I would call social services for an abandoned baby. I don’t believe in souls or reincarnation, so would never think to assume the baby is a reincarnated or time traveled or otherwise magicked person.
We’re a product of both nature and nurture; that baby isn’t going to live the same life my lover did so is not and never will be the same person as my lover.
I try to have one athletic/health, one artistic, and one academic thing going. Some things I get bored with and replace pretty quickly, some last a really long time.
Gym with weights is boring? Cool, tried it, not for you, go find some other physical thing to try. Give it a go, keep at it or try yet another new thing.
I sometimes say my hobby is trying hobbies. I go into group classes and clubs with that mindset. It helped me to stop feeling like a newbie loser not as proficient as the people around me, because I’m literally there to be new. People know me for that character trait. And someday soon I will be new at another thing, and another, and another.
And I don’t wait to do new things with friends. It’s a 1000-year event, getting schedules to align across several busy adults.
Never clicked for me. Glad he’s out there as one more progressive voice who isn’t a total dry loser, but not my personal cup of tea.
Satire like that really isn’t my jam, but out of the easily accessible ones, I’m more likely to catch a Colbert or Oliver clip.
“eliminating benefit of vegetables”
That’s a pretty wild jump.
More money than can be spent in a thousand lifetimes, no willpower to work with a trainer and dietician.
Won’t watch it. I am not the target audience for jokes about banging as many women as he can and barely skirting the edges of pedophilia. I’m so glad there are a greater variety of comedians these days.
I have so many pregnant coworkers this summer; hot chocolate and caffeine-free tea are now standard items in my office. Quite a few non-pregnant coworkers are taking them too, so happy to be able to meet more preferences. I don’t care one whit about people who don’t drink coffee for whatever reason.
Starbucks wouldn’t have hot chocolate on their menu if it didn’t get ordered. You’re overthinking it. Anyone who would judge you for it is a weirdo.
Wait’ll you hear about levers, wedges, incline planes, and screws!
(Websearch simple machines)
The governor should commute her sentence to life in prison. He’s fucked up so many times and still won’t learn. To let the multi-time botching executions prison commissioner resign instead of firing him… coward. I hope the Tennessee voters remove this idiot at their earliest opportunity. Please, please, please prove me wrong and show this is enough to break through the MAGA cult.
I’ll take my downvotes now 😞
Jk, I’m on an instance that disables downvotes. Meaning folks have to write coherent comments for me to be aware they think I’m dumb/wrong/eeeeevil.
I could see tinkering with local models being a very satisfying hobby. I’ve always been curious about how accurate they can get on sentiment. E.g., a southern US woman saying “bless your heart” can have implied condescension while other regions it may be more of a straightforward good-faith comment; how and how well does a model get trained on that sort of thing.
I respectfully disagree and think hobbies are for enjoyment. If someone makes music for personal enjoyment with the help of AI tools, good for them. If another person finds joy in making “real” music without AI assist, good for them too.
Creating a piece of art myself is different than enjoying someone else’s creation. There’s a place for both. Lots of respect for, say, professional musicians. They have natural skills and years of hard work that I don’t and no amount of hobbying will get me close to them. But I still find satisfaction in twiddling around on a piano and writing my own tunes. AI helping people enjoy their hobby more is a good application, IMO.
Contrast that with people using it to “side-hustle” and try to scrape up some easy dollars by flooding the world with passionless slop, that’s a different thing.
Take a modern first aid class. Some of the things taught in recent decades (mouth-to-mouth CPR, tourniquets, heimlich maneuver) are no longer advised for. And as certain tools became readily available for trending problems (NARCAN for opioid overdoses), new trainings are prioritized that someone going through first aid classes a decade-plus ago wouldn’t have learned about.
“Normal” first aid today will teach about scene assessment, AEDs, chest compressions only CPR, and NARCAN. A wilderness first aid class would teach things with the assumption trained medical help is not 30 min or less away (broader scope of scene assessment, tourniquets and splinting bones, hypothermia, animal bites, evacuation, +).
I think it’s dumb how much cultural weight the Nobel Peace Prize is still given. It’s a popularity contest judged by 5 Norwegian politicians.
Obama getting the prize less than a year into his presidential term, only to airstrike Libya two years later. And the entire EU winning the prize in 2012 for existing.
I’m similarly unimpressed with prestige awards elsewhere, like the Oscars for film.
A 0.5mm “Benchy”, 4μm layer height. Delightful.