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- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 2 days ago:
The lawsuit was about the fact the school knew for months about the problem and did nothing to address it. If they plausibly couldn’t know, it wouldn’t have been their fault but this was reported to the admin repeatedly and they did nothing.
- Comment on Cowboy 2 days ago:
- Comment on Are illegal streaming sites really getting shut down a lot lately or has it always been like this? 4 days ago:
There’s always churn and turnover, I’ve been part of communities that lost up to 3 of the top 5 sites for something etc. and the community bounces back in a couple of months. Streaming sites aren’t horrifically difficult to set up so they will often reappear shortly with similar interface.
- Comment on Voice Actor David Wald Leaves Role as Gajeel in Fairy Tail, Will Not Return to Crunchyroll Following Claims Company Opened His Mail, Gave Away Contents 1 week ago:
Unfortunately it’s gonna be the mailroom intern who followed directions from someone else to open all “that other mail”, not the person who made the decision.
- Comment on Source: Father, H. , Son, H. Spirit, H. (2024). Visions from God 3 weeks ago:
That’s what the “Personal Communication” citation type is for.
- Comment on Trickle down 3 weeks ago:
I was taking control of a big department in a non-profit where funds were tight but I had a lot of flexibility so I read a book about how to reward employees instead of money. I was hoping for non-tangible rewards like first pick of schedule or Employee of the Month type stuff.
Every single suggestion in the book was something that needed money to be spent first but not given to the employee. It had a whole chapter about how giving cash was rude and terrible and your employees would hate you for it so you had to give gift cards or worthless garbage to give them instead.
This was nonsense advice. Nothing motivates like cash. In the end I just taped my own $20 bills to the back of the ‘Certificates of Achievement’ I have for good work and warned them it was a personal gift and not from the org.
- Comment on Stages of grief 3 months ago:
- Comment on Sitting and shitting on my high horse 4 months ago:
Nonsense, posting on that toilet without styrups would be damn near impossible.
- Comment on "The Apothecary Diaries" Season 2 New Visual, PV 4 months ago:
I watched the Brother Cadfael mysteries on PBS when I was growing up and this reminds me of that favorably.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The location of the wreck wasn’t found until 1985 and it was definitely still a popular disaster story to tell. I remember books about it in my elementary school library in the late 1980s alongside volcanos and dinosaurs.
- Comment on Starbuck milkshake is like tobacco 5 months ago:
I agree that Starbucks isn’t the best for you but there’s a wide range of drinks between black coffee and milkshake.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
Bullshit, fuzzy matching is a lot older than this AI LLM.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
Yes, synonym searching doesn’t strictly mean the thesaurus. There are a lot of different ways to connect related terms and some variation in how they are handled from one system to the next. Letting machine learning into the mix is a very new step in a process that Library and Information Sci has been working on for decades.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 6 months ago:
Searching with synonym matching is almost.decades old at this point. I worked on it as an undergrad in the early 2000s.and it wasn’t new then, just complicated. Google’s version improved over other search algorithms for a long time.and then trashed it by letting AI take over.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 6 months ago:
Visiting my husband’s home town where this has happened and all his parent’s friends have moved into trailers because the houses where they raised their kids were bought for insane amounts but then they couldn’t afford a smaller house in the same town. Where we live now on the East Coast, we can no longer stay in our school district for less than half a million because doctors from larger urban areas keep buying the houses in our school district and we’re being forced 60+100 miles out from my hometown where we raised our young kids to even begin to afford housing.
- Comment on Ideas 6 months ago:
Only here for everyone else who got Ace of Base’s “Wheel of Fortune” stuck in their head after this post.
- Comment on what is this game 6 months ago:
Yeah, Baldur’s Gate 3 for certain. Shadowheart, Astariaon and Wyll, left to right. The red icon mean Wyll has 70% chance to hit with that Eldritch Blast.
- Comment on Ska came before Raggae 🏁>>>🇯🇲 6 months ago:
Source on his being innocent? I don’t remember that being even likely given the evidence, but it’s been like 35 years so I’m curious what came to light.
- Comment on My body, my choice. 7 months ago:
All y’all getting preachy about *don’t", think about how our society treats alcohol and then tell me how drugs are different enough to be “bad” when alcohol is legal and widespread.
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 10 months ago:
I found out yesterday from this post.
- Comment on Starbucks accused of rigging payments in app for nearly $900 million gain over 5 years by consumer watchdog group 10 months ago:
Except Dunkin. I can’t get a coffee worth shit at Dunkin.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
My spouse a co-op partner have our co- battle station in our bedroom due to a tiny house so when we rebuilt our desktops we opted for totally opaque cases from BeQuiet and they are great!
- Comment on A gripe about digital ownership and data portability options 11 months ago:
I also had this happen and ended up using a combination of Picard and Winyl to get everything sorted back out. Took way too long though, considering that I also had them immaculately cataloged before giving them to Google Music. Makes me super nervous about my Photos.
- Comment on We live in a society 11 months ago:
Calling it Lemonade might prove to be a problem because there’s an understood meaning for the word lemonade that doesn’t involve caffeine. They could have marketed it as lemon-flavored but calling it lemonade and putting it next to the regular lemonade could be construed as them trying to hide the caffeine content from consumers.
- Comment on "I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel" — US cost of living has skyrocketed since 2020 11 months ago:
This article is confusing as fuck. How can you use 2022 dollars “adjusted” and then claim there’s no inflation. That’s literally what that adjustment is for, to normalize prices for inflation over time.
Also it jokes eggs aren’t crazy expensive but they’ve been up to comedy levels of pricey at least twice in 3 years due to avien flu.
- Comment on Peanut butter and hummus are the same thing. 11 months ago:
There’s way more garlic in my hummus
I say tahini and peanut butter are the same thing because a tahini and jelly sandwich is pretty good.
- Comment on OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board 11 months ago:
Looks like I’m wrong, before they rehired Altman they ditched the board members responsible for his ousting so there were major changes after all.
- Comment on OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board 11 months ago:
I’m not convinced this wasn’t a planned strategy to get OpenAI back in the headlines for a week.
I didn’t think so at first but now that it looks like everything will go back to “normal” before the US Thanksgiving Weekend, I feel like maybe this was a “Chinese Firedrill” to get attention for something other than their training data and legal problems.
- Comment on When a place is called " Heights", what does "heights" mean/refer to? 11 months ago:
High street is an alternative term for Market and used in towns where Market Street is not used. None of them are really the highest street in town, at least not in the US East Coast. The actual elevated places are usually called -view.
- Comment on I don't know, I haven't played the game yet. 11 months ago:
A lot like Vampire Survivor, the hook is that it starts pretty simple and it ramps the difficulty every minute that passes but you’re constantly able to buy more items with powerful effects. By 15 minutes in it’s a starting to be overwhelming and by 30 minutes in you are doing a LOT of clicking and there’s countless hordes of enemies but because of the particular combination of items you’ve picked up, you’re still alive and every shot causes a chain reaction of other effects. Or you get a combination of items that doesn’t mesh terribly well and something gets a lucky shot in and you’re dead at minute 22 with no warning.
Also the items are mysterious and you’re always finding totally new ones you’ve never seen before and their powers are wildly different. The story of the game is more told in the item descriptions you can only read in the loading menu than any other single place. I’ve played 1000s of hours and still refer to the wiki before trying to tell the “story” of the game.
The intricate level designs, complex item interactions, and the rocking soundtrack are also worth mentioning because they are substantially above average for a game of this type.
