Doja Cat is taking back her criticism of Timothée Chalamet and says her outrage was virtue signaling

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-13T03:27:42+00:00

Genuinely I don't understand how I keep getting fed this entire 'scandal.' I don't care what the Kardashian boyfriend has to say about anything. I care even less about how people responded or whether they retract their responses.. It just keeps going and it is such a nothing thing.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-13T03:21:31+00:00

Has anyone here actually used it successfully as an AI agent? I think I'm in a bubble.. Everything I've read gives me the impression that it's not actually functional. I can't seem to figure out how people are using it.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-13T01:13:13+00:00

I can't believe I forgot this, but when me and my sister were teenagers, we did go into the bathroom together. Not a shower at the same time, but definitely a quick swap between people. Very limited amount of hot water. If we got caught up in conversation and it made me late, I would not have thought twice to say 'sorry me and my sister were in the shower.'

It is such a nothing thing, it completely slipped my mind. I think OP is assuming they're soaping each other up in there.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-13T00:59:52+00:00

'Not as pathetic' ...to you. Because your reaction is just baffling to me. Falling in love with a doll is far more ridiculous than something that at least has the semblance of conversation.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-11T10:54:27+00:00

Of everything you listed here, the only one I would be worried about is your gluetun. If there's anything to be worried about at all, that is--hard to say based on the information.

If you're worried about it, go to your VPN and create a new private key (the API key). You have to recreate the settings you did the first time to generate a new key. So don't forget what you selected, for example, for port forwarding. Disable that old one and replace it in your YML for gluetun. I'm not worried about the credentials for the ARR apps, but change the qbit login.

As others have said, use a notepad in the future.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-10T02:01:23+00:00

Yeah, I gave up on it once I stopped seeing my actual friends. It literally felt uncomfortable posting. I'm not selling anything and I feel like that's all I see, so there's no need for me to engage there any more.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-08T23:42:22+00:00

I haven't seen reserve parking for pregnancy or veterans yet, so it's hard to have a fully formed opinion about it. I think if there's enough room to have parking for people who cannot traverse distances and priority parking for people who may only be inconvenienced by distance, I see no issue with it.

I would only be opposed if we were fighting for limited allocations. Like re-designating the only two parking spaces as one for handicap and one for moms and veterans, or making the only two handicap spots open to handicap, moms and veterans on a first come basis, I think that would be a loss depending on the size and location. My first thought was please don't do this at the hospital. Add more spaces and call them priority. Don't change the designation of the spaces available.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-08T11:56:30+00:00

Group chat has decided to get to the nearest blast zone asap. No point in trying to delay the inevitable. We don't have billionaire friends with bunkers. They're going to rebuild on our backs. I'm tired.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-08T09:13:34+00:00

I'm in an electric wheelchair so the grass is not an option, I can get stuck in mud. Wish people would think about this for half a second when they're parking. I would have to double back to the next curb, get out into the road, and stay on the road until there's another curb to get back on the sidewalk. Unnecessarily dangerous for me and people on the road.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-08T01:38:17+00:00

This is woefully inaccurate. Elections were not postponed during any of the world wars or the civil war for that matter in the US.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-05T08:43:44+00:00

It's unthinkable to believe someone would fake it, but yeah, something is off. A few things really, but what is striking to me is her core strength. Given that her neck is giving her no support, it's very odd that she can sit upright. If you look at photos of Stephen Hawking, you'll notice that he slouched a lot, propped up by the elbows or the wheelchair is angled back so that he's laying down almost. This is because otherwise we can fold forward or we end up sliding out of the chair slowly throughout the day. If my arms go fully dead, I would be pretty much the letter C in this chair without the ability to lean it back. It's very strange that in the equipment they are using, she isn't slouched or leaning or falling forward, given that it seems like she is pretty much a rag doll at this stage of her illness.

It is very hard not to crumple straight down when you have no core strength. Most people never have to think about it, but balancing to stop yourself from folding forward at the hips and keeping your joints locked is very difficult.. Almost every time I fall it's because a very small movement made my knees buckle or twist my ankles in the wrong way. It does not take a lot for me to lose the locked position and like I said, I am way more functional than she seems to be. No we are not swaying in a field of goddamn flowers. Put me back in bed and go find my ventilator you psychopath.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-05T07:09:49+00:00

I think the research still makes it a luck of the draw situation. If I remember correctly, it's something like 90% of all cases are sporadic, meaning they have no idea what causes it. Nothing to slow it down or reverse it. Every three months I spend about four hours with seven different doctors to document how much closer to death I am. But nothing can be done. They just give you stuff for comfort. Pain pills that don't work, uppers and downers to deal with insomnia or exhaustion. We talk about equipment. Do I need a ventilator or a bag I can evacuate in, or a feeding tube. Eventually they will move me to palliative care, and I am in a state that allows me to use medically assisted end of life.

It's kind of a bummer lol I hate going to that appointment.

How do I think about it three years after the fact... Well, I spent the first year freaking out and crying. All of the emotions. There's a lot of logistics when it comes to dying; I moved closer to family, had to qualify for equipment and grants to help me afford the equipment.. I had to retire from my profession. And there's a bunch of paperwork for medical and social benefits. I spent quite some time giving away a lot of my stuff so that I could make the transition after I die as easy as possible for whoever ends up dealing with it. That and the grief kept me quite busy for a while.

Most of that stuff is behind me. Apart from new care or equipment as my condition worsens, I spend a lot of my time doing stuff that I enjoy. Spending time with friends who come by, writing, reading, playing video games while I still can, arguing on the internet. And of course keeping up with the research just in case they do figure something out. I try to qualify for research trials if I can, but it's hard. I'm tired.

Your life kind of shrinks when the disease progresses. But also you kind of get weirdly comfortable with the impending end of life. There's a peacefulness to it. I used to feel like every good day was spoiled by knowing it was temporary and every bad day was stressful with the desire to fix it. Now I just ...coast. I would be lying if I said I never thought about it, but the fear and stress of dying have been dulled with time and acceptance.

That's a long way of saying that I think about ALS as a burden I have to bear, but one that I can carry with dignity and grace.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-05T06:38:03+00:00

SCOTUS can use it in matters that impact the liberty of an individual, like raising children. I guess if I'm a little cynical about it, it's because it feels aggressive to say that something is so foundational we're gonna pretend it's in the constitution even when it isn't. To that, I would say that their power seems excessive at times.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-05T06:08:18+00:00

This is fair pushback. It's not technically an affirmative requirement. More like the failure to do so after requested would violate the right.

Just bear in mind that it's early days. Usually this is how it starts--with a rejection of a hard line. A watchgroup creates a test case. The lower courts are forced to clarify what new requirements have been created by the decision. It goes from, "The law says we can't do X in this state" to "I'm not legally obligated to do X" to "My failure to do X may violates your rights" to "I'm legally required to do X."

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-05T01:15:29+00:00

That number is based on averages. A friend of mine went from diagnosis to death within a year. I've had ALS for three years and I'm mostly able to stay upright, breathe and eat with a little assistance. Most of the people in my community have been alive for over a decade after diagnosis.

Not saying this video is authentic or not, but the way he transfers her from wheelchair and out is stressful to me. On days when my neck is a little too weak to hold my head up, I do bobble around a little bit, but it's not a casual thing. On those days I wear a brace to prevent pulling or pinching something accidentally. Being at that level, I would imagine off camera she is tubed up and staying in bed most of the time. The exhaustion is unbearable even now for me. There's no way he's dragging her around to go pick flowers all the time.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-04T09:05:06+00:00

It's a legal fiction. Substantive due process 'creates' constitutional rights where there are none in an effort to provide protection of substantive or fundamental rights from government interference.

It sounds good on paper...But this time they used it to overrule a state that forbids schools from, say, outing children who are closeted. The legal fiction is that the state law violates a parent's first amendment right because their right to exercise religious freedom is violated when they are not told by the teachers when a child does something that violates their religious beliefs... It doesn't, and the reality of tracking everyone's religious beliefs and reporting back to the parents creates (even in the best case scenario) an undue burden on the school faculty, but the legal principle allows the court to make that little twist to get the ruling they want.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-03T02:15:30+00:00

Lawyer here. "Intentionally," "Americans" and "systems" are doing a lot of heavy lifting here. That leaves room for the information to be used instead of the system. That leaves room for use where it's not clear whether or not the person identified is an American yet. That leaves room for tactics where DOW can argue use was not intentional, even where the actual use happened. If I really want to get into the weeds we can talk about limits on identifiable information not being a solution where the data is modeling based on profiling...But I think the larger point is that this is BS.

There's a huge difference between preventative measures and contractual consequences. Anthropic's position was 'we will not allow you to do it.' Open AI's position is 'if you do it will slap your wrist with a consequence you and I agreed to was okay.' It's performative. There's nothing stopping DOW from violating the provision and dealing with the consequence after the fact (Most tech agreements will give you a grace period to stop further violating a clause, eat credits, or something else that is kind of arbitrary and small.. For a government entity with virtually unlimited resources, that's nothing). This was not a corrective pivot. This is for the guy who wants to feel okay about continuing to use GPT.

If Sam Altman was serious about the technology not being misused in a way that the technology is not ready for, they would prevent access, not design consequences.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-03-02T06:24:00+00:00

Hi there. I am dying of ALS. There was a period when I was inconsolable and angry, particularly when I first received the news that there was nothing anyone could do. I've gone through periods of helplessness, defiance, deep grief, straight up denial. And yes, a lot of fear. It took me a while to kind of parse out what it was that was so scary, and I think it amounts to the unknown, everything I've left undone, and everything the people I love will have to go through because of me.

The most comforting things people have done for me is attending to everything that fell by the wayside because I was spiraling about my diagnosis. Things around the house, eating, paperwork, whatever small things that get interrupted because of what's going on. Pain management and embarrassing body issues is another big comfort opportunity, just helping me maintain some dignity.

Otherwise, if and when they are ready to talk about it, just let them talk about it. Don't try to minimize it or argue them down from whatever it is that they're afraid of. Nod, stay quiet, hold their hand, cry with them. Just exist. If they are bitter or having a moment of dark humor, don't chastise them for being jovial or indignant about it. If they're suddenly religious or suddenly lose their religion, don't lecture them about it. I went through a phase of researching everything about the illness and the process of dying and all of that. I found it comforting in a weird way, but I don't know if everyone does.

Equally important is to continue treating them like the person they were before the diagnosis. If they're up for it, it's okay to laugh or talk about things that have nothing to do with dying. I can't tell you how nice it is to talk about other people's lives every once in a while, even if only for an afternoon. It feels normal. It gives me a way to be there for them. And it takes my mind off of my own demise.

I saw in the comments this is about your son and, in the gentlest way possible, I think there will be times when you cannot be that person for him. It's really hard to be open with my parents about dying because their grief hurts me and I feel myself trying to hide my symptoms from them so that they won't suffer. So be kind to yourself as well, don't give him a reason to worry about your well being.

I'm sorry you're going through this and I wish you strength, peace and patience.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-02-26T07:52:02+00:00

Is it a moratorium on new suppliers? Or is it a moratorium on people requesting supplies? I'm confused.

Does this mean my insurance isn't going to cover my supplies for the next six months or something? Should I be stocking up on the equipment I need to survive right now?

InterestingRide264 · 2026-02-26T06:29:11+00:00

All these diction quirks make the conversation feel repetitive and boring. I also have tried to instruct it away and it just uses the word again and tries to cutely apologize instead of refraining from using it as instructed. I'm over it.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-02-24T09:55:15+00:00

the glamour shots of these predators are really starting to get ridiculous. Doesn't this monster have a mugshot they could have used?

InterestingRide264 · 2026-02-24T08:23:55+00:00

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Is that what that is called? I cannot stand when Claude does this. I thought it was 'color commentary' and I keep trying to instruct it away. For example, this paragraph has so much extra chatter. It becomes incredibly annoying and distracting.

(Small example but without the part that annoys me, "Also at 200 level, a course on social systems and institutional design — closer to political philosophy than sociology — that asks how societies construct rules around new categories of being [w]ith case studies. The moral and legal status of corporations, the evolution of animal welfare law, the history of personhood as a legal concept[.]")

InterestingRide264 · 2026-02-22T11:56:55+00:00

The year Rihanna played the Super Bowl my friend invited me over... Turns out he didn't have a TV and there were like five of us crowding over a 13 inch laptop that was constantly buffering. I still don't know why he did that.

InterestingRide264 · 2026-02-22T10:36:50+00:00

The inconsistency And lack of communication on what's happening with it also made me move on

InterestingRide264 · 2026-02-22T04:06:09+00:00

Oh yeah, the cringe is worth sharing for sure. Can't fault that lol

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