I like waterfox. I felt librewolf was a little too paranoid with its security permissions for convenient use and waterfox strikes a good balance in my opinion between what firefox is doing and what librewolf is doing.

Well, this one’s for sale for $23,000, if it’s something you’ve got to have

I don’t have the money to test this, but I imagine that there are other insurances available for people with more than $250,000 in cash assets.

Being able to tell a joke as a non-black person that uses the N-word is such a fine line that the joke has to be divinely inspired to happen.

It is very difficult to thread the line of a joke that is actually funny, that requires the use of the N-word, and that is not derogatory towards black people.

People should not be given carte blanche to say the word because most of the non-black people that say it are saying it to be offensive, and if you throw open those floodgates, it’s just going to legitimize the offensiveness.

It may come back into common parlance one day, but probably not in our lifetimes.

Dopplegangers are literally one of the most terrifying scary monsters.

It tracks you down. It learns everything about you. It hides in your house. It kills you. It takes over your life. Nobody ever finds your corpse.

Like so far, you are the only person in this thread to have an actual scary monster.

My first truck was an 86 Chevy, and it had one of those in it, and the fucker broke, and that was the most embarrassing $5 I ever had to spend at an auto parts store.

Cause I didn’t know what to call it cause I was a stupid teenager and I was just like, I need that little thing you play with with your foot to turn the lights on.

A friend was out looking for a classic car and saw this and sent it to me.

Okay, one, as many people use it, it seems like it would be fairly likely that they would be caught if they were doing something shady.

Two, the program does not have access to anything other than the text conversations you are having with it, so it’s not like there’s an awful lot of PII that could be exfiltrated through the software.

I would say that you are just as safe using LM Studio as you are using Ollama, at least for now.

Also, as far as how to get those skills, part of it is just being born with it. Both me and my dad are hyperlexic.

We taught ourselves to read.

My first words were “M-I-L-K, that spells milk”, which shocked the hell out of my mom because apparently we were driving around in a car and I saw the billboard and it clicked in my head.

I was like nine months to a year old.

The rest of it is just boredom. I was offered to skip grades multiple times, but my mom didn’t want to embarrass my older half-brother by having me be in the same grade or ahead of his grade, so I got held in place, and I still managed to graduate a year ahead of my class.

With all of the extra free time for my mind to ramble, I read and consumed information and I was like, I’m going to do something great and I need to know everything I possibly can know in order to accomplish this greatness.

Unfortunately…

Being horrendously abused by the people that are supposed to be nurturing and caring for you makes it incredibly difficult to reach out and achieve greatness when the opportunity is in front of you.

What the fuck did you do to my wife?

Massive fear of failure and incredibly abusive parents.

Also, practically no support from them beyond food and shelter. Even clothing was a once a year if they remember kind of thing.

I’m also vigilantly self-reliant, to the point that when I ask other people for help, they are often shocked.

I have the jack-of-all-trades skill.

I can play guitar, piano, cello, oboe, drums and sing, write computer programs, poetry and short stories, read at a fairly fast pace (I’ve clocked myself at over 1800 pages a day, 4 full novels, without skipping sleep), I have decent eidetic memory, I’ve read multiple encyclopedia’s from A to Z, I am apparently unable to get lost, I can do carpentry and electrical work, home repairs, automobile repairs, fix electronics, toys, gewgaws and gadgets, I know dozens of stupid human tricks like folding joints out of place and flipping eyelids, crossing eyes and flexing tongue.

I have literally never run into anything that I cannot do to some degree other than a pull-up or play the classical flute.

If I had to trade that skill for something else, I do not know how to properly value it. All I know is that everyone around me considers it basically worthless.

Legally, I can get a no fault anullment if you don’t put out within the first 30 days.

What if it’s a girl magician and you nut in her and then she’s like, sike, check your ass?

I would argue that hiding information is not always lying.

There are lies of omission, but it depends on if you are asked about the things you are omitting or not.

And even if you are, it is possible to steer the conversation away from the thing without actually telling a lie.

Politicians do it all of the time.

I work with lawyers and I have to say lawyers are by and far either the most or least ethical people you have ever met.

And success is not determined by your ethics as a lawyer.

The best lawyers find the points of the truth that are the most salient to their case and push those.

No, you are correct. That’s why I’m not saying that stupidity is the cause of evil actions in society.

I’m just saying that stupid people are less likely to learn good information because they only have so much energy they can put into learning.

And stupid thoughts and stupid conclusions can just as easily crowd out good thoughts and good conclusions as good thoughts and conclusions can crowd out stupid ones.

But stupid thoughts and stupid conclusions are a lot easier than good ones.

For instance, people are still mocking the Dakota pipeline protests. They are saying that it’s stupid because the gas and fuel has to get across those destinations, and you will burn more gas and fuel moving the gas and fuel to those locations without using a pipeline, while they’re overlooking the fact that the objections to the Dakota pipeline was due to not wanting environmental contamination and religious site disruption across native lands.

They are also overlooking that the pipeline protests could have been ended by the oil and fuel companies spending more money to route around native lands that the protesters wanted to protect, and the reason why the protests were violently shut down is that the oil companies did not want to spend the money to meet their requirements or to even do an effective environmental assessment before deploying the pipeline.

They believe themselves to be smart by pointing out the logistical flaw in the objections to the pipeline while overlooking the actual flaw, and so therefore their entire objection is stupid and based off of stupidity.

I would say that everybody starts out with a genetic baseline of stupidity that can never decrease, but it can increase due to environmental factors.

It’s not like there’s a hard and set rule, but everyone has some stupidity. Remember that stupidity is not ignorance. Stupidity by definition is “a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, or wit, an inability to learn. It may be innate, assumed or reactive.”

If you are cured of your stupidity, then either something has happened to you physically to increase your intelligence, like perchance you had a blocked artery in your brain that was freed, and therefore the new blood flow has unlocked increased mental faculty, or your stupidity was based in ignorance, which is not stupidity in and of itself despite being a stupid thing.

You would say something like that, wouldn’t you?

Yeah, I mean, there’s a way that you can tell the truth in a way that hurts somebody and a way that you can tell the truth in a way that doesn’t hurt somebody.

Like if your girlfriend has a fat ass and she asks that if her dress makes her ass look fat then you can say “the dress makes your fat ass look like the fat ass that it is” or you can say “it complements your curves”

Neither one is a lie, but one is intentionally spiteful and hurtful, and the other one is like, okay, you obviously like the girl you don’t care about how fat her ass is.