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@DirtyJinx(1) said:
Played pickleball for the first time last night. For a "retirement sport" it sure can get your legs to burning.

I've thought about playing pickleball but I'm too competitive and would leave a wake of old people stacked on the court

I didn't see a single elderly person last night. 8 courts, all 8 were full plus there were people waiting to get in on the action. I'm a rather athletic, super competitive fella in his mid-20s and I got my åss waxed

Not as hot but definitely as muggy as yesterday.

Played pickleball for the first time last night. For a "retirement sport" it sure can get your legs to burning.

On my way over to my MILs, my Wife mentioned she wants to stop and do some shopping. I'm waiting in the car for like 90 minutes, I've learned to bring a book with me so I just read some of the book.

This thread was built for Aldon Smith, a bright burning star that just wasn't up to the task of living everyday life. As a Seahawk fan, Smith was a nightmare. He apparently tried to turn things around and help youngsters living in the glare of NFL stardom. RIP Aldon Smith

well, this is interesting :

The no-human future
Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon. Nick Land glimpsed something much darker

Land writes:

"It might still be a few decades before artificial intelligences surpass the horizon of biological ones, but it is utterly superstitious to imagine that the human dominion of terrestrial culture is still marked out in centuries, let alone in some metaphysical perpetuity. The high road to thinking no longer passes through a deepening of human cognition, but rather through a becoming inhuman of cognition, a migration of cognition out into the emerging planetary technosentience reservoir, into ‘dehumanised landscapes … emptied spaces’ where human culture will be dissolved.
Land is so fascinated by the singularity precisely because it demands that we recognise the limits of our cognition before a greater alien superintelligence. How exactly he thinks we should respond to this prospect sets him apart from every other thinker who has grappled with the same question."

https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-nick-lands-philosophy-of-accelerationism-really

Went to a Celebration-of-Life for my cousin's 23 year old son, who died in a car accident last week. Sucks. I didn't know the young man, but he seemed like a good kid.