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- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
Most people don’t sleep next to doors to the outside. Most windows are always locked. The least common way of a burglary happening is someone picking a lock.
You will be awake with a significant amount of seconds to grab a gun if someone breaks into your home.
As to doing it 24/7? Jesus, did you even read the rest of the post? That was the whole point of what you were replying to. They specifically said they think it’s true that carrying it most of the time isn’t the point.
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
I liked derivatives and integrations. Series and sequences can suck my left third toe knuckle.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 week ago:
I think yes, and no. There are certainly in-house tools that the outside folks don’t get. LLMs for sure have better tiers and loosened guardrails.
…buuuuut, the people at an ‘executive’ level also are entirely unlike you and me. They are simultaneously as gullible and foolish as the ‘sheep’ of society, who are also buying into the ‘AI’ hype of LLMs, and so far removed from our situation that even using an LLM or search engine is entirely outside of their experience. They aren’t going to be using an LLM to plan out a vacation or a work schedule and have it fail any more than they would have looked through a SEO optimized bullshit website about vacuum cleaners (or super slideshow-ified list of ‘top ten pacific vacations!’ website to show you a bunch of ads) five years ago. They’ll ask the LLM (/search engine and only look at the ai at top) for the best pacific vacations and then tell their assistant to plan a vacation for them based on a quick glance at the result (or the same for the vacuum cleaner to replace the one that broke when their house cleaner was trying to get the super long hair from the super fru-fru breed that’s only allowed in two rooms in the house out of the super luxurious thick rug).
The way they use the LLM is perfectly fine for them. They aren’t going to see any negatives from it, so the in-house or publicly available versions aren’t really the reason for their ability to ‘crow’ about it. Same for the general downtrend of the internet. Their use case fucking sucks, and it isn’t affected.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 week ago:
I think he meant 2017 and the ingrained year of 2025 led to him typing it slightly wrong.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Ugh, you’ve never had to be around jeep peeps, then. They’ll start bragging about their dana 44 axles while babying the car down a graded gravel road. /eye_roll
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 2 weeks ago:
I’m wondering if scale, as in the crud that can build up on certain materials under certain conditions, is simply derived from the fish scale sense. It would seem like it, since it’s the ‘shell or husk’ Otherwise, yay, a fourth meaning!
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, I will.
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 2 weeks ago:
My favorite part about the continuous monitors is that they really show the incompetence of the clinics that are supposed to be managing us diabetics. There is a freaking option to share the data with your doctor (this is dexcom’s system thingie), but mine just asks for my account information so they can login with that and get the data. Like, whyyyy?!? You could manage all of us from one account rather than logging in a thousand different times.
Then we get to the bullshit terms and conditions, where the real hate begins… fucking device maker can go hog wild with all of our data and share it with whomever they want. Can’t use the device, after all, unless you agree to it. HIPAA is basically dead at this point.
- Comment on Hospital Bill 1961 2 weeks ago:
And to expand on the other answers you received, it’s hilarious (and perhaps old now… I saw something about medical debt now being counted on credit scores and I’m sure attacks have been made on medical debts in general) that the advice typically given was to NEVER make a payment on any medical debt, because that counted as a commitment towards paying, and the laws that eventually made medical debts go away no longer applied, so the debt companies would have more ammunition to use against you in court.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 2 weeks ago:
Stop, you’re confusing them! And when they get confused, they hurt everyone in their confusion!
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 4 weeks ago:
That’s just good practice in general. Everyone where I’m at rushes straight through medic school if they have the money/time, and it shows. They barely know how to talk to a patient, and then you’re throwing all the various blacktop training at them.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 4 weeks ago:
but at least the professionals have the training to deal with that somehow
Ha. You want to know the training you get for dealing with death? It’s a couple of sentences uttered by an instructor when some bozo in the class has more curiosity than thought and asks about the ‘yep, he’s dead’ policy. Most of the time you’ll have one of a pair who has done it before, and they just tell the other one what to do (like putting on the electrodes or looking around the room to see what else has been done). That’s the whole of it, adding in the jokes that will be told and the mild amusement of watching the other’s reaction when you grab a coke out of the dead dude’s fridge (I didn’t, but the more experienced one had when he was stuck at a house for six hours).
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 4 weeks ago:
He’s mocking the typical route of a soldier with a story: a memoir or fictionalized tale of what they did, with the hope the book sells enough to get them a chunk of money or a movie studio makes a movie of it.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 4 weeks ago:
It’s going to depend on their condition. Someone who has lost their respiratory drive, someone who has a heart that isn’t working, and someone who is dying of organ failure all have their unique way of passing. And those are just the ones I’ve seen. There’s a saying in my field that everyone dies of shock, but there are lots of ways to get to that point.
- Comment on the HOA special 4 weeks ago:
That sounds an awful lot like a redneck cajun hocking a loogey.
- Comment on Achievements 100% 4 weeks ago:
Just go in knowing that it’s a product of its time. The studio is both great at doing dissection of current-time tropes AND likes to sniff their own farts. Watch the original all the way through, then go find the ‘alternate’ endings that they made.
- Comment on The most normal Silicon Valley techbro 5 weeks ago:
They don’t care if the hook eventually turns back on them. They’ve spent the best years of their lives getting their rocks off by making you waste the best years of your life.
- Comment on This song, it's infectious 5 weeks ago:
Oh goddamnit. I was listening to the radio with my partner while driving and heard a song that I thought was good, and it was this one. Does that mean I’m infected now?
- Comment on Pickup trucks and SUVs can be used to take out 'problematic' people without anyone knowing 5 weeks ago:
Doing it once may be overlooked, but the second time, you’re in for a real hard time!
Plus, remember that there are always ‘factors’ that are involved in being able to get away with killing someone using a vehicle. Make sure you’re white, they’re a minority, you’re rich, they’re poor, you are in a friendly relationship with the police officer who will show up on scene, or the prosecutor, get a good lawyer (part of you’re rich, I suppose), have something about the other person that is really negative (can be part of they’re a minority if you’re in a really red area)… any I’m forgetting?
- Comment on When you eat too much oats and sleep 5 weeks ago:
By turning it into an encapsulated form using bubbles, apparently. Good for what ails ya.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 5 weeks ago:
you do you
I always do. It’s why this is so sad.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 5 weeks ago:
OOoooooh, aight. Well, in that case, let me give you some advice I got from my 15 year old friend when I was 13: conditioner is dangerous, shampoo will do.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 5 weeks ago:
Well, one of us is getting their hair pulled in bed tonight, then softly stroked and twirled around the lover’s fingers…
and I don’t think it’s you.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 5 weeks ago:
There are 8 billion folks on the earth, and half are guys. I’m sure there are a few who have that thought, but it’s just like anything else: numbers make a mockery of all/none or even most/some claims.
The part about it being gay is also just for trolling/stupid dunking purposes. I would bet that if you got the people you were asking the question of to read a few books and learn to express themselves, you’d find that most people don’t scrub their asshole because it’s generally seen as dirty and contaminated, so they limit themselves to using the toilet paper, thereby not contaminating their hand or wash cloth in the shower. Nothing to do with thoughts of it being gay or not.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 5 weeks ago:
Just seems like a waste of paper to me. I go ten or so poops, then wipe and get up from the toilet. Cleaning while you cook makes sense, cleaning while you poop is odd.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 5 weeks ago:
Jesus mary fucking llamas, I can’t imagine getting naked in front of a massager, much less being unclean in front of one.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 5 weeks ago:
Don’t they have tunnels from france to england? Surely maintenance fellers walk those tunnels, so there would be a way.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 5 weeks ago:
I would hope the ‘neutral word’ was said at the same volume/rate/tone. Otherwise, yeah, it would definitely be a factor. Just like we can make ourselves angry with our thoughts, there must be a large difference in adrenaline released depending on how you emote.
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 5 weeks ago:
I think I’d go with the moths. Least likely to kill me.
- Comment on Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing? 5 weeks ago:
What about cute animal killers?