Anyone feel to correct me if k get any of this wrong, but punk as a genre evolved primarily in a cosmopolitan London ( unsure how much other English cities contributed - someone else can comment) where working class locals and immigrants from countries from across the British empire that had immigrated to London brought their local music with them - first wave aka, reggae, rock and roll, dub(?) all influenced young working class londoners and influenced the development of punk which was firmly rooted in class consciousness, a diy ethos, and rebellion against the rigid classist system of post war England.

Everything you’re talking about came later.

You might not necessarily hear the musical influence of some of these genres in the first punk bands that became well known, but the cultural impact of fans of these genres of music was integral to the development of a punk rock ethos that embraced working class solidarity, rebellion against authority, and diy.

If you are not kind or emotionally supportive you a) have no right to expect the same from a partner and b) probably shouldn’t have one.

A partnership requires emotional support from both partners. To expect this to go one way is fucked up.

It’s the damndest thing.

When you work on yourself, like yourself, and invest in your interests, women are more attracted to you.

Like. The easiest way to trick people into liking you is to be a good person. And then one day you’re like: hey, I can’t believe this is working, tenting your fingers, and you can’t think of anything you’ve done in a decade that you hate yourself for and you’re like: holy shit, AM I a good person?

My understanding is punk came about at least in part of the first wave of ska, not the other way around.

Though I could be mistaken.

Uhhhhhhh noye?

Ya know, this really makes you think about the upper limit of plastic microparticles that can fit into a human asshole doesn’t it?

You keep saying number crunching - gpus “crunch numbers” cpus “crunch numbers” ai models ARE numbers.

It might or it might not.

I agree that it will likely will given the insane progression in ai models of every kind and the absurd amount of money being invested into it, but it’s not a certainty.

LLMs are likely a dead end but anyone that thinks the buck stops there is an idiot.

I sincerely don’t understand how anything you wrote with disagrees with my comment about technological advancement not being linear.

Sits on it

The thing is that technology is not linear.

That could happen tomorrow.

It might never happen.

It likely isn’t going to happen with LLMs but the next big breakthrough could happen at any time. Or never.

There’s is nothing too awful to happen to sundar Prichai.

No horrible fate could befall that man that would not cause me delight.

Polyhogcrankerhiphopoptamous

Stainless steel hog roaster.

It can roast a human.

Look at this human. He could be roasted. Where is he? Don’t ask questions. Look.

Come eat hog. Roasted hog. Very long roasted hog. Come alone.

Appreciate that!

I’m kind of in a decision paralysis moment atm.

I’ve got a clear runway and the ability to pull the trigger on something but I’m finding it hard to just go.

Guess it’s about time to shit or get off the pot with the coming new year though.

Cool.

Thanks.

Ive actually been considering getting my pilots license so this is weirdly topical.

Huh.

Since I have no experience in any of this stuff, do you take a school course or just approach a company and be all: teach me about avionics and pay me?

What is AP school?

Also I’m in Canada so I’d imagine the whole thing is kind of different.

Huh.

I do like planes. And electronics. Though everything I know in that area is self taught and I don’t know a lot. I can finance the education to make a shift in my life. I am so burnt out on my career - good money but completely burnt out and never want to do it again.

Hmmm.