Sludgehammer @ Sludgehammer @lemmy.world

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That's only supposed to happen to the plebs, not an elite like him!

I can't remember where I read it but someone said "LLM's provide three types of answer: so vague as to be useless, directly plagiarized from a source and reworded, or flat out wrong but confidently stated as the truth." I'm probably butchering the quote, but that was the gist of it.

I'm guessing "free gift" means they can't sell them and don't want to pay to dump them.

But is Trump really a bigger con man than SBF though? Sam was playing around numbers that Trump can only dream of. On the other hand Trump has run (and imploded) way more cons than SBF, so I guess it's a question of quality over quantity.

Two things really.

1. Tradition. Alcohol has a long history in European culture and by immigration the United States. It's common to have a glass of wine or a beer with dinner, the rich will impress their friends with the extravagant alcohol they drink serve, you take a glass of wine at communion... heck at one point weak beers were drunk more than water, because at the time nobody knew what made water safe to drink but everyone could tell if beer smelled rotten.
2. Production. Marijuana is easy to grow, but it takes a lot of time and space to produce. Alcohol on the other hand you need something with sugar and some yeast or starter. It can be fermented in some corner of the basement or even a cupboard. It's so hard to control the production of alcohol even in prisons there's usually somebody fermenting pruno somewhere and that's one of the most controlled and monitored environments. It's really hard to prevent people from brewing some form of alcohol because it's about as easy as making bread.

When you combine these two you end up with the disaster that occurred when the United States tried to ban alcohol during prohibition. An easy to produce intoxicant with a large market was suddenly banned, when people started looking for more organized crime stepped in to fill the void.

Pyracantha, they're in the rose family.

The berries are sorta edible, sorta poisonous. Basically they took the "cyanide in apple seeds" trick and cranked it up to eleven, so you don't want to eat the fruits. However you can boil the fruits to extract the juice and make a jelly out of it.

It's interesting to consider how many distinctive breeds of plant just vanish.

One time when I was making hot sauce my mother started reminiscing about her grandmother would soak some tiny peppers in vinegar to make hotsauce. From the sounds of things it was some variety of tabasco pepper. But she had been growing and selecting these peppers for multiple decades and so they had probably grown into a distinct variety... and then she died and the variety was lost.

Oh no, my face!

Are you sure those aren't nylon bags? Anyway I've found PLA's biodegradability highly over rated. When Sunchips were doing those PLA bags I threw one into a worm bin, when I emptied the bin a year later it looked pretty much unchanged.

Don't I know it. My house is right next to a highway and was apparently placed by someone who loved the sound of engine breaking. I probably have tire rubber dust settling on everything outside.

Well shit. I guess I'm gonna have a lot of micro plastics in my compost then.

God I hate those. Paper tea bags you can toss into the fireplace or in the compost depending on the time of year, but those plastic ones you can't do anything but chuck them into the trash.

Not incel enough judging by all the kids he's sired and subsequently abandoned/neglected.

At least it's not the candle isle.

I wonder if Elon still thinks cis is a slur

Probably. I'm guessing Mush is one of those "Never admit you were wrong, because that is a sign of weakness" kinda morons.

Time to dust off this tweet again

To be as generous as possible maybe they're going for a The Sims 4 approach; the base game is free, expansions cost money. I suspect though they're going to go for a pay-to-play style game, there'll be a ultra bare-bones base game and all meaningful content will be locked behind macro-transactions.

It still amazes me that there are people on Reddit who are upset about this but still keep using Reddit lol!

I'm not sure why you'd be amazed, I mean people are still using Twitter and that's a thousand times worse than Reddit.

I mean... I don't expect them to scrap GMail, but their reassurance means nothing. IIRC they said the same thing about Stadia.

Kinda short.