A few months is recent; the plant analogy is apt here, because often you plant in the fall before the frost, then have to wait a full 6 months before you see any results. But when you see results, that doesn’t mean it’s harvest time; you’ve sometimes got another 3 months of nurture before you start seeing a harvest.

And then you’ve got to put in that effort all over again, and some plants just won’t make it.

Exiting that analogy, relationships are a dance. Meet people where they are. Pay attention to how much they’re bringing to the relationship. Bring a similar amount yourself, and carefully add a bit more over months if you see a balance there.

If you find out they just wanted a single dance, or don’t like your style, accept it, appreciate what you were able to enjoy together, and go look for another dance partner, using what you learn along the way.

They had fun with that; kept inventing new ways to count, and then taught their classmates with various levels of success.

Thankfully, their teachers got on board and didn’t see it as being disruptive.

Yes; I believe he said at one point that there’s a sucker born every minute.

You’re on to something here. I raised my kids to use technology as a tool, not as a babysitter. They didn’t have smartphones with SIMs until after they’d learned to drive. But they knew how to count in binary on their fingers by the time they were three. They’re really good at recognizing when something was LLM-generated, and only use LLMs when it’s required.

I think there’s quite a few kids like them out there, but they aren’t the ones you hear about.

Back in my day, a few of us did homework, and others got other people to do it for them, or made up excuses as to why they couldn’t turn it in.

Ah; so THAT is what Trump meant by “draining the swamp….”

They wouldn’t assassinate him today. They’d just throw him in jail for life.

After all, they’re now doing in the open what he caught them doing in secret, and there have been no repercussions. So that means they no longer have a reason to shut him up, and they definitely don’t want to martyr him.

The Bell and Rogers fees are obviously bogus; they were never needed before and nothing has changed other than their decision to charge the fee.

The Telus one is intriguing, as most phones sold today don’t actually need a SIM card. If they offer eSIM service as part of the activation and separately charge if you want a physical SIM card for some reason, that actually makes sense as it costs them more.

Ironically, I actually saw the cage fight where The Undertaker took out Mankind. I was visiting someone who was a big WWF fan and they had it playing.

Non-scripted fighting? Can’t say I’ve ever watched that.

“With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not up for bargaining. All of Lebanon must burn,” Ben-Gvir said in a statement.

OK, let me get this straight… Lebanese citizens, many of whom live in a border city, were fighting against Israeli troops advancing on the city, IN LEBANON, and Ben-Gvir’s response to troops in a foreign nation being attacked by residents of that nation is to A) go scorched earth on the foreign city the defenders were defending, and B) threaten to flatten the entire nation?

What does he do if Lebanon takes the same stance???

Maybe this is the event that can spark change. If people aren’t tipping, so servers quit their jobs to go work somewhere with better base pay, owners will be left taking the hit.

I’m sure they’ll find some way to make the workers suffer instead, but this could be what’s needed to get rid of corporate “tip culture”.

Thing is, with the latest frontier models, the least skilled person can find a crack in the most secure company around, as long as they can string a few sentences together.

It isn’t about “bare minimum” anymore. All it takes is a single lapse in vigilance from a single employee, and they’re in… and the LLM doesn’t have to pause to figure out what to do next.

It was definitely the peak of the genre.

It wasn’t like that before Meta bought WhatsApp. This is why Signal is the superior app using the protocol; Meta stores not only the conversations, but separately stores the address books and the connection meta data and communication web. The actual messages are at least encrypted, but they’re still sitting there waiting to be accessed by anyone with a key (it doesn’t have to be her key).

It’s easier to destroy a house than to build it.

AI agents can already search all about me.

They only find what I’ve made available for them to find.

Eventually they might be able to link all my personas to physical me, but by then I’ll likely be dead.

Helps that I don’t have a SSN and that credit companies don’t have my correct address.

Also helps that I don’t share photos on social media.

Hopefully it makes a few people who see it reflect.

Seems to me it’s better to use an external device instead of using the radio in the phone.

Flippers are still a thing.

It’s an old bar trick to serve the performers the drinks the house wants to sell to everyone else — except what they really serve them is water or colored water.

This is also done after the set, where if someone buys them a drink, the house gives them water and charges the person for the drink, and the performer gets a cut of the money.

That way, the performer can accept as many drinks as are offered without being unable to perform their next set.

With AI as the army battalion, Darrell becomes a general.