taiyang

@taiyang@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The polls are kinda dumb, and at the end of the day it kind of is both at fault-- and ya know what, honestly it’s to be expected and in some cases, probably for the best. We haven’t had a functioning government in a while and at least this way, ICE doesn’t even get paid (although they’re essential workers, for some reason, so they get back pay if we ever go back to funding).

  My only beef with Dems here is… why healthcare? There’s a thousand and one better ways to message this shutdown, but no, we’re going to go with Biden era subsidies set to expire. Is it because it’s something they think will have legs with a GOP compromise? It sure as hell doesn’t resonate with the base that sees fascism before our very eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big savings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As did I. As did I. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The other 40% is somehow still completely unaware of reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I like duck.ai but yes, anonymous or not, never submit private data to a third party. I often warm my wife about that, I don’t think she should even share secrets over SMS, let alone a third party app.

  Though, interestingly, her company does have a private server hosting a closed off version of ChatGPT explicitly for this reason, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that tracks with what I see, at least. Either it’s used as an excuse for layoffs that likely would happen anyway given the market, or they’re just included in a workflow without firing.

  I’ve got a friend who pays under the table to a guy to write and edit instructional videos, and still does that since there’s never enough videos to produce for her project. Just, now, the guy uses AI in his workflow and… I’d say maybe produces at about the same pace (fact checking the AI takes time, lol).

  But basically, AI didn’t replace her copy writer / editor, they just scaled up (or at least, attempted to, lol).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To each their own, I felt like Portal 2 was better because of it’s length and storytelling. I recall single player being maybe 8-10 hours? Beatable in a single weekend, in any case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpler times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of the double standard with teacher sexual abuse. Male teacher abuses student, pedophile. Female teacher abuses student, “wish I was him” (unless she was deemed ugly, and even then).

  Things don’t change much, although it doesn’t help when people forget men can be victimized, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite part of these comments are the number of people coming to the realization they may have sleep apnea, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You and me both; the advice that worked ok for me is a pillow between the legs and proper placement under the head that keeps everything level.

  They also suggested we get the softer mattresses, since we want a little extra dip for the shoulders and hips. That advice is a mixed bag, though, as I still get shoulder pain. Might be the cheap foam, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think the reason we evolved 5 fingers is so we can carry hot serving dishes farther by alternating which one is in contact with the hot thing.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no, we evolved five fingers to be able to give radical high fives to all our bros and broettes. You ain’t rad with a high four or high six, what even is a high six?

  See also: Shska, brah. 🤙

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit that’s a great idea for any school to have-- and take it from me, I literally studied education in grad school. Healthy food availability is 100% a good thing for academics and from a discipline standpoint (hungry -> grumpy). Public schools in many states just barely getting free breakfast though, so at least there’s progress.

  What next, private schools with nap rooms for sleepy teenagers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad PS4 emulation isn’t quite there yet. You can, however, pirate the fuck out of the earlier games, DLC and all. Truly a better way to play, cause that DLC was hella expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Puppy paper⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my daughter novelty Pokemon toilet paper to encourage potty training, but we ended up using as a family it and I can’t help feeling bad smearing shit across Mimikyu’s face. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truly⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, LA has independent Cambodian-run donut places because the so called Donut King lost his fortune to gambling addiction and had to relinquish his ownership to the families to pay debts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only does that sound like a better date to me, but I also make it pretty clear upfront we split the cost of the date. Like, I’m pretty good at winning over friends and they end up getting my back during a misunderstanding (speaking from experience lol).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After every 10 years of every social media platform becoming just another political propaganda machine Im totally bored of it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly agree with you on bluesky but my feed has plenty pro-trans folks so I don’t see that. Still very shitlibby, though, and it’s mostly used how I used to use Twitter: to follow celebrities (well, comedians) for lols.

  It’s a stupid medium for discussions, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yes! That, too. Where I lived previously, I liked to see what LMUs station was playing (Culver City area) and the songs ranged from college punk bands, to classical music, to experimental… music of wailing sounds? My favorite was when it started playing video game remixes just randomly. University radio is wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly, I’ve just returned to FM radio. I do have a large collection of songs stored locally, but I want to hear new recommendations (and not from an algorithm but from free public radio).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animal guessing game!!! ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo, unfair, only 2% of people will get this!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's official: EA is going private.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking about this deal and… I guess it makes sense the Saudis want in on the gaming industry. I recall a long while ago an old article about the industry (probably second hand via Polygon) that noted just how much Saudis whale on mobile and loot box games. It was so disproportionate, their nobility was like 2% of a mobile title’s revenue… literally just a few big families.

  So my thinking is, EA, being the kind of shitty company it is, is actually probably pretty popular among Saudi nobility. That and FIFA, of course — imagine pay to win when you have infinite money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably passwords. Though the brain is what we call plastic, as in it can take any on lots of roles and those exact neurons could do any number of things… or, you know, nothing at all.

  Not too dissimilar from a file system that’s lost it’s index but probably still has some 1s and 0s, which is true of most of your lost memories, probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨booming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now may I interest you in some CASH4GOLD or perhaps America First Gold Coins?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Autism has been announced!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hehe, at least there’s some good news for my students in my interventions class-- a new option for their open ended write up assignment just dropped.

  It’s a good teachable moment for psych students wanting to better understand just why RFK Jr is so full of shit, without it even being framed in a partisan thing; literally we teach correlation isn’t causation, as well as the current literature on autism (genetic predispositions, etc).

  Any chance to teach critical thinking to young people is a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hearing Kash Patel's Voice for the First Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably because of his ethnicity, disposition, and general… loserness, I had assumed he sounded something like Aziz Ansari doing a bit about a whinny FBI director.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer to not bloat my gaming experience anymore then I have to, and I already get get annoyed when I’m playing on Windows and haven’t completely disabled that said Xbox game bar.

  I think my line stops with in game overlays. Steam and most emulators have that, and that’s kinda fine to me (adds to the console feel). I just don’t want AI draining my resources as I’m playing, that’s asinine, and MS doubly so since they’re a redundant layer on top of my overlays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hyperbole, much? What a bananas way to say you like a fun remake of a relatively solid JRPG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, sure, like a year ago but at this point I also don’t trust what the government and mainstream media say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fantastic documentary; as an LA native, I recommend playing through the story to better understand our diverse culture of shallow rich folks, inner city gents, and meth-addled drug countrymen.

  In fact, pirate it to truly honor my culture. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Fuentes part has been floated around cause of the memes in the bullet casings. I wouldn’t call Tyler left leaning, but possibly questioning his right wing roots. There is evidence he’s unaffiliated by party, though, which should be unsurprising given his age. Its easy to look that up, though I’m not op.

  Ops overall point does stand, though, as Tyler is raised in right wing gun culture even if his motive is unclear at this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flooring Pop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, that does explain why it’d need mortar, too. The tongue and groove stuff works like puzzle pieces and if you follow a lot of the other advice, it’s not a terribly hard diy project. There’s cheaper stuff out there, too, though you definitely notice the difference.