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ExtraMedicated, in Iced

My mom once said “flat bowls” when referring to plates.

girl, in Iced

famous examples of this in my family include “lava mountain” for volcano and “lamp hat” for lamp shade

lobut,

Is your family bilingual or multilingual? I find that I do that type of translation between languages and it gets lost in translation.

girl,

no, just forgetful lol

Buttons, in Wishing you guys a happy civil war 2
@Buttons@programming.dev avatar

The Colorado lower court also found it was an insurrection, but that an insurrection didn’t disqualify a person from running for President (because of some very specific wording in the constitution).

So both sides in the case appealed and now here we are.

shalafi,

Knowing it would be appealed, no matter the ruling, the lower court found it was an insurrection. The next court had to take that as a factual finding. They could not argue or retry that question. It is now a legal fact.

Brilliant move! That judge took one for the team, called a coward and a traitor. And you see what we have here today. (insert wasted.meme)

The_Vampire,

That’s not how American courts work? The upper court can find issue with practically anything it likes.

Reddfugee42, (edited )

That’s not how American courts work?

Nope. The court of appeals can find fault with the methods, procedure, precedent etc but not the facts.

(Also, that’s not how question marks work.)

The_Vampire,

But here’s the thing: they could easily say the method that led to the finding is wrong. It’s not a fact.

Madison420,

If it’s decided by the lower court it is held as fact. It may not in your opinion be correct but it is verifiably a fact at this point.

Madison420,

Not fact finding they can kick it back to lower courts and say try it again but if the lower court says no they’re stuck with it.

Katana314,

Lower court: “We find that since the man was found dead from dehydration, he must have been killed by the accused’s witchcraft that sucked his fluids!”
Higher court: Looking at a body covered in bruises from a long fall “I’m sorry, what…?”

Sprucie, in Relentless potatoes

For people who are interested in the context, it was a student living at uni who moved home again during the COVID lockdowns. Once they’d lifted they came back to the flat to see this.

metro.co.uk/…/student-returned-flat-find-alien-po…

Skyrmir, in If you needed motivation

Well yeah I’m gonna let him out hustle me. That bastards on crack.

ivanafterall,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

So then what's stopping you from being on crack?

Viking_Hippie,

Greedflation coupled with stagnant wages, probably.

hrimfaxi_work, in Now that the trailer is out
@hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social avatar

Grand Theft Auto 6: Everything We Know So Far

Gruntyfish, in When will that bastard die?

Holy shit you called it

Custoslibera,

My only regret was not being able to purchase a realistic date on the Henry Kissinger death pool.

Nawor3565, in Hits close to home

If you still use Amazon, get the CamelCamelCamel addon. It shows you a graph of how the price of an item has changed, so you can see if a sale is really a discount of just one of these fake “sales”.

takeda,

Is it still working? When I tried it looked like Amazon blocked API and the prices available were off 3rd party sellers.

Voyajer,
@Voyajer@lemmy.world avatar

Worked for me yesterday

SpaceNoodle,

It worked when I was using it last week. It’s always a little behind.

CodyCannoli,

For some things the “3rd party seller” history matches amazon, a lot of videogames have the same promotions across multiple stores.

KrummsHairyBalls,

Not for me. Prices are months behind and Amazon pricing is unavailable.

bleistift2,

Easy to use, doesn’t need an account, doesn’t even need to be installed as an extension. Works for non-US amazon.

Thank you for promoting this!

sederx, in Always wondered how they feel

Maybe they are not insecure?

Norgur,

Be as secure as you will, if you see your SO in a romance scene in a typical hig h profile movie with all the right camera angles and music and all... it's bound to do at least something to you, right?

SzethFriendOfNimi,
@SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world avatar

Not really. Especially when you know what goes into filming them. From modesty underwear to lighting to 30 people around you just doing their thing for the production.

As a spouse of an actor you’d think you know just how “fake” the music and emotional impact is.

captainlezbian,

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  • Gabu,

    Being you must suck pretty bad.

    quantenzitrone,

    not as bad as ur mom, lmao gottem

    tacosanonymous,

    Like, get me horny?

    Norgur,

    That's definetly one of the possibilities. I never had a relationship with a movie star who did such scenes, so I wouldn't know.

    sederx,

    Nah

    Lmaydev,

    No that’s the point. If you are not insecure and trust your partner then you know it’s just acting.

    Norgur, (edited )

    I'm not suggesting that they might assume any of the acted scene had real feelings behind it. Yet still, visually seeing your SO seemingly doing intimate stuff will make you feel something. You might not be jealous or anything, yet still. That has nothing to do with insecurity. You can feel awkward without jealousy, can't you?

    kadotux,

    As a former polyamoric person, here’s how I (still) think of it: You can’t control your feelings (they are merely physical reactions to situations) but you can control how you deal with them. Or how you act on them.

    So in a sense, in my opinion, you’re both correct.

    Imgonnatrythis,

    So in a sense, in my opinion, you’re both correct.

    And that right there is the kind of attitude that gets you into polyamoric situations.

    Lmaydev,

    There are plenty of people who are completely comfortable with their partners being strippers or porn stars. It’s just their work at the end of the day.

    I’m sure plenty of people don’t really feel anything about it.

    zacher_glachl,

    There are plenty of people who are completely comfortable with their partners being strippers or porn stars.

    From a purely logical standpoint, given the number of strippers and porn stars out there, that statement must be true. It’s not quite something I can wrap my head around though.

    buffaloboobs,

    there are also people who genuinely feel happy for their SOs in these situations. Compersion is real and fucking wonderful. not enough people know 'bout it.

    theneverfox,
    @theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

    I mean, it comes down to jealousy, right? And that’s an emotion… You can’t really control your emotions

    I think it’s more a matter of “is this a deal breaker”. Some people just might avoid those movies, some people might need to see it and get reassurance, some people can’t handle it at all. And some people just aren’t bothered - there’s people who are fine with their partner dating other people so long as they come home at the end of the night

    Lmaydev, (edited )

    You are in fact the only person that can control your emotions.

    theneverfox,
    @theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

    You can control your reaction to your emotions, and you can change yourself.

    You can’t control your emotions themselves though, just the before and after

    ZeroTHM,

    Only if you care at all about them and your relationship.

    kofe,

    Yeah, and that something can be communicated. But at the end of the day it’s their job. I follow a therapist on YouTube that talks about his wife’s modeling career on occasion and he never really cared. He saw the work that goes into it and knows it’s just that - work. I think on the rare occasions it did bring up some feelings of jealousy he communicated the insecurity and got reassurance from her. That obviously worked well enough that they’ve been married a couple decades.

    On the work end, keep in mind how many times they have to shoot scenes/photos and how extremely unromantic/inauthentic it is.

    cornballdefense,

    Psychology in Seattle, perhaps?

    kofe,

    Hell yes, deserving listener!

    Son_of_dad,

    Why do people equate being secure with being ok seeing your wife kiss another guy? You can be secure and still against it

    Imgonnatrythis,

    Or secure and not against it because she is buying you a car with the movie monies.

    Gabu,

    At that point it’s a sugar mommy, not a wife.

    sederx,

    Why would you?

    Son_of_dad,

    Just because you wouldn’t be doesn’t mean everyone is the same, people have feelings. Even polyamorous people get jealous at times, it’s a normal thing.

    RagnarokOnline,

    I’m so secure that my wife’s boyfriend told me he was taking her away to the cabin for the weekend and I decided I’d have the guys over for a poker night. They’re just good friends.

    grue,

    A poker night and a poke-her night. Symmetry!

    A_Union_of_Kobolds,

    It’s cool, John Redcorn is just helping with her headaches

    OneWomanCreamTeam,

    I mean, that sounds like a pretty secure, polyamorous dynamic to me.

    Fizz, in $1 grilled cheese
    @Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

    Id love to see food trucks that were dirt cheap and just did 1 food. Please park this grilled cheese truck outside my house

    TenderfootGungi,

    Trucks that do 1 or 2 foods are not that uncommon. We have a fish and chip truck and a glazed donut truck. But none are cheap.

    interceder270,

    But none are cheap.

    This is the real kicker. Businesses charge what people are willing to pay, not what stuff costs to produce.

    ChickenLadyLovesLife,

    I went to a food truck festival a few weeks ago, and holy shit the prices of stuff. I don’t think there was a single item you could get for less than $18, and that was like the price of three french fries.

    Fizz,
    @Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

    Yeah that’s how it is here. Food trucks are only at events and event food costs a fortune for some reason. You’d think that having 1000s of hungry people in one place would allow the to drop the price a bit but nah gotta squeeze us for everything.

    ChickenLadyLovesLife,

    TBF food trucks are insanely expensive (like, $80K+ expensive) so I don’t really blame owners for charging whatever people will pay. I’m just amazed people pay that much.

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    You’d think that having 1000s of hungry people in one place would allow the to drop the price a bit

    That’s the sound of market demand going up, baby!

    interceder270,

    for some reason.

    Because useful idiots are proud to pay for it then complain they don’t have enough money.

    banneryear1868,

    Yeah classic food truck venue here is an event at a brewery where they’re legally required to serve food. So you buy tickets and then provide to the vendors, but if you work out the prices it ends up being insane with super small quantities. They always have to make the food weird too, sometimes it’s cool but sometimes you just want normal shitfood.

    I wanna do one where it’s like simple lowbrow stoner food done just a little fancy. Like grilled PB&J, but the peanut butter is the good stuff and the jam has the full berries in it, sourdough bread that can really take a heavy fry in some salted butter. The kind of stuff that’s dirt simple to make but really shines with a bit of extra love.

    Holyhandgrenade,
    @Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world avatar

    Yes but they were artisanal french fries

    zeekaran,

    In Colorado, that has been my experience for over a decade. Food truck food was never cheap here. In Portland, just this year, I managed a few great and cheap meals from their food carts.

    Potatos_are_not_friends,

    In my city: there was two stoners who ran around making three types of ramen - vegan, non-vegan (their broth is a different), and regular (they crack an egg).

    It was like $6-7.

    I loved those guys and used to follow them around.

    Fizz,
    @Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

    A ramen groupie

    interceder270, (edited )

    Imagine paying $6 for noodles.

    They probably loved you, lol.

    art, in Surprised Pikachu
    @art@lemmy.world avatar

    I’ve seen this one before.

    • A ton of people will complain
    • Firefox will get a bunch of users for a few days
    • 90% will go back to Chrome

    That last 10% will be happier but that’s just the way it goes. This is based on Netflix, Reddit, Twitter, and Microsoft.

    Da_Boom,
    @Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

    The rest will go to some other chrome derivative that includes a built in adblocker.

    ddkman,

    Until google announces that adblocks will be blanket removed from chromium as well. The truth is the only company big enough to maintain a fork this different, is Microsoft, the question is will they feel like they should, or will they side with Google, since this is by their interests as well…

    SamC,

    A browser is not like a social network though. There’s barely any difference in practical terms between Chrome and Firefox. Once you’ve switched there’s no reason to go back.

    dauerstaender,

    As long as there is suddenly a new pinned tab with irrelevant info or an unskippable pop up about the new color schemes or data grabbing websites pinned to the top sites or the company firing half their developers even when their CEO gets another pay raise or…

    tweeks,

    Desktop runs great, but Firefox on Android seems to be noticeably buggy here and there sadly. I still use it, but I can imagine that might drive people out of the ecosystem.

    Many people get used to the synchronization of their passwords / bookmarks cross-channel. More advanced users have a separate password management for this I’d figure, but that’s not the default for 90% I’d guess.

    dorumon,

    I use both a password manager and Firefox password sync.

    emeralddawn45,

    I’ve never had a single issue with Firefox for Android and I’ve run it on all my phones for like 6-7years at least, probably more but I don’t remember.

    atocci,
    @atocci@kbin.social avatar

    It doesn't play super nice with foldable phones. The UI doesn't adapt correctly without restarting the app and you end up with a very dense interface of overlapping buttons if you try going from open to closed. The address bar becomes completely blocked by all the extra buttons from the tablet layout, so the app is unusable.

    emeralddawn45,

    Well that’s a pretty specific use case, I’ve only ever met one person with a foldable phone. But yeah they should probably fix that.

    tweeks,

    Well, in my experience it’s mostly interaction bugs. Quite noticeable when you’re used to Chrome not having these issues.

    RogueBanana,

    You may think so but there’s always a bunch of posts about why people can’t switch out of chromium in every other Firefox related posts. There are few significant differences and some don’t wanna make any compromise for something better.

    stolid_agnostic,

    The only ones who can’t are those who have that SUUUPER special plugin that they need and they won’t look at FF alternatives.

    the_post_oftom_joad,

    I heard from someone who uses a shit ton of tabs in Chrome which Firefox doesn’t do as well apparently. But I’ve been a FF guy for as long as it’s been around and i hate open trans so

    stolid_agnostic,

    I miss the old Tab Mix Plus. I customized that crap out of that thing and it was lovely.

    extant,

    Agreed, I think they’re hedging on the amount of people who leave will be less than the increased revenue of those who stay. Considering the ones leaving were never going to allow as revenue anyway what do they really lose?

    nixcamic,

    This is why I don’t understand why anyone tech savvy isn’t using Firefox. There’s literally no cost. From a user standpoint they’re basically the same thing. The one that isn’t made by an evil monopoly is just the obvious choice.

    Ceraldus,

    And thus, entropy is presented. Even if only 10% go to Firefox, thats still 10% that aren’t going back to Chrome. And if this repeats with similar results, as you imply, that 90% going back to Chrome is gonna be a lot smaller a few iterations from now.

    WaxedWookie,

    Until they use their multiple monopolies to further cripple the experience for competitors, entrenching their dominance, and allowing them to force their proprietary standards on the internet, killing any remaining pretence of Internet freedom.

    stolid_agnostic,

    There were people back in the day who thought that the internet was that fancy E on the desktop (internet explorer) and would have their brains melt when trying to explain alternatives. I think that people now have this problem with a fancy G.

    hirogen, in F#€k $pez

    Lurker here. This is my first post. I ain’t leaving either.

    LifeInMultipleChoice,

    I saw a discussion the other day that may have been part of it. They were pointing out that many users when first joining lemmy created accounts on multiple instances. Whether they needed to find a community they preferred or do to ddos attacks and other issues causing outages a lot of those accounts have likely become inactive more as time went by. So the numbers may not be decreasing so much as been inflated by individuals coming up as multiple active users early on. I haven’t looked into how they are verifying what users are active though, so it could be wrong. If someone knows more please respond.

    ekky, (edited )

    As far as I have heard, “activeness” is measured by whether a user posted a comment/post the past month, so lurkers/voters are not being counted. This does likely skew the numbers quite a bit.

    EDIT: Found this nice answer from ~5 months ago. Yup, it appears to only count post+comment and leaves out voters and lurkers. :(

    Baku,

    Yeah, my first account on Lemmy was actually on Beehive, but I was confused by their sign up process (there wasn’t a page update telling me I had to verify my email, it just happened in the background and didn’t appear to do anything when I clicked sign up). I sorted it out when I checked my email an hour later, but that killed the vibe for me. So then I made this account, but jerboa didn’t support Aussie zone at the time so I made a shitjustworks account and used that for a while until I started becoming more active in the Aussie zone communities and tried to jump ship just for the ease

    But yeah, I saw quite a few people who were very confused about the whole instances thing and a few others that have jumped ship a few times because of it. And as I mainly browse local top day, then all top day once that runs out of content, and my instance federates with all the instances I want to interact with, I don’t see a reason to use either of those other accounts I created

    lost_in_the_bewilderness, in F#€k $pez

    I’ve been thoroughly enjoying Lemmy much more than I did Reddit. I find it’s overall less toxic and I’m therefore engaging more instead of just lurking.

    One criticism, though: I really do not like the communities that use bots to copy over posts and comments from Reddit. I see no value in commenting or engaging on those posts as the original poster is not present for discussion. It’s also kind of weird that the original posters are most likely not aware their post and its comments have been copied elsewhere and may be having further engagement.

    Sheeple,
    @Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

    Let’s be honest it works for memes. Memes are 99% of the time just reposted garbage anyways.

    For everything else though, I agree. Bots shouldn’t be used

    lost_in_the_bewilderness,

    Yes – I agree, it does work for memes.

    UnrepententProcrastinator,

    I’m fine with the post especially in niche communities just to keep them alive. But yeah comments seem useless.

    Lucidlethargy,

    On Reddit it got so bad I stopped responding to replies entirely. I’m still not very regular about that, but whenever I check now, I’m shocked to find I’m not just getting blindly downvoted for potentially contraversial statements. It feels like a really good sign to me - progress in an era of downward spirals as low effort people all over the world spew their nonsense on everything.

    GrindingGears, (edited )

    I treat Reddit like I treat twitter. When something happens, I look at it to get a read on the situation, or what people are saying or whatever. But I otherwise totally ignore it now.

    A year ago, I couldn’t go an hour without looking at Reddit.

    LinkOpensChest_wav,

    One of the best things I’ve done is to uncheck “show bot accounts” in settings.

    Blapoo, in Hey OpenAI

    I take it you haven’t seen the recent advancements in both robotics and LLM powered agents

    XEAL,

    LLM haters in 3… 2…

    asbestos,
    @asbestos@lemmy.world avatar

    I didn’t, mind providing links?

    Blapoo,

    Yep. AutoGen + MemGPT (+Locally hosted models) youtu.be/VJ6bK81meu8?si=mGnvMTJsLn_vMvRb

    Basically, a small company of self-refining LLM prompts that output meaningful results + a robust memory management for more long-term back and forths. Instead of “one input, one output. Next”

    Another example: youtu.be/5Zj_zstLLP4?si=nHu4vHwidRmvuViY

    I can share more examples and papers if desired.

    On the robotics front, the focus is still on training custom models for given actions. Which is having some success: youtu.be/Jy3zjXK4ao4?si=yFdqnl8z9Z8Becsc

    youtu.be/WlIYa3lH5UI?si=FQSZAm44h3FuuCoR

    I’m convinced these “hivemind agents” will pass custom model training soon

    asbestos,
    @asbestos@lemmy.world avatar

    Wow! I honestly can’t keep up with this stuff anymore… It’s insane how fast it’s advancing.

    Blapoo,

    I do it for a living and have given up being up to date on all the new shit going on. Billboard gets the W for now. LLMs cannot build houses in isolation.

    What everyone is missing is that they don’t have to. The right LLM with the right question can output a meaningful “decision” or “judgment call”. That’s all you need. Ask the right series of questions. We’ll call it “thinking”. I really believe that well is pretty deep. Will it be the first version of “AI”? Maybe. Maybe not. But it’s gonna be a big milestone that is going to soon fuck up everything.

    I can’t wait :)

    TimeSquirrel, (edited )
    @TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

    I'll be convinced they can fully replace most trade work when they figure out fine motor control and finally build servo or hydraulic systems that don't act all janky and with slop a mile wide. When they can strip a wire, and then terminate it into a screw terminal, and then install an outlet in the wall. All with one robot, using each tool as needed as finely tuned as a human would do it. And also being able to adapt to different situations on the spot. For instance "shit, the hole for the outlet overlaps a stud, wtf do I do to fix this" type stuff.

    From what I've seen even from the best like Boston Dynamics, there are still many decades to go before we have fully capable robotic trade workers.

    photonic_sorcerer,
    @photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Many decades? Try five years.

    evranch,

    Big lol. Doing unattended trades work is practically the definition of general AI, something we don’t see happening any time soon.

    Build prefab RTMs in a factory? Today, if the desire was there. Design the house around the line and build it like a car.

    Run a new circuit from the basement to an upstairs bedroom, in an old house with weird idiosyncrasies? Not in our lifetimes. The combination of mapping, movement, intuition and the fact that something is guaranteed to go wrong and likely require rethinking the whole job makes this a very hard problem™.

    Believe me if someone can invent a robot that can navigate a lumpy, rat infested crawlspace and install pipe/wires/insulation the apprentices of the world will be eternally grateful

    rwhitisissle,

    If Tesla has given up on fully self driving cars, wherein driving is a much simpler mechanical activity to replicating the full breadth of human construction tasks, then I don’t see how people are expecting tradecraft to get replaced by Mr. Fixitron anytime soon.

    Vampiric_Luma,
    @Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca avatar

    I’m interested!!! I’m SUPER interested!!!

    Ringmasterincestuous,

    If it’s LLM and robotics it better get used to having dick in it

    asbestos,
    @asbestos@lemmy.world avatar

    holy fuck thanks for the laugh

    plinky,
    @plinky@hexbear.net avatar

    They’ve learned to asnwer to emails?

    AngrilyEatingMuffins,

    They’ve been able to do that for a while. They got GPT to hire someone to break CAPTCHAs for it.

    BelieveRevolt,

    Bazinga so-true

    UlyssesT,

    Nerd rapture into the loving arms of the godlike but submissive holo waifu and ultimate comeuppance for the unwashed rabble is always, always just around the corner. Just you wait. wojak-nooo

    NutWrench, in I remember, assholes
    @NutWrench@lemmy.ml avatar

    What I want to know about that accident is, which idiot kept spreading the lie that the search teams were hearing “banging noises” every half hour, long after the sub had imploded.

    jdeath,

    Somebody was doing a little trolling

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