Sarmyth
@Sarmyth@lemmy.world
- Comment on Not to mom shame... 1 week ago:
Mom brain. Judging by the ages of the kids in the image she hasn’t slept well for years.
- Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead 1 week ago:
Leaf blower or strong fan to the face to help your tears wash away the papper spray is best relief. It feels better while it’s blowing in your face too.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 1 week ago:
Interestingly, if you look at the menu for Juneteenth, it doesn’t include fried chicken. The only chicken is a dry rub chicken that wouldn’t be fried. So your evidence confirms they believe fried chicken is in fact not appropriate for Junteenth. That’s a good reference point if we all accept that the national museum of African American history is an authority on such matters.
- Comment on "I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince" Second Season Announced 1 week ago:
My wife and I really enjoyed this one. She’ll be happy to hear she gets more.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 2 months ago:
Honest reviews prevent bad reviews from others and returns. They should be embraced for what they are and a blueprint for what you’ve done well and where there is room for improvement.
- Comment on buying coffee 4 months ago:
First off, I want my coffee first thing. So I make it at home so I don’t have to be dressed and already up.
I don’t think I have access or motivation for the amount of fraud that would make me rich in the short term. I’ll keep my ears open, though.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro launch pre-view testers complain about weight, comfort, even headaches 5 months ago:
The tech and price still aren’t there yet. Until these can fit in your pocket or cost a weeks salary for your average person, it’s just a luxury toy very few will ever use.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 5 months ago:
It’s is in the US too after age 15.
- Comment on AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’ 5 months ago:
It’s actually not saying that at all. I specifically said that I expected her to dislike it.
The rest of us, less emotionally invested in the person as a person and more as a deceased performer, will have differing opinions.
The creators of this and articles around it keep referring to it as an impression that speaks to their motives a little. I suspect that the timing of this may be motivated by recent news surrounding the actors’ strikes.
Demonstrating how this could be used to convincingly create content from an actor without any of their intentional input (evident by him being dead) should make people question these capabilities more, just like they did when people first started seeing convincing deep fakes.
- Comment on AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’ 5 months ago:
My thoughts exactly. It’s being represented as exactly what it is, but I don’t think the daughter raised by George Carlin would be happy about it.
It reminds me of the quote, “Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
- Comment on Amazon’s Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff 5 months ago:
I think they meant because 500 people who also work there are losing their jobs.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 5 months ago:
That was my experience on blahaj. I’d never been banned from a community, let alone one I’ve been an ally to before. Such a pure echo chamber that even discussing why the outside world holds the views they have, even without expressing agreement, gets you labeled a transphobe.
Honestly, it soured me on lemmy as a whole since that was the content I had been enjoying the most.
- Comment on British Police are Using Period Tracker Data and Blood Tests To Investigate Patients Who Miscarry 7 months ago:
Sex can be determined at 9 weeks via blood test, so it would still be possible to legally abort before 12 weeks with that knowledge as long as you don’t disclose your reasoning.
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 7 months ago:
Same. I’ve almost completely stopped using these delivery services because of the extreme costs and middling performance.
When people constantly complain about how underpaid they are doing this job, I realized that I don’t want to pay what people actually want to get paid for this service, so I’ll just stop. Like paying 15 fees and tip is already too much for only 1-2 peoples worth of food. I’d consider it less painful for 6 people’s dinner.
- Comment on Remember when Target blamed theft for closing stores? It's all lies. 7 months ago:
They seem to be having theft issues in the San Francisco region at least. All the stores in the area are locking up various areas of the store they never have before.
Do these corps pull shady stuff around unions? I’m sure. Are they also seeing extreme theft at the moment? Looks like it. Because those security boxes really tank your sales on anything in them as people refuse to wait. You don’t do that unless you think you are losing significantly more than you are selling, and it’s not a practice that really has anything to do with unions.
- Comment on Remember when Target blamed theft for closing stores? It's all lies. 7 months ago:
I don’t know why you got downvoted for this. It’s your experience, and it’s related to the content of the article.
I managed a grocery store for 6 years, and we had a very large homeless population nearby. They might steal little bits sometimes, but they mostly bought stuff with their EBT cards because they didn’t want to risk losing access to a bathroom and a place they weren’t kicked out of.
The people who were really problematic were actually what I had to assume were reselling the food to local restaurants. In my case, they were almost exclusively Philipino, but they would try to steal like $600 worth of steaks, frozen shrimp, ribs, scallops, and chicken. These guys had resources, and if I didn’t catch them building the cart, they would hit my store 3 times a week. We knew they were also going into the other stores in the area multiple times a week (we shared footage).
Of those dozens of times, there were only a couple that resulted in a police report. The cops won’t come if you have no one there for them to talk to. The only time cops came quickly is when I let them know one of the guys who threatened me with a chefs knife was back in the store.
I personally ordered over 800 shopping carts for this store over the years as well because they were all stolen and the property managers wouldn’t let us install cart locks because it would mean blocking part of the parking lot entrance for a night or 2 supposedly.
The location was still profitable, but it was getting less and less so as I couldn’t keep carts (always on backorder from the supplier) and people could only shop with hand baskets.
- Comment on A small UK software company which trademarked the name Threads over 10 years ago is demanding Meta stop using the name within 30 days 7 months ago:
Not happening. This came up in another thread, too. They aren’t competing in the same industry, so they don’t really have a basis to claim anything.
Sometimes people get confused and just see “software” in the description of things and just declare it “tech”. Therefore, same industry. But yeah, not related.