Wish I had the exact number (my brain likes to count everything), but I’ve done like 100 flip turns at the pool this year. Back in high school I’d do over 100 a day. I’ve been telling myself for a decade “this is the year I’ll do flip turns every lap by x-date”, of course I set off this year with the same lie. And of course I’m not doing them on every lap, but at one point I did my first in over 20 years, and then I did a couple in a row, and then I realized how much less time I have to focus on such a trivial thing, but it was the act of exercising itself that I was benefiting from, not perfectly recreating who I was half a lifetime ago.

I’ve kept going to the pool this year, and I’ve improved myself by doing that, I’m not going to be as fast or skilled or fluid as I used to be, I’m probably never going to flip turn every turn again, but I’m not going to get discouraged by not meeting my own goals that I’d set while looking in a rose tinted mirror.

Could also phrase it as “swam over 100 km (really a bit impressive amount of distance, 1.5-2.5 km per day one of two days a week) listening to the same 4"the dollop”, “god awful movies” “citation needed” and “no such thing as a fish” episodes on repeat (because I kept forgetting to bring my swim headphones and their transfer cable to the same place at the same time)

Analytical chemist.

Educated in Marine biology, started work on the dock that developed my ability to handle bizarre hours and self motivation, used the bizarre hours to get a harvest gig in wine making cellar work where I learned to grind, used my grind and bizarre hours to do some commercial electrical installation, then did some electric meter reading where I learned the importance of attention to detail, used all of the above skills to become a winery lab technician where I got experience working with high functioning lab equipment, wanted to get away from wine so now I’m a chemist.

Life is good. I’ve been more underpaid at every step of the way, but I feel that’s allowed me to function with less stress at every step of the path.

What wouldn’t be?

Something as simple as flipping on a device with a light switch would seen like witchcraft.

Want to know what time it is in the dark of the morning? reliable time keeping might be possible in a house, but certainly not in a bedroom, and certainly not millisecond-accurate or observable in the dark.

I think the only thing they wouldn’t be impressed with is alcohol consumption, but even then we have a variety, production scale and safety level they couldn’t fathom.

And the capitalist overlords will readily trot out these points and claim we live like nobility from the 1600s while sapping us of our every free moment and waking thought. Forgive my turning this political

Thanks!

I think that’s only as correct as you narrow your lense to make it.

Children incur many more expenses.

Adding an adult only increases the total 60$, adding children increases it 190$, obviously children are more expensive.

I applaud the stubbornness, I hope this was a long term thing and not an “oh I just found out I’m allergic and now I’m dead” the latter would be tragic, the former commendable (no not that, still tragic I suppose) in an incredibly stupid way.

Didn’t they hear, maga is make Argentina great again…

I stopped building my own PCs over a decade ago because I was barely getting the parts at the same rate they would’ve come in a pre-built, ram was always hard to get, good deals “sold out” so quickly, and if a part goes bad it’s easier to take it to a warranty repair than it is for me to fight with the vendors myself.

My main machines recently have been low power laptops, my steam deck, and my phone, using GeForce now has allowed me to play most of my games on shit hardware, and my 10 year old games run just fine (mostly) on my 5 year old laptop.

Add another year.

Any educated guesses, or layman guesses, about the price?

My layman guess is 600-800, the low price being same price as the top end steam deck on release

The VR headset is going to be standalone??

That’s pretty nuts right?

The Trump 2 week chicken taco timeline.

He started with “solving crime in Chicago in 1 day”

Then they had a Medicare plan just a week away, but he learned that that was too close for the right wing spin machine.

1 things is for sure: The money isn’t coming back to the consumer. If they have to return any funds it’s our taxes that are going up to pay for it.

We get shafted from both ends.

And it should be as clear as constitutional crystal that it wasn’t legal to begin with.

Never bought into it, would never say I liked it, I’m not adverse to it, or at least I wasn’t until the USA government decided it had to be integrated into all policy making decisions.

Also I don’t feel we’ve reached the level of “intelligence” , there’s a lot of tricks that it can do, and it has vast databases to pull from, but it’s not hitting me as intelligent, and the more I read of it’s discoveries" the more convinced I am of my idea. The people using it are intelligent, and are coming up with neat ideas using it as a tool, but the models itself aren’t coming up with anything without human coaxing.

I’ve heard it’s much better to use ai as an editor regarding things you already know, than it is to trust ai to fill in the gaps of your knowledge.

Then in walked the monkey with a couple funky friends?

That’s not how the bar works.

Although it might be in the future if some states (California) can’t get their bar finances together.

I’m pretty sure that’s how a lot of YouTube game previewers sell themselves to publishers. “Look how badly I can repeatedly play games, I’ll do a 1 off and never bother to learn any of the mechanics, and my viewers will need to purchase it themselves to see how it’s actually ‘meant to be played’”

I got suckered 3 or 4 times by northernlion back in the day before I caught on.

QTE, especially when they’re randomly inserted into an otherwise action/skill based game.

That too. But current events aren’t getting the magtards riled up like the rumored events that were taking place under Mr tan suit Dijon terrorist.

They were building camps on land stolen from the states with the backing of large corporations…