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- Comment on Manic Stew 4 days ago:
Verbal Tic Rice!
- Comment on Raven Big Mom 4 days ago:
Legit thought that was a microwave at first lol
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Can someone tell me what darvo tactics mean? Or tell me if I just don’t want to know. I’d Google it, but OP mentioned CP and if it’s related to that, I don’t want to Google it :(
- Comment on i hunger 6 days ago:
mampf is amazing
- Comment on Discuss 1 week ago:
Tar and feather then, but use chocolate sauce and roasted peanuts!
- Comment on OpenAI be like 1 week ago:
Thank you!
And yeah, it really does seem like the training data should be open. Like, not even just to be considered open source, just to be allowed to do this at all, ethically, the training data should be known, at least to some degree. Like, there’s so much shit out there, knowing what they trained on would help make some kind of ethical choice in using it
- Comment on OpenAI be like 1 week ago:
I really appreciate that! I was asking more for the information of it, I doubt I could do anything with the link. Lol. I don’t understand thing 1 about this stuff. I don’t even know wtf a weight is in this context lol
- Comment on OpenAI be like 1 week ago:
Okay, help me out here. I’ve heard people talking about open source ai models, and it always seems like open source needs big ass air quotes. Are there any open source models that are actually open source in the way people generally think of the term?
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 week ago:
That’s so cool!
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 week ago:
I mean, I was being hyperbolic, but they’re just… Boring to me. I know a lot of people love them, but to me they just look like fancy glass.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 week ago:
Damn, one of these without a “fake and gay” explanation, and I’m too tired to think of a good one. I’ve never gotten to be the fake and gay guy, and I’m missing my chance D:
But anyway, as others have said, lab grown, vintage, there are other options.
But has anyone considered a rock that doesn’t just look like glass? There are so many cool rocks out there, people! I’d literally rather have a piece of quartz that my SO and I found together turned into a ring than I would have a piece of a much fancier/“valuable” stone that I have no attachment to.
When my parents got married, they had gone gem mining at one of those places with the troughs of dirt, and you pan it yourself. They found some rubies, and had wedding rings made from those. How fucking cool is that? Way cooler than a thing you have no connection to, I think.
- Comment on Just an FYI 1 week ago:
Oh, I thought my app was glitching out! Lol. That’s why I thought the account was deleted in my first reply!
Yeah, I remember you! What’s going on? Everytime we’ve spoken has been very fun for me haha
I love the small town vibe Lemmy has sometimes, it’s so nice seeing that interaction across communities, instead of solely confined to a single sub, y’know?
- Comment on Just an FYI 1 week ago:
My app (eternity) is for some reason not showing me your user name, it just says to sign up for Lemmy. Lol. I can’t tell who I’m talking to. Gonna have to give me a hint or three. Lmao
But ah, yes, no, that’s a bad idea unless you’re very into buttholes of all persuasions
- Comment on Just an FYI 1 week ago:
Did they delete their whole account? Lol. What in God’s name did they say?
- Comment on Just an FYI 1 week ago:
And in the pale light I found such an endless love Show me that bunghole
- Comment on When your father is clueless 1 week ago:
Yeah, someone’s home is best. Lol.
platonic in the sense of romance. Lol. Like, honestly, fun game with a sexual component like strip poker. You’re not necessarily getting off, or getting entangled with anyone there. I see this is as a game of endurance with a “thrill” aspect.
Also, I may have said dad above. He’s step dad, and that family is definitely close enough they could play that and it not it be weird for them. I doubt the step dad/son would actually be the ones to mess with the others settings, but they’d probably be down to be at the group event. Lol. Hell, even the mom might be. Super open family. Strong boundaries, but those boundaries are places a lot further afield than my family’s. Lol
- Comment on When your father is clueless 1 week ago:
Okay, here’s the plan:
We get Bluetooth controller prostate massagers and those egg ones for the folks with vaginas.* Everyone has one in, everyone else has group access to control it.
We all go to a karaoke bar, and whoever is up on stage we all mess with the remote app while they’re singing and try to throw them off. Everyone’s gotta sing at least once. Try to stay in rhythm while the thing is buzzing, or nothing happens and you’re so focused on what to do when it starts, never know if they’re going to do it or not. Will that low note suddenly become a falsetto? Who knows‽
I swear to God, if I had the money to buy the things, I have at least 3 friends who would go for this. 4, honestly, but the 4th one would be too embarrassed to go because he’s the dad of one of the other friends. Lol.
To note, this isn’t a sexual “get you off” kind of thing. This is fully platonic “can you maintain decorum” type of game. It’d be a blast
*I know very little about sex toys for girls, whatever the best one is.
- Comment on Creative way to advertise your restaurant 2 weeks ago:
There’s a local butcher near where I went to community college. Their slogan is “[Name of butcher] you can’t beat our meat!”
I was sent home for wearing a shirt with their logo and that slogan on it that I’d gotten from the thrift store.
Sent home.
From college
- Comment on Smöl 2 weeks ago:
Is this one of the lizards you can keep as pets? Can I have a giant wall sized glass tank just absolutely full of these little derps living their lives and eating stuff and generally being happy?
- Comment on Smöl 2 weeks ago:
American or European standard?
- Comment on Dawg... 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do you say motorcycle 2 weeks ago:
I like to throw the glottus in there whenever possible. Nice glottal stop right between the mo-tow and the sickle.
- Comment on Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall? 2 weeks ago:
To preface this comment, I’m very, very tired, and I am providing no sources for this as I am very, very tired and just don’t want to go digging.
I remember reading a study or 3 in 2015/16 when Bernie first ran and talked about Medicare for all. The consensus from them seemed to be that a single payer system that was free at the point of use would drastically increase the number of people going to the doctor, for about 5 years. Basically, the idea was that the US system incentivizes us to wait to see a doctor until things get Real Bad, Man™, and if we switched it would take about 5 years per group/stage (Bernie’s plan was to lower the age of Medicare enrollment in stages) before things normalized. People would be jumping on the opportunity to get seen for things that they never would have considered before, and would be basically using the hell out of the new system, and each time the age was lowered it would take about 5 years for that group of people to get through that initial stage of doctor-seeing. But once that was done and things normalized, the stark increase in preventative care would grossly overshadow our current system of basically only treating trauma and chronic conditions. The strain on the medical field as a whole would be significantly lessened over time, because preventative care is often easier and cheaper.
So, again, no studies linked here, but iirc, the consensus was that there would be more people going to the doctor and being seen, especially in the first several years of the new system, but that medical professionals themselves would have less strain (and, my assumption here, less strain means probably less staff needed). I imagine it would change the staffing dynamics, too. We would need more primary care doctors, nurse practitioners, RNs willing/desiring to work in those offices, and probably less need for chronic pain clinics and specialized care units, potentially even things like cancer units and such. If people are seeing their doctors regularly, getting healthier, and generally being less sick, then the need for staffing in situations for people who have allowed things to get Real Bad, Man™ is lessened, and the need for staffing in preventive care is hightened.
Also, just as an aside, I remember watching this french television show once, dubbed, and there being a thing about a stop smoking campaign, with a tax incentive if you quit. Blew my fucking mind back then, but it makes sense. If the government is backing your healthcare, they want you to less costly to that system, and can offer incentives in other systems they also control. Think about it, “join a gym and get a tax credit for half the cost!” Or “lose 30 pounds this year and get an extra 200 back on your income taxes!” I have no idea if that french cigarette thing actually exists in real life, but the idea of it has always stuck with me.
- Comment on So You Think You Can Hack It? The Cold, Hard Fucking Truth About Alaska 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, my mom showed me that one years ago. So incredibly sad. Like, one mistake and it completely changes your life, your entire family’s life
- Comment on So You Think You Can Hack It? The Cold, Hard Fucking Truth About Alaska 2 weeks ago:
Don’t have time to read the article now. Is that the one where the mom had to breastfeed her preteen kids to keep them from dying, and the dad went walking for survival and died while the rest of the family got rescued?
- Comment on soda 2 weeks ago:
I lived right outside of Knoxville for 15 years. There visiting right now. I have this shirt. I have seen children wearing this shirt. It’s a real shirt. Lol
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 3 weeks ago:
So you’re going to let those infinite people on top stay tied to the track and starve to death slowly‽
- Comment on Got my pumpkin today. All ready for Halloween 3 weeks ago:
Gonna get you some pumpkussy, I see
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What's your favourite kind of restaurant? 4 weeks ago:
A double beta decay restaurant is just filled with aging bottom-bottom couples looking for a third