Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
There are plenty of people whose first language is English and who have confused, or still confuse, the two things anyway. As you say, it’s at least partly cultural. They don’t really teach this stuff at school, or at least they didn’t when I was there.
I was one of the confused people once. Then I learned better (and I’m still learning).
I think what’s important is that we’re willing to learn.
Some of us are old enough to remember when it was 01 811 8055. There wasn’t a catchy jingle for it at the time though.
This could all depend on where you’re living. I get the impression you’re in a country that may have been or may currently be an enemy of Russia (or thought of as a threat by those running Russia right now). If that’s the case, could your folks be Russian ops in some form?
They would have stopped having those sorts of conversations around you as you got older and they’d deny that they said anything of the sort for those you did remember.
The phrase “we won’t wait (for) when the war starts” could mean that they’re going to do whatever they need to do even if there’s no actual guns, bombs and fighting going on. You know. Cold war things.
There’s that phrase that Khrushchev allegedly said about the US, for example. Putin has revived all of that. Assuming it ever went away.
Celery - at least what I get from my local supermarket(s) - definitely has a whole spectrum of flavour, so I wouldn’t agree with anyone saying it doesn’t have any.
“Vodka-like” isn’t an adjective I’d use either, but for me the spectrum runs from bitter and almost urine-like to sweet and mild (but unmistakably still celery), so maybe there’s something in there that’s reminiscent of vodka for some people. I should note that this can apply to stalks on the same root as well. Younger/inner shoots tend to be sweeter, but that’s not a hard and fast rule.
Wiktionary’s page for ‘olive’ has translations of a number of meanings into many, many languages.
That sounds like a use-case for a separate browser profile. That way when you reset everything you’re not affecting every other site you visit.
Left Bank Two by the Noveltones. Well known to British people of a certain age. It was used during the gallery section of an art-based TV show for children. The art was sent in by viewers.
It’s jaunty and relatively innocuous. Unless you hear it a few hundred times and then, well. Insert tortured screams here.
Urban Dictionary is your friend. The people described by those words tend to be the underprivileged if not also poorly educated people who turn to certain expensive fashion (and sports) brands along with a hard man (or woman) attitude to enhance their apparent status.
Frankly, I’d rather they spend their money and time on that than the other things similar groups also turn to, like drugs or nationalism. (Although in many cases it goes hand-in-hand, unfortunately, which only serves to amplify the hate from the rest of society.)
“TT” probably already smells bad. Unlike most(?) people who (as is the rumour) wear incontinence pants, he doesn’t seem to be the kind of person who would be level-headed about it if someone were to point it out.
On desktop there’s a vertical triple dot button under videos that allows you to tell the algorithm that you’re not interested in that video or the entire channel. I assume there’s something similar on mobile. That somewhat reduces suggestions like the unwanted video in future.
When you refresh, you’ll see a different page of videos. If you do this to enough videos, you might start getting recommended videos you’ve already watched. You can give that as a reason for not being interested, so you can make those go away as well.
Speaking of which, you can also remove videos from your Watch History to prevent the algorithm from using those as examples. That’s often another way to effectively banish a channel where you only watched the one video.
Be aware that (as far as I know) the only way to undo directly telling YouTube you’re not interested in a channel is to completely erase your Watch History. Maybe finding and watching a few videos of theirs might also work, but I haven’t yet found the need to put that to the test.
Meat, in the important sense here, is defined as “the muscle tissue of an animal” with the implicit meaning of “food”. An animal, in turn, is anything that’s in the animal kingdom, that is, pretty much anything that isn’t a plant or a fungus. You might think “animal” means “a hairy creature with four legs or a feathered one with two wings and two legs”, but the definition is far broader than that.
Insects have muscle tissue. It is edible. Therefore it is meat.
Left field suggestions: Meccano and K’Nex. They’re not cheap, but then Lego isn’t either. They’re not Lego compatible (nor compatible with each other) but the whole build-it-yourself and mix-and-match aspects remain intact.
To be fair, at the current state search engines work LLMs might not be the worst idea.
The current state of search engines is at least partially because the search engine owners have been trying to shove AI down the users’ throats already. Saying “go full LLM” is like saying “hmm, it’s hot in this pan, maybe it’s better to be in the fire underneath”.
The other, perhaps more important, part of search engine corruption is from trying to shove advertising down users’ throats. LLM in search will be twisted into doing the same thing, so that won’t save it either.
The, other, other part is the fact that an increasing percentage of the Internet is made up of walled gardens and web apps that are all but impossible to index, and LLMs can’t help there. Pigboys that run the hard-to-index sites selling the content out from under the users notwithstanding.
Finally, as has been pointed out elsewhere, an LLM can only give an answer based on what was correct yesterday. Or last week. Or a decade ago. Even forums have this problem. Take the fact that unchangeable, “irreplaceable” answers on sites like StackOverflow reflect the state of things when the answers were written, not how things are now, years later.
This may be dumb in and of itself, but I’m not even sure I know what it smells like let alone been certain I’ve been in the presence of anyone who’s been actively using it.
That said, I do remember, on multiple occasions, walking to work past at least one group of schoolchildren who were smoking something that did not smell like plain tobacco. If that was weed or resin or something in their hand rolled cigarettes, then I have to say that that was a pretty dumb thing to be doing at their age.
Not my circus, not my monkeys. Just carried on to work.
I’m assuming this is some biological phenomenon and not straight-up magic, in which case we’d eventually find a way to identify and suppress it. Or harness the chemistry in some way.
Also, given that it’s biological, there will be some people - how ever small a fraction - who don’t combust upon brain death. Those people will cause all sorts of problems because we won’t be sure if they’re dead or not, at least not until they start to decompose.
He attributes it to someone else, but saw its potential where its originator didn’t.
Source: A quick web search turns up the originator’s name as Alex Jason. Savage has talked about it numerous times in YouTube videos and livestreams, which are somewhat harder to dig through.
It depends, and it’s not necessarily the same answer every time even if it’s the same player(s) playing the same scenario in the same game over and over.
This is going to be incredibly confusing for the people who spring into existence as a result of the change but have memories consistent with them never having existed. I mean, what would their memories even be?! And it would be even more confusing for their living ancestors who may find that as well as now having (grand)children they have no memory of, the ones they do have memories of suddenly no longer exist.
Depends how Picard ended up in that situation. Are we talking the “natural ageing and eventual death” kind of entropy or are we talking “somehow invulnerable except at the quantum level in an infinite void of nothing, awaiting quantum decay”?
In the former, Q would only save Picard temporarily to make a point or for one last adventure. Q won’t help indefinitely and entropy wins.
In the latter, Q’s probably the reason Picard is in that situation in the first place. There’d be some jape or point (“now you know what it’s like to be bored as a Q” or somesuch whiny nonsense), but Picard would eventually be back in his regular time stream, at which point we’re back to the first scenario.