Are you a lifelong singleton? You probably possess these three personality traits

In a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, researchers have identified three key traits that could potentially indicate whether someone is destined to fly solo for the rest of their life.

In general, lifelong loners were determined to be less outgoing, less conscientious, and less open than those who were married or in a relationship, per the study.

“There are differences between people who stay single their entire lives and people who get partnered,” declared study author Julia Stern, a senior researcher at the University of Bremen in Germany.

Single all the way. Don’t think I have had a face to face talk to anyone for a least two weeks if not longer.

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... Not even with the dolphins and mermaids???


I'll admit that round here, the most meaningful conversation to be had is with some of the four pawed creatures! (Waggy tail variety!)


Keep searchin'?
Martin

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I check all of those "lifelong singleton" boxes, but had extraordinary luck to accidentally meet someone very similar, so we've been together for thirty years. It all balances out as my luck and timing with everything else have been terrible before and since. :^p

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On a different tangent...

Over here I seem to converse with various computer programs and control systems more than the wet biological stuff...

Hence a bit of a giggle for some of the biological communications suffered here recently whence completely by random, the electric silicon stuff didst flash before my eyes with these three gems:

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary.
-- Samuel Clemens

Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
-- Robert Orben

All, all too true!


Enjoy!
Martin


(I have the *nix utility "fortune" to add a bit of thoughtful light relief for round here!)

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The real question should be can you create a version of DOOM to run on COBOL?
Project shows you can run a Minecraft server on the 60-year-old COBOL language

TL;DR: Minecraft has long been a platform for impressive feats by modders, from recreating massive structures to running computer systems within the game. Now, a new project takes this creativity to another level by running Minecraft on COBOL, a programming language designed in 1959. While COBOL remains vital today, a shortage of developers proficient in the language has become a significant challenge.

Modder meyfa recently published tools and instructions for running a Minecraft server using COBOL, a programming language created for business IT systems in the 1950s and 60s. Despite COBOL's enterprise-focused nature and the developer's lack of prior experience, this alternative version of Minecraft runs smoothly, supporting most of the game's basic features.

Does talking to myself count Martin? Or is that a sign of mental instability? Are you people real or a product of imagination? I’ve never seen you or the others. Is this a A.I. generated world like the matrix and do I swallow the red or blue pill…

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As deduced by Plato and restrained further by Aristotle:

We do indeed live in our own dream that is only assembled in part by what stimulus we might receive from our senses.

How we then make sense of all that is pure imagination!

(Ok, so we all have our own unique imagination and the connectedness of the assumed world supporting our imagined physical existence contrives for our dreams to overlap to form our imagined connections. Or so it is that I dream.)

((And then also there is the black cat that is isolated on a remote planet that receives very officious visitors to share isolated communications that shape happenings in the universe of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Universe. ))

(((For the imagined state of the imagination of some of our politicians, a black cat would purr far far better and more meaningfully in their place!!!)))


Enjoy?
Martin


ps: I have no idea whether the cat is black or not, but in my dreams to fit in with other parts of my dreams, you also should dream that to be!

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Martin has been in the food desert too long ...

Are you sure it is the food desert? Or was it something in the “fish and chips” he ate? The red or blue fish. Lol.

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Martin has been in the food desert too long ...

Maybe he's in the food dessert instead?

Lol is that not true! /Satire
Dad Tells Kids About Good Old Days When You Didn't Need To Download Firmware Updates For Toy Trains

"Son, let me tell you about when Dad was a kid, okay?" Evans sighed. "Back in the good old days, we didn't have to download firmware updates for the toys we got for Christmas every two days. It was a golden age of societal joy, when the worst thing that could happen to you was the dreaded ‘Batteries Not Included.' We have strayed so far."

One for you that is not satire, which you may have seen before, but it's worth a mention as IMHO it goes above and beyond as the worst application of unnecessary technology I know of: Nike’s self-lacing sneakers turn into bricks after faulty firmware update

I don't even know where to begin with this one so I'll go through some points:

1) There are people for whom tying their shoes is too much work for them, so
2) Nike makes shoes to fulfill this non-existent "need" (OK, maybe good for people with disabilities... I give it that)
3) And they price them at $350, roughly 5-10x the cost of a decent regular pair of shoes
4) And they feel the need to have a required phone app to control them, probably so they can harvest data and resell it
5) And of course this means that their pair of shoes is now a computer, so they can talk to the app, and they need to have firmware
6) Which needs updates to work properly because like everything else today it's rushed to market with bugs because "we can fix it in an update"
7) Which they screw up and brick the shoes with so they don't close anymore
8) And now that they are bricked they can't be updated anymore to fix the bad update
9) And they don't have any capability to manually tie them up because Nike didn't plan for their tech. to ever fail, so
10) Now the $350 shoes are much less useful than the 5-10x cheaper pair of regular shoes they claim to replace

My second favourites were the Nest internet-capable thermostats which self-downloaded a bad firmware update while their owners were away for the winter, bricked, could no longer turn on the furnace so the house temp. went below the freezing point of water, pipes froze and burst and the owners returned to a house flooded with ice with corresponding ten$ of thousand$ in damage.

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Who made the Bluetooth shoe app…Micro$oft?

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Who made the Bluetooth shoe app…Micro$oft?

No, it's got to be the new division Micro$ole or if by Apple then iToes

Who made the Bluetooth shoe app…Micro$oft?

No, it's got to be the new division Micro$ole or if by Apple then iToes

That's Micto$tole.

If Facebook was not creepy enough already!

Facebook Will Introduce AI-Generated "People" With Their Own Profiles to Comment on Your Posts
Facebook wants to make its apps more interactive and entertaining in 2025. To achieve this, the company is looking into using generative AI to make unique experiences. Connor Hayes, the vice president of product for generative AI at Meta (Facebook's owner), has a pretty unique idea on how to do this:

“We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do. They’ll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform...that’s where we see all of this going."

Another way to help mine your data. Talk to a A.I.

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Grim. Very grim.

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