OooOoHh ChInA…
The only thing I’m worried about with China is they’ll resell the data back to the country of origin’s government so they can raid your home after serving you targeted ads.
“Now, little Timmy, make sure to tell me, Robo-Buddy, all your secrets about your most favorite presidential candidate.”
"My hand to God
I didn’t mean to
After all
Look what we’ve been through
Men come in different shades
That’s how we’re made
The little house on Ellis Drive
Is where I felt most alive
The oak tree covered that old Ford
I miss it Lord,
I miss it Lord
These blood red eyes
Don’t see so good
But what’s worse is if they could
Would I change my ways?
Wasted times and broken dreams
Violent colors so obscene
It’s all I see these days
These days"
Just a deep and profound expression of regret for misconduct towards another, a special person, and the feeling of tremendous loss that comes from the inevitable, irrevocable, change there from.
I know it all too well.
Ah, one of my first jobs involved coming in earlier than everyone else and starting up the inventory management program on the AS/400. Never even saw the machine itself, just connected via command prompt through my desktop and typed in some instructions.
No. Also sit in urinal.
“Do not ask for a lighter load, but wider shoulders.” -on trials and tribulations.
“Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” -on compassion and perspective.
“It takes pressure to make diamonds.” -on appreciating adversity.
“You can either laugh or cry. Take your pick.” -on the absurdities of life.
“You can never go home again” -on impermanence. Not in the literal sense of never being able to physically go home, but rather that specific time and place in life that can’t be returned to.
“You are the captain of your ship.” -on taking command of your life.
This is very true and ultimately one of the most difficult choices to ever make consistently.
Plot twist, the aliens were the dinosaurs.
This was actually a really good read. They’re like a game software engineer detective.
That’s a really good take.
Who’s AI? There aren’t any rogue agents hiding on unsuspecting users computers running around solving science questions. They are all delpoyed by a company or persons.
So the proper question is “Will a company utilize your work and take the credit?”
You can tell you reached your target audience with your question (me included) because the average reading comprehension level in here is shit 🤣
No, there was not a direct link to crime statistics at that time.
If I recall correctly, it takes about 100 lbs of force to pull the head off of a chicken. So while a strong person with a really good grip could do it, it’s hard to do with just arm strength alone. As soon as you employ back and leg muscle into it, with a way to pin it down though, it would be fairly easy.
So, applying that to a snake, and I’m not sure how the skin and ligament structure compares to a chicken, by hand, is probably really difficult if not impossible. However if you step on the snake (which, btw, is now an evil demon-snake from dimension-x out to kill because real snakes are cute and did nothing wrong) and wrap the other half around the wrist, it might be possible to leverage your whole body strength.
Depends on the size of the snake but in general the exodermis, or the scaled equivalent, is extremely tough.
Pick up a snake, see if you pull it apart. If you’re really strong you might be able to pop the head off it, but you’re not tearing a snake in half. Maybe a little tiny garder snake you could work apart if you twisted it back and forth enough but not in any short amount of time. It’ll be a liquified snake-dog inside and that skin still won’t snap.
Conversely, you can strangle someone to death with a twisted up plastic grocery bag. You can tear one of those apart with your hands.
I don’t have hard numbers because I would never do that with a poor little snake but I have worked in a kitchen and can testify on the resiliency of biological tissues.
He should, it’s a lot of fun! They have a huge cookout, hamburgers, hotdogs. But you can’t have any of it. You have to sit in a lawn chair and watch as the neighbors come over and eat your plate.
Right?
Stripped down to its core it’s innocent enough. It’s just the capacity for getting deep into the dopamine feedback loop that’s worrisome. Meta’s sites, Reddit, a ton of wannabe sites use it to its full potential. People can spend all day scrolling, brain fried, emotionally tapped out, and still feeling hungry and dissatisfied.
And yet here you are. 😛
Tried it? You can’t escape it, lol.
I’ve got my feed set up. It works about as well as it can. Lemmy is a particularly good place for it, low content, less users, and no ads.
As a core concept, I wouldn’t have a problem with it, provided we actually had way more levers to adjust the algorithms.
In larger settings it’s a complete nightmare, even on sites that aren’t trying to generate ad revenue.
Even as someone who lived through the static webpage and forum era and loved it, reverting to that feels like going backwards in progress. But without finer controls over the algorithm, the general application of scrolling is ass and detrimental to good life/screen time balance. There should be some kind of middle ground or new structure.
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