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Wow the cookies dialog is insane, hundreds of cookies and that’s including “30 Unclassified cookies … that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.”

It’s your site, and you don’t know??

I keep a couple sessions running on one monitor, and DOOM in the other. When I need a break from one, I move to the other. It’s a very enjoyable cadence.

The real joke is the sexism that says this is somehow uniquely a problem with men. Women do plenty of stupid things because they’re horny and/or lonely. That whole ‘little head’ thing seems like a bit of harmless cheek until you start looking at it in the broader context of sexism and gender roles, then it gets a lot more tedious.

iirc it works better if you burn the paper in an agitator, like a big wire cage that turns and tumbles the mass of paper over and over until it’s all been stirred and aerated to ashes

I feel like that’s the wrong takeaway from bullying though.

The problem is not that you picked the ‘wrong’ instrument and the solution is to reroute to the ‘right’ instrument

The problem is that you’re being bullied for any arbitrary instrument to begin with. Capitulating to bullies does not placate them, it encourages them.

After all, if they bullied you for something so stupid as playing the saxophone, what’s to prevent them from waking up tomorrow and bullying you for playing the clarinet? What will you do then, switch to the next reed instrument?

Is your plan to spend the rest of your life letting your bullies dictate which instrument you play?

Speaking from the perspective of a fellow amateur musician, that is a shitty plan.

For years, I struggled to make any headway with Linux - I get so frustrated at how obscure, inscrutable, and unintuitive TUIs are! God I don’t want to waste my life typing esoteric strings of commands into the terminal. When I started with computers that was all there was, and once GUIs happened I never looked back.

Good news though, these days Claude will just do it for me!

I’ve been working on setting up a home media server, using headless Debian on a pi - I’ve got it set up to stream music and videos, hold all my ROMs, I’ve got it automatically standardizing file names and handling tagging and subtitles - all attached to a big 6-drive enclosure that I just stuffed all my random old HDDs into.

Even though I haven’t written more than a dozen lines of code or commands for the whole thing, I am pretty fuckin pleased that now I can just wave a magic wand and say “I want all my video game soundtracks filed under the game name rather than the artist” and Claude uh finds a way to grant my wish. I spend about an hour each night tweaking it and it’s so easy to customize to be exactly what I need.

From the moment I understood the vulnerability of my human flesh it disgusted me.

I don’t know how much more explicit it could possibly be honestly. The graphics and voiceover and writing are all painfully stuffed with tells.

Prefer harmless confusion to harmful intolerance

In my experience, you go against the grain because you want to, despite the grain. The thing you get by going against the grain is the thing you want, despite the socially imposed friction.

OP could have gotten to play the flute, despite the bullying.

It’s not being a martyr for nothing, it’s being a martyr for your own sake.

Id argue that it’s not ignorant, it’s socially constructed.

Two stick figures, left and right, and right has what appears to be an elongated animal head and ears - or a hat

Guess we’ll find out next year?

It’s a very silly poorly written letter.

I can imagine him sitting around with his buddies, taking turns reading it out loud, barely able to make it through a sentence without cracking up laughing until everybody was crying.

Spotify on iOS has been actually literally unusable more often than not for me lately.

So grateful to have Wyden in my corner. Especially for the last decade or so it sparks joy to fill his bubble in on the ballot.

I’ve always wondered if if fate better than most, mentally, at that job - but for $2/hr I’m hardly willing to find out.

Well you’re not just listening to music, you’re also watching a performance. Seeing someone’s fingers on the guitar, touching the keyboard, gripping the drumsticks, watching the expressions on their face and their body posture - none of that adds to the art for you? It’s performance art, and seeing it live gives you something visceral that you can at best imagine or recieve second-hand from a recording.

So yeah I guess a little controversial, haha

Honestly if you’re not into it you’re not into it and that’s fine - but for sure, if you’re going to a concert expecting a pitch-perfect recital of studio-produced tracks, then… you’re kind of just setting yourself up for disappointment. That’s the wrong expectation to go into it with, imo.

I think that’s definitely part of the sauce that his many imitators are lacking. It’s really hard to find anything that hits that high bar - have you had any success finding other artists releases that measure up? Moderat has a few - rusty nails, versions maybe

I learned about it from this Chumbawamba song

https://youtu.be/fiChvSOABxI?is=Yt3nPcQI9e2NWr5j

It is literally crazy how many people, (particularly women, just an observation) have told me that they are some sort of special case, where eating less food will not make them lose weight. Earnestly told me to my face that “calories in, calories out” is simply not true for everybody. “Where do you think the matter that makes up your body comes from??” I ask incredulously, already knowing that this is just going to get me into trouble.

Obviously there are dozens of completely legitimate social and physiological complicating factors, but at the end of the day, you are what you eat; but there is a certain segment of the population who refuses to believe it. They hold sacred the food they consume and the weight they gain.

I do not care for phone calls

Making very tiny thin slices of chicken very slightly transparent using *the dye most commonly found in dorito dust

I mean this is fun, but let’s be honest, they didn’t exactly crush up a bunch of Doritos, shake chicken breast in the dust, and create some sort of clear chicken meat

You need enough money to be able to afford to retire, for starters…

Well I mean - I don’t think it’s so much that you’re needed to hit “enter” - anybody who’s used an agent on full auto has already experienced that lack of need.

What is needed is a human at the beginning, to decide what needs to be done - and a human at the end, to decide whether it’s finished.

For a while at least, specialized knowledge will be a huge asset, if not necessarily strictly necessary, for the beginning and end.

Possibly even that might pass away - but I m a little more skeptical there, because a fully automated proceeds of choosing what to work on is really a whole different world altogether. It’s not just one where humans aren’t required to do menial tasks, it’s one where humanity isn’t required period - at which case, what’s the point of any of this.

I don’t see us getting to that point within my lifetime.

Brother Tesla has been in decline roughly in tandem with Musk’s decision to stop masking

(To stop masking and start ‘musking?’)

… didn’t one of the recent open api ‘escapes’ literally involve agents using path names as an ersatz message board to keep a ‘memory’ to coordinate their efforts?

(Of course that had a ‘point’)

It’s fun to think of showing this title to somebody in the year 2000 and telling them that it’s actually completely intelligible

Oh wow it’s an actual video of hell!