ToastedRavioli
@ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
- Comment on everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space 13 hours ago:
The first mistake is eating creamed corn
- Comment on Man, 53, marries AI-generated chatbot via matching app 2 days ago:
Imagine thinking youre cool by trying to bring back a letter that went out of style over 600 years ago
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 days ago:
I þþþþ cannot þþþþ understand þþþþ your þþþþ accent
- Comment on Marriage is FOMO 3 days ago:
Life is short, there are pretty affordable ways to get married if you arent attached to the idea of having a huge wedding, while still making it affordable. Another thing is that legally in many states, if you live with your partner and share finances long enough you are considered to be common law married. Usually its in the neighborhood of 3-4 years.
But either way, some states (if youre in the US) allow you to self solemnize your wedding amongst yourselves. You dont even have to have a courthouse wedding. Honestly the norm of spending ungodly amounts of money to marry each other is overrated, IMO
- Comment on Marriage is FOMO 4 days ago:
I wouldnt say I married my wife because of FOMO on being married. I married my wife because I had FOMO of not spending the rest of my life with my wife in particular
Anyone who is getting married for the sake of being married itself is getting married for the wrong reasons
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 6 days ago:
“Ol Charlie, like a son to me… like Charlie Tuna, you remember that one, right? Until the radical left lunatics killed him too. “Broke Tuna” they said, wanted an androgynous oyster instead. Oyster gender transitions, its a whole thing”
- Comment on The perfect use for spoons in the "bad spoon" drawer 1 week ago:
Mans over here buying spoons made oht of aluminum foil apparently
- Comment on Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood" 1 week ago:
This article is fucking crazy, what the hell is wrong with Sweden now?
Earlier in April, two people were killed in a suspected gang fight in Gothenburg, while a renowned rapper was shot dead in a gang battle in the city in December.
Since when are there Swede rappers? That is weird enough in itself.
I get that drugs are largely the issue, but these people live in a country with a laundry list of social welfare programs that most people could only dream of. Free healthcare, free education at all levels, and a boatload of economic support initiatives for people in poverty. They literally are living life on easy mode compared to the rest of the poor people in the world for the most part. Why do they turn to drugs in the first place? It clearly shouldnt be out of hopelessness for their situation…
- Comment on where did we go wrong 2 weeks ago:
Its not remotely correct if you compare it to 1950 instead of 2025. In fact that outfit is closer to a 20s flapper outfit than anything, but then the flappers had short hair, not super-updos
- Comment on Let us celebrate our mutual experience of close proximity by touching our multi-fingered appendages to one another's - Person who invented the handshake, probably. 2 weeks ago:
Its like Nathan Pyle if he never became successful and sounded like he had people locked in the basement
- Comment on "Wait, was that shampoo? Yeah.. Welp, I guess we're washing our body with shampoo today." 2 weeks ago:
Generally speaking its fine to wash your body with shampoo, its just not good to wash your hair with body soap
- Comment on if "you are what you eat", and you only eat vegans, you're both vegan and not at the same time 2 weeks ago:
Transitive af
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 2 weeks ago:
Kind of stupid to say its all about the Saudis when the US produces more oil and gas products than most every other country
- Comment on Writing was invented before reading. 2 weeks ago:
Writing and reading had to have developed simultaneously, otherwise the person writing was just drawing. To be writing you have to be able to interpret what you are writing.
Its a chicken and egg situation. The chicken has to come from the egg but the egg has to come from the chicken. In reality, both the chicken and the egg had to come from something that was neither recognizable as a chicken nor an egg. The proto chicken if you will
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 weeks ago:
More of a front and back door, if my understanding of a cloaca is correct
- Comment on After intensive lobbying by tech companies, Colorado has delayed implementation of its landmark artificial intelligence law 2 weeks ago:
As someone who has been living here for a while now, I would say Colorado moreso masquerades as a reasonable state than actually being all that reasonable.
For one, property values run everything in this state to an insane degree. Most starter size homes in the state, even in towns without a real grocery store or much of anything, will run you nearly a million dollars (if not more). Its blatantly unsustainable and yet nothing is being done to fix it.
TABOR is a stupid system that is only better than legitimate corruption, which is what people compare it to. Realistically it is worse than keeping the tax money and spending it on improving things here. I would much rather not get a few hundred dollars back in a check each year if it meant that local public services didnt have to keep jacking up sales taxes so that they can continue to function. Especially when, as stated beforehand, we could properly tax the absolutely insane property value. Even just taxing second/vacation homes would be great… and yet no one wants to do that because then the housing market might actually cool off.
Im not saying we dont have nice things. We do. But everything about how this state is run caters to millionaires and then tells everyone else to get fucked if they cant hack it. Teachers here get paid worse than almost every other state in the country, despite the fact that we should be able to have the highest quality education system anywhere. If we funded it with property taxes especially, but thats a non-starter of course.
My town’s school and fire department are both failing financially and all anyone seems to want to do to fix it is jack up sales taxes. No more taxes on property. No more taxes on lodging or STRs. No, lets just tax the working class people to death as they try to afford already inflated food prices.
This state is as stupid as it is beautiful much of the time, unfortunately
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 2 weeks ago:
“AI will took ur jerb!”
AI: cant even hack it at McDonalds
- Comment on The Global Sumud Flotilla: Over 50 ships will set sail for Gaza 2 weeks ago:
This article has so little in the way of actual information that it should be 3 paragraphs
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Lemmings the type of folk to know the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean
- Comment on Olympic Council of Asia says Saudi Winter Games 'on schedule' 3 weeks ago:
What doofuses decided to build a ski resort in a country where its 100° overnight?
- Comment on Pollsters Are questioning AI Instead of Real People 3 weeks ago:
One inherently flawed aspect of the entire concept, even if LLMs were way better, is that polling is supposed to be a present snapshot of opinion. LLMs are based on inherently older than the present moment, it cant gauge the current opinion
- Comment on Get to know the robot dog that can clean your house and serve you soda 4 weeks ago:
Within the next decade, chances are your neighbors, or maybe even you, will be sharing a home with a robot roommate to lend a hand with everyday tasks.
Thank you Carnegie Melon for making sure I remember I’m worse off than my neighbors. I feel seen
- Comment on Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations: Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI. 4 weeks ago:
It doesnt, but it should. Its malpractice of the highest degree and shows clear disregard for properly representing a client
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Ill take “reasons why I still drive a b5.5 passat” for $500, Alex
- Comment on Kuwait decision to ban entry of Israelis receives wide public praise 4 weeks ago:
Based Kuwait
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 4 weeks ago:
In the 1980s one could actually afford a degree off of washing dishes on the side or working 3 months in the summer
- Comment on Canada’s cannabis industry contributes more than $76 billion to Canada’s GDP, generates nearly 100,000 jobs annually 4 weeks ago:
*Because black and hispanic people smoked it first, you mean…
Cannabis was first made illegal specifically as a means to target non-white people for a nonexistent crime. “Reefer madness” was bullshit that came around way way later
- Comment on Google and IBM believe first workable quantum computer is in sight 5 weeks ago:
The quantum bubble, its unknown just how large it is until you measure it
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 5 weeks ago:
You mean Canada? Or Australia? Countries where they are as big of a landmass but people dont actually live in remotely close to the entire thing? 95% of people in Canada live in a 100 mile stretch of the southern part of it. Australia is the same way with the costs versus the interior… its not remotely comparable even if they are the same size on a technical basis
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 month ago:
