I don’t care what people say, the most important historical event in my lifetime was the discovery and release of the lost Steely Dan tape containing The Second Arrangement

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  • Squorlple@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.worldrule
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    1 hour ago

    Historians generally agree that there was an actual person named Jesus at the place and time described in the Bible. In Biblical canon, Jesus was born to a virgin mother, so he’d have no Y-chromosome on account of having no biological father.




  • Many AI chatbots or chat assists are by default programmed to be saccharine to the point of disingenuousness. Don’t adjust your values to categorically match what they are programmed to praise or condemn. They appear on the surface as people-pleasers but are actually intended to please their distributor’s investors. Additionally and most critically, don’t fall into the trap of thinking of the machines as people.

    With the AI tangent aside, with human interactions I definitely do feel the disparity between coddling and general treatment in society. If you’ve ever seen people interact with young kids or people with disabilities, especially mental disabilities, people often express overvaluing of their actions and creations to boost their confidence. While it may be a great achievement for that individual’s standards and capabilities and they do deserve praise for that much, lauding a simple piece of macaroni art as being better than the Mona Lisa, for example, is probably not genuine and can in fact undermine the creator’s confidence if they are aware enough to sense that lack of genuineness. However, for some people maybe they’d rather have that piece of macaroni art over the Mona Lisa because it is made by someone they love and care about and they highly value tokens of that person. Sometimes it can feel as if there is a conspiracy against someone if they notice a mismatch between the level of praise they receive and their presence and level of success in society elsewhere, and I too have experienced that sensation.


  • Squorlple@lemmy.worldtotumblr@lemmy.worldenshittification
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    23 hours ago

    I mean isn’t the thing about the Fediverse that if your host instance gets entrenched in enshittification or financial ruin then you can just leapfrog from instance to instance and have all of your old posts still online and the content and userbase of one community can be migrated to another community on another server?


  • Squorlple@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3088: Deposition
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    19 hours ago

    The explanation page doesn’t have anything yet, but this feels like it has references to the Futurama episodes “The Late Philip J. Fry” and “Lethal Inspection”, with just a hint of Slartibartfast from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

    [EDIT: After making this comment, I noticed that those two Futurama episodes happen to be back-to-back with each other. xkcd must be in the middle of watching the series]







  • Maybe they got to the dump and there was a big sign and chain across the dump saying “Closed on Thanksgiving” and they had never heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving before and with tears in their eyes they drove off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage. They didn’t find one. ‘Til they came to a side road and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff was another pile of garbage. And they decided that one big pile is better than two little piles and rather than bring that one up they decided to throw theirs down.




  • Squorlple@lemmy.worldtoHeathcliff@lemmy.worldSunday edition
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    3 days ago

    This raises so many questions:

    • How does frog mom know Heathcliff? Are they romantically involved? Is Heathcliff frog dad? Is Heathcliff frog sibling? Has frog mom kissed Heathcliff before?
    • Is Heathcliff’s natural form cat or is he truly a frog?
    • Magic exists?
    • Will Heathcliff remain in frog form in the next comic? How will he return to cat form, if at all?
    • Why would somebody name their cat “Gurch”?