What opportunities that you’ve passed up do you regret passing?
You know, I think that reusing this one is something that looked interesting when I was trying to fill things out in preparation for this month. I did this recently. I guess I can see the initial appeal. There’s so many permutations I would be able to throw out in the future.
Should I have done that, professionally? Um.
Should I have asked her out? Um. Yeah, she’s still physically-attractive all these years later, but her social media presence says she’s absolutely nuts.
Was I not supposed to say that? No, and there will be a long session with HR explaining how you were wrong, and why your privilege made you wrong.
Should I have listened to…and bought that house that’s in a place where I don’t really want to be? Probably not; I still don’t really want to be there, though the proliferation of ride-sharing services has opened up all sorts of places that would have previously been unthinkable. Twenty years ago, trying to do anything in South Landmass without a car would have been completely unthinkable.
Should I have bought Bitcoin when it was cheaper? Maybe? But, also, maybe the early folks who spent fourteen BTC on a Papa John’s Pizza shouldn’t have done that.
I think I need to be better about imagining possibilities, and the incredible things that would happen with anything. Stop looking at all the bad things that could happen, and think about the good things that could happen.
I should make it a priority to catch back up with this podcast recommendation that has me listening to stuff on Edison. Certainly not one of my favorite people, but I think he did accomplish a lot when he was focused on the possible instead of the gruesome outlying circumstances.
Alternating current? DC is easier to understand, more predictable in small distances, and would you look at what AC can do to this convict?
Tangent related to alternating current. TheFP’s had a comment on its Front Page this morning that accused “right-wing” outlets of “gaslighting” by refusing to have Nick Fuentes on.
So giving something the ignorance it so richly deserves is gaslighting. Got it. VOTE BLUE!!1! Please don’t STFW and find those images of The Phelps Family as al Gore delegates at the 1988 DNC. History didn’t start until sometime in 2000.
I also think “gaslighting” is really an overused catchphrase, now. Totes-didn’t-used-to-do-evil-co’s definition — Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation where a person makes someone else doubt their own reality, perceptions, and sanity. This can include outright lying, denying events, trivializing feelings, and shifting blame to make the victim feel confused, anxious, and dependent. It is a serious type of emotional abuse that often isolates the victim from friends and family.
Okay. With the zero people reading this on the same page, ignoring someone fringe fits right into that, right? Totally.
But back to the news of the day. Both houses of Congress have voted to release all of the Epstein files. OrangeManBad signed the bill. What happens now? It goes to DoJ, where some things are redacted, and it ends up looking really bad for some people, yet fails to justify public execution of the forever target.
*Looks away to see if there was something else I had in the drafts that might be interesting.*
Not really.
I ask Grok yesterday to tell me as much as it could about me by reading this site. I’d put the accuracy at about 80%, ballparking. There’s a lot here missing, but read the site tagline.
Wonder what other AI engines would do. Also wonder what the question did to my site traffic….
More tomorrow. I want another cup of coffee.