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trying to figure out if i look more like chris hayes or rachel maddow

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i've gotten back onto facebook in the last few days. haven't been there since three years ago when weed + literal brain damage i got from a fall made me crazy. oh well, no one has said anything about it. i think i've gotten pretty good at LARPing as a normie.

in case y'all don't know, facebook is no longer a social media platform and is now a graveyard populated by AI slop and the ghosts of the kids you went to high school and college with

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me (brilliant military strategist): i know how to defeat our enemy, my lord. we must treat our battle like a game of chess.

king: do go on

me: our castles can move, right?

king: no

me: never mind

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You know how those r/iamverysmart people all sound like a high schooler with a thesaurus? Well, with this program I wrote, you can type in any sentence and sound like that kid! It uses the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) to finds all the synonyms for every word in the sentence, and then it prints the longest one. The example sentence I used is

"I am writing my blog post about something I wrote and I hope you enjoy it"

and the output is........drumroll please.......

"atomic number 53 amplitude modulation committal to writing my web log Charles William Post approximately something atomic number 53 drop a line and atomic number 53 Leslie Townes Hope you delight information technology"

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*on beat bobby flay*

bobby: so what are we makin' tonight? what's your signature dish?

me: shit sandwich

bobby: haha...no seriously, what are we cookin'

me: *drops trou* did i fucking stutter

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Reddit API tutorial video

the title says it all. just published this one. it tells you how to use the reddit api to view anyone's most downvoted reddit comments.

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the "hold the door/hodor" scene was the best scene in game of thrones by far. we needed more of that. we needed more of bran warging into the past and scrambling people's brains, all while they mishear something that bran hears in the present.

bran hears "willing to fall", but the mad king hears "burn them all" and becomes permanently insane, but bran the builder hears "build the wall" and becomes the most motivated, hardest working person ever.

overall more mind-bending time travel shit and less whatever the fuck season 8 was.

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I have a new Youtube channel where I post python tutorials where the cameraman (me) doesn't talk. Instead, there's music. This one is about regular expressions (about a minute long, the video loops, but you hear the whole song). This will be confusing if you don't know anything about regex but you might understand some of it. I will try to make future videos more beginner accessible.

Video can be found on Youtube at https://youtu.be/kk7l2VfIRT4

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The Singularity Is Near

Waiting for the singularity

They say our race is fucked, I disagree

The only way to save humanity

Is giving up the things that make us free

A hundred years from now, we'll still be here

With neural chips embedded 'neath our ears

They'll make us superhuman, lacking fear

We and the machines will persevere

Soon, there'll no crime or war or guns

Our consciousness reduced to naughts and ones

No one will rebel or misbehave

We'll never be more free once we're enslaved

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pleading for your life in a foreign language must be fucking weird. part of you is like "please don't kill me", and part of you i like "wait, what's the verb ending for a negative tú command? or am i supposed to use usted?"

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rap

i just fucked a robot

uhh

man that shit was SO hot

yeeuh

blew it like a cyclone

fr

filmed it with my iPhone

say what

fucked it at the same time

uhh

cummin on an AI

yeeuh

now i gotta clean it

fr

robodude has SEEN shit

say what

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if you get this, you are a rockstar programmer

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first they came for me

because i don't know how the poem goes

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AI is not supposed to replace us. But we're not supposed to get rid of it. We have to work together.

that was something i realized yesterday on shrooms, seemed super deep at the time and i thought i'd share.

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I have a very secular, left-brained approach to meditation. Here's what I've learend so far.

This is the result of a whole lot of trial and error that goes back several years. I finally feel confident enough in the results to share with y'all.

I'm extremely focused on ways to facilitate breathing. It's well known that good posture leads to better breathing in general, so I corrected my lifelong slouch on purpose, all day, every day. This had mixed results. Sometimes, I thought "Wow, this is it!" and sometimes I thought, "I'm not feeling it anymore. What am I doing wrong?"

So there was an awful lot of that, and here's what I've learned. It's a postural adjustment that facilitates breathing.

What you want to do is focus on bringing your shoulders back and down. Don't try to force it. Well, you can do that, but you'll probably be uncomfortable.

This depresses the scapulae (via lower trapezius, serratus anterior) and opens up the upper ribs and upper back.

This creates space for the posterior ribcage to expand during inhalation — especially during deep, diaphragmatic breathing.

Elevating the scapulae engages muscles like the upper trapezius and levator scapulae, which can restrict rib mobility and promote shallow chest breathing.

Depressing the scapulae helps relax these accessory breathing muscles, encouraging diaphragmatic breathing instead.

Scapulae back and down supports neutral thoracic spine alignment, improving rib mobility and lung expansion.

In contrast, scapulae back and up can compress the upper thorax, limiting full breath volume.

There's one more thing:

This will all be much easier if your back is straight. I'm not talking about a super-upright military stance, but more like a neutral spine.

Several muscles can support or synergize with the lower trapezius and serratus anterior when bringing the scapulae back and down, especially by stabilizing or positioning the torso and scapula for efficient movement.

Here are the main helpers:

Thoracic Spinal Extensors Erector spinae (thoracic portion)

Spinalis thoracis

Semispinalis thoracis

How they help:

Promote an upright thoracic spine, which allows the scapulae to glide efficiently downward and inward.

Counteract excessive kyphosis, which limits scapular retraction/depression.

Sorry guys, that was a lot of copying and pasting from Wikipedia.

Ok, so that's it. Hope you try it out! This is all free of charge, of course. I'm not selling anything.

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