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- Comment on Me: order food. My Girlfriend who said she wasn't hungry: 2 days ago:
In Soviet Russia, it is lovin’ you.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 2 weeks ago:
LLMs are interesting, and there are some very promising applications, but I’m concerned that the hype is going to damage the reputation of the technology in a way that could interfere with those things.
Regarding all other AI, there’s a lot of good that has come from AI research, and most people don’t recognize it. We have a tendency to shift our definition of “intelligence” to always exclude things that someone figures out how to get a computer to do.
Every day we use software that would have been considered AI years ago.
I’m not against AI, but I’m against the capitalist impulse to squeeze money out of anything to the detriment of all of humanity and the world.
My hope is that the LLM bubble bursts, big companies suffer terribly, the “AI” tag becomes bad marketing, and they let AI quietly return to research, where people can do some good with it.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 2 weeks ago:
What do you mean when you say AI?
Are you talking about all the different areas of research or just LLMs?
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 2 weeks ago:
On what basis do you think littering is a counter-gentrification force?
It seems to me all it does is depress property values to make it more attractive for gentrification.
It’s not like the people buying up properties, bulldozing them, and building condos for massive profits can’t afford to push the litter to the next neighborhood.
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 2 weeks ago:
I would point out the way drug dealers kill their customers is unintentionally via overdose or bad drugs.
Also, if you’re a parent, and you lost your only child to a drug dealer due to an overdose, that’s really all you need to want to hunt down and kill the dealer.
A parent with nothing left to lose could be about as dangerous as it gets.
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 2 weeks ago:
I have one example of a rich person who was addicted to drugs.
He was a gifted child so his parents treated him like he knew how to raise himself. They also probably weren’t terribly interested in raising a child, so they basically abandoned him. He was cared for, but not by them.
Best example of this: I mentioned that I still remembered my mom teaching me how to tie my shoes. He remembered the maid teaching him.
Because no one would stop him, he started drinking in his early teens, and moved onto drugs soon after.
Regarding murdering the family because of money, I’d recommend making it a home invasion gone wrong. Addicted kid gets cut off from family, can’t pay drug dealer, can’t get drugs. Tells drug dealer he knows where the family keeps a lot of money. Like “won the lottery” money. Drug dealer tells someone else who convinces them to go after it. Hilarity ensues.
- Comment on When “Watch Instantly” first came out. Before “streaming” was even the term for it. 3 weeks ago:
The true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
Not Noah Wyle, although I agree that picture looks like him.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 3 weeks ago:
The moon landing was faked, but they hired Stanley Kubrick to direct the shoot, and he insisted that they film on location.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 5 weeks ago:
For me personally, I wish Latin had been an option for me, as it’s used extensively in biology and it would have been incredibly helpful.
My wife and I studied Latin in middle school and high school.
My kids were also able to take Latin in school.
Rather than list all the benefits of learning Latin, I found this, Top 10 Reasons For Studying Latin, which says it better than I could.
I would struggle to translate anything today (although I still know that all of Gaul is divided into three parts), but I know I have benefited from an improved understanding of English grammar and vocabulary.
Fight for Latin in your schools!
- Comment on What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.) 5 weeks ago:
I only have 40 yrs to go - if I’m realistic
Probably far less if society breaks down to the point that libraries cease to exist.
- Comment on everyone agrees 1 month ago:
We have a standard poodle. He’s being trained as a service dog, but he’s not there yet.
He’s getting better, but when he first arrived, he would bark like a maniac anytime someone new entered the house.
We had a painter come in to do some work in our bathroom. He got upset when he heard Leo start barking because he had a traumatic experience with a dog.
Then he saw Leo was a poodle and he was suddenly ok.
I know Leo is all talk, but he’s still a dog. Under all that fluff, he’s basically a Doberman Pinscher.
- Comment on Thanks Alot 1 month ago:
She suffers from severe depression and ADHD, but I don’t think she has bipolar disorder. Her sister died due to bipolar disorder, which might be what you’re thinking of.
She is, apparently, still on Reddit occasionally. I saw a post from a few days ago in which someone was saying that she’s working on a new book (no idea if that is true or not).
- Comment on Tune a fish 1 month ago:
I think it’s mostly for the dad joke:
You can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a fish.
- Comment on What was your social media path? 1 month ago:
CompuServe Chat USENET Facebook Reddit Lemmy
Facebook was a horrible mistake. I jumped off when I realized I didn’t want to associate with the people there.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 1 month ago:
Unless they knew something about rockets.
- Comment on Epstein survivors Sunday Super Bowl ad to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world 1 month ago:
Another vote for “failed while using Voyager”
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 1 month ago:
Not an issue for me. I’m 6’4". The only way I’m drowning after falling asleep in the bathtub is if my legs dissolve.
- Comment on What's that word? 1 month ago:
According to Wikipedia, the term was in use in other languages before it was taken in English
- Comment on What is up with the trend of naming pets after food? 1 month ago:
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 1 month ago:
It’s not a treat if I’m not interested.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 1 month ago:
Good point.
I think that’s where your premise really breaks down because I still wouldn’t be either.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 1 month ago:
There’s also the people who just work to survive and have nothing left over.
Unless by “world” you’re only referring to those with too much money.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 month ago:
When I was a teenager, my mom made some baked pasta and brought it with a 2 liter Pepsi to me while I was working on stage crew at the high school.
I took it up to the spot light booth and ate it.
When I got home she asked me how everyone liked it. I told her I ate it all. She said she made enough for the entire stage crew. I told her she was wrong, it was only enough for me.
I hit 6’4" tall when I was 14. At my lowest weight at that height, I was 165 pounds.
I wish I had been taught to eat a single serving, wait, and then eat more if necessary. It wouldn’t have made a difference at the times when I needed to eat like twelve people, but it would have made it easier to stop eating like twelve when I didn’t need to.
However, I’ve had smaller adults try to tell my kids that they were eating too much. How can you meet me, get a pain in your neck from looking up at me, and still think you understand how much my kids need to eat?
- Comment on Why is it I feel a tiny bit of empathy for the Guthries but really don;t care at all because people get kidnapped/ransomed every day, what makes he so special besides her daughter? 1 month ago:
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 1 month ago:
The Jim Dandy is a banana split made in the super sundae bowl. The one pictured is a Reese’s Pieces super sundae.
Reese’s pieces, vanilla ice cream, peanut butter and marshmallow sauce, whipped cream and a cherry.
If I’m remembering correctly, the super sundae was originally supposed to be five scoops of ice cream.
I suppose it still could be, but maybe their scoops are shrinking.
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 1 month ago:
Well then I guess thank you for conceding the point that I know more about the food I make than you do.
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 1 month ago:
Well, I don’t like having Reece’s peanut butter cups in my ice cream, so I wouldn’t get that.
I think what you may not be considering is the ongoing shrinkflation happening at restaurants.
I used to get the “Super Sundae” at Friendly’s. It’s served in a fishbowl style dish. They used to fill it with ice cream past the top of the bowl, with toppings including whipped cream above that. The last time I was there, the top of the whipped cream didn’t reach the top of the bowl.
(it doesn’t look like this anymore)
In answer to your question, having home made ice cream at home, I’m having 4-5 large scoops.
I’m not going to reach the end of my life wishing I had eaten more ice cream.
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 1 month ago:
When you cook at home, even if you use oils and other high-caloric ingredients, you still use way less than restaurants do.
How much do you want to bet?
One example:
I’m concerned that I didn’t get butter when I went to the store on Friday because after I came home my wife told me she moved the last four pounds of butter out of the freezer.
I also have heavy cream in the fridge to make ice cream. If there’s not a layer of lard on your spoon after you’re done eating your ice cream, you aren’t really trying.
- Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not? 1 month ago:
I’m my case, I either have proof that I bought them in the form of the original DVD, or the movies are in the public domain, or they are digital copies of home movies.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 month ago:
I run an Emby server, but just for family. Two of my kids use it, one doesn’t. I posted previously that my daughter doesn’t have anything that can play a DVD, but she still gets them and I add them to my server so she can watch them.
I added my parents to it, and they watched some stuff, but they can’t remember how to use it. Every time I show them, my dad will watch things for a few days, then he forgets how.
I appear to be unique among the people running streaming servers in that I only add things if I own the DVD (or if they’re in the public domain). I also only have about 1300 movies.
I visit thrift stores to get cheap DVDs. There’s one near me that charges $1/DVD, but they have a 50% off sale on the last weekend of every month.
I’m trying to be more particular about what I add. I had started thinking that for 50¢, I can buy a shittier movie, but now I’m only getting the movie if I know it’s worth it, or if it’s got > 7 IMDB rating.
Today’s haul included True Grit (the remake), Capote, and Ready Player One.
