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- Comment on Every picture is just a gif with the same frame repeated over and over. 4 days ago:
No.
Maybe try “all static images are single frame animations.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I think this geared toward the crowd that plays games, but doesn’t have the latest and greatest hardware nor likes to tinker. This will be an upgrade for a lot of people and the ability to just set it up and play your already existing backlog with ease is the main selling point over power.
It’s an awesome device which will help drive the Linux gaming ecosystem forward, but it’s not for me personally as it doesn’t hold a candle to my PC.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know about “more.” It would still make sense, but Nancy’s head game was not an all together foreign concept.
I’m guessing this picture was chosen for the “Game recognize Game” meme more because it’s easier to find than a photo of Trump with Monica.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 2 weeks ago:
Putin can talk to Trump about it when Trump gets a little too out of line.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 2 weeks ago:
Mark is Jeffrey Epstein’s brother. This is an email from Mark to Jeffrey about Trump blowing someone called “Bubba.” One of the nicknames Bill Clinton used was “Bubba.”
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 2 weeks ago:
- Donald Trump (Blue suit; sitting US President)
- Nancy Reagon (Pink dress; former US First Lady)
It is alleged that in her day Nancy enjoyed giving head. Nacent revelations allege that Donald sucked off “Bubba” (presumably Bill Clinton, former US president) and that Putin has pics.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the product page if you want to learn about it.
It’s a computer with an accessible OS that you can do whatever you want to it which happens to be optimised for gaming, but can also stream.
- Comment on GDP 3 weeks ago:
Her phone as material as the foundation of speculation for Nvidia.
- Comment on Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good. 3 weeks ago:
If exactly one of the bad options will come to pass anyway though, and you get to influence which one, why wouldn’t you opt for less bad?
- Comment on I just want it, jack! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 1 month ago:
Would
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 1 month ago:
The people in charge dislike Antifa because people who align under that label oppose those in power.
I hesitate to use the argument “‘Antifa’ means ‘anti-fascist’ therefore if you don’t like Antifa you are necessarily fascist”–not because I don’t believe it’s true, but because I believe it’s more correlation. The “National Socialist” party was not as its name purports, nor do many of the “Protect the children” laws actually do what they say on the tin; therefore a deeper inspection on acts, means, motives, and results is warranted over a mere “literal definition of the name.”
- Comment on soda 1 month ago:
“Shoes” - Yum!
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 1 month ago:
Disney allegedly lost 1.7 million customers after suspending Jimmy Kimmel. He was very quickly reinstated.
It’s not that boycotts don’t work, it’s more that they require a critical mass to work and that can be hard to achieve.
- Comment on I think the reason we evolved 5 fingers is so we can carry hot serving dishes farther by alternating which one is in contact with the hot thing. 1 month ago:
I learned in bible school that the reason we have 3 segments on our fingers is that with the palm they align perfectly with the panels on a banana. This is evidence of the perfect creator–the Christian God, and why humans can only hold bananas.
This is an actual thing an apologist said. He later backpedaled, but not before it became a trope to teach in Christian schools as evidence against evolution.
- Comment on Lead 2 months ago:
I don’t know if I’d classify any gun death as “worth it” in the manner of necessary to secure the “right” to bear arms. “Welcome” on the other hand…
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 2 months ago:
I don’t know if you’re involved in activism at all, but I heard some advice from an old Food Not Bombs head. Don’t trust the person that is always available, always has a car, or is down for anything. This is especially true if they are new or always wear bland or name brand clothing.
I guess more generally, don’t trust people that seem like they really want to be trusted.
Regarding surveillance online, yeah, there’s absolutely no privacy anywhere and there’s nothing you can do, so just be boring.
- Comment on Say it slowly 2 months ago:
I 👏 never 👏 said 👏 he 👏 licked 👏 my 👏 asshole.
- Comment on Lead 2 months ago:
He died as he lived, dismissing gun violence and lying about trans people. 😔
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 2 months ago:
He also used an AI video to hide his location.
- Comment on Choosing my first printer is driving me mad. 2 months ago:
I had to put my Prusa i3 mk3s+ in storage for about a year when I was looking for a bigger place. I tucked it under the couch’s cushions when I moved from the east coast to the Rockies, and literally only had to blow the dust off the build plate before I was able to print again.
I can’t imagine most other printers going through that without needing at least a recalibration or leveling.
That reason alone will have me strongly considering Prusa when looking for my next printer.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 2 months ago:
A 15cm (6 inch) deep hole 30m (100 feet) from the trail or water.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 months ago:
On a “respond to an individual query” level, yeah it’s not that much. But prior to response the data center had to be constructed, the entire web had to be scraped, the models trained, the servers continually ran regardless of load. There’s also way too many “hidden” queries across the web in general from companies trying to summarize every email or product.
All of that adds to the energy costs. This equivocation is meant to make people feel less bad about the energy impact of using AI, when so much of the cost is in building AI.
Furthermore, that’s the median value–the one that falls right in the middle of the quantity of queries. There’s a limit to how much less energy a query to the left of the median can use; there’s a significantly higher runway to the right of the median for excess energy use. This also only accounted for text queries; images and video generation efforts are gonna use a lot more.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 months ago:
There are zero downsides when mentally associating an energy hog with “1 second of use time of the device that is routinely used for minutes at a time.”
- Comment on monthly challenge 3 months ago:
More than, 500 steps a day!? What do you think I am–active?
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 3 months ago:
- I ask a website for content.
- The website gives me content and a side of shit.
- I instruct my intelligent butler to discard the shit and only give me the content I requested.
- I get only the content I requested.
If a website wants to run ads that’s fine, I’ll just remove them. If they want to gate their content behind a paywall that’s fine, I’ll just make a determination about whether or not what they offer is worth it.
Removing ads is not “breaking a website” if anything it’s the exact opposite–restoring a cleaner layout, faster loading, less privacy invasion, and a reduced chance of malware.
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 3 months ago:
How is that AI related at all and not just an if statement and a couple statistical regressions to find an economically optimal battery percentage to price multiplier?
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 3 months ago:
Make $3,500,000 in profit and you get upset that you have to pay taxes on your 3.5x return on “investment.”
If you can’t cover <$1M in taxes from the sale of your $4.5M home maybe you should live within your means or get a roommate to help cover the bills like a normal person or something.
- Comment on Yeah 3 months ago:
Naw, text layers in a .xcf is where it’s at.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 3 months ago:
I mean “ought to be useful,” sure that would be nice. They ain’t, but perhaps “ought to be.”
