He moved out of the family home to go to grad school across the country.

When I went to go visit him (at the behest of my mom), he was incredibly careful about who I met and where we would go. It felt like there people he really didn’t want me to meet. During that trip I also overheard some bits of conversation while he was on the phone with… probably the mother of my secret half brother.

When he finished his degree, he didn’t come home and never really gave a coherent explanation as to why. He’s always been a bastard though, so I didn’t much care to inquire as long as he stayed gone.

Eventually I got a little older and got my first job. Suddenly he always needed money from me. I didn’t know it then, but I was paying part of his child support payments.

As to how I found out, I ended up going to grad school at the same institution where the mother of my half brother was employed, and so he confessed to things before I found out by running into this person.

I started to suspect my Dad might have a secret second family when I was in high school.

Maybe 10 years later, I learned that suspicion was correct.

What I mean is that most of these people are self interested fools who are nowhere near as knowledgeable as they believe themselves to be.

Most in that category are also not very good at their jobs, which leads to administrative bloat, torturously ineffective bureaucracy, and teaching positions going to whoever is best at politicking rather than the person who is better at teaching.

I don’t care at all about economic usefulness.

Somewhere around the majority of people employed in academia are absolutely useless.

I say this as an academic.

Where would you put Pop!_OS?

Also, there’s a wide spectrum of Lutherans and they often don’t get along.

Cremate me and stick the ashes in a nice chunk of woods

Cox n’ Crendor: Two middle age YouTubers have a chat once a week about pretty much nothing. It’s been going for 13 years and has a cult following.

Do Go On: Australian comedians deliver reports on history to each other.

Tunnel Talk: Okay, this is a wrestling podcast and 99% of those are wildly toxic. What makes this one different is that the ladies who host the show don’t take wrestling seriously at all. That and how horny they get for the wrestlers (of all genders). A good number of their listeners don’t even watch wrestling.

I think that some very old men in charge of both countries should find a safer way to feel masculine again.

I’ve grown in appreciation for math in the last couple of years, especially when it comes to things that are necessary or practical in my day to day life.

I hated it in school though, mostly because of bad teachers, I think, and because it’s an area of study with cut and dry answers.

I always preferred subjects where there were many possible answers to a question, like philosophy and such.

My honest opinion is that Discovery is nowhere near as bad as its detractors say.

That said, I also wouldn’t call it good Star Trek and didn’t finish the final season.

It’s boring, not bad.

Legitimately, the straight edge people I knew in high school are all republicans now.

This’ll be an absolute shit show that accomplishes nothing, costs a lot of money, and generally makes life worse for everyone.

Sounds like the Trump admin. That’s for sure.

I like Pop!_OS. It was my first distro and has been the one I go back to the most.

The window management options were a godsend when working on my dissertation.

Ursula Le Guin.

That depends entirely on the story the game is telling.

Ezekiel 16:49

This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but did not aid the poor and needy.

I’m an ex evangelical.

To put it in a sentence, they love Trump because the false image they have of him fits the heretical version of Christianity they follow.

Something like this would probably work.

Give them some cash, if I have a little extra. I recommend carrying a little change if you live in an area with regular homeless folks.

I used to bring a particular homeless guy who hung around my block a sandwich on my way to work, and a beer when walking my dog on Friday nights (if I saw him, for either occurrence). That was all when I lived in a different city though.

To be a little blunt here, someone who thinks using an LLM is equivalent to being in a relationship with a real person probably shouldn’t be in a relationship with a real person.