BarneyPiccolo
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- Comment on We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI 1 hour ago:
I don’t get that, I’ve always used them, long before AI was a thing.
- Comment on We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI 1 hour ago:
My son has gone back to college in his late 20s, after having a lot more experience in everything, including writing. He’s become an excellent writer, but he has expressed that he’s worried that his younger peers are such bad writers, that the profs will think he must be using AI.
I just told him to keep talking in class, and they’ll figure out real quick that he really is that smart, and they won’t question his writing. That already seems to be happening.
It’s when the dummy shows up with a well written paper out of the blue, that their red flags go up.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 8 hours ago:
2 Things:
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They left a mirror at at least some of the landing sites, and we can bounce a laser off that mirror back to Earth. Proof that we were there.
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They have sent probes up to circle the moon, and those probes photographed the sites. You can see lunar landers, abandoned gear, footprints, and the tracks from lunar rovers.
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- Comment on the world 1 day ago:
Good one. Yeah, there’s some misunderstanding, and she yells at him and stomps out, and he never bothers to say “I wasn’t even there, I was at work.” But then you wouldn’t have 90 minutes of hijinx as he goes on some half-baked but romantic plan to win her back, involving a hot air balloon and dynamite.
Instead of just telling her what really happened.
- Comment on the world 1 day ago:
I don’t remember that movie. I first thought you meant that movie with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence where they go to jail for Life. Hilarious movie.
I like Jake Gyllenhall, so I think I’ll watch your Life, even with your bad review.
- Comment on the world 1 day ago:
Ah, valid, Horror is my least favorite genre. Probably a lot Idiot Plots there.
- Comment on the world 1 day ago:
I’m wondering about examples of this sort of movie. Are they talking about obvious ones like Dumb and Dumber, Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, etc.?
Or do they mean movies that were supposed to be serious, but are accidentally bad because of bad writing?
- Comment on the world 1 day ago:
I earned my Reddit permaban because I said that in most countries throughout history, on the evening of a failed coup like Jan 6, the entire staff of the White House would have been dragged out onto the lawn of the White House and publicly executed.
- Comment on the world 1 day ago:
I always wondered why they brought all those clothes on a “three hour tour.”
Honestly, I think the skipper was a proto-Epstein, and had cooked up a scheme with that Sociopathic Oligarch Thurston Howell III to kidnap the hot Ginger, and the adorable MaryAnn, to be their sex slaves on his private island.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 2 days ago:
Losing weight is just math: Calories In vs Calories Out. Which one is bigger determines whether you gain or lose weight.
For that last part, I was teaching myself to associate a mild hunger with losing weight and to stop seeing it as such a problem
This is huge, and one of the first things that you have to overcome. Heavy people have been conditioned to not just eat when they feel the slightest hunger, but to stuff themselves. Making that psychological shift that a little hunger is not only acceptable, but it’s a signal that you are losing weight, is a sign that your diet is working. After a while, instead of motivating you to go to the refrigerator for something to eat, that hunger reminds you of your weight mission, and motivates you to stay the course.
- Comment on They seemed nice and normal until.... 2 days ago:
You’re better off. Millions of hours a day are wasted on the TV soporific. Imagine how much more productive we could be if there were no Television to distract us.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 2 days ago:
These drugs were originally diabetes drugs, that had the side effects of weight loss, but that wasn’t their original use that they got FDA approval for.
So they are going back and getting them approved for different uses, and maybe one of those will get by the insurance company. I saw one being advertised for Sleep Apnia, which is common in obese people. It works because when you lose weight, your Apnia usually improves, so while they aren’t selling it specifically for weight loss, that’s the mechanism that improves the Apnia. Maybe your doctor can get it approved for that reason, or another one.
I was 350, and I’ve lost 100 pounds, without the drugs. I quit all sugary beverages, and only drink ice water or unsweet tea. I only eat when I’m hungry, and only until I’m not hungry. It allows me to eat whatever I want, but in strict moderation. It doesn’t feel like a diet, though, because when I’m hungry I eat, but only until I’m not. I never eat more than a half sandwich. I will eat cookies, but only two, not half a package. When I have craving for chocolate, I’ll eat 4 or 5 chocolate chips, one at a time, and let them melt on my tongue, so my chocolate craving gets fulfilled, without an entire candy bar.
And importantly, I developed a distraction. My Dad quit smoking years ago, by doing a Rubik’s Cube whenever he got a craving. I took up the guitar. I keep an acoustic guitar next to my chair, and if I get a craving, instead of heading to the fridge, I pick up my guitar.
I didn’t even increase my exercise, although I have a pretty physically active job. I’ve plateaued now, so I think it’s time to increase my exercise for the last 50 I’d like to lose.
- Comment on Looks fine to me 2 days ago:
I ALWAYS choose the Director’s Cut. That’s the Director’s real vision, before the studio fucks with it for profit reasons.
- Comment on Looks fine to me 2 days ago:
Too cheap to hire the expert.
- Comment on nothing really matters 2 days ago:
Every microwave I’ve ever had has lots of buttons for all sorts of things, but I have no idea what they do. All I’ve ever done is put stuff in and run it at full blast.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 3 days ago:
I don’t even need a whole band. I have a bunch of recording gear, so I’m always laying out a drum track, doing a rhythm guitar track offer that, then the bass line, then I usually go back and for a different rhythm track with the new bass line, then start soloing over that.
So if I can find a buddy, we can lay down the drum, bass, and rhythm guitar track all at once, then start trading solos over that. Or maybe just acoustic duets. We’ll figure it out.
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 3 days ago:
MAGA Sex Ed.
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 3 days ago:
If you’re a man, shut up, this might be how it works, you don’t know anything.
- Comment on oh fuck 😨 3 days ago:
Being underage is a welcome advantage in those circles. They aren’t trying to keep the kids out, they’re trying to invite them in.
- Comment on oh fuck 😨 3 days ago:
It seems like every software developing company should keep a department of schizophrenics, doing crazy coding, just to see what they come up with. Sooner or later, like a bunch of monkeys with typewriters, they’ll come up with something cool.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 3 days ago:
The house next door is empty and up for sale. I happened to see a real estate agent and a couple in the driveway, and she waved to me, in a sort of inviting way, so I went over and helped her pitch the house a little, telling them that the previous people were really great, kept up the house nice, did lots of upgrades, the street is really friendly and meets at the neighborhood pool every morning, etc.
The wife asked if there were any musicians, and I raised my hand. She asked what instrument, I said guitar, and she pointed to her husband, and said “So does he.” I said " Please buy this house!"
Yesterday, I heard the house is in escrow, and we’ll have new neighbors soon. I hope it’s the guitarist, I would love a guitar buddy, I literally have NOBODY to play with.
- Comment on Not funny 3 days ago:
Pretty funny.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 3 days ago:
Dominos in Italy? That should be a crime.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 3 days ago:
Sorry, I missed that you were from Italy. Perhaps McDonalds is better over there. In America? Not so much.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 3 days ago:
McDonalds is easily the worst fast food out there, except for their breakfast, which is surprisingly decent. Their burgers are the worst in the biz.
If you think McDonalds represents the best, you should try Culver’s.
- Comment on large guy 4 days ago:
I love manatees! They taste like Eagle.
- Comment on The Hole 4 days ago:
Giggity
- Comment on The Hole 4 days ago:
Yeah, two kids were digging a big hole on the beach near me a few weeks ago, and it collapsed on them, and killed them both. They would have been better off in the water, taking their chances with the sharks.
Don’t dig holes on the beach.
- Comment on Be a hero 4 days ago:
The original rule was “I before E, except after C, or when it rhymes with May, like neighbor or weigh.” My mom’s maiden name was an exception to this rule, so she always adds, “and my maiden name.”
- Comment on ard 4 days ago:
There used to be a lot of excess Lizzo, but she lost weight on GLP1s, like everybody else in Hollywood.