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  His case really puzzled me. Like I can understand how people raised in a racist family could grow up to be racists. I don’t understand at all how people can do that at a later age. I think he alienated most of his family with his tirades too. People do other sorts of radical shifts later in life too of course. I think sometimes there are late-onset mental illnesses involved. I think the internet can be a very dangerous place for some types of people.

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  No, of course not. But that’s not a very charitable take, is it? Obviously the sinking ship situation goes away with the life jackets and the setting for buying the Pokémon cards is more typical, like a convention or a hobby store.

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  Used to love plug-in-heavy, customizable tools. Then I realized I loved spending time customizing and installing all those plugins, and not a lot of time getting work done. Now I just prefer good tools that can do everything I need but not necessarily optimally. As long as they feel really efficient for 95% of use cases and the other 5% are possible (but not optimal) I am good with that. I don’t need to reach for “the perfect tool” anymore.

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  I haven’t eaten at Long John Silver’s in over 30 years. I was just a young kid then and I didn’t even like seafood. I did like their hush puppies. What I remember most was the decor. It was a core memory for me. The place was decorated like you’d expect to see in Treasure Island. Tropical island theme, shipwrecked cargo and nautical imagery. It’s really what a family restaurant should be! Now I love seafood but LJS doesn’t seem to exist in Canada anymore? Makes me quite sad, even though it sou...

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  I don’t think so. I think AI cranks up the noise to 11, definitely, and makes culture hard to find. I think it spells the doom of search engines like Google for actually finding human-created stuff. But that culture, that creativity, is still out there. It’s just hard to find. It takes word of mouth and effort to find it. It’s the [Dark Forest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis?wprov=sfti1) stage of the Internet.

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  Temperature is a human invention, it doesn’t exist in nature. What exists in nature are particles with differing amounts of thermal and kinetic energy. Temperature is a measurement of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an area. But just like with the average height of people in a room, there’s no guarantee that any particular particle is equal to that average. Now, having got that out of the way, the way our bodies work is that they seek a thermodynamic equilibrium. That is, they tr...