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  • I dont have ADHD but I did (do?) have depression.

    Although not the specifics, I’ve felt the same way so many times.

    I’ve also felt that no one else has ever felt this way

    I’ve also felt that I would never get better, nor did I want to get better

    It can be better. You can be better.

    The important thing is to stay safe.


  • you say the lions share of murders are committed by drug gangs, but that’s ignoring the majority of gun injuries are self inflicted.

    And while it was written into the constitution it was amended into the constitution, and like the 21st which repealed the 18th, could be amended out again.

    you also say there are 5x defensive Gun owners. This is a made up statistic - there is no formal definition of a defensive gun owner, there is no way to shoot a gun defensively.

    While it may take time - a few generations - maybe even a dozen generations - to disarm the majority of households, it’s possible.

    who are you disarming

    the majority of gun owners own guns for fun/sport. So while, yes, it is sad to ruin fun, it’s also sad to have children killed.

    Finally, you don’t have to ban all guns, you could keep say, bolt action rifles and single barrel shotguns - where sports and hunting could still continue. This wouldn’t solve all the problems but it might have saved lives multiplicatively in mass shootings.




  • This is twitter advice, but I assume it works.

    I had about 10k followers and about 100 likes per tweet in my heyday - but had pretty much left about a year before elon took over, and fully left when he did.

    It was a lot of work with little reward, but it was fun.

    • Post actually engaging content for your niche on a regular schedule, preferably more often than twice a day
    • you can maybe stretch to two niches on an account but likely you just want one
    • engage primarily with people in that niche
    • get to know them, build an online friendship
    • get into group dms or chats with multiple people in the same niche
    • nepotistically retweet each others stuff, publically respond favorably to it
    • unless you have a really interesting life, keep your real life out of it and focus on your niche
    • expect this process to be a committed 12 month process - so that’s at least 1000 posts, all should be high quality enough to warrant engagement.














  • that is to illustrate the vastness of infinity not the efficacy of monkeys

    assuming one infinite monkey:

    sonnet 18 has 592 characters- or a chance of 4.3x10^-848

    10 trillion is ^-13 for reference.

    And the universe is not even 14 billion years old.

    And the ^-848 was 14 lines, a onehundredth of a single percent of the complete works.

    However, it’s infinite monkeys, so the time it would take is effectively how every long it takes for one monkey to type that many lines. A few days? A week? In an infinite monkey cage it’s done at the first attempt: that’s the size of infinity.

    All that to say, to replace that in power, if you converted all the mass in the universe to energy, and all the time until it’s heat death and could combine them into one machine: probably not enough to clear Titus Andronicus.


  • Fair, I thought they all got recalled but I guess they’re back. but I’d also counter that Waymo is extremely limited about where it can operate - roughly 10 miles max - which, relevant to my original point was entirely hand-mapped and calibrated by human operators, and the rides are monitored and directed by a control center responding in real-time to the car’s feedback.

    Like my printing press example - it still takes a large human team to operate the “self” - driving car.