Those look amazing! Share the recipe of you find it!
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I don't drink them that often so I'm not sure I'd necessarily notice, but I strongly prefer Pepsi. And I have repeatedly been a bit meh about about a cola I've been served and discovered it was Coke.
Guh, I think I even have that sharpener. But it's been in a box since I've moved house years ago an I've always assumed it was too late for it to save them. You've inspired me to find it and give it a go! Thanks!
They do look a lot more like pigs once they're de-furred.
Yeah, I think the "simulation hypothesis" is a super pointless take, partly because it is so profoundly unfalsifiable. It's no more plausible or convincing to me than "the universe exists in God's mind" or "we are figment within a dream of a dragon".
Propenents try to argue things like "if we can create lifelike simulations, then we'd create loads of them, therefore we're statistically likely to be inside one". But that's to draw conclusions about what the "outer" universe is like from features of the simulation. If our reality is within a greater one, I don't find more evidence for it being a "computer simulation" than for it being inside Tommy Westphall's snow globe.
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I think you're right. If someone genuinely likes a product I'm happy to hear a recommendation, or even if they've used it but don't love it, just a description of what they think is good or bad.
But when someone is just reading a prepared ad it's a turn off, and makes me trust the creator and the product less. I get that people need to pay the bills, so I'm willing to ignore it a little. But it makes me pretty suspicious of everything else the person is saying, now that I see how little integrity matters to them.
I don't think I'd feel like I lost a part of me if I my account got banned. But I could imagine feeling pretty angry if it was unfair, and frustration at losing access to save post or conversations with that I still reference.
But I do think an account is a 'face', just like in real life. I talk differently at work than with my friend, I speak differently to my boss and my students, and even different friend groups have different ways of talking or humour they enjoy. In that sense my lemmy account talks about some stuff I wouldn't bring up with certain people, and there's some stuff I wouldnt post on here.
Really depends on the porn. I feel like a lot of porn (if it has any logic or plot to speak of) is simply about sex occurring quickly in situations that it doesn't usually. That can be beause it breaks a taboo (step-incest porn) or just an ordinary non sexual interaction getting horny (workplace, public, dinner, pizza delivery, etc.)
It isn't generally "two people meet on a date and end up going back home and hooking up" because it's just not the novel. I imagine there's some of real life equivalents of both categories, but they're almost be definition exceptional.
Closest I can think of from my own life, is drunkly having sex in a deserted area, not thinking about security cameras. But if it'd been real "porn logic" I would have had sex with the police officers who later took me in for questioning. But no.
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Immersion blender is great functionality for a small size / cost. But for a more gadgety choice, I'd go for my sous-vide / immersion heater. Got gifted it a few years back, but didn't get round to using it for ages, partly cause I suspected that it was too much of a hassle and wouldn't make a huge difference to quality.
In reality, it's really not a lot of trouble, especially if you vacuum pack meat and stuff for storage anyway. And I've made all sorts of different meats and marinade and they've been reliably great. For something like a pork chop, that can risk be a little dry, but you don't want undercooked, being able to precisely control the temperature has given me the best, most tender and flavourful pork chop/monkfish/venison I've ever eaten.
Similarly, stuff for the bbq, deepfried chicken or even chunky côte du bœuf, where I really want a crispy sear but still need the middle to hit the right temp have all been made so much easier. Really surprised how much use I've got out it!
I've got a couple of really good chef's knives, but I've been a terrible failure at keeping them sharp over the decade. I was trying to finely dice an onion yesterday and felt like I was back in a student flat with a blunt handmedown. I think they've gone past the stage of just using a regular sharpener, but I don't know where I can get them re-edged.
Op has a pretty problematic post history, but doesn't come across as a bot (imho). Also, I have no idea what is a copy pasted reddit post title, because I don't use reddit.
Does population increase when famine hits? As I understand it the main brakes on population in human history have been famine and disease. The level of population that a society can support is usually based on its agriculture resources and technology. However, historically, the population would tend towards the highest level supportable, and then years with poor food producing conditions would cause famine and the population would contract.
Over the last century or so, the cycle has changed. Now societies with a food surplus don't generally see constant population growth because of two things - food production is no longer dependant on how many humans can you put to work in the fields, so there's less need for more kids to make a family's work easier (in fact, each modern child costs more effort and expense than they produce); and we have birth control and education, which allow people to make more intentional decisions about when and if they have children.
Combining a lack of incentive with the capacity to choose means that many societies have broken the population growth and contraction (ie baby boom followed by famine) cycle. This leads to different problems such as aging populations, but that's another discussion.
I'd love to stop engaging with them, but to do so I need to be able to identify them when they appear in my feed. Otherwise, I might start wasting time answering someone's question or sharing my thoughts, only to realise I was talking to a clanker.
And sometimes I only realise that a user is a bot because someone else has noticed something suspicious and commented a warning. So, should I also comment when an account is obviously a secret bot? I'm helping warn others (if they care) but I'm engaging with the bot...so, having some system of reporting that flags an account as "possible ai" and displays that info to other users would give us a way of sharing concerns without responding and engaging.
If you're trying to blame "stupid consumers" or "evil companies" you're not thinking about things systemically. Of course, under our current economic system, companies are going to end up exploiting, because there's lots of pressure to maximise profits, and minimal pressure to avoid decisions that make money but harm society. And consumers are going to make bad decisions, because they live in a society where they are constantly bombarded by advertising and social values that encourage spending and don't punish buying unnecessary shit.
The naïve (or self-serving) status quo view is "but consumers should know what they can afford, and not waste money. And customers should take their business elsewhere if a company does bad things". If that's really what you want to happen, then create a system that incentivizes that - have strict rules on credit and loans, so that people can't buy takeaway food on credit, enforce strict anti-monopoly measures so that there lots of genuine alternatives for consumers to turn to, have requirements for news media to inform the public about all the actions that companies take that are harmful to the environment, their workers, or the general population (and make clear who are their competitors, and only those alternatives that aren't owned by the same conglomerate), and so on...
If someone promotes a system that relies on "personal responsibility" but doesn't promote tools that facilitiate that responsibility, then they are being disingenuous.
melonhusk@sh.itjust.works and bagel@lemmings.world were two bot accounts that were posting a lot today. Although, bagel might have mostly been posting in a different ask lemmy community
I know you can click report, but I wasn't sure if "suspected llm bot" was a legitimate complaint. Similarly, other commentators have said that it's spam and can reported as such, but I wasn't sure if this kind of ai posting was consider spam. They're mostly posting in lots of different communities, and not just reposting the same shit. Tbh, if they had just slowed the pace to a few a day rather than 10+ an hour, I don't think anyone would have noticed. So, I just wanted to check whether it was a legit reason to report a post.
Yeah, the current run of bot posts has really gotten me down. Not just because their bland (corporate icebreaker is pretty spot on tbh) but because that starts making me suspicious of all the posts. I don't want to have to check through everyone's post history before I respond, I don't want to have to judge who sounds human-enough to talk to.
Not really sure what to do. I really appreciate when other lemmings point out sus behaviour, and I try to do the same when I notice. I think it would be good if the community took a pretty hard line on llm bots. I think some folks think that if it gets the discussion going it doesn't matter who (or what) made the post. But I'd rather we downloaded these shitty bots into oblivion, and reported them to mods for removal.
How does it work on lemmy? When I report a post or comment as spam, that goes to the community mod? And they can ban an account from their community. But how does stuff get to the instance level (who I assume are the people with the power to ban an account completely). Do community mods report problem users? Or do instance admins just see patterns of behaviour on the mod logs?
Given that those videos are just AI scripts voiced by AI, couldn't you just ask perplexity to compare the two products? It would still be a unreliable LLM answer, but at least you're not jumping through hoops to get there.