shalafi @ shalafi @lemmy.world

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OP's right. The comparison is ridiculous. And you're right, it's coming. Anyway, they're not the only ones with big guns.

We're in a small echo chamber here. Getting out and talking to people, online or IRL, in my conservative town is eye opening and appalling.

For example; I posted on NextDoor.com about the administration destroying NOAA, with links to Project 2025's page on the subject. I was buried with hate.

Dare I post this?

https://michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/critical-hurricane-forecast-tool

We live and die by NOAA's predictions. These people gave me 20 reasons they didn't care; I'm an idiot, Project 2025 is liberal lies, don't use NOAA or the NWS, all that. The perfect example:

"I don't care if I have to pay for the NWS weather. I already pay for a weather app."

"Uh, you're paying for free, government funded data, and where do you think you app got that data?"

"Not arguing with people like you."

Not get me started on ICE and the local cops.

Bots were the number one reason I gave up reddit.

Hadn't thought of trying the local Army surplus store! Still, I feel I'd end up spending the same, and the shop is a long ways away.

Nope. Never joined. I just wanted tough, multipurpose boots for outdoor use.

Mnemonics. Crazy powerful memory tool, stupid easy to use. Take a couple of seconds to imagine wild, surreal images around whatever you wish to remember. You'll remember that thing forever. Crazier the images, better. Often, you won't even remember that you used mnemonics in the first place, you simply remember.

Say you meet a guy named Mike. Imagine Mike choking down a giant microphone. Scott? Imagine him with a Scotty dog head. Funny enough, it works backwards. "Hi! I'm Scott. Just imagine a Scotty dog head every time you see me!"

Say you want to remember to bring a thing with you when you leave the house. Imagine that thing pouring out of your front door in a flood, tripping and stumbling over all those goddamned water bottles or whatever. You might not even remember firing off the mnemonic, but you'll remember the water bottle!

I learned about this reading a book 30-years ago. It promised you could easily recall all 50 American states, in alphabetical order, within 20-30 minutes, or less if you're practiced.

Alabama: Grinning, toothless redneck hammering his sister who's stuck in a washing machine.

Alaska: Imagine that redneck piloting a monstrous baked Alaska with laser beams, poised to destroy the capitol.

Arizona: Now that floating baked Alaska has turned into a dried out husk in a dry desert valley.

You get the idea. Chain ludicrous images together. All you need is the first link. Same principle as a memory palace.

Don't have any particular pains, at least not getting up and down, but I've been making old man noises since I was about 40. Weird.

Consider Nixon resigning over Watergate, which would be small beans today.

This thread is telling me how miserly I am. :) I avoid buying new stuff, most of my shoes come from the thrift for $7-$15 bucks, so $65 seems steep.

But damn, I use these things and I've only once got a solid pair of used combat boots. ($10, very new, waterproof, or nearly so, total steal. They're just a tad tight for walking miles and miles, and super hot.)

8-monnths sounds terrible. Do you weigh a lot more than me? Where them everyday for work?

Nah, the heel kicked out sideways, kinda melted? Don't know how to describe it, but my foot falls off center when I walk.

Nearest cobbler, if he's even still there, is a total of 3-hours driving back and forth. Not worth it given the price of a new pair.

With you all the way though! I repair everything I reasonably can. Even thought about a comm themed, "stop buying new shit".

There it is, post I've been waiting for! Just like reddit, anyone talking about a product is a shill. You're very smart for noticing that!

Why would I be inquiring about alternatives if I were flogging this product? Why the HELL would a seller say that the product blew out and caused physical pain?! And why would I waste my time on a tiny community like lemmy? I must be the world's worst salesperson.

That IS a concern! Yeah, I've bought shit spaced a few years apart and the newer version was garbage.

Looks like reviewers are still singing praises. 4.6 rating, pretty good. OTOH, I've seen how easily impressed consumers can be.

Where is that word from?!

Still called quicksilver in some English speaking spots.

I wonder why YouTube works well for me, and no one has ever proposed an answer. LOL, I almost always get dogpiled when I say this.

My recommendations are spot on. Shit can get weird fast if I continue to drill down. Watched a few vids on survival and willingly went down the rabbit hole expecting radical nut cases. It wasn't bad at all and the survival stuff cleared out pretty quickly when I stopped viewing.

I don't search much as there's more interesting topics in my recommendations that I could ever see. But when I do search, I get what I aimed for.

Here's another weird thing: I watch a great deal of gun related content, yet never get any right-wing horse shit. OTOH, I won't touch right-wing gun nut channels, so maybe that's it? Also, right-wing gun crap is far more rare than apolitical reviews, tests and fun stuff. 🤷🏻

My only guess is that my account's so old (2006) that they have me perfectly dialed in. Anyone?

Having said all that, this bullshit is on my front page. Rather jarring as I never see garbage like that.

This is a web-based clone and it's all I use for photo editing.

https://www.photopea.com/

Bet you haven't seen The Way of the Gun.

Go in raw like I did. It's a unique movie.

What's Justified?! You have it listed with august company.

The physical world is too fast, relies on the speed of human brains calculating a million variables instantly, not mere pattern matching. See how hard it is to teach a robot to catch a ball. You have to input all the physics where a human doesn't even consciously think on the problem.

We humans are best-in-class at pattern matching, but we often get it wrong and AI amplifies those mistakes.

AI can be great at certain tasks, but we have to be cognizant of how that works.