You’ve been fed and are repeating racist bullshit. People buying houses for their own use aren’t what’s driving up prices, it’s people buying up houses they don’t live in. Being “local” or “foreign” is an irrelevant distraction designed to feed into mistrust of people who are different to you.

I’m reading this after coming from a thread in which people were mocking or handwringing over an article that suggested the official poverty line was unrealistically low.

Yeah, I wish they’d made the second graph show percentage point difference instead of percentage growth.

Did you read the text? She told him she was 14. This isn’t one of those “hey it’s legal in my state” cases.

Pete Hegseth is a dickhead

One quirk of github copilot is that because it lets you choose which model to send a question to, you can gaslight Opus into apologising for something that gpt-4o told you.

I recently had an interaction where it made a really weird comment about a function that didn’t make sense, and when I asked it to explain what it meant, it said “let me have another look at the code to see what I meant”, and made up something even more nonsensical.

It’s clear why it happened as well; when I asked it to explain itself, it had no access to its state of mind when it made the original statement; it has no memory of its own beyond the text the middleware feeds it each time. It was essentially being asked to explain what someone who wrote what it wrote, might have been thinking.

Those films are weird in that I enjoy them while I’m sitting there, but the moment it finishes I couldn’t name or describe a single one of the characters in it or any details of the plot.

It’s because they messed up a fundamental principle of character design - we can tell real human faces apart because our brains are highly tuned to it, but with cartoons and CGI faces you need to really exaggerate differences to get them to stick in the mind. The Avatar team tried to go for some notion of realism instead, and tripped over their own feet with a lineup who are virtually indistinguishable from each other.

I tried reporting a blatant kidnapping/pig butchering gang, and there literally wasn’t a category for it in their reporting mechanism. I picked the closest thing I could think of, and naturally the report just got ignored.

My guess it was okayed by someone who checked it on their mobile without zooming in. Or more likely a troll job.

Sure but if there’s still someone living in it then why wouldn’t they keep it clean and have new furniture every now and then? My house is over a hundred years old but I still have clean curtains.

The depth of field thing to me is a manifestation of a wider modern trend of thinking the audience has to be told exactly what’s happening and what to think at all times. It’s the dramatic equivalent of a network sitcom where the jokes all have to be explicitly flagged, and the studio audience politely wait until the end of the explanation before laughing.

the medieval-era castle interior is perfectly swept and all the intricate stonework is perfectly dusted and all the wooden furniture is perfectly smoothed over

Were you expecting them to look hundreds of years old, because that’s what all the castles you’ve seen look like?

“Outperforms 70% of Gaming PCs” is the sort of statistic you’d only quote if you thought it sounded more impressive than it actually was, and it already doesn’t sound impressive.

(edit: genuinely surprised how controversial a statement that turned out to be?)

Overall it would be reasonable article, were it not completely fucked up by a ragebait headline. They’re obviously not in ‘survival mode’, unless you count ‘survival mode’ as not being able to refresh your cars to the newest model every three years.

But, there is another way of reading the article, which is that someone on $100k is much closer to someone on $30k than they are to a billionaire. They’re still in the class of people who feed their families by working salaried jobs to generate wealth for others; hating on them is the difference between righteous class warfare versus simple-minded jealousy.

I accidentally got dragged into a conversation at work with a gun owner who seemed to have it mapped out exactly how they thought a home invasion would play out. In their scenario they’d have the drop on the robbers, who’d never be expecting someone to keep a loaded gun by their bed while sleeping…

There was so much detail in there that it made me wonder if they actually wanted someone to come into their house so they could have an excuse to kill someone.

Hopping on this to share that Milo Learns made by some of my Cambodian friends also just added Japanese for conversation practice. It has an online community as well if you don’t like talking to an AI. But sadly it is freemium, so OP wins on that front. https://milo.niy.ai/

Even your charitable reading of the situation should still disqualify him to be a senator. Even if he’s not a nazi, we’re still left with him being clueless.

weirdest use of that meme format to date

also the irony of 145 IQ man tripping over his own grammar

LOL, I got here after the comment was removed so I’ve no idea what they said, but immediately recognized the username from them being a dick and their posts being removed by a mod on another thread.

Amusingly (or perhaps despairingly) I notice they’re also a mod themselves in another community…