Nemo

@Nemo@midwest.social

I like American music. Do you like American music? I like American music, too, baby.

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Nemo,

AI isn’t reserved for a human-level general intelligence. The computer-controlled avatars in some videogames are AI. My phone’s text-to-speech is AI. And yes, LLMs, like the smaller Markov-chain models before them, are AI.

Nemo,

No earlier than 45. Otherwise you’re headed back into territory where your body and brain are still developing – fuck with that and you might not feel right in your own body.

Nemo,

They’re pretty lax about sharing your account login, so no, not necessarily.

Nemo,
  • Every MCU movie
  • Every Pixar Movie
  • Every Star Wars movie (and series)
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
  • All the early seasons of The Simpsons
Nemo,

There was a post up saying you need to manually delete your cookies for slrpnk.net and then login again.

Nemo,

My local library does craft nights, open mics, movie screenings, tax help…

So any of those except tax help. Unless that’s your kink, I guess.

Nemo,

Sure, violent chaos, but very localized. Even most right-wingers aren’t devoted to that tool.

The ones that are… they’ll be trouble, as you say.

Nemo,

Isn’t that more likely to be an artifact of the brand-new radar system? New systems always have bugs.

Nemo,

Earthsea by a country mile.

Nemo,

It’s from 1984. The book, not the year.

Nemo,

Oops, thought you meant “a break from being tolerant” and I was like, yeah, stop putting up with bullshit!

Nemo,

Fanfictions are original works using the setting or characters of another work.

If you change some things and republish, that’s an adaptation.

For example, the recent film Fire Island was an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

Nemo,

I still have the T-shirt that came with the box set!

It was a weird game, honestly.

I think the other two games in that series (Terranigma) didn’t get official English versions, but there are fanslations if you want to play them.

What are some productive things to do when you wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep for a few hours?

I’m looking for suggestions that zombie-me could follow through with. The problem is I can barely bring myself to get out of bed, let alone do a useful task. It just wastes typically 2–5 hours of my life as I wait for tiredness to finally (re)take hold.

Nemo,

Read a book!

Nemo,

Hey man, it’s fuck cars, not fuck bikes.

Nemo,

Not at all. It’s easy to get away with things even without superpowers. If I don’t do something, it’s because I don’t want to be a person that does that thing.

Nemo,

Are there other people enforcing Rule 3 or am I just aggressive enough about it that it made such an impression?

Either way, I’m pleased.

Nemo,

Because microblogging is about shouting into the void and threaded fora are about conversation.

What do I put on my resume when the contract owner of my job changes?

I work as a contractor, been working here for 9 years, had the same contract company all that time… Except until recently when the contract came up for bid and the old company was outbid by another. Lucky for me, they’re keeping all the same people, positions, and whatnot. I like my job, I look forward to the change, I just...

Nemo,

I had this happen in a different industry. I put both companies on the same line, separated by a slash. The position is the more important part anyway.

Nemo,

Brutality architecture, done well, already looks amazing!

That said, yes, their tendency towards large unbroken planes of material make them prime candidates for murals, and you see a lot of that in places like Chicago that had a big Brutalist phase.

Nemo,

Tip on counter service, don’t tip on retail purchases. This was a retail purchase. If you had gotten a latte you should’ve tipped a dollar for that, but not on the entire total.

You’re probably not going to hell because hell probably doesn’t exist. However, whether you are cast into the outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, that’s another matter and I suggest truly repenting for your misdeeds… of which this was not one, to be clear.

Do you prefer PC or laptop? (freeonlinesurveys.com)

I was having a friendly discussion with someone this morning about PC and Laptops for work/education stuff, he suggested that I could use a chromebook for all this stuff and this would be a good idea and make things easier. I strongly disagreed with this, mainly because I hate laptops, the keyboard and touchpad make me angry and...

Nemo,

Aren’t all laptops PCs?

Oh, rereading, I see you’re talking about netbooks specifically, which, yeah, are kind of not really PCs.

I prefer PCs for most things, no real preference for desktop or laptop as long as I can use a mouse; I usually do desktop because they’re cheaper to build and usually quieter.

Netbooks are fine for classwork, browsing, and webdesign in most cases.

Nemo,

Apparently, lucid dreaming. Been doing it my whole life, requires no effort to initiate.

Nemo,

90% of willpower is preparation. Arrange your life to make the things you should do easier and the things you should avoid less convenient.

Example: To avoid sleeping in, or worse, dicking around on my phone instead of sleeping or getting up, I put my phone to charge on the other side of the bedroom.

Another: I put a speaker in my kitchen to listen to music when I wash dishes. A lot easier to wash just those last few pots, even if I feel like I’m ready for a break, if I want to finish the song.

Nemo,

No, I don’t have to accept a digital photo of your license as ID. No, your birth certificate is not proof of identity; it doesn’t have your picture.

But the absolute worst one: Not only is this a beat-up photocopy of a foreign ID card with no photo; it also clearly states that you are 19 and even if I accepted this document as valid identification, which I can’t, I still could not legally serve you alcohol.

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