blooalien

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by blooalien 2mo ago
I feel like it's much the same for bad habits broken, too. If you allow yourself to fall back into a bad habit (smoking, drinking, gambling, etc for example) it feels really challenging to break it yet again. Best excuse I suppose to
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> "Ah I was hoping I could add photos from my favorite place in my city, but alas." Just down the page it says "Ideas, collaborations, and questions: chef@ramen.haus" so I suppose you could always email 'em about
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> "Lizard people." I so yearn for "the good ol' days" when "tinfoil hatters" were ridiculed and statements like yours were still proper humor and not almost logical and halfway believable reality.
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by blooalien 2mo ago
Some downright drool inducing photography there. So many truly delicious looking ramen bowls.
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> The cookie preference pop up on this site is unacceptable - 1 click to accept all cookies, SEVEN clicks to reject all cookies. Yeah, that kinda dark pattern / malicious compliance junk ought to be straight up illegal. At least on
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by blooalien 2mo ago
@shusaku> "The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know to whom you should ascribe a quote." Well, so far I see variants of this particular quote from Aristotle, Einstein, and Voltaire. Someone else probably said it
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> What makes an open-weight LLM dangerous? Same thing that makes any LLM dangerous. The intent and actions of the person using the LLM to do bad things. Any tool can be dangerous in the hands of the wrong person...
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by blooalien 2mo ago
"The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know." — Aristotle
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by blooalien 2mo ago
Mad Max + 1984 + Terminator + Fahrenheit 451 all rolled together into one fantabulous dystopian death planet.
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by blooalien 2mo ago
The world where entirely too many of our "leaders" and their "cult members" wish for the "Mad Max" future rather than the "Star Trek" one.
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by blooalien 2mo ago
All fantastic ideas! I bet you we could get our illustrious U.S. "Department of War" right on that without too much effort spent tryin' to convince 'em.
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by blooalien 2mo ago
"American Ninja Warrior" gameshow looks a lot like it to me; It looks like a pretty direct copy of "Takeshi's Castle" in many ways in fact.
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by blooalien 2mo ago
Someone else here also mentioned Chatto [0] which seems far easier to self-host than Fluxer, though both appear to be quite similar to Discord in overall functionality. I've played with Chatto a bit and it seems surprisingly solid ove
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> What is "reality"? Is there really any such thing as ground truth for most things? “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Dick
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by blooalien 2mo ago
> This admin has lied repeatedly. Why would any of us believe a statement solely because the admin said it? At this point they've lied enough that the assumption should just always be "They're probably lying again. I need
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by blooalien 3mo ago
There's an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> @wetpaws: "Americans never had any privacy" 100% untrue (at least for some Americans in some parts of the USA). We had fairly solid privacy for the most part in small-town North-western Montana when I was a child. Peopl
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> With a nation this far endebted you'd think people might think it reasonable to question billions in grants.. One might also question the wisdom of starting yet another ongoing war, or throwing piles of money at putting a presiden
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> for the sake of the smart ones can we at least check? >> You are proving my example by presupposing there are no checks and that investigations never happen. You are the person saying “please think of the children and install smo
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by blooalien 3mo ago
Jesus, just fuck off and die already you truly worthless piece of shit. You're only here to fuck with people and further enshittify the world. Literally nobody benefits from your existence or your presence here.
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by blooalien 3mo ago
People like you who actively go out of your way to make the world a far worse place than the shit-hole you've already turned it into are the "source of my pessimism".
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> Talk to a therapist. Why? It might help me but it won't fix you and you're the problem here. Your whole intent is to aggravate me into hating you even more than I already do. Well, guess what. You're wasting
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by blooalien 3mo ago
I hate all you politics worshippers equally. You're the reason humanity has no future but extinction. Left, right, doesn't matter. You worship the cult leaders that only care about burning the Earth to the ground for money an
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by blooalien 3mo ago
Yeah, you can just fuck right off, too. My reply wasn't for you. It was for the person who wasn't actively trying to rub salt in the wounds and be a worthless little shit. > I don't know why you're saying you&#x27
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by blooalien 3mo ago
To be 100% honest, I really don't want to have this (or any other) conversation with you (or anyone else) right now (or possibly ever; I'm just sick and tired of people and their hateful bullshit), but purely out of respect for
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> Do we see signs of reasoning or is it anthropomorphism? This is the part that so many folks just don't seem to understand (probably because it's been labeled as "thinking" or "reasoning" mode, and peop
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> Almost as good as when they call everyone else "NPCs" and claim they're all performatively "virtue signalling". Yeah. The more of that sorta thing I see (and I see more of it daily these days) the more convinc
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by blooalien 3mo ago
Thank you.

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