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Have you been rocking an old classic? Discovering something new? Revisiting some nostalgic bands from the past?

If you've got links, post 'em up!

A fun tool for discovering new bands: https://www.music-map.com/

I'm a person whose love to cook different types of food everyday, especially for lunch (sometimes brunch) and dinner. I wonder if anybody here can give their own favorite food (maybe recipe too) for me to cook and eat :)

[Hint: my diet are consisted of dairy product, seafood, green veggies, tomato, eggplant, mushrooms, and egg]

So i got my practical exam tomorrow for which i had the whole weekend to study but instead i just rotted on the bed with my phone the whole time. Lets see how it goes. Btw the practical exam is on Pharmaceutical Analysis(its a subject) for those who are curious

Everytime someone makes some argument against me, talking about some casual debates, or simply talks a bit harsher towards me I always get feeling like I want to cry? Idk why, in most situations I just don't feel anything, in most normal situations I am simply existing with little to no emotions, sometimes smiling. I don't really know where to post this, hope this is right place.

Inspired by this article: https://theconversation.com/reluctance-to-reach-out-to-old-friends-is-a-common-experience-but-reconnecting-can-pay-off-263079

I feel like a child. 🤣 I've wanted to do this all my life and, along with a couple of my kids, we decided to look up tutorials and make it happen. And... I can finger whistle now! And I can't stooop! 😗🎶

There's multiple ways to do it and they're all pretty similar, but the keys seem to be rolling back the tip of the tongue and making sure to close off extra spaces so the air has only one route to travel.

What's something silly you've learned recently that's brought you joy?

I only gave it up a year ago after COVID had begun, but suddenly everyone around me is snorting and hacking, and apparently very few people bother covering their mouth when they do anymore. It's just for crowded spaces but 1 in 65 people in Canada have COVID right now, and while I'm super ultra vaccinated I don't want to catch anything in general. It feels strange.

Feel free to have a look at

!movies@piefed.social
!television@piefed.social
!animation@piefed.social

I hadn't have the best interaction with people and I have made friends that I felt wasn't great for me as well as gotten out an controlling relationship a year ago. It has eaten up my self-esteem where I am scared to actually talk to anyone in real life as I worried similar thing would happen.

I know I need to push myself out there which is easier said than done. One thing I tried to do is if I am in a decent mood, I got to one the social group which is on like every month as well as join in to my friend's karaoke night and sing terribly. Sadly, I'm not Mariah Carey.. 😔

So I have taken slow steps up which is better than taking none I guess but I got long way till I feel confident in myself where I stop worrying about everything as it really does held me back in general.

As much as I like AI but the last years are kind of a lot, sometimes just too much for me.

I can't even watch youtube without getting a video translated into my language which is quite annoying.

The first search on google has an AI telling me the stuff I need to know, don't even have to look at real human threads at this point.

Not even going to deep on the AI generated videos, news etc. because that is insane already and we aren't even peaking.

I am 40 years old. Imagine studying a few years on a 200.000 €/$ or whatever currency degree just to find out that the job won't even exist by 2028.

Imagine finding out that you won't be able to pay off your debt cause most fastfood restaurants will use AI/ Bots that can serve, prepare, clean etc. 24/7 while a useless human needs breaks, wants money and needs days off and can only work 8 hour shifts.

I know this sounds crazy but I really think by 2030 we will have 80% jobs replaced by AI and the new jobs that might evolve out of jobs that have vanished will only be doable for AGI/ Super Intelligence.

Think about it.... while in the 1800s machines have replaced or made jobs easier, they still required humans manpower to produce them, to maintaine them and to even use them.

Now we are basically replacing what made humans - human - our brains. As we know the human brain has never ever been replaced by something and that is the organ that put us where we are in the food chain. And we are creating something that is BETTER, FASTER, MORE EFFICIENT than our a brain.

It could all be cool and nice and fun and games if we wouldn't be replacing humans in a very short time frame til 2030. It could all be cool,... if not every country would be competing in this race to super intelligence.

Looking at this neutral and seeing what is happing, imo I might be doomed in 5 years.

I really think I will be fck.d up in 5 years. A job is annoying, but it's also a humans purpose. A way to express itself and be useful to society. If this is being taken away we will find 95% of humanity in a huge depression and suicide rates are going to rise by 2030.

Edit: We can't even imagine and visualise what super intelligence will do and can do. Before we even understand what this AI just created and offered us the next best thing is already produced.

We are basically getting smarter with every new upgrade AI will give us, but get dumber in the process cause we can't even PROCESS the new stuff.

Bland example: currently phones are getting upgrades 1-2 years and we can read whats new and see the new things. Imagine those phones being produced every week with new and better and more useful upgrades. We'd buy the phone, understand the phone and after a week the next phone with 5 new features is on the markert and we are outdated.

We can't process the new upgrades etc. in such a short time frame. We aren't capable of that. This leads us to getting dumber with every new upgrade.

Imagine AI creating a Boeing and after a year we understand how to use it. But during that year it already released a Boeing that can fly at the speed of flight. It can't be used cause humans cant use it and would die at those speeds. But AI could.

AI will be producing so much trash knowledge lol.

Mine's coming up and trying to decide on something special.

I have some free time after having been laid off, and one of the things I've though about is a video series where I go around the towns that Amtrak stops in between the big cities. The two goals would be to have it make money, and the long term goal being to increase rail interest in the US especially on tracks that already exist. I worry no one would watch it and I'm wasting my time.

I don’t even know if this has an actual solution but this is the best I’ve managed.

Challenge (with every letter of the alphabet, once), use all the tiles making complete words.

Can obvs do scrabble style like this.

How’s everyone’s week so far?

Not quite as dramatic as in Liar, Liar, but I’ve been having a really shitty past few days mentally, and today was the first opportunity I’ve had to get to the gym since last Thursday.

We did a lot of cardio today: 7 minutes alternating between running, rowing, running again, and ski machine; then we did 5 minutes alternating between rowing and kettlebell jump squat; and 5 minutes alternating between skiing and dumbbell thrusters.

I absolutely killed it. I usually run out of breath and end up maxing out my heart rate (180bpm), which usually causes me to hit the wall pretty quickly with cardio. But today I ran 725m out of 800, and I did almost everything unbroken (i.e. non-stop). I did pause for 10 seconds near the end on the ski machine to catch my breath, but I’d like to think I made up for it by going full blast for the last 15 seconds.

Suffice it to say, I feel less shitty right now.

What are some of your favorite relaxing activities? Could be anything that puts your mind at ease, a relaxing game, a hobby, a place you visit or music.

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Originally I was thinking of violent thugs, but then I came to think that thugs exist in many varieties, like the aforementioned thugs of physical violence, but then also economical thugs or general power tripping thugs abusing power at whatever level they are at. It such a simple and pointless living. I can't understand it.

Have you been rocking an old classic? Discovering something new? Revisiting some nostalgic bands from the past?

If you've got links, post 'em up!

A fun tool for discovering new bands: https://www.music-map.com/

Just joined Pixelfed and there's a lot of interesting thing going on, but i wish i can explore by hashtag so i can follow thing that interest me, and maybe post with it.

City cleaning just came by to pick up our old sofa set. It was old and completely worn out and really had to go.
But I definitely made a mistake seeing them pick it up. A huge truck came by with a big crane and pretty much tore our old couch to pieces while lifting it in.
At that moment I felt so emotional. I thought back to all the great memories I had with that couch. Seeing my kids grow up playing on it, our late cat sleeping on it in the sun, all the cuddles we had on it...
For some reason I felt like our couch deserved better than such a cruel ending. It's funny how attached you can get to some inanimate object.