NABDad
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- Comment on Handy tip 4 days ago:
I can hear cows in my head, but seriously it’s not that great. All they say all day long is, “kill them. Kill them all.”
It’s kind of monotonous.
- Comment on Handy tip 4 days ago:
Is the mind cow merely rotating in air, or must I imagine myself picking it up and rotating it physically? If I’m imagining physically rotating the cow, am I imagining exertion, or should I be imagining that I have super human strength?
In what plane should I rotate it?
Is the cow in a field or in a barn? Or is it in an empty void?
If I’m physically rotating the cow, how am I dressed? Am I wearing my normal attire, or am I dressed like a dairy farmer? How does a dairy farmer dress? Is the cow wearing any clothing?
Can I choose what season I imagine the cow rotating in, or must it be the current season?
I have so many questions and now I’m even more bored than I was before!
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 1 week ago:
Reminds me of when we sent a tech out to someone’s home to set up a workstation. The wife of the guy getting the workstation backed into his car, and drove off.
After seeing the damage to his car, our tech went to tell the husband, and before he could even say anything the husband said, “my wife hit your car, didn’t she?”
It’s happened often enough that this guy didn’t even need to be told. He knew.
- Comment on Can a puzzle with missing pieces be considered complete? 1 week ago:
Are you asking to get answers about the philosophical question, or did you argue with her about it and you want to find out what the lemmynet thinks?
As others have mentioned, “complete” does not have to refer to the puzzle itself. It could refer to the effort.
On the other hand, her puzzle, her frame, her wall: she gets to decide.
Personally, I’d want to craft replacement pieces and draw in the missing parts of the picture. Or maybe paint them gold like Kintsugi. That way the puzzle can be “complete” while still acknowledging the history of the puzzle.
- Comment on Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it. 1 week ago:
Yeah, honestly, I wasn’t really trying to establish a cause and effect. More that the out-of-control wealth disparity appears to have enabled a large number of vile, evil scum to rise up the top.
- Comment on Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it. 1 week ago:
No the only thing that stands between me and child molestation is my morality, but that also stands between me and money and power.
- Comment on audition 2 weeks ago:
There’s a restaurant in Reading, PA with a men’s room that has a sink, two urinals, and a toilet. No stalls. One room.
There was a lock on the door, but it left me wondering about the kind of friends who would feel comfortable coming in with you to use the urinal while you’re taking a shit.
I didn’t see the woman’s bathroom, but apparently a few others did because the lock on that door didn’t work.
- Comment on ???? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard that hamsters will play dead so effectively, that they will convince their owners that they actually are dead.
So, assuming that’s true, some hamsters die horribly in a small box underground.
- Comment on ???? 2 weeks ago:
We’ve got two guinea pigs, and in my opinion, they aren’t that hard to keep alive.
My daughter’s guinea pig just died, but he was an older fellow. He went with her to college and got her all the way through to a few months past graduation.
As George Carlin said, “You’re supposed to know it in the pet shop. It’s going to end badly. You’re purchasing a small tragedy.”
- Comment on If only the person who did this ceiling had their tools even half as well calibrated as I do 2 weeks ago:
The DIY’ers who owned my house before me were very confident in their ability and proud of their accomplishments*.
They shouldn’t have been. Inside corner trim cut at a 45° with the gap filled with wood filler. Chair rail molding installed in the dining room with up to a quarter inch gap between the molding and the wall.
Of course, I’ve had hardly any better luck hiring professionals. It seems like no one has any logic anymore.
To a certain degree, some screwups add to the character of the house. A closet door frame noticeably out of square becomes quaint when the finish carpenters match the odd angles perfectly when cutting the trim.
* Neighbors who live next door told us about the previous owners bragging about the work they did.
- Comment on Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it. 2 weeks ago:
as if anyone with such power would practice child molestation.
It’s starting to seem that way to me.
- Comment on If you could make a magic wish so that your crush liked you, would you do it? 2 weeks ago:
39+ years here. I think after another 21 years, I can be sure.
- Comment on 😉 😉 2 weeks ago:
Bed frames in college were squeaky. I found a little bit of olive oil took care of it.
- Comment on Their goal is to drive you crazy so you will just hang up and go away 2 weeks ago:
I called Verizon FiOS support
Spent 45 minutes waiting while their AI claimed it was fixing the problem.
Called the same number again, said agent and got connected to a human being. The human being told me I called the wrong number and that he would try to transfer me to the correct number, but it wasn’t reliable (phone company can’t get phones working), so he told me the number I should have called.
It was the number I called.
I called back again, but this time I managed to get someone helpful who transferred me to someone who understood my problem well enough to tell me there’s nothing they can do and I’m fucked.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
She’s a mutt. No big deal, most of us are.
It’s what we’re supposed to be. Blending, swapping traits, improving the species through diversity.
There’s no need to label the “type” of human she is.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk commemorative PEZ dispenser 3 weeks ago:
There are extra large Pez dispensers that eject full rolls of Pez candy.
For example:
- Comment on New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs 3 weeks ago:
The worst often are born with it.
- Comment on Do I belong in tech anymore? - On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal. 5 weeks ago:
AI is the symptom. Unrestrained capitalism is the disease.
- Comment on Is the "everyday stuff" supposed to feel normal? Do y'all just have a parent do things then when you're supposed to be the adult you panic? 5 weeks ago:
Most of the time, you can say things like, “I’ve never done this before”, and the people you’re interacting with will tell you what to do.
So, at the doctor’s office, just ask the receptionist what they need you to do. If you have questions, ask.
The trick is to not care about not knowing something. Everyone is born knowing nothing. Everything has to be learned. Ignorance is only a flaw if it’s a choice.
- Comment on 🐝🐝🐝 1 month ago:
Forbeeden
- Comment on Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do? 1 month ago:
Years ago I had a little LED flashlight hanging from my keychain.
I was running cable in my house, and had wiggled along inside a wall in the attic. I was looking down a section of wall next to the bathroom and was using the flashlight on my keys to peer down the wall.
Luckily I realized how stupid I was being, and managed to put my keys back in my pocket before I dropped them down inside a wall.
- Comment on Is Vladimir Putin a good and professional leader? 1 month ago:
- Comment on No fear! 1 month ago:
It has happened years before, but it happened when he was an adult.
- Comment on No fear! 1 month ago:
I knew a kid in high school who was hit by a car while riding his bike in the days before kids wore helmets.
He was fucked up. He survived, but it was “learning how to walk and talk again” survival.
I also had a teacher in college who wasn’t wearing a helmet when he flipped his bike and landed on his head. He was alright as long as you think regular, crippling migraines are alright.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“Donald Trump is bombing Iran because he wants to feel powerful”
No. He’s bombing Iran because Obama made a joke about him and everybody laughed.
Suggesting he’s doing it to feel powerful gives him so much more credit than he deserves.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I believe they are referencing the way Trump always chickens out.
- Comment on Me: order food. My Girlfriend who said she wasn't hungry: 2 months ago:
In Soviet Russia, it is lovin’ you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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 [deleted] 2 months 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 months 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.