I started over doing entry level spray tech work treating exotic plants through americorps and worked my way up. I do a lot of field data collection and gis work now. So, I still utilize my old software skills. I work for my local government doing environmental land management.

GIS is definitely a software adjacent job that is utilized a lot in land management. But that isn’t the initial route I took. I really did just kind of started over.

I did this 9 years ago. I make 2/3rds of what I did in software, but I don’t regret it. pivoted to environmental work. My job satisfaction is like, a thousand percent better.

At this point it’s literally cheaper and easier to fight WWIII IRL.

Where did you get this picture of me 😅😅😅

😂 girl, I’m not a cop!

God I wish they’d stop putting cameras in these and just make a nice pair of prescription glasses with good integrated headphones, a heads of display, and some basic touch controls on the stem.

I would genuinely enjoy this for easy listening and maps.

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I built several nodes. I think it’s most useful as an asset tracking tool, but the battery life isn’t great. Like, I have a couple premade credit card sized nodes. It’s pretty neat to ping them and get their gps. But, to be honest, your money for that application would probably be better spent on an iPhone and apples tags.

For communication: there are dubiously legal, cheap radios you can get off Amazon that would probably be 100% more useful.

I did enjoy it, though, and I still have some nodes. Also, it’s illegal to send encrypted messages over mestastic.

Edit some mestastic nodes double as a low power gps with a screen. These may be useful on their own.

Last night, I had a dream that fucking Kevin came into the house with a raw chicken like fucking Dionysius, and he just laughed, swinging it around, spraying chicken juice all over everyone and everything. I am so mad.

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I usually give up or find a free alternative. Typically, if something is available at a good price I won’t bother trying to get it free to begin with.

It’s been a while since I’ve listened to him, but I felt like he really struck an authentic vein with young men, especially queer kids. I wouldn’t say his lyrics are genius, but his music was refreshing for popular hip-hop. I think a lot of his fans value the feelings he gives them over most other rappers in the space, even when their technical ability surpasses his.

Also his music production team sounds great, imo.

I don’t remember the institution, but I remember reading a paper on a simulated trading environment with several ai agents who didn’t know about eachother. The LLMs were pretty conservative with profits and deliberately bought and sold in predictable ways. They all ended up “colluding” with eachother by deliberately not competing.

How could I say no to a face like that?

Sweaty gamer meme. I think the government is supposed to be the gamer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb9Ebe_rA8M&t=0

Serious question: what sort of crimes do I have to commit to be reincarnated as a penguin in Australia but not Antarctica?

Life’s too short to pick your partners based on other people’s aesthetic preferences. The whole, ‘is this guy too young for me thing’ is a more complicated choice IMO. Maybe you’re over thinking it. Have you been on any dates recently?

I wonder if this actually happened to someone or this is the a case of armchair survivalism.

It is? I’d like to read about that

It just looked a lot like an AI image classifier.