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to bring attention to certain ideas

language is just plagiarism

an oak chair would take forever

I wonder if this could be done with bamboo.

Can you graft bamboo? Maybe join it by weaving or twisting

What species of tree is good for this?

relatively durable

relatively fast growing and amenable to bending and grafting

willow?

anybody ID those trees?

The trees are taking our jobs

I am inspired

The hex-manufacturers owned the newspapers. Therefore all modern, right-thinking people agreed that hexes are serious business.

FTA : The tool companies that are still good. Klein, Makita, Knipex, Channellock, Hilti, Bosch.

I'm looking at some modern ones. Bostitch or whatever.

Tangentially, Arrow T50 stapler used to be a tank but now it's wet shit. Apparently they changed to a new factory.

So when your reputation is big you can slack on the product. Or is that naive? Is it the natural progression for all products?

Like in that movie Brasil. The food is awful but the illustration of the food is wonderful.

Dry here (southern IL). 12 years ago spring would be cool, drizzly, cloudy. Now (past 3 years) it's warm, dry, sunny. Periodically we get this big wind that lasts for a couple days.

"Desk and bank account" makes for a very small world. Have we shrunk? Are we dwarfs now?

Make all the surveillance cameras and satellites public access.

A culture of analysis and commenting will develop.

We'd check the cultural effluent against the original stuff to keep it honest.

Facebook can do a pretty good necro-avatar. That's better than flesh. Cheaper than a retirement home too.

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-l...

does anybody do built-in trackballs anymore? I really like those.

Hard-working children. Uncultivated. No taste. Masters within their professional shoebox but otherwise brutally shallow. And the higher the skill level the worse it is. I see it every day.

In this we are referring to the method of holding, not the thing held.

Yeah I was sorta thinking in that direction too.

First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye

I think it's a pretty good equivalence, actually. And pretty good advice. Passionate certainty should raise a red flag.

He's suggesting that there are several flavors of blindness going around so if we're going to point fingers then we might start with ourselves.

Godwin has entered the chat with great swiftness.

This means that LLM human resource departments will only hire LLMs. Which is kind of beautiful.

If it's a choice between stealing a bike and homelessness, I'll steal a bike. So the problem is the threat of homelessness. Right?

Let's not be tribal. Even the incels have something valuable to contribute to the conversation.

Hey I use this. Works great. Ez.

we used to not have a word for orange. we called it yellow red. then this new fruit arrived from India

Some of us "stare" at our breath instead. That is, you put your attention upon the feeling of breath in the tip of your nose (or something like that).

It's nice because your eyes don't need to be open for it, so they don't get all dried out and itchy.

Shikantaza here. It's a big deal.

Consider:

We all know about "paying attention". Pay attention in class. Pay attention to the movie you're watching. Pay attention to where you're walking. Etc. It's important and we do it all the time.

Take that to the next level. Pay attention to a thing for a while. AKA Concentration. That's important too. Deep thinking, careful doing, science, engineering, art. It's necessary for all that.

And then there's meditation. It's more stuff to do with your attention.

Samatha (AKA concentration meditation) is concentration taken to the next level. All that deeper thinking etc that you got from concentration, this takes it further. Possibly much further. There are weird depths. And also, you become very familiar with the ways of attention. How it moves and how it affects the rest of your world and what you can do with it.

And then there is Shikantaza (AKA formless meditation, meditation without a seed...). it's a hard left turn. Serious sci-fi. I'll leave it at that.

The Naked Ape

so fine!