Robert Lovelace

Romantic libertine; avid tobacco user. Quite tired.

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

Young smokers should take heed as I have: if, like me, you find the long-term risks intolerable, it is a disservice to yourself to be fatalistic about the habit - the body, including your lungs, does heal, and it heals best while you're still young and enough time is let to pass.

[Jonathan Foulds PhD @JonathanFoulds]

"Quitting smoking before age 45 was associated with reductions of approximately 90% of the excess mortality associated with continued smoking, and quitting at ages 45 to 64 years was associated with reductions of approximately 66% of this excess risk." https://t.co/DXUd8dMLgO

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@constans And I'd say the rules there are actually less forgiving for "autistic weebs." There is a lot of non-verbal signalling and behavioral expectation. People expect you to "read the room" at basically all times and act accordingly, with much less inclination for direct confrontation.

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@constans Eh, on the contrary, it's more the expectation that I do not have to feign friendliness or pretend to care about strangers that I prefer about Japanese "politeness." Everyone shares the same scripts about public conduct.

Americans yap and ask "how you're doing." I prefer a bow.

[ShitlibSupreme 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @ShitlibSupreme]

"Hello fellow Americans. We need to stop building data centers. They consume too much water."

[Tuelhinhos 🐇 @t_tuelhinhos]

O grande guardião dos portões, Cerberus

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@PaulSkallas To be fair, Israel is far from only country scared of an Iranian nuke.

E.g. the Saudis have long declared they will react to an Iranian nuke by acquiring their own. Proliferation in the region would blossom almost immediately. In comparison, India/Pakistan would be comforting.

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@ProtheanInst @Aella_Girl The upper classes have been doing exactly that for thousands of years. They're called "nannies".

[𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐚'𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐲 @SardineTruther]

Honestly, cigarette prohibition in Australia is probably the most innovative happening within any domestic market in 40 years.

Can you imagine a pack of whatever these are for under $15 even two decades ago?

Absolutely not.

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@atlanticesque I don't think refrain is necessarily required. I do think it is more cognitively demanding than may initially seem to engage with LLMs effectively, recreationally or no, so as to e.g. avoid precisely the phenomenon you described in the second post, which I have also experienced.

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@phl43 Metacognition is extremely valuable for effective use of A.I. It might even be necessary if you're trying to get it to do things more complicated than entertaining trivia or restaurant recommendations, but even then you want to think carefully to get useful results.

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@43blah @AliceFromQueens Estimated nuclear breakout time for Iran that we publicly know of is currently 9-12 months from start to finish. That estimate was made before the war started.

Subject to change with new info, but it does not bode well that since the war started, breakout time remains the same.

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@KronosAsvestos Yeah, just buy jewelry at that point. Jewelry is unpretentious about what it is - it just sits there and looks pretty, which is the point.

These guys buy watches because they're also too insecure to wear much else. Half the beauty of a good watch is inside the machine.

[Jason Harrison @nominalthoughts]

One of the best orators in American history

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@estherzelda0514 My guess: she's a Hegelian leftist, so society needs to be destroyed every once in a while to give "new answers".

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@constans There is really nothing quite like it. I found it stimulating in a good way.

I don't know if I would choose to live there over Chicago, but I would sure like to visit more.

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@phl43 Metacognition is extremely valuable for effective use of A.I. It might even be necessary if you're trying to get it to do things more complicated than entertaining trivia or restaurant recommendations, but even then you want to think carefully to get useful results.

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@KronosAsvestos The idea that beautiful art has to be derived from suffering is nonsense, but so is this one. The daemons of creativity are ultimately fickle and unaccountable to men.

[沙界妖怪芸術祭 Sakai Yokai Art Festival @sakai_yokai]

子どもたちが阿鼻叫喚
大迫力のパフォーマンス！！

#紙まつり

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

pov: you’re a delicious lichen, or perhaps a tasty fern

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

Well, American advertising and related graphic design largely peaked with tobacco. The Lucky Strike bullseye is singular, as is the Marlboro wordmark.

As time goes on, I wouldn't be shocked to see companies tread the advertising territory already perfected by tobacco brands.

[𝑴𝒐 𝑴𝒐𝒉𝒍𝒆𝒓 @MoMohler]

Any person over 40 realizes that this is the Marlboro font. The people in charge of this are clearly under 40.

[WECSOG vintage lazymaxxer (250 IQ convicted felon) @Flatt0pH8r]

Everyone's saying this

But maybe some 23 y/o intern went to 7-Eleven and realized how hard it went. Maybe we'll get this next:

[Robert Lovelace @expiatingrobert]

@eris_nerung Well, I've had worse, and I'm a sucker for novelty, especially with alcohol and tobacco. This 30 dollar bottle of cachaca prata I'm looking at hopefully excludes fermented laundry notes.

I've probably missed the drink at certain bars, but it's at least obscure in Chicago.