Two weeks ago, I was saying this guy was desperate for an off-ramp for this war. I really thought that there were other options that made sense from the perspective of saving face and making a show of it.

I did not expect it to be “surrender completely, pay hush money, declare undisputed victory”.

BUT I SHOULD HAVE.

After all this time it still seems preposterous that someone so stupid and utterly incompetent could be holding the levers of power after all of this. It is so beyond belief it is amazing.

I’m alright.

It took a lot of work to get here, though. People usually act less than friendly toward me, and it took me a long time to understand that it’s because of a vibes thing that I can’t really do much about.

It would be nice if I could find people who try to do better than surface-level judgments, but I’m not going to let others opinions and behaviour toward me affect my self esteem anymore.

This was the only thing that worked for my wife’s dad. Bro lost like 250lbs.

I hope you get the results you’re after and the new habits to make it work.

WE NEED

TO PROTECT CHILDREN

not really sure this is an apology at all.

This is more like a story about how your coach has also criticized your communication skills, but it seems like he did that for different reasons. I think he kind of sucks in that story, because he is literally a coach and should be giving you helpful, actionable feedback instead of the nebulous disapproval. Your friend, is a different situation and I don’t think you should confuse what your coach has said with what your friend has said.

Try to think about why you are apologizing. Is it because you feel bad about the situation? Is it because you want to ‘fix a problem’?

Your friend has expressed to you useful feedback on why they feel like they do, and what you’ve written kind of proves their point a bit.

Evangelical Christians, mostly.

They got the ai agent to send the password reset onetime code to a new address that they supplied through the chat.

Effectively hijacking the pw reset and its safeguard. The users password did not need to be known

LMAO, Dave. You fuckin’ idiot.

Miserable and disgusting.

Yeah I didn’t say that, and you’re kind of demonstrating my point.

How about this: I actually really enjoy it and just cant accept the convoluted logic to understand that for myself.

Now you’re right! Just like you want to believe.

Yeah im not gonna microwave my brain so people feel more comfortable around me.

No.

Bad meme. And I’m gonna be blunt, because you know why.

I get what you’re shooting for but format, phrasing and composition is all cringe here.

Keep trying though. Design is hard.

And if you discover that its because you’re autistic, try to forgive yourself for your social deficiencies and forgive others for misinterpreting those deficiencies as intentional or careless acts.

I really am not interested in finding a third way to express this to you. You’re free to do whatever mental gymnastics are required to continue to hold an absolute belief on this topic, which has no meaning.

Autism, bro.

I am capable talking about whatever you define as small talk, but its not enjoyable for either of us if I do. Like I said, I’m there for real problems or philosophical musings for deep issues of life… and the infodump process is enjoyable for me, but that is NOT small talk.

Yeah, thats what I use with uBlock for Youtube. I can’t get Invidious to be stable enough.

When I was in middle school, a kid in my class named Greg would always add the nickname “The Hammer” to anyone he picked to be on his floor hockey team in Phys ED.

“OK. I pick, Terd ‘The Hammer’ Ferguson, for Defense”

I remember you, Greg.

Fuck this small-balls Nazi dildo, though. Cringe edge lord.

fucking hate it. I’m here for the real depth of humanity, or to transmit and receive infodumping.

The rest of it is exhausting. Imagine if you had to manually discard every piece of meaningless information you had to listen to in small talk. I have to do that. It’s annoying at the very least, and when you have to be in the room with people who LOVE small talk it’s a nightmare.

No no no, it’s not a central database at all. It’s distributed globally across many geographic locales, nothing central about it. Lots of redundancies too, it’s available everywhere all of the time. :S

One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database

… because of course we aren’t. We already have one and it’s AMAZING.