I didn't even know it ended, since I stopped watching TV. Glad it's getting a resurgence.

I'm pretty sure he said as much, actually. At the very least I recalled him admiring his generals.

I have those dreams once in a while and yes, they leave you angry at your partner. I think not being listened to is a serious pet peeve of mine, though.

I'm partial to Tetris Effect, but I suppose it's not that normal. In VR it's amazing but there is a standard way to play too.

I learned early on not to fabricate stories that I'll lose track of. I love lying by omission, though, as you can tell half the story and it's easier to keep track of that way.

Granted, I generally didn't do things I needed to lie about and have always been upfront with questionable actions, like selling pirated anime CDs in high school and stuff. My parents are way worse than I'll ever be, though, and when I got kicked out of the house, it was usually because my dad was drunk and delusional, not because I did anything wrong.

I thought it was interesting that even in the most rural parts of Cali, I saw anti-flock billboards up along the 99 this weekend. It's quite a unifying factor here.

This is true of all students, but many students (e.g cis) already get that affirmation, hence why it's important to support trans students especially.

I've had this experience as a professor for trans students, gay students, autistic students, you name it. The trick, aside from just being generally supportive and encouraging, is my classes have projects that are open ended so they will sometimes do it on their identity (e.g. I had a lesbian student do their social psych project on LGBT couples and I found out it was a major reason she sought grad school!).

It's funny that it even works in my statistics class. Their projects can be on anything as long as they have a statistical test. Last semester I even helped a student get participants for a survey on furry fandom! (Helps I had a friend into that). She was so grateful to have a part of her identity validated with respect and not ridicule.

There are many applications of machine learning models for military purposes, some of which you can see with Ukraine drone warfare for instance. Tech like visual recognition predates much of what people call AI now.

However, this is likely referring to LLM usage to predict stuff, which is utterly stupid because it's a language model. It's like those people who think it's sentient because it recites science fiction from its training to pretend to be sentient.

Part of me hopes this is just a grift, since the reality of ChatGPT helping the military pick targets and make strategic decisions is terrifying. Either way we're just so utterly fucked.

A friend broke this story to me saying "Mamdani just revealed a 25 year old 9/11 government conspiracy!" which is wildly misleading, lol.

But I'm happy there's finally a mayor willing to tackle this; I've been aware of Jon Stewart's work on this issue regarding first responders for decades because of his show, but it's nice that with acknowledgement, there might be some help for the families suffering.

Your part about the suspension just clicked for me why it was bothering me so much. It was really more bumpy than I thought it would be, compared to what I normally drive. It was more like when I drove a mini cooper, tiny wheel bumpy ride.

But yeah, a slightly used but good car is probably my best bet right now, or just hang on one or two more years to see if there's a breakthrough in batteries or we get Chinese imports, basically.

Somewhat easier, yeah. I've got a 4yo girl now, and she has become very responsible. I still have to do a lot of work getting her to TK and stuff, but I have a lot more time and don't have to fully keep an eye on her because she knows to ask permission.

However, your mileage may vary. My 2yo is more like your 2yo and I'm not certain he'll be a responsible 4yo in two years. He's getting spoiled by his big sis, too.

But I'm not back to being like my childfree self yet, and that's a tough bar. I used to get to sleep until noon cause of my job; not so much now...

That was my thought, the Ionic 6 looks solid and more like my Ford Fusion Hybrid I've been driving for a decade.