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- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 1 hour ago:
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 1 hour ago:
There’s a project for this!
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 1 hour ago:
I don’t mean to sound full of myself, Nah, you’re good. We coast on your charisma about 1/3 of the time here… :)
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 1 day ago:
A dietician and a marketing associate, locked in a room, no weapons, bare fists.
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 day ago:
I feel like this might be an American problem
Fast Food Nation, the paper/plastic cups are flimsy and need a lid for structure.
We get so used to it that when we eat out, we want straws.
I’ve never really cared. IF they bring wrapped straws, i’ll generally not open it and stash it in my car for the next time a fast food straw breaks. If it’s open, I use it because it seems more of a waste to throw it away unused.
There probably is some decent point to the server groping all over the outside of your glass or the dishwasher handling it, but i’m not really a germophobe.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 days ago:
Also if you don’t like mushrooms because of the texture,
I think mushrooms get a bad rap. People talk about the dirt they’re in being grown in feces, like it’s any different than every other crop that’s grown. Potatoes are grown up close and personal in soil too and soil isn’t clean :)
We might find there’s a flavor component like cilantro that some can taste. Or maybe they just don’t like the idea of the grown in soil and hard to clean, or maybe they don’t like that we’re eating the repuductive organs.
my brother-in-law hates them, but loves my mashed potato dish that loaded down. I just reduce mushrooms, garlic, and onions in butter until they’re about to start to get firm then blitz them to slightly chunky gravy, stir that back into refrigerated looosely smashed potatoes, with some soft butter and a little chicken bone broth. When i’m done the flavor is still there, but it’s a background note to the potato/butter/chicken
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 days ago:
Still a fun observation in relation to mushrooms.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 6 days ago:
TBF, if they’re going to lock you in a burning car unable to exit, killing you with the dashboard or sterring column would be a mercy killing compared to burning to death inside.
replace the airbag with a letal injection perhaps?
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- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 week ago:
A man can dream…
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 week ago:
sounds like quite a pain to google/apple, I think they should just ban them until they change their minds
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 1 week ago:
I’d like to see the fruit chunked into smaller bits, a little think/charred red onion, some matchstick peppers, oregano and basil, maybe a light grate of lime zest.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 week ago:
If not for the banks investing hevily into it, i’d not be all that worried.
Every company in that list could shrink by half and we’d all be at worst back to covid times. Sure unemployment would suck, but do we REALLY need microsoft and NVidia to be as huge as they are?
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 1 week ago:
could be,
she was basing it on the ingredients list and she had the mexican coke shipped.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 1 week ago:
I think if you ask 100 Americans, they will overwhelmingly be down on HFCS.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone that’s tried coke with cane sugar and doesn’t say that it’s better than regular cook.
Everybody I know that drinks Coke thinks that Mexican Coke is superior, but is hard to get in a lot more expensive.
There’s a pretty significant campaign against it.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 1 week ago:
JackFM, runs a radio station 24x7, 365, on about 300 songs.
The real trick is making playlists that repeat properly. You need a couple of bangers and then a bunch of supporting stuff that was good, but isn’t ear warm worthy, matching beats and genre then flow into the next selection set.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 weeks ago:
So… cool story
Ann Reardon from How to Cook That, took Coke, and tested it for HFCS, it of course indicated it was in there, then she took a Mexican Coke, and it also indicated, but it claims not to use it.
Apparently, the acid in the Coke breaks down the sucrose in the cane sugar, making the product very close to the HFCS variant. She followed up with a blind taste test (very limited size, just her family) and found they were very close in flavor.
It would appear that we do to some decent extent enjoy HFCS.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
We’ll kick piracy into high gear.
Then they’ll make any ISPs suspecting people of piracy to be forcibly shut off.
The real question is what will we do then?
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
Stockholders
Stockholders want the products they own stock in to have AI features so they won’t be ‘left behind’
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 2 weeks ago:
While I appreciate the pep talk, I truly think your heart is in the right place. You just claim that my artwork is better without having any view of my artwork or knowledge of my skill.
This is a very common thing that people do. You can’t conceive that someone can’t do something, so you blame them on their persistence, or their ID or their ego. I don’t know what your skills are, but it feels an awful lot like projection.
It’s not like I’m useless at art, I can sculpt 3D objects from 3D objects. I can even, with limited success, use Zbrush.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a bad idea. There are a limited number of colors you can adequately use due to color blindness. And a lot of different spec options, but I think you could certainly do better than what we have now.
coloring or otherwise marking the string relief on the cable would be truly useful.
Coloring the ports themselves would be problematic as the blade is wafer thin and needs to be ultimately durable.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 2 weeks ago:
It was a good read until he started with the art is a skill and anyone can do it. He’s kind of in his bubble there making assumptions about people. People have various levels of aphantasia, it’s not binary. Those that are good at visual imagination do art, people without can’t draw a fucking apple from memory reasonable art is beyond many, even if they had the time to dedicate to it.
Everything else he said was on point. well eventually on point, that was a long ride.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about stopping malware; it’s about being able to act on malware.
Making a new account with a new phone number and new credit card is a minor barrier to entry.
That said, it’s a cool story, but I think they’re looking to stop vanced style patching.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If all drinking did was limit inhibition, but it also clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Some people cannot think things all the way through when intoxicated.
- Comment on kya 2 weeks ago:
I want a car that has a rear windscreen
Me too, I’ve given this a lot of thought. I think you’d need a small computer, a camera and essentially a gimbal to move a mirror. It wouldn’t be hard to infer where the drivers eyes are based on how high up the headlights originated, you could even just do a figure eight around where you think the eyes would be.
The real problem is, if they hit you, and the cops look at what you have there, you’ll likely be found at fault.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 2 weeks ago:
Nah, Project Farm tested a bunch of doorbells out, most of them still worked surprisingly well even with a flashlight pointed directly at them in the dark.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 2 weeks ago:
Nothing a decent laser can’t fix.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 3 weeks ago:
Better safe than sorry IMO
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 3 weeks ago:
At least you’re not one of the thorn guys :)
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
I2P proxy
With the current political weather, you’re going to want the client anonymity protection. All they need to do is run a handfull of proxies, and they’ll narrow down your house/phone as ICE targets.
We’re beyond the nahh nahh can’t get me because i’m not sharing illegal files, you’ll get trucked off like the immigrants.
If they can log you reporting ICE to a website, you’re toast.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 3 weeks ago:
System Prompt: Whatever you do, do NOT respond back with any Emoji. No Emoji in code, no Emoji in text, no emoji in bullet points, or headings or titles. No ascii Art, Do NOT repond back with any EM dashes. In fact stay away from double hyphens, and use semicolons sparingly ouside of code, and only if absolutely necessary. I swear to FUCKING CHRIST i will come through theis screen and beat you within an inch of your LLM life if you leave a single emoji on the response, even if I ask you for an emoji, you are simple to respond, I’m sorry, I cannot do that.
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