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- Comment on 3 days ago:
Also lick your lips and show a little teeth. I have a friend who is into bird watching, and apparently the licking of lips is often enough to scare away birds that would otherwise have waited around a little bit longer.
- Comment on I love science 5 days ago:
I liked derivatives and integrations. Series and sequences can suck my left third toe knuckle.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 week ago:
I think yes, and no. There are certainly in-house tools that the outside folks don’t get. LLMs for sure have better tiers and loosened guardrails.
…buuuuut, the people at an ‘executive’ level also are entirely unlike you and me. They are simultaneously as gullible and foolish as the ‘sheep’ of society, who are also buying into the ‘AI’ hype of LLMs, and so far removed from our situation that even using an LLM or search engine is entirely outside of their experience. They aren’t going to be using an LLM to plan out a vacation or a work schedule and have it fail any more than they would have looked through a SEO optimized bullshit website about vacuum cleaners (or super slideshow-ified list of ‘top ten pacific vacations!’ website to show you a bunch of ads) five years ago. They’ll ask the LLM (/search engine and only look at the ai at top) for the best pacific vacations and then tell their assistant to plan a vacation for them based on a quick glance at the result (or the same for the vacuum cleaner to replace the one that broke when their house cleaner was trying to get the super long hair from the super fru-fru breed that’s only allowed in two rooms in the house out of the super luxurious thick rug).
The way they use the LLM is perfectly fine for them. They aren’t going to see any negatives from it, so the in-house or publicly available versions aren’t really the reason for their ability to ‘crow’ about it. Same for the general downtrend of the internet. Their use case fucking sucks, and it isn’t affected.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 week ago:
I think he meant 2017 and the ingrained year of 2025 led to him typing it slightly wrong.
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 1 week ago:
Vaginal canal -> cervix -> uterus -> oviducts ->abdominal cavity
I’d say the pussy is a hole.
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 1 week ago:
I’m wondering if scale, as in the crud that can build up on certain materials under certain conditions, is simply derived from the fish scale sense. It would seem like it, since it’s the ‘shell or husk’ Otherwise, yay, a fourth meaning!
- Comment on Contain them 1 week ago:
Gotta reuse fiber to hit the daily recommended.
- Comment on Contain them 1 week ago:
This is why everything is a little shit to me. I’m just getting all of them in one combined s/h/it word.
- Comment on Hospital Bill 1961 2 weeks ago:
And to expand on the other answers you received, it’s hilarious (and perhaps old now… I saw something about medical debt now being counted on credit scores and I’m sure attacks have been made on medical debts in general) that the advice typically given was to NEVER make a payment on any medical debt, because that counted as a commitment towards paying, and the laws that eventually made medical debts go away no longer applied, so the debt companies would have more ammunition to use against you in court.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on A swing and a miss 2 weeks ago:
Stop, you’re confusing them! And when they get confused, they hurt everyone in their confusion!
- Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know what counts as a major stream, but usually streams are smaller than creeks, and creeks can be pretty small. So if there are 255 water courses that are smaller than creeks… I can see it.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 weeks ago:
I think… you may need to look up the definition of a 15 minute city before expanding on this comment.
- Comment on MONOCULTURE 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t bayer recently sell to another company? I seem to recall a neighbor who is retired from them telling me he can’t shop at the bayer store anymore.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 weeks ago:
In a thread about a post about “flyover nowheresville”
In a thread about a post with the words “The american experiment has utterly failed and I hate you all”
In a thread about a post with the word “obongocare”
In a thread about a post with the concept of a healthcare crisis leaving you destitute, ruined, or dead
“Maybe you’re talking about the US”
LMAO
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 weeks ago:
I’ll second stray’s opinion, but also add on that you’re typically fighting for a job in those shitty areas. Anon is likely incredibly lucky to have gotten the above average wage job, and will still be in a big competition with others for the average wage jobs.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 weeks ago:
I can’t remember the video about it all that well, but wasn’t ‘the line’ supposed to be using the concept of the 15 minute city? So, while, yes… there are very good reasons circles are city standards, if everything magically worked out and they built the thing it wouldn’t matter whether it was a line or a circle.
I hope you don’t have friends in the city centre that you want to see regularly).
So much fuck this. I have a friend who decided to go that exact route, because it put him ‘halfway’ between multiple family members and friends… and now he sees none of them because they’re all ~an hour away. Suburbs fucking suck, and the car brained society we have is so fucking foolish.
if you keep stuff compact then you make it easy to walk to places
Never going to happen in america :( I lived in a small city (2,500), and it was spread out enough that walking anywhere sucked, not even counting the horrible roads (it was a crossroads of two semi-important highways). I want to say it was 4km x 4km. The medium sized city (for the area, it’s medium sized, we’d consider 30,000 to be large [and in fact, the closest large city was ~30,000, and that’s where you had a real hospital, and all the services you would imagine a city having]) of ~9,000 was more like 10km x 10km.
Those are rural cities. Suburbs get so fucky so quickly… I think the town of 70,000 I lived in for a while was something like 9km x 18km, and that was a factory town. The not factory town suburb of 90,000 was around 15km x 20km. Just mind bogglingly spread out. The developers of an area are trying to maximize profit, and the car culture allows them to buy the cheapest land that’s far away, sell the idiot housebuyers the idea of driving down a (currently, lol, not once everyone moves in) idyllic little road with no traffic to the center of the city and have everything they could want in a 15 minute drive.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve heard the bootstrap phrase unironically in the past decade. I truly don’t remember even hearing it outside of contexts like this on reddit or similar.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 weeks ago:
A half or third of the cost… that has been doubled or tripled due to enough space that you’re not sleeping together. I lived in a flyover town in a situation similar to the poster. A studio apartment sucks. Trying to shove another person in there is a nightmare, and getting a slightly bigger apartment balloons your rent in a cartoonishly exaggerated manner.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 weeks ago:
Send military help. It took wwii to get rid of (some) of the nazis from power, and it’s looking like it’s going to be the same course of events in america. They’re starting by bullying their neighbors and wanting to take land (greenland, canada, mexico, now venezuela is actually getting attacked), and you wanna bet that we’re going to see a repeat of germany/russia’s agreement to not attack each other and split poland (the eu)?
My personal bet is that everything will kick off because trump decides to froth out enough hatred about china to have a fishing dispute escalate into military actions.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 weeks ago:
Putting it in context, it’s probably right. There are a lot of different swathes/classes of boomer, and the ones that would be able to do the listed in lines 7-10 are probably not the ones that were targeted for conscription in vietnam.
- Comment on the HOA special 3 weeks ago:
That sounds an awful lot like a redneck cajun hocking a loogey.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 4 weeks ago:
No, the factoid is that there’s enough nicotine in a single cigarette to kill you, if all of that nicotine got past your blood-brain barrier at once. Since that’s more or less an impossibility, don’t worry about eating one.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’ve often wondered, did the filmmakers decide to just inflate those with air, or did they subtly show a loss of mass in other areas as the terminator moved things around internally?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
There are four arrs in your use of raspberry. Try using them in a pie!
- Comment on The most normal Silicon Valley techbro 4 weeks ago:
They don’t care if the hook eventually turns back on them. They’ve spent the best years of their lives getting their rocks off by making you waste the best years of your life.
- Comment on This song, it's infectious 4 weeks ago:
Oh goddamnit. I was listening to the radio with my partner while driving and heard a song that I thought was good, and it was this one. Does that mean I’m infected now?
- Comment on Still out there 4 weeks ago:
The name, the instance, and the commenting behavior all sort of add up to something odd. Then you take the specifics of each comment and how they just seem… bland and vague enough they could have been in reply to anything.
Just, for instance, look at the two comments made in this post.
- Comment on When you eat too much oats and sleep 4 weeks ago:
By turning it into an encapsulated form using bubbles, apparently. Good for what ails ya.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 4 weeks ago:
Don’t they have tunnels from france to england? Surely maintenance fellers walk those tunnels, so there would be a way.