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my-life-for_aiur t1_jegts0d wrote

Reply to LPT Don't ask someone you've just met: "What do you do?" (boring) by themasterd0n

In college a professor told us a story about visiting colleagues in the UK.

One of them mentioned to him that Americans like to go straight to that question and for him to hold off on asking people what they do for a living.

He said once it was far into the evening the colleague asked him what he thought of everybody and he said everyone was nice and it was a treasure to meet everyone.

Afterwards he went on to tell him what everyone did for a living and he was surprised about everyone's profession because he would have never guessed based on the conversations he had with them.

He said it was refreshing not knowing one's profession as you end up judging a person based on that information.

This professor was old, so I'm sure 20 years ago in college for me, it was 20 - 30+ years ago for him.

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yowen2000 t1_jegtrmn wrote

Reply to my (21f) boyfriend (25m) thinks i’m cheating on him by li_bby

He is projecting, or he is being manipulative, either way he is a big tall red flag if this is practically always a problem, not only that, he has cheated on you and he has LITERALLY threatened to kill you.

You are in a dangerous situation, he is already verbally abusive, it's not a stretch to think it could turn physical, my advice is to leave him, in a hurry. Can you go stay with your parents?

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just-a-dreamer- t1_jegtrd4 wrote

Reply to How could AI actually cause the extinction of Homo sapiens? by BeNiceToYerMom

AI could have a goal one day. Any goal. The problem for us mearbags humans is, we compete for scarce resources.

That is nothing personal, that is just the state of existence.

An AI that wants to send ships into deep space in scale for example would look at the most efficient way to make it happen. Use all resorces on earth to that end.

That gets AI in trouble with humans. And just like humans killed 95% of wildlife, AI would do the same with the human animal.

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BrunettexAmbition t1_jegtqvn wrote

Reply to comment by magredditbu in DC metro waiting time are sad by magredditbu

Exactly, the idea that people around here think that 8 or 10 minutes is reasonable almost all other major cities worldwide have figured it out boggles the mind. Hell even with our crumbling infrastructure in the US this is way behind other cities like NYC, Philly, and Boston. I’m so sick of people saying be grateful for the crappy things we have when we’re trailing behind and paying a premium.

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Mikey637 t1_jegtqnv wrote

Reply to comment by r1ch999999 in TIL that New Orleans chicory coffee mix started during the American Civil War when Union naval blockades cut off the port of New Orleans bringing coffee shipments to a halt. New Orleanians looking for their coffee fix began mixing chicory with coffee to stretch out the supply. by GeoJono

Some high percentage of people are sensitive to chicory, I personally can’t drink it without getting spaced out, hot and agitated and it raises the average persons gut acidity, old job had cheap coffee for staff and I got tested for IBS and other issues until we worked it out.

If anyone here tends to have upset stomachs often with burning check your coffee, it may be cheap and you might be sensitive, it wrecked havoc on my digestive system for close to a year.

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