I'm officially two weeks out from Airforce BMT.

what have I done

Imagine if it was a winking giraffe.

Nothing says compensating like a $680k watch.

Suffocation and commitment

Both deal with the idea of being trapped and I despise that feeling. The feeling of not being able to do or prevent something, of being powerless.

Woah, okay, I love this. Thank you so much for sharing.

Try running in the morning and in the evenings, go for a walk with an audio book of your required reading. Kill two birds with one stone!

Now the presidential election can be as dank as my memes.

"I was nearly murdered, but at least I wouldn't have died alone!"

I feel like a lot could go wrong with this...especially in LA.

Well, unhappy IS the converse... it's a snapshot of a time that was very bad.

Not being happy doesn't equate to unhappiness. Maybe in writing sure, but not in real life. Happiness isn't two state of beings, it's a spectrum. Often, in our day to day lives, we reside near the middle of the spectrum, neither overtly happy or not, just content. Some moments of our life shift us closer to either end, but to constantly live in a state of pure joy is to live in a utopia - and we all know how that ends.

The above is a healthy person, a person whose neutral state rests near the middle of the spectrum. A depressed person would be one whose neutral state rests near the "unhappy" side of the spectrum. It is unhealthy for a person to be giddy 100% of the time; in the same sense, it is unhealthy for a person to always be miserable.

In the end, to decipher your own happiness and whether or not you should change, you must first clear your mind of any one person's definition of happiness. Forget everything you've learned or been taught because it's all pressures of a society made by humans for humans. Look into yourself and determine: Am I content? What do I want to change? Is it reasonable to want these things to change? Is so, how will I change them?

The article basically describes the planning fallacy. People imagine, and thus expect, the best possible circumstances and are consequently surprised when reality falls short. In that sense, positive thinking isn't always the best, but then neither is negative thinking. The solution is simply to think rationally. While positive thinking is nice, in reality such is detrimental to achieving our goals.

As for fantasizing, all things in moderation. Fantasizing allows us to see beyond the realm of possibility. At its best, it nurtures imagination and fosters hope. Allowing- just briefly- yourself to imagine what life could be, paired with rational goal setting, is what separates the day-to-day achievers from the entrepreneurs. After all, generations of humans had to fantasize over flight to one day invent the airplane.

Rumo. There's no possible way to describe this book other than a coherent cocaine trip that went surprisingly well.

Reading this article--while impressive--just shows us how far we are from a true AI. The definition of AI is "the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages".

In order to create a true AI, the machine itself would have to be as perfectly flawed as humans. It would have to possess the ability for irrational thinking, misinterpretation, forming a bias and then dismantling that bias. That would be true metalearning. We learn and interpret this world by making mistakes, recognizing these mistakes, then rectifying them. Additionally, in order for an AI to be fully integrated in our world AS a true AI and not a complex calculator, it would have to be able to recognize and factor in the numerous inconsistencies and exceptions in both our world and in humans. Creating an AI without these imperfections would make it nothing more than a machine, because as much science as philosophy provides on how and why and ways to recognize a human's thought process, there are always exceptions and information gaps.

As long as we are unsure of the exact way a human mind operates, a true AI will be nothing more than science fiction.

Lovely, I'm heading to Ireland in about two weeks.

If you visit "spaceflight now", it'll give you a whole schedule of upcoming launches.

This is what it's like to fail.

To fall and scream,

To break and decay.

To float aimlessly until you're anchored at the bottom by the weight in your chest.

This is what it's like to lose.

To grasp nothingness.

To envy and hate.

To try again and again because you've been told you could but you can't and now you're--

This is what it's like to fall.

This is what it's like to crash.

This is what it's like to be collected in a heap of broken bones by the depths of despair and you're trapped, alone.

This is what it's like heal.

Slow and painful.

Cautiously, but able.

This is what it's like to stand.

To wobble and trip.

To stumble and shake.

To grasp blindly for the walls as support and they cut your palms, but you're on your feet.

This is what it's like to climb.

To burn and tremble.

To bleed and sweat.

To ignore the protests of your mind and heed the leaps of your heart until finally, finally!

You're free.

And the light burns your eyes and skin and you're tired but you've started again and now, now you're--

This is what it's like to succeed.

Thank you, I'm glad the emotion came across as intended.

I've been trying to follow a lot of tags for that reason. I notice after a good 30 minutes, there's nothing else to look at.

Are they wood? They look interesting.

I'm not necessarily saying people help others for the sole purpose of feeling good, but it's definitely a result and may even be a subconscious driving factor.

Cool buy all the same and looking forward to it!

Cool buy all the same and looking forward to it!

I don't know why I find that so funny, but I'm crying. I hope they wrap my apples in convenient little packages next.

Thank God Russia hadn't launched an attack against the U.S. with a drone.

Honestly, I had a lot of trepidation about a third party to begin with. With two awful candidates, I feel like we'd end up with another Bull Moose Party with the worst of the candidates winning by a hair as result of split votes.

DUDE YES THOSE THINGS ARE SO COOL

This is a brilliant point, thank you. I'm trying to wrap my head around how there's no such thing as an act of selflessness.

I'm not a big DIYer, but just wanted to say that place looks beautiful!

Thanks! That definitely explains some of the user-to-user interaction I've seen.

Ha! And I've been noticing that. I've only been on for three days and I already recognize many usernames (yours included).