Jon

Nice photo

I’m no business owner, so maybe there’s a good reason to not do this…

I’d make the price either free or discounted based on how much money is spent in the store.

That’d be an easy way to steal customers from competitors.

I think once businesses catch on to the fact that people waiting for a car to charge on a level 3 charger are going to spend more time in their store, they’ll start installing more chargers in their parking lots.

I think normalized selfishness makes society volatile

My dog, Kona, lying on a chair, with a brown and tan coloured sarape blanket purchased at a market in Tulum, Mexico.

Here’s my dog, tolerating my antics

#dogs #photography

Oh, I wasn’t trying to suggest any judgement on your level of compassion.

I think it matters a lot that you had even thought to ask the question in the first place!

Echoing other comments, and from my personal experience, it’s implanted beliefs while the brain is vulnerable to accepting beliefs without consideration (often during childhood).

Then afterwards it’s cognitive biases that keep them in place to maintain the worldview.

Is the same societal structure that allows the arts to flourish also the societal structure that’s exploitable by the parasitic rich class?

I think the olympics semifinal setup is a bit off.

The difference between a silver and a bronze is just what order they took their loss in.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

People are like fish with their expenses.

They’ll grow to fit the tank they live in.

This is so true

TIL: Playing softy (piano) has some *harmonic* advantages over playing loudly (forte) on acoustic pianos because strings get slightly pitched up when they’re first struck.

Freshly tuned piano

I learned how to tune my own piano and it’s my new favourite thing to tinker with

🤣🤣🤣

*them

Came here to say this last bit of the post.

A lot of times the great accomplishment of a bad person was not informed by or affected by the bad sides of that person.

Acknowledging the work shouldn’t imply we want to be just like the in every way.

Is temperature ultimately in relation to the local reference frame?

I think that “I don’t know” is better than settling for an explanation that’s full of holes.

“Yeah! We have a piano, it’s in the common room!”

The piano:

I have never thought about if my sphincter is “water tight”.

I imagine so? But what if? A sign like this really makes you question reality

Wooo, thanks! This is right up my alley

Putting on a hoodie backwards by accident is somewhat alarming if the hood is up

Is there some mathematical principle behind why my wired headphones are almost always tangled when I take them out?

Citation:
Interview with Scott Shapiro on the Mindscape Podcast with Sean Carrol (@seanmcarroll.bsky.social) from May 2023 where Scott is speaking of the history of computer viruses.

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...

Will the AI replacement of human coders lead to more computer viruses?

To paraphrase Scott Shapiro:
‘An over abundance of good coders without a job to go to led to a big increase in computer viruses in the 90s.’

#mindscapepodcast

Don’t forget to turn off your camera before you lean into it either

Text is my best medium for communication. It gives me the extra time to think through how I’m wording things, since I’m not quick on my feet.

Oh, I’d follow because I always enjoy your insights… but I had never got into TikTok, so I can’t see me using a similar platform

Maybe I’ll download it and follow you in case I change my mind down the road.