least you can do is approach their traditions with curiosity.