> I think the people wearing cannabis-leaf t shirts are generally annoying, and I hate how everyone who smokes a joint and watches a Carl Sagan video seems to decide that they're a philosopher.
Oh god. You just reminded me of my last "smoke buddy". Someone I tolerated because we got high together. He was definitely the type to watch some shit he didn't understand and have some sort of revelation. One of the last before I cut ties with him was about how he believed the earth would one day "become another sun". The earth is getting all of this energy over time from the sun, so it will eventually have enough energy to become a sun itself! He was really proud of that one.
Yeah, in high school I had a pothead acquaintance who got mad at me when I said that I knew more about physics then he did, because I had actually taken physics classes, and I too had seen the same Carl Sagan videos he had. He didn't know any of the math behind physics, and as far as I'm aware he wasn't some kind of Ramanujan savant (considering he wasn't in any advanced classes), but I guess he felt that he was so smart because he would get high and watch Cosmos or listen to Alan Watts.
He might have been smarter than me (not too high of a bar to cross), but I stand by my point that in order to be good at physics you have to, you know, actually learn physics
Where then does the old man yelling at clouds meme come from? Seems like it's just as likely to become even more further entrenched and crotchety as you age.
I don't see a contradiction. The old man yelling at clouds certainly could have given up on trying to enjoy the "right" things and having the "right" opinions.
Oh I understand this one too much as a fan of the Isekai genre. So much slop and poorly done power fantasies. But some amazing content in there. Then I look at something like One Piece and not really vibing with it at all despite being overwhelmingly popular.
It's been very good for me. I don't even open claude.ai or or use Kagi Assistant even though I'm paying for it and have access to basically all the models. I interact pretty much exclusively via Claude Code. My recipe question turned into a recipe tracking project and recommendation engine designed to help force me to try making new things that expand my skills. I've also had good luck getting gluten / dairy alternatives for recipes since that's now a fact of life I have to deal with via my wife.
For product reviews, you've definitely got to make sure it's searching for sources and not just relying on outdated data. Some brands used to be very good and are today just coasting on their reputation. This is where phrases like "research this deeply" help it break out of the baked in biases.
This is a weak read of the situation. I’d sure as fuck rather enter a date of birth or age profile on my computer than send my photo id to random websites to verify my age. One is clearly better from a privacy standpoint.
What’s doing the actual verification? Just entering date of birth as verification is pointless and just adds complexity. The original idea was stupid enough, no need to add more stupid to it.
> Do you think today the average Japanese person knows more about water supply than the average American?
Probably yes. Our education systems and culture are so very different. Japan is far more structured and standardized. In the US, schools are a complete gamble unless you've got the means and motivation to explicitly move to an area with "good schools". Given the incredible number of adults who read below a sixth grade level, I'd fully expect the average US citizen to be less informed and less capable of informing themselves as the average Japanese citizen. This would translate into more Japanese citizens being familiar with things like water pressure.
This is easily demonstrated to be wrong. California isn't in the top 5 highest. The top 5 being:
1. Louisiana 10.11%
2. Tennessee 9.61%
3. Washington 9.51%
4. Arkansas 9.46%
5. Alabama 9.46%
Crazy how we never hear pithy drops about sales tax in Louisiana. I wonder why that is literally never a talking point in these discussions? Probably a very similarly motivated reason as to why people rant about murder in Chicago but never Memphis.
You're combining state and local sales tax. State sales tax in Louisiana is 4.45%. Some municipalities add nothing on top of that, some add more. I said California's state sales tax is the highest and that's true.
Because they are ideologically aligned with Elon Musk. They want the alternative facts. They need sources to point to because they keep getting beat up with this troubling thing called reality. They think if they can drop a grokipedia link to counter a wikipedia link they are "winning".
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