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<p>I guess there will be Optimus Prime instances filling the role of
playing golf with customers/peers/superiors by playing with one
another? No reason a humanoid robot can't not just be trained to
whack their balls around with sticks but also do it with the same
signature style up to and including styles of cheating? See <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rick-reilly/commander-in-cheat/9780316528030/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Commander
in Cheat</a>. </p>
<p>When Musk was advertising for people to "train" these humanoid
robots, I took it to mean gearing up to "teach by example" and
encouraged Mary to check into it. She is a consummate goathead
weed-puller and it occurs to me that with the right IP agreements,
one could spend a season shadowed by an OptimusPrime (or
equivalent) and at the end be "set for life" on the $.001/weed
royalties for every weed pulled by every instance anywhere
forever? I'm sure Musk doesn't offer shared IP...</p>
<p>I recently was corrected by (on of my favorite) favorite authors,
Margaret Atwood, in the introduction to her recent Essay
collection: "Burning Questions" on the (mis) attribution of "Golf:
A good walk spoiled" to Twain when it was apparently instead WC
Fields. Noodling that out lead me to twain Twain *actual*
golf-quip: "\u201cIt\u2019s good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf
balls while they are still rolling.\u201d There are quite a few well
known sources of such quips it would seem, perhaps the biggest
thing I've missed out on by being constitutionally averse to Golf?</p>
<p>Just a few:</p>
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<p data-start="1388" data-end="1467">\u201cI regard golf as an
expensive way of playing marbles.\u201d<br data-start="1443"
data-end="1446">
\u2014 G.K. Chesterton</p>
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<p data-start="1471" data-end="1575">\u201cGolf is a game invented by
the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.\u201d<br
data-start="1555" data-end="1558">
\u2014 Lee Trevino\u201c</p>
<p data-start="1471" data-end="1575">Golf combines two favorite
American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a
stick.\u201d<br data-start="1223" data-end="1226">
\u2014 P.J. O\u2019Rourke</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/24/25 12:12 pm, Santafe wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">Boy, and I thought it was tough when Japanese office members are expected to go out golfing with each other on weekends to build team spirit.
Can\u2019t imagine a group of people I\u2019d rather spend _my entire life_ around.
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">On Oct 24, 2025, at 13:45, Marcus Daniels <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com"><marcus@snoutfarm.com></a> wrote:
I'm a little confused. Musk says we'll leave it all to the robots and the AI and it will be green grass and sunny days.
But he has them doing this:
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What's the rush, man?
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With the chaos at the NIH (and the whole fed, I guess), I find myself trolling job offerings. Methodologically, I'm lazy, somewhere between a cynic, a taoist, and an apatheist. And almost every job offer contains sentiments like this:
"We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team." Hoorah! Get Pumped! Let's Goooooo! Yeeeeaaaaahhhh!
OMG I'm so tired of it. I guess it's similar to toxic positivity. It's so refreshing when some rando at the pub vehemently disagrees with me. They're often surprised when I respond enthusiastically to their disagreeable nonsense. The same goes with this toxic enthusiasm. Chill, dude. You're harshin' the vibe.
Where are the job offerings where we just want to do some stuff, slowly, compromising quality, speed, and cost but with the flippance and laissez faire of a stoned kid playing Stardew Valley? Or maybe the 60 year old farmer with no kids who shambles from the bed to the tractor at dawn but doesn't get all wound up about whether she'll live to see the next dawn? These are the jobs I want. I'm the turtle and the world seems full of hares.
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