I’ve been reading books from that era and can also confirm people were very similar back then, too. It’s almost like history repeats itself.

Weirdly, nothing so far with my latest swap has needed extra attention, but having to manually mount drives every boot (or adjust the config) might confound a former Windowsian. At least with my distro, anyway.

Time to learn DIY book binding…

I suppose that’s true. They didn’t used to have their butcher shop brand until a few years ago, and there’s no doubt they’re watering it down. You 100% can taste the difference with the higher end, at least. Same kinda for eggs, although I’m getting eggs at Sprouts.

Hell, tier pricing is even in the milk lately. I wish we had better standards, lol.

Yup! Though if you shop around you can avoid it and some chains, like Trader Joe’s, tend to include less as far as I can tell (except recently with those big breasts of theirs?). Not even that much more expensive but definitely a jump in quality. A Sprouts nearby also has fantastic chicken.

I’ve been meaning to visit the carnecerias near me, though. Getting meat at any specialized store tends to cook better, anyway, but I’m a little shy since my Spanish is terrible and last time I tried they didn’t speak English. Lots of pointing and gestures, lol.

Huh, always weird when I see local news on my Lemmy feed.

FYI, South Bay is especially car brained, even my LA. We have a major refinery, some car manufacturer HQs, and I’m pretty sure more mechanics per capita than most of Cali. Long history with the automotive industry going back to the founding of a lot of these little cities.

It’s a shame, too. The beach cities are lovely places to walk and somehow have terrible biking and public transportation infrastructure. The people there can be a bit entitled, though (and it’s it just me or did this guy do it right outside his fucking home? Lol). But I don’t know a solution, it’s practically every other day someone is mowed down 'round here by a muscle car, and the areas East of El Segundo have a lot more waking families since we can’t afford cars.

A little hope, though. I saw they mentioned the Sawtelle area too. I used to live there, and not only did they 180 on that case, Stoner Park is now surrounded by mini roundabouts. So change does happen after this type of thing, and their jurisdiction is LA itself, not a smaller city in a city.

Ey, I’m pretty sure you’re doing something cooler than me; I’m playing Wii this weekend.

“Yeah, but the Epstein fiiiiiiiles” followed by death.

Kidding. I’m with you, but more “ah, fuck.”

There’s something rich about this coming from Nippon Ichi’s former head, the company that brought us the artistic masterpieces known as the Disgaea series. Truly visionaries, lol.

(PS I like the games and tbf, they’re… unique).

Lol, I can’t believe you’d say Love Hina since that was the first anime I pirated for a friend on his request and it ended up being the first one I saw that wasn’t like, Dragon Ball or Sailor Moon. It wasn’t great, but the second one I pirated and therefore saw was Chobits, which was.

I guess my childhood isn’t too different from others, although we’ve never had the money to actually buy anime until streaming was a thing. Back then, it was like 30 dollars for a few episodes on dvd l…

I made a 15th anniversary “mix tape” on a CD like, a couple months ago? And they’re useful in my car, so … that’s probably not the last time.

Although! Aside from music, the last use might be in high school when I used to sell bootleg anime to rich kids at the school. Lol

That just sounds like a Waffle House in Florida or something, except instead of $500, it’s drugs.

I’d personally just hold it with my teeth as soon as I’m done with my little chat. But chances are he’ll just hang from it movie style- nevermind how he’ll get off.

My wife’s at a major video game company that, oddly enough, hasn’t gone crazy over AI. Since she’s in localization, she uses DeepL which has some machine learning, but not really an LLM and LLMs aren’t really being pushed on her since it’s a downgrade. From what I can tell, their dev team is also just keeping things human made, although they’re in Japan so that might contribute.

They aren’t saints, they did try to union bust a few years back, but their stance on AI, as well as creativity first mentality and recent pay raise guarantees and whatnot, kinda show they’re paying attention.

It’s also kind of cute because he’s been writing the script with his son for two years. Certainly a dream come true for the guy.

Good Lord, only 55%? I remember it being bad but compared to confuse ray, it’s a terrible move (not withstanding it’s only a 50% chance to hurt yourself, or 33% in later games).

I’m more shocked Tate uses “theirs” correctly and not “they’res” or “theres.”

It’s kind of wild but Fortnite makes (or made?) way more money than UE royalties, like magnitudes more. UE is a boon to the industry to be sure, but somehow 5% of games’ revenue simply isn’t the same as insane people spending money on stupid skins and dances.

Now is UE was used for 20 games as big as Fortnite, they’d be fine but most AAA companies won’t use UE if they expect a huge haul, with a few exceptions of course.

Fake, since real Minecraft fans very much were not into it. Unless they’re kids, I guess.

Is that why my podium computer on campus restarted randomly during a students presentation?

I will say it would have been a good advertisement for Linux except they’re almost all Mac users… Lol