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“Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.” -Bucky Fuller

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godzilla_lives , to Chat in Thoughts on the Debate: We're doomed.
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My wife and ai keep talking about this. We plan to flee our deep south red state, but it fills us with survivor's guilt knowing we have the means to do so, and so so many just do not.

godzilla_lives , to Chat in Thoughts on the Debate: We're doomed.
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Will watch later, but can you briefly summarize so wife and I aren't freaking out until then? :(

godzilla_lives , to Nature and Gardening in What's growing on, Beehaw?
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Sweet or unsweet? Lemon or no? Choose wisely, traveler.

godzilla_lives , to Nature and Gardening in What's growing on, Beehaw?
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I plant garlic during the fall for this reason! Fresh garlic chives on my ramen with an egg, yes yes :D

godzilla_lives , to Nature and Gardening in What's growing on, Beehaw?
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Alt text: an image of various peppers (and one tomato) on a small wooden plate. There are small green peppers, small red peppers, a large curved cayenne, a small bell pepper, and two medium sized green peppers, either anaheim or poblano I don't know I'd have to check. The red peppers are starting to dry.

I done grew me a garden on my balcony ma! This isn't all I've harvested this season either, wife has turned my cayennes into a hot sauce already, and the red peppers you see here were turned into a hot-paste-base... thing! And my tomato plant keeps giving me fat and juicy bois every week or so. Nothing crazy, just a big red one on my balcony for wife to cut up and enjoy. I personally hate them, but c'est la vest and an alligator chest, as they say.

There's catnip and pumpkins and sunflowers I've grown from seed, and mint and basil and, man, I love having this little garden out there so much :)

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/1c404fa8-fbfd-4601-b800-40ec3820e279.webp

godzilla_lives , to Technology in This is What Prime Air Drone Delivery Looks Like - Core77
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BRB, loading my shotgun with birdshot.

Hm I need a shotgun.

godzilla_lives OP , to Space in Family whose roof was damaged by space debris files claims against NASA
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Thanks for the detailed explanation! That helps me understand it better myself. So basically, anything we put in orbit ourselves is always going to degrade, which requires routine positioning (i.e., expend some energy to keep the balloon in the air)?

godzilla_lives OP , to Space in Family whose roof was damaged by space debris files claims against NASA
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From my understanding, it was in orbit for three years before reentering our the atmosphere in an uncontrolled descent, then it fell through dude's roof.

godzilla_lives , to Nature and Gardening in What's growing on, Beehaw?
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Southern balcony gardener reporting in with mostly-positive results! Some of the plants I grew from seed are doing well, including my kale, micogreens, sunflowers, catnip, and even a few pumpkins! The kale and microgreens are looking great, though I need to harvest more to prevent crowding (right?), so I've actually started to add the microgreens into my lunches! I think I'll make a baby kale salad today as well.

Unfortunately, I've lost most of the pumpkin sprouts due to this heat and my own inexperience, but(!) I never had high hopes for container pumpkins on a balcony in the South. It's just a fun thing to try, and maybe the few I have will flower again and let me help pollinate.

That brings me to my real passion, peppers! My cayennes have been doing swimmingly, and I've been able to harvest enough for wife to make our own brand of hot sauce. It's pretty cool seeing a finished product this early in the summer! I'm excited for more to come in, especially my jalapenos and ghost peppers so we can make it kick a little harder. I actually found a hot dragon roll pepper that had ripened way sooner than expected, and Bees, I am happy to report that a glass of milk was almost necessary to help with the heat!

That's it for now :) here's a picture of a sunflower that I grew.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/0fb2ba3e-af70-4d3f-8435-c98eb37c2e6d.webp

Much love to y'all <3

godzilla_lives , to Chat in How's your week going, Beehaw?
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Thank you ❤ these comments are really helping me through a rough time, and I am so grateful.

godzilla_lives , to Technology in He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies
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I have no doubts about that either, myself. Though even if such an abomination of a doppelganger were to exist, and it seems that these companies are hellbent on making it so, it would be worse for the reasons you described previously: prolonging and molesting the grieving process that human beings have evolved to go through. All in the name of a dollar. I apologize for being so bitter about this (this bitterness is not directed at you, frog), but this entire "AI' phenomenon fucking disgusts and repulses me so much I want to scream.

godzilla_lives , to Technology in He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies
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We have a box of old recipe cards from my grandmother that my wife cherishes. My parents gifted them to her because out of all their daughter-in-laws, she is the one that loves to cook and explore recipes the most. I just can't imagine someone wanting something like that in a sterile technological aspect like an "AI-powered" app.

"But Trev, what if you used an LLM to generate summaries-" no, fuck off (he said to the hypothetical techbro in his ear).

godzilla_lives , to Chat in How's your week going, Beehaw?
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Thanks coy, I really do appreciate you taking the time to send some kindness my way. And that's true, it does get easier but it never really goes away, nor should it I guess. You're good people <3

godzilla_lives , to Chat in How's your week going, Beehaw?
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This really did help, thank you so much for your kindness. Your feelings are just as valid friend, and I hope you can take solace in hearing that from someone else, just as I did <3 We're gonna make it.

godzilla_lives , to Chat in How's your week going, Beehaw?
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It's okay. Had another dream where my mom inexplicably comes back from the dead. She even joked about how we'd have to reevaluate how we think of the situation. It's wild how going back to sleep before my alarm can just ruin the rest of my week. There's a lump in my throat that just won't go away. I feel guilty writing these thoughts out, hell I'm tearing up now because I know so many other people have real problems and there's this fucking election, and my wife's work is so much more difficult than mine and I haven't a leg to complain upon.

poem

I wish

to beat my fists against this desk

until they are bruised and bloody

for that is something

I may yet control

Thank you for allowing me to vent. Much love to you all.

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