LovableSidekick
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 5 days ago:
Too late. Social media was already the end of truth.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Funky girl with green hair in a side ponytail: “[click click clickity click]… I’m in!”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
A friend of mine did it in college, and that was decades ago. Instead of snipping him they put in some kind of little valves that could be turned back on. Later in life he married and had kids, so apparently it works.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if the police seized your electronics (for an unrelated investigation) and found out you have a lot of pirated content, what would happen? 4 weeks ago:
Seems more like an “Ask a copyright lawyer” question.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 4 weeks ago:
I mostly don’t do either.
- Comment on quick thinking 4 weeks ago:
He told the paramedics that’s where he keeps his insurance card.
- Comment on Worldbuilding 4 weeks ago:
Every species started out as an invasive species.
- Comment on Resources 4 weeks ago:
Thank you, dumb me missed it. Their paper talks a lot about measuring poverty. Earlier research showed poverty in China being high in the 80s under socialism and decreasing in the 90s when they became more capitalist. But their formulas for calculating that involved the prices of all consumer goods, including things like airline tickets, cars, big TVs, etc. But If you ignore the prices of things poor people never buy, the math shows very low poverty in the 80s going up dramatically in the 90s, because introducing more capitalism brought down the cost of middle-class and luxury goods but increased the cost of rice etc.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 4 weeks ago:
Never worked in banking or finance. That job was at a company that made ultrasound machines. Funny story though, one April Fools day I started a rumor that the company was getting bought by Toshiba. I created a fake Wall St. Journal article written in their bland style and left a couple copies around the company. Within 2 hours our dept (IT) had an emergency meeting to reassure us all that it wasn’t true. They said upper management was VERY upset and wanted the perp to come forward (no recriminations - yeah right!) and explain the reason for it. I kept my mouth shut. A friend of mine who worked around a lot of managers said the tone of their conversation was like… why now? why Toshiba? As if there might be a grain of truth to it. Months later it turned out our company had a very secret project going with Hitachi to develop a miniaturized combat ultrasound machine for the army, because they were encountering landmines etc that threw out plastic shrapnel, which was really hard to see with x-rays. So apparently the big shots thought somebody might be teasing them about the Hitachi deal, and they were worried about the army getting wind of it and doubting their ability to keep the whole thing secret. Bonus: the device was codenamed the Tricorder, and physically modeled after the shoulder-strap tricorder on Star Trek TOS.
- Comment on Resources 4 weeks ago:
I know the world has more than enough resources and productivity for everyone on it to live comfortably without overworking, but 30% is the lowest figure I’ve ever seen. Would like to know where that came from. I’ve seen so many widely varying estimates of everything.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 4 weeks ago:
And the Strategic Office Presence Task Force passed into legend lol.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 4 weeks ago:
Suggestion: schedule regular informal zoom calls to trade news, rumors, bullshit. Wouldn’t even matter if nobody talked sometimes - people could just have it open and lurk.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 4 weeks ago:
Mine was many years ago (this issue has been around since modems) and consisted of me countering every objection my manager had, and him ending the conversation with, “I can see we’re poles apart on this.”
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 4 weeks ago:
No but the CPU load slows down processing.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 4 weeks ago:
I think we’re already productive enough, just not distributive enough.
- Comment on See their point 5 weeks ago:
Not everybody is like that. I didn’t hear a lot of pop music until college, and didn’t really develop my own taste until my 20s.
- Comment on WFART 5 weeks ago:
Fart free water!
- Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames? 5 weeks ago:
Delta employees must have the Platinum union plan.
- Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames? 5 weeks ago:
Would you rather get endless hours of fun from a video game or blow the money on rent and never see it again?
- Comment on kingdom come 5 weeks ago:
The controversy isn’t about what they are, it’s about what we call them and which categories we put them in on charts. It’s like arguing over silly group names - is it a murder of tomatoes or a flock?
- Comment on well? 5 weeks ago:
Therefore your landlord’s bank account is a black hole. Therefore black holes are inside banks. Therefore the universe is inside a bank.
- Comment on well? 5 weeks ago:
Fortunately the universe can get Cosmic Overdraft Protection, for only a small annual fee and 11 squillion bazillion stomptillion dollars per occurrence.
- Comment on well? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, we ignore it. Given the size of the universe, if being inside a black implies any conseqences that will ever hurt us, it will be a process that takes billions of years to develop, giving the human race billions of years to either become extinct or solve the problem.
- Comment on cookie combs 5 weeks ago:
Interesting, but increasing the flour and baking soda seems a bit simpler.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 5 weeks ago:
Is AI porn vibe sex?
- Comment on cookie combs 5 weeks ago:
I love making chocolate chip cookies, and have refined my technique so a batch of dough fills my two baking sheets perfectly without them smooshing together. The whole trick is consistent ball size.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 5 weeks ago:
I’m convinced that Trump won because his team changed Harris votes to Trump votes, plain and simple. The differences between their totals were statistically anomalous compared to all the downballot candidates, the variations were just below thresholds that would have triggered automatic recounts, and these anomalies were present in the 7 swing states only. Those facts alone should justify formal audits, which I hope will happen. But it all kind of depends on the fate of the one lawsuit filed so far.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 5 weeks ago:
So, no hiring hackers to actually change votes to Trump votes, but anything up to that. I dunno, I think they woulda released the Epstein stuff. My real guess is that some Democratic politicians are also on the list. Even if it’s only a couple, they might have figured running against a convicted felon gave them such good odds there was no need to throw any of their own under the bus. And apparently none of them said, “Well but what if he hires hackers to change votes to Trump votes?”
- Comment on the living dead 5 weeks ago:
Still moving means partly alive, but partly alive means mostly dead!
- Comment on Panama Proxima 5 weeks ago:
Get used to the fact that it won’t.