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Mammu! Finius and Ferbingetorix built Rome in a day!

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How do you get your icon to change like that?

You need python3, and a few packages installed; I recommend venv to manage this. I have irreparably sullied the virtue of one computer by messing with python deps without this precaution; never again.

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I don't drive but I absolutely would not do this even if I did because the "keys between knuckles" meme people keep repeating to show how scared women are supposed to be of random street rapists/sex traffickers or whatever is just a bad idea.

Becoming key Wolverine is more likely to hurt you than your attacker, and if you actually cared about self-defense you would have learned this within the first hour probably.

Also I get the impression from this that women are expected to be utterly neurotic about things that are statistically not that likely. You are more likely to be sexually assaulted by people you know, for instance.

Even as someone in that minority that has been sexually assaulted by a stranger (and who grew up in a country where violent crime by strangers was a much more legitimate concern, which included me being a bystander in multiple shootouts) I still have a much more calibrated assessment of what risks are actually likely when I go outside.

And they don't include "random abduction".

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guy who scrolls through tf2 fanart and silently shakes his head in disapproval every time he sees a drawing of poor gun safety

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I think that relying too much in LLMs can indeed harm your capacity for learning, in the same way that poor systems of learning (rote memorization, just copying whatever without thinking) can. Learning is a thing you need... to learn. Even LLMs can be a useful tool for learning as long as you have a good learning strategy.

That paper that says that AIs cause COGNITIVE ATROPHY is still unreviewd and smells so much of bullshit that I'm tearing up from here. Do not share it uncritically.

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It's impressive how Neil Gaiman vanished from the internet. Wish Rowling would do the same.

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Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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If you say shit like this to a questioning trans girl, you're committing transmisogynistic violence. Like what the actual fuck is wrong with you?? You see a girl expressing fear and pain and your response is to tell her to shut up and deal with it??? You're not helping or warning anyone, you want this woman dead.

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We here at Sylph Co. are proud to announce the opening of an official tumblr account. By manufacturing and distributing Pokéballs and Trainer Acessories, we're not just selling supplies, we're selling connections between people and pokémon

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Was talking with someone the other day about the basic human nature and they posited “what if we sent a bunch of people to create a colony on another planet and then checked back after a decade, what would we find?�� And this person (a pessimist who thought we would find the colonists all having descended into chaos and killed each other) did not like my answer very much lmao.

(Keep in mind in that hypothetical scenario, the colony has all it needs to survive. They have a way to grow food, to construct shelter, they have medicine, etc. This is not a “the environment will kill them” scenario, it’s strictly “what will they do with no supervision” scenario.)

Here’s what I think we would find, based on historical data regarding human behaviour:

- A ton of new recipes based on the local ingredients, including at the very least new type of alcohol, a variation on dumplings, and soup.

- New words. So many new words.

- At least one song about how great this place is and one saying it sucks ass. Both are bangers.

- At least two sports teams.

- A variation on a known sport and lots of arguing about whether it’s better or worse than the old sport

- A new pigment

- A new clothing style, and lots of arguing about whether it’s better or worse than the old clothing styles

- If there is fauna on that planet, a species has been identified that is likely suited to domestication

- A little girl has already started taming an animal from a specie unlikely to be suited for domestication and she’s trying to hide it from her parents

- There’s a graffiti somewhere there really shouldn’t be. Like, how the actual fuck did somebody manage to get up there???

- The graffiti has a typo

- The catholics have schismed twice. It’s over something stupid.

- There is a long oral history about the convoluted romantic intrigues of a local celebrity

- There has been several attempts to classify some local aspect of the landscape (the rocks, the plants, the animals, etc.) into categories. Everybody is arguing about this.

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lest this be lost in the bellicose noise of the day

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the meek when they inherit the earth

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Australia’s version of the onion has just character assassinated all you gays

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my mom purposely overpaid her credit card bill by 1 cent so every month they send her a letter that says they owe her 1 cent and it costs them a dollar to send the letter plus the paper. she is costing corporations money 👍

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This is insane