ArbitraryValue

Breakthroughs in robotics and artificial intelligence, just like what the rest of us are waiting for.

I think she learned it as a kid because it was the language of where she lived, but she didn't use it much in the USA. The reason we met was actually because she wanted someone she could practice speaking it with.

My native language is Russian and I have met a black woman who speaks Russian better than I do. (I haven't been there for over thirty years so maybe there are some black people living there now, but I never saw one before coming to the US.) Her parents are diplomats and she is fluent in a couple of other languages too because her family lived in several different countries when she was growing up.

Do people want to play Warcraft 2? I have a lot of nostalgic memories of when I played it as a kid but unlike the other remastered old Blizzard games, it isn't very good by 21st century standards.

World War II would have been called unrealistic if it was fictional.

One time I was walking along when I remembered a funny Simpsons episode and for some reason I said "You can turn a regular gun into five guns!" out loud.

There was an entire family staring at me.

When I was growing up, my dad gave me a hard time because I wasn't very manly. The funny thing is that all the stuff I like is as manly as things get, in the sense that very few women have any interest in it. Too bad I'm not gay. It's not PC to say this, but I think I would have been happier if I was.

At least he's trying. Body language is one of those things that makes me think in terms of "humans" rather than "people". I can't understand human body language.

I oppose letting anyone define hate speech as a matter of principle, because even if I agree with the definition completely now, I may not continue to agree with the definition in the future. Look at what has been happening in the USA since the October 7 attack: a lot of people I had considered my political allies turned out to have beliefs I consider to be hateful, and meanwhile these people consider my own beliefs hateful. The solution is not to empower a single central authority to decide which sort of hate is allowed. It is (as it has always been) to maintain the principle of free speech.

Where are the other kids getting tampons to throw at him?

15 year old virgin

Aren't most 15-year-olds virgins? I went to a weird high school where the SAT-prep kids would have made fun of the PE kids, so I don't know what normal teenagers are like.

There were showers in the locker rooms when I was in school, but the ordinary gym classes never used them. (Maybe the sports teams did?) I think I would rather have dropped out than showered naked in school.