bitwaba @ bitwaba @lemmy.world

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Stop masturbating with the other

How much of this is a combination of Gen Z being health conscious, and getting old enough to to have to start paying for things themselves instead of having an personal expense budget like when they were in high school or university?

but it does feel like a powerful metaphor to be importing our symbol of freedom from abroad

Freedom to buy from the lowest cost provider!

That's the same as the UK sewage systems.

"Dear Sydney" presents a world where Gemini can help us offload a heartwarming shared moment of connection with our children.

This is the problem I've had with the LLM announcements when they first came out. One of their favorite examples is writing a Thank You note.

The whole point of a Thank You note is that you didn't have to write it, but you took time out of your day anyways to find your own words to thank someone.

arguing in good faith [edit: faith was originally missing. That's what I get for Lemmy on the toilet-ing]

I specifically remember Trevor Noah having an opening monologue to the Daily Show some time just prior to or after Trump having taken office about this exact topic. Essentially he was saying it allowed Trump to control the narrative. Every time he lied, the left leaning media would be off digging up facts and statistics to come back and says "ah ha ya! Look at this!" But by the time they get back to respond, he's gone off and changed the topic and made another blatantly false condemnation of some group of people. And so the cycle repeats itself.

Noah's proposed solution was the same as a child having a tantrum: ignore them. When things go wrong, make it clear why it's a result of his policies or rhetoric. Stop playing politics like you're playing them with a competent adult. You're not.

Its really fascinating. Their image is to embody what is "normal", "natural", "right". They're bullies, claiming they're better than everyone else, and using those differences to push that superiority.

It turns out the most effective method to combat bullies is to.... bully them. Point out how abormal, unnatural, and inferior they are. Its such a core element of their existence that they fall apart without it.

I'm not proud of it. But also, I'm not crying about it.

i mean, the question was about waking my computer up from sleep. I don't think that would trigger sticky keys, even on windows.

This is going to be the tastiest war ever

I hit Shift+Ctrl 3 times. Its easy enough and the pattern works on my desktops and laptops so I only have to remember one behavior to wake up all my devices

I use mine for Star Power in Clone Hero (Guitar Hero-ish game)

Way back in the day I always wanted one to use as my push to talk key for Ventrilo... But these days with noise reduction algorithms, boom mics with cardioid sensitivity spaces, and adjustable activation threshold, I just leave my mic on auto activate.

I should probably find something else to use it for...

I do it every Christopher Nolan movie. There was an interview with him after Interstellar released and they read him some of viewer reviews. One of them was just "it's pretty loud", and he just laughed...

Love most of his work, but I'm not losing my hearing over it. They're not that good.

Yeah, I was born in 84 but I identify pop culture wise much closer to my step brothers that are 1.5 and 3.5 years older as Xennails than I would my millennial counterparts.

Mutations are also good, see any piece of software with a version higher than 1.0, or any project that was forked.

haha. Incredibly, Trash Theory just released a video 4 hours ago on Nickleback and the slow death of grunge.

I did the same for Gotye - Somebody that I used to know. I thought it was such a frustratingly terrible song, I couldn't help but mock it when it came on. I genuinely thought I was living in a world full of people lying when I'd be at a party and others would say they loved it. For like 2 years I was just like "you're kidding right?"

As soon as it's November

If it's alternative rock, I'd imagine it's something off this list:

Hoobastank - The Reason.
Puddle of Mudd - Blurry. Also, She Hates Me.
Evanescence - Bring Me to Life.
Trapt - Headstrong.
Audioslave - Like a Stone (mediocre song at best. Played non fucking stop for what felt like 5 years).
Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You.
Nickelback - How You Remind Me (specifically this one, but the rest of their discography too).
Seether - Broken.
Creed - With Arms Wide Open.

Make them happy

The "g" isn't silent. the "gn" in Italian (and French) is pronounced like a "n" with a tilde (~, e.g "ñ") in Spanish.

• bologna = bo lo nya
• gnocchi = nyo ki
• cognac = co nyak
• jalapeño = ha la pe nyo