Also, while I despise “How to make friends and influence people” conversational tactics self help drivel, there are ways to converse that make people like you more. I won’t go into depth, but basically, if you can find the one thing that someone won’t shut up about, something that gets them really animated, just listen to them talk, ask them insightful questions, be an active listener, and actively converse. Don’t be a yes-man, offer your own input, but do engage them.

Easy answer to human connection? Get a hobby. Don’t have any? Force yourself to get one! Don’t pretend to be into something you despise, but get out of your comfort zone. That could be working on cars, playing an instrument, singing, dancing, learning a language, reading books, woodworking, camping and outdoorsmanship, any of a number of sports… Hobbies are just a cheat code because if you’re meeting someone for a hobby group you automatically have something in common that you’re both interested in. Look for local meetups, even if your hobby is something as niche as like, playing Super Smash Bros Melee, you’re likely to find at least a few meetups. Talk to people, hit it off, if you make a friend, get their contacts (e.g. phone number, Discord account, whatever) and then a little later, ask if they’d want to drop by and hang out, or maybe go to a restaurant together, or catch a movie- etc. It may be a little daunting to be the person who makes the offer, but you should try and be outgoing about it. This might sound kinda stilted, but with practice it’ll become more natural. This also applies at least partially to dating, by the way- a partner is, in my mind, just a friend you want to keep a little closer than the rest.

It’s usually not a pretty process, but generally if you talk to whoever you have debt with, if you work out a plan to pay something in, like a few hundred bucks a month, they won’t try and collect on their debts forcibly. I worked in a different branch of the debt industry briefly - primarily credit card debt, mostly small business owners racking up debt on their platinum cards or whatever - so take that with a grain of salt. I know there are different repayment plans specifically for student loans - look into that and maybe talk with someone before calling in.

You really do want to take care of it ASAP - I don’t know if they’ve capitalized your interest or not yet, but if they haven’t, do everything possible to avoid that happening! Student loan interest from my understanding only accrues on the initial borrowed sum, as opposed to compounding interest, but if you become delinquent they can capitalize your interest! When they capitalize your interest, any unpaid interest you owed beforehand becomes a part of that base sum, and you have to start paying interest on that interest, which can potentially be horrendous.

https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans

I don’t know if this is the place for this, but feature request - the ability to favorite certain comms and have them appear in the site layout at the top of the right-hand side panel. Idk I feel like I’d just want to always have Movies & TV at one-click from getting to the site.

Not really? I haven’t seen any. I was very much inserting into the title of this post, that isn’t his take, he was talking in the article I found this in about this just being a natural problem with current LLM architecture, that the operators have no real ability to control costs or limit user access.

It’s an excerpt from a Ken K article: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

Okay, but like, the guy also polled their followers on the race of the next victim, and the option for choosing a black victim was just the N-word. Just because it isn’t exclusively incel shit doesn’t mean that there isn’t some of that baked in.

People are saying this - la nino, you know, he has to be stopped, even if he’s just a little boy, he’s already caused far too much damage. NO MORE WEATHER!

Literally 1984

The guy looks like someone you’d recruit in Jagged Alliance 2

AI is about to get a lot better at phrenology, and it’s making liberals nervous…

They’re a motor vehicle part that improves a car’s emissions. They’re on the underside of the car, as they are a part of its exhaust system. As other commenters have explained, they contain a lot of rare and expensive metals like platinum and palladium, making them quite valuable. As a result, there are many cases where people will go under parked cars and cut them off while the driver is away, then sell them to less scrupulous buyers for a quick buck. This, of course, fucks up the car, hence the post.

I would recommend against simulplaying it. There’s just too much text, you wouldn’t be able to talk to each other and pay attention to the game. Maybe if you have one game up and take turns on who makes the decisions that’d work better.

Yeah but then it’s not a live service and there isn’t a source of recurrent revenue to make the shareholders cum.

I guess we’ll be going on this adventure together then.

I’m sorry to place you in the role of load-bearing anime advisor, but are any of the follow-ups to Space Battleship Yamato worth watching, or is the Iscandar arc best left on its own? I really enjoyed it, but modern times have made me wary of good media and franchises getting poisoned by slop.

If you have the time for it, watching the series is recommended. If you watch the show, you can probably skip A Contact.

 
Thanks! That’s all I needed to hear.

Will I be missing anything critical from Space Runaway Ideon if I watch the compilation movie version, or would certain episodes be excluded? And if I did watch the full series, would I still need to watch A Contact?

I recall hearing about this - the AI did this by actively lying to users, inventing experiences, e.g. pretending to be a male victim of SA or a poc opposed to black lives matter, etc.