Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Conclusion: No-one who is capable of complaint, should.
…which is utter nonsense. Complaint often brings about improvement.
Or else we should instead beat people who are complaining into a state where they are no longer capable of complaint, which seems to be a trend these days.
Not pictured: The song that autoplays immediately afterwards that smiles as it punches you in the gut.
Unmentioned by other comments: The LLM is trying to follow the rule of three because sentences with an “A, B and/or C” structure tend to sound more punchy, knowledgeable and authoritative.
Yes, I did do that on purpose.
They asked, and were refused, in 2012 according to this article: https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/germany-gold-reserves-us-storage-repatriation-concerns-13878824.html
Heck, it wasn’t even a Republican government at the time. That gold is gone.
Anyone remember a series of Korean(?) comic strips with themes like this, except the art style depicted the emotion in a more extreme way? Exaggerated facial expressions (even for a comic). Foot up on a step and staring into the distance when caused to think about their own internal contradictions.
My search skills are failing me.
I saw a video the other day that repeated that claim, but I can’t remember which video it was, nor can I find a specific scientific paper on it (caveat: there may be a search skill issue on my part).
Interestingly, I did find a paper (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28430531/) that apparently seeks to investigate the claim, but doesn’t mention, in their abstract anyway, any specific papers making the claim. That’s something I’d expect they’d do if they found such a paper themselves, but I can also think of a few reasons that such information might be omitted from it.
… so you don’t think Mastodon is a worthy competitor?
How about Bluesky?
This rhymes if you are Australian.
How wrong would it have been to give the tongue a lisp?
My zero discrimination self says no, but my sense of humour says yes.
Which country? The ingredients of a sliced white loaf vary significantly across the planet. Here in Britain it’s (re)fortified with a lot of the things the bleaching process might otherwise take out, but those are pretty much the only additives. No sugar or preservatives. Keep a loaf in a warm cupboard for a week and it will visibly moulder.
But, one thing that generally doesn’t vary is the price.
It’s often the cheapest loaf by weight sold by any supermarket or bakery, so it’s a staple for a lot of people, weak sauce or not.
Oh thank f–k. I don’t think I could have handled there being a war with the US over Greenland.
Now all I have to worry about is the Online “Safety” Act and the rise of authoritarianism and the far right in my country!
Strong odds he’s the next Prime Minister. Unfortunately at least 50% of my countrymen are (still) stupid enough to believe the lies.
I made sl on my computer a bit more literal. It takes the output of ls -l and reverses every line, including any wrapping within the column width, and pads it to the right of the terminal. One day I might get around to fixing it so that it forces, parses and correctly reverses the ANSI colour codes too.
In /usr/bin, I get lots of lines that “start” with spaces and “end” with things like toor toor 1 x-rx-rxwr-
Trump and his family have gladly accepted Russian money and one of the world leaders he most admires is Putin because of the way he “handles” his political opposition, so they’re very much influenced by what Putin says, does and asks them to do.
Frankly both Putin and Trump can get in the sea.
You sound like the sort of person who would say “it’s for their own good” if Russia did lean into its patently obvious expansionist plans and try to take land from other countries. “But Belarus is OK and that would be easy”. There’s a Russian puppet in charge there, just like there’s a Russian puppet in charge of the US.
I think this might actually be the one I was thinking of! I had misremembered how and when he freaks out. That happens if you click on him to try to use the urinal he’s already stood at.
Makes sense in retrospect
I don’t think many countries have room to talk on that one.
Does anyone remember the Flash game that “taught” urinal etiquette? It would go through phases of what to do given which, if any, urinals were already occupied.
If you tried the scenario in the last panel here, the guy you stood next to would freak out, wave his arms around and look seriously annoyed. Edit: I had misremembered how and when he freaked out. See responses.
The whole thing was easy to get right on the first try, but like all good computer games, part of the fun was goofing around and doing things wrong on purpose.
Sigh. That was probably a quarter century ago now.
There’s something ironic about real bears being repatriated to a country run by a toy one.