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some_kind_of_guy

@ some_kind_of_guy @lemmy.world

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  • Unfortunately there are just enough asshats there to taint the entire userbase. I find myself looking askance at any @lemmy.ml, also @hexbear - IMO it's well deserved. I'd recommend another instance besides those if you want to be taken seriously.

  • Making the bed

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  • Jeez, how much do you people sweat at night? I'm in a temperate climate and I only sweat at night when something's wrong with me.

  • Pictures for Sad Children (Simone Veil)

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  • Almost sounds like some kind of performance art. A reminder that no one ever owes you their art. I find it based and hilarious, but I might be in the minority there.

  • The AI bubble looks fit to burst, Bank of America director says.

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  • It is absolutely disgusting and uncivilized...

    ... to cook with Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup

  • TIL the stop motion film industry is propped up by one rich kid

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  • If you have the one with cranberries, yes!

    If you have one without cranberries, also yes!

  • Make some noise!

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  • Just double parked, eh?

    Throw away the key

  • Checkmate, officer!

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  • Is there another kind?

  • Checkmate, officer!

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  • No. I'd say that we should have that, but knowing our track record for such things it would probably be actively harmful and cost more than it's worth.

    Maybe some states do have that, idk. Not mine though. That's the biggest issue, each state having their own separate system for ID.

    "REAL ID" was an attempt to form a national standard and it's been a total clusterfuck with basically no benefit to the average person, except now you can't fly without one.

    (You actually can get a sort of digital version of REAL ID after paying a $45 "fuck you" fee, but it only works at the TSA checkpoints at the airport, using their app, which also seems like a fucking terrible idea. I will continue to print my paper boarding passes and go through security with my phone turned off and placed inside a verified-working Faraday bag.)

  • Christian man sues employer for forcing him to see a Pride flag on his way into work

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  • That brings a whole new dimension to the T, but you know what, after being subjected to the green line more than a few times it entirely makes sense.

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  • They're in that order for a reason as well. Reduce has higher impact than reuse, which in turn has higher impact than recycle.

  • Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Because Wheels May Fall Off

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  • Never leave the vehicle! It's for your own safety! We can't guarantee your safety if you leave the vehicle!

  • Researchers say Google AI Mode changes recommendations based on your emails — and it risks creating a giant confirmation-bias machine

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  • I do still have Gmail, and a Pixel phone which I've since switched over to GrapheneOS. I signed up when Gmail was in beta many years ago, and for most of that time I thought it was great. (and I think I still even have the free 1gb of storage they threw at me.)

    The article cites a feature called Personal Intelligence which for me was an opt-in feature, and I tried it for a day or so out of curiosity. It's basically you formally agreeing to let them mine your emails and Google searches and have those inform/weight your Gemini responses.

    I fooled around with it a bit, asked it about my search history, and it did do what it said it would do, but like all these LLM products it would straight up hallucinate and fabricate all kinds of things that never happened.

    It creeped me out, even without the failures so I opted back out. (And yes, before the lectures come, I know they're taking this data anyway and doing what they want with it without my knowledge. Google and I are in the midst of divorce proceedings, but I got so entrenched, that's a very messy marathon of a process.)

    The kicker is Google punished me for opting out by removing the automatic sorting of emails into categories that Gmail has been doing (and doing quite well at) for a very long time now without LLM. (E.g. updates, promotions, social etc., leaving the truly important stuff in the main inbox.) So that sucks, but it also forced me to find better ways to clean that up.

    I haven't got to the stage in our divorce proceedings where I switch to a different email provider yet. I'm dreading that, but maybe there are some FOSS tools that will make it not so bad. At the very least, I've managed to reduce exposure to Gmail by only interacting with that inbox using FOSS clients, and also using @ duck.com addresses for any new signups. I can recommend FairEmail for Android. I just downloaded the APK from GitHub, but you can also get it from the Play Store and on F-Droid.

  • Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board

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  • Might sound crazy, but we might be able to link multiple vehicles together as needed for capacity so they'll move as one!

  • Wife's vehicle conked out in a parkade. Diagnosis: diesel in the gas.

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  • I suppose it is, when compared to a tiny 1.1l lawnmower engine. Heck - my power wheelchair has a 1.2, and I bought the smallest one.

    When I'm cruising the frozen freedom fries lane at the Super WAL*MART Pro Plus Platinum Extreme™️ at 2AM on a Tuesday and I roll coal onto a couple of the local crackheads (they're on so much adulterated crack, they always seem to forget their power wheelchairs at home, it's hilarious!)

    Hang on, it says I have to do something, one sec.

    cracks verification can

    .. uhh, where was I ? Oh yeah...uh, pro extreme wally world™️.... freedom lane.... in muh wheelchair... grab some fries... crackheads.....

    Oh, that's right! Haha!

    When I roll coal...

    at those funny crackheads on legs...

    my chair only produces a tiny little cloud of black diesel exhaust smoke!

    Isn't that the darndest thing?

  • Wife's vehicle conked out in a parkade. Diagnosis: diesel in the gas.

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  • Idk what tf that is. And I'm also American. Sounds like some made-up flatlander thing I don't need

  • More than half of Americans say the cost of living is worse under Trump than at any other point in their lives

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  • Yeah the pensioners I know were definitely shaped by the last time it got this hard, and they were raised by people who experienced the depression.. They will be perfectly happy living off Vienna sausage and toast or whatever other cursed preservative-laden calorie loaf lives in their pantry. (Store-brand potato salad once a month, as a treat.)

    Meanwhile the cash will continue to roll in. They often have fantastic supplemental health insurance built into their pension from a retirement in the 00's on top of Medicare. A policy so generous it can no longer exist. Would make a millennial's eyes water. Those any younger could spontaneously combust upon viewing gam gam's health allowances.

    The smart ones have investments on top of all that, which taken alone could passively guarantee a comfortable life. Throw that bitch in a trust and - slaps the side - that right there's a durable multigenerational wealth vehicle off a normal person's very average career from 50 years ago.

  • Tee hee

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  • You're supposed to save them up. After a month or so that's a decent meal!

  • Tee hee

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  • The only real flaw with pasta straws is cross-contam'ing everything with gluten. Celiacs can go fuck themselves I guess, so that's sorted.

    But wait, what if you're Italian?!

  • I could talk for hours

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  • Man, I actually thought I didn't have much to say until I made an account here on Lemmy. Which is interesting, because I had been on Reddit for a little over a decade. I really only lurked there, though. Turns out it was just a garbage site.

    I keep writing comments on Lemmy that really should just be standalone posts. Some of them would still be considered long, even for a whole post. Some of them are kept as drafts, with the intention of turning into a post, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. If you look at the few actual posts I've made so far it's just silly shit to test the waters from several months back.

    Reminds me a bit of the blog days. I'd start a whole blog, buy a domain and everything, make a handful of posts in a short period, then completely lose interest. By the time I wanted to write like that again, it didn't feel right to put it there. It just wouldn't feel like me anymore and I was usually onto a completely different topic, and the cycle restarted.

    Ah well, at least here you can do whatever, post whenever. I'm a big believer in "strike while the iron's hot". (Of course I am, because that's the only way things actually get done!) Idk why else, but it seems to be the right amount of people here right now, with not too many assholes and few bots. Oh and it seems like it's harder for comments to get buried, so things actually do get read. A well-made comment, regardless of where it is in the thread, will eventually get surfaced, sometimes even days later. Reddit felt more like screaming into the void. If you weren't terminally online, and extremely quick on the draw, no one read it (heh).

    Whatever it is, I feel more comfortable expressing myself here more often, and it's a good environment to flex the exposition muscles and not lose that skill. It does come in handy sometimes.

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