thedirtyknapkin
@thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
- Comment on The past is a foreign country. 5 days ago:
we still have a couple of lemon giving phrases that survive “when life gives you lemons”. “looks like that car you bought is a lemon”
lemons are sour instead of sweet like most fruit. my guess is that a lemon is a thing to generally make your day/life worse, especially if it seemed like a good thing at first.
makes sense in the context of a “confirmed bachelor”. he’s giving that lemon to a stork. he’s not going to have children. someone married him and he’s not going to have children. back in the day that would be seen as defeating the point of marriage, though the real implication is he’s gay and married for a beard.
in the context of other relationships or a breakup they thought they were dating someone for keeps, turns out they weren’t worth it. they were a lemon, looked sweet but tasted sour when bitten into.
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 6 days ago:
all of the “real” Martial arts from back before guns were about using weapons. those aren’t really practiced as much anymore because they’re all useless in the face of firearms anyway. why spend years training with a knife when the same time could be spent training with a gun. if combat effectiveness is your goal then you need to learn modern combat techniques.
that said, there’s plenty to be learned from it, and it’s not like it can’t help you in a fight. but as another commenter said, the real way to win every fight is by avoiding them. so really the best thing to learn is de-escalation and recognizing danger.
- Comment on Krillin 1 week ago:
it’s like bread. if you only ever saw white bread on sandwiches you might be confused to hear about someone living a good sourdough or rye from the bakery.
- Comment on stop 2 weeks ago:
man IDK, i know a lot of vegans and none of them are silent about it. they’re all deeply passionate people and that’s not necessarily bad, but they’re definitely not quiet.
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 2 weeks ago:
more disk shaped than flash memory.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Warframe? 3 weeks ago:
i mean… it’s a big game. an hour is definitely not enough time to get the feel of a game like that.
hell I’ve never played it and have no strong feelings for or against it, but saying you quit after an hour is not much more than saying you never tried it at all.
- Comment on Pirate Streaming Giants Fboxz, AniWave, Zoroxtv & Others Dead in Major Collapse 4 weeks ago:
it’s so funny too, Netflix was the service solution. Netflix and Spotify being good for a while there was the biggest hit to piracy since it’s inception.
- Comment on Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber 1 month ago:
they already kind of do over here. this case is going to set precedent for how broadly enforceable that are.
- Comment on Danger 1 month ago:
haha, no doubt. i may not be Australian, but i have written similar snarky reports before lol. after a certain point you’re choosing between 5 hours of overtime to write a report, or writing something like “event was fucked, station did not coordinate, check initial documents”
- Comment on Danger 1 month ago:
you know, i bet it’s literally missing its primary control surface
- Comment on Danger 1 month ago:
nah, my bet is that’s a machine that’s like visibly exploded to pieces. some manager walked by and reprimanded them for not tagging the broken gear. writer of tag argued back that “it’s obviously fucked, i mean look at it. have a think about it for a second”. manager said it doesn’t matter, protocol. tag writer writes sarcastic tag.
- Comment on Inconceivable Horror 1 month ago:
damn… does this count? like generally we want to avoid plastic cups in the ocean, but would it be bad to take something like this from say, a hermit crab? if we take the cup where will it go? chances are out will just end up somewhere else it shouldn’t but this time without being made use of by crabs. my knee jerk reaction was to say animals using plastics don’t count, but that’s clearly not true when we reuse garbage intentionally to create animal habitat like artificial reefs. can we really say that only humans have the capacity to reuse their own garbage effectively?
- Comment on This upcoming dating sim lets you romance household objects turned absolute fitties 2 months ago:
maybe they’re British, it’s pretty common over there to say “he’s fit” when calling someone attractive.
- Comment on Would Sentinel Island still be untouched in the Star Trek Universe? 2 months ago:
hell no, the Eugenics wars probably affected every square inch of the planet.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 2 months ago:
i think the only way Linux is increasing it’s market share beyond fringe enthusiasts (that’s us) is by more devices coming with it pre-installed. expecting anyone outside of the tech space to change the operating system their device came with is a pipe dream
- Comment on Get sorted... 2 months ago:
maybe bottom middle then somewhere between those two
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 2 months ago:
no, they just replaced the normal tools with ai-enhanced versions and are labeling everything like that now.
ai noise reduction should not get this tag.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 2 months ago:
there’s a lot more than generative fill.
ai denoise, ai making, ai image recognition and sorting.
hell, every phone is using some kind of “ai enhanced” noise reduction by default these days. these are just better versions of existing tools than have been used for decades.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 2 months ago:
yeah,
- Comment on They're everywhere!!! 3 months ago:
yeah, the idea didn’t take off until the previous generation of doctors died. it’s a fact that often both encourages and discourages me.
even doctors were too stubborn to accept they may have been wrong about something so important, no matter the evidence. however, even those that are so stubborn that they’ll take it to the grave will eventually be passed up by a new generation who has known of this idea since before they were born. at worst, this kind of stubbornnes is only likely to stall progress for 2 generations.
still, millions of people died because humans are stubborn.
- Comment on Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog 4 months ago:
or an in house solution. Sony is big enough to build out their own team for it. I could see that making sense. i think Sony probably has the best bet out of the companies that own all of the music. they could be positioned to be the only ones capable of making a music “ai”
- Comment on Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” 4 months ago:
think that’s kind of the fate of all new things in today’s world. if it can be used unscrupulously for money, someone will be doing that for tremendous profit. especially since new stuff usually isn’t illegal, Even if it should be.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 5 months ago:
i mean, if you could appreciate it anywhere it would be a lot better. how the fuck do so many people actually not have ANYWHERE BETTER to take pictures of wildflowers than the side of the freeway. that really highlights a big problem with Texas. they may have had beauty, but they bought, sold, rented, and ruined most of it until there’s only a trash covered vestige at a dangerous crossing left. it’s the biggest contiguous state, and somehow has nearly the least public land.
- Comment on Canada to stop sending arms to Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says 6 months ago:
Canada is responsible for many of the the rules that exist in the Geneva convention. They have a reputation for war crimes and being merciless.
Even if the pop culture version of Canada is about getting nice, they’ve got their dark spots.
- Comment on New Rurouni Kenshin Anime's 2nd Season Debuts in October, Airs for Continuous Half Year 6 months ago:
Huh… That first season was so mediocre. The original show is heavily flawed and I was kind of looking forward to the first season because of that, But It’s just so bland. The art is very average and uninteresting the voice acting is fine, which is a big step up from the og. The music is way worse in the new one. The pacing is better. It’s a really mixed bag. They fixed the weak areas a little, but also lost most of what made it good in the first place.
IDK… I really wanted a new and improved Kenshin, but I’m not sure why this is even getting a second season. Was it popular in Japan? No one I know watched it over here.
- Comment on Photographer steps inside Vietnam’s shadowy ‘click farms’ | CNN 6 months ago:
On top of that, they pay these people so little that it’s cheaper to hire 50 of them for a year than to hire one person to run an operation like that for the same time.
- Comment on How do I brew this brick of tea? 7 months ago:
from the other comments this sounds like kind of a fancy and particular tea. maybe you could offer to share some with someone nearby that has the tools and skills to brew it properly. perhaps a fancy tea shop would be willing to brew it for you.
I know nothing about tea, but I love sharing food with friends. this seems perfect for that.
- Comment on Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch 7 months ago:
yeah, and it’s been getting kind of implemented in parts on the pixel.
- Comment on Artists are making creative companies apologize for using AI 8 months ago:
how’d you miss the tail? i don’t think it’s attached…
- Comment on Jeffrey Katzenberg: AI Will Take 90% of Artist Jobs on Animated Films In Just Three Years 8 months ago:
if any of those names survive long enough to be relevant for all that. the lag on corporate adaptation of new tech is getting faster, but it’s still going to be a number a years i think until we start to see any real saturation of this tech in that space. i doubt Miyazaki can wait that long…