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- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 1 week ago:
Seriously, though, we wouldn’t even have to do them all. Do 10 and suddenly everyone wants to pay their taxes. It could save millions of lives.
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 1 week ago:
What are you talking about haha? I want to round them up, skin them, and cut off their heads.
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 1 week ago:
I think you’re talking about the slightly wealthy, not the disgustingly rich. The rich don’t have coworkers - they have staff. If we are talking about a tycoon, they may have employees numbering in the thousands, but not a single coworker. When OP mentions multi-millionaires, he’s not talking about the engineer who scraped together 3M bucks to retire on - he’s talking about the “LeBrons” and “Tyler Perrys” of the world. He also mentions billionaires. Those people definitely aren’t making friends in line at Dollar General.
- Comment on When does it start to feel good? 2 weeks ago:
Some of those fingers look sketchy. Bet this is AI
- Comment on Pete Hegseth is a TERRIBLE advertisement for writing all of your speeches with AI. 3 weeks ago:
It bears repeating. Pete Hegseth is terrible.
- Comment on My glasses 3 weeks ago:
He could have phrased it better haha
- Comment on My glasses 3 weeks ago:
i think he is referring to the strength of her prescription. a -1 or -1.5 diopter prescription is mild - i.e. her glasses aren’t strong enough for the person she offered them to. misogyny was not intended
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Every time i see an AI summary, i give it a thumbs down and say « answer is incorrect / misleading ».
unless, of course, the answer actually IS wrong: then i give it an enthusiastic thumbs up
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 month ago:
The only economic growth they are referring to is Google’s economic growth.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 month ago:
I would rather use a tin-can radio than fascist tech. Fuck you, Google. Reap what you sow. You helped American Nazis get in power and you help them stay in power. You deserve to disappear with them when Trump and his vile losers go to jail.
- Comment on Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste. 1 month ago:
I appreciate yyour perspective, but my experience has been better. I have used mine for 4 years now and it appears to be going strong. im not sure how many plastic disposables it has saved, but i would guess several. Lithium ion batteries are highly recyclable- if they made it so that you could swap the battery, i think it could be an improvement over disposable lighters. of course, you could say the same thing about refillable butane lighters.
- Comment on I might actually be a respectable member of society 1 month ago:
Jesus, man, how much did you do? Mine wears off in, like, 8h
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 month ago:
Because riding on their fronts is too intimate.
- Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this 2 months ago:
The last piece of documentation I wrote was in Jupyter notebook. It looked a bit basic, but it felt wonderful to be in control of my software.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
You want trust? Fuck off with Slopilot and start supporting windows 10 again.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 2 months ago:
Because I already have enough U.S. politics from the internet
I feel you. I wish i could turn it off.
The egg thing was inspired by an old movie (maybe woody allen). But if the USA were such a vibrating egg, i would call it “Shekky shekky brekky,” or SSB for short.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 2 months ago:
Please assume that stale carrot man isn’t in office and that the U.S. is currently being a reasonable and humane country that actually stands for democracy, liberty, and freedom.
How absurd. Why not choose a name for the USA that is timely and appropriate? Why not choose a name for the US that assumes it’s not a country but in fact some variety of small vibrating egg?
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 2 months ago:
Donald Trump’s Personal Toilet
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 2 months ago:
Excellent advice.
Regarding windshield wipers: my mechanic advises people not to leave them up. He says that doing this too often can stretch the springs in your wipers, ultimately reducing the downforce that makes them effective. Someone else in the comments mentioned using a vinyl (or cardboard) cover for your windshield - this can be a good timesaver that is kind to your wipers.
- Comment on White House tech chief slams EU AI Act, champions Trump's approach as Davos begins 2 months ago:
America: your talking asshole has been randomly threatening the rest of the world. Why should we care about anything you idiots say? America is like North Korea now - nothing you say matters because nothing you say can be trusted. If shit-for-brains decides to invade someone, no amount of reasoning, mutual benefit, or diplomacy will stop him. We don’t have to listen to you any more.
- Comment on I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers 2 months ago:
in my country, corporal punishment in school was abolished by law in 2004. i did elementary in the 80s, but the strap was not used that i can recall. kids were threatened with it, but i don’t think anyone got smacked. however, many people of my parents’ generation have told me that the strap was extremely common. my father in law used to get strapped for speaking german at school, among other things (saskatchewan, 50s / 60s).
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 2 months ago:
… censor all of their political opponents
… ’ child pornography?
To be clear: X is the political opponent of anyone who values democracy. As such, it can be fairly said that this IS an attempt to censor my opponents’ … child pornography. I do not object to ‘censoring’ CSAM. Tim Sweeney thinks child porn is free speech (pcgamer - contact me for rights to this far superior headline). When X was just vile hate speech, propaganda, and misinformation, the free speech argument prevailed. This is not the same.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 2 months ago:
I remember the “ban calculators” back in the day US math scores have hit a low point in history, and calculators are partially to blame. Calculators are good to use if you already have an excellent understanding of the operations. If you start learning math with a calculator in your hand, though, you may be prevented from developing a good understanding of numbers. There are ‘shortcut’ methods for basic operations that are obvious if you are good with numbers. When I used to teach math, I had students who couldn’t tell me what 9 * 25 is without a calculator. They never developed the intuition that 1025 is dead easy to find in your head, and that 925 = (10-1)*25 = 250-25.
- Comment on Good deal 2 months ago:
So it will work on a pig. what about them ICE cunts?
- Comment on Attitudes 3 months ago:
No, the pink sign is right. I am also here for the benefits.
- Comment on Word. 3 months ago:
$150 a year, you mean
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 3 months ago:
Better yet: nationalize the AI companies. Make AI like water supply or fire service - a public utility. My government is VERY far from perfect, but even a country with any semblance of democracy has a better chance of making AI safe and useful to all than a greedy corporation. That way the training data and model parameters can be opened to public scrutiny.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 3 months ago:
10/10, would knot-engage again
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 3 months ago:
I was getting ready to rant until you mentioned Terraria. Then I read the last line of your post.
Shoot, if I’m playing against the computer I use the game the way I want. It’s not cheating if your opponent is non-sentient.
I especially feel that way in games where ridiculous stuff happens at random (e.g. Rimworld). If I’m 2h into building a new colony and somehow get wiped out by 1 rabid squirrel, I curse, laugh my ass off for a minute, then load an autosave.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 4 months ago:
LLMs are cool up to a point. It is pretty neat to see something imitate human speech so convincingly. But that’s it: neat. Like a phone shaped like a hamburger.
For me to be impressed beyond that, your thing needs to either do something that I can’t do better or do something i don’t want to do. I can write a pretty good grade 8 essay. I can summarize a paragraph. I can write a dirty limerick. I can complete my own sentence without
punctuationsuggestions.When I want to create something, I want to do it myself. Putting my ideas in order and finding the words to say something meaningful is the fun part. Even when I write a work email or a cover letter, I’m not really interested in help. Either I have something to say (don’t want help), or I rattle it off in one go (don’t need help).
Microsoft, I don’t owe you my attention or my money. Make something useful that doesn’t suck. Impress me.