Right next to the very thrilling samples of wood from each state!

Pronounced “da-RILL”, of course.

You know it’s absurd to believe in Bigfoot, right? It’s obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.

Found Grover Krantz’ lemmy account!

Fun fact: Krantz was the originator of the so-called “running man” endurance hunting theory, but he was better-known as a firm believer in the existence of Bigfoot. Also, his skeleton (and that of his favorite dog) are on display in the Smithsonian for some reason.

I agree with this. I’m nearing 60 and I feel like I should be over 100. I’ve done a lot of different things and had different careers in my life, lived in many different places with different sets of friends etc., not just doing the same thing day after day and living in the same place.

Also, no kids, although this point is kind of the opposite of the other point. I think when you focus on kids you watch their lives flash by; they’re in their twenties in no time and you’ve lost that many years yourself.

I’m gonna go patent Marxism lol. Maybe I’ll patent irony at the same time.

I mean, it’s bad coming from actual human beings involved in the funeral home business because you know that they absolutely do not really give a fuck in the slightest (not something I really hold against them because they have to be like that for their own sanity). But coming from AI is just next level awful.

I’m so thankful that I got to retire from the programming profession before this AI shit took over (although I did get to spend a couple of decades burdened by junior developers, which is basically the same thing). If I were still in the shit, I would use LLMs for their proper purpose: proving to management that I’m using AI.

My dad died last November and when I called the funeral home we’d picked out to come pick up his body, the answering service was fucking AI. It had a weird non-specific accent with strange background noises going on, and when it repeated my father’s name back for confirmation, it said “Robert common name R-O-B-E-R-T, Smith common name S-M-I-T-H.” I was like “WTF? Common name?” I’m still made at myself for not telling them to go fuck themselves and using a different funeral home. For bonus points, the funeral home owner (with the same last name as one of the characters in The Sopranos) kept cracking jokes when we met with him, and then he ghosted me for two weeks and finally delivered the urn with the ashes in it at 8 pm the night before the interment ceremony, leaving them on my porch and splitting before I could talk to him.

But the fucking AI thing was the worst. I keep replaying the “condolences” it offered in my head.

I used to live in Daytona and one day a shop opened up in a strip mall selling nothing but Super-Whippers. A Super-Whipper was a $1 plastic whisk. This shop had two metal trees in the windows, one loaded with a few white whisks and one with black. They were never open and there was a hand-written sign on the door that said “we’re closed – if you want a Super-Whipper, the salon next door has some”. They were less than a quarter mile away from three dollar stores and a Publix, all of which sold plastic whisks.

Maybe coastal Florida had some sort of severe, unmet demand for plastic whisks, but I remain skeptical of the legitimacy of this business.

This is like saying Jim Henson wasn’t really on the Muppet Show.

How can you afford to own your own island but not afford a suit that fits?

“Definitely don’t try to blow up our data centers or our Amazon shipping facilities! That would be very bad for us!”

Mediocre pop star.

Visual Basic isn’t dead … it’s just resting!

I passed by a mechanic’s shop a couple of years ago that had a big lit-up sign out front that said “WE BUY CATALYTIC CONVERTERS”. I hope it was a honeypot but I dunno.

may be completed with Hydrogen for more energy release

Uh, that understates things a little bit. Hydrogen bombs (which utilize fission for triggering the fusion reaction) are generally a few orders of magnitude more powerful than fission bombs. The opposite is more accurate: fusion bombs that use spent Uranium as a tamper roughly double their yield.

And only in USSR!

We’re school bus drivers lol. We work four hours a day.