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- Comment on Foreign tourists could be charged to visit UK museums - including top London sites 2 weeks ago:
James Acaster:
That’s why the British Museum is so busy, no British people ever go in there, it’s just people from abroad looking at their own stuff…
- Comment on Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green 2 weeks ago:
I thought everyone knew this but clicked to verify:
Light Green: Used on walls to reduce visual fatigue
It’s the “default” color our brains like and zones out about. So it makes the emergency “look at me” colors stand out even more.
It’s like the analog version of “blue light filters” on digital screens.
Actual white reflects too much light and becomes drastically.
- Comment on https://kotaku.com/marathon-content-farm-discord-reddit-posts-bungie-fake-2000682208 2 weeks ago:
They gave all the big subs to corporate overloads well over a decade ago.
The general “tech” subs had mods bought off long ago for general shit
$200 to nuke a topic is nothing to these companies, but an insane amount of motivation to unpaid mods.
It doesn’t take long till the motivation from bribes pushes out anyone without that motivation, and that’s not even getting into how small the circle of mods really is due to years of “add backs”.
Like, at this point we should all accept that real life conspiracies don’t have to involve James Bond. It can be a bunch of idiots doing incredibly transparent and ineffective shit.
- Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type 2 weeks ago:
That link says absolutely nothing about the source of the “tip"
Because it originated from an anonymous source…
Someone that was aware of who Luigi is and the bounty, wanted to turn him in…
But didn’t take the two seconds to ensure a call was made, instead they told someone else to call and just left.
Bro, if you can’t logic this out, and you only want help when it’s sugar coated…
Just block me.
Otherwise I’m cool to keep answering you’re questions, but this is standard delivery.
- Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type 2 weeks ago:
Literally the first link from searching “luigi McDonald’s”
Authorities said a customer in the restaurant thought he matched the description of the suspect in Thompson’s killing and notified an employee, who called 911.
newsweek.com/mcdonalds-worker-luigi-mangione-priv…
That customer was almost certainly law enforcement, they just needed a civil to call in the tip because they couldn’t say how they found him.
The McDonald’s worker had no idea, that’s why their call was basically: “some guy said another guy is dangerous and wanted by police, I don’t know who”.
And cops immediately swarmed and singled out Luigi.
You may believe you’re “reasonably tuned in” but this information was out within like 24 hrs of his arrest everywhere.
- Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type 2 weeks ago:
because some dumbass making less than 12 dollars and hour dropped a dime on him.
You really should learn about how that actually happened…
Because it’s most likely going to be how the case gets thrown out. If you care about it, I don’t know why anyone would willing stay ignorant
- Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type 2 weeks ago:
“Fight club for nerds afraid to get punched” is my favorite description, even tho Elliot routinely gets his ass beat.
- Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type 2 weeks ago:
There’s a reason Mr Robot is still incredibly popular
- Comment on Help with removing broken faucet aerator 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about “chalk” but vinegar dissolves most hard water setements.
Fill a plastic baggy and tie it around the faucet so it’s summerged in vinegar. Use like an old toothbrush on it every couple hourswhile letting it soak for a while and it will all come off.
Now that that’s gone, try the old methods to remove the plastic piece
If you still can’t you have 3 options:
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Demolish it, it’s plastic and the parts staying are metal, rip it to shreds with pliers.
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Use a strong adhesive like super glue to glue something to it, wait for it to dry then unscrew it.
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Call a plumber
You could also just replace the whole faucet, at a certain point that’s just easier.
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- Comment on Wait if these are my forearms, are the ones behind them hindarms? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, “hind” is for the butt down.
So each leg is a “hindquarter”
- Comment on What are some interesting and fun things to do while you are doing cannabis? 3 weeks ago:
You’re talking about doing an activity to enhance the drug.
Pick an activity you enjoy and can safely enhance with the drug.
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 3 weeks ago:
Most kids still pay for the shitty standard cafeteria lunch tray…
Sometimes in later in like highschool they’re given more options. But it’s pretty much comes down to capitalism.
The vast amount of parents won’t pack a lunch and will never even see the quality of food.
What’s fucked up is healthy food is actually insanely cheap at that scale and dependable need. We’d spend just as much feeding kids a healthy high protein/fiber low sugar/fat meal as we do giving them ultra processed garbage.
There just would be profit margins for contracting companies if we did that
Likeost things in America, no system is designed to be the best or most efficient at anything other than making money. Anything that doesn’t make money, the wealthy are constantly trying to privatize.
That’s the whole “late stage capitalism” thing people always say.
- Comment on How are you supposed to pronounce "Macklemore"? 3 weeks ago:
Mac-L-more
So if you mean “el” like “el tigre chino”, then that’s correct. “L” just eliminates confusion.
I have no strong feelings about him as an artist
He makes super up ear and stupid music 99% of the time, but he’s got a lot more artistic credibility than most.
Can’t remember if he was wealthy before music, or was just unsigned and smart about his money. But dude will at least stand by his principles even when it costs him money.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive 3 weeks ago:
so what can they realistically even use it for so much?
Burn money on AI tokens so it looks like AI could be profitable some day so people keep investing in AI companies that can then buy Nvidia chips…
You’re thinking of it like “how can AI make a better product”
They’re looking at it as “how can we sell more chips”
Two very different questions with very different answers.
It’s a house of cards and Nvidia can’t afford to acknowledge no one wants AI or knows how to make it profitable.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive 3 weeks ago:
It’s worse, they want to change the global economy to corporations paying corporations…
The total elimation of actual consumers, because none of us will be able to afford to consume enough.
AI companies need people to pay for AI to keep buying Nvidia chips. So Nvidia is making their employees pay for the AI so AI companies keep buying Nvidia chips.
It’s not a sustainable system, it’s just a money churn whose only purpose is to consolidate wealth.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 3 weeks ago:
First, editors can use LLMs to suggest refinements to their own writing, as long as the edits are checked for accuracy. In other words, it’s being treated like any other grammar checker or writing assistance tool. The policy says, “ LLMs can go beyond what you ask of them and change the meaning of the text such that it is not supported by the sources cited.”
The second exemption for LLMs is with translation assistance. Editors can use AI tools for the first pass at translating text, but they still need to be fluent enough in both languages to catch errors. As with regular writing refinements, anyone using LLMs also has to check that incorrect information hasn’t been injected.
Both pretty reasonable
- Comment on Oopsie, Crimson Desert's weird AI paintings weren't supposed to left in for release, Pearl Abyss claim, outlining plans to remove them 3 weeks ago:
Gamers:
No slop games, ok guys?
Game Devs:
We’re good guys, were not gonna slop it up…
One second later
Let’s slop em up
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“Fahrenheit makes more sense, it tells you how is out there: 0 is freezing, 100 is roasting hot”.
Two things can be true.
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What you said makes no logical or rational sense
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You think it makes sense to you.
But all that tells us, is you don’t understand anything about what you’re talking about
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- Comment on What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph? 3 weeks ago:
They react very, very quickly by adjusting orientation and shape.
They experience time slower, to them a second just feels longer. It’s like Neo in permanent “bullet time”.
When I was a kid it was pretty easy to catch one alive in my hand. But now my reflexes have slowed and I can only do it from experience and luckily having large hands.
But my big ass hand smacking one out the air and catching it in the same palm is going to hurt it more than going out a window, and weirdly enough I’ve never killed a fly catching it.
They’re a lot sturdier than people think. Any amount of bounce and they’re cool.
- Comment on What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph? 3 weeks ago:
Really small things are really good at surviving anything involving gravity.
But it’s not a 0-75 acceleration either. They’d be sucked out and fine a second later. The danger would be getting pulled around the car due to its aerodynamics, putting it directly in front of the next windshield in traffic.
- Comment on Help! Monstera leaves turn brown 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the roots were about to start rotting then.
It should be fine now for a couple years.
Like I said tho, pretty sure that plant species is super picky. If it still dies you might want to try like a rubber plant or something. They’re pretty easy to keep alive, which make them a lot more forgiving.
It’s like learning how to drive a manual transmission on an old Civic instead of a Ferrari.
You can make a lot more mistakes and learn from them with ruining it.
Start with what’s easy, and then move on to more difficult options that you’d enjoy more.
But damage from under watering is always more gradual and less serious than over watering for any plant. I just water mine when the soil is visibly dry or leaves are droopy, and I’ve even managed to keep a fiddle leaf alive and growing for a couple years now. If I had started with that, I’d have killed a dozen learning the basics.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m getting the distinct feeling that you’re running this thru a chatbot and don’t understand anything it’s saying or anyone else is saying…
Like, there’s a lot of output but it’s all gibberish that doesn’t mean anything
- Comment on Help! Monstera leaves turn brown 3 weeks ago:
A few roots are sticking out of the drainage holes a bit
Yeah, that’s not just “rootbound” that’s a serious case.
A bigger pot and new soil will def help, just watch some YouTube videos first if you’re nervous.
But if it’s growing out of drainage holes, there’s too much roots and not enough soil in the pot.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
But it’s almost guaranteed you’re gonna get belligerent about it and I’m gonna end up blocking you.
Whoop, there it is.
I’d say have a nice life, but you know…
- Comment on Help! Monstera leaves turn brown 3 weeks ago:
It might be something else.
But as far as repotting as soon as you get it, it depends. It might be fine for a year or two, or it might be completely rootbound in old soil that has no nutrients and just a bunch of nitrogen dumped on top as a bandaid.
I grew up on a farm, not an expert on houseplants. But most of the time if everything else seems fine but leaves are browning, it’s because there’s too much nitrogen. Especially for houseplants a lot of fertilizer is “slow release”, so if that’s the problem, repotting is the only fix. All that nitrogen in the soil will just stay there and keep getting picked up by the plant.
As far as I know, repotting “early” can’t really backfire either.
- Comment on Help! Monstera leaves turn brown 3 weeks ago:
Nitrogen burn?
Either from over fertizilation or bad/old soil.
Are you buying all these from the same place? Changing out the soil and reporting might help, but pretty sure these are just “difficult” plants.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Hating on Republicans won’t overcome this.
They’re the ones distracting everyone with bigotry…
What you’re doing is like saying:
Don’t blame the arsonist that keeps setting fires, sometimes fire is natural
Fire is an accident sometimes, but there’s a large group of people clearly intentionally setting the fire.
Fucking obviously we’re going to blame the arsonists, and anyone saying not to…
Well, it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out why they don’t want arsonists blamed.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Well, yeah…
If someone was completely ignorant about how America was first “settled” by religious extremists, that would make sense.
European most extreme zealots who wanted to force everyone to follow their rules were mad they were minorities in Europe, so they all signed up to come to America where they would be a majority and have a shit ton of kids to maintain that majority.
The “idiots” you have in Europe, are the ones not extreme enough to cross an ocean to force their beliefs on people, so fucking obviously the most extreme in Europe won’t be as extreme as the ones that left.
Like, logically you should have been able to figure this out.
Just in general tho…
When someone says something you’re not aware of, why don’t you just ask some fucking questions and then next time it comes up, you won’t be ignorant.
Like, that’s how this whole “learning” thing works.
What you’re doing is just telling everyone you’re ignorant, and hoping someone takes a minute to proactively explain things to you.
But it’s almost guaranteed you’re gonna get belligerent about it and I’m gonna end up blocking you.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If everyone has enough, no one needs to have less to make people feel ok about it…
And if someone only pushes to help some demographics, they’re likely being manipulated so people don’t unify, or they’re just a bigot.
Lots of bigots just don’t want to be called Republicans, so they claim not to be but are still incredibly bigotted and only care about a slice or two of humanity, if there’s no demographic overlap with themselves, they just don’t give a shit.
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 3 weeks ago:
The excuse for places that don’t have it is often:
If voters could recall politicians, they’d recall politicians!
Which is enough when politicians are the only ones who can change it.