Lemmy_2019

Me too. Can’t remember why?

I studied IQ tests for a bit and scored 155 on the MENSA exam in the 1990s. Never took another one and I’m sticking with that forever.

Do you just try and describe what it tastes like?

James Connolly and Jim Larkin would be horrified.

I’m not even sure what dinner toast is. How does OP combine all those? Is he making a quiche?

I think I remember finding an option to dim that.

How about when they come for the next $1,000 not having paid back the first?

There is an Irish rural accent that pronounces it AY-ther.

Me too. Out of interest do you pronounce it ‘gif’ as well?

I record meetings of my building’s board of management, nothing secret there, very mundane. I run it through Whisper and give the transcript to ChatGPT. It condenses everything into accurate minutes, resolutions and action items. Saves me a shit ton of work, finished in seconds. I’m never going back!

The way the book was explained to me, if your dad is a working stiff he’ll just tell you to work hard at whatever high paying job you can get. If your dad is a high finance type of guy, he’ll show you that the real money is in managing money.

Good concept, and true I guess. The book is useless though!

I actually liked The Fountainhead. Rugged, taciturn individualist architect slowly overcomes all the scheming poseurs. It appealed to the younger me anyway. I didn’t pick up on any deeper message at the time and this was pre-internet so I didn’t have a clue who Ayn Rand was.

I haven’t read the source material but the movie is one of the best sci-fi films of the new millennium, and certainly one of the most enjoyable. Films like Arrival, Dune, Blade Runner 2049 are visually striking and thoughtful but Edge of Tomorrow is also great fun.

He’s a genius and so am I because I like him.

And youse in Dublin.

Tasks.org Android app and desktop thing.

Can you expand on your wiki usage?

Same here. Reminds me that Reddit was mostly techy posts for the first while too.

Art, as the old adage goes, is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. It certainly is work, if you’ve ever sculpted an eight foot block of marble, or memorised one of Beethoven’s piano sonatas. And it doesn’t leave much time for paying the rent. The question is whether we compensate people for art, such that they can keep doing it. Does society invest in it, so that people of limited means can participate and have their voices heard? This debate has existed for thousands of years.

I’m sure astronauts love their work too, but they still get paid. Artistic endeavours cannot be reserved solely for the idle rich.