skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Uhhhh sure? 2 hours ago:
I’m willing to bet that sometime between last year and now, an LLM got involved.
- Comment on One of the most interesting things that happens when you are old 22 hours ago:
Does it count if it was 2020 and the person is also your age? I feel like a LOT of people have a weirdly revisionist memory of the first few months of the pandemic.
- Comment on One of the most interesting things that happens when you are old 22 hours ago:
Haven’t had that yet, but having travelled a lot I find it jarring how many other countries seem to think that Thatcher was a great leader to look up to, and not a dreadful callous nightmare who sold the country out on multiple levels to create the illusion of prosperity, and even that only for the sort of people that voted for her.
- Comment on Follow me for more shitty diet tips 1 day ago:
Or you could get aides
- Comment on I Live In Eastern Europe And I'm Making A Creepy Game About Authoritarianism (Demo Is Live) 4 days ago:
Ok but that photo of a building you posted could just as easily have been taken in any British town in the 1980s
- Comment on This guy gets it 5 days ago:
He’s the one that begins with an “S”.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 1 week ago:
It’s not so much that it’s ChatGPT in of itself, as it’s ChatGPT and therefore, as per usual, sounds superficially clever until you actually read it and realize it’s meaningless nonsense.
- Comment on it's true 1 week ago:
I read it as criticising reductionist views of the many diverse nations that existed in North America before Europeans showed up and decided that the whole continent was Terra Nullius.
To this day a significant number of US high school American History textbooks only discuss the tribes in terms of their interactions with European invaders, and shy away from anything that might make them look like they were ever legitimate nations. Referring to them as ‘Native Americans’ instead of by name also has this effect.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 1 week ago:
I find people who keep making cracks like that far more tedious, unoriginal and unpleasant than any of the groups you just listed.
- Comment on The dream! 1 week ago:
Likewise Singapore is mostly immigrants. This guy is wrong by such a huge degree that I don’t think it’s even a mistake, I think he knows he lying.
- Comment on Yet everyone swears they existed 1 week ago:
I think they’re exactly what their username implies.
- Comment on Draw! 2 weeks ago:
You can take it literally at face value. They want to know about you, so they asked. The idea that an interviewer would conclude that “renovated my house” is a wrong answer that get you blacklisted, is something that person seems to have just decided for themselves.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 2 weeks ago:
I’m still bitter at Steam for taking a bunch of my single-player games off me that I’d already paid for when I moved to another country, and refusing to refund me because I’d already played 10 hours. Also the support guy treated me like I was a criminal for even trying.
- Comment on Draw! 2 weeks ago:
There isn’t a single question you can possibly ask in an interview that doesn’t have a million threads like this complaining about it and assuming the worst about its intentions or what the interviewer will conclude from its answer.
The general rule seems to be that any kind of question that you might do badly on, is a bad question.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 3 weeks ago:
This is the only sensible response I can see in the whole comments section. Lot of replies from people who think a therapist’s job is to cheer you up with a wholesome pep talk and send you on your way.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
Not even an exaggeration, I just dug out my old laptop that I bought in 2012 to check, 16Gb it’s got.
- Comment on If only 3 weeks ago:
What’s weird is I saw this meme years ago with the same photo but the kid’s name was Cody. I don’t know what happened in between then and OP, I can only assume some in-joke that got lost
- Comment on If only 3 weeks ago:
Well acshually… anything above 6x wasn’t actually what it said on the tin. CD data starts from the inside ring, and there’s a physical limit to how fast you can spin a plastic plate before it tears itself apart. So you only got the full 52x speed at the very last part of the burn, and even then only if you filled the whole disk.
- Comment on Tips 4 weeks ago:
for some people this is meaningless bullshit, in that they are struggling to pay for groceries
Good point, and I think this runs to the heart of a lot of ragebait meme stuff like this. It wasn’t written for that audience, it was written for people driving an Audi TT on a VW Polo salary.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 4 weeks ago:
I don’t expect you to know who that model is because I didn’t know either, but what I did do was skim the comments first before posting a giant tirade and getting wooshed… ;)
- Comment on Opinions 4 weeks ago:
I always used to hear these things in pop culture about both Taco Bell and Chipotle fucking up your stomach and representing some kind of test of physicality, and I thought it was supposedly because they were very spicy. And then I visited the US and tried them and discovered that no, it’s not spicy, it’s just extremely poor quality to the point of being unfit for human consumption.
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 5 weeks ago:
Surely if it’s full of missing women’s driving licenses it’s not a sock drawer, it’s a missing women’s driving licenses drawer. Is the sort of reply I’d post if it were reddit.
- Comment on I can still smell them 5 weeks ago:
I’m still slightly wary of them after (mildly) burning a knuckle attempting a whole strip
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 weeks ago:
Can’t tell if you’re joking or just a dickhead.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 weeks ago:
Not just the right. The entire Taiwan situation is entirely due to the Chinese being taught at school that Taiwan just is part of China like it’s an immutable fact.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 weeks ago:
Weird how many people seem to think it’s like a competition or something. It’s a descriptive label.
The whole Pluto thing taught us a lot about the psychology of letting go of something taught at a young age. People getting proper frothing at how they shoulda just let Pluto keep it, just to save themselves the extremely minor cognitive dissonance.
- Comment on Will the government be able to put 2 & 2 together 5 weeks ago:
This is particularly dumb because there’s a plenty long history of courts ordering sites to be blocked for piracy.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 5 weeks ago:
“be wheat” yeah like anyone here has ever been wheat
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 month ago:
One thing I find crazy is that at least half of all monitors today are the same res as CRTs from a quarter century ago. I had a $250 no-name brand CRT that handled 1600x1200 quite beautifully in the 1990s.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 month ago:
Never met her but there’s a chance she might genuinely not have known.
My grandparents and great-grandparents thought a lot of family stuff was worth something but they never actually got it professionally valued. One thing that really stuck out was an ornate silver tea set that looked really nice, was in great condition, was a complete set, hallmarked, turned out to be worth fuck all because nobody actually wants silver tea sets in the 21st century, but they were a big thing a hundred years ago so there’s millions of them out there flooding the market.
There was also a minor hoo-hah over inheritance of the family piano, which then turned out to be a mass-produced budget model that was no longer physically able to be tuned to concert pitch without risk of damage. Turns out budget pianos don’t become antique, they just become old and you have to pay someone to take it away.