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@marcitko said:
I am grateful for...
... my body's superb ability to excrete feces well and in a timely manner! 😂
I never realized that relatively young, healthy people could have problems in this area. Then, a friend's girlfriend, a 30-something very healthy woman, told our friend group she has severe problems in this area. Ever since, I've been grateful for not having that trouble.
I'm going through a stress-related poor sleep phase, so maybe some gratitude about something else that is going right is in order.
What are you grateful for today?

I agree with you! I have a female friend who is always constipated, and I’m glad not to have her trouble, I drink one cup of coffee in the morning and my bowels go into action within minutes, producing joyous and complete emptiness after a visit to the loo.

I’m grateful that most of my troubles are now past.

My Neighbours are having a barbecue. They kindly warned me that the music would be finished by 10PM. Luckily I have music in various formats to play and a room which rarely hears for example efforts at karaoke and endless gibbering.

I may stay around to sniff the barbecue.

Luckily the house is completely empty so I have many choices as guests start to arrive, replace broken glasses etc. If I was evil (sadly not too much lately) I would use the time for doing some chainsaw wood cutting with my electric chainsaw.

May watch 'Dust Bunny' or some noisy film such as 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die' or similar... Better prepare now

Looking forward to night which tends to be very quiet even on a Saturday night.

@lobster said:

but there is also the promise

• In an another life
• Free as in freeze
• Cost is freedom? Corporate slavery- the new freedom?

Normal sentience is now resumed...

Apologies at times I forget that some things are binary and absolute rather than about tradeoffs. I'll try to do better in the past.

Chomp!

I worry a lot about the peril of AI, but there is also the promise.

15. More precise gene editing (poor gene editing has often catastrophic results)
14. Better medical record processing leading to better outcomes
13. Materials science
12. Protein folding modeled leading to new and better drugs
11. Including antibiotics
10. Low carbon cement (cement is one of the biggest CO2 emitters)
9. Better understanding of the gut-brain connection
8. Generating 3D models off a single 2D image (has efficiency benefits)
7. Understand AIs limits in weather modeling around unusual occurrences (not really an AI advance, more an advance in our understanding of its limits)
6. At the same time, better weather modeling through probabilistic rather than physics models
5. Math that checks itself
4. Identifying dementia type through EEG
3. Spotting heart disease from a 10 second EKG
2. Modeling more obscure genetic information
1. Protein binding in seconds rather than hours or days

Wot?
Those begging peace monks have been at it again?
https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/buddhist-monks-complete-three-day-walk-for-peace-in-northern-england/

Nobody tells me nothing!
We could use them in London, as long as they bring the dog... Wait the quarantine laws would be too strenuous.

As you were!