If I were a young person in college now, I wonder what incentive I'd have to do anything, given that AI is going to render all my efforts obsolete...

That's cool! Sometimes I'd try to imagine what it looked like before the bridge was there. I read that some people objected to it being built. Maybe I would have hated the idea of it ruining the view, but since I arrived afterwards, I loved the view with it there.

I do think hydrating extra the day of and the day before could help, that's what I did.

I grew up with those editions... unfortunately, I hated classical music piano lessons so much, it killed my enjoyment of playing and I quit. I wish I'd had lessons with music I liked, and centered on the joy of making music, to start with. Then covered classical exercises later ( or not!)

I got the shingles vaccine shots and didn't feel anything beyond a sore arm that night.... just to let you know that not everyone feels sick afterwards. Also, I knew a nurse who got shingles and was in terrible pain for two months.

It's a slice of life in a quintessential NYC that was and is in some parallel universe.... one of infinitudes jostling at the edges of awareness like quantum foam........

Europe knows the truth that can't be spoken aloud

Gonna keep posting this 2017 Newsweek quote.

From what I've seen, in general Americans will end up watching whatever movies are shoved in front of them. Superheroes, cops, wisecracking cartoon animals, etc. Over time, the zeitgeist shifts and presto, that becomes what the audience prefers.

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