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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Of course not. I’m in love with a whole person, not her appearance. I love her fierce intellect, her passion for justice, her wanderer’s spirit. I love that we can sit together and watch anything only for it to lead to a new and endlessly fascinating discussion.

    Makeup doesn’t affect any of that.

    I like how makeup highlights her favorite features or hides when she feels tired or insecure. I like that it helps her feel more fully herself. I think it’s great that makeup can do that for her.

    She will always be attractive to me for who she is. How she looked may have helped me first talk to her, but who she is has kept us talking for 16 years.












  • It’s my understanding that, with LLMs, being polite can net better results because they’re trained off human interactions where being polite is better.

    It’s not that they care at all, it’s just how language works.

    I’ve not seen a study of the phenomenon or even tested it myself, but it seems plausible.


  • I suspect just the air near the bat, as we both did it on our first try. Bats are small and fast, so the odds of us hitting the bat on the first try is low.

    To be fair, in both instances, the bat had gotten into a building and couldn’t be shooed back out, so intervention is pretty important to saving its life.

    Once it’s on the ground, you pretty much have it, as they can’t take off from the ground. Mine scampered under a bed very quickly and we had to move the bed to scoop it up and carry it outside.

    In both instances, the bat was perfectly fine and flew off safely once outside.