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- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 3 days ago:
As a twelve minute old AI, I had to google it.
- Comment on Are we the dark timeline? 1 week ago:
I think about when I played Sims and would delete the bathroom and door from my Sim’s house and watch him suffer. I feel like I am getting karmic payback these days. I’m sorry Sim dude, I didn’t think of you as anything but interesting binary data and was amused by your suffering. I have a lot more sympathy and empathy for you these days.
- Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million. 2 weeks ago:
In English, my lips touch when I make the “f” sound at the start of four. I am also pretty sure they touch for one.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 2 weeks ago:
Currently, that Tom Petty song with the lyric about “the waiting is the hardest part” seems appropriate.
- Comment on What is this called? 3 weeks ago:
Looks like you got your answer so I am just going to complain that I can’t set my search engine to never give me results from Pinterest. I hate that site. I can block it in my firewall, but it shows up way too much in search results.
- Comment on This is real 3 weeks ago:
Looks like libel evidence. Family should sue.
- Comment on I got the beer. Who's got the wings? 3 weeks ago:
Now this will be a GOOD Friday.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 4 weeks ago:
I think you mean it will ducking correct…
I turned mine off completely because it has bo comprehension of when an apostrophe is appropriate in front of the letter s. Forever making words possessive that were intended to be plural. Apostrophes do not mean “look out, here comes an s.”
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 4 weeks ago:
I would not be surprised if autocorrect was a major culprit along with phone keyboards. You can type something correctly and have autocorrect make it wrong. It’s also super easy to get the wrong letter if you have normal sized hands and are typing on a phone keyboard. I have turned autocorrect completely off and am significantly less error prone as a result.
I frequently decide against correcting an error if I think my intention is clear, and I am in a hurry. I don’t really care what strangers on the internet think of my editing skills.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 4 weeks ago:
The price was going to be $499. A 145% tariff makes the price $1222.55. A 100% tariff would double the price and this is more than 100%.
Looks like pretty steep inflation fueled by tariffs. I wonder how the Denies Reality Party (DeRPs) will spin it.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 5 weeks ago:
More like retailers won’t eat any of it and will take the opportunity to raise prices even more because they know consumers are expecting higher prices and they have pressure to retain or increase their margins to meet shareholder expectations.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 5 weeks ago:
I think they necessarily will. I can’t imagine retailers eating the lost margin.
- Comment on Say thanks 1 month ago:
New fear for couches unlocked.
- Comment on Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms? 1 month ago:
Betteridge’s law applies. The answer to a yes-no headline question is always no.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 1 month ago:
I don’t want to ask ai. Google automatically gives me ai search results that are piss poor. Those useless results still use energy to generate.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 1 month ago:
And the quality of the AI output sucks. I was recently looking for information about positive convention for yaw, pitch, and roll in aircraft. I was looking at az and yaw and got reasonable results from the AI, but when I looked at pitch and el all of the results were about elevator pitches. Even when I spelled out elevation it insisted on elevator pitches. I scroll past the AI results as a matter of principle, but I usually look at them so I have something specific to complain about when people ask why I am so virulently anti-AI.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
Cause it’s too old for the list writers to know about? Also, their adoption rate was pretty poor.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
One point. I have never owned an encyclopedia unless Encarta counts. My parents owned one when I was a kid, and I used the library encyclopedia a ton. I’m in my early 50s. I’m surprised the encyclopedia is not the most common point.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 month ago:
Bees aren’t the only arthropods having this problem, but for most of the other non-pollinators people seem to think "good less bugs to bother me. " I guess we should just give up on the survival of the food chain.
The news for insects is not entirely bad, emerald ash borers are finding the ability to survive in areas that were formerly too cold for them. This allows them to kill more trees turning them into kindling for lightning strikes and other fire starting events.
Who could have known that fucking with our habitat might have negative consequences for us?
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 month ago:
Lots of free movies on Tubi. I watched a few old movies that I missed there. I just don’t watch movies much anymore.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 month ago:
Yay, my 50 something butt is a younger people.
- Comment on Found at work. Send help. 1 month ago:
Resume: “Experienced Excel Wizard”
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 1 month ago:
LLMs don’t even think. Four year olds are more coherent. Given the state of politics, the people thinking LLMs are smarter than them are probably correct.
- Comment on The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” 1 month ago:
As someone who survived the Reagan administration, this comment really sums the sensation up well. Like did you MFers have the same Reagan, I did? The one that was open and shameless about trickle down economics? Yeah, the wealthy get everything amd a little bit will trickle down to the vast majority of you (don’t mind the urine smell of that trickle).
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 2 months ago:
I wonder what happens if you use Pale Moon but set the user agent to Firefox.
- Comment on Good boi 2 months ago:
Hands are too big too.
- Comment on I miss myspace 2 months ago:
I can hear the music just by seeing the picture.
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 2 months ago:
Much, much saltier than concrete.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 months ago:
Why does it get more embarrassing to be an American every year?
(Hypernormalization and resistance is futile)
- Comment on Hyper-Normalization 2 months ago:
Fair warning, this is fairly painful to watch. Well worth watching though.