spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 6 hours ago:
Lying liars shouldn’t be running countries, especialy when they are petty, boldfaced lies that show how insecure they are.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 6 hours ago:
Mine uses the most recent height measurement that they took and check every few years. They check weight regularly though.
Driver’s licence office takes whatever I tell them. Last tien I told them I was losing weight and they used my target weight. Might be accurate at some point before it expires in a few years!
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 9 hours ago:
I turned off autocorrect because it was changing valid words into other words. Having an obvious typo is preferable to changing the meaning completely, which happened enough times for me to notice.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 9 hours ago:
Apparently this post is not an example of that issue since your sentence structure in this comment is perfect.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 12 hours ago:
Not to mention a bear’s hide is very tough compared to a gorilla.
- Comment on The Banana Split 1 day ago:
Banangina
- Comment on Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades 1 day ago:
Han shot.
- Comment on Day 270 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 day ago:
Stop having fun!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
You first: What is the minimum age you think someone should be able to make their own decisions about having sex with a 42 year old?
- Comment on Warner Bros. Confirms New 'Gremlins' Movie and 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Sequel 2 days ago:
Being a for profit business guarantees they won’t be about creative expression that doesn’t have a monetary incentive. Even the examples of financing a movie because someone in power wants it to exist despite knowing it won’t make bank have an underlying expectation that other projects the director will work on (or has in the past) generate more revenue than is lost on that project.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Confirms New 'Gremlins' Movie and 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Sequel 2 days ago:
There is a difference between recycling an existing story by re-imagining it and throwing out generic slop with a nostalgia filter. The Terminator and Halloween are the same story if you ignore the details. Indiana Jones was an homage to the old adventure serials.
Having the same overall structure can make something the same story at the surface level, but how it is implemented is what makes it fresh and original. Nostalgia bait is not putting the effort into making something new and fun, but instead focusing on how they can cram member berries in so people can remember the better movie as a distraction from the slop they are watching.
Not all movies with nostalgia moments are nostalgia bait either. Good sequels exist too.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Confirms New 'Gremlins' Movie and 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Sequel 2 days ago:
Every movie concept is improved when it is set in Hollywood!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Having the right to control their own choices and making a poor decision are two different things.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
16 year old dating someone more than twice her age = absolutely making a poor decision.
- Comment on Box 2 days ago:
- Comment on Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project 2 days ago:
Just stealing the data.
- Comment on America is fucked 3 days ago:
Also space to pull over is important. Here in the midwest we have room to move over and everyone does, honestly way more than is necessary. Like people start to pull over a few blocks in front of the ambulance if they just hear the siren.
New York’s problem in the video is the congestion makes it hard to move out of the way when there is nowhere to go.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 4 days ago:
It is one thing with a massive amount of variation, like pizza.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 4 days ago:
It’s a hobbitses?
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 4 days ago:
I read an email more than once to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Not sure if the majority of people I exchange emails with has ever done more than skim an email.
The only ones who correctly respond to emails longer than a single sentence in their entirety are the legal folks.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 4 days ago:
I know of 5 people I work with who will moat likely send you 10 months of documents x (showing y) as a response to your example, 12 if you are lucky.
No, they will not even acknowledge #2. They would have the same reaponse to your first, wordier version because they are just doing the first request and barely noticed you had a two digit number.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 4 days ago:
Mainly I’m asking all of you why do people insist on only answering 1 question out of an e-mail where there are multiple?
They are either distracted or don’t understand that there are multiple questions. In a few cases they don’t want or know how to respond to multiple questions in an email format because they are afraid of changing your text formatting (yes, at least three people have told me that was why they didn’t).
Do people just not read?
Quite a few have terrible reading comprehension.
Are people that lazy?
Some are.
What is going on?
It is a mix of a lot of things, all of which are different versions of poor communication skills.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 5 days ago:
As far as I can tell their last paragraph is three clear and distinct questions.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 5 days ago:
That might explain younger workers, but those in their 50s and above are just as bad.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 5 days ago:
Based on media set in New York, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.
- Comment on ooo.ooo 6 days ago:
Hopefully.
- Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data 1 week ago:
The Cloud made the crap data problem infinitely worse. The Cloud is what happens when the cost of storing data is less than the cost of figuring out what to do with the crap.
Yeah, cheaper to hold it just in case is actually a best case scenario for audit trails and the occasional look back. If 99.9999% is useless down thw road but one file answers some obscure question and it would have been more expensive to sort through it, then the cost savings and benefit was worth it financially.
And nobody in management cares because it’s so ‘cheap’ to store data. And this is what AI is being trained on. And we wonder why AI gets stuff wrong so often? Crap data in. Crap data out. And nobody cares.
Hold up. No, you don’t get to blame cheap data retention for AI being shit. AI is shit becsuse they train it on this shitty data instead of curating better quality data. AI gets shit wrong because they are training it on reddit data without taking into account humor subreddits instead of educationally verified content. Libraries curate their content,AI just jams whatever they can find into their AI model.
People and companies are not responsible for AI using their shitty content and presenting it as a reliable source of information.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 week ago:
Nine was poorly reviewed by critics and audiences.
But otherwise his choices have been solid.
- Comment on Wait, Jarod Leto in Tron? 1 week ago:
Sadly, yes. Apparently he plays Ares as well, so I assume he will have morbius amounts of screen time.
- Comment on Tron: Ares - Official Poster 1 week ago:
It’s both plus he is dragging down movies I want to be enjoyable. If he was ruining rom coms or something I wouldn’t care.
