A plane is a bus that is fast, can fly, and can traverse great distances. An LLM spews statistically accurate looking language with no regard for accuracy or content. These are not the same. One is objectively useful even if its common current incarnation pollutes a lot.

I’d like to thank the Canadian firefighters for helping us out, and I am deeply sorry we aren’t returning the favor. We’re all in this world together and we (the US) should act like it.

God that poor woman. That’s so many kids.

Yeah I’ve seen that one before. I was so glad to have training at my job that explicitly stated “if you aren’t the electricity guy, don’t fuck with the electricity” like I’d fucking argue that I should be allowed to lick the 480v. Nope, I want nothing to do with the spicy cables.

Yeah, I mean fuck us and all we do suck, but I don’t think people outside the US and Canada really grasp how big this place is. A few years ago I drove to Montreal. It’s a 12 hour drive going 100km/h the whole way, and that’s to get to the nearest city that doesn’t speak English by default, a 24 hour drive in any other direction and I would still be surrounded by people speaking English.

I use paseo which can be found on fdroid. Simple step counter and is able to show you metrics on your walking behavior.

That looks really good. Good job there pal.

I don’t disagree that there needs to be regulation. I fully agree there needs to be regulation. Companies can and will fuck customers over with little to no concern. See for example the enshitification of pretty much everything.

All I am saying is that there are times when voting with your wallet has successfully bullied companies into complying with the will of the people.

Not voting with your wallet doesn’t work? Someone aught to tell Disney that after many people ended their Hulu and Disney+ subscriptions once Kimmel was fired.

Cavers weird me out man. Its one thing to explore a cave you can walk around in, but like why go through passage that’s barely big enough to fit through on your stomach?

MattKC has a video explaining how those work for anyone curious.

(british) - literally no one ever has called it soccer here.

From Wikipedia:

The rules of association football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863. The alternative name soccer was first coined in late 19th century England to help distinguish between several codes of football that were growing in popularity at that time, in particular rugby football. The word soccer is an abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in English public schools and universities in the 1880s (sometimes using the variant spelling “socker”). The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford-Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football (see Oxford “-er”). However, the attribution to Wreford-Brown in particular is generally considered to be spurious. Clive Toye notes that “they took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer.”

So, yes, literally a lot of people used to call it soccer there, so much so it was taught in schools.

The western lake, though lake Michigan and Huron are actually a single lake, and also Michigan borders 4 of the 5 great lakes.

The northern most lake. Fun fact about Lake Superior, it contains 10% of all surface freshwater in the world.

I love seeing this dude’s stuff, always a light hearted monkey’s paw deal

Meanwhile Chamillionaire loved the parody of his “Ridin” (White & nerdy) so much he put it on his MySpace page and thanked Weird Al when he won a Grammy.

Also, Lady Gaga had no idea she was getting a Weird Al parody because her manager didn’t communicate with her and was a dick to Al.

I’d be glad without the silly slow disks.

Games aren’t streamed from the optical disks anymore. 8th gen of consoles (PS4 and Xbox one) required installing to a drive in order to play since HDD/SSD over sata is faster than optical.

Don’t most games need net for verification or updating anyway?

Yes, for updates, but I feel like you also need to do that on PC since we haven’t invented magic quite yet.

So it’s not yours even with a silly disk in hand

This does not follow from your previous statement. “If fish can’t fly then why are tomatoes red.” Games with the full game on disk work as is with whatever version of the game was put on there unless it requires online access.

JFC, I didn’t think it was a 5-4, but reading the article that’s how it landed.

Because no human did any work to create that slop. People deserve to be paid for their work and ai slop is just plagiarism to an industrial scale.

A quick googleing says tidal has 110 million songs, spotify 100 million, apple music 100 million, youtube music 100 million… you get the idea there is functionally an unlimited ammount of human generated music. You will never finish any of these services’ catalogs. Don’t use slop.