Time for some trolling. xD

Definitely doing that for Harry Potter books lol, fuck that author (she who shall not be named).

Best let them come up with the idea, then you publish it the next day, and watch the author's reaction:

"Someone has already published a book on the same idea? Nooo wayyy!"

[Insert "U Mad Bro" Trollface Meme]

Sony believed that they had so much market share that they could make a console that was leaps and bounds more complicated to code for, which would lock devs in and prevent them from going elsewhere, and they’d just have to suck it up because of said market share. Sony was wrong, and they lost out big time that generation (although they did manage to win the Blu-ray vs hd-dvd format wars).

Microsoft seems to believe they have so much market share that they can force people to upgrade to a privacy invading, ai infested piece of crap, and that everyone needs to suck it up because market share.

I’ve already started hearing wind that people, in statistically significant numbers, are finding alternatives… so is this the same situation as the ps3?

Just a passing musing without much to back up the gut feelings.

Greatest thing for introverts / socially awkward people. xD

Does it even matter what the context of the open mic is much beyond a certain point or even the type of open mic? Are people going to complain about hearing a spicy email between singer-songwriter guitarists or between edgey standup sets?? No, it is guranteed quality content no matter what you are really just the messenger except you still get the experience of performing in front of people. Win-win for would-be artists and performers! Just keep it the right length, read the room and all.

Tamil: 247

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🇯🇵 Japanese: 46

🇵🇰 Urdu: 36

🇦🇲 Armenian: 36

🇷🇺 Russian: 33

🇮🇷 Persian: 32

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Note: The German alphabet consists 26 regular letters, 3 „Umlauts“ (mutated vowels: ä, ö, ü) and 1 ligation (double letter: ß - spoke as a „sharp s“).

Just for perspective: I am a man in my mid-40s and for as long as i can remember i had this question... is it normal that i can shut my nose close just with some muscles?

I always wondered why some people hold their nose shut with their fingers while jumping into a pool or when exposed to some horrible smell... i never had this need. Changing my sons diapers? No problem! Cleaning the latrines while in the army? Just a breeze!

Ehm... yeah... just thought about this...

So, maybe crazy conspiracy guy. Probably, actually.

But l mean...

• /u/maxwelhill is still silent since Ghisilaine Maxwells arrest. This was a long term power user and has been around pretty much since the beginning. At the time it went silent, the account was #8 in total karma.

• Aaron Swartz was a founder of reddit and died by "suicide" in 2013. Lots of controversy around all events leading up to it. He was hanged, just like Jeff Epstein. Perhaps he knew too much?

• Reddit was scarily protective of /r/theDonald.

• Spez was a mod of jailbait subs. And was quite reluctant to do anything about them, too.

• I still contend that monetizing API was a strategic move to get long term tech-savvy users (the proponents of open source, choice in software...largely left-wing users) off the site...they wanted us gone.

• I still contend that Ron Paul's 2008 reddit fame was a trial run for utilizing social media to mobilize young white men towards conservativism.

Idk. Maybe I'm just being really paranoid, but man...I'm really looking at reddit, Spez, and the past decade or so in a different light.

Fe rusts.

This unoriginal idea hit me when I was washing my hair.

It's usually a bugger to get out and you need to involve a finger.

I don't recall that happening with any other foodstuff.

Similarly, future-you is also looking back at this moment, you aren't alone. You are a 3-dimentional creature and you perceive time linearly, but somewhere, outside of the boundaries of space-time a version of you is with you right now, watching you, accompanying you. Similarly, a past version of you, the childhood spirit of innocent and of hope, is alone traversing this journey, together.

AI (LLMs and image generators, really) is trained on human-made material scraped from the entire internet. As more and more communities and sites online are filled with AI-generated content, AI training is in danger of getting stuck in a loop, trained on its own output again and again.

Communities that are harshly purist in their anti-AI rules are thus an excellent source of curated training data for AI while the rest of the internet becomes unusable for the task.

Perhaps AI companies and their products are even deliberately so annoying, shitty and repulsive, because they want to spark some resistance, have a part of the population reject AI and enforce anti-AI rules and communities.

I've tried to understand the logic behind offspring species, but I haven't been able to find a pattern.
Love the show, though.

And elephant have a ~~frunk~~ phrunk.

fabric colors that were "always" available to common man were shades of everything from red to blue, white, black, brown and grays. purple was also always available, but extremely expensive.

enter coal tar era of chemistry (starting 1840s or so): aniline and later diazo dyes made fabric in all possible colors not only available, but cheap. yes initially they sucked, they ran, they weren't resistant to anything, they will give you ballsack cancer, but they were a thing. for a short time, purple fabric was a choice of the extravagant and the futuristic, and then people just stopped paying attention as it became more common

blue LEDs were sort of also used as a futuristic aesthetic choice, just after they appeared, but before these things became common, and now blue LEDs are just everywhere

Thought of this in the shower after commenting on a post about securing boot partitions.

I'm not knocking on any of these things, only noting their similarity. When taken to the extreme, all of them seem to evoke a weird mix of paranoia and eager anticipation.