NABDad
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- Comment on 🐝🐝🐝 4 days 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 week 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 week ago:
- Comment on No fear! 1 week ago:
It has happened years before, but it happened when he was an adult.
- Comment on No fear! 1 week 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 week 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] 2 weeks 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: 3 weeks ago:
In Soviet Russia, it is lovin’ you.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 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 [deleted] 4 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 5 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? 5 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? 5 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. 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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.) 1 month 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Another vote for “failed while using Voyager”
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 2 months ago:
It’s not a treat if I’m not interested.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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?
