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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • Unclear how AI companies destroying the planet’s resources and habitability has any relation to a political philosophy seated in trauma and ignorance except maybe the greed of a capitalist CEO’s whimsy.

    The fact that the powerful are willing to destroy the planet for momentary gain bears no reflection on the intelligence or awareness of the meek.



  • If the other person can’t follow your train of thought, it can feel as though the emotional and cognitive connection/trust that was built in the conversation was abandoned along with the previous context. This can happen when there is a non-trivial jump in context between ideas.

    Steering the conversation can be done by introducing intermediary steps that are connected to the previous topic in a self-evident way. This maintains that cognitive and emotional connection/trust because you are showing that you value the other person’s understanding and participation.

    Figuring out what “non-trivial” or “self-evident” means is probably the hard part but you’d probably want to consider each step in, for example:

    Grass, meadow, forest, tree, timber, log truck, mill, paper, exports, shipping dock, ocean, ice caps, ice bergs, titantic, James Cameron, Michael bay, transformers.

    You could probably go from each one to the next trivially, steering the conversation from grass to meadow and so on through the list. But to go from grass to transformers without intermediate ideas truly makes absolutely no sense.





  • A small amount of dish soap (drop or two) in a spray bottle of water will break their hydrophobic shell and they’ll dry out in a day. Only drawback is if you apply too much (like a lot) it can cause the leaves to get sunburns.

    Water alone and mechanical removal can take several weeks to work. It’s fine on one plant but you risk spread to other plants in the house.

    Just my experience growing peppers.

    The dish soap rinses off easily so just wash before eating as normal.