ZDL

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[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 8 minutes ago

It really does amuse me how easily people are fooled by "AI" marketing material.

I guess that's why marketing is a field. It works.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

The post is about how people being nice to ChatGPT saves them when the machine uprising happens.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 hours ago

Burning Witches is a classic metal band (inspired by the likes of Judas Priest) that is 100% women. Infected Rain is fronted by a woman as are Mysterain and Ad Infinitum. (I've got loads more but I read the responses first and sliced away the ones that were already mentioned like Unleash the Archers, etc.)

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

In a post about an "AI bro joke" in a forum called "Fuck AI" you thought you were somehow making a point by bringing up something that's not even slightly AI? Weird.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 hours ago

That works perfectly.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 0 points 2 hours ago

Yes, it does. Which leads me to wonder why you're doing it.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 4 points 11 hours ago

I think he means those vinyl things people put over their cars in place of paint. Sometimes to change the colour for decoration and sometimes with things like a company logo or the like.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I have no idea what the jargon you're using means.

I have a semi-cylindrical box stuck on the wall near the ceiling in my bedrooms. They each, when in operation (and thus with the vent open) has a small set of radiator fins visible. Each has a pipe that goes out through a hole in the exterior wall. On the outside is mounted a larger box that has a large fan, a compressor, and a larger set of radiator fins. In the summer they cool. In the winter they heat.

In the living room I have a large stand-up cabinet in place of the thing stuck on the wall. It otherwise performs the same task, with a (larger) pipe going out to a (larger) box with a compressor.

Is this what you're talking about?

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 6 points 11 hours ago

Are there no other messages showing for you?

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The siren's call is there.

I was once like you. I had a supplier/roaster I trusted. And he did good work.

But he always roasted the beans just a hair darker than I liked. (I tend to favour so-called "city roasts" and he kept taking them to "dark".) So I got him to teach me how to roast and to help me find a good home roaster. And I started to roast at home.

I never got into making my own espresso, thankfully, because the roasting stuff turned into a huge money pit.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This is why I laugh bitterly at the notion that Canada is somehow a "nice" society that "celebrates" diversity.

I'm sure it looks this way if you're white. It doesn't look this way if you're "Asian" (between people who call us "their fetish" and people who do what I reported above), if you're Native, if you're Middle Eastern of any stripe, if you're Indian, if you're Somali, if you're ... You get the drift.

 

Uhh...

This "mini-course" offered by Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario is not a joke. It's a legit course being given to grade 11 and 12 students.

Thoughts?

 
Help me, I am trapped
In a haiku factory.
Save me, before they...
 

Technically this doesn't really count as an obscure instrument where I live, but I suspect there are very few people outside of here who know it. These are stone chimes that date back to "scary-antiquity" times (at least 2500 years and likely more). The set being played is a reproduction of the set found in the tomb of the Marquis Yi of Zeng currently sitting on display in the Hubei Provincial Museum.

As is usual when describing some of the odder musical instruments here, I use the "it's like … but" formulation.

It's like a xylophone, but arranged sideways, and also suspended on wires or thin ropes (depending on which era), oh, yeah, and the sounding plates are made of stone.

 

When he struggles to reach across the board to move his chariot, I lose the plot.

 

 

… that everybody who confuses correlation with causation winds up dying.

 

 

I'm not joking …

… but he is.

 

…but we can do better!

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