I'm ever so quickly learning how to use a guitar and music production after a decade of not doing anything related to music (was a jazz sax player). Partially because of how bad the economy is.

A true recession indicator.

I can't get past the visualization of Doc Brown going back in time because it was the only way to make sure Katie Wilson got elected.

Just don't go too far or else they'll give up and shrink away lol

That all being said, if I could create locally a digital clone of myself based on MRIs, EEG, and enough recorded data to out compete the base layer of training, and if that clone of myself knew what it was, I would be okay with it, and with you all talking to it.

Nor would i use this to bring back anyone I've lost. When I was a young child, I thought my dead grandmother was talking to me through a video tape she left behind. In hindsight, she made preparations. Three minutes is not enough preparation to create a visage of what you once were. >

We were in such an exciting place with breakthroughs everywhere on the cusp. I am so furious at this criminal derailment of our hopes.

if your moderation rules require banning someone for purely hyperbolic statements in response to a public figure who's not even on the platform,

you need a new set of moderation rules.

Example: Was reminded by a piece of tech of an old MP3 player I used to own. Connected to that object is memories of a past cat of mine. The pleasant memories are of overall connected experiences I had with the MP3 player because they are tangentially related. It wasn't better. It just was.

I keep feeling like I don't actually experience nostalgia when others describe what it means to them, or when I see others sucked into it.

To me, it was always a semi-warm feeling when my brain makes connections between an object in the now and tangentially related concepts from the past.

we have a world where mr beast pulls down half a billion dollars a year to torture people for entertainment, while countless creatives are just trying to make ends meet with no desire to take more than they need.

it's just all so fucking bleak.