LovableSidekick

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

In the most absolute historical sense all borders are arbitrary made-up lines on the ground.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Yes, the question itself is too simplistic for a meaningful answer without lots of conditions and qualifications. It just invites highly polarized apples vs oranges arguments.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Except not. Still nice to see any TNG or Community reference tho.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

Doesn't matter that you waited... you're here now. Congrats!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

"Don't call me Shirley!"

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

TIL Jenna Fischer, known as Pam in The Office, is not related to this guy. Or to Gus Fischer, a guy I knew in high school.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Good antidote: play Superfreak in your head.

Drawback: now you have Superfreak playing in your head.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Minor flex, I'm actually pretty good at solving these without any letters. It used to drive my parents crazy. Not much use unless you are able to get on that show.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

No I didn't look at phone use, but who has? The underlying point is really that when people are screaming about a reason something is horrible, and they're confronted with the information that something they personally do is in the same ballpark (and has been for decades), how should they respond? With a little self examination? Question their own priorities slightly? Apparently not. Just insults, denial, and debate-club bullshit. Like their favorite entertainment is sacred. It's exactly how the business world responded to climate change - deny, deflect, disengage. Very disingenuous.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Sounds like an argument that would take at least two meetings and a dozen emails if this were done by a company lol.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I'm just looking at lemmy.world in a web browser - does that count?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I would expect that an AI designed to be a life coach would be trained on a lot of human interaction about moods and feelings, so its responses would simulate picking up emotional clues. That's assuming the designers were competent.

 

Typical pattern: "Scientists find something strange when they look at a common whatever - and it's not good!"

This kind of crap used to be the style of little blurbs at the side or the bottom of an article, but it's in the headlines now. Until you click the headline you don't even really know what the article is about anymore - just the general topic area, with maybe a fear trigger.

Clicking on the headline is going to display ads, but at that point the goal isn't to get you to buy anything yet, it's just to generate ad impressions, which the content provider gets paid for regardless of whether you even see the ads. It's a weird meta-revenue created by the delivery mechanism, and it has altered the substance of headlines, and our expectations of what "headline" even means.

 

Dunno what made me think of this just now. When I worked for IT in a school district way back in the 90s, a librarian told me she kept a supply of mouse balls in her desk because kids would steal them out of the school computers. What I remember about those balls was they picked up dust and crud off surfaces. Pretty soon optical mice came along and they were history.

 

No idea how I got there but somehow I saw this post somehow on sh.itjust.works, about a prefab house that was found floating in the Pacific. I wanted to comment but the only login I have is on lemmy.world. Notice the post is from The Picard Maneuver, whose posts I've seen many times, and it says lemmy.world above their name.

Lemmy.world has a whitepeopletwitter community but the newest post is 2 months old. This one is from 10 hours ago. Search on the lemmy.world main page for "Minding" turns up a bunch of posts going back months, but this one isn't there.

I thought I understood how federation works but I'm stumped. Is this really a lemmy.world post? If not, what does the presence of "lemmy.world" on it indicate?

 

Seems to go way back to the B&W movie era - men in tuxedos, women in evening gowns and boas - glamorous socialites dressed to the nines, watching a couple buys beat each other up. Sometimes the MC is in a tux. I don't get how that whole package goes together.

 

American here. Granted, the tea stands on its own merit. But if not for TNG I probably would still be drinking standard Lipton like my parents did.

 

[SOLVED] - thanks to !DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com

When I was using Windows, by holding down the Alt key I could highlight words in the text of a link the same way as in normal text, and then press Ctrl-C to copy.

On Mint, holding down the Alt key puts the cursor in a repositioning mode (a cross made of arrows) that drags the current window around. This happens identically in Chrome and Firefox.

How do you copy some words from link text?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by LovableSidekick@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

You also need mustard and mayo.

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