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ThisIsNotHim

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  • And the temperature and sound changes too. Also it's pretty neat to be in a crowd for a moment of communal awe.

  • What is piefed?

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  • Does it also suppress inline images from others? Because that sounds real nice

  • 'Has hell frozen over?': Las Vegas tourism is in trouble

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  • Over the past 7-ish years more and more states have legalized online sports gambling. There was a longstanding law that essentially forbade it in most states. It was struck down at the start of this rush.

    It could be part of a gradual decline as a result of that

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  • The cards were definitely being called chip and PIN as they were being introduced.

    I don't recall the PIN ever being used outside of debit cards (which already used PINs in certain contexts).

    Occasionally gas pumps will ask for the postal code of the billing address, but that's about as close as we get.

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    I just realized some people LIKE talking to each other.

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  • I'd hazard most people like talking to other people. Even most introverts, although the threshold for how much is enough or too much is lower.

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  • A few hours. For me home is always a few things: my current residence, the place I grew up, and any place I slept last night that I'll sleep again tonight.

    They don't all mean the same thing, but let's go home could mean any of those.

  • How does it make you feel when people use LLMs like search engines and then hand you extruded text as though it is factual? Have you seen IRL or just on boards?

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  • Exactly. If you've got a head for remembering Latin, i.e. is id est, so you can try swapping "that is" into the sentence to see if it sounds right.

    E.g. is exempli gratia so you can try swapping "for example" in for the same trick.

    If you forget, avoiding the abbreviations is fine in most contexts. That said, I'd be surprised if mixing them up makes any given sentence less clear.

  • How does it make you feel when people use LLMs like search engines and then hand you extruded text as though it is factual? Have you seen IRL or just on boards?

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  • I.e. is used to restate for clarification. It doesn't really relate to the other two, and should not be used when multiple examples are listed or could be listed.

    E.g. and ex. are both used to start a list of examples. They're largely equivalent, but should not be mixed. If your organization has a style guide consult that to check which to use. If it doesn't, check the document and/or similar documents to see if one is already in use, and continue to use that. If no prior use of either is found, e.g. is more common.

  • Tesla’s Cybertruck Is a Bust

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  • Maybe function first helps with cosplaying as rural. People get very up in arms about frame type. The twice yearly sedanfull of potting soil is incredibly serious.

  • How does it make you feel when people use LLMs like search engines and then hand you extruded text as though it is factual? Have you seen IRL or just on boards?

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  • Slightly different, but I've had people insist on slop.

    A higher up at work asked the difference between i.e. e.g. and ex. I answered, they weren't satisfied and made their assistant ask the large language model. Their assistant reads the reply out loud and it's near verbatim to what I just told them. Ugh

    This is not the only time this has happened

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.

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  • If I'm remembering right, transportation of a food item makes up no more than 2% of the total carbon emissions for that food item.

    Eating local produce can have a big impact on the quality and freshness of food, but has comparatively small environmental impacts. It won't make beef greener than beans, no matter where you choose to get each from.

  • What's your best tip or hack for camping?

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  • That will work in some regions. In others you may need to rent a bear canister. Talk to your local rangers to find out what's appropriate, it depends on the local bears.

  • Non-Americans, what's it like when you're sick and need to go to the doctor?

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  • Which country?

  • What's a harmless phrase that annoys you?

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  • Ugh, same. Really any memespeak, even if it's far older than the internet. Growing up every social group seemed to have a child who would endlessly quote movies. Somehow this is worse.

    The most unpleasant may be "Imagine..." followed by some convoluted story. It always feels like an attempt to slightly disguise bullying. Even when it's directed at a detestable public figure, and it feels like a useful rhetorical construct.

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  • If the question were about books instead of movies/shows Anne of Green Gables would be my answer.

    The show's on my list to watch, but that only grows, never shrinks.

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    Glamping in Wales. It was pretty cold out, so we had the fire going.

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  • The wooden deck is a weird element to bring into it. In the US decks are sometimes there for conservancy reasons. They're present along parts of the Appalachian trail.

    I might instead draw the line based on whether members of your party are putting it up and taking it down as part of the trip.

    But I could also see electricity being a reasonable dividing line. Like a cabin several miles from where you can get a motorized vehicle might be more camping than a tent in your backyard that you ran an extension cord and a TV out to.

    I'm ok with others drawing lines elsewhere though.

  • Who here cries at TV shows or movies?

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  • I tear up at most movies. It's not a sad movie, but Everything Everywhere All at Once holds the current record for most cries.

    Generally if a movie doesn't make me tear up at least once that's a bad sign. At the same time I don't gravitate towards tearjerkers, they can feel emotionally manipulative and heavy handed.

    I almost never cry for TV shows or books.

  • Can you read and understand this passage?

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  • I can't really visualize things in general. Due to that, if you tell me it's muddy that's most of the information I get. My brain won't automatically try to put mud on the horses or add other details.

    Here the specifics help a lot and I have a better sense of the muddy day for it.

  • Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

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  • AI aside, different voices may be immersion breaking. I tend to avoid audiobooks with more than a single narrator.