funkless_eck

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funkless_eck,

personally I think its better to be afraid of real things that are happening than things made up by Facebook boomers.

why this particular issue fools even the most technical of people I’ll never know.

funkless_eck, (edited )

obviously what you vaguely describe has been around since 1945.

That home assistant devices are constantly listening and feeding back marketing data on every conversation is patent and disproven nonsense.

they have done packet sniffing investigations, they have disassembled the devices, they have run meters on the electrical charges… everything in every way you can imagine.

But even if you just think about it for a second - processing a live audio feed at a rate of 1 second per second indefinitely and correlating that data via voice recognition to your Google profile all to… make your ad personalizations… worse? more inaccurate?

like what the hell is the perceived benefit? That my wife says, “oh my dad found my old barbie house!” while at my neighbors house and my neighbor gets served barbie ads? Why would Google want that?

funkless_eck,

what specifically? vaccines cause autism/monkeypox, the democrats drink baby blood, trump won the last/next election, Putin is good because he’s only killing Nazis in Ukraine, forest fires are caused by Jewish space lasers, LGBTQ+ folks are grooming children and Bill Gates wants to put microchips in your brain?

Like — what are you saying, some misinformation is good?

funkless_eck,

Right, so if “gOoGLe iS reCoRdiNg yOu” is false, it makes sense to call that out, no?

funkless_eck,

This part of the brain is called the brobe. The probe probes the brobe.

funkless_eck,

considering we can see it’s in Emaj and Gmaj that would be a very dissonant interval so I agree

funkless_eck,

there are a few in very popular yet casual categories like Overwatch, but yes you have to go into hot tubs to see them and spend time in those streams to get recommended them

funkless_eck,

I mean by the token of there being “a few” there…aren’t many.

I guess checking on a Saturday night might be my only advice. YMMV, I’ve seen it happen rarely, maybe it was a fluke.

funkless_eck,

apart from him wanting to conserve the status quo?

funkless_eck,

sometimes I do look at women - even attractive women - and see a man’s face in a moment of contextual disassociation. And vice versa. And I think about how maybe men and women don’t really look facially that dissimilar, there’s just a lot of context that affects our perception.

I am terminally bisexual though so maybe thats part of it.

funkless_eck,

do a little dance

make a lil love

get down tonight

funkless_eck,

just remember it with this simple mnemonic:

Some Oranges Have

Curly and Heavy

Toes On Apples

funkless_eck,

My Honda HRV is generally agreed to last 300k and up to 20 years. I will not consider myself ill-used if it makes it 75% of that.

Maybe even 50%. I buy new sofas, computers, phones, clothes, glasses, mattresses, etc. on a faster cycle.

Even cats and dogs as pets may not live as long.

If I ran a business off my transport maybe I’d feel different, but I’m not that fussed about a car per decade.

funkless_eck,

Sure but also, ive then been driving the thing for nearly 20 years by that point, there are other considerations: safety developments / code, electronics, interior materials, rust, cabling/tubing that it might just be better / more comfortable / nicer to replace.

funkless_eck,

yes.

funkless_eck,

without an identifiable accent

so… like Borat?

funkless_eck,

“x” is a kiss, used as an informal “yours truly” in British English digital correspondence

funkless_eck,

it does if you drink a mix of 1-propanol, phenolphthalein, sodium hydroxide, sodium bisulfite, methyl red, bromithymol blue, and thymol blue.

funkless_eck,

Nate’s (Frog’s) most famous work is his friend Daniel’s birthday:

wakelet.com/…/9e8e55ee-9c2e-4f88-902d-0e8975c03c9…

funkless_eck, (edited )

I’ve taken H2H, rapier, short sword and shield, sword and dagger and a few other stage combat classes in both UK and US — and then in production you usually just get “any old sword” (usually a heavy one, as Tybalt in R&J they gave me this really fancy grip with a finger hole for my index, but it made supranative positions difficult)

You’re right in that they are based on real combat — you learn fencing footwork and guards, but also you’re learning a mix of slight of hand (how to “knap” - fake the sound of hitting /being hit while reacting like its real), and safety instructions. As someone who came from ballroom to jazz/modern dance to acting, it’s more like dance, especially freeform contact improv dance, than it is like actual fighting.

I imagine in real fights-to-the-death there’s a lot less concern about safety, distancing and the lines your body draws in movement, and more about hurting the other fellow as efficiently as possible.

funkless_eck, (edited )

to clarify, I meant it looks and feels like contact improv (the so-named discipline of dance, not to be confused with improv comedy etc) not that it was improvised.

funkless_eck,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/6668664a-9088-4168-a208-b4f7cbc71954.jpeg

funkless_eck, (edited )

in the 1600s the adverb “bad” went from meaning “incorrect” to being an intensifier - “they wanted that badly” (meaning he wanted it very much, as opposed to his want being poorly formed).

This form of hyperbole has extended over the years and orphaned to a point where now the [they wanted that] part is inferred and we can refer to something as “badass” or “baddie”, understanding subconsciously that is implied that it’s an extender of wanting/liking something “a lot” (“badly”).

funkless_eck,

their reply: “oh so just normal male bonding, then?”

funkless_eck,

it’s a parody of the nursery rhyme “The Old Lady who Lived in a Shoe”

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