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- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
Yeah, though clues are few and far between (the
spoiler
museum in Tanchico with the Mercedes hood ornament
is the biggest clue. From Jordan’s other writings, the
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First age was our time, then humans created an AI powerful enough to genetically engineer humans to be able to do magic,
and that led to the Age of Legends.
- Comment on How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room? 1 month ago:
Losing consciousness for any reason = ER. A friend passed out during dinner and we weren’t sure what to do, so we called the triage nurse and they were like “ER now!” (He was fine, they never figured out what happened and it’s never happened again, but it’s definitely stayed with me.)
- Comment on How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room? 1 month ago:
Great criteria. Another “straight to the ER” one is loss of consciousness; people get knocked out in movies all the time so it’s easy to assume it’s fine, but it’s not.
- Comment on Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead 1 month ago:
Forced labor is still slavery even if you’re paid and not whipped.
- Comment on Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating 2 months ago:
“Private” doesn’t mean “small”. It means “privately owned”, which means by a rich person.
- Comment on “Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism 3 months ago:
Same!
- Comment on Anatomy Pickup Lines 3 months ago:
Deleted scenes from Eye of Argon?
- Comment on People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are 4 months ago:
I believe they do this the same way they do traffic jams, by seeing how many android phones are at the location vs. average.
- Comment on Take a gander at this 4 months ago:
Patriarchy oppresses us all.
- Comment on App development 4 months ago:
There are plenty of women who live like this now. It’s a cultural thing, not a timeline thing.
(Also high society women certainly didn’t make their own breakfasts… well, ever, but especially not hundreds of years ago)
- Comment on epidemiology 6 months ago:
This is a plot point in The Accidental Time Machine: goodreads.com/…/21608.The_Accidental_Time_Machine; the main character ::: spoiler spoiler jumps forward into the future a bunch of times, longer jumps each time, and hits a time where the human population is almost gone, and they’re like “yeah, the fucking time travelers keep showing up and bringing old diseases”:::
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- Comment on Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record 7 months ago:
You didn’t read the article. These are images that appeared in the documentary and were not marked as generated. It was implied they were real photos.
- Comment on When you are on a videocall do you also keep looking at your own thumbnail video? 7 months ago:
If they’re consistently looking down and to the right (for most apps) and not scanning/reading, they’re probably looking at their own video. I’ve certainly noticed it.
- Comment on When you are on a videocall do you also keep looking at your own thumbnail video? 7 months ago:
Yep. Everybody does. Watch where their eyes are pointing, you can tell. I hide the window on apps that let me (or un-maximize the window and slide it off the screen a bit if I’m on one side).
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 7 months ago:
The bridge in Baltimore collapsing after its pier was hit by a cargo ship.
- Comment on My opinion on Bone conduction earphones 7 months ago:
They work better for podcasts than music. For music, they’re better than a phone speaker but worse than cheapo earbuds in terms of sound quality.
- Comment on My opinion on Bone conduction earphones 7 months ago:
I have those exact ones and I love them; I use them for running and when I’m doing stuff around the house but still want to hear people getting my attention. I had a previous version that I also accidentally turned to Chinese but I just learned to recognize the different messages.
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 7 months ago:
These people are saying “we finally created the utopia of Neuromancer.” And I look at them and I go, “I don’t think you read Neuromancer." –Cory Doctorow
- Comment on Fearing social media backlash, companies are using all kinds of euphemisms to avoid being straightforward about layoffs — ‘right-sized’, ‘org changes’, ‘simplified operating model’ 9 months ago:
I had a (wonderful) colleague who would call a big fuck up an “opportunity for excellence”.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 9 months ago:
Nah, flip thy around. What’s a random crackhead going to do with a stolen car? Vs an already-organized and knowledgeable business like a towing company who wants to add a lucrative side gig. That’s who’s doing catalytic converter theft, too.
- Comment on SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says 9 months ago:
Culture comes from the top.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
I also have a Pixel 2 XL! (Because I got it refurbed for $50…) But either way hi phone buddy!
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 11 months ago:
Or homicidal: theonion.com/children-gather-at-edge-of-playgroun…
- Comment on Fun 11 months ago:
We had one at camp too! It was fun and I don’t remember any injuries. That was the early '90s, though, child safety was more ‘eh’.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
If we do, then they shouldn’t have picked a name that most people think does something it doesn’t.
- Comment on YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest 11 months ago:
They don’t do it to everyone. Some people get put in test groups that get ‘nice’ algorithms that don’t try to make you angry, so they can measure the effect on their revenue.
- Comment on YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest 11 months ago:
You might be in a different test group. They always have a few different groups with different settings to check how well the algorithm is meeting their goals. That’s how they know they make less money if they don’t radicalize people.
- Comment on Back in my day 11 months ago:
Haha wow, that’s a horrible mental picture.
- Comment on Back in my day 11 months ago:
The only rated R movie we were allowed to watch was Demolition Man, which we had a tape of, so we watched it enough times for me to have fond feelings for Stallone.