I saw the series but never any of the movies, saw it in high school and it was pretty good for an intro to giant robots fighting monsters. Not my first anime I think that was 8 man after or Dragonball z.

Nature’s googly eyes

What should I do?

Wait until it’s night out, then take a long walk to think about your life. At least an hour or two, really wander around a bit, sit under a tree for a bit (just check for spiders first). Consider yourself as captain of earth, riding this big ball of mud and water and cheese and birds and Roblox across the solar system, which in turn is falling around the edges of the milky way Galaxy, which is falling towards the great attractor chased by the larger Andromeda Galaxy. And beyond that billions of light years of more galaxies and black holes and more muddy dirt balls falling through spacetime. From that cosmic perspective it’s really easy to hear the sea lions and horses barking across the bay as you flour pixies from surreal bakery baskets.

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Yeah that’s the stat that made me think they were much more common, but the third who do own guns tend to own more than one, and a few own way more than one.

I think his influence is there in a lot of works even if he’s not called directly by name as often as some of his contemporaries. My experience with his books were mostly in translations for learning foreign languages.

I think it’s going to be different for each kid but teaching how to be self reliant was a pretty big one for both building confidence and being willing to try and fail at things, face your fears, etc. Don’t know what a word means? Look it up. Not sure how to cook something? Check the recipe. Bored? Go to the library or park, etc. learning how to figure things out for yourself in a safe, stable environment seems to make a big difference.

Gotta indoctrinate that guilt of being born human beings early and often, took me almost 10 years to deconstruct and let go of those fears

Less than half of Americans own guns, it’s some of the people who do own guns that own an armory worth of weapons that throws the stats off.

32% own a gun, 42% live in a household with a gun

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/

Tldr; hospital and er administrators (capitalist business bros running for profit healthcare businesses) want to deregulate ai-reads for poors to push more rubes through the for profit healthcare system that makes money on more throughput & not get sued when outcomes get worse, and keep more time consuming but necessary doctor-reads only for premium healthcare payers.

Al Capone was very successful at running blackmail and intimidation rackets despite being mentally well below average. It doesn’t take intelligence to do what maga does, that’s kinda the point why they do it because it’s the only way they’ve seen how to accumulate power that doesn’t require intelligence or at least good prediction models.

So many having access to the bulk of human knowledge and so many driving head first into conspiracy theories and magical thinking for comfort seems pretty cursed

In a time of constant attention distractions and exploiting addiction triggers and misinformation some folks choosing to reject corporate media to actually read books and primary sources and get PhDs to do more academics seems pretty blessed

The em field seems like 50 different things but it’s all different frequency ranges of the same thing is pretty mind blowing

Usual business “journalism”

• 4 CEOs quoted
• 0 labor leaders quoted
• 1 radiologist quoted as the very last paragraph of the article:

“Undeniable proof that confidently uninformed hospital administrators are a danger to patients: easily duped by AI companies that are nowhere near capable of providing patient care,” Suhail told Radiology Business. “Any attempt to implement AI-only reads would immediately result in patient harm and death, and only someone with zero understanding of radiology would say something so naive. But in some sense, they’re correct: Hospitals are happy to cut costs even if it means patient harm, as long as it’s legal.”