I first interacted with both my ex-wives in 2004, weeks apart. OKCupid was still about detailed profiles, personality quizzes and answering thousands of questions (with preferred responses by matches listed).

My first ex was a nerdy 94% match. The second was somewhere on the order of 43%. Guess which one I still talk with daily?

The only time I’ve used modern dating apps was hanging out at my lesbian ex-girlfriend’s place. We’d get drunk and then mock women’s profiles.

What a society we live in! I know at least four other unhoused people within a quarter mile, and Dolby is concerned about extracting even more money from other businesses. We have a caste system.

According to the US EIA as of 2022, the average annual amount of electricity sold to a U.S. residential electric-utility customer was 10,791 kilowatt-hours (kWh), or an average of about 899 kWh per month.

You think using 2.2% of that is excessive?

Howdy, fellow Texan. Yeah, even we have realized fossil fuels are kinda a stupid way to power things. It doesn’t help that ERCOT is a shitshow.

I paid ~$800 for 1.2kW of solar panels on my van in 2023. The 600Ah of LFP was an additional $1,700. I’ve not paid a power bill in 2.5 years. How anyone could choose to not go solar baffles me. I was paying $3/kWh through the city-owned utility. Nominally, it was somewhere around 15 cents, but after all the fees that Austin charges, despite using only 20kWh/month, my bill was $60 at minimum.

The city has now raised rates five times since I went off-grid, so a straight $60 times 30 months undersells the ROI. It would now be $75-80, and $80 times 30 months means I’ll have broken even by May.

Less than three years, and when the power goes out in town, I’m unaware of it unless I run into a complaint on Reddit.

Look, I think all the shit being ascribed to LLMs is absurd. As I’ve already said “shit.” “bullshit” feels redundant.

Going completely off the reservation, real people can harm you far more then LLMs. Admitting you fell for that is basically like saying you thought a stripper loved you.

I run the hed connected with the link when posting.

Is she an African or European swallow?

I stayed on Win2K for years after XP came out. It was rock-solid and didn’t attempt to tell me how to organize my files. This threw me into the unique position when programs started dropping support for the aging OS of opting for Vista. I couldn’t countenance the cartoonish XP interface, but I also needed a functioning OS.

Consider what the media feeds the masses, and it becomes far less confusing. Not everyone checks out TechDirt.

As an editor, I’m not going to point out the egregious error here.

I fail to understand how this is different from the status quo. Like, pure slop is ruled out, but it should have been in the first place.

Hey. Tone it down. If you want to play here, you play by our rules.

But, but … clutches pearls that would be socialism. We can’t expect our benevolent overlords to pay for crimes in a manner that would affect them. We reserve that for Jean Valjean.

I mean, seriously … you expect fucking Linux users to not immediately find a workaround?

Well, it’s not so much about parties but rather “donors” … which is to say, lobbyists who give not one whit whether there’s an R or D after the name if they can get what they want.

One of the designers I worked with my first year at the college paper went on to design the packaging for Zip and Jaz drives. It paid well enough that he was able to afford to buy a condo in San Diego in his early 20s.

From your instance, I’m guessing you have limited knowledge of the American political system. I don’t mean this as an insult; I couldn’t tell you a damn thing about CDU/CSU policies (AfD, of course, is easy to parse). The Democratic Party is just as captured as the Nazi one. It’s all corporate money, so the real difference between red states and blue states is politicians in blue states at least pretend to care for the working class.

There are also those who slam people for having negative opinions of AI. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft’s AI group, called public criticism of the tech “mind-blowing,” Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says the negativity is hurting society, and Nadella has pleaded to move the conversation beyond “AI slop.”

Then stop serving us AI slop. Y’all get paid way too much to claim that your products aren’t what they are.

Hmm … so are we, possibly, in a bubble?