Not music, but the movie Fight Club is very much a pre-9/11 feel… specifically when Tyler is talking about how his generation has ‘no great war or struggle’. That line hit hard the first time I heard it, then after 9/11 it felt very nostalgic of as time when shit wasn’t so crazy.
It’s not so much the that drinking soda caused kidney disease as the lack of ever drinking water.
I attribute the sugar from the soda as helping to cause the diabetes though.
I was raised drinking soda as the default… water was never something we’d willingly drink. In middle school I noticed that every day I’d get home from school with a splitting headache and I’d take a couple of aspirin and wash it down with a Coke and the headache would go away. My parents realized that it was likely caffeine withdrawal… so instead of cutting out soda, they started getting me caffeine free soda.
It wasn’t until my older brother was in his late 30s and experienced kidney failure and required a transplant that I realized I needed to make a change. I switched over to water and unsweet tea as my defaults. Even after his transplant my brother still would only drink soda… he didn’t survive Covid. And today my mom routinely has kidney issues but still refuses to drink water.
Everyone in my family, except for me, has diabetes and kidney issues. I’m sure my 30+ years of daily soda drinking will catch up to me, but I do credit cutting soda out of my diet as having a major positive impact on my overall health.
This is a great question, but I feel that the better question is: If a model was trained on open source code, should all code created by that model then be subject to the licensing from the code it was trained on?
I’m really hoping we can fix the current issues with the Supreme Court before this question comes before it because it’s going to be hilarious when every company that has used AI assisted coding is forced to publish their source code.
I thought it was pretty clear that Bob Dylan was God. Did I just read too much into it?
I got tired of having to replace my daily wear belt every year and eventually I went to a local leather shop and bought a belt from them. It cost the exact same as the department store crappy belt, but it’s now been 18 years and I still have the same belt.
In fact, the belt outlasted the leather shop. I don’t know what I’ll do if something happens to my belt or my waist gets much larger.
He can still be a bitch.
And Kimi is also a woman’s name.
My neighborhood has a neighborhood pool as well as an HOA… and managing the pool is about the only thing the HOA does. The annual dues are only $250, and the whole HOA board rotates membership about every 3 to 5 years. It’s about the best HOA situation I can imagine.
Yeah, this appears to be for entertainment purposes only.
I can’t wait for the 2029 ‘live action’ remake!
If you’re looking for intelligent conversation with people in a niche community, you’re better off looking on Reddit than Lemmy.
A good friend of mine is an artist… he studied pottery, has actual degrees in it. He’s an incredible potter.
He and I get into heated arguments over what ‘art’ is, and who can be an ‘artist’. I claim that an artist is anyone who declares themselves to be an artist, and art is anything an artist has created and has declared it as art. He claims that an artist is only someone who has dedicated time to studying the art and has put in many hours of practice, and art can only be created by a ‘real’ artist.
I concede that someone who has studied and practiced is much more likely to create good art, but even shitty art is still art.
Such is the life of a pirate… morning is permanent and all good things will come to an end.
It’s always good to have alternatives and ensure you’re keeping up with them.
Because sometimes in life there are nuances and it is possible to mention one of those topics in a neutral manner, but the absolute hostility held here against anyone who tries to have a conversation beyond “_____ sucks ass!” is exhausting.
You’re on Lemmy… any statements about AI, Musk, trump, McConnell, etc that aren’t over-the-top against them will be met with downvotes.
the sales tax kills little kids in other countries
I agree with you, shop where you have to and do what you need to do to get by… sorry it’s so rough for you at the moment, but I did want to let you know that at least your sales tax money isn’t killing kids in other countries because the state gets the sales tax. Hopefully that helps just a little bit.
And, since the baby killing money comes from income tax, if you’re low income hopefully you can at least rest easy knowing that you’re contributing less to the baby killing machine.
The above is all mostly tongue in cheek, I feel for you and certainly don’t want to make light of a tough situation, but I’m hoping you at least got a smile out of it.
And in the case of Telegram, if they did that why would anyone sign up for their premium account?
I tried using Telegram and the amount of spam I would receive was annoying, but what was even more annoying was finding out that the ‘Restrict messages from users not in your contacts’ setting is paywalled. Telegram profits off of the spammers on their network.
And then after 2 years they will no longer support it.
I’ve had so many enjoyable hours of playing NMS, and eventually it does get to a point where I’ve completed the current missions and I’ve done everything multiple times and it gets repetitive… and I stop playing it. Then they have a release, and it’s an exciting game again.
I love that it’s still getting updates because it keeps me coming back. I can’t wait to check out this latest update!