What do you want from it? How long?

• I always went with a barber for anything that looked like a traditional men’s cut, and that includes a variety of lengths.
• any special requests, non-traditional or significantly longer, a stylist
• I’ve had bad cuts from both barbers and stylists, all you can do is vote with your feet
• realistically all the old barbers are gone and new barbers feature very short modern styles that I’m not interested in, so I go with one of the cheap salon chains

Maybe the real issue is the idea of a “collaboration tool”. You could argue the only such ambitious tools I’ve tried are lotus notes and Microsoft Teams, and both were horrible: lots of services but in an ugly ui with poor usability. Teams had unreliable phone and notes didn’t have it at all.

It’s much better dealing with a set of tools containing better implementations of the feature you want. Maybe it’s just not useful trying to cram that much functionality into one tool.

And yes I’ll name names, I currently get much better results from

• zoom for calls (especially with their generated summaries!)
• slack for texting
• files in a variety of tools specific to the need

Keep up the pressure. We went through the same thing, but after a year of Teams misadventure, execs finally realized the savings wasn’t worth it

Have you actually tried Teams? It stands above all the rest for number of issues. There are a lot of good ideas, but then it’s like they had a bunch of interns hack together the ui over a weekend and never fixed it

I actually like this example. All too often we hear a kernel of truth, “the moon rang like a bell”, without context or explanation and can just apply logic that that seems reasonable with things we understand without questioning the result

Or maybe location dependent - we have significantly reduced air pollution in most places. I can easily imagine places with chronic haze that are no longer so

The real problem is so many different recommendations, but ….

I do see a higher amount consistently recommended as you get older, but never in the same sentence as exercise. I’m well past the age and weight where it takes intentional action to maintain muscle mass, and I really need to start doing that.

The algorithm started feeding me “Tai chi for older men”, so even that is telling me to exercise

Now it’s on the menu. While you can still ask for double meat in your burrito, you can also order a “protein bowl” that starts with double meat

What do you want out of it? Owning adds responsibilities and costs. If you don’t have a reason to own other than you can, why take on those responsibilities and costs?

Owning a property is not just an investment, not just not paying rent, but a commitment. Some of us consider it well worth it. Some of us even like that part of it. But consider whether that’s you

There are models that can run on raspberry pi. Obviously not the latest and greatest but still useful

The training is much more expensive than the actual usage

I’m pretty sure no one is going to think an in-game npc is real

Do it: modify Minecraft so a villager gives investment advice. No one could be dumb enough to expect that to be real, right?

Even crazier when you started working from home at least part time since pandemic, so the shoes you’d normally wear to work get little use.

I got divorced about five years ago and still have a closet full of shoes I apparently needed but they’re all unworn so I might have a lifetime supply

…… And don’t go out in the woods during deer season because there’s always someone treating a deadly weapon all too casually and don’t think those rules apply to them

A lot of educated professional people are NOT eager to live in a “race to the bottom” type of place. Without serious attention to massive quality of life improvements, you couldn’t pay me enough

I imagine more like with x-rays. You’ll have a tech doing the procedure, and automation to guide the tech and interpret results. The results will be emailed to a remote ob/gyn, who will hopefully actually look instead of blindly believing ai slop. Hopefully they can do this with quick enough turnaround to respond to any issues but I’m not optimistic

I’ve been at lots of places with little to no atmosphere. I generally leave them for somewhere nicer

If I can give an overly pedantic answer, it’s not him. I certainly never give such a vile human being a pass but …… his advisors have their own agendas. At least some of the evilness is their agenda and Trump is either the sock puppet, was bribed, or just doesn’t care about anyone besides himself.

You can’t, and shouldn’t try. Spending time in moderation is more important, so limit that. Sure when they’re little you have to open restrictions over time but keep the focus on recognizing ai slop and understanding the issues with it.

Sooner than you think, they’re watching is out of your control so it quickly becomes critical for them learn about

Gotta watch that newfangled philosophy - why don’t we just use the classics? /s

More accurately I’m more pessimistic about direct resistance. Even if you’re kidnapped out of the country, at least you’ve survived and have hope. That law is on your side, so if we ever get back to following laws ….