TexasDrunk

@TexasDrunk@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6G mobile could divide the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He went to Greece for the flood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By the end it’s large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmm who could it possibly be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But he had paper he printed out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody poops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But can they sing? Do fathers on land reprimand their daughters?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing Grace⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could pull a Dragon Age: The Veilguard and change directions 6 times during development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am two of them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re a big fat man, I’m a titty fan. And I’d love to see yours, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spicy one⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So they’re really trying to fix global warming!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like it is glowing orange something has gone terribly wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel attacked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked drinking and having a band. Except that’s also what I did from age 16 to 40. Maybe I’ve always been in crisis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Challenges accepted.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not one I’d use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually the most clever way I’ve seen this done. But, just like with all art, I can say something is clever (or good, or technically proficient) and still hate it due to the content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italian style pizza⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to start my own pizza brand and label it “now with no asbestos!”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“It’s Compiling!”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an independent consultant who works from home 99% of the time. My boss keeps sexually harassing me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's bad man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not shitting then you need to see a doctor, friend.

  Otherwise, if it’s not your jam there’s nothing wrong with sitting it out. In fact I don’t recommend drinking as heavily as I have or take as many fun drugs as I used to (I can still do them but I choose to heavily limit myself) because there are long term consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's bad man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s the knees. I can still shit and bang and drink and do all the same fun drugs I did at 25. But I miss my cartilage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wear boots and hold a bottle of whisky. I don’t know why they wouldn’t include that on the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was she thinking when she did this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare anyone enjoy anything that I wouldn’t or couldn’t do myself!