Used to commute 212 miles daily, so that’s about 4500 miles a month with lunches and stuff, plus errands and leisure travel would make that easily 5000 a month on average. Currently commute about 3 steps from my bed and about the only driving I do is taking my kid to and occasionally from school. So I figure about 500 miles a month which checks or math-wise.

Circ’d here but I’ve struggled with this decision myself. Lucked out in the matter and had girls. Society has changed. Circ rates have recently fallen just below 50% national average (much higher in the Midwest).

If your only reason for considering it is to match his peers, you can have no concerns either way.

That said, I do think people make a much bigger deal about this decision than it really is 99% of the time. You’re going to make thousands of decisions for your kids and most are more impactful than whether they have a penis hat or not. Saw someone here saying circing flat out makes you a bad parent. I don’t expect they are a parent because that’s not the kind of decision that keeps me up at night wondering if I fucked up, you know?

Go with your gut and it’ll be fine.

Ordinary movement isn’t an issue. When flaccid, the corona is generally still covered and underwear moves with it so there isn’t really friction. The only time I’ve ever had an issue is when bicycling. For some reason the mechanics can lead to side to side friction right on the tip and it’s pretty uncomfortable when that happens.

I feel like this would happen as well to folks that are circumcised often enough

It’s kinda hard to bully someone for matching the vast majority. Circ rates would have to come way down before it would be submerging to be bullied over.

Of course, there are regional differences. I just looked and in the Midwest the circ rate is about 75% which is way lower than I’d have expected based on personal observation. (OTOH , I’m older and the majority of penises I’ve seen were 30-40 years ago) YMMV.

National rates have declined to just under 50% according to John Hopkins, which suggests many fewer circs are performed outside of the Midwest.

At any rate, I think bullying folks for being cut is a ways off yet.

I have almost never put leftover pizza in the fridge. Generally store it in the oven. That’s how my folks did it. Never had any problems. Was not expecting to come into this thread and see universal adoption of fridge pizza. I find the crust gets wet and gooey. You all do you, but after fifty years of doing it my way without any issues, I can’t see any reason to change.

From that guy’s twitter? The primary source of this article is that guy, who is a lobbyist and lawyer. Someone whose career is based on legalistic wordsmithing to convince people that other people are bad.

I’ve seen papers served before, both by a cop and a regular dude (going by appearance). The fact that the server was a deputy in this case doesn’t honestly seem relevant at all. Cops are frequently hired because someone in a police uniform knocking on your door is more likely to be answered than someone who looks like a salesman. But jurisdictions are different—I’ve never heard of papers being served by registered mail, for instance.

That’s why I’d like for the journalist to have brought in some kind of legal analyst to weigh in. They didn’t and what we have is a bunch of quotes from an expert wordsmith and a tech journalist who may not know anything more about the legalities than we do.

I genuinely appreciate that you took another step to look into this and respond, but hearing more from the guy’s own perspective doesn’t help me feel like I know what’s really going on here.

I think I’m done with this whole topic until I hear something about it from a better source. If this is never mentioned again, I’ll assume this is just an attempt at manipulating public opinion over a mundane matter that isn’t outrageous at all. If there is something to it, we’ll hear more about it.

You can’t, all by yourself. At least not in the same scale. Fight them in conversations with people in your life whom you can reach when they repeat misinformation. That’s all you can do unless you are motivated to get involved in politics or journalism.

reading the portents: You will have fewer rodents and birds in your life.

He’s not just a random dude, though. His organization is involved in lobbying efforts around OAI. The article claims there’s no connection between the case being subpoenaed for and the stuff he did, and that’s the part that might be abnormal and dirty, but it’s nuanced and the clear bias on display demands their claims be taken with a grain of salt.

It looks to me like this article is carrying the guy’s PR water for him. But just because the article feels manipulative doesn’t mean there’s necessarily no factual basis for it.

So I just… don’t feel informed at all.

From my experience, OAI may be the public face of AI, but Anthropic is murdering them in coding capability and cost - as in my company pays more in a week for me to use Claude than I would’ve paid in a month to use the top OAI API. (Actually I paid 1/10th that because I couldn’t afford that for what was essentially just a toy for my discord users—I wasn’t using it for development.) It really puts things in perspective when I can see in Cline the running totals for each task.

Of course, I have no idea what the operating costs are.

I, as an atheist, absolutely believe God doesn’t exist. I believe in God no more than I believe in the tooth fairy because there isn’t a whiff of credible evidence for either. There is not even a modicum of uncertainty. Whatever the supposed laws of God, I will violate with impunity, without any hesitation or fear, should they conflict with how I wish to conduct myself.

That’s how I experience atheism, anyway. I know others experience it differently, but I’d hate for a reader to come away with the idea that we generally lack conviction in our belief. The difference is religion isn’t falsifiable, and atheism is, so there remains a pathway we might be convinced—if some divine entity steps forward and proves himself, well there you have it. But until then, as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, there is no god.

This is an inflammatory way of saying the guy got served papers. I’m not in love with OAI, but it rankles me when someone nakedly tries to manipulate the narrative.

I don’t understand the nuances of whether it’s normal for the guy to be subpoenaed—it could all be as dirty as he says, but the title makes me assume the rest of the article is just as skewed, and I walk away feeling like someone tried to recruit me to a cause rather than inform me.

Problem with Naziism is you eventually run out of outsiders to murder and you have to close ranks every now and then to push a few people out.

Well history clearly would’ve gone a lot differently had the rebels lost the battle of Yavin.

Hilarious isn’t the first word that comes to mind. But then, this modern world resembles nothing so much as a Terry Gilliam movie, so I can definitely see it.

It isn’t it. It is just us. We are the anti-fascists.

It is wild that they are playing games with soldier’s pay at the same time they are contemplating the insurrection act. I guess we’ll see who has the bigger balls here.

I have a console. The games I bought (on sale or no) in reverse order are:

• expedition 33 (31?)
• It Takes Two
• Baldur’s Gate
• CP2077 (discount)
• No man’s Sky (discount)
• Days Gone (discount)
• Diablo IV
• Jedi: Outcast
• Horizon: Forbidden West

And it came with the latest(?) god of war, but I’ve never played it.

So if you’re talking about AAA brand new games, my average is under 2 per year. But I have so many hours logged between BG, DG, and NMS it’s ridiculous.

I honestly can’t tell whether countries are real or made up by Hollywood any more.

>Watching some movie in a sports bar.
>Title card appears for Djibouti.
>Checks phone to see if they are part of Wakanda.
>Ad for buying gold comes on.
>I’m watching the news.

Fifty-two. I don’t normally have any issues shaking off illness, though covid was a doozey. Injuries, on the other hand, both take longer to heal and just happen on their own constantly. And when I really do something like take a several mile walk or carry a bunch of holiday decorations up and down from the basement, I hurt things that last for weeks.