Fall of Civilizations

History with Cy

Historia Civilis

History Time (check out this one on the Amazon)

The Entire History of the Earth (super interesting and atmospheric broad geological history playlist)

Boomers vote to build walls when they can barely lift a brick

Are you good with names in general irl? I’ve never been great with names in real life or in books. For that reason I’ve always appreciated books with an index of characters to help me keep track. Sometimes I make one myself for books with a lot of characters.

My theory is that some people’s minds index via proper nouns more than others. I’m more likely to remember a story you told me than your name. It usually takes me multiple times meeting someone before their name sticks unless I make a concerted effort, but I’ll remember they said they worked in construction and had 2 dogs. Just to throw a wrench in my theory I’m somewhat likely to remember the dog names…

The heavy weed smokers I know are all capable of taking breaks for things more trivial than the threat of serious jail time (ie taking a break to lower tolerance, taking a break while looking for a new job, etc).

If we went with their ‘make the AI companies pay for it’ idea I fear we would be in the same place we were with the carbon offset bs. We need an overall reduction in greenhouse gasses quickly. Adding a bunch of new renewable capacity but dedicating it all to data centers doesn’t reduce our existing emissions and even without the electricity issue scaling data centers costs real resources that we need elsewhere, not just the make believe money the AI billionaires have mutually created out of thin air.

Yeah I would have done much better in high school like this, though I don’t think AI will eliminate the poster projects unfortunately.

That’s what they’re doing for my SO’s big introductory class in the humanities. No homework, quizzes, or papers. Short answer exams done in a special testing center.

Really sucks for people who were decent at essays and turning in assignments on time but not great at exams.

Did people who did see it like it?

My pebble watch only listens to me if I ask it to:)

Firebreak -Nicole Kornher-Stace

Running out of Time - Margaret Peterson Haddix

It’s like if they wrote gta VI in notepad and Microsoft released it saying they made it… so not really different except they didn’t even let the author publish it first

ohno

(you should get a squatty potty)

Scrooge is a capitalist, the capitalists want to destroy the infrastructure (climate + resources). You misunderstood last time I posted this too so I tried to make it really explicit!

They should use a vertical mouse at least!

I’ll check out Sunflowers! I agree Blindsight was really philosophically engaging. I should add it to my re-read pile since I’ve been reading a lot about being lately

Ohh now that’s a challenge, totalitarian is usually the go to move.

What’s your favorite Watts novel? I think I’ve only read Blindsight (dark but intriguing).

Can you run society for awhile please? You seem to have a basic grasp of priorities

Anyone trying to claim to be an adjudicator of truth is going to have some objectivity issues