just above california
is it a compliment if my unhinged, freshly released from the psych ward neighbor says I have a juicy ass?
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should I get a piercing?
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Anyone else think that blue people might become just as common as white people in about 2 to 30 million years? I'm thinking gray people, too. Maybe indigo people.
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I have no doubts that it is possible to simulate a mind in a computer. Why shouldn't it be possible?
The question is what your mind does if you free it from any motivation. Usually life revolves around chasing endorphins. If your computer mind won't get any endorphin equivalent you will just be depressed eternally. If you give the endorphin button to yourself you will most likely just continuously press it like a heroin junkie. If someone else gets control over it he will be able to totally control your mind.
> Why shouldn't it be possible?
I'm not sure if human mind can take it, with the way it works today. Imagine you found out that all your life, all the reality around you is a simulation and you can't escape it. You would probably go crazy at some moment.
Of course human mind can be lied to but that doesn't seem to be a reliable solution.
That was actually one of the main underlying plot points of one of the later SAO arcs. The story conclusion was it's more or less "okay" if it goes into the "more real" direction, i.e. if you find yourself trapped in a simulation without escape, you go crazy because it's "not real", but if you suddenly one day find that your life this entire time was a simulation, that's the norm for you, and it would also be okay for you if you exit the simulation into the "real world".
If you free yourself from any and all external motivation, you will eventually find some new goal. You'll look at the garden one day and decide to start growing veggies or keeping it free from weeds, or you'll think to write a story or find a new book to read. You do it because you "want to", intrinsic motivation, as opposed to "have to", such as finding a job to pay rent or defend your country at war, external motivation. It happens much more often then you'd think; you get fired and you don't need a source of income for a few years so you reevaluate your life, or you get an inheritance and decide you don't want to continue old job.
Completely zero motivation is still not actually zero because you have basic physiological needs.
I want to learn an instrument. I want to learn music theory and read notes. I spend lots of time listening to music so I might as well try to somewhat get into it.
I tend to get some electronic device so I can practice with headphones whenever I want without neighbors getting on my nerves. Also having the possibility to chose from different sounds seem like a plus.
I tend to get something like pic-related instead of a keyboard because it does not take as much space if it turns out that I won't pull through with it and it just sits around in a corner somewhere.
Onions? Advice?
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Here is my advice regarding music theory:
Understand that music in the European tradition consists of 12 notes per octave. The thirteenth note's frequency is double the frequency of the 1st, that's why they are in perfect harmony and have the same name (e.g. a and a'). A major scale consists of the notes 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 1', 3', 5' etc. You can start on any note and follow this pattern to get a major scale. Other types of scales have other patterns.
Now, everything becomes super-complicated because over 9000 years ago some retard invented a notation system pretending that all the steps in a major scale starting with c are equally wide. Since then we are forced to use #s and bs to refer to the missing notes of the 12 steps when playing major scales that are not c major.
When music theory and notation seems complicated, always remember that the patterns are much simpler when thinking with 12 notes and be aware that the traditional notation system is very stupid. Thank me later!
We had a cute 18yo coworker who had big boobs, always wore the skimpiest croptops and sometimes pressed her boobs against me when I explained something to her.
She was also good at the job and nice to be around.
Then my 50yo boss decided to be unprofessional and sexually harass her. She quit and now nobody can enjoy her presence anymore.
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Is it better to be cruel and honest or to be dishonest to a friend? A friend of mine invited me to go to a concert together, he even already bought two tickets, but I don’t want to go. So either I could tell him simply I don’t want to go, which might hurt him or I could lie and say I can’t go because of reason x or just go against my will.
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Not wanting to go doesn't hurt your friend lmao.
I was expecting something much worse.
One of my close friends always wants to sing in front of people but he really does not sing well. Now THIS is a problem because he's got a bit of female mindset, telling him the truth (which he might or might not be aware of) really could backfire.
A fucking bird just flew into my window, I went downstairs but didn't find any ded bird nearby. What are his chances of survival after taking such a hit?
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