My entire business is pretty much run by feels. I often get asked why I don’t do X, Y, and Z like everyone else, and the answer is usually that I didn’t feel like it.

Doesn’t hurt the revenue - or maybe it does - I wouldn’t know.

That text lacks pretty much every single telltale sign of an LLM, starting with punctuation.

Breakup after a 9 year relationship.

I recommend checking out Vancouver Carpenter on YouTube. Everything I know about plastering I’ve learned from that guy though it’s perhaps a bit more focused on plastering over drywall seams.

Steel seems overkill here, I’d honestly just replace that with an NTR-A grade pressure-treated wooden post. Make sure to put the factory-cut end into the ground or treat it with some tar-like wood preservative. Don’t use anything water-based as it won’t absorb into the already wet lumber.

On the top I’d just use angle brackets since those aren’t bearing any load - they’re just keeping it in place. On the bottom I’d bury a few concrete patio slabs into the ground and maybe use some kind of steel post feet to anchor it down.

I like my mind and I wouldn’t want to alter it with medication any more than I already do. I don’t want to be normal whatever that means. I’m rather disliked for who I am than liked for who I’m not.

It’s more of a fire hazard than an ethical issue.

I live in southern Finland and we’re just coming to that part of the year right now. Though it’s not 24 hours of daylight exactly but rather a sunset that turns into a sunrise without night in between.

I need to start coming up with new things because I’ve pretty much achieved everything else already.

Perhaps a second property with plenty of forest as my private playground.

Edit: oh yeah, magic mushrooms

We’re all diagnosed with terminal illness.

Europeans are leaving WhatsApp by the dozens!

The meme is already calling men simple, but you absolutely still have to perform the required mental gymnastics to find a sexist angle to criticize here?

Suomi mainittu

Being well-informed doesn’t require immersing yourself in an endless stream of outrage, nor does stepping back from that mean you’re turning a blind eye to anything.

There’s a difference between ignoring reality and choosing how and when to engage with it. Most of what passes for political content online isn’t a sober presentation of facts or ideas - it’s performance, manufactured outrage, and algorithm-driven noise. If someone wants to stay sane and focus on things they can actually influence in their immediate life, I don’t see that as sticking their head in the sand. I see it as setting healhy boundaries in an environment that’s often designed to provoke rather than inform.

People aren’t morally obligated to be constantly exposed to negativity just to prove they care. In fact, thoughtful action tends to come from those who can step back from the noise and think clearly, not from those who are perpetually consumed by it.

Just wanted to express my wish for people to include this person’s name in the title so it gets blocked by my content filters.

Well even that’s not untypical. The standard way to do this is to just have a 110mm sewer pipe sticking from the floor. You then cut it to a floor level and install the toilet on top of it. The difference is that in the US they use this “wax seal” which is a complete mystery for me. Here we just take an adapter that’s pushed to the inside of the sewer pipe and then the toilet is lowered on top of that one. Water would need to climb uphill past the seals in order to leak.

We don’t use “wax rings” here. Leak from the sewer connection is virtually impossible. I’ve been doing plumbing for 15 years and I’ve never seen or heard it happen.

The toilet is attached to the floor with adhesive and then it’s made pretty by caulking the seam. In some apartment buildings they want a little gap left into the adhesive and caulking to let out any water that might get under there when washing the space but this is rare and is almost never done.

We don’t even have a good definition for what “understanding” actually means. It’s like the word “intelligence” - there are dozens of dictionary definitions.

I find it pretty ridiculous to dismiss a long, well-thought-out piece of writing in its entirety just because one word was used in a way you don’t like. Even if you disagree with how they used the term, you most likely still understand what they meant by it. LLMs aren’t generally intelligent, but they’re also not as dumb as people make them out to be. There’s clearly real information processing happening in the background that produces accurate answers way more often than pure chance would allow.

Is $1000 rent supposed to be low? My mortage is half of that.

Are you my house’s previous owner? When I had to take off the door hinges I needed to use a flathead bit, PH2 and PZ2 bit, Torx 25 bit, a 8mm socket and they even put one nail in there too.