Mr PoopyButthole

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywrEB2DA2P0

I definitely miss old Reddit, but it’s definitely dead now.

Used to be my go-to scrolling every day. After they screwed 3rd party apps I found Lemmy and love it. There was an obscure open source Reddit app that used scraping that was still working so I’d been using Lemmy and Reddit about 50/50. Nice thing was the Reddit app kept me logged out with no engagement so I wasn’t feeding the beast.

The other day all those little scraping Reddit apps finally died. Just useless. So fuck em I guess. If I ever need a more real-time larger user base I can go on desktop for it, but there is no mobile Reddit option (including offical) that’s even remotely usable now.

Can’t believe how much better the Lemmy experience is, even with its shortcomings. My only issue has been that the desktop web access feels rough. It also stinks not having the benefits of centralized storage. With Reddit I could bookmark anything and everything of interest in something like Raindrop.io and go see it any time months later. With Lemmy things often seem to be gone in days or weeks, or an instance will just be formatted horribly on desktop.

Still more convenient than Reddit and I hope the dev efforts keep polishing things up! 👍

OK but why is my state mandated minimum insurance nearly $90 a month for a Toyota Prius that I only drive like 30 miles per week?

My liability only plan was $55 in 2018.

I’m over 30 years old with no tickets or accidents on my record.

Maybe the whole data farming thing is being used as an excuse also, but this is bullshit all up and down.

I keep thinking how great it would be if the federal government made a central server system to access digital content for free via taxes.

All public domain and publicly funded research and content, all in one place. Could also host owned content for people/entities and pay out royalties automatically based on consumption.

There are ways to make this fairly affordable to everyone via taxes, but maybe the big opportunity is it could also allow companies to train AI on all the data for a fat, but fair subscription. The value of that could easily pay for enough to shrink any tax costs for the public.

To be clear, people absolutely can and do get past real cheating in relationships.

There are a number of reasons a person might cheat, and most of them have nothing to do with the person being cheated on, or the person being cheated with.

To work forward from something like this, the offender has to to communicate several things very clearly and honestly. Why did you do it? Why did you think it was OK? At what point did you decide it wasnt OK and why? How do you feel about it now and why did it not get discussed sooner?

Ultimately, you’ve described a scenario where your partner is not able to give you the trust needed for a healthy relationship. It sounds like there’s probably not a lot left to be said about the situation between you and if that’s the case then the healthy and respectful thing would be to end the relationship.

If you can’t trust each other its game over. You can keep manually pumping that heart all you want, but eventually you’ll tire out and have to call Time Of Death.

I don’t think he was trying to make literal statements with things like that. Yes, he used sociopolitical commentary as his medium, but he was still a comedian.

He’s not trying to convince his audience that everybody is stupid, he’s speaking to a feeling most of us have had when looking at what others are doing. Everyone sometimes feels like like everybody around them must be stupid, just like we all sometimes feel like we’re the only one missing something.

He’s beloved because most really talented comedians can derive humor from relatable or absurd situations and stories, but Carlin could make a rhythm linking broad abstract concepts of human experience to really specific examples.

He’s not a god, he was just a really talented comedian that had a unique style and medium.

I absolutely love how unhinged he becomes. The passage of time has only multiplied how dark the bit is too.

Last year stumbled upon a lone Turbo Man doll in a Walmart discount bin, made to look like the box from the movie.

Best impulse purchase of my life.

You do realize that anyone could still pay a higher wage to compete right?

You must be confusing it with maximum wage, which is the opposite and not a thing.

Imagine how racist that shark must be

I always respected that they used the whole spaghetti

I just wish the rate of false negatives wasn’t so bad. I feel like false negatives have gotten worse too. I’ve had textbook modern covid for two weeks, and now I’m better, but the cough wo,t go away. Never tested positive, but alternative diagnosis seems unlikely.

Already likely to be untrue, but honestly I’d happily sign up for a world wear “hold music” isn’t the same 20sec loop of shit jazz

I wish I remembered the details, but I read a couple years ago about new batteries using the same sort of principal.

It was being studied as a way to handle a specific part of radioactive byproduct from nuclear power.

You sandwich the tiny radioactive bit in materials to generate a charge, and the whole thing is encased in conductive man-made diamond.

A battery the size of a half dollar coin could generate roughly a watt of power for, ostensibly, up to hundreds of years.

The big seller beyond its lifespan is that the diamond is dense enough to shield the tiny amount of radiation inside.

Incredible potential that probably wont be realized in consumer goods for decades. Just think about never having to change the battery in a remote ever again. Or even a lot of wireless smart home sensors and devices.

A shocking amount of things take very little power. Air tags that never die. E-book readers. You could make super dim puck LEDs that are always on and can go anywhere for illuminating pathways.

You could never scale it much in size/output because the diamond encasing would become disproportionately heavy and expensive, but for anything 1.5 Watts and less, and possibly up to 3 Watts or so, could be totally feasible.

I’ve been raving mad about this exact shit for years.

I’m not a developer, but I remember how long pre-smartphone would last with little 500mAh batteries. Even after 3g and into 4g connectivity and well after the proliferation of less efficient Bluetooth a phone would last anywhere from 3-14 days between charging.

Now every phone has 3,000-4,000mAh batteries and, besides 5g, the wireless standards have become significantly more efficient.

The only notable offset is the big touch screens, but even those have gotten more efficient, and seems not to matter because standby time is still trash now too.

I doubt there’s a continous A/V feed to servers, but 100% our phones are always listening for keywords/phrases locally and then sending “relevant” data back for ads, on top of the always on location tracking.

It’s hilarious that phones cost as much as they do, considering how unwieldy and low screen-time they’ve become, on top of the idea that we’re paying to be tracked.

What’s funny is that this could only help if just one or two people use it in a given meeting. But if 4/6 people were to use it, then most of the meeting’s purpose is gone, and the notes are about nothing.

I feel like these LLM transcription summaries are better for quick reviewing of info.

The real dream is that when a boss has a long shpeil to dump on everyone, they could just ramble on to a conference room of bots and then it turns their whole “talk” into the paragraph email it should have been.

Yes, no contest.

I fucking hate Tom Cruise, he’s a suppressive person. WHERE’S SHELLY!?!?

I would never watch a movie with him in it, but getting him to do a role as an ugly Hollywood scumbag that thinks he’s god is amazing.

I’d also normally never watch a movie with blackface, but Tropic Thunder managed to use the worst of Hollywood to effectively shit on all of it and it will always be perfect for that.

I’m fine with smaller wheels, but as a Prius owner, I’m tired of my car being SO low to the ground. I can’t park in my own shitty driveway because my car eats shit on the curb of it no matter my angle of approach.

My girlfriend and I both have ADHD, but meditation has always been easy for me, especially at night.

You don’t have to do anything special, it can be while your in bed before sleep, for some people it’s just helpful to create a ritual or activity around it to occupy the part of your brain that’s liable to fixate on stress.

I’ve tried sitting with her for a guided meditation app she likes, but it makes it harder for me. Sometimes I feel like Ron Swanson talking outside the meditation class. “I have no idea what these guys are doing, my mind was completely blank”

Honestly one of the reasons I fell for a pyramid scheme coming out of high school.

A friend invited me and I went to shit on it and get him out, but the main guy’s whole thing was “everything is a pyramid scheme, at least here you have the chance to build a pyramid beneath you.”

Obviously there were other reasons as old as time, but the argument of “so what, your ‘regular job’ is already a pyramid scheme you can’t win” was pretty rattling to a teenager in 2011.

Big deal, I do that every time I have Benefiber with a cheese pizza