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- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 6 days ago:
Ok, nice. 👍
Have a good day.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 6 days ago:
I don’t need to look at the articles, I literally grew up on a horse/donkey/goat ranch. Besides, why would I look into articles suggesting to abuse the farm animals?
I bet most everyone, including the Wikipedia article writers, and even the references they mention, most of them have probably never even rode a horse or donkey before. I have though.
There are proper ways of training large farm animals, and beating them with a stick isn’t one. That’s straight up animal abuse. And such large animals will quickly remind you who is in charge by stomping your skull in.
I learned how to peacefully and safely train animals. Dangle a carrot in front of a donkey, you can guide it around all day, until the work shift is over and you guide it to the food trough.
Why is everyone sharing links on how to beat animals with sticks, when I’m literally explaining from experience that there are much better ways to train farm animals?
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
Go ahead, go tame a donkey by hitting it with a stick, see how far that gets you…
IDGAF if you newer people that have never handled such animals have turned it into an ignorant meme, it’s a matter of life or death.
You simply do not hit such large animals with a stick. They will kill you.
Go visit a training farm.
- Comment on Is this a tumbleweed? 1 week ago:
I’ll toss you a haha and upvote for the sarcasm, but there’s no recycle bins around here (or probably anywhere in my state or neighboring states for that matter).
- Comment on Is this a tumbleweed? 1 week ago:
Not too far, Mississippi.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
Because I have no experience with said stupid ‘metaphor’, I’ve never heard it as a metaphor before today.
Coming from over 10 years on a horse/donkey ranch, I speak from real life experience. I didn’t realize that people were so dumb as to think you whip such a large animal with a stick, that’s just fucking stupid and asking to die by the animal’s hooves.
So once again, there’s a reason they make horse/donkey whips, and if you don’t know what that is, well go spend a few days on a large animal farm and learn how dangerous the untrained can be.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
You don’t use a stick on a donkey or a horse, unless you want your face kicked in and trampled to death.
Have any of you ever heard of a horse whip? When used correctly, they exceed the speed of sound, and keep trainers and riders at a safe distance from them.
I don’t give a fuck about some stupid metaphor that probably came from republican propaganda when they have no experience on a farm.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
Funny you think you are.
You don’t hit a donkey or a horse with a stick, unless you want your face kicked in. Which actually happened on our ranch, thankfully not to me though.
You ever heard of a horse whip? Do you know how to use them? They’re usually over 8 feet long, and when swung, aimed and popped correctly, that pop exceeds the speed of sound, keeping the trainers at a safe distance with a safe advantage.
Wanna try again troll? I literally grew up on a horse ranch, and the proper tools of training horses and donkeys would rip your flesh open.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
I’ve known how to ride horses and donkeys since I was 6 years old, I grew up on a horse ranch.
I don’t need no fucking examples dumbass, I lived it.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
Read OP’s post again, it literally says “carrot and stick”.
I’m not about to nitpick my life experience with someone that’s probably never rode a horse or donkey in their life, doesn’t know how to read, and goes to Google for all their information.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
I do appreciate you for looking into older references, but I was hoping for some articles from before the digital era, like a scan or three from a couple encyclopedias or other relevant articles before the modern digital era.
Find me something from like 1950-60 and I might be more inclined to believe it. Other than that, given my life experience, I tend to believe what I literally learned on the horse ranch.
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 6 comments
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
I asked for before the enshittification era.
I’m not about to trust a controversial article that could have been manipulated by almost anyone these days.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 1 week ago:
It’s mostly because of fatty foods. The fats/oils tend to solidify in the colder temperatures of sewage lines, ultimately causing clogged lines.
Our waste though has generally digested a large amount of that fat, whether it gets built up on your belly and ass or whether a lot of it gets expelled in the sweat.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
Can you provide me a couple older references to this? Preferably before the year 2000, or at least before the AI and enshittification era?
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
Well, seeing as how I grew up on a horse ranch, I can totally confirm the ‘cartoon logic’ you speak of is absolutely real, and is used to help train at least some donkeys and horses.
It’s more like teasing them to go after something they can never have.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
Don’t talk about your mom like that.
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 1 week ago:
You don’t hit the donkey with the stick silly! 😂🤣
You sit on the donkey and use the stick like a fishing pole. Dangle the carrot in front of the donkey’s face with a string, and the donkey will walk in whichever direction you guide it.
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 1 week ago:
At today’s prices, I have to buy shoes by the toe. It takes 10 months just for the toes, and that’s not including the heels, soles, socks, and tariffs and shit…
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 4 comments
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 1 week ago:
I have about the same luck with shoes. Once I finally find the perfect fitting shoes and wear them out, I’m lucky if I can find the same shoes new even once again… ☹️
- Comment on Eventually, old computers and operating systems will likely be referred to as dumb computers or dumb terminals or similar, because they don't have artificial intelligence. 1 week ago:
Here ya go, this is what Google AI gave me…
How to inflate a foldable phone?
*Make sure your phone is turned off and that the battery is fully charged.
- Find the inflation port on your phone. It is usually located on the bottom edge of the phone.
- Connect the inflation hose to the inflation port.
- Turn on the inflator and start inflating the phone.
- Once the phone is fully inflated, disconnect the inflation hose and turn off the inflator.
- Your phone is now ready to use.
Please note that this is just a general tutorial. The specific steps may vary depending on the model of your phone. Always consult your phone’s user manual for more specific instructions. Here are some additional tips:
- Use a slow and steady stream of air when inflating your phone.
- Do not over-inflate your phone. This could damage the phone.
If you have any problems inflating your phone, consult your phone’s manufacturer or a qualified technician.
- Comment on Eventually, old computers and operating systems will likely be referred to as dumb computers or dumb terminals or similar, because they don't have artificial intelligence. 1 week ago:
LMFAO!
Want a quick way to inflate a foldable phone, stab it with a screwdriver. Don’t mind the smoke and fire, that’s just part of the process 🔥👍
- Comment on Eventually, old computers and operating systems will likely be referred to as dumb computers or dumb terminals or similar, because they don't have artificial intelligence. 1 week ago:
Agreed.
I once asked AI a question, “How do you inflate a foldable phone?”
If it was smart, it should have responded with something like ‘This question doesn’t make sense, but here are some related articles to help you.’
But no no no, it literally wrote out instructions for me that almost looked perfectly professional, except it just replaced ‘inner tube’ with ‘folding phone’…
If AI keeps hallucinating like that, and people accept it as somehow being ‘smarter’ than humans, then indeed we might just be on track for a new dumb generation of humans that just accept bullshit as fact.
🤦♂️
- Submitted 1 week ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Do you feel guilty when your phone battery goes below 40%?
- Yes, oh shit, I need to charge!
- No, fuckit, let it run dead.
- Comment on Could maybe use some more testing 2 weeks ago:
That’s completely understandable, and I don’t blame you a bit. Hope you have a good day.
- Comment on Could maybe use some more testing 2 weeks ago:
If it worries you, then run it in a virtual machine, or just don’t bother with it, that’s up to you. It was developed in and runs best on Windows XP.
I wouldn’t literally sign my name to a project that would cause any mischief or tarnish my reputation of being a generally decent person. It’s harmless, I guarantee it. Maybe a little buggy here and there, it is a prototype after all, but it’s harmless.
- Comment on Could maybe use some more testing 2 weeks ago:
I’m not about to share the source code.
The front end GUI code was written in RapidQ, which itself was an incomplete prototype programming language by William Yu, released unfinished and buggy in August 2000.
It only had a relatively small following under Yahoo Groups before that got shut down, where some really talented hackers managed to patch the language to fix memory leaks and find workarounds to practically all the bugs.
And that, my fellow Lemming, is the main reason I won’t be sharing the source code. You’d look at some areas of the code and wonder what the fuck, unless you were very familiar with RapidQ and it’s quirks.
Why did I pick RapidQ? Because it was free, and the project has its earliest roots in QuickBasic from back in 2009, so it was easier for me to migrate to RapidQ when I got ready to delve into Windows programming.
The backend code is written in FreeBasic, which actually is portable between Windows and Linux, but the code looks like QuickBasic and C made love and had a baby.
To my knowledge, there’s only about a dozen people that even half understand how the program works, as it’s rather abstract compared to other graphics software.
- Comment on Could maybe use some more testing 2 weeks ago:
My software is no virus, it doesn’t even make any communication with the internet. It was a work of experimental passion of color processing.
I’ve never been interested in web apps, I’m a firm believer that software shouldn’t be tied to the internet unless absolutely necessary.
It’s basically an innovative way of processing bitmaps and photo-accurate color gradients. Try it out if you want, or not, that’s up to you. But I guarantee you it’s no virus.
