DarrinBrunner
@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
- Comment on Please no, just stop 8 hours ago:
The extent of my use of AI: I downloaded and installed Deep Seek locally and played with it a bit. I also installed Forge AI locally. I didn’t see anything of interest to me and removed it. There’s no way I’m making an account on any of the online AI sites. I’ll leave that to others.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 10 hours ago:
It always happens in the middle of the night, like it’s waiting. I tore one of mine off the ceiling and put it in the car, in the garage, so I couldn’t hear it. I damn near smashed it, but then I had the idea of putting it in the car.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 10 hours ago:
Not next door to me, but a house on my walk has done this twice over the past few years. It’s been going on for at least a month this time, every time I walk past BEEP BEEP BEEP! I think the house is a rental. If I lived next door to that, I would 100% break in and solve the problem.
- Comment on Eggs 1 day ago:
Eggs are life!
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 day ago:
They all go to Ivy League colleges, and they all take the same public speaking classes.
It’s a big club, but we’re not in it.
- Comment on No shit! I would also run like hell away from that. 1 day ago:
This might be a temporal anomaly.
A very painful temporal anomaly.
- Comment on Amazon cuts 14,000 jobs, blames AI 2 days ago:
This has nothing to do with AI, consumers don’t have any cash left and sales are falling off a cliff. Remember how they had to extend Prime Days?
“Blames AI” is a weird way to put it, and I think that was on purpose, to deflect comments from the real reason.
- Comment on Salary negotiations are going well 🙃 3 days ago:
Can we not write complete sentences anymore?
- Comment on No fucking way! I got invited to the Illuminati 3 days ago:
Congrats!
Remember, registration is not mandatory, but it IS your ranking. Also, you are description.
Gotta admit, I’m a bit jelly.
- Comment on Not vaccinating is child abuse. 3 days ago:
Too bad there aren’t child-proportion accurate plastic skeletons. You’d need to take a larger head from a bigger one, and attach it to a smaller one to get sort-of close.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 days ago:
Yes, but it has nothing to do with generations, or age. I prefer “MAGA” to boomer, because I think that’s the group most people have a problem with. MAGA does not correlate well with age. MAGA comes in all ages, and even cuts across class. With the rich class supporting it because it’s to their advantage, and the bigots of the poor class supporting it because they are bigots and ignorant.
- Comment on New small business owner had a great idea to have word of mouth build his business. 4 days ago:
“It looks like a horse yoke. Is that why?”
~Some Amish Guy.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 4 days ago:
Throughout middle school and high school, my bedroom clock was one of these, just the mechanism, no face, no numbers, hanging off the edge of a shelf. I had no trouble reading it. I still can easily read an analog clock with no numbers or any face marks.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 days ago:
Yes, þravo!
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Here’s Making of Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 6 “Trials and Tribble-ations”.
Don’t skip the commercials.
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 5 days ago:
Staying healthy isn’t only about living longer, it’s about quality of life while alive.
You’ll understand when you get older.
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
I love bananas. About three years ago, I started having one banana and a spoonful of natural peanut butter for breakfast every day. It was easy and I loved it.
I put on 15 pounds before I noticed.
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 1 week ago:
The other side of the coin is, when people WFH, they feel how useless they are.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 1 week ago:
If you don’t like this meme, post your own. That’s how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless it’s a closed, invite-only forum. That’s the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
- Comment on ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections 1 week ago:
They lied. It should say “lied”, not tricked. It wasn’t a parlor trick, it wasn’t a magic trick, no one was entertained. The company flat out lied and stole from their customers. Call it was it is.
- Comment on Well do you? 1 week ago:
👌👈
- Comment on coping 1 week ago:
That’s why I come here, for good, solid life advice like this.
- Comment on Anon checks up on a childhood friend 1 week ago:
My childhood friend of 20 years was much smarter than I am. He graduated with a college degree and landed a high-paying job, bought a house, got married, all that. He invited me to go on a European vacation that I simply could not afford, that’s when I realized I needed to walk away. It was clear he was heading in a direction I couldn’t follow. Life isn’t like it is in the movies.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The cashiers were stressed because the corporations treat them like shit. I expect in the run-up to introducing self-checkout, they made it even worse, to justify charging us to work for them.
That said, I admit that while I hated the idea at first, because people would lose their jobs, I like self-checkout better.
HOWEVER, ideally, we’d have human cashiers, well-treated and well-paid, and enough of them to ensure a short wait. But, that’s not as profitable, so we get what we have now. Because, billionaires are ruining everything, and at an accelerated rate.
- Comment on SAKTEOBARD 2 weeks ago:
I was looking at shoes on Walmart’s site, several of the cheap ones have “FASHION” printed on them. Just that one word. You know I was tempted, because who doesn’t want to be fashionable?
- Comment on LICK EM 2 weeks ago:
It’s weird how people can not spell tongue to save their lives, unless it’s to misspell it.
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 2 weeks ago:
A little iceberg lettuce, some diced tomato, chili spice, shredded cheese, and sour cream, you got yourself a balanced breakfast, if you add some Froot Loops and chocolate milk.
- Comment on Discuss 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌 2 weeks ago:
Somehow, my kid grew up afraid of bugs. He moved back in with me recently. I had a spider buddy in the kitchen, small, with a web in a corner. He’d been there all summer. We didn’t bother each other.
My kid got rid of him.
Fortunately, my kid doesn’t go in the garage much. He’d find the black widow residing in a corner which has been home to a black widow since before I moved in almost 30 years ago. I bought the house new-built, she moved in before me. She doesn’t bother me, I don’t bother her. In fact, I’m the interloper in her history. (Obviously, not the same black widow.)
- Comment on Would then but I just could because before then there was the one and fine 2 weeks ago:
Turtle-cranberry milk.
