@mcc that's the thing tho - if you dig down you can keep answering "why" to a point, but then... Why SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1)?

At some point, are the fundamental symmetries that give rise to the standard model feel arbitrary; the values of the masses of the particles, the strength of the fundamental forces, and the coupling constants feel arbitrary; this is (in part) why we still have string theorists.

@mcc to be fair, a lot of QM is... "somehow shit is like this, and that's why we exist... somehow"

Seriously, I found the one team sport that doesn't require you to use your hands and now that I can't do it anymore I am LOST.

Up at three panicking about what lower-contact team sport I'm going to take up now that I'm not playing roller derby, but also still terrible at anything that requires throwing or catching a ball.

Am I suddenly going to become a *hockey* person?!?

The answer is probably "get back into music, you fucking idiot" and I swear I am trying but I am very rusty and relearning old skills and I am NOT ready for primetime on that front right now.

I suppose I could just do that thing that my wife and I have been talking about forever and create a seniors derby league that uses modified contact rules.

But that's way more work than just showing up to a practice twice a week.

I have officially decided to cook bacon about it

Amused at how Altman helped himself to a woman who denied him multiple times, because he was fond of her*, and despite the fact that she was literally the only person in recent history to sue Disney and win - and that no one else in his circle tried to dissuade him (or had enough pull or made enough effort to be successful).

Says a lot about the people at the helm of the "AI revolution".

* or perhaps I should say, "Her"

@alienghic @mekkaokereke

I don't want an SUV or pickup, though. I live in a city. I want a small hatchback.

iRobot facing "death" because it only has 46% of the market is bonkers to me; capitalism has forgotten what to do with a mature company.

"We sell vacuums to half the population" is no longer a valid business model, evidently.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/31/24057077/irobot-amazon-deal-collapse-roomba-uncertain-future?utm_content=buffer04ff0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

@mcnees I now understand the provenance of the first line of this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tsutU92rrE

@AstroKatie I also find it comforting that most of what we can currently see in the universe we could never reach, because it's receding so fast we could never actually catch it