YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

Maybe you're just getting ready for your next trip thru that beautiful country of yours!

Hey, thanks for the reminder about Mark Rober, it's been a while since I checked his channel

The three obstacle course vids he made for his backyard squirrels are a hoot!

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZFjoX2cGg
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvS9lvRxZ8
  
  https://youtu.be/lg5wznn3IBE

Intelligent life elsewhere probably contains contradictions and absurdities just like ours. If the physical laws are universal, like gravity for instance, then locomotive intelligences might be prone to pratfalls and such, like in slapstick. A couple of videos I found of primate behavior / intellig...

Interesting viewpoints and on "Thinking Machines"

https://futureoflife.org/ai/what-to-think-about-machines-that-think/

https://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think

On the kitchen table until noon, there's always a tray with the luxuriously ignored breakfast for MIL with meticulously peeled fruit that my wife has prepared. MIL will eventually get up and have a little nibble, and the rest will spend days in rotation inside the fridge until discarded. That's out...

Sounds like a great time.

So, what's in a cache when you find one, a note or something?
And do you leave anything for the next party?

Hello Troebia, The water has moved way, way on, but MIL was absolutely basking in the attention of her two daughters who were at her beck and call. I was wondering why your wife and sister-in-law are so in thrall to their mother. Seems a bit unbalanced. Wonder what the household was like when they w...

Hello Troebia, Hope you're doing well. You're dealing with a lot of sh!t these days... I must say you(r) and Mental Fairy's posts are often so deep and eloquent, I stand mute. So many thoughts and responses are evoked, but before I can reply, "the water moves on"... Anyway, here's a song t...

Hello Mental Fairy, If I may, a few things that came to mind reading about the anger you felt the other day- Thoughts on what may have triggered your anger; Feeling like your personal space is being invaded. An automatic response to the emotional letdown upon seeing crowds after such a beautiful, re...

Polar storm is causing beautiful skies down south, power grid is apparently on the blink.

It was overcast here last night, but cleared up today, so maybe we'll get to see something...