Agreed! I’m typing this out while reclining on my futon+mattress on the floor.

Bed on the floor. Best of both worlds.

depressed/self-loathing people dating each other is a really bad idea and results in shitty relationships and emotional turmoil

I see what you’re getting at here… but sometimes instead it results in going to couples therapy and figuring out the roots of your problem and talking to a psychiatrist for medications, etc.

The nerd can also create a startup, and get a friend to be the business person. Usually this involves selling the startup to a large company at some point.

If the nerd is an academic, the university can “help” the academic to market the invention; the academic will get a tiny amount and the university gets the rest. Or the academic can create a startup on the side, and set up their favorite graduate as the business person.

I view the begining of scif as the 60s maybe late 50s.

If you’re making a point about pulp sci fi, the golden era of sci fi was in the early 40s, and there was plenty of pulp sci fi in the decades before then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Science_Fiction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_US_science_fiction_and_fantasy_magazines_to_1950

Surprised Pikachu, obviously.

Not Linux-specific, but if he’s looking for new casual games take a look at:

• https://flashmuseum.org/
• https://www.newgrounds.com/games

Old-school: hoodie and mirrorshades.

And let’s not forget the hands…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Messi

Once you figure out Gimp, you should keep the right-hand-side in AI and just do the left in Gimp.

One of the things I learned as a scientist is that for any major accomplishment, there are thousands of people who did difficult, necessary, and not-widely-recognized work to make that accomplishment possible.

Take a look at the movie “Threads” about the effects of a nuclear war. It’s from back in the cold war, but a lot of it remains relevant:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvFu7Z5cc88
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhcrgQihRcs
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

All cognition has an emotional component, so you have to be more specific. Once you get more specific, then you’ll see that music and art communities are different.