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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Their idea is interesting, but there’s plenty of material out there that’s absolutely loaded with drama, sex, and violence that no one cares to watch.
But religious people do love watching religious material. Those Hallmark films don’t make themselves.
- Comment on If only 3 days ago:
Yup, racism hasn’t changed that much; you just hear about it now, which I suppose is a tiny change.
- Comment on If only 3 days ago:
I just wish I had leaned in when it was reasonable to mine. I had a couple of computers running it, it I would have just let them run it for a couple of years…
Pyramid schemes are fine, but you need to be at the very top.
- Comment on humour 4 days ago:
I had that exact pitcher. I used it for iced tea for about a decade.
One day, the pitcher disappeared. IT’s a BIG fucking pitcher.
The lid is still here. I have the lid. How the fuck the pitcher left the kitchen without the lid, then disappeared, I have no fucking idea.
I’m not entirely sure where the lid is at the moment, but every time I see it, I go, ohh that’s the lid to that pitcher, wonder where it went, but never manage to throw the lid away. But i know, deep down, as soon as i throw that lid away, the pitcher will appear magically.
- Comment on I was there... 4 days ago:
After I left one school to go to a vo-tech, I looked up the phone number for a girl I liked in the previous school who turned me down for a date. It was the only time I had ever asked a girl out. I had to go through 6 numbers before I found her, we ended up dating for three years.
- Comment on ai generated logo 4 days ago:
Wow, AI’s come a long way.
getting “some” clear words on a logo is quite an improvement.
- Comment on dating 1 week ago:
Hmm, ty
no, that’s to disinterested ^H^H
TY!
ohh, no that’s way too enthusiatic ^H^H^H
Ty
Now that just looks like a name ^H^H
Hey Grok, this person on the dating website said Hii \n Cool hair what should I send back? I want to sound slightly interested, but almost dismissive, like they need to prove that I’m worth their time, but so far I just said Hey
Grok: have you considered saying thank you?
eww, whole words? I’m not a geriatric
Grok: perhaps you could say ty
god, you’re not help, i already thought if that but i’m afraid it makes me sound too disinterested
Grok: Have you tried photoshopping their head onto a nude photo? I can help you…
god grok, you’re so useless, i’m just going to post tyyy, so it sounds like i’m saying thank yooooouuuu! like I mean it but in the least number of characters so it doesn’t sound like I mean it too much.
–probably
- Comment on dating 1 week ago:
Now THERE’S a dating website conversation starter. They’ll either run in terror or become an item :)
- Comment on Huh? 1 week ago:
Missed opportunity. They need a jukebox, where you put $5 in for it to drop the volume by 3 points for 10 minutes.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
Fucking Weggels… [what we call it at work] Those stores are laid out like some kid did a drawing and used AI to make a store out of it.
I need some gluten free crackers for my sister in law for Christmas, are they in the cracker isle, the gluten free isle, the cheese section? Two stores near me don’t even place them in the same location.
Ohh glass bottles of water! Let’s recycle! They’re in bulk this week, next week they’re in the water isle, next week the fancy drink isle.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
I can place an order from home, drive to the store and they’ll set the groceries in my trunk not even expecting a tip.
If I spend 10% more, they’ll bring it to my door. We kinda did that already in the US
- Comment on Learning Japanese 1 week ago:
Hey, until I got to grammar, it was great!
- Comment on Learning Japanese 1 week ago:
I was screwing around on Duolingo for a while, trying different languages. Happened upon Russian.
After you get through the alien character set and sounds, it was pretty easy, or so I thought.
There are 16 verb classes There is formal and informal dialect Nouns are gendered.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
Could just also have been outright fear. Waaay too many people did this for computers in the 90’s and 00’s They hit something they don’t understand and they just freeze.
I had this nurse out of state. She had worked her entire life on paper. Xeroxed forms, filled them out, filed them. She was only in her 30’s. We were a big healthcare company, and she started working for us. We had a strong need to have things digitized. She had just convinced her coworker to key in all her forms after she took care of them, but the situation was untenable. Her boss called me, we need her to have her own computer so she can learn to use it. AOK, I configured and mailed one right away.
Boss calls me back, a week later. so and so can’t get on. OH OK!, what’s the error? You’ll need to talk to her. That’s fine can you put her on? Ohh um she just left. K, can you have her call me when she gets back and we’ll sort it out right away.
A day goes by, Two, Boss calls me, So and So still can’t get on. She never called me, yeah let me put her on the line.
[muffled argument]
[long silence]
soandso: meekest voice hello
me: HI! let’s get you on your laptop, this should only take a second.
soandso: mumbles
me: i missed that, what was that?
[long silence]
me: I hear you can’t get on your laptop, let’s fix that. Did your password just not work? where did you get stuck?
[long silence]
soandso: mumbles
me: I can’t hear you, if you speak up a touch, we’ll get you going
[long silence]
soandso: almost a whisper I don’t know what to do
Me: quiet and reserved, shooting for soothing ok, that’s not a problem, we’ll go through step by step until it works, do you have the laptop in front of you?
soandso: a whisper yes
Me: is it open?
soandso: a whisper no
Me: ok, lets open it up, do you see a button on the front, you’ll need to press that and pull up on the lid
[long silence]
soandso: light sobbing it’s still in the box
me: [internally: JESUS] ok, no proble, let’s get that box open
90 minutes, in an hour and half, we got the box open, got the laptop out, opened it up, too a 5 minute break to sob and then re-collect herself. found the power button (this took 10 minutes alone) it was on the upper right of the keyboard, she made me walk her up from control, to shift to enter and so on. It came on, it was already setup for their wifi, all she had to do was enter the username and password which i had emailed to her boss and asked her to write it on a sticky.
She finally was on the desktop
soandso: morose now what
me: We’re done, you’ll need to work with your boss now to find out how to do your actual work on it, but you should be able to get in now.
She lasted another week before they fired her.
She was an RN, she knew medical coding, and she drove, she was just terrified of learning new shit
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 1 week ago:
yeah, i don’t ever see it hallucinate, but I also don’t ask it how the fuck it’s feeling
A car in this video went 107 meters in 4 seconds, how fast was it going in mph, then i napkin math to make sure it’s sane.
What are the best options for meal planning software where my family can vote on what’s for dinner and give me a grocery list and menu plan?
- Comment on You never know who you're arguing with 1 week ago:
This goes really well with the post a few lines up “TIL: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels”
She was probably very relatable to them.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 1 week ago:
Language classes in school are horrible. You’re going for an hour a day for 180 days, with significant gaps every few months, and moving at the rate of the slowest learners in the class.
500 hours of constant, immersive study would likely get you most of the way there, which is not the same as being immersed for 500 hours without study :)
I thought I was doing well with Duolingo once, then realized, 40 hours in, that I had almost no concept of formal/informal, and barely had any verb conjugation or grammar.
- Comment on Alchemy is so hot right now. 2 weeks ago:
Helion got really quiet since that last venture push :)
I’ve seen a few pretty solid questions about the lack of shielding around their running equipment being a red flag that their output is nowhere near what they claimed.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 2 weeks ago:
I love French idioms. A couple of years of high school French decades ago has left me with recognization of maybe a couple of hundred nouns.
blah blah blah blah fish… wait what?
To a person who is drowning the fish.
- Comment on If it fits... 2 weeks ago:
I just looked up my state laws, and yeah, it specifically states parallel.
- Comment on Mafs 2 weeks ago:
Fucking YIKES
TIL
- Comment on genius 2 weeks ago:
Have you seen the prices on the non-Euclidean filament these days? Only Voidstar labs can afford that shit.
- Comment on genius 2 weeks ago:
it’s a gear, so you need the layers to be perpendicular to the rotation to give it a chance, but the final drive interface came up off the gear like a tophat. It was not a good candidate for FDM. Realistically, it wasn’t a good candidate for resin either. The tophat really needed to be metal with an interface into resin or nylon for the gear to gear surfaces.
- Comment on genius 2 weeks ago:
Resin was one of my early thoughts. The original Nylon is pretty tough, and they kept breaking gears. (I think he was overvolting it) He tried replacement boxes but they just broke immediately, he managed to get a couple of original gears at $80 a piece, but they didn’t last long either.
I think the right answer would have been to replace the motor with something that had a higher Kv and done a belt drive. (like electric skate parts with a little more ratio)
- Comment on genius 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, even annealing it didn’t help much. I think the original part of the injection-molded nylon was a bit under-specified.
It would have been a good project for metal, but it would have been 4 years in the box and cost more than the original ride-on.
- Comment on genius 2 weeks ago:
Gear D was what broke, it delivers the full thrust to the final axel and take most of the force when the wheel take a hit. there’s no welding that
- Comment on genius 2 weeks ago:
I printed an ABS powerwheels gear out for a friend to test the fit. 100% infill, tt was chonky, was going to get it redone in nylon.
it fit and was ripped to shreds in 30 seconds :)
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 weeks ago:
We have tried to grind, dry, ferment, bake, broil, boil, and fry everything on the face of the earth. Countless times. Humans have had the same brainpower for ages, just not the same knowledge base.
wheat makes beer beer yeast and wheat makes bread wheat made pasta wheat grows well in colder climates.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Birds are pretty bad ass. Super-fast reflexes, flight. We can hardly catch them without tools.
- Comment on Unquestionably high class 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had a good one before. They’re rare AF. Most places just seem to throw some overcooked butter-drenched lobster claw meat on a Pepperidge Farm top split and call it a day. You need to go somewhere with an actual chef to get one properly executed. (or maybe an ancient Northeastern grandmother)
Lobster salad, no huge chunks, relatively dry, properly salted, moderately spiced. A Top-split roll that’s soft on the outside and crunchy butter-fried on the inside.
Even at their best, you won’t cry for it when it’s gone. It’ll just be a “that was good” and a nice solemn happiness that you ate it.
