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Hacker, cypherpunk. All memes are my own.
I’m curious why there’s a drop in the number of girls wanting to not get married but boys have stayed basically constant. The survey definitely shows like women have a lower desire for children, but how much does the decline in the institution of marriage play into this rather than an underlying change in a desire for families?
Pew Research Center
12th grade girls are less likely than boys to say they want to get married someday
67% of 12th graders say they’ll likely choose to get married someday, down from 80% in 1993. The decline reflects shifting views among girls.
Updated to macOS Tahoe. Of course Apple broke a whole bunch of scripting APIs that I use. Apparently you just can't get the currently playing song title in Apple Music with Applescript because fuck you I guess. Every update, I start to more seriously consider switching to Linux for my next laptop. I hate feeling like I'm a guest on my own computer begging for the ability to get access to the internal state of my own laptop.
The new Taylor Swift album feels like the songwriter version of computer scientists whiteboard masturbating. She spent so much time flaunting how clever she is at writing lyrics that she forgot to actually make good music. Everything just comes out sounding blandly floaty.
Urban Dictionary
Urban Dictionary: whiteboard masturbation
whiteboard masturbation: A term sometimes used in certain software engineering circles to refer to the excessive use of things like [object-oriente...
Manifold
Will the UN declare a famine in Gaza by 2030?
Resolved YES. Resolution criteria This market will resolve to "Yes" if, by December 31, 2030, the United Nations (UN) officially declares a famine...
 Can't believe I got rug pulled by the UN. What a joke. I forecasted that the UN wouldn't declare a famine in Gaza because a real famine requires 2 deaths per 10k, which works out to ~420 deaths per day. The chances of this happening are insanely low and you've been brain rotted by your news feed if you think it is. What I failed to factor in was the possibility that the UN would just change its definition of what a famine is by removing the 2 deaths 10k requirement completely. The situation in Gaza is definitely bad, but focusing this much on what words we use to describe it (genocide, famine) is not helpful and distracts from the actual situation on the ground. Semantics are stupid, just focus on the facts.
Note to self: never ask an LLM for flirting suggestions. It'll take a while for capabilities to improve enough to become useful. Just wrote a Python script to extract messages from a conversation in iMessages, then fed it into an LLM to get feedback and suggestions as a test. After reading LLM flirting suggestions I think I might die of cringe. I have never felt such a strong urge to gag while reading non-NSFW text.