Bone density loss?

I don’t have an opinion.

I strongly dislike how LLMs are inserted everywhere.

But LLMs are just one kind of AI and I’m not going to stop using the kinds that actually are useful and appropriate.

I’m not sure what “strict” means in this sentence, but I make my money with my mouth, yeah.

I’d rather say something clever than accurate or useful… and often do.

I just mean I don’t have musicians already ranked by that quality, since it’s not something I seek out.

It won’t be fun. It will be work. I was saying that from the beginning. It’s a task without end, but still worthwhile.

Taj Mahal, I guess, or Raffi… but I don’t listen to music to feel safe

I mean, that’s what we’re all hoping for, surely?

Doesn’t seem like a problem to me.

Some heirarchies (my personal opinion now) are both natural and desirable: parent and child, teacher and student.

Many are harmful, and should be removed, no matter how “natural”.

I wouldn’t say “hardwired to create heirarchies” so much as there’s a tendency, in any case.

It’s so frustrating. Neoliberalism is explicitly a postliberal ideology.

Of those two? Christian Democrats, I guess. But there are ideologies far to the right of anarchocapitalists (eg. neomonarchists) and far to the left of libertarian socialists (eg. communists), and anyway political ideologies don’t map well to a single- or even dual-axis graph. You need axes for economic model, rights vs. authority, and stability vs. innovation at a minimum.

There’s a natural tendency towards heirarchies, but “natural” doesn’t mean “necessary” and it definitely doesn’t mean “desirable”. To create and maintain a better world takes work, and part of that is dismantling “natural”, but harmful, heirarchies (eg. the physically strong dominating the physically weak).

I’d like it if there were little indications about whether post OP upvoted or downvoted a comment, and whether the author of a comment I’m replying to upvoted or downvoted my reply.

I’ve had a personal blog since the previous millennium. My primary subs on reddit were “Ask” communities, two of which I was so active in I went on to mod them. I post under my real name. I am not shy.

I don’t put anything online I wouldn’t say out loud in real life, though. That’s my limit.

Disagree, tokens are fun! I have one from every arcade I’ve ever been to (and that’s what I thought this post was going to be about, taking tokens from arcades) and they all have unique designs and make for great memorabilia.

Plus, logistically, tokens make sense:

• The arcade can offer bulk discounts (4 per dollar vs 50 for ten dollars)

• The arcade can offer party packages ( I’d rather give my kids’ friends a pot of tokens than a wad of cash)

• Tokens reduce the need for cash-on-hand, reducing the risk of theft

But I’m sure the main reason is it’s what I was used to when I was a kid and teen.

Same as every year since 2017: Stand up to racism whenever I see it.

How’d it go? There’s a lot of racism out there, but I think I did okay.

Christmas music, and I’ll keep it up until Christmas is over.

We do have kids, but leaving aside kid-based topics:

• shared hobbies
• our finances, our house
• social justice
• local news
• art history
• architecture
• how our cats are, in fact, little babies
• friend-group drama
• food and food culture

Similarly eating at work, but my workplace provides a hot meal (though not necessarily time to eat it while it’s still hot).