Appropriate, considering voters just took our country out back and shot it in the head.

if you think lack of cooking is going to affect my dating life…

I advise anyone who enjoys eating tasty food learn how to cook. Even if you live the rest of your life single, being able to knock out a tasty meal when desired is a gamechanger to your quality of life. And if you do find a romantic partner, seeing them enjoy food you’ve prepared them is a special kind of warm-and-fuzzy. 10/10

They’re complicit.

…if we were made for these times, whoever made us is evil.

If we’re talking that shitty highschool cafeteria pizza, I swear doing this made it taste better.

To hell with calories or fitness or any of that crap - it’s the noms that matter.

Lots of talk about which search engine to use; surprisingly little talk about extensions.

Block or Highlight Search Engine Results is my personal recommendation. Whichever SE you use, when you see a result that’s AI slop or a garbage website like Forbes, just add bullshit.com to the filter, set to hide, and you’ll never see that trash in a search result ever again.

Be diligent about it for a good week or so, and your search result quality will absolutely explode, whether your using Google, DDG, or several others.

Just wanted to follow up - did the presentation a few days ago. Went great, and I got the reaction I was hoping for from the audience. I saw some combination of shock, anger, horror, and most importantly compassion on just about every face infront of me (class of about 70 people).

Wrapped it up by hitting them with a quick spiel on “If you think this needs to change - or stay as is - that’s up to you: submit your answer into the ballot box on November 5th.”

No idea if I spurred any into action any who weren’t already planning on voting, but there was definitely some energy in the room. That went about as well as I could have hoped!

Thanks for the assist!

Just in time to boycott McDonalds over their efforts to host a domestic terrorist’s photo-op!

Fuck that company.

/shrug. No insight on the effectiveness of the design; that’s just what’s in use now.

Lol wut. Surgeons bitch when they’re wearing so much as a headlamp. A bulky-ass VR headset will never be a thing in the operating room beyond the odd techy doctor who’s in a VR infatuation phase.

The Davinci surgical robot has a VR headset kinda built into it so surgeons can see in 3D when they’re doing robotic assisted surgeries, but that’s not something they wear : it’s a little station they sit at and just lean forward into, no straps or weight or anything.

I’ll take all the ammo I can get. I feel like the focus is usually on the fetus, so I’m trying to move the spotlight more onto the (absolutely horrific) maternal impact… but tbh most of the folks voting against abortion rights don’t actually give a fuck about the mother, so some focus on ‘pro life actually kills more babies!!’ would probably be a more effective attention grabber for the voters who actually need to be swayed.

Well how’s that for timing. Fuck yeah I’m using this! Thank you!

Yeah.

I’m not super familiar with Final Fantasy. Played FFX, but none of the others.

…not really sure why; I did enjoy FFX, just haven’t ever gone beyond that. /shrug.

In any case, your wardrobe sounds like it’s got high fantasy written all over it, which is pretty awesome!

If mine (Shockz Openrun Pro) are any indication, there’s still some sound leak if they’re turned up a bit, especially with the higher pitch sounds. Significantly less than with a normal headphone or ear pod, but definitely can’t blast it without sharing whatever you’re listening to with anyone around you.

I’ve seen them advertised as ‘zero sound leak’ which is a bit misleading.

Another of the CIS horde spilling in from All, checking in…

If you catch me staring, it’s cuz you look like a Witcher. All you’re missing is a sword or two.

10/10

Bonus pts for the bone conduction! I got a pair a few months ago and fucking love em.

That was both hilarious and painful.

And I don’t mean to always hate on it - the tech is useful in some contexts, I just can’t stand that we call it ‘intelligence’.

Probably because that’s the common expectation due to calling it “AI”. We’re well past the point of putting the lid back on that can of worms, but we really should have saved that label for… y’know… intelligence, that’s artificial. People think we’ve made an early version of Halo’s Cortana or Star Trek’s Data, and not just a spellchecker on steroids.

The day we make actual AI is going to be a really confusing one for humanity.

What did I get flipped?

Legality vs morality

Why wouldn’t torrenting the source code of proprietary software would be a legal issue?

It would be a legal issue. But it’s not a moral issue, which is why so few people are showing sympathy for Nintendo. They lose nothing if someone gets a copy of the code - there’s no victim. They do however have a LONG reputation for weaponizing the legal system by attacking fans with frivolous lawsuits - those DO have a victim, and are therefore a moral issue with Nintendo as the aggressor.

But regardless of context, again don’t conflate legality with morality. Ever. History is absolutely stuffed with atrocities that adhere to established law, that doesn’t make those atrocities okay. Videogame code is pretty minescule compared to legal attrocities like slavery or the holocost etc, but point remains that the law in-and-of-itself doesn’t mean shit.

Also fuck Nintendo.

Ya got those flipped.