Also not a vegetarian and i agree 100% with your 3rd point. Cooking good vegetarian food requires more skill - to me, meat is like a cheat code for flavour. In my opinion, Indian cuisine offers some of the tastiest veg dishes because they are not adaptations of meat dishes, but their own thing entirely.
When I was being encouraged to use Copilot at work, MS made it clear that their product was intended for "entertainment purposes only." I was sooooooooooo entertained.
Imagine how entertaining it would be to get medical advice from an LLM instead of advice on how to do the job I did just fine for 10 years before LLMs were invented. Very, very entertaining.
I upvoted this comment even though i have experimented with mushrooms extensively. i used to think they were fun. i still do, but they are also sacred and occasionally terrifying. there are real health risks.
i would never tell someone, ‘don’t’. However, i would say, ‘don’t unless you have a reason’. i treat shrooms like prescription drugs now.
Ok, so i was treated really bad in school. I know what the other kids did to me was fucked up but years of mistreatment alters your self-perception. I had never managed to shake the idea that i deserved what i got.
One time i did so many mushrooms that i just lay gibbering on the couch, staring at the ceiling. Wave after wave of dancing mandalas erupted from the bare drywall. This gave way to a million images that flashed one after another and seemed to change faster than the eye can possibly perceive; of course, i was not seeing with my eyes. It was such an incredible experience i later searched the Internet for a word to describe it (that word is phantasmagoria).
Among the images were recognizable glimpses of places i had been, toys that i had forgotten i had ever owned, scenes i had only witnessed in dreams…
The visions were composed in the way abstract paintings might be: occasionally symmetrical, always balanced, and delightful to behold. i am not embarrassed to admit that i cried, it was so beautiful. Like, i am choking up right now just remembering.
Here is my big realization: the visions did not come from the mushrooms! The mushrooms were just the key. The visions were me - my brain, displayed in gorgeous tableaux for my viewing pleasure.
I got some, but my parents wouldn’t buy me junk food or sugary cereal. I had sweets on special occasions or at other people’s houses.
My sweet consumption is still pretty low, but not zero. I over-indulged a bit in my early twenties but i got over it. I have internalized their lessons and am now teaching my kids the same.
Besides the other replies, Iran has achieved a huge PR coup by revealing that the US is a paper tiger. The popularity of the US among western countries has never been lower because Trump’s Blunder pooched the global economy. Former allies are walking away from economic and military cooperation with the US.
Additionally, the US has to pay Iran 300B in war reparations as part of their surrender. The iranian regime will probably divert those funds to entrench their power.
It is backfiring, though. Support for Israel is plummeting globally. Accusations of antisemitism are meaningless now because Israel changed the meaning of the word: an antisemite is just a person who criticizes Israeli foreign policy.
The job application process is a deliberate humiliation ritual. That's why they make you post your resume AND copy-paste the contents into little boxes: they want to gauge your level of sycophancy.
Also not a vegetarian and i agree 100% with your 3rd point. Cooking good vegetarian food requires more skill - to me, meat is like a cheat code for flavour. In my opinion, Indian cuisine offers some of the tastiest veg dishes because they are not adaptations of meat dishes, but their own thing entirely.