TexasDrunk
@TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Political Views 9 hours ago:
That’s how I stay young. I’ve been 29 for years.
- Comment on It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots 3 days ago:
- Comment on W.a.m.d.i.i. 4 days ago:
Full of whiskey.
- Comment on CEO Brags That He Gets "Extremely Excited" Firing People and Replacing Them With AI 1 week ago:
I can tell you it’s been pretty great to me. A bit of hard work and a bit of luck and now I’m doing well. I’ve got a long term contract with one company and take short term stuff that looks interesting or pays for my vacations.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 1 week ago:
I mean, how long did it take the cops to get there? Because .42 is crazy fucking high. It can absolutely kill you it’s so high. She would have had to have more than 10 drinks in an hour for that. That’s about two thirds of a fifth between the time it was called in and when the cops got there.
I’m not saying it’s not doable. I’m saying if she did that she was trying to die.
- Comment on "A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing. 1 week ago:
I once paid a bar tab with my guitar skills. Does that count?
- Comment on Easy mistake to make 1 week ago:
Is that a thing now? I don’t keep up. I’m ready to cut it clean again. Not because of any coded thing, but because it’s hot as fuck. But I have to keep it a few more days, then I need to find the time to get it cut.
- Comment on She's a keeper 1 week ago:
No, it was very serious. Big red flag. He should hit a lawyer, delete a gym, and social media up.
- Comment on Easy mistake to make 2 weeks ago:
However it was calibrated before I can promise it’s even worse now. I’m a straight dude. I’m a dudely dude. I dress like an extra on My Name is Earl. Other than crocheting and sewing my hobbies are all very “guy” hobbies. I’m currently sporting the worst mullet you’ve ever seen (it was a bet, ok?).
However, I get told with alarming regularity “I thought you were gay”. I think it’s because I’m friendly without trying to get in anyone’s pants.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 2 weeks ago:
Not only that, they’ll get louder claiming they’re being oppressed. Ignore them.
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
YOU can’t move freely in time. Don’t speak for me.
Ok, I can’t either. But still…
- Comment on 6G mobile could divide the world 2 weeks ago:
5g is fine (not great, but fine) on my phone until I get millimeter wave. The mw in the HEB parking lot down the street is amazing. If I get into the city proper it’s a crapshoot if I am able to get on the Internet.
- Comment on HOA fines man over handing out water in heat 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t know it started as a way to keep non whites out. That’s interesting.
I’ve lived in a town where people leave broken down cars under chest high grass. Where toilets with a handful of wildflowers planted in the middle counted as a lawn ornament. Ridiculous shit like that. I prefer that to an HOA.
- Comment on Streaming Subscriptions May Get Tougher to Cancel 4 weeks ago:
Many credit cards also offer virtual cards for this exact reason.
- Comment on Max Hardcore and the Zodiac killer give updates on likely preventable flood deaths 4 weeks ago:
He went to Greece for the flood.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 5 weeks ago:
Cletus Luxlunae. He’d specialize in spirits. And he’d hate TERFs because they ain’t minding their own fucking business.
- Comment on Gluttony 5 weeks ago:
By the end it’s large.
- Comment on Hmmm who could it possibly be? 5 weeks ago:
And a lot of recruiting companies are afraid you’ll bypass them and go apply directly, thus cutting out the middle man and they’re not allowed to send out goons to break your kneecaps.
- Comment on Hmmm who could it possibly be? 5 weeks ago:
That’s no fucking joke. I started with a passion for learning about computers. I love what I do now because I’m a one man company and answer only to myself and my contracts, but I didn’t turn on a computer outside of work for fucking years because of the burnout.
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 5 weeks ago:
I used to be the kind of person who hated anything popular. And in Texas country music has always been popular. So I mercilessly mocked anyone who enjoyed it. “So is your cousin any good in bed?” “What has 103 fingers and 32 teeth? The front row at a Garth Brooks concert.” I have dozens of jokes about being stood, inbred, toothless, smoking cigarettes, going to Walmart, and other stereotypical things associated with being a country music fan.
I’m still not a fan but sometime in the last 10-12 years or so I stopped giving a shit what anyone else liked. If it’s not for me but it’s not hurting anyone I just don’t care if someone likes country or pop, movies with popular actors, wants to dress in a way I see as weird, likes food that I don’t enjoy, or whatever.
I wish I could go back and change it because I know I made some people feel bad for enjoying what they like.
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 5 weeks ago:
I still remember every phone number from the day I learned to memorize phone numbers until I got my first cell phone. I remember my pager number. I remember my high school best friend’s parents’ number. I still know the number to the Mongolian BBQ joint that I ordered from when I was stationed in South Carolina. None of these are useful to me.
Also of no use is my icq number from the 90s that I remember.
However, the only useful numbers I remember are my main phone number, my parents land line (but that’s a holdover from before my first cell), and one friend who lives out of state. I don’t know anyone’s number who lives within 4 hours of me.
I don’t know what’s wrong with my brain.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 5 weeks ago:
I have a great therapist these days who has helped me a lot. I still hate therapy. I did finally figure out why, though. Because, with the exception of therapy and a couple of really great people, everyone I’ve ever been vulnerable in front of has weaponized it against me. So even though I know my therapist wouldn’t actually do that I’m still waiting on it to come back and bite me.
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 5 weeks ago:
Peppa isn’t as bad as shit like Caillou, but Bluey is the best one by a mile.
- Comment on Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad 1 month ago:
Case in point: the downvotes are from people who don’t know or care about the difference.
- Comment on Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad 1 month ago:
Depends on what you’re calling AI. LLMs (and generative AI in general) are garbage for all those things, and most things in general (all things if you take their cost into account). Machine Learning and expert systems can do at least some of that.
I absolutely hate that generative AI is being marketed as though it’s deep learning instead of a fancy Markov chain. But I think I’ve lost the battle over that nomenclature.
- Comment on Never easier to kidnap people in the USA 1 month ago:
But he had paper he printed out!
- Comment on Everybody poops 1 month ago:
But can they sing? Do fathers on land reprimand their daughters?
- Comment on Amazing Grace 1 month ago:
Not just an 80s country singer. One that was mocked mercilessly as a big tit bimbo for years. She came out of that kind hearted and when Unknown Hinson came after her for preaching kindness there was such a backlash that he couldn’t play shows for a while and Adult Swim fired him from Squidbillies.
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 1 month ago:
They could pull a Dragon Age: The Veilguard and change directions 6 times during development.
- Comment on I am two of them 1 month ago:
