Thank you for that, it was lovely.

One phrase I have eaten from Joe Abercrombie for anything eloquenty put is simply “those were good words”. Even simple words hit hard when meant sincerely.

Would recommend the book series (First Law trilogy)!

(Attenborough voice) Espresso finch finds itself newly evolved in this concrete jungle. Sometimes competeing with the cocaine finch for energy sources, this species has evolved to consume coffee beans and used grinds it finds due to the gentrification of this jungle. It builds up pressure by holding in its urine for weeks and then using it to dissolve the nutrients for easy digestion. Sadly, this species is now on the verge of extinction being sought by hipsters and bored millionaires for their unique methods.

While not fully relevant, reminded me of this gag.

What does it look like I’m doing

I know it’s a joke but I’ve legit curbed my snacking habits by eating a single chip as slowly as I possibly can.

A bit tough at the start but over time, that need to inhale yummy foods does reduce. Would recommend trying!

And now you’ve given me a new way to level up in Zen. Going to win Zen so hard, you’ll be eating my Cheese & Jalapeño flavour dust.

Appreciate your reccs!

Love the voice notes idea. And zettel seems quite fit for purpose especially compared to Obsidian. Will have to see what transcription services are available.

Was not aware of bookwyrm so thank you. Having some community definitely helps with motivation.

Funnily enough, How Democracies Die is technically on my hard books list that I simply can’t get past the first chapter. It’s tricky to find time and determine what is a worthwhile struggle vs just a unworthwhile pain.

Appreciate your answer and recommendations! Will have to take it 2 pages at a time as you say haha.

I only was using it as a category!

A few people are great friends of mine!! I like all people equally.

Ooh haven’t taken a bath in years! Pray the book isn’t too interesting otherwise you’ll prune into old age.

Thanks for the input! If I may ask, where exactly do you do your academic reading? On your desk? And how do you make time/ritual for it?

It’s probably because of the English. Don’t get too close to them.

Which to me just doesn’t make sense.

The man is hungry for attention and respect. His money would have bought him that and then some.

It was right there. Don’t buy a super yacht and you’d effectively buy good will and get to one up all the rich elite club members, even if it doesn’t work. And all that free marketing to help the numbers go up.

I dunno. Maybe money at that level just rewires the brain.

Well put! Thank you.

Ouch.

But thank you? a. For considering my attempt at formatting and absurdity with clankers. I would argue that to be human is to accept the absurdity of it all. But I guess it is getting tricky…

Out of curiosity, I did ask some llms my baby throwing question:

• perplexity just straight up said no. Unethical question.
• Chatgpt treated it like a physics problem. All while asking me about technique…
• deepseek gave a balanced reply. Followed by “Do not attempt”. Which I thought was fair.

b. For at least entertaining my notion I understand that it’s all subjective… that’s why I was trying to define a scale, or at least a comparison.

c. You did help me get closer to an answer. If I take a loose definition of Trust as being my ability to predict its behaviour [and its ability to not harm me] (which I think is fair but arguable…), I would trust a rock more than an adult (and somehow even a baby more than an adult). In my hypothetical world, a trusted consenting adult would help me throwing them thus increasing the overall distance. So the positive correlation is more fitting in most cases (at least in that assumption).

I fully acknowledge the absurdity and the stupid premise. I thought this was nostupidquestions.

{Edited to try fix formatting… Ugh can’t. It stays. Thank you for bearing with me! Hope you have a nice day.}

I hear you and yep, since throwing ability is limited, trust is in short supply.

Which is why I wanted to consider that throwing ability can vary and therefore the amount of trust. And what can I extrapolate from this scale!