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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Construction magic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Love it, is there a possibility I could cause my own death by moving those joysticks wrong? Because I really need that in a job setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I got back on FB after a 10-year absence for my nonprofit, and then Insta. Went as far as downloading the apps to my phone. Within 1 week my mood and productivity had completely collapsed. I was just sitting there slumped into my chair, like I was hooked up to an IV drug or something. I used to do the same with Reddit to an extent, and being banned there was actually good for me. Now I am - well that nonprofit, I started with all the time I wasn’t wasting on Reddit. Fuck all that dopamine-addicted noise. I’m quitting weed this Christmas break, I want all my neurotransmitters back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xmas at the mega church⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Social hour is actually very necessary, not happening, our third spaces are dying and churches are one of them. Not that I’m not glad to a degree, but we need replacements because people come to the church for human connection, and then pick up the bullshit over time.

  Hell I’m in the South and I have queer friends that still go to southern baptist churches “because there’s food once a week” and “I get to be around people.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am failing to connect the two time scales you mention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've probably met someone who has killed a person⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to test this, start up conversations with the combat vets around you. You might not like the answers. That’s the vast majority of killers I’ve known (that I’ve known).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨elixir of a god⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to stop and give myself caffeine resets because it’ll creep up over time from 2 cups of decaf a day to 4 cups of full strength, and then 6, and then I’m wondering why my heart flutters when I go to bed. I don’t touch energy drinks but I’m guessing it’s the same, trying to recapture that productive high. Of course coffee is practically free compared to energy drinks…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not one to stump for AI but 2-3 years ago we would have said AI struggled to kick out a working Powershell script and now the error rate for complex scripts is maybe 5%. The tech sped up very fast, and now they’re getting runtime environments to test the code they write, memories and project libraries. the tech will continue to improve. In 2026, 2028 are we still going to be saying the same about how AI can’t really handle coding or take people’s jobs? Quite a bit less. In 2030, less still.

  There is a point beyond which no refinements can be made but just looking backward a bit, I don’t think we’re there yet.

  Just in the past few months, I’d say Claude has gotten good enough to let us downsize our team from 3.5 to 2.5 but thankfully no one is interested in doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨happy fuck cops day to those who celebrate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Narrator: his body was never found.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That gives me a headache thinking about it, I don’t want to engage that much of my brain when gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  20 employees = 3-4 employees + 1 owner/CEO whose wife needs fake tits and many vacations, but yes otherwise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am guessing the reporter wanted to remind people tools exist for this, however the reporter isn’t tech savvy enough to realize ChatGPT isn’t one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As AI Data Centers Disrupt US Cities, Wisconsin Woman Violently Arrested After Speaking Out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More important than that, the power plants that run them are often heavily polluting, and tend to be in low-income, predominately black neighborhoods. So AI is giving poor kids cancer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nest’s security system shipped with an undocumented microphone they activated later, sadly this isn’t totally limited to Chinese crap.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some men will do anything to avoid getting a job, and we commend them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s when things started going off the rails yes. Remember Victoria and the good ol days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  😒 NFL football

  🤩 NSFW football

  😒 NSFL football

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread mold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheese is weird because someone had to be like, well let’s go ahead and store some milk in the stomach of an animal, but also they forgot about it under a chair for 3 months and then, upon finding it, thought, “well let’s have a go anyway, despite it changing forms.” And then eventually someone realized if you stuck it in certain caves it became delicious. So much human history just in that one food product there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Social media has mostly divided and isolated us. Twitter and some other platforms have been useful communications channels during unrest. But there could be other forms of communication just for that, since it’s all owned by billionaires now anyway, we need to stop imagining them as reliable tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems legit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So gonna need like 2 CDs then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally got an air fryer just to see what all the hype was about, and although it does a nice job on some things, it’s not really any faster and it makes the whole house reek because it’s blowing air continuously, which I should have expected, but eww. Plus I can make way more fries on a baking sheet. I don’t really get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We were raised with “pride,” not necessarily racially or ethnocentric, but a broader sense that transcended such boundaries. I grew up in the 80s-90s in the midwest, and we were taught America was a “melting pot” of cultures, ideas, and races, and that we should look forward to a time when whites are not the majority because the lines will fall away, the average color will be brown as we all mix over the next generations, giving us less reason to fight. And we should look forward to it, because that’s been our story so far - broken, impoverished immigrants came here looking for opportunity, and found it through hard work and smart thinking, and then became a part of our shared tapestry. We were taught to be proud of this, that we were stewards of this tradition in the best, most advanced country in the world.

  And now, well. The basest instincts of people have been brought to the surface and America now stands as an openly white nationalist, isolationist, fascist-tinged autocracy where the ideals I grew up with seem long antiquated.

  So yeah hard not to feel ashamed of what’s happened to our shared identity in just a few decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah take enough shrooms and everything is suddenly exposed as the artificial construct that it is. But we don’t have time to wake up and reinvent language every morning ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It became a meme a few years ago, people would post problems like this and argue about whose was right, as if there were no objective truth. It hurt to watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This also applies to houses, boats, and inevitably surrogates now that they’re using them like pack mules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you have a solution in search of a problem, and lots of money to push that solution. They assume their customers will invent the use cases and workflows that might make it valuable,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave it on long enough to fully kill FB, Insta, X, etc. THEN shut it down. We’re like 1/2 way there already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doing my morning walk through the churches in my neighborhood and there’s two old churches side by side, both rocking out, one sort of blues riffs, one a little more traditional rock. And as I often do, I stood for a moment taking it in - this is the Southern culture I think is fascinating and rich and… then I realize the blues one is now just doing a call and refrain “I don’t need no - evidence” over and over, and my dog’s like “let’s get the fuck out of here” and so we did.

  But it’s cute for a second if you don’t try to focus in on it. This is how religion should be taken in, and then hustle your ass along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Strong chance my final words will be “Oh shoot, shoooot.” Even tho I swear like a sailor, if it’s really bad, I go for clean language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  HiS wAyS aRe MyStErIoUs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the fuck decided to predicate the economy on a <2-year upgrade cycle for electronics?! Tim Apple is that you?