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- Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed 2 days ago:
Yeah, I just got the TestFlight access to Loops and it’s janky. A useable web UI would go a long way.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 3 days ago:
A sestina based on the rules is, formally speaking, easy. Ask me to write one that will be studied after centuries, and you’re asking for Petrarch.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t be a good look for that wankpanzer if a $5 tool from Walmart could bust through its windows. Better call it a Cyber-izer and sell it for $200.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 3 weeks ago:
The article said nothing about intellectual disability, but it did suggest some older people contextually from their complaints. Here’s an actual citation from one of the complaints that I think sums it up perfectly:
Now, i’m an intelligent [person], at least I consider myself that to be. I am a huge fan of elon musk and tesla. I only bit into this because it did sound too good to be true.
- Comment on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling 3 weeks ago:
My phone plan just dropped the $10/month discount for autopay because they’re price-gouging shit garglers. The second I clicked on the “port out number” option, they put up a banner offering $10/mo off for the next year. I do appreciate not waiting three hours on the phone just to turn down the offer anyway. MVNO it is!
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
There’s an anecdote about a U2 naming a song “One Minute Warning” if I recall correctly: many years ago, when a UK prime minister learned the US got 6 minutes, they asked how long the UK would have. The response: “I suppose we’d have about a minute.”
- Comment on Has "Self-Driving" devolved? 4 weeks ago:
There are also many more Teslas on the road, and the “full self driving” incidents are more widely reported on since the new ownership likes to overpromise and vastly underdeliver. Other commenters have already addressed the tech side, but a few years ago, the Tesla-specific FSD was found to be active right up until a split second before some prolific collisions with emergency vehicles, leading to speculation on liability. Tesla aside, I think it’s just laziness on the part of drivers used to FSD doing the menial tasks of driving.
- Comment on Opened an old scientific instrument to see if it works... 5 weeks ago:
I hate Duracell for this reason. Thank god we finally got decent rechargeables.
- Comment on YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes 1 month ago:
They’re going full Australian coffee. YouTube medium shorts.
- Comment on I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize... 1 month ago:
Related: Connor O’Malley has a great (nsfw) stand up special on YouTube called “Stand Up Solutions” satirizing start-up VC hustle culture.
- Comment on Thank you! 2 months ago:
Boofaccino
- Comment on Pill bottle 2 months ago:
My dude, what are you putting in your iced tea
- Comment on What if walk in clinics offered euthanasia services? 3 months ago:
Wouldn’t work, they’d need appointments to keep up with incredible demand and scheduled maintenance for the ol corpse wiggler out back.
- Comment on What's the least suspicious way to get OTC meds through airport security? 3 months ago:
Example of note: France won’t sell Sudafed, so bringing any might be a risk unless you have a printed and signed rx. That being said, their pharmacies are pretty good. Shoutout to the migraine medication with codeine in it.
- Comment on 2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed 3 months ago:
Stack on another “Free monitoring, 2 years”
- Comment on Defense 3 months ago:
Earn bonus points with the phrase “your reach exceeds your grasp”
- Comment on ‘Guns Of Fury’ Combines Metal Slug and Symphony Of The Night, Coming in 2024 | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 months ago:
Traditionally, and fingers crossed this one is.
- Comment on ‘Guns Of Fury’ Combines Metal Slug and Symphony Of The Night, Coming in 2024 | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 months ago:
Nintendo: $45, take it or leave it.
- Comment on Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks 3 months ago:
I can’t stretch my dumb fingers to swipe down from the top with my thumb, one-handed, on a 14 or 15. The 13 mini is perfect.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
You know what, it was the n+1 piece! Thank you!
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
There’s a NYT article somewhere, and I’ve been desperately trying to find it, about a woman who worked as some kind of real estate(?) call center AI augmenter. Essentially people would call in about listings or something, and she had to step in when the AI went off the tracks or didn’t know how to answer questions, matching its tone/inflection while refusing to acknowledge that there was a human stepping in. She ended up being super burnt out from the job. So the whole system was just super redundant, awful for the people working there, and as we’ve come to expect from AI, just a half-baked turd sold to some MBAs for a mint.
- Comment on Games that stuck with you 4 months ago:
SOMA. Duplicating consciousness across multiple bodies and the branching off of one particular conscious mind to carry the narrative while the others were left behind was a fascinating concept for a game to engage with. Plus the atmosphere was a sublime nightmare.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
An interesting case (from a book which I unfortunately can’t remember the name of) from when Jack Benny’s career transitioned from radio to tv: he hated the laugh track, so much so that he demanded it be cut way back and lowered in volume. He also utilized it in an unexpected way: when he had a live audience in certain cases, if a joke or gag got an unexpected big laugh that he didn’t think deserved the reaction, he’d fill in a laugh track with a more muted response.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 4 months ago:
That and a set of kneepads.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 6 months ago:
If it’s part of a performance, for example. I guess the point of the debate here is that context matters and that you can do it under very, very specific circumstances.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 6 months ago:
“Free speech” is very much misunderstood as a form of carte blanche as your example demonstrates. It’s written as “Congress shall make no law…” etc., implying you’re protected only from the federal government, but as time and court cases and legal discourse have shown, there are limits and implications for lower legislatures to model from. The classic hypothetical example is “yelling fire in a crowded theater.” Can you? Yes. Should you? Unless there’s a fire, no, then it could cause panic and injury, and you’d be responsible. That sort of thing.
Tl;dr to answer your question: no.
- Comment on Woman returns Costco couch after 2 years, tests limits of return policy: "I just didn't like it anymore" 9 months ago:
I had a friend whose mom worked the Costco returns counter back in the early 2000s and there were some wild stories. For example: a customer brought back a washing machine they had painted green, because they didn’t like how the paint job turned out.
- Comment on YSK: The Wadsworth Constant of YouTube videos 11 months ago:
Your commission, Debo: “about two hundred dollars.”
- Comment on Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why 11 months ago:
Sadly, I don’t think so. The pandemic-era cash grab solution was software that’s basically spyware, logging keystrokes, mouse movements, taking screenshots, etc. Some clever individuals just taped vibrators to their mice and walked away for breaks. You’re asking middle management to do real work here, ya silly.
- Comment on Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices 1 year ago:
“What IS your fascination with my forbidden closet of mysteries?”