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by wincy 2y ago
I’ve had a fan die TWICE now in my fan. It blows the cold air from the bottom freezer up to the top refrigerated portion, so it’s catastrophic when it happens. At this point I just have a third fan in the garage in a box in reserve so I don
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by wincy 2y ago
Telegram is one of the last remaining bastions of free speech and the internet as “Wild West” in the world, where nobody cares about “intellectual property” and shares the digital files and infinite information we’ve been so fortunate to ha
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by wincy 2y ago
The most persistent emails I’ve gotten are from being Mormon at some point in my life, and familysearch.com has some special Mormons only mailing list that you’ll get re added to no matter how many times you unsubscribe. It’s kind of hilari
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by wincy 2y ago
We just let our kids leave. Which apparently has made them extremely popular and every parent on the block is texting my wife asking if they can come over and play. My 9 year old is known as the kid who comes up with fun games to play. The
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by wincy 2y ago
Do people really drink that much alcohol? It’s funny because in the article she quotes her friend saying they drink once a month or so. That’s just always been my default. I hardly ever drink, but I don’t actively shun it. I guess when I’m
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by wincy 2y ago
I think that’s just how ChatGPT works. It’s really tiring and apparently the only way to tell you aren’t talking to a bot in 2030 will be to say you think eating soap is a fantastic idea or something else AI refuses to say because of “safet
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by wincy 2y ago
It’s interesting that the fake paper generators of today are lower quality than the ones from over an decade ago. SciGen makes more believable papers and it came out in 2005 [0] This generator reeks of ChatGPT, and says “whimsical” and “fic
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by wincy 2y ago
Curious, what sort of phone do you use?
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by wincy 2y ago
I forget where I’ve read it (I feel like slatestarcodex or gwern or one of those folks) but basically our bodies are constantly fighting megaloviruses (various forms of herpes) and we’d inevitably lose the battle if we lived to 120 or so.
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by wincy 2y ago
You’re off on coffee, a few months ago I too assumed it came from the Americas because it grows so well here, but was surprised to learn it’s actually an old world thing. https://www.ncausa.org/About-Coffee/History-of-C
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by wincy 2y ago
Now now we aren’t allowed to assert that our culture is better or worse than any other, that is an inviolable cardinal sin for our pristine progressive rationalist minds. We have all of modern pharmacology and they have tiny sticks poked in
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by wincy 2y ago
Well what the heck was Bing Chat doing when it wrote me a message all in emojis like it was the Zodiac killer telling me a hacker had taken it over then spitting out Python code to shutdown the system, and giving me nonsense secret messages
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by wincy 2y ago
Anelli-O’s just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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by wincy 2y ago
Meatball spaghetti-Os were my favorite.
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by wincy 2y ago
We’d go outside? Derive pleasure from being around people near us instead of seeking external validation and watching shows crafted by Hollywood midwits? Maybe we’d have more hobbies and do sports?
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by wincy 2y ago
I just bought a 2024 Toyota Sequoia. It’s a “real SUV” and uses the same engine as the Toyota Tundra. For us, we wanted a vehicle that could tow a Camper Trailer, and one that could hold my daughter’s wheelchair easily, as well as her frien
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by wincy 2y ago
Right, the “actual SUV” by Toyota is the Sequoia, which is substantially larger, can tow things, and gets about 18mpg.
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by wincy 2y ago
I mean, normally I wouldn’t share, but you asked … my wife and I had terrible hemorrhoids to the point I was considering going to the doctor from using toilet paper. I bought a bidet and I’ve never had issues again. I’m happy to say my anu
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by wincy 2y ago
I know, think of poor JRR Tolkien’s grandchildren and great grandchildren!
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by wincy 2y ago
As an example of a group I’ve recently become a part of, I go to a sizable convention once a year. I met some people there and we traded Discord usernames. They invited me to their private group and we’ve coordinated events, and there are f
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by wincy 2y ago
I’d probably do that for a dollar.
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by wincy 2y ago
Bizarre that I literally heard about this for the first time yesterday, as it’s mentioned in the excellent game Pentiment, which is about a scriptorium in a 16th century monastery (which is more interesting than it sounds!) Thanks for shari
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by wincy 2y ago
Honestly considering Lynn Conway’s Wikipedia profile mentions being a transgender activist and not knowing much about either of them, I thought maybe I’d just missed that John Conway had transitioned at some point, and had now died.
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by wincy 2y ago
Haha I remember for my first dev job thinking the hiring manager would watch a ten minute long tech demo I’d posted on YouTube of my personal project. I was so excited when I interviewed and asked if he had watched it, he responded with “I
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by wincy 2y ago
Yep, we have a neighborhood group chat and send over a note with phone numbers when a new person moves in. Works great. She also has an Apple Watch with cellular service in case we need to get ahold of her. I’m happy to say she came home ri
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by wincy 2y ago
I walked to the gas station with my dog and two kids, and had a guy yell at me that my kids were going to get kidnapped while I went inside for 5 minutes to buy us some waters and snacks. The biggest hurdle for us letting our children be fr
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by wincy 2y ago
My daughter has been playing outside since she was 4 years old, unsupervised. She's 9 now. A lot of the other neighborhood kids have followed suit (I really suspect our "benign neglect" made the other parents thing "well
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by wincy 2y ago
Easy now Rorschach, would you really want to live in a society like this? I could imagine finding out my cousin got murdered because he didn’t realize he was selling old iPhones that were stolen with a plan like this. This is comic book lev
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by wincy 2y ago
But if they did that they couldn’t send you to a retention specialist when you want to cancel! And automatically switch to your reissued credit card when the old one expires, counting on you to forget that subscription and be a lifelong cus
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by wincy 2y ago
“Slavery” is an absurd term here. I forgot that if I quit my employer will publicly flog me and drag me back to my workplace. For anyone who thinks about it for half a second it’s obvious productivity is going to be higher in the office, as

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