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Asking because of Air India 171. Pilots and their unions are objecting to it because of "privacy" reasons. What do you think about it?

Just finished up a fourth read of the book, second viewing of the newer movie, and third play-through of the NES game.

It's really starting to seem like "Jay Gatsby" wasn't actually such a great guy after all. This would honestly be weird because none of F. Scott Fitzgerald's other books are sarcastically named, he isn't like Charles Dickens that way. Even in Tales of the Jazz Age, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is pretty curious, even if there isn't a lot of jazz in that one.

Anyway Gatsby stalked his ex and probably shouldn't have encouraged drunk driving.

What do you think, sarcastic book title? Was he actually bad and not so great?

Original question by @kebab@endlesstalk.org

I would like to make youtube videos to learn from and to gain experience. I've thought about movie recaps but i was told its overdone or done too much. What im most afraid of is possible burnout.

But what do you think or advise?

I'm thinking about getting one for several purposes, primarily for portable software, some certificates and keys, and a few backups. Since it won't be powered off for more than a few days or weeks and won't experience heavy writing (although I plan to use Veracrypt and that may cause some stress)

How long can I expect it to last? Obviously there will be backups, but I also don't want to lose anything on it as much as possible.

Edit: Oh geez. I guess I might’ve just gotten worked up on just the stigma. Hell, I wonder if I gave it to her now. I’ve slept around way more than her.

Edit 2: I cut out the whole long story because I’m a bit embarrassed to have overthought it so much and I guess it’s not really relevant. I’ll leave the post up so maybe other anxious people can see the responses.

The spark notes version is: I loved a girl and let her go and when she came back, she and I worried about her having herpes.

It can be about literally anything idgaf I just need something to focus on other than my aching pelvic muscles.

or any other reason.. im curious.

I was watching this video and at the 8:00 minute mark, they say that popcorn does not have gluten. To prove this point, they edit in a screenshot showing the first result of google for “does popcorn have gluten,” which is the ai answer. I’ve seen similar in other videos or reels and it feels forced in a way. And to me, it doesn’t prove their claim correct because it’s the ai answer.

I don’t know, I’ve just noticed this more recently and wanted to make sure I wasn’t going crazy.

Original question by @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works

Marketing is supposed to increase demand for a product or service but it doesn’t always work that way. What do you use less or even stopped using because of the company’s marketing?

It seems to me a repeating pattern that once freedom of thought, speech and expression is limited for essentially any reason, it will have unintended consequences.

Once the tools are in place, they will be used, abused and inevitably end up in the hands of someone you disagree with, regardless of whether the original implementer had good intentions.

As such I'm personally very averse to restrictions. I've thought about the question a fair bit – there isn't a clear cut or obvious line to draw.

Please elaborate and motivate your answer. I'm genuinely curious about getting some fresh perspectives.

I think i've discovered something important in the field I dabble in as a advanced hobbyist. Like this was a breakthrough and perspective shift enough for me to stay awake all night into the morning until I had to go to sleep testing it works and boilerplating the abstract paper. I constructed a theoretical framework, practical implementation, and statistically analyzed experimental results across numerous test cases. I then put my findings into as good a technical paper as I could write up. I did as much research as I could to make sure nobody else had written about this before.

At this point though I don't really know how to proceed. Im an outsider systems engineer not an academic, and arXiv requires you be endorsed/recognized as a member of the scientific community with like a college email or written recommendation by someone already known. Then whenever I look at the papers on arxiv they always look a very specific way I cant get with libreoffice writer. Theres apparently a whole bunch of rules on formatting and font and style and this and that. Its overwhelming and kind of scary.

So. What do i do here? I have something I think is important enough to get off my ass and get in touch with a local college to maybe get a recommendation. I'd like to have my name in the community and contribute.

Which do you consider to be the least biased?

Isnt it conserved? Why cant you see it anymore?

I've been using some Lem's boulder boots and some wildling Arni shoes for a little while and this seems to be a great way to do most situations well but there's an occasional few times where I think some other shoes with some other benefit would do well in a specific situation.

In the past I didn't understand why some people have so many shoes but I'm starting to see why some might do that, like I'd imagine 4 pairs one for each season wouldn't be a terrible idea as long as they cover enough points on a scale in a gradual way between sunny concrete and wet mud.

I like all the wildling shoes a lot but I think they are all pretty sameish besides a handful and some of that is to do with the bottom of their shoes always being pretty much the same, like no form of serious wet or winter or mud shoes would be from them simply because none of their shoes besides the one pair that looks like big classic yellow rain boots would have the right tread for those conditions.

At the moment my Arni's are about done but ithink I could probably squeeze the rest of this year out of them and then my boulder boots from lems will last a long time still.

I do a bit of running and I find that is an important factor for shoes in all the conditions too because you can have those classic yellow rain boots that would do fine in a lot of rough conditions but you couldn't run in them too well I don't think.

Sometimes I wear the toe socks from injiji, sometimes I go no socks, the barefoot shoes from wildling are close enough to clothes for your feet that going without socks tends to be ok but not always. They say not to put them in the washer but they have done fine which is nice because I can treat it literally like clothes.

I have this mental fanfiction that every god has a way to be killed, and when you kill them you can get things from them.

For instance, the one that I refer to the most often is Ben Franklin using a kite and a key to slay Zeus and to steal electricity from him.

And then of course there's Prometheus who intentionally and willfully laid down his own life so that humanity could have fire.

But there are more gods than there are words to describe them.

What other gods have we claimed existed, that we humans have likely slain, and what do you think we got from them?