funkless_eck
@funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on i broke 6 hours ago:
Therapy isn’t a single sentence, and we talked over these things for weeks for me to get to this place. It also had to come from me, one thing I talked about is that dwelling on misery/mistakes is, for me anyway, a guilty pleasure and a little addictive, so I had to be truly sick of living that way and genuinely want the change in my heart of hearts.
- Comment on i broke 21 hours ago:
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“You don’t have to be mad at yourself for that any more”
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“What good does worrying about that part of your past do your current self?”
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“Come on, now. You know that’s not true”
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"Don’t reply to messages from your ex’
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- Comment on Lemmy Shitpost 2 days ago:
saw a giant transparent plastic tub of baked beans for sale at the entrance to a publix last night in Tennessee- meme not fooling anyone
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 6 days ago:
There is a lot of reasonable doubt: no matching eyebrows, different clothes, suspicious evidence processing, disconnect in time-line, weird arrest conditions…
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 week ago:
in the development a lot of stuff got cut too so there was art meant to be interacted with that ended up not being
- Comment on Shuwerin 1 week ago:
☝️🤓 that would be reflection boxing, a different visual phenomenon
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 1 week ago:
it’s a good time for them, dispassionately speaking- Ocean freight is down, meaning you’re looking for nearshoring (Mexico and Canadian cross border freight), meaning you want more over the road shipping across large land masses than shipping to a port.
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 1 week ago:
hey, I mean Uber Freight is a thing now
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 2 weeks ago:
ad tracking is only as personalized as the company running the ads
If I’m advertising fake nails, it’s personalized if you like fake nails and I advertise to fake nail fans, but if I advertise to all femme people - then it’s no longer personalized, and advertisers tend to do the latter.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 2 weeks ago:
you’ve commented twice in this thread?
- Comment on China invites European countries to form united front against Trump tariffs 2 weeks ago:
There’d have to be some significant milestones:
China would have to produce entertainment content that rivals Hollywood In Mandarin
A programming language based on Mandarin would have to gain popularity
A large diasporia of Chinese speakers
Probably a large Imperial expansion of Chinese territory to other parts of the world
A change in internet protocol to favor mandarin-speaking channels or a new communication channel to rival “the written word” “radio” “telephony” and “the internet” that is purely Mandarin
A change in medicinal practice, pharmaceutical manufacturing etc under which speaking Mandarin is easier than any other language
China would have to gain unilateral cultural cache such that kids and adults alike see China as cool, powerful, interesting, exciting, friendly, aspirational, rich and free.
- Comment on People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" 2 weeks ago:
you absolutely have nespresso in Europe though
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 2 weeks ago:
Account Manager at a marketing agency, I run ~5 marketing departments with a mix of my own staff, outsourced contractors and employees at my clients’ businesses.
We create marketing campaigns that consist of a set of emails, social posts, ads, thought leadership articles, blogs, landing pages, downloadable PDF reports and the attendant reporting on how they performed, plus finding and targeting the audiences in various segments. It’s a mix of database management, creative writing and design, project planning and communication meetings.
I generally spend about a 1-2 hours a day on each client, plus meetings. We make and send the collateral, get approval, execute, track, measure, compare, make a strategic conclusion, repeat
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 3 weeks ago:
unlike other comments, I’d argue, like most tech, it was incredibly profitable for anyone except the people funding it.
Business is not about extracting money from goods and services, it’s about tricking VC funders to give you 50 million dollars a year
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 3 weeks ago:
it actually reached its peak in 2018 per this slate article: slate.com/…/checks-notes-was-the-perfect-trump-er…
It was a big Twitter meme, like Yo Dawg I Heard You Like…, or Hawk Tuah, or Trogdor or whatever. People hear funny thing, repeat funny thing.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 4 weeks ago:
i think it’s more likely that everyone would race to the bottom to make the cheapest Marvel, Pokémon, Disney, Star Wars, Harry Potter spin offs, merch and content they could.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 4 weeks ago:
I grew up with the guy in the pic btw. He was always kinda intense.
- Comment on Stuck 4 weeks ago:
I was jerking off around that age, hadn’t ever seen any porn or anything, no need to call child protection, it was just natural for me
- Comment on Remember when she fucked up the economy 4 weeks ago:
unfortunately not totally universally.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 4 weeks ago:
I’ve beaten most of the Gold Stakes and all of the challenges, its not a forever game. But it is fun.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes I’m busy man and trying to get something done
- Comment on damn 5 weeks ago:
All I got right now is this box of one dozen starving weasels.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 5 weeks ago:
interestingly, too, this is a technique when you’re improving songs, it’s called Target Rhyming.
The most effective way is to do A/B^1/C/B^2 rhymes. You pick the B^2 rhyme, let’s say, “ibruprofen” and you get all of A and B^1 to think of a rhyme
Oh its Christmas time
And I was up on my roof when
I heard a jolly old voice
Ask me for ibuprofenAnd the audience thinks you’re fucking incredible for complex rhymes.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 5 weeks ago:
Many atheists take part in racism and violence. There was plenty during the Cold War, collapse of Yugoslavia, Gulf War, post-9/11 and both Trump terms.
- Comment on Clean butt 5 weeks ago:
bad opinion
- Comment on GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed 5 weeks ago:
if you have a soup of all liquids and a sieve that only lets coffee and ice cream through it produces coffee ice cream (metaphor, don’t think too hard about it)
that’s how gen ai works. each step sieves out raw data to get closer to the prompt.
- Comment on Idioms 1 month ago:
English ones:
go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
it’s a cunt hair away
to piss in the wind
shove it up your arse
- Comment on Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds. 1 month ago:
studies were done and found similar to what you’re saying.
also the secret listening does not comport with any of the business side of profile marketing, either. So it would have to be an incredibly well kept secret on top of all of that.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 2 months ago:
a lot of countries don’t even do that, many countries reserve that for just their citizens.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 2 months ago:
“some homeless people like living on the streets!”