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And the voices. "Billy..."
"You fucked the whole thing up."
"Billy, your time is up."
"Your time... is up."

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1y ago

Why do human beings feel the constant need to be validated for their actions/opinions/interests/etc.?
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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago
Everyone wants to belong
Everyone wants allies, close friends, brothers and sisters they can rely on and love and support
In the modern world we have pale imitations and crap. There is no village, there is only a dim landscape through which we shuffle, largely alone.
And so there is craving for some substitute, because the under structure is unfulfilled

1y ago

Going on my first super long haul flight - what can I buy to make it more comfortable?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Real bed pillow

Once you try it you will never go back to the horseshoe neck strain weak sauce

1y ago

Is GitHub Copilot worth it to you?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Copilot and that whole model is a bunch of shit

Get Claude.ai, do the thing of pasting the code you want it to modify into the chat window, and it’ll spit back out some modified sections of code you can put back into the file. It is more time consuming, but it actually works.

For intense operations you can make a project, upload the main headers and documentation, and it’ll absorb them into its sphere of awareness and start being able to take account of them when it does the above in chats within that project.

It is not perfect (as no LLM assist is) but it saves a lot of time and is not beset with the growing incompetence and failure with which OpenAI seems to be afflicted more and more with every passing month

1y ago

Who would win in a fight, all of the lions or all of the ants?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

What are the lions even gonna do?

“Haha I will bite some of you! And then sit there doing that thing where I make a chewing motion with my tongue out and shake my head vigorously, because it isn’t working!”

Ants all the way man

1y ago

Is ice cream becoming too soft?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Yeah. They used to be the OG good stuff. No more. 😢

1y ago

Is ice cream becoming too soft?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Breyer’s has become an unrecognizable watery filth

1y ago

Is ice cream becoming too soft?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

A lot of ice cream makers have started manufacturing a substance which is a little more like plastering putty with sugar mixed in. Presumably it is cheaper than the ice cream substance which they used to make.

I recommend Häagen-Dazs. Turkey Hill is alright but it seems to have succumbed a little bit to the putty consistency. The Costco stuff is decent too. Get vanilla, then mix it up in the bowl with a strong spoon, to soften it, with big chunky chocolate chips (also available from Costco) sprinkled generously within it and then stirred in during the preparation phase.

Hope this helps

1y ago

The Computer We All Wish We’d Had In The 8-Bit Era

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

The interfaces are relatively modern too, with VGA and a PS/2 keyboard.

1y ago

How can I get YouTube to not offer rage-inducing stuff?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

If seeing dumb video thumbnails on YouTube impacts your mood I think you need to stay away from YouTube.

1y ago

How can I get YouTube to not offer rage-inducing stuff?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

That is clickbait nonsense. I think it’s designed to induce as revenue. I generally don’t watch and avoid all versions of it, electoral and not (“You won’t BELIEVE what this HERO CAT did for Pennsylvania mother of 3”)… I get what you’re saying and it’s dumb but why does it cause you rage?

1y ago

How can I get YouTube to not offer rage-inducing stuff?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

I have a question

Why is election stuff rage inducing? Like what’s an example of a thumbnail you would see that would induce rage?

1y ago

We Talked To Real Swing Voters: What They Told Us Will Shock You. | More Perfect Union (15:57)

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

OH LOOK

Here are the main points covered in the transcript:

Elliott County, Kentucky has unusual voting patterns, having voted for Democrats in every presidential election for 144 years straight until 2016.
In 2016, Elliott County had the largest swing from Obama to Trump of any county in the US.
Despite voting for Trump in 2016 and 2020, Elliott County voted for Democratic Governor Andy Beshear in recent elections.
The county is rural, 99% white, with limited economic opportunities and a median household income that has barely changed in over 30 years.
Historically, Democrats were seen as the party for working class and poor people, associated with unions and FDR's New Deal programs.
Over time, the Democratic Party shifted focus away from rural blue-collar voters towards white-collar suburban voters.
Many residents express frustration with both parties and feel abandoned by politicians.
Economic concerns, including stagnant wages and lack of local opportunities, are major issues for residents.
Immigration and border security have become top concerns for some voters, despite the county's distance from the southern border.
Governor Andy Beshear won in Elliott County by focusing on local economic issues and distancing himself from the national Democratic brand.
Some residents recognize they have more in common with working-class immigrants than with wealthy politicians.
There's a desire for working-class unity across political lines, but also a sense of grasping at any potential solution to local economic struggles.
The influence of money in politics and the growing wealth of billionaires are seen as problems by some residents.
Trump's outsider status and promise to "drain the swamp" appealed to voters frustrated with traditional politicians.

This summary captures the key points about Elliott County's unique political situation, the economic challenges facing its residents, and the complex factors influencing their voting patterns.

Emphasis is mine

I actually think the forgotten-ness of rural voters and their jobs and ability to make a living, by both sides of the aisle, is a hugely important story that almost no one in Washington understands, and specifically vis-a-vis why Trump got so much support. I don't fully disagree with the thesis of the video and especially as it applied to Washington 8 years ago.

However

I like to talk about this explosive growth of working class wages over the last 4 years (nowhere near enough but also something worth giving credit to Biden for). I wondered if that applied also to Elliot County -- I still don't really know the answer, but I found this, and if you click back to 2020 the bars only go up to $60k and in 2022 they were going up to $95k so that tells you some level of something.

It's also notable that I was able to predict what the piece would say without anything to go on other than educated guessing about what it might cover.

I would be curious to see something actually diving into how things have worked out (specifically taking Elliot County as an example) for the last few years, where that $95k actually came from, how common it is, how things worked out in 2023 and why, etc etc. Basically a real unbiased version of what this video is a somewhat blinkered form of, would be fuckin fascinating.

This isn't it though

1y ago

We Talked To Real Swing Voters: What They Told Us Will Shock You. | More Perfect Union (15:57)

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Here’s my prediction about “More Perfect Union”, just based on the channel name and the downvotes:

Weirdly high production values
Reasons why people don’t support Harris / Democrats and you shouldn’t either
General leftist vibe but no particular leftist plans other than DEFINITELY NOT VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS
No particular affiliation with any existing leftist organization or personality, just arrived from nowhere

I could be totally off base. That’s just my guessing prediction based on a learned level of suspicion that at this point verges on furious unfair cynical prejudice

Brb

1y ago

Why does a mirror only flip left and right but not high and low?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

ITT are a bunch of bad explanations; some are ok but here's more detail:

Imagine a transparent sheet of glass with words printed on it. Hold it up so you can read it. Now stand in front of a mirror. You can read the words, both in the mirror and on the glass in front of you. Neither set of words is flipped.

Now imagine turning the glass around so the words face the mirror. As you rotate the glass 180 degrees horizontally, it flips around mirror image. Both in the glass in front of you, and in the mirror, you can now see a "mirror image" view of the text. But the mirror didn't do anything -- you did, when you chose to flip the glass around horizontally instead of vertically to face the mirror. If you'd tumbled it top over bottom to face the mirror, then the text wouldn't have flipped left and right, but it would have flipped high and low.

Your head is similar to the text, except you can't see through it. But, if you rotated yourself to face away from the mirror, and your head was transparent, someone looking at you would see a not-mirror-image face of yours, both looking at them and in the mirror from the other side. Same as the text. Nothing is flipped. When you chose to spin yourself horizontally to face the mirror, instead of doing a headstand, you chose the transformation that will led to seeing the mirror image instead of the high-and-low flipped image of your face. If you face away from the mirror, and do a handstand instead of spinning horizontally, you'll see a vertically flipped face with its left and right preserved.

Hopefully that makes sense.

1y ago

You're about to be raised as an undead by a necromancer. You have a choice what type of undead you come back as. What do you come back as?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Wait, no no - I think I was thinking of NeverDead, not Painkiller.

1y ago

You're about to be raised as an undead by a necromancer. You have a choice what type of undead you come back as. What do you come back as?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

The painkiller thing where you can tear off your head and throw it at someone and then still control it well enough to bite them

1y ago

What are the scariest horror movies?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

There is a particular type of emotion which "The VVitch" and "Hereditary" get absolutely perfect. It's actually not really my favorite type of movie; it's not particular scary, per se, but it is just some stuff that is really awful that you don't want to see. If you don't want that, they may not be good, but if you vibe with that particular emotion they are hard to beat for it.

The HBO "Chernobyl" miniseries is absolutely straight-up horror. It has pretty much all the elements of a perfect horror movie, except it's (with tiny exceptions and artistic licenses) all 100% true.

"As Above, So Below" is fairly good "normal" horror of a fairly unspicy flavor.

That's honestly all I can think of that really does it well. Horror books in my experience are far better. "The Shining," "Pet Semetary," "Night Shift," and "Skeleton Crew." Also lots and lots of HP Lovecraft; the "Dunwich Horror" collection is wonderful.

Hope this helps.

1y ago

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Imagine how embarrassing it would have been if some of these executives who've been so aggressive about the importance of maintaining a good public image had their spouses or children die in a totally preventable inferno, or suffocate to death. Or have a long uncontrolled descent back to hit the ocean, dying on impact, knowing the whole way down what was about to happen. Like the Challenger crew. Or, if one of these Boeing executives had had their child on one of the 737MAXes that flew itself inexorably towards the ground and no survivors because of a minor sensor failure.

Super embarrassing, it would have been. Fuck em, the lot. Hope they have trouble with their careers.

1y ago

What Was Your Experience Being Laid Off?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

He was a weird motherfucker in several different ways

He had money though. That’s the great thing about money; you can just kind of motor around with whatever priorities you want and for the most part no one intervenes or tells you to stop

1y ago

What Was Your Experience Being Laid Off?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Weird angel investor took us all out to a fancy dinner and made a weird extensive speech about the importance of the future; kind of “Godspeed my young protégés I know you’ll do wonderful things.” Kind of sounded like he finally believed in us and wanted to let us know with a nice gesture. Idk. No one could make any sense of it.

The next day his lackey informed us we were all fired. Oooh, that’s what that was about; makes sense, oh well, we have to get real jobs now apparently.