wjrii

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20h ago

37 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us
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wjrii @lemmy.world 20h ago
Like a candle in the wind...

2d ago

Expecto patronum my ass!

The first Fantastic Beasts movie is set in New York, and it makes several appearances in the supporting lore books. Apparently, Americans don't really like Quidditch, preferring some sort of magical-explosions basketball-ish game. Jeez I wish Joanne weren't such an awful piece of shit human.

5d ago

I assure you, it's not good.

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wjrii @lemmy.world 5d ago

Okay, so I'll point out that Murray Rothbard and David Gordon are prominent in the "Everything should be completely equal and fair as long as we first enshrine my generations of privilege" Austrian-school economists, beloved of white guys everywhere who never got over their Ayn Rand phase.

Makes it much funnier, actually.

5d ago

Anti-Woke means asleep. A pictorial example inside.

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wjrii @lemmy.world 5d ago

With apologies to the baseball fans in the room...

The definition of woke:
You can't just be up there and just doin' a woke like that.
1a. Woke is when you
1b. Okay well listen. Woke is when the woke mob
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The blue haired liberal is not allowed to say to the, uh, patriot, that prohibits the patriot from doing, you know, just trying to oppress the fringe groups. You can't do that.
1c-b. Once the blue haired liberal is in the kindergarten classroom, she can't be over here and say to the patriot, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna teach your kids about pronouns! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to teach about racist history and then don't teach it, you have to still teach. You cannot not teach. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, pooping in the right bathroom, and then, until you just wash your hands.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the drag queen, like this, but then there's the children you gotta think about.
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. Woke is when the teacher, err drag queen, says or does a thing that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the history and CRT
Do not do a woke please

6d ago

I still remember this and how the cable guy said, "give me $20 and I will activate every premium channel"

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wjrii @lemmy.world 6d ago

My buddy's older brother did the thing where you remove the little filter cylinders from the coax in, I think(?), the curbside junction box. I saw the cylinders and the result, but not the deed.

7d ago

Get. Out

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wjrii @lemmy.world 7d ago

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-effects-workers-psychological

The article is... fine... I guess.

7d ago

Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

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wjrii @lemmy.world 7d ago

Have you been privy to any of the discussions about what it means for the show to be set a thousand years later than most of the franchise, like where it makes sense for a previous entry to guide the interpretation, and where it maybe makes as much or more sense to let things go a little crazy. The interplay probably has to drift more toward storytelling realities within the brand than it does gaming-out what would "really" happen over a millennium of Star Trek time.

Honestly, when I think about it, the post-Burn era seems downright conservative in terms of societal change, certainly at least within Starfleet. That's obviously necessary for it to be recognizable as a property, but it's kind of funny to think that it's as static as it seems, like closer to the difference between 426 and 1426 than between 1026 and 2026 CE, and I'm probably understating how different the first two were.

7d ago

Google is being sued over AI voice in NotebookLM by a radio host

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wjrii @lemmy.world 7d ago

They say they used a paid actor. Of course, even if that's true, it's not particularly hard to find someone with a similar pitch, accent, and timbre, and then finish fixing it to make sure it's as confidently soothing as the NPR voice you wanted to steal in the first place. I suppose in one sense it's not utterly different from hiring a soundalike, but now the soundalike is damn near perfect (the clips in the article are VERY similar and feel more like the difference in recording equipment than anything else) and doesn't need to actually be available to perform for new impressions. Yet another example of "withstand motion for summary judgment, string it out, lobby against future guiderails" as the totality of Silicon Valley's legal philosophy.

7d ago

If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently?

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wjrii @lemmy.world 7d ago

I think what they're saying is that the dissent says out loud the part that the majority would prefer to keep quiet. It's a clear consequence of the "clever jackass 7th-grader" mindset that comes from the Originalist school of jurisprudence.

You can't run a modern nation-state or withstand a bad actor in power if you insist that it must all be done exactly as set out in 4,500 words by a bunch of 18th-century provincial lawyers writing by committee, and that anything not expressly forbidden is allowed because... "oh well." SCOTUS abdicating its role as a backstop of liberty and good sense to instead be a bunch of pedants is a piss-poor reason to send your country to hell, yet here we are.

7d ago

If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently?

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wjrii @lemmy.world 7d ago

They’re about to find out what we actually were getting in return.

This is one of the huge under-analyzed aspects of all this. The US "over" invested in defense and foreign aid, and got virtually all the soft power benefits of a hegemonic power, and by simply setting an upper limit on the worst abuses of imperial overlords, it generally had its allies saying "Thank You" for the privilege, with no particular signs that the bloc was weakening.

If the US is not an accessible market or a reliable guarantor of security, or if (for fuck's sake) it's threatening the territorial integrity of its own allies and trading partners, then it's just China with less cheap shit to sell. Hell, even China doesn't do the last one (offer not valid in Taiwan).

1w ago

What tourist destinations do you think are NOT overrated?

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wjrii @lemmy.world 1w ago

Ahh, but which one? LOL, I'm just kiddin', they all have serious issues.

I grew up in the suburbs of the Florida one. It's... fine? Go Jags!

1w ago

Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting - Dexerto

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wjrii @lemmy.world 1w ago

Maybe it can repost racist MAGA slop, creep on the granddaughters of ex-girlfriends, and put private messages into the public feed, just like your dad!

1w ago

What do you call your significant other in your phone?

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wjrii @lemmy.world 1w ago

When we were not-quite engaged and doing long-distance, my wife ganked my dumbphone and quickly edited my contact from {her name} to {her name}-mywife, no spaces, no capital letters. So now, twenty+ years later, that's what it still says, and that's how I address greeting card envelopes to her.

1w ago

Myminifactory buys thingiverse

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wjrii @lemmy.world 1w ago

Stratasys and Ultimaker already killed it.

1w ago

2 North American 4 you has been created

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wjrii @lemmy.world 1w ago

And both are fucking delicious (and honestly pretty similar, mostly with the tomato being less "in your face" with the murgh makhani).

1w ago

Brazil shocked to find that 13,000 students about to graduate from medical school lack basic knowledge to practice medicine

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wjrii @lemmy.world 1w ago

This is almost exactly what happened in the US a hundred-plus years ago. The fallout vastly improved medical education overall, but also ossified the field into a modern fortress of protectionism that hurts the public by ignoring the supply part of supply and demand, but also hurts the clever (and typically already privileged in most ways) young people who manage to get med school, by saddling them with huge amounts of debt and grinding them into powder for the first decade of their career. I also subscribe to the theory that the hypercompetitive selection process results in too many doctors who are not well-rounded or particularly good at processing information outside their fields, but are told over and over again that they're too smart to have any blind spots. If you have the right credential and especially if you've made enough money with it, society does the Dunning-Krugering for you.

2w ago

Max is scared of thunder, but also determined to protect us from it.

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wjrii @lemmy.world 2w ago

I had to sit on the floor to invite cuddles, but he finally came in and is now resting on his stinky blanket. To be completely honest, he was only out like that for a few minutes, but bless his heart he was trying so hard. The fosters called him "Sergeant" because he was bossy and protective of his siblings.