potoo22
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- Comment on Pure Shame 1 week ago:
“Oh hey! You go to this floor too?! So much cleaner.”
- Comment on minecraft modding community 2 weeks ago:
They’re weird fantasy ways of doing tech things.
- Comment on let's use PIN pad to complete transaction together 2 weeks ago:
At least it doesn’t use Amazon titles.
- Comment on let's use PIN pad to complete transaction together 2 weeks ago:
The associate is busy with someone else and there are 3 other self-checkout stands with flashing lights.
- Comment on kingdom come 2 weeks ago:
The true misconception is that there are scientific definitions and culinary definitions. No the culinary definitions don’t fit their scientific category. They’re not intended to.
- Comment on Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body 2 weeks ago:
Cyber Myconids… Oh boy.
“Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should”
- Comment on Don't make me say it 4 weeks ago:
😱 The audacity!
- Comment on DIY 4th of July 4 weeks ago:
To my understanding, the arcing is caused by hard edges. E.g. all the elections could be at the end of a fork’s tines, and EM field forces them to jump to another tine instead of going through the root of the fork.
Since spoons are rounded, they don’t need to jump. I don’t think the material plays much of a role in arcing other than providing resistance. They would heat up, but they’d melt before they arc. Still, they can arc from one spoon to another spoon when there multiple spoons close enough.
- Comment on DIY 4th of July 4 weeks ago:
The contact points between the spoons will heat up and may melt or spark.
- Comment on It's more economical 1 month ago:
Do it for the narrative
- Comment on Vitamins 1 month ago:
*Eats first vitamin gummy*
“They sought to limit me with their lies.”
*Eats second vitamin gummy*
“But now I am become death,”
*Starts levitating. Eyes open as pure darkness.*
“the destroyer of worlds.” - Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 1 month ago:
Hidden-variable cult skulking in the background 🫥
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Telling a child “Don’t touch this. It’s hot.”
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 1 month ago:
When masks were mandatory, I couldn’t do this and tried for over a minute to open the damn bag.
I found that if I start with the cold vegetable, I could use their moisture to wet my fingers.
- Comment on I have a terrible memory for numbers so: 2 months ago:
We’d reach the heat death of the universe before entering in 1357!
- Comment on I have a terrible memory for numbers so: 2 months ago:
Those are odd pin numbers
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 2 months ago:
No publisher is going to pay a professional to narrate their audiobooks when they can have AI do a shitty job for much less.
A shitty narrator can get me to hate a book I like. A great narrator can bring the characters to life, enhance the experience, and turn me from a listener to a fan. I’ve searched for books by narrators like Nick Podehl and Jeff Hayes and bought audiobooks I wouldn’t have otherwise.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t support it even if the author couldn’t afford it otherwise. There’s no test to confirm that and knowing profit margines, all publishers will use AI for all their books.
Yes, I’d want smaller authors to have people listen to their books, but without oversight, it’s going to ruin all audiobooks.
- Comment on Never gonna loosen them laces 2 months ago:
For the love of God, please use a shoehorn if you are still having this problem.
- Comment on Researchers from the University of Zurich secret unethical experiment deployed AI-generated comments on Reddit to study how AI could be used to change views. 3 months ago:
Unethical, but insightful. The bot took on fake identities and made up lies that strike at people’s emotions to change their views. Unethical because it can manipulate real people (or other bot accounts) using made up facts or scenarios. Insightful because other bots are already doing this; they’re just not disclosing it. There are more ethnical ways to run this study. This was just the cheap and easy way.
- Comment on Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO 3 months ago:
Step One: Provide an exceptional but unprofitable service.
Step Two: Drive out all competition because business model is unprofitable. Become the only service users want and become invested into.
Step Three: Enshitify to show the model can be profitable to investors. Users will not leave because they are already invested and competition is not strong.
Step Four: Go public, while continuing to Enshitify.
- Comment on Why walk, when you can ride? 3 months ago:
Not gonna play the “carry all the groceries in one trip” game greater than 100 yards (1 football field (514 bananas))
- Comment on Powell sees tariffs raising inflation and says Fed will wait before further rate moves 3 months ago:
That seems reasonable. It’s also possible for both high inflation and high unemployment. In that case he’d be like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 4 months ago:
I’m still waiting for the stable release. Mostly because I’m not prepared to lose another 200-300 hours.
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 4 months ago:
I was worried about this. The game has so many hotkeys, I have no idea how a controller would handle them. Lots of contextual button mappings.
- Comment on The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses 4 months ago:
Mazda’s Laputa translates to “the bitch” in Spanish.
There’s also Ford’s Probe…
But yeah ID.EVERY1 is a mediocre name.
- Comment on Do tell!!! 4 months ago:
But, without any thrust, they would stay in orbit for years. Eventually, if in low orbit, their space suit will collide with enough stray atoms, it’ll lose enough speed to fall back to earth and incinerate in the atmosphere.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 5 months ago:
It’s hard for me not to engage with their opinions. Like “no, that’s not how that works,” “There’s more to it than that,” “there are several things wrong with what you said.” There’s no point trying to argue on the Internet, but some of there comments make me angry. I especially hate when they support something just to “own them libs” like that takes priority over peoples’ well-being.
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 5 months ago:
It says garbage patch, not dumpster fire
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
The “reasonable” moderate Democrats are hoping to win votes with: “We’ll undo a few Republican initiatives and put our friends in offices, but otherwise keep everything the same.” Can’t imagine why that isn’t getting them votes. In 2024 they ran out of Republican initiatives to undo and their platform was just: keep our friends in office and keep everything else the same. If they had other planned initiatives, few people picked up on them.