Well, that was an entirely unnecessary and lengthy correction to a mistake that was A) a typo I didn’t notice from using swipe on my phone keyboard, not a misunderstanding on grammar, and B) not an error that rendered my comment confusing or indecipherable requiring your clarification. But thank you for your (air quotes) help. I really hope that you’re a bot, not a person this annoying or one who writes that way.

“Wrong username. Correct password.”

“Uh… who’s password?”

“Everyone in town knows crazy Craig. He sends ChatGPT dick pics.”

“Keep blowing”

You’re right. I didnt zoom in enough apparently. I’ve corrected my mistake. Says “com pavio magico”, meaning “with magic wick”. Not helping the case honestly.

If they are worried about seeming gay, why are they decorating their cake with 23+1 sparkly magic Spanish anuses? Seems preeeetty gay…

For those confused, in Portuguese (which they speak in Brazil), “ano” is year. But in Spanish “año” is year, and “ano” is anus. Also the blue seems speckled or glittery (unclear in the picture) and it says in the corner that it has a magic wick.

He seems to be… pro-celiac?

Those few US companies paid MAGA for this.

Almost certainly not just a money thing. They very likely also made deals for government access to and control of their devices. This isn’t just corruption. It is fascism.

designating all consumer routers manufactured outside the U.S. as a security risk

So this is horseshit, right?

First of all, ALL routers from ANY country are a security risk? Every single other nation is trying to make Spyware for the average American consumer? Doubt.

Second, they are extremely concerned with all consumers’ security from foreign actors to the point it needs an outright ban on hardware to protect us. God forbid I buy an AVM router from Germany and open up my home networking to German Spies. What if they find out I sometimes visit porn websites and yourube!?

Third, that the US government, themselves, are trustworthy and wont force backdoors into systems to allow them unfettered access into private networks, something that they HAVE TRIED TO AND SUCCEEDED TO DO IN THE PAST. And also something that they are very clearly opening the door for with all of these legal pushes toward requiring age verification software and OS’s. They want to ban foreign routers so that you have to buy routers from companies that they can control. They can ask, coerce and force them to give them access behind the scenes for some bullshit excuse (“protect the kiddies”, “law enforcement”, “national security”, “terrorism”), force them to not tell the public, and then “secretly” monitor every device in the entire country. They are almost certainly already doing this with a significant number of US manufacturers and software developers.

Fuck these fascists.

Someone’s been training ChatGPT on old StackOverflow help posts.

Yeah I don’t know that Firewatch was a significant divergence from the rest of the walking sim genre, let alone establishing is own subgenre. But it is weird that there did seem to be a bubble of these sorts of experiential/narrative walking sim games for a minute. Some of them pretty popular. Firewatch, Gone Home, The Stanley Parable, etc. Maybe 10ish notable titles all within the few years between 2013-2017. Then nothing significant for nearly a decade now. But thank God we’ve had 40 more online battle Royale shooters since then!

Lovecraftian horror.

Bills

Buy real fruit and a juicer and make juice. Or buy frozen concentrates and make juice (concentrates are just condensed juice frozen for longevity). Or just eat fruit. So many options that arent sugar water.

But for real, the reason things like this exist, apart from being cheaper to produce, is that shelf stable juices that dont lose all flavor over time is sometimes basically impossible. And fresher juices that arent shelf stable either will be heavily seasonal or need to be green house grown for off season which is rarely worth the overhead.

Slight tangent and fun fact, the old joke “why is lemonade made with artificial flavoring but floor cleaner is made with real lemons?” Actually has a legit answer. Check a not-from-concentrate bottle of orange juice at the grocery and you should see that it contains artificial flavors, even though it also contains real juice. There is a reason for that. Citrus juices can be preserved long term to make the supply of juices available year round. However, the flavor compounds in citrus juices oxidize overtime making it blander and blander. It will be fine to drink, but it will not taste like an orange/lemon/lime/etc. So they have to add that flavor back in with artificial flavorings. And the reason that floor cleaner has real lemon is that its properties that make it clean well are not diminished by long term storage.

They are useful tools. I use copilot quite often in my work routine. Mostly to generate boiler plate code for me, add explanatory comments, review code for syntax and logic mistakes, etc. They can handle analysis and debugging quite well. They can usually write code based on plain language input if you can describe specifically what you need. And they can write documentation fairly well based on it’s own analysis of the code (though sometimes it’s missing context).

They’re still not a silver bullet by any means. If their training on a particular language is limited and/or documentation is not accessible, it often makes up stuff wholecloth that looks like it might work but isn’t correct syntax (it was basically useless with Dynatrace Query Language when I was learning the syntax last year). Sometimes it doesn’t follow instructions exactly. Sometimes even when just refactoring code like to reduce complexity it ends up making unintended changes to the logic. Sometimes I end up spending as much time or more debugging AI generated code as it would have taken to write it correctly the first time.

It’s handy, but it’s no silver bullet. The fact that these guys got something so novel and complicated out of it is quite impressive and probably required a lot of data input, precise mathematical instructions and, frankly, luck and a lot of iterations.

I was sold when in the first episode the captain was introducing himself to his new crew, offered to take any questions, and the pilot’s only concern was if they were allowed to have a soda on the bridge because the last captain wouldn’t let him. It set a funny non-serious workplace comedy sort of tone, which was a great divergence from traditional Trek. But it also delivers on heavy serious story arcs at times too, surprisingly well done and thoughtful oftentimes for such an otherwise irreverent show. It’s a compelling mix.

Oops have to double newline on my phone, for reasons… fixed

Sci fi dramas: Severance, and Pluribus

Sci fi comedy: The Orville

Just fun: Taskmaster

Obligatory call out to Hank Green’s “The Fix” and his amazing fact-based intimidations: https://youtube.com/shorts/J8fmQ8E7rhE

Ha! I fucking called that after they claimed they also were taking a hard line. Complete bullshit.