Borrible

Hope German gas station tenants make more in their main business because of that. Sweets, snacks and drinks...

They're doomed no question, this will only speed it up.

I remember a time when "grasping" something was a literal thing. Strangely enough, however, I only became aware of this when I studied Hegel.

Absolutely.

So, will your books be available with an audio section as a free encore in the future? :)

Sounded better than the handful of random corresponding Librivox recordings I listened to in order to compare them. To be honest, a lot of people go to great lengths to make Librivox recordings without having the skills to read aloud.

Which is a pity, but nonetheless.

That is correct and it is the reason I referenced 'God Emperor of Dune'.Maybe I should have mentioned Saberhagen's Berserker series or the replicators from Stargate to make my point more clear...

The ideas that war is the father of many things (Heraclitus) and its creatures grow over man's head (Golem, Sorcerer's Apprentice) is not exactly new. I could probably dig up even older cultural knowledge from ancient Indian culture. The evolutionary dynamic of hunter and hunted is also old news.

'This was to prevent anyone with the gene from being hunted by prescient hunter-seekers.'

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Golden_Path#Objectives

The evolution of prescient hunter-seeker. You can look it up in 'God-Emperor of Dune' yourself if you want. It's one of the main plot points. The evolution of autonomous, self replicating killer machines driven by human power dynamics.

What else is AI but the attempt to predict and exploit human behavior?

Fortunately, the God-Emperor foresaw that Butler's Jihad would not prevent the logical end of the future evolution of the hunter-seeker problem and directed mankind to the Golden Path.

Coevolution in an arms race for surface/tactile mimicry. The basic blueprint of an insect is already present in the predator. The first of their kind may have been deformed Siamese twins.

Talking to a mirror, pondering the Gestalt you're giving the image.

As a member of the most successful invasive species on this planet, its low orbits and for a few hours of the moon, far be it from me to throw stones in the glass house.

The joke on briliant comedians is often clinical depression.

A problem that should not be underestimated is that many aspiring writers do not know how to recognize a bad book, which is why they write many of them themselves.

Wait until they inform you of your divorce. If you are unlucky, they will inform you about the motherhood of the future ex-wife beforehand.

Life, only the 'selected works' procreate.

Should I be reincarnated, I try to be born in a country with a high death rate from cancer.

Coincidentally, they correlate with the countries that have a high life expectancy.

But beware, the average cancer mortality there has been decreasing for decades.

If you're unlucky, you might just die of old age...

Ever sold a used car?

I feel for them.

The bittersweet decadence of a superfluous but well-rewarded, perhaps even parasitic existence.

Life is hard, but fortunately everything is meaningless if you take the right perspective.

Nobody is forcing them, right?

"The game of life is hard to play, I'm gonna lose it anyway, The losing card I'll someday lay" - Johnny Mandel

Remnants of a Roadside Picknick by the USS Black Budget, an accounting black hole.

Obligatory Gang Stalker Song by Rusty Cage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOzHCa-_PMs

Meanwhile, the public was feasting on this red herring, thousands of minors were being abused and heavily mistreated by priests and employees of Catholic institutions.

Of course, the flesh is weak, isn't it.

Ah, the stars are right again in Lovecraftian Country.

I have always seen Lovecraftian myth as the reaction of the powerless individual to the inscrutable and impersonal social powers of modernity to which he is at the mercy. In particular, such devouring monstrosities as fascism and communism.

The funny thing about astrology is of course the stars are quite down to earth as Adorno did put it in his essays on the irrational in culture:

https://www.telospress.com/adorno-on-astrology/

"the constant appeal of the column to find fault with oneself rather than with given conditions" is evidence of "the implicit but ubiquitous rule that one has to adjust oneself continuously to commands of the stars at a given time."

"The idea that the stars, if only one reads them correctly, offer some advice mitigates the very same fear of the inexorability of social processes the stargazer himself creates."

Nothing new here, the stars were always right. And astrology is ridiculous self-adjustment to anonymous powers in an incomprehensible world, where nobody is in control and whose true face one does not want to recognize.

OpenAEye?

AEyes wide shut?

Eye for AI?

And now onto underwater cardioversion.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01960...

Early ancestors of the Squibbon.

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.

>Usain Bolt has infinitely more current world records in the 100M than anybody else

And he isn't even 10X faster!

As it happens:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/googl...

Roasted on Twitter you say?

Shocking...

Reminds me of

https://backyardbrains.com/products/roboroach

Of course,needs moar AI.

Ah, no. Mental, intellectual.