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- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 4 days ago:
It’s a book with chapters. Basically a regular ass book. When kids are real little, their books are like 15 pages long. Then in like 1st or 2nd grade, they move onto reading big kid books - aka “chapter books” that have enough pages to warrant chapters.
You never hear someone over the age of 7 or 8 mention reading “chapter books” because they’re just know as books.
Except anon, who is dumb as fuck.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 5 days ago:
“Turns out there are 319 letters in the alphabet and 16 Rs! When the experts get a hold of this, they’re going to be blown away!”
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 5 days ago:
That’s exactly it. Here’s a quote from what he said during the article. Dude is so uniformed that he thinks AI is doing amazing stuff, but doesn’t understand that experts realize AI is full of shit.
“I pinged Elon on at some point. I’m just like, dude, if I’m doing this and I’m super amateur hour physics enthusiast, like what about all those PhD students and postdocs that are super legit using this tool?” Kalanick said.
- Comment on all models are wrong, some are useful 1 week ago:
Dat Green Shitter?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’re kind of forgetting about digital cameras. Looking back, I was on my 3rd or 4th digital camera at the time - and Polaroid had been bankrupt for years.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I got married in the aughts, just a few years after Outlast came out with the song Hey Ya, which was a super popular song. Anyway, my wife and I had a Polaroid camera and thought it would be fun to leave it out with a bunch of film so our wedding guests could take pictures of the night for us.
So we went to Target to buy film and ask a teenager working there if they sold Polaroid film. They had no idea what we were talking about. I said remember asking my wife, “So what do you suppose they think that line ‘shake it like a Polaroid picture’ means?”
That teenager would be in their mid-30s by now…
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 1 week ago:
I followed the #2 link he linked about cloud seeding. From the article:
Veteran Houston meteorologist Travis Herzog weighed in this week, calling the theory scientifically unfounded.
“Cloud seeding cannot create a storm of this magnitude or size. In fact, cloud seeding cannot even create a single cloud,” Herzog said. “All it can do is take an existing cloud and enhance the rainfall by up to 20% — and even that is on the high end.”
He compared the theory to blowing out a candle and assuming one could extinguish a wildfire. “It is a matter of scale,” he said.
It’s pretty ballsy to provide a link with someone calling out your bullshit while acting as if that link proves your point.
- Comment on I meant to do that 1 week ago:
“hey Google, show a message on my back window saying ‘Sorry I didn’t know this lane was a merge lane and went around you like a jackass, I swear I didn’t know!! I’m actually a nice person’”
- Comment on I meant to do that 1 week ago:
I did this a few days ago in accident only to basically pass the person in front of me and then sit in heavy traffic for the next 5 minutes.
I could feel their eyes burning into the back of my head, with them thinking “way to go, asshole, you saved yourself exactly 2 seconds by going around me.”
Cars need an “I’m sorry” emote somehow.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 weeks ago:
The average growth rate from 10,000 BCE to 1700 was just 0.04% per year.
Wow that’s crazy to me. I had always envisioned humans steadily spreading and growing constantly. I had no idea that we were basically treading water for so long.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 weeks ago:
I love stumbling across random information like this. I had no idea that mint spread so aggressively - and will likely never need this information. But it’s fun to learn.
- Comment on It's too hot to think of why or how 3 weeks ago:
Lol I was telling a coworker about that the other day and they called me a weirdo. Best way to eat popcorn and keep your hands clean!
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 4 weeks ago:
Still mad that they fucked up KSP2. I realize it was a different studio, but I’m not happy about it.
- Comment on lik lik lik 5 weeks ago:
Wtf is a yiff? You know what, never mind.
- Comment on Dear Leader 5 weeks ago:
Same in the US.
- Comment on Too wordy a shitpost? 5 weeks ago:
Murphy’s Cat is my favorite
- Comment on A true horror 5 weeks ago:
Yeah Facebook was vastly different back in the day. Instead of having a shadowy algorithm deciding which posts to show you, you just got a chronological view of all your friends’ posts. So during major events, you’d usually see lots of posts that taken out of context make absolutely no sense.
When Facebook moved to them deciding what you wanted to see, it completely changed the whole vibe.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 month ago:
I’m going to hell for laughing at that
- Comment on We really did 1 month ago:
We drive across the country every summer to visit family. Growing up, my parents used to talk about different routes and which one felt faster. Like “you can get off the interstate and take this county road and shave some time off.” But then they’d argue about if it was worth taking a road with a lower speed limit even if it was less distance.
Eventually they tried to impart that wisdom to me and would ask “so which route are you taking?” It took years for them to finally grasp that I just go whatever the way the GPS tells me is faster.
- Comment on Guaranteed Casting 1 month ago:
Plus they get the added bonus of filling all the American roles in Chinese-made films.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 1 month ago:
I remember thinking this was too notch graphics in 1992.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 1 month ago:
You’re the Internet?
- Comment on We don't have 1 month ago:
Lol had to look this up because it’s complicated.
flo.health/pregnancy/…/how-long-is-pregnancy
“Ovulation [when an egg is released from your ovaries ready for fertilization] typically takes place around two weeks after the first day of your last period, and this is when a baby would be conceived. But because you won’t know that you’re pregnant until you’ve missed your next period, approximately two weeks later, you’ll already be four weeks pregnant when you get your positive test result. At that point, you’ll have approximately 36 more weeks to go,” Dr. Celestine says.
So pregnancies typically last 10 months, but we say 9 months since you don’t even know you’re pregnant until you’re 4 weeks pregnant. But anti-abortion laws still count that 4 weeks.
- Comment on We don't have 1 month ago:
But doesn’t the 9 months of pregnancy technically start on the first day since a woman’s last period? That’s what makes anti-abortion laws even more absurd, because you can be 8 weeks pregnant if you only had sex 5 weeks ago.
- Comment on how do they come up with this seriously 1 month ago:
Fake: Anon leaves his apartment to talk to a woman
Gay: Anon is knocked to the group and surrounded by the Triad - clearly some fucked up bukkake fantasy.
- Comment on Living a lie 1 month ago:
It’s always a shock to me when I interact with someone providing customer service that is t using a customer service voice.
I was checking into a hotel (a large chain too) a while back and the person checking me in was having some trouble. She goes “sorry, this system is just retarded some times.”
I actually laughed out loud because it caught me so off guard.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Seriously, sounds like OP is in an abusive relationship.
- Comment on No context needed. 1 month ago:
Yeah feel like there is some context needed. Is OP pissing and shitting in that sink?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Lol glad you enjoyed it. These fake/gay green text comments are probably well past being socially acceptable at this point, but I always get a kick out of them.
- Comment on FFFFFUUUUUUUU 1 month ago:
I remember legitimately thinking rage comics were hilarious back in like 2012. Now I look at them like “wtf was I thinking?”
I can’t even blame it on being young. I was in my 30s then!
