I went to my son’s back-to-school day once and brought my daughter with me (sophomore in high school at the time)

One of the teachers assumed out loud my daughter was the mother, and I don’t know how many other teachers assumed it without saying anything.

That was a deep and powerful cringe.

Did I miss it? That article is quite long and mentions “affordable apartments” about eleventy-seven times but never once describes what definition of “affordable” they are using.

Without that I have no clue what these numbers mean or whether they mean anything.

It's undeniable that AI is great at problems with tight feedback loops, like software engineering

I, CandleTiger, do hereby deny that AI is great at software engineering.

Any context for this? Is there supposed to be a link with more information?

Is the LA siege.. over? Did ICE leave LA? Or did they just settle down to quietly deporting people and mostly getting away with it?

This is a real question. I was marching in San Diego protests and then I left town for unrelated reasons. I feel like I have no idea what’s really going on in the world anymore.

The problem is that Venezuela looked just like that too, until the fuckers actually invaded the capital, bombed it, and kidnapped their leader.

So did Minneapolis, now they’re working really hard at starting a civil war.

It’s like you roll the dice, 9 out of 10 times it turns into useless mouth noises and 1 out of 10 they actually do it.

Hard to stay relaxed and laugh about this shit, man.

The handle is not parallel to the bowstring. That seems like it would make it hard to aim.

Does anyone here know why they would make it that way?

I don’t think that’s an autism thing. I think that’s just a thing for people who don’t have enough meaning and purpose in their life to feel like they had a day’s worth of experiences yet when the day is over.

Which is a LOT of us.

Not diagnosed autistic just super nerdy person here so take this story for what it’s worth:

I changed schools a lot when I was a kid and had wildly different experiences depending on the school. Mostly varying between bad and very bad. As a kid all the other kids hated me and I never could understand why. I still can’t understand — I don’t know at all what was different about me that everyone could tell right away they needed to insult me — but whatever it was they sure saw it.

In 8th grade for the first time something clicked and I fit in and had friends instead of being the outcast. But I think the change was much more in the people I was going to school with (magnet program for nerds) than in myself.

After having the experience of having friends, fitting in, and being relaxed in a group for a year without worrying they will attack me, I learned how to be a social person and I can (roughly) fit in and be comfortable with most groups since then. People didn’t attack me anymore after that and still don’t, which is quite wonderful for me.

How to get that experience for yourself on purpose? I think it would be really hard.

My best advice is to find some kind of club or group or sport or something, where a group of people are all there because they’re passionate about the thing, and that group really cares about outreach and teaching and spreading that passion. It helps if you already have a passion for the thing of course but it isn’t required.

Find a group of people who are actively looking for new friends and care more about whatever the topic is than about whether you are socially adept, and let them accept you/work together as you all work a shared passion and become friends through that shared group activity. Whether it’s gardening or weightlifting the topic doesn’t matter — what matters is the people are friendly and enthusiastic about spreading their joy for this topic (and you don’t hate it).

For me it was computers and cross-country running team. For my friend it really was weightlifting which believe it or not has enthusiastic nerd outreach groups.

If you get lucky, such a group will teach you how to fit in with them which is transferable knowledge.

Finding a welcoming group or club like that is hard. Keep your eyes open and look actively for it.

Good luck to you and best wishes for success. It’s a hard world.

Genuine question: Does a general strike in Minnesota actually do anything to deter ICE?

If the federal government actually care about the economy of Minnesota then it would but I’m thinking more likely they are delighted to injure blue states and don’t understand we are connected.

I always saw them as some kind of Eastern European caricature

That sounds great!

So… is it real functioning tests? Or approvals for somebody’s cousin making unreliable crap?