Vanth

Ever seen Superman III where Richard Pryor’s character realizes there’s rounding in the numbers of his company’s payroll, taxes, etc, so he writes a program to skim those partial cents into his account and he ends up shocked at the amount? And he knew it was illegal and everyone who learned of it knew it was illegal?

Companies profiting off AI trained on stolen material feels like that, but if the cops who discovered Pryor’s crime were to say “eh, partial cents aren’t a real thing anyway. No harm, no foul” and let Pryor keep skimming.

Here are some other fun ones.

Ask her what she thinks the save icon in Microsoft Word and other programs is. Betcha she doesn’t know what a floppy disk is.

Ask her why her phone camera app icon is that circle with spiral lines and makes that “kscht” sound when taking a photo. Betcha she doesn’t know what a film camera with a mechanical aperture is.

Find a video of an AI generated person talking and note the age at which people younger can immediately clock that it’s AI generated and people older can’t. Right now, my social circle is at about 40 and younger see it, 40 and older don’t. 40-50 seem to be unsure and feel some uncanny valley-ness, while 50+ don’t even suspect anything.

Then ask her to explain some current meme. Skibidi toilet? C’mon, do you honestly even want to know what that means? We’re too old for that crap.

I wouldn’t. But you do you. It would be interesting to hear how well an IRL campaign would work to get users on the Fediverse.

Whoooosh.

Idk what the mod team’s philosophy is on incorporating member feedback vs shaping it to mod teams vision, but fwiw, here’s mine.

I don’t want to see every other post being about Trump either. But I also want conversation to happen. The compromise solution seems to be a mega thread; conversations continue without flooding everyone’s feed. For however this temp rule is in place, delete offending posts and redirect to the mega thread.

So 2015. What’s next? Crossfitters are obnoxious?

I accept this new term and will utilize it in everyday conversation. Thank you.

A sheep, a drum, and a snake fall off a cliff.

Bah-dum-tsss.

I will probably personally benefit from a simple financial perspective. I’m a white collar worker in an industry that will grow under Trump and I have a healthy investment portfolio.

A lot of that gain is going to route to places like Planned Parenthood and to supporting a friend whose life has already been destroyed by reproductive rights rollbacks in her home state. I need to do my homework on supporting victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza; I want to put more towards that than I have been. I haven’t even wrapped my head around what this is going to mean for Ukrainians. And immigrants to the US. And women in the US beyond just reproductive rights. And LGBT+ people in the US. It’s a lot.

Toxic gas

I certainly like it better, it’s an improvement, but “game changer” is strong. I’m slowly replacing gadgets to USB C through attrition. The charge port has ceased to be the failure point for any of the gadgets I own. My pile of spare cables is still excessive, but moving further back in my storage closet because I need them less and less.

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I have a couple online stores I check, otherwise I just use the Google Shopping tab. Auto parts don’t seem to be spammed up as much as other things yet. Heck, online Walmart often times has what I need.

No, totally separate times in my life. Though that would have been an interesting way to dispose of the cockroaches. Based on number of eggs, I probably would have needed another 20 scorpions.

Depends on the job, special tools and workspace needed, and time.

I recently had a mechanic replace a wheel hub assembly for me. He sourced the parts, finding them for about 5% cheaper than I could find them. His labor rates were very reasonable. And I don’t have a lot of time for that sort of job, nor space to do it efficiently where I currently live. Could I have done it? Yes. But he got it done in 3 hours where it would have taken me the better part of the weekend.

I had cockroaches. They were all supposed to be male but one or more started laying eggs. I noped right out of that one.

I had a black Emperor Scorpion. He was a chill little dude. Mildly venomous. Fine pet for someone who can handle that / not young kids.

Omg, what a beauty. Does she live outside in her shed all year round? What temperature range is she happy/healthy at?

Refrigerating eggs also roughly doubles their shelf life.

Is salmonella vaccination required in the UK now? It’s been a few years but last I knew it was voluntary and roughly 3/4 of egg farmers did do it.

Egg farmers? Chicken ranchers? Poultry producer? Idk what they’re called.

Eat it with a cinnamon roll. No idea if it’s really a local Midwestern thing, it was claimed as a local thing where I grew up. All I know is chili and cinnamon roll works.

Eh? From Drop Dead Fred? Was she even in a James Bond movie or am I thinking of the wrong actor?