Moo Moo just had the worst day of his life.

No cheese, typically toppings that go well with hummus (roasted reg, olives, herbs).

I’d describe it as a Mediterranean fusion food. It’s not common, but when you see it, it’s typically an option at trendy artisanal pizza places.

puerto rico is not really a country, but it did have the absolute best hummus pizza I’ve ever had. the food there in general was top notch.

Huge fan of Dr. Burns, authors of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. I think his book should be high school reading.

Jon Delony isn’t bad if you’re religious. I don’t agree with everything he says, but I appreciate that he defines his values and keeps them.

Justice Brennan is a personal role model of mine, at least as far as his commitment to an unbiased pursuit of justice.

Because the reasons to oppose AI are complicated and hard to understand, so they need to be explained. The only reason to like AI is if you just look at it and assume it works. Explaining why it isn’t answering your question accurately, why it isn’t “thinking”, why it doesn’t understand your prompt, why it’s a waste of resources- these are all complicated arguments that require explanation.

Not every low IQ person is the same, but generally they are just frustrating to deal with and need a lot of slow, extra handholding. If you give them a paper with directions/explanations, they’re not going to read it and try to understand it. They’re going to ask you to explain it, and they may just give up on trying to understand it. If you need them to look something up and figure it out for themselves, they just won’t. If there’s a consequence, they don’t modify their behavior or seem to care. They’ll do what they’ll do, and whatever happens after will happen after. They operate through the world with really poor understandings of everything that goes on around them, and it doesn’t bother them. Someone else will tell them what to do.

No one is perfect. You are not alone or uniquely problematic in struggling with certain behaviors you don’t like about yourself. We don’t generally need to publicize our flaws up front. Rather than just telling them you are X negative trait, I think asking for specific safeguards that can help would be appropriate. Like, let’s say you often lie to get out of aspects of work you don’t like- be upfront with your limits on what you are able to tolerate and where you may not be able to.

You didn’t say why they’re coming. That matters. If they’re coming for soccer-related stuff, they may take a while to interview but they should pass through. In general, the US has millions of people traveling in and out of it per day. Most people don’t have any issue. It’s just that now, instead of only suspect people having issues, any random person can have an issue because of immigration enforcement quotas. The officers generally don’t care about you, the individual they arrest, at all. They arrest white American citizens without any legal authority. They’re just boosting their arrest quota. So, if something happens, it’ll be by random chance of the officer not caring about their job.

Insurance claims adjusters.

Call your parents and go home. If they won’t send money, get a line of credit and go home.

That’s poor emotional regulation/lashing out. Anger issues. Short-tempered, belligerent, possible mental health disorder.

up until yesterday i had assumed that the total amount of money in the world is zero ($0) because what one person has in bank account, another person has in debt at the same time, since money is literally nothing else than a codified form of debt.

Nah, money is constantly growing. Whenever anyone does anything of value, there is more money. People are alive and doing things every second of every day. Unless there’s a catastrophic bubonic-plague level event, the total value of money in the world is constantly increasing.

Because the alternative is the rich paying more in taxes, and we can’t have that obviously.

Yeah, having relatively higher socioeconomic equality is going to reduce crimes of poverty. That’s what you’re seeing in Norway. More money does not fix a brain defect that makes a person want to hurt the people around them 24 hours per day. That article is dealing with a completely different group of people and a completely different moral concern.

None of this should be construed as advocating for violence:

When you don’t kill him, you’re causing more suffering to be inflicted on dozens, hundreds of other people because you don’t want to make a tough call. Human suffering is a morally complicated situation that doesn’t have winners. There’s never going to be a perfect solution to human nature. The death penalty wasn’t trying to be one- it was a simple community management tool. It prioritized the wellbeing of the whole over the individual.

The late 1800s/early 1900s was an era of technological progress. The camera, the airplane, the radio, new manufacturing enabled high rise designs like we’d never had before, high speed rail was redefining cities and towns. They were beginnings of the progress that we have today. I think they would be proud, not surprised.

Not just judges! Also the coroner! Think about what kind of nasty shit goes down when the government lies about when someone dies. Many small towns across the US had that issue in the 1900s, so a lot of states replaced the position with a medical examiner (requires an actual medical degree to be licensed).

My favorite is As Good As It Gets (1997 rom com), but with the blatant homophobia and unlikable main character it’s not for everybody.

For general watching, I’d recommend:

Get Out (horror mystery with good metaphors)

Knives Out (silly whodunnit comedy)

Eyes Wide Shut (classic psychological horror with, uh, an unforgettable premise)

Midsommar (breakup film with swedish cult horror vibes, women-coded)

Parasite (on the off chance you haven’t seen it, I would vote it best film of the 2010s)

That is more “something that happens” in rural areas than intentional by design. In a lot of the US, judges are elected positions. In the majority of states, non-lawyers are allowed to run, but in competitive districts it’d be difficult to win without the bar association’s recommendation.