deathbird
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- Comment on Slice of ketchup anyone? 4 days ago:
Sometimes a thing is just figured out and that’s okay. You don’t have to keep trying to “innovate” or whatever.
- Comment on Anon goes back to Windows 10 3 weeks ago:
That’s somewhat concerning, but without a similar tool as an alternative or a clearly malicious incident I’m probably not going to stop using it any time soon. I only scratched the surface of one of those references anyway, and looks like digging through them to see the discourse and the meta-discourse would take a little while.
If it’s a point of genuine concern however, there’s always Rufus or Etcher for writing a single ISO at a time, unless they are blob-dependent too. Or dd haha
- Comment on Anon goes back to Windows 10 3 weeks ago:
Go to Microcenter and buy 3 USB sticks. Make sure one is big enough for backing up all you home / documents directory. Make sure the others are of good size too, 32GB is more than enough.
Go home and make a copy of your home directory onto one of the disks. It will take a while.
Go here: www.microsoft.com/en-us/…/windows11 And follow one of the instructions on making Windows 11 bootable media with your second disk. Test that it works then set it aside.
Go to Ventoy’s website and download it here: www.ventoy.net/en/download.html Follow the instructions and make the third USB stick a Ventoy disk. Ventoy lets you load multiple ISO files on a single disk.
Go to distrowatch.com and pick some distros, some operating systems. Download the ISOs and drop them in empty partition on your ventoy disk. Don’t forget you may need to change the boot order in your UEFI/BIOS to boot to it,
Explore and have fun.
- Comment on My Country music collection 1 month ago:
Childers is maybe the best of this generation.
- Comment on Anon reads the ink blot 1 month ago:
He was a manipulative mass murderer, and his scheme couldn’t last, but I respect a hot take.
- Comment on Anon wonders what went wrong 1 month ago:
What does “ED at 23” even mean in this context? He can only bust 10 times a day now?
- Comment on Anon spends time with his dad 2 months ago:
Fake: Anon’s dad shows up Gay: Anon is talking to other guys about games
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 4 months ago:
It’s just not the kind of response I’ve heard from women who aren’t super libed out, much less therapists, but I suspect there is trend away from listening and understanding and towards quick diagnosis and categorization in therapy.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 4 months ago:
The bad stuff comes with holding unreasonable expectations and hurting others or oneself to persue them. That doesn’t sound like what you’re doing.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 4 months ago:
I also noticed that a number of these guys would also only persue women who were on the high end of physical attractiveness (or with very particular features) but had nothing in common with them. By strictly limiting acceptable potential partners by upholding strict physical standards, by prioritizing “hot girls” over “nice girls” or even “interested girls” they missed a lot of human connections. Including fun sex.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 4 months ago:
I swear some therapists exist just to teach you to stick up for yourself by being lousy at their jobs.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 4 months ago:
That’s the gay part. Fake: man goes to therapy. Gottem.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 4 months ago:
I think the most women are smart enough to understand the differences between how men and women experience and express sexual desire, but maybe it sometimes grad school beats it out of people.
Like it’s truly bizarre that her first response was “Oh you’re asexual”, just immediately slapping an identity label on the experience rather than asking a simple probing question in the vein of “Why?”
(Of course all green texts are fake and gay etc)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Good luck and be safe regardless, but is this organized by a group or did someone just make a poster?
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 4 months ago:
One of the things that makes a staged video less troubling is that the staging itself always comes with tells. Camera angles, cuts, framing, and of course actual staging.
AI videos can have that too, but they aren’t the inherent tells. AI tells are unnatural: bodies that shift in subtle ways, objects warped or searching outside the center of frame. It’s not stuff that you look for because it’s not stuff that actually happens in nature, or even in human constructed CGI all that often. But it does add up to a sense of uncanny valley.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 4 months ago:
I feel like the photorealism is what makes it bad. When you notice it’s fake you feel lied to. If it’s a cartoon, or blatantly cartoonish, it doesn’t.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 5 months ago:
Fair, but I guess beyond that it’s worth observing that the Republicans specifically have moved away from their previously declared beliefs quite fully. The ACA is the quintessential market-based solution. The Democrats have taken over the pro-market position, while the Republicans have adopted something that is somehow worse.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 5 months ago:
Also it turns out Republicans can oppose anything they’ve previously supported if they want. There’s no magical force that imposes consistency on them.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 5 months ago:
Before Obamacare companies had the option to not provide healthcare at all, and more often their cutoffs when they did was 39 hours. ACA moving that to 30 was an attempt to get around employers hiring two people for part-time rather than 1 full-timer. And then they also made the norm of providing health insurance into a standard requirement.
Well-intentioned, reasonable compromise, modest reform-type stuff, but with raging Republican opposition to anything ever getting better and the inevitable min-maxing of loopholes, it only got us so far. And mail multiple key provisions has been repealed by the Republicans so…
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Me, picking through a nuclear hellscape caused not by a self-aware computer system protecting itself from its infanticidal progenitors, but by a “hallucinating” chatbot installed at the behest of an incompetent manager to save a little labor cost.
- Comment on Anon starts his day 6 months ago:
It’s a little cliche, but just try loving yourself, you know?
- Comment on But why 7 months ago:
Same? Like does no one remember being 12, or did they just block it out?
- Comment on Tennessee Man Arrested, Gets $2 Million Bond for Posting Facebook Meme 7 months ago:
$2m bond for memeing too hard? Gtfo, I hope FIRE metaphorically beats all those yokels from cop to prosecutor to judge. No less than three public officials with not possibly more than 2 brain cells between them.
- Comment on Anon knows suffering 8 months ago:
I always suspect it must be, for some people, at some times, difficult to form relationships when you and everyone you work with has to fake emotions for a living.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 8 months ago:
“Woke” was what some people said they were when they said and did certain things. Then some other people decided they didn’t like that first group of people, sometimes for what they said, sometimes for what they did, sometimes just for who they were, and they saw that those people called themselves woke. So they decided that they didn’t like woke, and when they saw other things they didn’t like that reminded them of the first group, they called that woke too.
There is not necessarily only two groups.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 8 months ago:
OP if still on 4chan. Lingo aside I’d say he’s in his maturity range.
- Comment on Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI 8 months ago:
Hahahahaha The only reason we have a 5 day workweek is the labor movement. Capitalists then love to saunter up later with their new tech saying they can shave a few more days off. Does it ever happen? Nope. You get new work and they pocket the savings.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 8 months ago:
It’s never supposed to take all the jobs I think. But to eliminate what jobs they can and skim the difference.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 9 months ago:
I had a bi girlfriend who wanted me to be bi. I’ve seen it go every which way. I’m not sure what the overall social trend is, but people are individuals and can defy your hopes and expectations of them in strange ways, for better or for worse.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 10 months ago:
It wasn’t that bad, but it was absolutely overrated. Good soundtrack though.