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• I wanna ah I wanna ah I wanna…
• SHE HAS A STROKE!

Completely agree with the situational stuff. Imagine you’re sitting in a park, trying to kick off a “just chilling and having fun” for yourself, but actually being nervous or anxious. But just sitting on your ass in a nice place can do wonders (remember it doesn’t count if you doomscroll) - from personal experience, my brain frantically tries to find some job for itself for a while: entertainment! thrill! flying space cats! - but when nothing happens, it switches to “okay, wake me up is something happens” mode, and I suddenly don’t need to run somewhere and do stuff.

I am currently living in a country where I already know enough local language to do the taxes, but from conversational point of view I look like a 5 y.o. kid: sometimes people wait for me to finish poorly building a phrase while they already know what that will be.
How would even a greatest text to speech or speech to speech LLM help me? Would I pull out my phone and start talking through it at a job interview? If I was single, would I do it say “hey guuuurl!” into my phone if I wanted to approach a girl an a cafe? (well, that would be either really weird, or funny in a good way). My point is, it would still be a crutch, and I don’t want to ba a person with a crutch, so I have to learn the language myself.
PS llms are helping me on a daily basis, because what google made for translating sentences, that openai and anthropic did on a more complex level - now I can ask: “the person said this - why did they say it in such a weird way?”. It was a “question to a private tutor” territory before

Yeah, apple always hated the “(any device) is a thing with folders and files inside” paradigm - it was always “I got this app that plays music, I don’t know how”. So it would be crazy if they would just make any device show the contents of the drive.

I was selling smartphones and smartphone accessories when they were just emerging, ending PDA era, and we had FM transmitters - it is powered from car, you plug in your device through aux, and the transmitter sends out the sound in FM, so you can catch it on your effin radio (the frequency were either fixed or selectable). This was the future!

Yes, that’s a risk, I’m just saying the eastern part of Russia is not exactly winning by being under Moscow. They have a major part of Russian’s heavy industry, oil, ores, lumber, and several million cities packed with universities, so they have an initial set of everything to “live independently”. But whoever is nearby will always look at those resources - material or human.

Right after the “Crimea referendum”, some guys in Saint-Petersburg tried to start a referendum for the independence of the North-West, and got majorly fucked for treason. Guess the “democracy” wasn’t a democracy enough

Siberia - easily. “the guys over the mountains” coule live by themselves and get more use of their asian ties, in contrary to working for Moscow.

I am from SPb, ant it would be cool.

1. North-west is a self-sustained region: machinery, ageiculture, large port, a 5-mil city you name it. We could live separately and be fine
2. Russia is called a federation, but in the reality, power of regions were largely taking away. So it is about sending taxes to Moscow and getting shit in return.
3. People are more “European”, before war a large part of more active/younger people were shopping/taking vacations in Finland, going to Estonia, or travel further through those countries. Same with Finns buying stuff in Russia or partying in SPb.
   With all the general closeness, I absolutely can see Saint-Petersburg and the region being a separate country with close ties (no-visa, EU member?) with Nordic and Baltic countries.
   But I guess it’s not happening, and by writing the things above I became a terrorist, “promoting rebellion and dissolution of the Russian state”