“Unrestrained capitalism” is boomer pension funds acting within the bounds of policies that boomers voted to optimize for the greatest return on investment for those pension funds over the course of their life expectancy.

For saving him from his antizioni *cough* pardon me, from his internalized antisemitism?

I mean, he can certainly try.

Child does not want to eat more -> parent asks child to eat one more bite -> child says they can eat two bites -> parent asks child to eat two bites -> child learns to only tell parent they can eat two bites if they want to deal with a parent asking them to eat two bites -> child learns to only tell parent they can do X if they want to deal with being asked to do X -> child learns to only tell parent what they can do if they can deal with being asked to do it -> child learns to only tell parent things if the parent will handle it in a way that helps them.

To be fair, this is a good life lesson to learn with employers, cops, judges, inspectors, teachers and other unilateral authorities, but it would be nice if a child can trust their parents with anything.

Ah yes, teaching your child not to trust you with information about what they can do. Classic!

Half the US population suffers from qualitative malnutrition and obesity.

A great cuisine will not fix poverty or hostile social engineering.

Hope is great as long as you don’t try to summon it. “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”. Hope comes naturally when you’re trying to do things that you can actually believe have a chance of doing something that matters to you. Its absence is a warning, a signal to change your behavior to something that does work.

That’s advice that will get you a burnout. Hope, especially when sought for with the purpose of maintaining high levels of stress, will break you when it becomes implausible.

It is a promise that can become false, and once your body knows you’re willing to lie to trick it into greater productivity, it’ll just stop listening to you.

It’s dangerous to trust famous people with life advice because of survivorship bias. Even if they are honest about their life stories, they are not representative of everybody that tries a thing.

Dealing with high stress means caring for yourself in the moment, building structures that make it easier for you to care for yourself, and escaping the situation if you can.

It’s debriefing, processing traumas as they happen, touching grass, hugging, and understanding what makes life worth living even now.

It’s solidarity networks, resource pooling, leaning on friends and comrades and letting them lean on you, and forming collectives.

It’s unionizing, demonstration, occupation, and revolution.

On the other hand, they actually get to talk to the people they make food for which is a nice human moment, the restaurant doesn’t lose money to some shitty app company, you might be more likely to give a good tip to somoene you speak to, and the workers get paid by the hour. As long as there’s at least one worker who enjoys taking calls as a way to get a break from the kitchen, everybody benefits.

He went grey. Here’s a quick mockup I did in GIMP, making 1992 Magneto gray-haired.

My condolences. That does not look fun in summer.

At 20°C!? Is this some kind of Df climate thing that I’m too Cf to understand?

I considered that, but then how is there a foot of snow? Snow melts above 0°C

What’s 20c?

Every RPG is D&D and every D&D game is a marvel movie.

But think of the managers.

Much of it is the same technology that is used to make AI images. The same datacenter usage, water consumption, rare earth mining pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, helium consumption, GPU demands, unethical data sourcing, and slavery-adjacent “mechanical turk” data labeling practices.

Play. Doodle, run, sing, dance, marvel at trees. Climb rooftops and sit in the sun.

Now if you’re numb then that’s something that has lots of possible causes. Depression, emotional processing, exhaustion, overstimulation, trauma-derived survival schemas, ennui, neurological stuff, etc.

and Africa learns starts building processing their natural resources to multiply value, instead of selling it,

My brother in neocolonialism, why do you think Africa is selling the resources?

If an African nation even thinks of building a factory to process goods locally, some combination of the IMF, USA, France, Britain, China, Russia, UN, and multinational corporations will make sure that doesn’t happen. The US isn’t stopping their meddling in Africa either, they’re just shifting from a France-like tactic of multinationals, conditional subsidies, and proxy wars to a Russia-like tactic of multinationals, proxy wars, and invasions.

Okay, your neighborhood is now a speculative asset for the ultra-rich. Rent increases 200%, all the shops are replaced by boutiques that sell overpriced pretty-looking garbage, and all your friends move away because they can’t afford to live there anymore.

Faceapp is AI. It uses a convolutional neural network to detect facial features, rigs those onto a model, applies a morph to that model, and then uses a convolutional neural network to translate that model into facial features.