paysrenttobirds

@paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meteorology Gatekeeping⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, funny, I was thinking maybe it was written for two audience with different terminology where one names wind by where it’s going and the other by where it came from. Somehow the truth is more aggravating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it would take more or less time with auto-complete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Used to be considered simply prudent to back up the vhs tapes you bought and people were encouraged to tape their favorite shows off the tv. Now some random CEO of the month has the right to bury decades worth of creative works?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Three Kinds of Scientific Research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The map from the third is the “circumstances” of the first two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flying Ants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But, that’s sperm, right? Half the chromosomes, like an egg, only motile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need orphan technology program like for orphan drugs. I can’t imagine it would be very costly to keep this one woman’s device running, but it does take someone somewhere being responsible for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two Illegal Aliens Steal $1 Million Patek At Gunpoint In Beverly Hills Hotel In Broad Daylight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t wear your investment on your sleeve

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father of woman with ME/CFS scared she will "die in hospital"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing in this horrible story that will be familiar to anyone worth lifelong illness is the divide between pediatric and adult care. At age 18, you will experience an immediate shift in professional knowledge, care paradigm, access and support, either for better or worse, and it’s just ridiculous because the condition is the same. This just shows how much more important the system as a whole is compared to the intelligence, curiosity, or work ethic of any individual doctor. We were advised with my daughter (different illness) to keep pediatric specialists as long as possible and many of them regularly made these exceptions for patients for this reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree to look up a local third party candidate and mention their name to someone you know who is also local?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but evidently you need to put local in bold because it’s never what people are thinking about in these nonlocal forums. But that’s where third parties will come from unless it’s some celebrity case, who will most likely coopt an existing party, resulting in the same two party system and a dramatically shifted politics that leaves half the country without ideological representation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metro South Trash Cam: A Tangible Manifestation of the Contemporary Condition⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Watching this can change the world. It does make me ill.

  The secondhand market should be huge and top of mind. Furniture stores should have 80 percent of the store used goods. Craigslist, etc, is fun but frustrating. I’m not particularly picky or fearful, but person to person is just inefficient.

  Also, people have been sold on needing everything to reflect themselves and their tastes and knowledge, sort of catalog/review envy, I feel it myself. But you know, it’s just a chair or a shelf or a food processor or a jacket or whatever: try to embrace serendipity :) They have pens at goodwill, a bag for $2, and it’s all kinds and brands and it will cover your household needs for years rather than leak and rot into a hole in the ground-- that kind of thing, just consider it as often as you can. Once you have that down you will find you need less stuff because you are not using it to represent yourself, just for it’s actual purpose, and you will find it easier to pass things on as well.

  Just my drunk advice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alsup said using scraping tools is not inherently fraudulent, and giving social media companies free rein to decide how public data are used “risks the possible creation of information monopolies that would disserve the public interest.” The judge also said X was not entitled to “de facto copyright ownership” in copyrighted content that X’s users made available to the public.

  Based.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend's boyfriend's therapist said that he is an abuser who is trying to look like the victim. What does this mean?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a therapist, so this is just a guess, but the “scared you off” comments and maybe the hints at depression could be seen as manipulative, especially when he really never wanted anything from the relationship beyond the online attention. He made her feel guilty for not spending more time and energy on him while exaggerating his own interest in her. Perhaps in his previous relationships the manipulation went further. Your friend needs to know she is not at all to blame for the end of this relationship. Nor is she dumb for caring about someone more than they cared about her: you can’t always tell. But perhaps she will take from it the idea that she could ask for things that are important to her, like in-person contact or space to be doing something other than talking to him without being nagged, sooner in the process to be sure the other person is on the same page. Help her understand that whatever anxiety she felt to shore up his emotions should be at most a small part of their interaction. A relationship shouldn’t feel like a tomagatchi pet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I don't think it's that hard': The former cop who says he knows how to save more domestic violence victims⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He says critical frontline services — addressing the drug and alcohol abuse, gambling addiction and mental illness that underlie many domestic assaults — have been underfunded for decades. If a male has a history of crimes of violence, of any form of domestic violence, coercion, physical, emotional, they should not have the presumption of bail," he said. “They should not get bail at all” If offenders are released into the community while awaiting court appearances, Mr Hurley says they need [mental health] support too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, this has to be addressed. Owner-occupied makes the best neighborhoods and cities, in addition to righting the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helpful diagrams⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But where’s the mouth functionality?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rejuvination⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always thought they were trying to escape the soggy mud. Too moist. Drowning. Lane is for bikes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do video cards get slow when there's an available update?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the games are downloading assets or libraries, I suspect you are right that the cards are just trying to keep in step with software changes, and vice versa. There should be some publication that you could watch to know ahead of time, as the companies and developers are certainly keeping each other informed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, but I also think this bot was never going to insert itself into any real discussion. The repeated requests for direct, absolute, concise answers that never go into any detail or have any caveats or even suggest that complexity may exist show that it’s purpose is to be a religious catechism for Maga. It’s meant to affirm believers without bothering about support or persuasion.

  Even for someone who doesn’t know about this instruction and believes the robot agrees with them on the basis of its unbiased knowledge, how can this experience be intellectually satisfying, or useful, when the robot is not allowed to display any critical reasoning? It’s just a string of prayer beads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨irrefutable⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they are suggesting, tongue in cheek, that liberal propaganda is encouraging some tiny cellular being to shift from cis to trans. What the illustrator actually intended, I have no clue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨somewhere a postdoc is crying⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many times did they remix that 42.5% before being like I’m just going to go be a clown?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teslas Can Be Stolen by Hijacking WiFi at Charging Stations, Researchers Find⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, you are orders of magnitude bigger driving enthusiast than myself! I’d be interested to know what you think of the Tesla.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teslas Can Be Stolen by Hijacking WiFi at Charging Stations, Researchers Find⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do encourage you to rent one. I like driving, too, and I just didn’t think it was a good experience. But I didn’t really fool around with the programs. It’s interesting at least.

  It’s possible drivers who care have figured it out, but there is at least a very large learning curve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teslas Can Be Stolen by Hijacking WiFi at Charging Stations, Researchers Find⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not disagreeing, but having driven a Tesla for a couple weeks-- it’ll make a good driver look bad every time. Turning radius is surprisingly bad. Normal (through the window/mirror) visibility is bad. Handling is super weird and probably unlearnable in the default settings because the car seems to be constantly “correcting” your inputs even when not in autopilot. The default break style gives me motion sickness even when I’m the one driving. And the turn signals-- you just don’t know how long they’ll stay on, so I did start to feel reluctant to use them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Service to humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Run out of butter or eggs? Here's the science behind substitute ingredients⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya, they don’t hold together as well, but on the other hand, the flavor is often better and the texture can be awesome, melt in your mouth. I especially like eggless (binderless) chocolate spice cake. Put the glaze on a little heavier to help it reach your lips in one piece :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Run out of butter or eggs? Here's the science behind substitute ingredients⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One pleasant surprise after my kid turned vegan – a lot of recipes that call for eggs, you can just leave them out. Fluffy cake, soft cookies, quick breads, so many recipes just don’t put an egg in it and it’s fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gun violence killed them. Now, their voices will lobby Congress to do more using AI⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford Slashes Electric Truck Production, Because Nobody Wants Them⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are moving the investment to hybrids because there will be new ev truck competition next year from Tesla and Chevrolet. Lightning sales are up as are ev truck sales overall. There is likely a cap on how many people an ev truck makes sense for until ev infrastructure is further rolled out, but the investment is being moved to hybrids, not diesel or gas, so the market are not total reactionaries. Eventually, hybrids will be the minority product as they carry a costly redundancy that will be unnecessary for most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somewhere along the way Humanity lost the ability for long term thinking.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what we lack is the understanding that just knowing the right thing to do doesn’t make it happen, individually or collectively. Because if you look at any of the issues we face you can find people talking about it a hundred, three hundred, a thousand years ago, but it’s like the solutions only get traction under some special lightning in a bottle circumstances. So you have to keep up the consciousness and the effort and especially creative inspiring things, and know that the failures are to be expected and the successes are so rare they need to be celebrated even when they are imperfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"AI made us do it" is Big Tech's new layoff rationale⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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