Parallel thinking I’m sure, but my kids have an entire book that takes this idea and just runs with it. I think it’s called “Sandcastle”. After the Sandcastle is completed, a bunch of foreign kings and queens show up and start bitching about how they’re getting sand in their clothes.

Honestly when I read that description of AI it just makes me think: we’ve done it. We’ve recreated baseline human intelligence.

I mean do you think every person you interact with is truly understanding and processing everything they hear, or do you think that some of them just react as if on instinct, responding with something that often makes sense but mostly just feels like it makes sense? If you’ve been in the corporate world long enough, it’s hard not to believe it’s the latter. I think it’s just unintuitive how far you can get that way.

In my experience, if someone doesn’t want to be friends anymore, all you can do is move on. Her explanation isn’t an invitation to fix something and try again. It’s just a small attempt at politeness. It may not even be the whole truth. It may even be an attempt at specifically discouraging you from trying again.

Even if you got her to agree to “give you another chance”, what kind of friendship would result from that? You, constantly walking on eggshells to avoid doing something you never realized you were doing? Her, just going through the motions out of guilt for a friendship she tried to end?

Just move on. It’s hard. It’ll stick with you. But just move on.

. . . Now kiss.

A far simpler version that my kids enjoy:

“What does the janitor say when he jumps out of the closet?”

Yo.

Yes, that is a new fetish alright. Never heard of anyone into that before.

I have kids, so yes, I watch kids’ cartoons. Today it was DuckTales.

Without kids, I probably wouldn’t watch any tv except what my wife wants to watch. I’d always rather be playing a video game.

“differently than you” is a funny way to say “triple clicking a hyperlink every fucking time oh my god you only have to click it once, mom”.

First Steps gave Galactus plenty of screen time. Definitely did him justice in my opinion.

I haven’t talked to a lot of people about AI, but I’m extremely skeptical, and my wife, who isn’t usually dialed into this sort of thing, fucking hates it. I’m not sure how that plays out across the general populace, but I’m inclined to think it’s pretty unpopular.

My daughter is learning to write and gets about half her numbers backwards. After I’ve corrected her on a 2, a 3, and a 7, I’ll look at a six and genuinely not know which way it’s supposed to face.

I would also like to sign up for this alert.

I’d have called them Melonments.

Fair enough. Those were bad examples. Explain this one, under “thinking”:

How do you stop thinking about someone?

To stop thinking about someone look for closure. Other methods may include finding someone else to think about, thinking of their negative traits, staying busy, and most importantly, respecting yourself. In the end, remember that it will all pass, and while there might not be a short term plan, patience and initiative will go a long way.

I’ve never met an architect before, so maybe you can give me a plausible reason they’d need to know about closure.

Here’s an entry from “looking”:

What does “Here’s looking at you, kid” mean?

The phrase “Here’s looking at you, kid” is fondly remembered from Rick’s famous line from the film Casablanca. The phrase means that he/she is happy the other person is there, and that the other person looks attractive.

Or how about this one under “comic books & video games”?

Are comic books better than movies?

Comic books are typically better than movies due to a variety of reasons that include cost and time, the personal vision of the author and artists, as well as their experimental and bold nature. Comics also deeply care about their viewers as well as create an engaging and active process.

I just can’t imagine how a designer would use this.

Why do architects and designers need a description of what carrying boxes is? Why do they need tips on senior mobility? It’s weird.

I’m gonna go ahead and disagree and say that you do need professional help.

I’m not trying to minimize your experiences, and I’m not saying you’re wrong about any other particular point. But a lot of times we can’t see the big picture of a situation while we’re in it, and your post here is saying a lot.

Please find a professional to talk to. It won’t hurt you, and it could help.

You can argue that the very first one was an honest attempt.

I would argue against that. Vehemently.

I’m not sure if this has been pointed out yet, but there was a leak a few days ago that said Trump was staging a fake PR blow up at the event. Like he’d discussed with his team that he was going to go on an unhinged rant and storm off like it was everyone else’s fault, because somehow he thinks that that makes him look like the adult in the room.

At the time I read speculation that this had been leaked by his own team in order to prevent it from happening, because it’s obviously such a stupid idea to everyone but him.

He skipped every other White House correspondents’ dinner, and he was only going to attend this one in order to stage a fake PR moment.

Obviously that’s not proof, but add it to the pile of circumstantial evidence.

Was my link not clickable? It looks clickable on my browser.