uriel238
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Discuss 1 day ago:
Yes, though they aren’t usually available at the concession booth in that format. Trader Joe’s has a nice basket of DC cups.
- Comment on Discuss 1 day ago:
It’s okay. I prefer dark chocolate with peanut butter rather than milk, but Reese’s gonna reese.
- Comment on xkcd #3155: Physics Paths 2 days ago:
And this is how you get a positive crackpot index.
Though I’ve known legit physicists and engineers take pride in there >0 CI.
- Comment on You missed a spot 2 days ago:
I blame executive dysfunction.
Mom needed to start me with a comprehensive checklist of specific tasks. Clean the kitchen isn’t sufficient. Clean the counter, being sure to get under all the counter-top appliances is better.
Otherwise, my missed spots are due to insufficient instruction and insufficient training.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 1 week ago:
It’s allegedly a documentary, not fiction. It should make sense from beginning to end.
Sounds like you feel the need to defend Kurzgesagt for sentimental reasons, and since they’re presenting themselves as a source for accurate information, that just won’t do.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 1 week ago:
Feel free to explain it in better terms. TBH, I watched the first half and quit in disgust.
- Comment on Sorry, guys, it's just not happening 1 week ago:
Klein bottle for sale. Inquire within.
- Comment on Sorry, guys, it's just not happening 1 week ago:
Curiously relevant to my romantic life, having had a GF who wanted to be a surrogate mom, which meant she had to go off medical contraception which meant we had to rely on other means of birth control.
Because we couldn’t keep from sowing wild oats, we had to actually take a hiatus from our relationship. Life is weird.
- Comment on you have been defeated, you do not pass go, you do not collect your $200 1 week ago:
Defeated male lurks.
When all the lionesses are in heat and all want to be bred RIGHT NOW and multiple times (and will bite the scrotum of the solitary male to… stimulate him into action), then it’s the hour for all the defeated males to shine.
Seriously, this is a relevant part of lion pride sociopolitics. It may also figure into why the dominant male tends to kill the cubs of the lionesses
when there’s doubt as to their heritage.When I researched alleged murder gangs of lion males there’s not much evidence for them, but discovered insatiably horny lionesses (seriously) is the way defeated males get their day.
- Comment on am I cooked chat 1 week ago:
In this case, my minimum-wageiness trumps Mr. Ramsay’s celebrity and inappropriate attitude.
Or put another way,
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
- Comment on OLAY! 1 week ago:
I think the implication is that it’s part of her tradwife contract that she rave about Stephen Miller’s sexual prowess.
I’m not one to kink shame, but Stephen Miller is shameful before the kink.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 1 week ago:
The problem is when the contributors influence what the videos say, in contradiction to data.
Kurzgesagt’s video on +2° / +3° / +4° over the global mean isn’t going to be so bad video was conspicuous to me, and is in fact, based on fossil-fuel industry rhetoric, rather than climatology estimations (which tell us over +1.5° is going to fuck us, and is).
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 1 week ago:
The phrase “I voted for this” has become a common thing for far-right supporters of Trump to say when something particularly brutal has happened to their political opponents.
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it, If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. – Lyndon B. Johnson, attributed by Bill Moyers
- Comment on Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. 1 week ago:
Like pleading with Hector not to fight Achilles, Cassandra has been warning about ALPRs for over a decade now, possibly two, that they were too intimate a search to allow law enforcement to use them without narrowly-defined warrants.
As with the Greek wooden horse Cassandra shouted was going to burn Troy to the ground, only too late we are seeing how such power can be used.
No one listens to Cassandra.
- Comment on soda 1 week ago:
10 to 1 would be a bit much. 5 to 1 indicates the syrup is already thinned out, which is a possibility if the denser syrup doesn’t mix readily with the fizzy without stirring.
But then, I’d figure there was purchase-density syrup, and then pre-make which is ready to dispense with fizz water, and a clerk is tasked with diluting one to make the other.
That’s the way it’d be if I were writing a fast food sim.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 week ago:
Do we have verification of this photo? Also, I thought digi-cam fatigues were out nowadays since they’re less effective than old-school camouflage.
Besides which, national guard don’t usually get to choose their deployment. They’re in Chicago, I assume, to pick up litter and guard federal buildings at the pleasure of their civilian commanders (up to the limits of what they’re legally allowed to do). They’re contemptable once they follow illegal orders and engage in state violence.
- Comment on soda 1 week ago:
1/5 syrup is a lot of syrup, and doesn’t track with Italian-style sodas.
I have heard that brand name syrups are often charged extra for a patent fee or something, much like the studios overcharging movie theaters since the 90s / aughts, forcing them to run entirely on concessions.
- Comment on soda 1 week ago:
I’ve run nothing, but a friend of mine was a Pizza Inn manager and talked a bit about it, albeit in the late 80s / early 90s.
But the attitudes I’ve seen from managers suggests at an anecdotal level they don’t know that much and don’t care. They penny pinch in the wrong places, often developing the reputation that their own establishment has mean, miserly policies. Maybe, if their margins are that low, like it’s Walmart, this is necessary.
Still, there’s a lot of focus by companies on loss control than there is by making their places welcome enough to bother shopping there; this figures into the recent Walgreens franchise culling in San Francisco.
The focus of my own studies (as a game dev) had been about crunching in AAA game development, which is still done even though it has the opposite effect as tended (specifically, hurrying up production to meet a deadline). Managers of billion-dollar projects are willing to be stupid in the face of data-driven policy; the cruelty is sometimes the point. Among the convenience store managers I’ve encountered, they don’t look at or care about the data.
Believe what you need to believe, though.
- Comment on soda 1 week ago:
Incidentally, the soda (gas-injected water plus syrup) is so cheap this would be better tolerated as a photo op and free advertising. When you get a fast food cup and free refills, the cup is literally more expensive than the soda + ice that goes into it. It’s nearly 100% profit.
- Comment on soda 1 week ago:
AI art has come a long way. You can make your AI look like shitty florescent lighting, or a fading photograph. Also AI folk normally have five fingers on each hand in a normal position thanks to LORAs. LORAs also fix wording when you specify what you want a caption to say.
It’ll mess up logos unless you specify a particular brand.
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 1 week ago:
Controllers in 2015 were about $40 for a Playstation standard and could get up to $200 depending on the features you wanted (e.g. wireless, self charging, extended range, game domination features, etc.)
Most people have a $10-$30 market for sex toys until they get serious about it. Kids exploring their bits don’t have any budget at all, and can only get things that pretend to be toys for kids.
Evidently, it’s appropriate to get your tween a vibrating broomstick (or a bumble ball if you’re a California hippy parent who wants to assure your toddler grows up well-adjusted) but not a vibrating rubber duckie. I’m not fully sure why.
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 1 week ago:
A friend of mine had to vibrate the snot out of her leg as part of PT (it’s a very long and gruesome story), and for stuff like that magic-wand type vibes are great. But the new orgasmotron vibes use weird biofeedback science and fancy rhythms to get the pulse just right for people who have various kinds of sexual dysfunction.
Some of them also relay your health issues back to the App provider to be added to your consumer profile and sold, so do use IoT security and try not to get ones that sell your info.
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 1 week ago:
As I played it with mouse and keyboard, I never got to experience the rumble effects of Moxxi’s gear.
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 1 week ago:
To be fair, having recently been on the market for a proper vibrating sex toy, they’re expensive as fuck, and according to my ex-wife (ow. ex- still stings.) capable of providing mind-blowing orgasms. So yeah, for those without a budget, we make do with what we got, or the bargain bin at Good Vibes.
TMI:
spoiler
The item in question doesn’t figure into why she’s ex- now, but the reason we were on the market for one absolutely does. I’ll be talking to an endocrinologist at the end of the year.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 1 week ago:
The same thing happened to terrorist, a term that became overused and dead during the IWoT and yet the Trump regime is still trying to leverage that word against his political enemies.
For my own arguments, I use alternatives to fascist or get specific, such as calling it an autocratic regime that uses fascist rhetoric to justify state violence. That way my readers know I’m talking seriously about a serious thing.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 2 weeks ago:
Only during REM sleep, and even then, it’s not the same as alert-and-aware consciousness.
During non-REM sleep, during which your body does most of its growth, healing and cell replacement, death stops by for a visit. See also when under general anesthesia.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 2 weeks ago:
Without a brain and no small amount of power (20% of your calorie count at rest on average, less when jogging, more when doing the calculus) the age of the universe goes by instantly. You don’t track time.
You also don’t track heat or pain, or memories good or bad. You don’t contemplate your trials and tribulations. You could be in the core of the sun at over a million degrees Celsius and not feel a thing or care how you got there.
The universe has been around for thirteen billion years, and will be around for even longer, and we only get this moment. And then it’s gone.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 2 weeks ago:
It’s not the death part that scares me. It’s the transition between living and dead that’s going to suck.
But then I had a really terrible November 2024 and am still suffering a high-suicidality psychotic break, so my opinion might be biased.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 3 weeks ago:
The non mushy straws aren’t terrible, but all rubberized tires are, whether on cars or bikes. The car ones are much worse.
And air travel is even worse still
But not close to industrial pollution which is exponentially greater.
The billionaires could care more and put some R&D into it. They just dont.
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 3 weeks ago:
I’m assuming bragging on Miller’s prowess is an explicit part of Katie Miller’s tradwife contract.