u/Objective_Singer_404

My Background

I have a degree in Communications with a minor in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.

I also have certificates in social media marketing and data analytics from Google.

I used to drive Uber, but over the last couple of years, it has not been profitable. It destroyed my last vehicle, and I've had to stop doing it because the pay isn't enough to cover the repairs.

I also do user testing, and I've been doing that for about 10 years. I've made about a thousand bucks.

I've been trying to get into freelance consulting for user experience, and I've put myself out there quite a bit. I've almost landed several contracts that would have paid about $150,000 a year, and I've almost had several businesses hire me to help consult them with their websites, but then they just end up ghosting me.

We've been pretty close to signing a contract, and then around the time they tell me they're going to send over the contract, they just disappear. Or around the time I send over the contract to them, they never reply, often after months or weeks of working together and building a business plan for them.

It's hard to start a business online. The reality is most clients will fall through when it comes down to signing a contract that would guarantee payment. Most people don't really want to pay for help. What they want is low-cost help, which they can get from India for $5 an hour. The reality is that's the biggest obstacle to making it in the United States. That, and artificial intelligence.

About four years ago, I had a sit-down with a CEO. I got to meet a CEO of a software engineering company who I was hoping would hire me. We went out to lunch, and I was really excited. He described to me his business and how it works, and at the end of the conversation, I asked him for a job.

He laughed and said he couldn't pay me enough money for it to be legal. I looked at him in confusion, and he said he paid his software engineers less than people make at McDonald's in the United States. I was surprised, and he said he hires the best people in India for $20,000 a year.

I've realized this is a huge obstacle. I realize that that's the major obstacle to people making it in this country: cheap overseas labor.

The second one is AI. Simply put, AI is becoming a replacement for freelance labor that's killing a lot of freelance jobs. You can upload pictures of your website, and you can upload pictures of your app, and it will give you real feedback based on its understanding of user experience. It will often give you a plan on how to change it to optimize it. It will even write new lines of code if you upload your repositories.

And it will do that for almost nothing, and it will do it faster than a person can. That's a reality.

It's a horrible reality. Most people don't understand how many jobs are being lost right now, but I'm not here to whine and complain about AI. I am here to say that I need to figure something out.

I've been thinking about going to graduate school for biomechanical engineering,

The University of Washington has an online pharmaceutical engineering program that might be useful in getting involved in healthcare. I'm considering an online engineering degree but I know I'd have to take some classes at community college first. I don't have a background biology except my general education

but that would take a lot of schooling, and I'm 41. Frankly, I'm pretty tired at this age. I need to figure out a plan to really take off and become successful because this sucks.

Please Prepare for El Niño 🌧️🚐

El Niño is coming, and it could be extremely challenging for van lifers on the West Coast.

I don't want to alarm anybody, but we do need to talk about it. I remember in 2023, during the huge storm that hit the West Coast and caused massive flooding, my van flooded. At one point, it felt more like I was sailing through the streets of California than driving through them.

I still can't believe I allowed myself to drive through that. I remember seeing flooded fields, flooded parking lots, and water everywhere. It was insane.

There is a chance this could be much worse. Look, we need water, and I'm 100% for the rain, but we also have to prepare for it as van lifers.

So, what's your plan?

First and foremost, get your windows fixed if you have any cracks. Take some silicone sealant and go over any areas of your van that could allow water to get through the frame. Make sure any ports, fittings, or areas where your solar panels allow water to enter are properly sealed.

I would recommend preparing now. I don't think this is going to be a very cold winter, which is great. Cold winters are always the worst. But I do think it could be a very wet winter, and in many ways, that can be extremely dangerous.

I remember waking up in the middle of the night and seeing the water coming up over my tires. I realized I had to get the hell out of there.

It's important to prepare for this. You don't want your van to be destroyed. You need to develop good habits, like parking your van on higher ground and turning your tires toward the curb so your van is less likely to get washed away.

You also need to have a good eye for places that won't get washed away but also won't become submerged. You don't want to end up sliding down a hill and into another vehicle.

So, what are some of the ways you're preparing?

There's nothing scary about this. Just be smart. Especially if you're elderly or physically unable to push your van out of a ditch, you need to prepare now.

I suggest networking with local van lifers and creating mutual aid networks that can help your van life community respond to emergencies.

And there's no shame in going to a shelter. Some areas will have flood shelters, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with using them if that's what you need to do to stay safe.

Preparation and relocation are always the smartest options. Work with mutual aid networks, and keep building your own network of people who can help each other.

I understand that for people who have jobs or are expecting stability, this could be extremely challenging. That's why I don't think you should wait until the weather gets bad to prepare.

Do your research. Find places that are likely to be safe, know where you can relocate, and always watch the weather.

We can't control the weather, but we can control how prepared we are.

Let's look out for each other, stay connected, and make sure we're ready for whatever this winter brings. 🚐❤️🌧️

What are you doing to prepare for El Niño?

STDS AND S3X WORK AT THE BURN, A CONVERSATION THAT MUST HAPPEN TO SAVE LIVES

This is a story about vaccines, Stds and S3x Work that I hope everybody can read. The most impactful experience with vaccines I have ever had happened when I was 27, and I was deeply entrenched in the Burning Man community across Nevada City, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco.

One of my friends, a college professor in Santa Cruz, was financially very well off and always had beautiful girlfriends around him.

I noticed during a gathering that one of them started looking a little pale. They came over to visit my house, and I remember asking her if she was okay.

She told me she was anemic, but that she would be fine.

About a week later, she collapsed in his bathroom. He rushed her to the hospital. It was revealed that she had Hepatitis B, that she was not vaccinated, and that she was a sex worker.

I did not know it at the time, but he paid women who were escorts to live with him. I have no judgment about this.

This woman was widely known in the Burning Man community as an escort and was highly regarded as a role model. I was extremely surprised, and I remember talking to my friend and hearing his voice shake.

It turned out that she had known she was Hepatitis B positive for about seven years and chose not to reveal it to any of her clients.

It also turned out that other women knew about her diagnosis and had encouraged her not to reveal her status. They urged her to use herbs as a treatment instead of modern medicine, which could have saved her life and prevented transmission to others.

The Hepatitis B had completely destroyed her organs to the point where she could not receive organ donations. She died at the hospital within a month.

I remember that people in the Burning Man community who were involved in sex work heavily suppressed this information. They threatened people who wanted to speak out about her status because they wanted the work to continue. It was how a lot of women made their living, and they did not want anyone to know there was a risk of an outbreak, fearing clients would panic and stop hiring sex workers.

I believed there needed to be a major community discussion about this, but others made it very clear that was not going to happen.

Here is the truth: herbs and energy work cannot stop you from getting Hepatitis or prevent you from transmitting it to others. There is no evidence that this is possible. Even some very advanced spiritual teachers have passed HIV to their students.

I understand why people might be skeptical of newer vaccines, and I am not here to debate that, but many of these vaccines have been available for over twenty years and we know they are safe. We also know that if you are a sex worker and you are vaccinated, you are far more likely to protect your clients and live to old age rather than die in a hospital bed while your body wears away.

I am horrified to see so many sex workers who are opposed to vaccines. I am pro sex work. I believe it should be completely legalized and certified. I believe s3x workers should be required to get tested regularly for STIs, and I believe they should be required to be vaccinated against preventable diseases, namely Hepatitis and HPV.

There is literally no reason not to receive these vaccinations. They prevent death and help ensure you do not pass these infections to people who might be married or intimate with others. They protect you, your clients, and the community.

If you do not want to get vaccinated because it is your body, I understand that perspective. However, when you are selling your body, it is no longer just about you because you are putting other people at risk. Condoms break. Vaccinations are the most surefire way to protect your health and the health of others.

I assure you that the vaccine is far less dangerous than the diseases you can contract. Please stop spreading ignorance.

I have been thinking a lot about the harmful effects of modern technology and how much it has changed the way we relate to one another. It feels like we need something different. We need Lo-Fi Zones, low-tech places where people can just be people. No smartphones. Just people walking around, talking, and meeting strangers until 2:00 a.m.

I feel like we desperately need spaces like this.

I want some of that older energy back, whether it is the 1980s vibe, old-school tech, or even the early 2000s with MP3 players and more face-to-face interaction. I want places where people are actually present with one another instead of being absorbed in their screens.

When I look at the modern world, I see people getting more disconnected even while they are more connected than ever online. I think we need a way to break out of that.

I know technology may also be the best way to build this kind of project at first, so I want to find people through Facebook groups, Reddit communities, and other social spaces who would be willing to help build and advocate for Lo-Fi Zones. These would be places where people can reconnect in real life and feel human again.

I imagine spaces that feel alive and social. Maybe arcades, jukeboxes, music, books, games, and places to hang out. But no smartphones, no constant surveillance, and no cameras everywhere. When you enter, you leave the digital noise behind and just be present.

That is the kind of movement I want to help create.

If somebody wants to create a Facebook group or reddit group for Lo-Fi zones across the United States we can begin a movement! We need to start creating a network of Lo-Fi AI free smart technology free movements.

I'm not anti-technology and I'm not pushing anti-technology but there needs to be places where we get brakes and that's what I'm trying to propose!

So I wonder does the Monroe institute deal with trauma recovery or is it already interwoven within the gateway tapes or is it part of another series that they did?

Have any of you done the human Plus series?

What about the positive mindset series?

Yeah I'm going to keep this post short but I'll say this some of my friends were absolute genius coders are totally unemployed right now and that's cuz they're really hard to get along with. They're geniuses they are some of the best coders I've ever met and they can't find a effing job.

You have to understand back in the 2000s and the early 2010s there still weren't a whole lot of people of computer science degrees and automation was not particularly advanced so companies would hire you even if you were an a-hole because they desperately needed coders. I mean they literally paid for coding camps to train people they were desperate.

But then something happened first of all millions of people graduated with computer science degrees and then automation tools pretty much automated the basic low-level coding, I don't mean low-level like hardware I mean low level as in the labor of coding.

So now they don't really need a whole lot of people but they need really really good people but there are enough of them where if they don't like you they don't have to hire you so there are two things you should

If you're going to be a politically active person that's cool make sure that you have anonymous social medias that can't be traced back to you so that way they can't blacklist you for the things you say online. I am a super progressive hardcore anarchist I sure as hell don't say that on my normal social media.

Same thing if you're a crazy conservative some of my friends are very very pro Israel and guess what they can't find jobs why because companies don't want to hire people if it's going to cause drama.

The next thing is be nice.

I'm not f****** kidding be nice and create a lot of friends friends get jobs friends get you jobs! Basically friends you need them.

Yeah it sucks computer science used to be the thing where you could be totally autistic and have a great life and get a hot girl it's not like that anymore. Things have changed now you're going to be homeless unless you learn how to make friends

This sucks but y'all need to hear it. Sorry

Definitely had some weird parts they kind of had a lot of poison ivy type people, in this case Rose and Thorn and Riddler type people but it's not clear that they're actually supposed to be those characters, I kind of think that it's more like these villains have spirits and we'll see different incarnations of them.

Otherwise they literally just killed off most of Batman's rogue gallery 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The two last episodes were crazy the whole like bane zombie serum that made everybody go crazy and start biting people 🤣🤣🤣🤣

My only complaint is there were only 10 episodes and it was kind of short.

I hope we get a third season. It was good but I would like to see where this world goes from here

Honestly it's been extremely rough and it doesn't look like it's going to get any better I hope that changes.

But in general things change for the better when we make them change for the better, things always change but it's not guaranteed and rarely will it become better unless you decide to do it yourself.

I think in order to have an honest conversation we have to lay out some basics sociology.

This is always been the weakness of cs majors they never thought they needed to look around they thought they could only look at the screen. So I hope to open your eyes as my ethics of engineering professor did to me in college.

look here's the reality of situation college is for the most part about getting a job depending on what college you go to that job is supposed to be different and unfortunately unless you're doing a stem degree you're heavily judged by which college you went to in fact even if you have a stem degree you're still a judge. It basically goes out like

Community colleges are basically designed for retraining of workers and low tier employment.

State colleges are for basic managers and you're kind of expected to operate in that role.

UCs or elite public institutions are for upper class management or some level of executive

Ivy League schools which is above that are basically designed for CEOs who are very high level executives.

Unfortunately colleges in this nation are based on a class system.

Even if you have a stem degree unfortunately falls in one of those categories now with extensive experience you can rise yourself above but the reality is is for the most part people do not want to intermingle between social classes.

We have a caste system in america. People don't want to admit it but we totally do.

Here's the problem the upper classes have seen that more and more people are going to college and they decided they don't want to share. So they've decided to abandon the rest of us and unfortunately that means that people are being pushed down the ladder and pushed off the ladder.

I don't think this is really as much about the economy is it is about gaining control of society.

I say this largely based off of an Elon musk post during covid where he said that workers were attaining too much power and a massive layoff. Would be necessary to break the wheel of the American worker in order to renegotiate social contracts in favor of the wealthy..

Donald Trump's family have commented that they've supported this and in fact this is exactly what we're seeing. Is artificial intelligence taking a place in this yes right now it's happening more in India but it is coming to the United States.

I think unfortunately mythos5 and the new elite models demonstrate that in fact AI will become very capable and I think that it will lead to a massive reduction of necessary workers meaning that the jobs will become more competitive there will be less need for managers and in fact jobs will essentially condense into AI supervisor roles meaning that you won't need a system like the previous system which function like this

Intern, junior level employee, senior level employee, project manager, supervisor, manager, executive manager, executive, CEO.

What we're starting to see is that system consolidating into simply AI supervisor, executive, CEO.

That's exactly how it's meant to be they're trying to take all the lower positions and consolidate them.

What this means as many people who work very hard for the degrees are find themselves fighting amongst each other instead of unionizing and fighting at the top unfortunately most of us turn on each other.

The big scam about the American caste system is that we think we're better than each other so we topple over each other meaning that we're willing to throw each other under the bus to please the wealthy person above us instead of working together to bargain for each other.

This is why college graduates are suffering so much the other is I believe college graduates are being intentionally targeted particularly from higher and institutions because they're more likely to fight back there's been a lot of animosity from the wealthy towards elite universities such as UC Berkeley or UCLA or UC Davis because on one hand they make you think you're better than everybody else which is dangerous and something that we should all abandon but on the other hand they teach us that we should fight against the ivy league people above us because we are the same class as them.

We are told to unionize with each other and to form partnerships we are told because our numbers are greater we have more bargaining power but we're not necessarily made to feel apathy for the people beneath us which has allowed the wealthy to turn the poor against us and to break down our numbers so we cannot challenge the wealthy.

I am not defending the UCS or likewise institutions across the country only stating facts. Or at least my interpretation of the facts.

I really think it's time to abandon classism and to work together for a real resistance because the reality is things aren't going to get better unless we make them better.

That's the honest truth people don't want to tell you about it doesn't matter how much you learn what you go to school for or so forth if you're seen as a threat you will be unemployed.

They literally have massive surveillance programs that are going over your social media accounts seeing if you oppose the wealthy and if you do your blacklisted this is the honest truth. You don't like it fight back, fight back against surveillance start using things like Lemmy or Mastodon and unionize. The power has always been ours. Classism inhibits that power.

I'm wondering if Skyrim can be turned into the fantasy world simulator I've always wanted through mods.

What I'm looking for is not just better graphics or more quests. I want a living, evolving world that feels like it exists independently of the player.

Ideally, I'd like to play as a high elf or wood elf, preferably an elven ranger, in a first person only playthrough.

These are the kinds of features I'm hoping to achieve:

* A world that continues to evolve whether I'm present or not.

* NPCs with meaningful daily lives, jobs, goals, and interactions.

* Dynamic faction politics, alliances, and rivalries.

* Wars that actually change the map, where cities or forts can be conquered and remain under new control.

* Large battles with lasting consequences.

* Orcs, monsters, bandits, and other threats that naturally roam the world instead of only appearing for scripted quests.

* A believable economy where trade, resources, and settlements evolve over time.

* The ability to simply be an elven ranger instead of the Dragonborn, hunting monsters, scouting, helping towns, or joining larger conflicts.

* No heavy focus on being the chosen hero. I want to feel like I'm just another person living in the world.

* As much immersion as possible in first person.

I know Skyrim wasn't originally designed for this, but the modding community has done some incredible things over the years.

Is it possible to get reasonably close to this experience with existing mods? If so, what combination of mods would you recommend? I'm completely fine with installing a large mod list if that's what it takes.

I've been searching for years and I'm starting to wonder if this game even exists.

I'm looking for a fantasy game that feels more like a living world simulator than a traditional RPG.

Here's what I'm hoping to find:

* First person only. I want to feel like I'm actually living in the world.

* A massive seamless open world.

* Play as a high elf, wood elf, or forest elf, preferably an elven ranger.

* A world that keeps evolving whether I'm there or not.

* NPCs that have real schedules, goals, and jobs instead of just standing around waiting for the player.

* Kingdoms with real politics, diplomacy, alliances, betrayals, and wars.

* Battles that have permanent consequences. If a city falls, it stays conquered until someone retakes it.

* Orcs, monsters, and other fantasy creatures that exist naturally in the world instead of only spawning for quests.

* The ability to join an army, scout ahead as a ranger, command troops later in the game, or simply remain an ordinary soldier.

* No "chosen one" story. I want to be just another person living in a dynamic fantasy world.

* Ideally the economy, trade routes, and faction strength all change over time.

I'm completely fine with heavy modding. It can be Skyrim, Bannerlord, or some obscure indie game with 200 mods. It doesn't matter as long as it creates the experience above.

The closest things I've found are modded Bannerlord, Kenshi, and Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode, but none of them quite capture everything I'm looking for, especially the first person immersion.

Does anything like this actually exist, even if it's an obscure mod or total conversion? Or are we still waiting for someone to build the ultimate fantasy world simulator?

First I would like to give a little bit of background.

I've participated in both Tibetan Buddhism and spiritualism and a lot of Taoist spirituality.

I've had some very interesting experiences and one of the reasons why I decided to start doing the gateway tapes is it's a very structured program designed to teach people basically a series of skills to explore the astral and inner realities safety.

That being said I've had some pretty interesting experiences that I would like to share.

My explorations in Taoism.

To describe this briefly I've experienced that it can open up your channels and enhance perception..

After practicing certain esoteric practices it allowed me to communicate with spirits by seeing them I call these regional entities. They are entities of the horizontal reality they are electric in essence.

They inhabit the energy of the Earth.

Astral projection deals with entities and spirits of the astral realms.

These are horizontal beings.

They are for the most part not from the earth.

They are upwards instead of the horizontal reality they are of the vertical reality.

Totally different and they come in many layers.

One of my teachers taught me that horizontal beings are essentially being that are of the old gods, they are of the earth and of this horizontal reality meaning other planets and even other galaxies but they are still from this layer of existence.

The vertical spirits are cosmic pains they exist in other layers of reality.

My personal take on this is the following.

For the most part early shamanistic religions deal with horizontal beings because they were concerned with things like the weather and studying this plane of existence including the Stars and the planets.

As the cosmic religion such as Christianity and other esoteric Hindu traditions and other traditions came about people started worshiping cosmic beings.

My teacher told me that when this happened the Christians labeled the horizontal beings that is the entities that inhabit the earth demons but the problem with this is that horizontal being that inhabit the earth are not demons in the cosmic sense which is far more devastating.

It's more that they might encourage you to cheat not because they want to create suffering but because they want more life, horizontal beings are the stewards of the planet so they like it when people procreate sometimes isn't always through moral means.

Cosmic beans on the other hand feed off of ideas and ideologies they require worship because they are in other dimensions they require anchors to interact with our reality, that means they must have a familiar that means that they must have somebody's mind to anchor them here so they can basically like radar detect a point in reality where they can then go to..

In my experiences with astral projection I found this to be true, the astral world is so vast that most of those beings won't ever visit this reality because they do not have physical bodies or even electrical bodies in the same way that horizontal entity like a ghost has they require a familiar to Target in order to be able to expand their awareness and their existence into our space.

So it's more like they have a presence but they don't have a physical existence or even an electrical body like a horizontal being has.

Their bodies are thought for him in nature, The astronomes do not have physicality that is a unique trait for our particular round while there might be other dimensions like this most of our astral encounters do not encounter other parallel physical worlds though I'm sure that's possible.

My own personal experience of knocking is for the most part knocking is horizontal beings trying to get our attention The inbetween being awakened being asleep allows for us to have a more open perception to the horizontal reality until we go deeper into the astral awareness aspects but this is only my personal understanding right now..

I do think we have to be careful because it is possible for cosmic beings to crossover but it usually requires certain things that I'm not going to talk about because I don't want people to attempt it because it's very very dangerous.

I've had a couple scary experiences that I don't want to talk about because I don't want to scare people but I will say this I dated a spirit medium and I decided to rent in a house where a bunch people had died because the rent was cheap it was a stupid decision.

While making love to my spirit medium girlfriend A rotting corpse appeared in the bedroom and attacked us it crawled into her body and I had to take her to a Buddhist temple in the middle of the night for an exorcism.

This is where I developed a true respect for Tibetan Buddhism. They do have certain real powerful gifts that I have not seen from many other lineages.

Their ability to deal with spirits is very unique with these practices are very secretive and the average Buddhist does not have this knowledge.

This is one of the reasons why I got into banishments I do believe it's important to create protected space before you go deep in a meditation I also think in body meditation and learning how to sense what's yours and what's not and learning how to discharge what's not is vital.

I am sharing this because I know many of us are also doing other practices and I was hoping to share this stuff openly I am wondering what your personal experience is are.

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Smallville has no consistency, it's more like Buffy or Archie were random stuff happens and somehow the next episode everybody forgets. You have to learn to separate the storyline episodes from like every other episode.. which is very nice. They all did that.

I swear to God this show always has some crazy s***, and literally the next episode everything's chill.

Seriously I would not have been surprised if they had had an episode where a squirrel was exposed to kryptonite and somehow became a hot chick with superpowers and then Clark had sex with it, literally the next episode that squirrel would just pass by Clark like nothing ever happened.

Seriously Martha or John would not be like yo Clark why did you bang that squirrel that was exposed to too much kryptonite nope everything would just be totally chill...

Like I remember this one episode Clark punched lex and like treated lex like s*** like literally lex was like the good person in that episode it was one of the red kryptonite episodes and somehow everything's chill right after...

Also Clark and lex were totally gay I mean they were seriously homo erotic and like then they just pretend like that stuff never happens or like none of Clark's friends are like hey why you hanging out with that rich dude alone all the time like nobody's like is he paying you for booty?

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Like isn't lex supposed to be in his mid twenties? Seriously he's hanging out with like Clark when he's supposed to be like 15? 🤣🤣🤣

And Clark's parents aren't like yo homie we know that you're an alien but like on Earth it's not normal for bold rich 20 somethings to hang out with 15-year-old dudes..

But like Clark is literally tripping at any other guy trying to hang out with Lana like why is he interested in you there's an ulterior motive like he's always super paranoid about other dudes but bro you hanging out with a guy in his mid 20s who's bald and Rich and you're supposed to be 15....... Maybe lex wanted the super booty

Even if Clark has superpowers it would have been nice if the show had a little bit more consistency. But it's very much a 90 show. Even if it came out in the early 2000s it still is the most 90s show ever

This show literally has no consistency

So some entities knock as you're entering focus 10, I've heard this knocking before and it's like they're trying to get your attention, what did the Monroe institute say about this?

Also I've noticed that when I have been doing wave one and I never went past Wave one because of this sometimes while doing it I'll have this experience of being in a room with a desk and then I see this door and windows and on the other side of that I can see an entity wanting to enter the room.

Has the Monroe institute ever spoken about these kind of things?

It's a really freaky experience and I started doing entity clearings from "talk to entities" spiritual group to kind of clear my space in order to not have creepy encounters.

So first and foremost I'm a grad student not an undergrad I already graduated with my bachelor's but I just want to say I feel bad for straight people today. Like it's hard to be straight you know like if you do the wrong thing or piss the wrong person off they could just f****** haunt you and ruin your life.

On one hand I think it's great that consent culture has become a thing on the other hand it does seem like some people are easily triggered and straight people are constantly tippy-toeing around.

Straight people have this deep fear of completely ruining their lives because they hit on the wrong person.

Now for the most part gay people don't do that s*** like gay people definitely gossip but like to other gay people they're not like for the most part going on social media I mean I guess some of them do but for the most part they're not like ruining each other's lives like it seems like the gay experiences a lot more fun.

Straight people ruined the straight experience, the best straight experience that ever existed was because the 70s and you can think the gay people for that, gay people made straight being fun disco was proof of that more straight people had sex during the seventies when they were acting gay then they do today because they shut down disco because they said it was too gay. But the truth is is that acting gay isn't really about being gay it's just about an enjoyment of life and a freedom of fear and straight people carry a lot of fear because religion tells them to.

That's why being gay is so much fun it's about the liberation of yourself from preconceived notions of morality that only hold back your enjoyment of life.

This is why I heavily envy gay people. They have fun and they don't hold back,.

And the worst part is the progressives amongst the straight people are the most judgmental like they shut people down they stalk people they are constantly calling each other names look I am 100% for consent culture but the same time there's become this fear culture of what if I hit on the wrong person but if you're not allowed to ask for permission then what's the point and how can you have consent culture then they said will you have to know when to ask for permission and it's like there's all these rules to being straight now and it's a b****.

Gay people have so much goddamn fun.

Case in points this story.

I like to swing dance, I remember this one time I was chilling and this dude tried to hug this one girl after swing dance and she turned around so quickly to slap the s*** out of him and all he did was try to hug her and she just started yelling at him in front of everyone no means no like she was acting like he was going to rape her but he wasn't, he was just going to give her a hug after a consensual dance.

This is why I like this scares me it's like okay you have to gauge your reaction like I understand that her boundaries felt violated but you have to gauge your reaction he wasn't trying to hurt you you overreacted and please just chill out.

My gay friends and I'm not talking about LGBT cuz that's not gay culture that's different my gay friends if some dude try to give them a hug after swing dance they were literally get on their knees and finish that guy off like they would top that homie off, like there's this like oh hey whatever let's have some fun and like straight people used to be that way but they ruined it.

LGBT culture is like this heavily political culture in college.

If you want to be around gay culture just go to the Castro it ain't LGBT it's gay and I mean San Francisco it's just gay.

Homies have no fear they f*** in Dolores Park.

It's awesome I actually envy gave people because I wish straight people were like that. I hate being straight I wish I could be gay but I'm not I'm just not in the butt stuff but seriously God damn it.

Gay people are like this if they're a grad student and they like the professor they just pound like they're not going to like concern themselves with politics of it they're just going to pound.

There's a beautiful professor that I absolutely adore but I know it could ruin her career if I hit on her.

We're both two consenting adults we shouldn't care.

But I understand the fear.

You better not act that way if you're straight cuz you know there's going to be a lawsuit. You better be on your best behavior if you're straight and the thing is is my personal politics are as long as you're too consenting adults it ain't no one else's business don't make it anyone else's business as long as it was consensual but straight people can't stop being dramatic about everything these days this is why I truly envy gay people they have fun they hold nothing back and f*** what happened? I wish the Christians didn't kill Disco the most fun being straight ever was was during the seventies when they simply were the gas they ever were. I guess the moral of the story is if you want to have fun being straight act gay or something like that.

I went to pride as a straight dude and I was getting cat called left and right and I was just like holy s*** I wish I was gay God damn it why don't straight people act this way

I mean this is the thing we gave this country to a bunch of conservatives and we're surprised that it's become boring overly regulated and the only people who are having fun are the wealthy when this country was run by liberals in the '70s I mean legitimate liberals from the 60s who got into politics people were having a ton of fun doing coke dancing all night long and somehow the conservatives had a problem with it? If you really think about it America has doomed itself to this boring f****** place and it's like America sucks and like the few pockets of it that are good just happen to be gay. Maybe you haven't learned this yet but you will when you graduate.

I knew all of them to some extent. I was the closest to Megan. Spent time at her house for bbqs, keerim studied computer science while I was studying CS as well. David I saw at farmers markets often

I wrote this poem to honor them and our failure to save them

Let's feel for ourselves and the people who died

It's ok to cry.

Though,

Could we have saved them if we tried?

Or was fate a bind?

Could we all of been their batmen and heros if we tried?

Or would they still have died?

May they rest in peace though never forgotten so others may live , we must be proactive, love is worth a try

🙏❤️

Since the emergence of Fable 5, it's been very clear that, unfortunately, AI development has not plateaued.

It is increasing.

Yes, there are many safeguards, and it's really annoying, but here's the thing: the Chinese models will eventually catch up, and given enough resources, or by utilizing third-party online resources, you'll have access to less censored models. You might need a VPN to access them, but it will happen.

So here's the thing: believe it or not, the new models seem to be able to code. Like it or not, this technology is getting particularly good at computer science. You might not like it, I understand a lot of people who code as a hobby hate it, but it doesn't change the fact that this is where we're at.

What this means:

Yeah, it means the junior level developer jobs are gone. You have to understand the way developer jobs used to work. You'd get hired as a developer, and people knew you were complete garbage. Basically, some senior level developer would constantly check your code. They would either approve it or they wouldn't, they would give you feedback, and you would clean it up and send it back. This would go in a circle until the code was somewhat acceptable, and then the senior developers would take it from there.

Many senior developers didn't even write code. They directed junior developers and then did the refinement at the very late stage.

Obviously, every company culture was different, but here's the thing: for the most part, the brute force code, the many lines of code, were usually written by junior developers and then refined by senior developers. And here's the thing: that's gone.

Senior developers now direct AI agents to write code for them, and Claude is clearly a sign of how good it's going to get.

It's going to get good. So being a developer today, whether you like it or not, mostly consists of directing AI agents.

This is also highly problematic for many other careers as well. For instance, yesterday I went to a meetup with a bunch of tech people, and here's the thing: they were all saying the same thing. They use AI agents for almost everything now, whether it's marketing or helping them with project management.

So how the heck are you supposed to get a job when you need experience to get a job? This is the problem, and it's only getting worse.

There are many, many junior developers who have been laid off and are freaking out. I don't have any answers for them, I don't think anybody does.

It's a sign of the future. Within ten years, robots will be doing the same, and in fact, being an electrician or a plumber will be more about directing bots and less about doing things yourself. The senior plumbers or the senior electricians will be the ones who get jobs.

The people who want entry into the market, well, they'll be screwed.

This is going to have, and already is having, a massive impact on the economy.

Supposedly, tens of millions of Indian jobs have been lost, and there are whole populations and whole cities in India and Asia facing massive unemployment because their tech sectors are evaporating.

Basically, the pawns and the junior level people are no longer as necessary as they used to be. That's a huge problem for a lot of economies because a lot of people throughout the world had one of those jobs.

In the United States, college financial aid has come out and said they are going to be doing a massive analysis of every major, master's, and PhD program in the United States over the next three years. Programs that do not actually create better earning potential than you would have without them will stop receiving student aid.

Well, this is very unfortunate, because before all this AI stuff, you would have had to hire illustrators to do a lot of the hands on, labor intensive work in the arts. Digital art programs have faced absurd amounts of unemployment across the globe. That was already coming, but AI put a nail in that coffin. In fact, many colleges across the world have stated they're no longer going to have art programs because of artificial intelligence.

This is completely devastating, and it's creating a world where AI managers are ultimately what companies hire. They realize now that AI can't be completely autonomous, but it can still eliminate 95% of a labor force. It just needs a very skilled 5%.

I think this is completely sick. I think there's something really special about human made art and human made software. I think AI slop is disgusting, actually, but it doesn't change the fact that people are still buying it.

Personally, I think there's a healthier way to go about this AI revolution. I think having people sketch out things and then upload those illustrations into AI agents will help create the actual characters in your game or those animations that you want. I still believe the arts should continue because they are very necessary for human culture, and frankly, not everything should be about profit. I don't care whether something's profitable or not, I care about whether or not it adds to human culture.

It really does feel like AI is simply an extension of the most horrible form of capitalism right now, and instead of increasing our scientific progress and solving medical issues, it seems like it's mostly just being used to streamline production and create sloppy, subpar animations and products for consumers who can't even afford them.

I don't know, I don't want to be negative, but people deserve to hear about the direction things are going. If you want a job, get ahead of it. If you can't get ahead of it, get away from it. Welcome to the future.

By the way, I have a solution. It's called Lo-Fi Zones. Over the next ten years, this AI thing is going to get horribly out of control. What about Lo-Fi Zones within cities, where we just pretend it's the 80s?

Everybody has a Walkman, we have record players and radios, and we purposely hire as many humans as we can, simply to give people a sanctuary from the overwhelming amount of AI slop, including the robotics that are coming, that's going to drive people crazy.

Maybe people can get jobs in Lo-Fi Zones, and we can have certain places designated for people who just want to get away from all of this.

Because everyone's now chasing Fable 5, AI development is just going to accelerate, and robotic development is accelerating as NPUs become more capable of hosting AI models. The future is coming, and it looks like it's going to suck.

So what about we just have places where it doesn't?

Anyway, most of us want to get back to the 80s anyway. I mean discos, I mean human designed music, I mean human played music, I mean old theaters, and just places where there isn't any modern tech in sight. I mean a place designed for people by people, to be people, no smartphones allowed. We all just dress and pretend it's the 80s and hang out till 3:00 a.m. without a care in the world, and let people have normal jobs and be normal in those places, because people need to keep that energy going. There's something we're losing, and I'm not very happy about it.

Since the emergence of Fable 5, it's been very clear that, unfortunately, AI development has not plateaued.

It is increasing.

Yes, there are many safeguards, and it's really annoying, but here's the thing: the Chinese models will eventually catch up, and given enough resources, or by utilizing third-party online resources, you'll have access to less censored models. You might need a VPN to access them, but it will happen.

So here's the thing: believe it or not, the new models seem to be able to code. Like it or not, this technology is getting particularly good at computer science. You might not like it, I understand a lot of people who code as a hobby hate it, but it doesn't change the fact that this is where we're at.

What this means:

Yeah, it means the junior level developer jobs are gone. You have to understand the way developer jobs used to work. You'd get hired as a developer, and people knew you were complete garbage. Basically, some senior level developer would constantly check your code. They would either approve it or they wouldn't, they would give you feedback, and you would clean it up and send it back. This would go in a circle until the code was somewhat acceptable, and then the senior developers would take it from there.

Many senior developers didn't even write code. They directed junior developers and then did the refinement at the very late stage.

Obviously, every company culture was different, but here's the thing: for the most part, the brute force code, the many lines of code, were usually written by junior developers and then refined by senior developers. And here's the thing: that's gone.

Senior developers now direct AI agents to write code for them, and Claude is clearly a sign of how good it's going to get.

It's going to get good. So being a developer today, whether you like it or not, mostly consists of directing AI agents.

This is also highly problematic for many other careers as well. For instance, yesterday I went to a meetup with a bunch of tech people, and here's the thing: they were all saying the same thing. They use AI agents for almost everything now, whether it's marketing or helping them with project management.

So how the heck are you supposed to get a job when you need experience to get a job? This is the problem, and it's only getting worse.

There are many, many junior developers who have been laid off and are freaking out. I don't have any answers for them, I don't think anybody does.

It's a sign of the future. Within ten years, robots will be doing the same, and in fact, being an electrician or a plumber will be more about directing bots and less about doing things yourself. The senior plumbers or the senior electricians will be the ones who get jobs.

The people who want entry into the market, well, they'll be screwed.

This is going to have, and already is having, a massive impact on the economy.

Supposedly, tens of millions of Indian jobs have been lost, and there are whole populations and whole cities in India and Asia facing massive unemployment because their tech sectors are evaporating.

Basically, the pawns and the junior level people are no longer as necessary as they used to be. That's a huge problem for a lot of economies because a lot of people throughout the world had one of those jobs.

In the United States, college financial aid has come out and said they are going to be doing a massive analysis of every major, master's, and PhD program in the United States over the next three years. Programs that do not actually create better earning potential than you would have without them will stop receiving student aid.

Well, this is very unfortunate, because before all this AI stuff, you would have had to hire illustrators to do a lot of the hands on, labor intensive work in the arts. Digital art programs have faced absurd amounts of unemployment across the globe. That was already coming, but AI put a nail in that coffin. In fact, many colleges across the world have stated they're no longer going to have art programs because of artificial intelligence.

This is completely devastating, and it's creating a world where AI managers are ultimately what companies hire. They realize now that AI can't be completely autonomous, but it can still eliminate 95% of a labor force. It just needs a very skilled 5%.

I think this is completely sick. I think there's something really special about human made art and human made software. I think AI slop is disgusting, actually, but it doesn't change the fact that people are still buying it.

Personally, I think there's a healthier way to go about this AI revolution. I think having people sketch out things and then upload those illustrations into AI agents will help create the actual characters in your game or those animations that you want. I still believe the arts should continue because they are very necessary for human culture, and frankly, not everything should be about profit. I don't care whether something's profitable or not, I care about whether or not it adds to human culture.

It really does feel like AI is simply an extension of the most horrible form of capitalism right now, and instead of increasing our scientific progress and solving medical issues, it seems like it's mostly just being used to streamline production and create sloppy, subpar animations and products for consumers who can't even afford them.

I don't know, I don't want to be negative, but people deserve to hear about the direction things are going. If you want a job, get ahead of it. If you can't get ahead of it, get away from it. Welcome to the future.

By the way, I have a solution. It's called Lo-Fi Zones. Over the next ten years, this AI thing is going to get horribly out of control. What about Lo-Fi Zones within cities, where we just pretend it's the 80s?

Everybody has a Walkman, we have record players and radios, and we purposely hire as many humans as we can, simply to give people a sanctuary from the overwhelming amount of AI slop, including the robotics that are coming, that's going to drive people crazy.

Maybe people can get jobs in Lo-Fi Zones, and we can have certain places designated for people who just want to get away from all of this.

Because everyone's now chasing Fable 5, AI development is just going to accelerate, and robotic development is accelerating as NPUs become more capable of hosting AI models. The future is coming, and it looks like it's going to suck.

So what about we just have places where it doesn't?

Anyway, most of us want to get back to the 80s anyway. I mean discos, I mean human designed music, I mean human played music, I mean old theaters, and just places where there isn't any modern tech in sight. I mean a place designed for people by people, to be people, no smartphones allowed. We all just dress and pretend it's the 80s and hang out till 3:00 a.m. without a care in the world, and let people have normal jobs and be normal in those places, because people need to keep that energy going. There's something we're losing, and I'm not very happy about it.