BartyDeCanter
@BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Ibuprofen 6 days ago:
It’s my car ibuprofen and antacids , my work ibuprofen and antacids , and my home ibuprofen and antacids thank you very much.
- Comment on What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am? 1 week ago:
Slightly joking, slightly not: Bi means you’re over 35, Pan means you’re under 35 and Omni means you’re thought about it too much.
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 2 weeks ago:
What the fuck?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Typical rule I’ve seen is don’t date anyone younger than half your age + seven, so for your friend that would be 16. So, it’s right on the borderline.
- Comment on How do phone scammers work? I get them trying to get another persons money. But how do they get all the info and now can do voice fakes. I highly doubt they just pick a random person and say fuck them 3 weeks ago:
It’s really depends on the scam, but some of them really do pick a random person. Or, rather the autodialer/autotexter that they are using does. I’ve gotten several scam texts in the last week fishing for info.
Further, there is a lot of into out on the web. Some is just an easy look up for name and adddres from a phone number, other data is pulled from breaches that ends up public or for sale.
- Comment on Not stealing 4 weeks ago:
So true. I have two and they’re complete opposites. Every single thing that one is easy about the other is hard. I thought that the second would be easier because I learned some things from the first, but every lesson was useless.
- Comment on Not stealing 4 weeks ago:
I’m so feeling this this morning. I asked the 4yo if he wanted cereal or yogurt for breakfast. He screams “I’m not hungry! I want mama!”, runs to his room and slams the door. Two minutes later he comes out and punches me in the dick while I’m making lunches.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 5 weeks ago:
Considering the names of the types of quarks, I recommend renaming them genderinos.
- Comment on Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data? 1 month ago:
Exactly this. There are plenty of ML/AI systems that build on public datasets, such as AlexNet for image recognition and even some LLMs that are trained on out of copyright documents such as the Project Gutenberg collection. But they almost certainly aren’t what you are looking for.
- Comment on Is the periodic table still getting new additions? 2 months ago:
To expand on this, there aren’t any gaps left so the only new ones will be increasingly heavyweight and have vanishingly short half-lives, which means that they are increasingly difficult to synthesize and detect. In theory there is an island of stability once we can synthesize sufficiently heavy elements, but it seems pretty far off.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 2 months ago:
Yup! SNW is one of the few that has an actually good pilot episode.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 2 months ago:
By series: TOS: City on the Edge of Forever TNG: Measure of a Man or Inner Light DS9: In the Pale Moonlight or The Visitor VOY: Scorpion SNW: 1:1 or Memento Mori LD: Crisis Point
- Comment on We live wasted lives 2 months ago:
What? I love spending my day going to meetings where I’m quizzed about things that won’t matter next week and writing Jira tickets.
- Comment on The Elder God 3 months ago:
Why not worship nature and wear special hats? Most of the witches I know do both.
- Comment on Yes 4 months ago:
Ah yes, the ozone-plastic top notes with an undertone of Doritos and Mt. Dew. And is that a slight hint of cheap beer?
- Comment on Generational differences 4 months ago:
Found the person from
Europea non shithole country. - Comment on sus 4 months ago:
Poly culture is a shared google doc and calendar for planning time with partners.
- Comment on Generational differences 4 months ago:
It is crazy to me that I can just walk down the street to a store, buy some pot and wave at a cop on the way out. Even crazier is that my kids schools fundraising auction has weed gift baskets donated every year from the local dispensaries.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 4 months ago:
Buttermilk roasted chicken is delicious, so I assume it’s a similar lactose reaction. And you’d use goats milk because you have goats.
- Comment on Hello, ladies! 5 months ago:
Hey! Where’d you get that picture of me?!?
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 7 months ago:
You’re going to get a lot of advise about what makes life worth living, but it sounds like you have low level depression. Talking to a therapist and looking at an antidepressant are your first steps, along with the other things that can help with low level depression.
- Comment on ai comments on cbs videos, but why 7 months ago:
“Subtle” thirst trap. Trying to get people to click on the profile which will have a link to whatever spam they’re peddling.
- Comment on Are dating apps a fraud since the beginning? 7 months ago:
Sorta related, if you’re really interested in using them and are a straight cis person I highly recommend trying them out from the other side. Create a more or less generic account of the opposite gender and see what kinds of messages, likes, or whatever you end up with. It will be mind boggling how different it is from what you are used to and give you an idea of what you will need to do to actually make a match.
- Comment on Are dating apps a fraud since the beginning? 8 months ago:
Well, sorta. As someone else pointed out the economic incentives for most dating app owners are diametrically opposed to the needs of the users. There is also a huge consolation in the market with the majority of the apps by user count being owned by a single company.
There are a few exceptions but they very much aren’t for everyone.
OKCupid from 20 years ago was great before it sold out. But it’s only accessible to time travelers.
Next are the more event based apps which tend to cater to kinksters, swingers, poly, and queer folk. I’m thinking of things like FetLife, Grinder and Plura. They work well for their audience since those communities tend to have events that people will keep coming back for even if they have successfully found someone on the app. In fact success finding someone might make them more likely to keep on the app and bring in their friends.
But for monogamous straight people? Dating apps are a hellscape.
- Comment on Don't put it in a crazy 8 months ago:
Looking at my dating history… yeah, that tracks.
- Comment on I mean... I'm not complaining... 9 months ago:
Saluton Sro. Zamenhof!
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 9 months ago:
Huh. Thief 1&2, System Shock 1&2 and Deus Ex make up half of my top 10 games list. But multiplayer? I donno, maybe if there is also a good single player campaign I’ll be interested. I’d be happy with a modern Thief 1&2 remaster. NewDark and TheDarkMod are great, but I’d love to have full raytracing in Thief.
- Comment on What happens when a prominent person is assassinated and the perpetrator cannot be identified? 9 months ago:
The first one that comes to mind is Jimmy Hoffa, but they never found the body. He was almost certainly killed by the Mafia, but no specific person was ever prosecuted for it.
- Comment on What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com" 10 months ago:
To claim a subdomain in the DNS system you have to have the domain first.
- Comment on Not the worst sales technique. 10 months ago:
My motorcycle dealer has a similar sign about being sad and ugly.