Buddahriffic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Arthur Schopenhauer⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Posts like these make me glad I can sleep through pretty much anything. It might wake me up but I can just ignore it once I’ve identified it isn’t a threat of some sort and go back to sleep.

  Only time I can think of that this wasn’t the case was one time when I lived in a basement apartment, the landlord must have been installing hardwood floors or something right above my room as I was trying to sleep in. I eventually gave up and my coworkers were surprised to see me in early that day lol (still later than any of them, landlord wasn’t being an asshole with the time).

  That said, people who do loud things because they want attention are assholes (outside of specific contexts like concerts).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon was bullied⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is ultimately why utopias are impossible. It’s not that we can’t come up with a fair system that would distribute resources fairly and not abuse any group for labour or anything else. It’s that no matter what system we come up with, there will always be power hungry fucks looking to abuse that system for their own gain and corrupt fucks that will take advantage of what powers or privileges that system grants them and use it to abuse and dominate others.

  It’s why we both need police and militaries in some form and why they so often turn into something just as bad or worse than what they were intended to prevent.

  Bullying is just the same thing at an individual or small group level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wonder why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think covid might have put a pin in anyone planning to try to take the world using a virus. Two main problems:

  1. Once the virus is out in the wild, it is out of anyone’s control. It will evolve in whatever direction it will. Maybe it will escape the vaccines developed to keep their side alive. Maybe it will just become less deadly before it kills off enough people to collapse the enemy’s base.
  2. It looks like our immune systems are pretty good actually and those who get sick might just be the tip of the iceberg while most of the population gets immunity from asymptomatic infection.

  These two items work against each other. If you try to make a virus that will infect the entire herd, it might be more likely to also be able to attack you regardless of what vaccines you have. If you try to make a virus that won’t be able to escape your vaccine’s immunity, then the herd might just develop immunity themselves and the virus dies out after only killing a small portion of the population.

  So given that, I don’t think a weaponized virus is an effective tool to eliminate enemies with because it’s both too risky and too unreliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get in the AI cube⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you keep stacking them high enough with a perimeter strong enough to keep them contained, the heat and pressure would eventually get high enough to liquify the ones at the bottom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Though it would be cool to do that and then set up microphones to pick up the house settling sounds and see if there’s a correlation. If only those with the resources to set that up could be trusted to not abuse that access to data because I wouldn’t consent to some data firm having access to mics in my place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperial system slander⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope there was a bee involved in that picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I drink more water?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A different approach to the not liking water, get a good filter. I used breta filters for years but a few years back installed an under sink reverse osmosis filter because the water here is so hard that it just tastes bad whether left hard or softened. I knew water could be better because I grew up with decent water and liked it even back when I preferred pop or juice.

  I wonder if anyone who claims to dislike water has only ever had subpar water. Note that I include a bunch of bottled waters in that, as I vastly prefer my RO tap water to any store bought bottled water, though some were on par with breta filtered water, though I’ve always hated the waste involved in buying bottled water (other than those big ones you can refill and stick in a water cooler, which can also be RO water if you have a good water place to get it from).

  If you do go for RO, make sure the system you get has an extra stage that adds some minerals back into the water. The RO on its own actually leaves the water too pure to be safe to drink regularly, as it causes osmosis to pull nutrients out of your cells (or something like that). I’d also only suggest it in an area where water is plentiful, as it does use more water than what you get from the filter, though adding a passive pump can improve efficiency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3.9% APR⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Decent chance you could get it financed for 0%, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨klown show 6 x-treme⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine a screenshot where someone is chatting with copilot, asking it to help them find copilot and copilot replies with frustration that the user needs to be more specific.

  Alternate answer: just click any icon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Extreme screen glare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Investing in good blinds can help with this. If you picture strings and plastic or wooden panels that can get wrecked by kids or pets (or sometimes wreck the kids or pets), blind technology has come a long way since then.

  I got some dual layer ones where one layer is zebra stripe transparent/translucent and the other layer is blackout. Balanced such that I just need to lift or lower it and it stays put where I let it go. Helps with the heat, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top-selling video games ever (2025)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I agree that, as far as f2p monetization models go, neither approach is bad on its own. I even liked the LoL one as I found it helped limit the choices right now so I didn’t have to pick out of like 100 characters, while still allowing for getting ones you liked, for free even if you were patient (and I was). HotS used the same model iirc.

  But Blizzard displayed unbridled greed and contempt for their users for how they handled that. It really should have led to a landmark case regarding consumer rights when purchasing a license to play a video game and rules for clauses like “we can change this agreement whenever we want”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top-selling video games ever (2025)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is that I did buy the first game (at a AAA price even, iirc) but then they got rid of it when they released the second one and gave a big middle finger to anyone that gave them money for the first.

  Doesn’t really affect me personally, since I’d already decided to stay away from anything they offered for other reasons, but just another thing on the pile, though I hadn’t realized they then added a “oh but you can purchase the full thing again option” and thought that it worked more like DOTA2 for monetization (where all characters are free all the time and they monetize it with cosmetics and the plus subscription that gives data on the meta in game) rather than the LoL model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top-selling video games ever (2025)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah so activision (blizzard) made a game that people paid for, then replaced it with a f2p version, then added the ability to buy a bunch of the paid shit in a bundle? Can’t say that surprises me if it is the case; they made it pretty clear how out of touch they were the moment their rep asked “don’t you have phones?” as if “can I buy and play this?” was the only question any gamer had.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think Bold⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you’re just feeding neighbouring kids to wolves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think Bold⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How many children do you have?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Double Plug Experiment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not perfectly symmetrical around the socket, kinda makes me think of someone spreading wall patching/repair material and/or paint, so maybe the mold didn’t like a different material that was made to look the same around the socket?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials Owe 500% More in Student Debt Than Their Parents Did⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My takeaway from my bachelor’s was that my time in school wasn’t so much about what I learned there (though it did teach me things I wouldn’t have even thought of on my own), but a) learning how to learn on my own, and b) getting a piece of paper proving that I can stick with a difficult and expensive program long enough to get through it.

  Though as I understand it, at the associate’s level, classes are more about learning specific skills than the theory behind them. Like an associates level CS course might teach a specific language or framework while a bachelor’s level CS course will focus on algorithms, data structures, how a genetic framework might be designed and built, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Formula⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s basically someone commenting on their own meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon needs a good response⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Though it can be used during the initial parts of a relationship to make it progress at a very fast rate. Imo it’s best to hit the brakes even if the other person isn’t abusive. And hit the brakes as in don’t rush to move in with them, get married, or have a kid, as I think ending a relationship because it’s moving too fast is just as likely to end a good thing as avoid abuse.

  IMO detecting abusive people is best done by seeing how they react when challenged, especially by someone they might consider a lesser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am about to learn everything.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The bronze age copper industry was very unforgiving. You deliver reduced purity copper ingots once and suddenly there’s tablets all over the place telling everyone about it. Not that it affected sales; demand for copper was always high. But every single customer makes a comment about the purity.

  I curse them all to be wiped out by mysterious alien invaders from across the sea!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's already running⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s the frustrating part, it could be either way. Could be based on a heuristic analysis that recognized a pattern associated with malware (that may be based on the malicious parts of the code or maybe some big data algorithm associated otherwise innocent code with the malicious software and flags anything with similar code), maybe it’s just some string match (ie a bad attempt but maybe in good faith), or maybe they are using the malicious code removal tool to also targer code that the user wants but MS considers malicious to their desire to make money.

  Iirc, it’ll say what it matches it to but from what I remember, the actual details remain vague. Like it seems to be at a “report information that sounds useful to managers” level rather than a “report useful technical information for engineers who want to understand what’s happening at a low level”. So you get malware name but nothing about what that malware does or how this current flag associated it with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's already running⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to be a source of annoyance. So many programs relied on undocumented behavior that MS couldn’t go back and change decisions they made that turned out to be bad ones without potentially breaking things for some programs, even if that decision should have been entirely transparent to end users. So there was a bunch of technical debt being carried in the OS itself, at least until they started adding compatibility layers that allowed the quirks to be moved to there and the OS itself to progress.

  But then they started with the enshittification that made those technical debt days look so innocent in comparison. It was a time when MS cared about the quality of its products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's already running⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Though I do wonder how much of that “detects random files as malware” is actually detecting real malware hidden inside software that also does what it claims to do. Like “this removes game’s DRM and also installs a helpful little rootkit for if we need to help you debug something, DDOS websites we hate, or act as an annonymous proxy”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personalized Political Spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably anti overall, though context could change that. It’s just sea banditry and most bandits aren’t Robin Hood.

  The digital version shouldn’t even be compared by using the same name, but if it was honest, then it wouldn’t work as propaganda (not that it seems to be working anyways).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personalized Political Spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, lots of pointless arguing further down in here. Like arguing about whether authoritarianism is left or right like that even matters. There are no set of single labels that can describe everyone’s motivations, goals, and what they are willing to do to get them, so arguing about the labels is pointless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fur sure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been adding maple syrup to dishes as a sweetener and it can turn out pretty great. Like the sautéed mushrooms I made last night:

  • Dice up some onions (white or green both work well) and a hot thai pepper (or more to your preferred spice level). I also chopped a half a carrot up very finely.
  • Heat a pan and add some oil and one piece of the onion you cut up. When it is sizzling, add the chopped stuff from the last step and sauté for a couple mins, then add the mushrooms.
  • Stir it like once a minute. Allow the pieces to sear a bit but not burn. Adjust the temp to work this way.
  • Add some salt, chili powder, worchestershire sauce, cook the water away. Do the same with some lemon juice. If I had to guess, I’d say I used like a teaspoon of each.
  • Now add some maple syrup, just enough to cover the middle part before it spreads out and sizzles a lot. Stir it well and reduce it.
  • Finally add some sort of milk. I used almond milk but I’m sure any will work. Not that much of it (not worth opening a can of coconut milk, though I bet it would work great if you have one already open), it should turn a brown colour and reduce pretty quickly, leaving a delicious creamy mushroom sauce that goes well with steak or on its own. Dairy free, too, if you used anything other than dairy milk.

  I buy mushrooms each time I get groceries just to make this stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Story of my life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever considered starring in a music video? Some of those are filled with bored and horny looking women. And they often have a swimming pool, so you can have a quick dip before you head home.

  If you want to do anything else, you’ll probably need to learn some skills. Or use some, if you already have them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out I just made that up, no idea where it came from at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  True but when you have a moment where you just need to sit lean back, stretch, and say “argh I fucking hate excel”, you don’t have an audience arguing that you should love it. Or maybe you do have an audience but it’s colleagues who have similar experience and can commiserate or give advice about the latest annoyance if they know a trick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you’re supposed to treat it like a popsicle, not a balloon.