That is indeed a fun fact! I am somewhat obsessed with sodium vapor lights and the bandwidth of light they produce. I would love to have seen the original camera rig and their special prisms, but apparently they only made three and they’ve been lost.

I will listen and not judge, especially if you don’t have people in real life you can open up to.

This would imply the existence of butthuggers

Exactly! I generate a frack-ton of excel reports at work, and I output them in the format Subject-Report-2025-09-01.

And on another note, when you’re traveling through the time Continuum, do you ask the nearest person for the day and month first? Nope, it’s always “what year is it?!” because you’re probably being chased by futuristic terrorists or super soldiers…

Maybe that will happen in those giant urban nightmares they call cities. I moved out of the decaying concrete jungle (Escape From L.A.!) and have been living in small towns for the past decade. Here, live music is made every night, spilling out onto the boardwalk and carried by the wind to brighten and invigorate minds old and new. Real music is an art that will survive the AI apocalypse, and perhaps be the last echo of our civilization, spreading out into the cosmos long after we’re gone, and exchanting distant (alien) minds.

Well, just think about how pervasive cheap junk plastic (toys, food packaging, vehicles, furniture, etc) is in our society, yet there are tons of people who make or buy things made out of high quality materials like solid wood furniture or quality steel kitchen appliances. So, there will always be people who reject imitation and embrace originality (and you can find them at art festivals!)

https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/09/17/can-murder-be-moral-48996

Do I agree? Survey says… 💯

Our civilization grew faster than our primate brains. Well, most of us.

Option 1 - Figure out how to transfer our consciousness to another (more positive) reality. https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-consciousness-neuroscience-29476/

Option 2 - Lets start that orgy! https://psychologyfor.com/what-is-an-orgy-8-tips-to-practice-it-successfully-and-safely/

I would recommend going to some local art faires, it will soothe your anxiety about the future (of art). I bought a small oil-on-canvas painting of a sailboat at sunset from a young artist at a recent art faire, who was thrilled to talk about art and even tried to give me the painting for free. Creating art by hand is soul-satisfying, and rest assured, my friend, it will never be replaced my AI.

True, but consider the Electoral College:

I heard they survived the KT extinction event because 65,000,000 BC was a leap year 🐸

If you’re prescribed stimulants, you should feel the loss of (over) appetite the very first day. If you’re using food for emotional comfort or as a coping mechanism, stimulants may actually increase your appetite. I used food for comfort/coping and boredom so I had to stop stimulants while I dealt with deep-buried emotional trauma. But even a decade later, if I have a really stressful week at work, no stimulant medication is going to prevent me from (wanting to) devouring a tub of ice cream over the weekend. P.S. if you have even a little bit of OCD, you can exploit that to keep yourself focused and engaged between meals.

I was born in the top 3 empoverished states, I live in another top 3, and whaddya know, my employer is based in the third. If I came across this article in the wild, I’d check the privacy settings on my browser thinking it’s a AI-generated Farticle (Fake Article) created from my own metadata. Unreal. But yet, it’s true. Last week I couldn’t pay for my 1 measly city college class, so I put it on the only credit card that isn’t maxed out. Most days I feel like that rubber toy from the 80’s Stretch Armstrong. Big smile and streeeeetch those finances!