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  1. Comment on Halloween night! in ~talk

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    I wore a ghillie suit, with mild jump scares for the older kids, for the first time this year.

    I wore a ghillie suit, with mild jump scares for the older kids, for the first time this year.

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  2. Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes

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    A lot of small communities are ok (e.g. gardening?) , as there is no fundamental attack on them and their identity. The smaller the minority, the louder and less informed the majority, the more...

    A lot of small communities are ok (e.g. gardening?) , as there is no fundamental attack on them and their identity.

    The smaller the minority, the louder and less informed the majority, the more tiring it is.

    Even the most well intentioned yet ignorant comment, can be tiring, after dealing with it for the hundredth time.

    And people are so predictable. Half of people will make that exact same, well intentioned comment.

    Then are certain minorities who are constantly dealing with open hostility.

    Any topic on any hot button issue involving a minority including LGBT, sexism, racism...

    Purely from my own perspective, I am increasingly treading carefully around any of these subjects.

    I fear that even a well intentioned question, or a well intentioned opinion, can be overwhelming or tiring or even inflammatory.

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  3. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 12 in ~society

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    It looks just like a puckered sphincter! I just realized that!

    It looks just like a puckered sphincter!

    I just realized that!

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  4. Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes

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    It's more than being supportive. My majority comment should not overwhelm the minority voice.

    It's more than being supportive.

    My majority comment should not overwhelm the minority voice.

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  5. Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes

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    It doesn't take a genius to know that if a topic is specific to a small minority, you should not comment if you are not part of that small minority, no matter the group the post is posted under....

    It doesn't take a genius to know that if a topic is specific to a small minority, you should not comment if you are not part of that small minority, no matter the group the post is posted under.

    (I am not a genius, I had to be told this.)

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  6. Comment on What is your passion? And why? in ~life

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    Maybe. But I honestly think my passion is learning new things. Trying new things. Adrenaline definitely hooks me. As long as it is easily obtained adrenaline. No cliff climbing for me thank you....

    Maybe. But I honestly think my passion is learning new things. Trying new things. Adrenaline definitely hooks me. As long as it is easily obtained adrenaline. No cliff climbing for me thank you. And I am not a junky. Never have I ever wanted to go base jumping.

    I was going to add in reading books. I love reading books. Most of my misspent youth was misspent reading books. After my most recent injury, I have started reading books again. Voraciously. Is it a passion? Or is it simply living? Like cooking good food or having a good nights sleep or watching movies.

    I also didn't list a ton of fun cool things I tried, I loved, but not what I would call a passion. Fire dancing. Snorkling. Scuba diving. Skiing. Sailing. Windsurfing. Golfing. Camping. Tramping. Traveling. Learning about computers. Creating Halloween decorations. Playing chess. Hmmm. Maybe playing chess. Yes. Add chess to the list.

    The point of my response, is to get you to realize, that passion doesn't need to be one thing. It's not like finding a one true love. Some people are lucky enough to find their one thing and stick with it. For decades. It defines them. It consumes them. It brings them untold joy. Some people are always doing and learning something cool and new.

    I used to worry about the fact that I didn't have a passion. Or my passion was too generic. Or that my one true passion was too risky for me. I am telling you, stop thinking about what your passion is, and start thinking about learning cool new shit. Even if you have your passion figured out, don't stop trying cool new shit.

    I had a friend who loved aquariums. The salt water kind. Very time consuming. I told him to try scuba diving. He said no. He was too afraid. Years later he went scuba diving in Hawaii. Next minute, he is doing cave diving. Cave diving. Because you dont get enough adrenaline from regular diving? Dude, you were afraid of regular diving, now you are technical diving?

  7. Comment on Looking for advice: How do I find out what stocks to invest into? in ~finance

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    Yeah, I am probably just bitter that I missed out on all the gains since 2020 when I exited my long term tech investments.

    Yeah, I am probably just bitter that I missed out on all the gains since 2020 when I exited my long term tech investments.

  8. Comment on What is your passion? And why? in ~life

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    Programming - burnt out at a very young age. Skydiving - Ran out of money, then suffered a recurrent injury. Juggling - I lacked skills and lost interest. Swimming - stopped due to recurrent...

    Programming - burnt out at a very young age.
    Skydiving - Ran out of money, then suffered a recurrent injury.
    Juggling - I lacked skills and lost interest.
    Swimming - stopped due to recurrent injuries.
    Photography - lost interest.
    Motorcycling - life got in the way, and I got into mountain biking.
    Mountain biking - serious injury due to a simple fall. I apparently don't know how to fall well.

    I really liked your question. I always felt like I never got to follow my passion sky diving due to shortage of money then a recurrant injury. But you prompted me to realize, that I at most missed out on a few good years before I lost interest.

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  9. Comment on Looking for advice: How do I find out what stocks to invest into? in ~finance

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    If everyone buys the same stock, what do you think happens to the stock? Making money means buying future cash flows at a discount, not a premium. Edit: Everyone things you can't loose by buying...

    If everyone buys the same stock, what do you think happens to the stock?

    Making money means buying future cash flows at a discount, not a premium.

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    Everyone things you can't loose by buying Google & Apple. This is not good.

    Lets see what happens to Google in the next decade.

  10. Comment on Looking for advice: How do I find out what stocks to invest into? in ~finance

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    In 2026, just 1% of stocks account for approximately 95% of all global equity gains. 2.4% of global stocks accounted for all net shareholder wealth creation from 1990–2020. If you pick the correct...

    In 2026, just 1% of stocks account for approximately 95% of all global equity gains.

    2.4% of global stocks accounted for all net shareholder wealth creation from 1990–2020.

    If you pick the correct 1-2% of stocks, you do better than everyone else. If you pick the wrong 1-15% of stocks, you go to zero.

    Zero is infinitely worse than doubling or 10x a stock return. Once your money goes to zero, there is no coming back from that.

    Anbd everyone is trying to pick that right 1-2%. Which means you can't simply pick Google or Apple. If everyone else picks Google or Apple, chances are you didn't pick the right 1-2% of stocks.

    You have to pick NVDA before it takes off. Then you have to hold it while it rockets into the stratosphere. Then you have to sell it before it crashes.

    Warren Buffett managed to do this. He read everything. He must really have loved reading 10k's, because you could not pay me to do that, day in and day out.

    This is why everyone says don't pick individual stocks. Invest in the stock market. I liked to allocate 5-10% of my funds to pick companies I was passionate about.

    Apple when the first iPhone came out. Netflix when Reed rebranded it as flixster or qwuickster and it crashed 75%. Tesla when Aswath Damodaran said it was fairly valued.

    Its more for bragging rights than anything else. And I exit those positions well before they crash, so I miss out on a lot of gains.

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  11. Comment on What is your passion? And why? in ~life

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    My passion is new experiences. Rarely do I remain passionate about the same thing for long. Usually after three years I end up less... passionate. And then I look for something new. I did have a...

    My passion is new experiences.

    Rarely do I remain passionate about the same thing for long.

    Usually after three years I end up less... passionate. And then I look for something new.

    I did have a couple of catastrophic injuries. I used to think those injuries blocked my true passions.

    I think it's OK not to have a single passion. Just as long as you live for something more than eat, work, sleep.

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  12. Comment on Tildes “orphans”, what do you do for Christmas? in ~life

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    It took me a while to realize this, so excuse me if I am stating the obvious to you, but most people are perfectly happy with the response "great, how was yours?"

    It took me a while to realize this, so excuse me if I am stating the obvious to you, but most people are perfectly happy with the response "great, how was yours?"

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  13. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 12 in ~society

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    Everything he says gets an ew from me. It's the weird way he puckers his mouth into a little circle that always give me the heebie jeebies. Plus usually what he says. What a time to be alive.

    Everything he says gets an ew from me. It's the weird way he puckers his mouth into a little circle that always give me the heebie jeebies. Plus usually what he says. What a time to be alive.

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  14. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 12 in ~society

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    Helpful to know she got the job because she was a hateful, spiteful troll. She trolled Podesta about pedophile conspiracy theories. She claimed Hollywood was full of cannibals.

    Helpful to know she got the job because she was a hateful, spiteful troll. She trolled Podesta about pedophile conspiracy theories. She claimed Hollywood was full of cannibals.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 12 in ~society

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    She said it was to spend more time with her two young children.

    She said it was to spend more time with her two young children.

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  16. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 12 in ~society

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    Kimberly Guilfoyle Broke Trump’s Most Important Rule After reading this, I was wondering how long Katie Zacharia was going to last.

    Kimberly Guilfoyle Broke Trump’s Most Important Rule

    The president doesn’t seem to care about corruption; he cares about embarrassment.

    After reading this, I was wondering how long Katie Zacharia was going to last.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 12 in ~society

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    She had one and only one press conference. That lasted all of 14 minutes. I guess that was her 15 minutes of fame? Oh. She also appeared on two Fox news programs. It is hard to think of anyone who...

    She had one and only one press conference. That lasted all of 14 minutes.

    I guess that was her 15 minutes of fame?

    Oh. She also appeared on two Fox news programs.

    It is hard to think of anyone who flamed out so publicly and yet so quickly.

    In the press release she noted how her husband and four kids had moved up to Washington with her... I guess they are moving back now?

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  19. Comment on AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter in ~tech

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    I was thinking more translating as in transformation of unstructured data into structured data. I understand we lived without this a few years back. I also understand if you take something away...

    I was thinking more translating as in transformation of unstructured data into structured data. I understand we lived without this a few years back. I also understand if you take something away from people, it causes severe loss aversion.

    The reason why AI companies have nose bleed valuations probably comes down to the fact that they will be able to slowly boil the frog with increased prices, and unless open weights offers a compelling alternative, people will pay, and increasingly pay more.

    Currently Chinese companies have been able to keep up by training their models on OpenAI & Anthropic models. Once both companies go public, I imagine that will be the first door that is slammed shut, too bad if you no longer get as good quality output as you used too.

    Then if the models continue to improve, and the open weight models do not continue to improve, OpenAI, Anthropic and perhaps one more will extract their pound of flesh. And we will pay, as well.

    Budgets wont magically increase. So it will result in more layoffs to counter the increased AI costs. AI doesn't need to self replicate to be dangerous. It doesn't even need to be that useful. It simply needs to be increasingly more useful to executives than a commensurate number of employees.

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  20. Comment on AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter in ~tech

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    Minor quibble. I think you are seriously underestimating how reliant we are on AI to do basic tasks like coding, translating and even thinking.

    And it also falls apart once you consider that if every bit of AI were wiped off the planet tomorrow, the rest of the economy would pretty much chug along just as it had until 2024. With perhaps a minor setback or two due to lost institutional knowledge.

    Minor quibble.

    I think you are seriously underestimating how reliant we are on AI to do basic tasks like coding, translating and even thinking.

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