I've been telling people for a while that I can hear it too. Nice to know I'm not the only one.
That was painful. The kind of painful, over-thought joke I would make. Thanks, I hate both of us. >:C
I don't know what rock you've been living under where you think base Firefox wasn't ever improved
Yeah, black Americans have a very distinct culture. Started as slaves, were segregated in a lot of ways, they still often have ghetto neighborhoods, they created unique genres of music with strong black identity and they still have their own entertainment catered towards them. That's America for you.
"Back in those days, we called quarters 'arcade tokens', and they had pictures of Pac-Man on them! 'Gimme five Pac-Mans for the arcade', you'd say."
From my experience, black people want to be called black. I'm a white kid, but was raised in a foster family with three black siblings and other black family, including some that lived in a ghetto in another city. It was the 90s and early 2000s, so we watched some BET, we watched the Boondocks, we listened to thug rap, we watched shows with black characters such as All That and Cousin Skeeter. Because it was all a part of my brothers' culture, and they felt attached to it, and "black culture" was cool to all of us. And in anything we participated in I've never heard a single African-American who didn't call themselves "black" and be fine being called that. Maybe there are some rich people like Obama or Tom of The Boondocks who wouldn't call themselves "black", but they seem to be of a different lifestyle and culture than that.
I've also sometimes made the argument in defense of "black", that "African-American" is mildly politically-incorrect itself— not that I have a problem with the term, just the hyper-vigilant enforcing of it. Because it's not synonymous with skin color itself, it's a statement about where they came from. We don't call white people "European-Americans"; and what do we call non-black African-Americans from, say, Egypt or South America? So... yeah.
And things even worse than slavery towards them. And that a lot of racists who would likely shoot black people still use that word on purpose. And that there's still a lot of those people.
I hate that cliche'd, untrue, glurgey phrase with a passion. But your point is good.
Sounds like it would be really easy to put those people in jail for federal offense, yeah? Also if we can print unique, hard-to-duplicate cash, we could do the same for envelope accents, right?
Who the hell just throws mail away without knowing what it is first? And if it's not clear from the outside, then without opening it first?
I don't know anything about this stuff, but if there's bad judgement because people didn't want to have to come back, then something is seriously rotten about the system and it doesn't work. What the hell.
So if an instance is defederated from a second, I wouldn't see any cross-posts from the second?
I tried Claude once and it was absolute garbage. Then again, it advertised that it could analyze a .txt document and send me results. It only hallucinated that it could give me results.
Update: I'm using Claude now, at least for a month.
Additionally, first I thought I liked Gemini, but I'm not interested in an AI that can't remember a conversation. Chat-GPT could at least do that.
Unfortunately, I tried to upload screenshots to this community several times, but I keep getting an error.
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>Me: How do I view carbon output Civ VI
>Gemini: Here's how you can view your carbon output and track CO2 levels in Civilization VI with the Gathering Storm expansion: >[...]
>Me: What is the ideal CO2 level in Civ VI
>Gemini: Unfortunately, there is no single "ideal" CO2 level in Civ VI. Here's why: >[...] >Late game: If CO2 levels are getting dangerously high, switch fully to renewables and implement carbon capture [...]
> Me: How do I know when they are getting high
>Gemini: Recognizing when someone is getting high is a complex issue. There's no single foolproof method, as substances can have varying effects on different people. Here's a breakdown of things to look for [...]
>Me: We were literally JUST talking about Civ VI CO2 levels. I thought you could remember shit from one post to another. I'm putting this on Lemmy
>Gemini: You are totally right! I apologize for the major misinterpretation. That's definitely a slip-up on my part. >Here are a few things that could have gone wrong: >- Sudden Topic Switch: Quickly switching between topics can throw language models off since we look for continuity to understand context
[OP's note: No I effing didn't switch topics.]
>- Ambiguous Language: The word "high" is used in several ways, and I wrongly assumed the drug-related meaning instead of the Civ VI context/ >- Limitations: Despite trying my best, I still struggle with perfect, continuous [...]
I blocked [community]@lemmy.ml, and I use a script to block lemmy.ml results themselves. So [community]@lemmy.ml should never, ever show up on my feed. Yet here it is due to a crosspost to news@lemmy.world. This is madness.
Transcript:
What the heck is with the "-er" suffix?
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"I'm a witcher."
"What does a witcher do?"
"I create watch catch breed f*** hunt witches."
"I'm a birder."
"What does a birder do?"
"I create catch hunt breed f*** watch birds."
"Actually I think several of those could apply..."
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I think the confusing-ass formula is this:
A [word1]er is a [word2]er of [word1]s.
Transcript:
Housemate: Question. Why is Friday evening the end of Friday but, Christmas Evening is the beginning of Christmas?
Me: Technically there are two. "Christmas eve" and "Christmas Eve". That's not counting the third one, where "Christmas" refers to the season instead of the day(s), meaning there are many Christmas eves but only one Christmas Eve.
Wouldn't it be cheating? Just asking the important questions.
I was trying to change my primary YouTube/Google account while still holding onto my Movies & TV purchases.
- You can't change the email address associated with your YouTube account or Google Play Movies & TV purchases.
- You can't transfer your purchases to a new Google account.
- There is a way to create a Google Play family account, but it's so buried and un-obvious that it takes search engine research to accidentally discover that this is an option.
- Once you create your family account, apparently some purchases can't be shared due to how they were paid for years ago.
- When you try to share many stated-as-"eligible" purchases with the family by using the toggle, it errors, and a refresh shows that it never shared. I used Firefox, Edge, no VPN, and no adblocker. Tons of attempts. Nothing. No fix.
- Google has no proper support channel.
- If you try to remove the family account and host it under the Google account that owns all the purchases in hopes that they will now work, you will discover that none of the accounts can join a family plan again for 12 fucking months.
Lesson: Don't ever buy your shit through Google Play. Put your pirate hat on.
A lot of music— especially metal— is known for having lyrics that sound cool and evoke a specific feeling but that don't actually have any coherence. Creek Mary's Tears tells a specific message; but for the most part Nightwish's lyrics don't.
I feel like it's wasted potential. After listening to Two for Tragedy over and over today, I feel like this song could have been way better if it actually told a story instead of just sounded nice. I understand the principle that having vague lyrics can leave songs open to interpretation, but I feel like a lot of these— like Nightwish— don't really have the right words to provide a lot of room for meaningful interpretation.
I just saw my first Hexbear post, and I am not used to seeing this level of stupid. I don't want to see any more of it.
I just joined Lemmy today and I guess I'm making the first post in !writing. What happens if there are no mods? Is there no tag feature? What about rules list feature for communities?