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- Comment on YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee 1 day ago:
Nearly 100% of people traveling domestically…?
- Comment on There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport. 1 day ago:
In taking your wife’s side.
Competition squeezes blood from a stone. There are very few world records that were set without intention.
To your side, you could argue that I am making your point. Perhaps some folks haven’t been thrust up to the plate to take a swing, and this haven’t been tempered in competition. Also, it’s possible that knowing what the records are imposes psychological limitations. For example, Ewa Kawakami, at 9 years old, did three back to back 900s in xgames skateboarding vert recently. Tony hawk asked him how long after his first 720 did he land a 900. He said “the next day.”
I am still going with competition being requisite for peak form. There are exceptions, probably for stuff like Worlds Strongest Man, but something like sprinting, deadlifts, marathon, fastest playthrough of flight of the bumblebee, etc, all take dedication and competition to rise to the top
- Comment on Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven 1 day ago:
The world uses the USD as a global financial standard.
If it tanks your global assets do too.
I don’t think you understand how investments work.
- Comment on Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven 2 days ago:
Fun fact: you’re not in control.
You can do everything right and oopsie the USD tanks. Hyper inflation. Womp womp.
Just don’t put it on yourself with regard to it going tits up.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 5 days ago:
Depends where you work, I suppose.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
My first job was at a rather large shopping mall.
Closing up a big box store during a blizzard. Huuuuge parking lots. Plows.
Like 4-8" on the ground. Lamp surrounded by and unholy amount of plowed powder.
Just flooring it, cutting the wheel, spinning, spinning, and softly plonking into a big giant snowbank.
Being 17 wasn’t that bad.
- Comment on Going to bed is just setting your body and brain down in a safe place, so you can use them later. 6 days ago:
Just?
Is your your brain setting your body down to bed? Your bed setting your body down to sleep? Do you have free will, or are we little automatons in a closed, predictable system?
Why does resting my brain take my brain to another world without my body?
…just… 🙄
- Comment on NO JUSTICE, NO WORK! 1 week ago:
I really don’t understand why I am supposed to pay federal taxes when they’re going to murdering my neighbors in the streets.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 1 week ago:
I have a .com for like $19.99 but pay to have my info redacted from whois stuff, an email address, all cones to like $42.99
I have a bullshit domain with some nonsense tld and domain name that I pay $0.99/yr for that’s on a vps I pay like $150/yr for all told (it’s doing stuff).
All told I keep it below $20/month.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Toilet. No bath/shower.
So two bathrooms. 1 is full bathroom. other is just for pooping.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
you can just look…?
- Comment on The $20 USD bill is the new 5$ bill 1 week ago:
Are you under the impression that this prevented inflation somehow?
Spoiler: it didn’t.
- Comment on Believing the law or elections will save us from the current situation is like believing superheroes will save us 1 week ago:
Enough with the fucking doomer shitposts.
This is a fucking cancer on Lemmy, to the point that it feels orchestrated.
- Comment on Here I stand, at 50, wishing I could shit as well as my dogs. 1 week ago:
Beans, prunes, raspberries, metamucil, water. Bananas.
Eat just that for 3 days. You’ll poop your pants.
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 2 weeks ago:
“prevents”
- Comment on Ending a relationship during the dating phase is a positive outcome. 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I labeled my addendum as a caveat. I wasn’t addressing your core argument. I was trying to help people who night read it with the wrong perspective get the right ramp to what I think you were saying.
I think it’s just as common right now that young folks get in a relationship and after like 6-18mibths feel bored and think that’s a red flag.
- Comment on Ending a relationship during the dating phase is a positive outcome. 2 weeks ago:
I’ll add a caveat.
Relationships take work. If you’re in a relationship and feeling “meh”, that doesn’t mean the relationship is “meh”. It means one or both of you aren’t putting enough work in for one another.
- Comment on FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link) 2 weeks ago:
I was just using it as an example.
Anything with a trade ark or copyright.
With this move, every company with a subreddit should be saying “all your mods are out. Here’s our guys. We run our subreddit now, not you.”
- Comment on FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link) 2 weeks ago:
Oh boy. Careful what you wish for, reddit.
Someone tell the creator of Girls Gone Wild. Might be time for him to sue. He could make all kinds of legal claims.
Find one girl who submitted nudes to gonewild in 2008 to say she legitimately believed her nudes were going to the Girls Gone Wild agency.
Mega fucked.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sorry to be pedantic here, but a
Xenophobia pertains to countries and imaginary borders (i.e. “foreigners”, “germans”, “americans”, etc.)
And
Bigotry pertains to social groups. This can be things like race, class, gender, and beyond. (i.e. “black people”, “Jews”, “Asians”, etc.)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Tagged as Xenophobic.
- Comment on Most mouse pointers designs assume right-handed users 2 weeks ago:
On the left margin of word documents, your cursor changes to left handed, to help the mouse not cover content when selecting stuff near the border.
You can still change the mouse pointer to be this way by default, as well
- Comment on LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently formulated on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs. 2 weeks ago:
That’s such obnoxious doomer bullshit.
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B can run on most PCs with fucking 8 gigs of ram. You likely have that much in your phone.
So sick of this on Lemmy. Half of Lemmy users run propaganda for the people they allegedly oppose.
- Comment on LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently formulated on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs. 2 weeks ago:
LLMs are doing fascists SO gloriously dirty.
There are hundreds of open source models with historical contexts up to like October. Most are about 3-6 months behind current. They’re scraping the whole internet, more or less. That’s bad, yeah. Except…
Fascists cannot rewrite history anymore
These hundreds of open source models have downloads in the millions.
The number of open source LLMs that can tell you, for example, about January 6th, and Trump winning the election later, and Ice raiding those Chicago apartments in the dead if night is ~100M-10B. Individual runnable instances.
Go ahead, poison one. Someone’s got the previous version.
Fascists will never be able to rewrite history again.
The current version of History will remain history, effectively, as long as computers/the internet.
- Comment on Things have gotten out of hand 2 weeks ago:
😯
- Comment on Flowers nut on unsuspecting bees 2 weeks ago:
I mean, they keep coming back.
- Comment on How are people discovering random subdomains on my server? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on There are only like 3,000 billionaires and they're not physically imposing people. 3 weeks ago:
I mean to be fair I’d spend a dollar to stop people from asking me for dogecoin investments.
But I also like, work, and pay taxes and shit.
- Comment on UK government starting to think about leaving X 3 weeks ago:
Anyone or institution still on X is a joke. Except maybe a journalist. But even still.
When is the UK going to make their official reddit account?
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 4 weeks ago:
You could take them to small claims court and you’d likely win. A headache, but a solution.