Combining all the advice in the thread, could you find a school or programme that excites you and convince your guardians that you want to move there both for the opportunity and to experience the world?

The scandies are quite specialised and excel in a couple areas in stuff like life science, metallurgy, pedagogy, community counseling, medicine. Maybe you can find something aligning with one of your interests and a college/uni (and maybe a prep school if ypu want to get away earlier) with a good programme?

Maybe you can sell them on doing an exchange year sooner to try out if it’s a good match for you?

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The conventional answer is that there would be much less incentive to fund new ones.

Some things need a large investment to start: power plants, cities, factories, space stations, etc. Sometimes more money than the people involved can afford, and you need to ask someone to front the money, they typically get paid with a share of the profits.

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How is this different from overthinking?

Overthinking is a way to try to assert control in a situation where you cannot entirely decide outcomes, and have anxiety about them. It’s a way to self soothe that can become maladaptive when done in excess, and typically requires mental health support, with internal or external intervention, to break out of.

It worked like this a decade ago as well, and pretty close to it with the previous republican, you sure it’s not a feature?

Wut?

I hear you argue that a superior military, even from a hostile nation, would be in the right to a) kill the president, b) not worry about civilian casualties.

The US is currently disappearing people ln the streets, establishing concentration camps and performing extrajudicial killings.

Does this mean China should go for killing Trump and go through schools and churches to do that?

Epstein didn’t kill himself, maybe we should make getting Epstein’d a verb?

Just goes to show how much the FIFA peace prize is worth!

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Since about the 1500s we use double booking in bookkeeping, meaning the accounts look like that so that the balance sheet can balance and show 0 missing money. In most audits you don’t “summarise” error accounts, you check the balance accounts, statements and you check for why there’s stuff lying in the transaction accounts.

You should probably have stayed on a couple more days of your accounting class.

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It doesn’t reason, and it doesn’t actually know any information.

What it excels at is giving plausible sounding averages of texts, and if you think about how little the average person knows you should be abhorred.

Also, where people typically can reason enough to make the answer internally consistent or even relevant within a domain, LLMs offer a polished version of the disjointed amalgamation of all the platitudes or otherwise commonly repeated phrases in the training data.

Basically, you can’t trust the information to be right, insightful or even unpoisoned, while sabotaging your strategies and systems to sift information from noise.

EtA: All for the low low cost of personal computing, power scarcity and drought.

That’s one way to escape Epstein’s island.

Lol, you know this is an example of abuser language?

It’s entirely reasonable to expect someone to hold themselves accountable to sort their own shit (and/or ask for help) while respecting the people around them.

Toddlers get away with having tantrums because they aren’t matured yet. We expect better from about the age of 7…

Delayed due to ICE and/or protests, or maybe they’re out trying to drum up a bribe inb4 being sued by the satsuma in charge.

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