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Have you won a Nobel? Neither have I- we both started 0 wars, and ended 0. (Score (0/0)

Henry Kissenger got his for negotiating the end of the Vietnam war- a war he had a part in begining and maintaining. Likewise with Arafat and Rabin’s 94 award for the Oslo accords- despite being partisans. (1/1) each, arguably more for kissenger, like 20/1

Well, DJ’s record proves it- hes ended 8+ wars! but as of the most recent award, had started 0, for a score of (0/8) And that didn’t get him a peace prize. Clearly the ONLY way to get a peace prize is to not only end wars, but to start wars so they can be ended.

This is an oversite on his part which he is seeking to rectify in both Venezuela and Greenland, and hes notifying the government of Norway to ensure future recognition

After all, from the committee’s perspective it makes sense; if too many people end wars they didnt start, eventually, we’ll run out of wars and then there will be no more wars for people to end, and the Nobel peace prize committee will be out of a job!

Im kind of wondering if that isnt the real end game- there was a Bezos quote i saw the other day, where he said he wants to see personal computing die out in favor of essentially cloud based, where users own minimal hardware and just rent compute time for everything.

It kind of feels like they dont actually need ai to succeed- its already achieving the goal of denying components to end users. If they maintain that scarcity long enough, they can kill the pc/ laptop status quo. (Especially if chip makers abandon those fabs for data center tailored units for a whole generation, until theres nothing viable left on the market)

My cousin got her colege interviewer pretty good.

My grandma was a college professor. My cousin’s father was Persian, so she has very different facial features and skin tone.

She applied to grandma’s school, and got an interview. She showed the letter to our grandma who recognized the interviewer as one of her grad students, who had a part time job in admissions. The interviewer’s first question was do you have any family in the states?

my cousin said she did, and that the grad student should come to dinner at professor <last name’s> house and meet the the family. After that sunk in, she asked if grandma had ever invited her for dinner. When she said she hadn’t had the pleasure, my cousin made a sour face and said 'oh no, she must not like you very much- she invites all her grad students over for dinner, at least the one she likes!

My friend had a couch in decent condition he was trying to give away. Left it at the end of his driveway with a big free sign on it. (on a busy enough street inappropriate reputable enough town where peope trust things like that)

Left it out for a couple weeks, tossing it back in the garage when it was going to rain.

Eventually he changed the sign to read: $100 OBO with a phone number (that was a fake phone number lol)

Couch was ‘stolen’ in under an hour.

I used to use best buy as a sales floor to view things then buy the same model on Amazon. If the sales people pestered me, id ask them questions, then just openly say, its $30 less on Amazon, i just wanted to see one in person before I bought. My laptop in like 2007 was $150 more, almost half the Amazon price in markup.