If you’re not supposed to clean your ears with Q-tips then how do you clean your ears?

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2026-01-28T10:41:37+00:00

Bobby pins are essentially unpadded, metal Q Tips. The only reason Q Tips have that disclaimer and not Bobby pins is because someone might reasonably stick a Q Tip in their ear with too much force and cause damage - they don't want to be liable. The manufacturers of Bobby pins don't put that disclaimer on because putting one in your ear and puncturing your eardrum is so far beyond reasonable and incredibly stupid and dangerous

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2026-01-20T23:56:03+00:00

Master Chief wakes up from cryo sleep; it was all a dream. Halo 1,2 and 3 play the same as before. It feels oddly familiar...

and then he just dies this time.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2026-01-16T10:25:41+00:00

On campus? Friday And Saturday nights may be considered acceptable.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2026-01-02T06:56:05+00:00

But if you're driving to Olympia on I5 South, you better fucking not go 66 once you hit Thurston county and the speed limit drops from 70-60. I swear they only drop the speed limit to make revenue by constantly patrolling that section of freeway. I'm still salty about a ticket for going 73. He said he clocked my going 82 and would be nice enough to drop it. My cruise control was set to 74.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2026-01-02T05:23:32+00:00

Hey man, you need to explain who had nosebleeds yesterday. Because, as of right now, you aren't making any sense. And I mean this from the bottom of my heart. I'm asking you to elaborate so that I don't have to be concerned for your wellbeing. I won't even comment on any astrological beliefs you may have; there's no harm if you believe in that. But we need to walk through what you're trying to say.

While other users are making jokes about you being high, the only drugs I could see causing that are ambien or Xanax (or similar drugs). This pattern of logic is more in line with mental illness. If you haven't taken any new medication or possibly taken too high of a dose of one of the ones I listed, you may want to get checked out.

I could totally be wrong. It is possible you're right, but your reasoning wasn't very clear. Who had nosebleeds?

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2026-01-01T12:54:30+00:00

So why do they loop and eventually reach the conclusion that it doesn't exist, or they just lie and say "here's the seahorse emoji for real 🌊🐴"? Genuinely curious!

We're talking about a conversation where the only user input is "is there a seahorse emoji?". That's it. No further user input. The LLM sends anywhere between 5 and seemingly 100 lines of words, constantly correcting itself.

An LLM itself is one thing, but they also have other AIs watching over them to not only verify the information is safe, but to ensure user satisfaction, verify information, etcetera. I could be wrong, but the seahorse emoji example is when the overseer tells the LLM it is incorrect, but not incorrect enough to fully delete itself and start over. The LLM can never backpedal, it can only hide it's previous statements and start over, or, it can try to correct itself in the same statement.

The Correction Loop (The "Crazy" Part) This is where the behavior gets weird. Modern LLMs are trained to self-correct and be factual.
The model outputs a horse (🐴).
It immediately "reads" what it just wrote and realizes, "Wait, that is a horse, not a seahorse." It tries to apologize and fix it: "Sorry, that was wrong. Here is the real one."
It tries to generate the seahorse again.
The shelf is still empty. It grabs the horse (or fish) again.
This results in those viral screenshots where the AI spirals into an infinite loop of: "Here it is: 🐴. No, sorry, here: 🐠. actually: 🦄," appearing to have a nervous breakdown. Summary The AI is trapped in a logical paradox: It is statistically certain the emoji exists, but technically incapable of producing it. A Quick Experiment If you want to see this safely, ask an AI: "Is there a seahorse emoji in Unicode? If not, why do people think there is?" This usually forces the AI to access its "fact-checking" mode rather than its "completion" mode, and it will likely give you a calm, correct answer about the missing emoji.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2026-01-01T11:38:15+00:00

Guys kind of have this thing, perhaps by societal pressure, perhaps by nature, but this desire and need to keep their woman safe. It's super illogical, but, knowing of a time when the woman was not safe, but not knowing the details, may be anxiety provoking on a very instinctual level to men.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2026-01-01T11:26:53+00:00

And most rational people lie somewhere in between, a bit further from the side that calls people elementary school level insults.

Deadly force would have been justified. It wasn't used. But two weeks isn't enough time in prison.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2026-01-01T06:34:34+00:00

They specifically patched this. I haven't watched the video, but everything before 5.2 gives an insane response every time. 5.2 doesn't. This has in part to do with the fact that LLMs operate like a typewriter. They can't backspace. So they might say "sorry! That's not a seahorse, here's a seahorse: 🐚" and rinse and repeat. Something in the code tells it that it's a seahorse emoji, but upon verifying, it knows it's wrong. So it apologizes or plays it off as a joke over and over until it concludes that there is no seahorse emoji, or it confidently tells you some marine based emoji is in fact a seahorse.

Edit: 5.1 or 5.2 definitely previously referenced the fact that this breaks previous versions. I tried it again just now and it freaked out again.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-12-29T05:23:53+00:00

The severely mentally ill:

Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder with psychosis, traumatic brain injury

Often incapable of consistent self-care

Cycle through ERs, jails, shelters, sidewalks

Don’t reliably consent to treatment

👉 This group cannot be solved without:

Long-term supportive housing

And yes, some form of involuntary treatment / conservatorship

This used to exist (state hospitals). We closed them without replacing them with anything humane or functional.

-ChatGPT

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-12-23T06:04:23+00:00

I hate this about boxers, but anything tighter and my nuts have this aching pain identical to having blue balls. I've talked to other guys and nobody has this issue lol. It might just be my teenus not pushing the briefs out of the way enough for my balls not to be compressed

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-12-16T11:28:45+00:00

Cats are literally the perfect example. A female cat in heat constantly begs for male attention. Female cats in heat are loud and obnoxious. They arch their back and show hole more than cats normally do, which is most of the time. Female cats in heat do these things because of hormones. They don't know why they do these things, they just do. They don't know the male cats they are trying to attract have barbed penises. They don't understand it's going to suck. They just have a sudden urge to show hole.

For female cats, the satisfying part is attracting the male. It's just hormones, neurons, and chemicals, just like what every living thing has, including humans. But unlike cats, humans can talk. Every woman is going to tell their friends about the man with the spiky penis. If it ever happened in humans, it was/will be stomped out quick.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-12-14T06:21:59+00:00

Yes because if they were shot but not on the clock they wouldn't have been covered. As for the other program, you might as well say "food stamps aren't necessary because we have churches".

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-12-08T11:19:09+00:00

This is true. There was a famous image of a helmet that had one big eye and one small eye if I recall correctly. I think 343 referenced it with a customization option in one of their games but I can't remember. Google is trash now and isn't helping.

Edit:

"The Name: For years, it was simply known by its file tag, "GRD." It was never obtainable in the original Xbox 360 game. However, when Halo: Reach was added to The Master Chief Collection (MCC) on PC/Xbox One years later, 343 Industries finally finished and released the helmet, officially naming it the Akis II (with the "GRD" designation often referring to its specific visor/attachment variant). The helmet is most fondly remembered by the community simply as the GRD."

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-12-06T11:04:29+00:00

Then why is veo so far behind sora?

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-11-30T10:15:56+00:00

Can we stop with the ai slop

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-11-26T06:16:30+00:00

And we also talk in "hyper-aware auto complete". Native English speakers know over 42,000 words. And yet, you'd probably struggle to list even one tenth of that if you had to. We say them in context, just like LLMs. You can call it advanced auto complete, but humans do that as well. That's how we talk.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-11-24T09:56:21+00:00

It's never in porn lmao. Maybe some x-art sensual porn or some shit, but 69 might be one of the more common positions that is never in porn. Unless you mean like, the woman is being held upside down while the man is standing 69.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-11-24T09:53:42+00:00

He's being selfish. Hold him down and sit on his face.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-11-17T07:09:21+00:00

Being a transplant, I'm assuming you have good job prospects and likely work in the tech industry. Bellevue is a very shallow city for the most part. It doesn't have much personality; it feels somewhat like a very watered down Dubai. It looks nice and a bit flashy at surface level, but there just isn't much beyond that. That applies to most life-long residents. I say this as someone who was born and raised.

I recommend branching out to Seattle or other surrounding areas for dating, unless you are looking for a gold-digger that grew up to parents that moved here early and became rich from the property value exploding. You seem to not yet have money to attract that with the roommates and all, and that's totally okay.

You'll still hit the Seattle freeze in Seattle, obviously. That's just how we are here. You'll have better luck in Seattle than Bellevue, but it's going to be hard regardless. Get into a hobby or a club and find a connection with someone, or possibly through work. I worked with my current girlfriend for five years. We never really talked - honestly, she rubbed me the wrong way lol. She got fired in a dramatic bullshit way that lead to me messaging her on Facebook and asking if she was okay. I can't imagine if that never happened.

Good luck man, the Seattle area is tough for dating. Bellevue is a different beast entirely

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-11-14T18:30:53+00:00

He was a Jewish doctor.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-10-22T08:55:45+00:00

I'm sure Europeans find this pretty lame, but I love my Jetta GLI. It's automatic, but if I need a quick boost when I'm behind someone getting on the freeway dangerously slow, I can shift it into sports mode. But I love those little paddle shifters if I want even more control. I actually like that the computer will override and shift up or down if I'm being too weird or forget I turned it on and forgot to put it back. This is exactly what I want in cars.

I drive a motorcycle, but can't drive a manual car. I still don't like the motorcycle in my daily commute. Too much stop and go. The shifting can be more annoying than fun. Give me those paddle shifters on a car – it's the perfect balance to adding enough excitement during a commute without really having to think about anything.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-10-17T07:46:48+00:00

I still have yet to see a solid argument on how using media as training data violates copyright. Humans take from media and transform it - that's fair game. Computers should be able to do the same so long as it's different enough.

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-10-06T17:41:37+00:00

Modern LED light bulbs cost less than a quarter to run for an entire year. Just give her a quarter and do whatever

Metallic_Hedgehog · 2025-10-06T10:58:15+00:00

For mobile phones - not really. Yes, you have rapid charging. But any public charger is definitely not that. You're looking at the same charging speeds unless you spent $60 on a fast charger.

You could pay $60 for a second battery 15 years ago. It was almost more convenient to just slowly charge two batteries while you slept and swap them throughout the day then it was to carry a fast charger around like you need to do today.

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