austinfloyd
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- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 2 weeks ago:
The thing I find funniest about that is that milk of magnesia is rather new to the English language (1880 according to the Oxford English dictionary). Meanwhile terms like almond milk that are “too confusing” have been in the English language since Middle English.
Fucking lobbyists…
- Comment on Zootopia 1 month ago:
You are thinking only of the modern G rating. Go back in time a bit to find G rated movies like:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Planet of the Apes
- The Secret of NIMH
- many John Wayne movies including True Grit
Just like society’s thoughts on what is generally acceptable, the mpaa rating system has changed quite a lot over the years.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 5 months ago:
I don’t hate sales as a concept. I just dislike the sociopaths who tend to work there.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 5 months ago:
Looks like it does, at least in “private spaces”
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 5 months ago:
Illinois requires two party consent for recording in-person conversations at least.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 7 months ago:
Hell, R was being used in colleges in 2000. Unfortunately, whether it was SPSS for the soft sciences or forcing stats work in Matlab for the engineers, professors always seemed bad at promoting the right tool for the job.
- Comment on Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes 7 months ago:
Welcome to the secret robot Internet
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 7 months ago:
And water
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 8 months ago:
We’re all secretly longing for the macbook wheel that was leaked over 15 years ago:
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 1 year ago:
It is sad that this guy just can’t let go.
Honestly though, if he can preemptively put sufficient funds into escrow dedicated to managing all aspects of the site and engineering plans for digging with minimal perturbation of each waste cell, then let him have it*.
(* Escrow amount should be approximately $780m)
- Comment on Faries are real! 1 year ago:
I’m so glad my favorite moth, the rosy maple moth (the pink and yellow one with a mullet) was in this picture.