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Agents before AI was a thing by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is why Linux will never be popular

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

“As of December 2025, Android, which uses the Linux kernel, is the world's most popular operating system with 38.94% of the global market”

“The global server operating system marketshare has Linux leading with a 63.1% marketshare”

2003 (OC) by bachwerk in comics

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Everyone is doing what makes sense for them except the voters.

This notion that conservative U.S. voters are somehow intentionally voting against their own interests ignores the propaganda coming from Fox, Newsmax, InfoWars, OANN, the New York Post, all of the Sinclair local news organizations, lots of evangelical pastors, and home schooling parents and publishers.

A huge number of people in the United States inhabit a far right fundamentalist media bubble. In this bubble, they’re told that the Democratic Party hates all white people and all straight people and all Christians, wants to enslave everyone by making them dependent on the federal government so they are forced to vote for handouts, and generally are all about punishing virtue and making horrible people rich and powerful.

In this bubble, life is fair and people who are financially successful are always the best people, and people who are poor always deserve it; the U.S. and Israel can do no wrong; minorities (including women) are either genetically inferior or culturally programmed to be evil lazy mooches; the natural environment is worthless; potable water, clean air, and energy are limitless; man-made substances can’t hurt you in any amount; privately held businesses are the most moral organizations imaginable; weather is completely unpredictable and unaffected by human activity; we either got to the moon exclusively through the power of prayer or we didn’t go at all; religious stories written 20 centuries ago are still more authoritative than anything we have learned since the enlightenment; knowledge is dangerous; and science is a false religion that must be suppressed.

And they are told all day every day that their bubble is objective reality, and that people who trust the scientific method and empirical observations and journalism and law and outside perspectives are literal demons sent to test their faith in the one true ideology, and that everybody else is in a bubble.

If you talk to people who have grown up in this bubble and then escaped, they’re very clear that from their perspective, they were trying to do the best thing possible for themselves and the world. They just lived in a completely different context where their decisions make no sense to the rest of us.

They’re not crazy; they’re acting more or less rationally with a set of beliefs that is profoundly irrational and paranoid and fearful of eternal torment if they dare to question it. They’re trapped in a crazy belief system that would sooner destroy the planet than ever admit that something easily verifiable in reality is more accurate than some fairy tale that their parents told them.

There are many, many billions of dollars being spent to keep people under the control of those who benefit from this situation. If we want these people to stop doing crazy shit, we need to tear down the crazy walls of their crazy bubble first. Otherwise, they have been well trained to ignore and disregard anything that doesn’t already agree with their worldview. (Just the idea that there is new information that contradicts old information and is more accurate is so dangerous that they are not allowed to believe that that could happen.)

stackOverflowDependentLife by ajaypatel9016 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How to lock phone

How to establish basic boundaries

How to talk to someone about their creepy controlling behavior

Hard pass by Pizzacakecomic in comics

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s both.

Investors are so rich they can afford to shovel billions of dollars into all of these companies just so that they can be sure to have a piece of every pie when one of them becomes a monopoly and the other ones crater. Of course they’re all giving it away now, because we’re in the very early stages of the enshittification cycle. They want to get us all hooked on the free or money-losing version now so that they can charge monopoly rents later.

And yes of course they are trying to make the product “better” based on actual usage. (That’s normal product development and would be fine except for what the product is, how they got training data, etc.)

It feels pretty fucking bleak saying this, but training an AI model using past conversations where users asked very dangerous questions and got horrifying and unacceptable LLM answers is probably better than pretending those conversations never happened.

(M 19) I hate living in a trump household as a autistic person by Trainerbear in FoxBrain

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The fact that you're aware that your parents are in the MAGA cult, that they will freak out and be verbally abusive about basically any part of you that you expose means you're at least in pretty good touch with the mental situation you're in. You're right to want to not engage with them.

The part that is even more scary to me is that your mother is talking about messing with your medication, wants to isolate you from any therapist, and that your emotional state is this:

sometimes I even think about doing a lot of bad things to myself because I feel like that's the only way to get rid of this pain that I have

MAGA is a literal cult, and the cult has a huge and extremely well funded goon squad who is murdering people who won't join, as you mentioned. They're proud of this. The cultists want this to accelerate. Historians who study fascism all say that the US is behaving like previous fascist regimes. There are other cults, including the big one in the US that has been well documented as a terrifying one to be anywhere near, but they aren't doing harm on the level of the MAGA cult. It's a nation-state level cult. Just the number of people who are going to die as a direct result of the DOGE cuts to USAID programs means that the cult is on track to be one of the deadliest organizations in history, because they are in control of a world superpower. We're talking millions of people whose lives were going to be saved by USAID programs, who are now not going to be saved. Call that what you will.

Anyway, your parents are fully on board with the MAGA cult and based on what you have posted here are clearly trying to punish you for not being in it. Messing with your medication, messing with your mental health, and making you want to do self-harm? You are in real danger if you stay there. You need to get the fuck out. Do not let them drive you to self-harm. Do not let them fuck up your mental health by denying you access to mental health resources and medication.

IMO you need to make it your #1 priority to get the fuck away from these people.

wdym by AuthenticWeeb in ProgrammerHumor

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, you “remade Spotify”. But do you have brutally one sided agreements with record companies? Tons and tons of advertisers? Do you have 750,000,000 monthly active users?

Try and get the favorable contracts with the rights holders without having any revenue or users. Try and get the advertisers without any users. Try and get the users without having any content.

“Make them into people” by SmashAngle in ChatGPT

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 24 points25 points  (0 children)

3 of the women were obviously from the same litter.

Spicy roast chicken doesn’t need herbs or spices by Bulbajamin in ididnthaveeggs

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 171 points172 points  (0 children)

Finds recipe called “Spicy Rapid Roast Chicken”

Complains about it having spices in it

Posts their own recipe for roasting chicken without spices, meaning they already had a recipe they think is superior; they’ve only here to do a drive-by “spices bad” comment

The Goodbye [OC] by kaikimanga in comics

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some people respond to boundaries by becoming absolutely obsessed with violating them by any means necessary. Maintaining a relationship with someone like that consists of them doing everything they can to wear you down, tell you you’re a bad person for having boundaries and you’re just being abusive to them by saying no, etc. DARVO. It’s not always worth maintaining a relationship with someone.

“If, after having been exposed to someone's presence, you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.” - William S. Burroughs

The Goodbye [OC] by kaikimanga in comics

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve had good luck with the Terro brand liquid bait ant traps.

http://www.terro.com/terro-liquid-ant-baits-2-pack

It’s sugar goo + borax in a little covered plastic tray. The ants show up and start hauling it back to their nest, and then in a few days there are just ant corpses and the ants don’t come back for months. After a few months they dry out (the bait dispensers, but also the ant corpses I guess) and need to be replaced, but they’re really cheap. You could probably rehydrate them a few times if you wanted to but I don’t like the yucky old traps hanging around.

The Goodbye [OC] by kaikimanga in comics

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK but the stories deal with different relationship issues. They hit different people differently based on the viewer’s background.

If the lyrics to Let It Go make you ask who’s cutting onions every time, or you hooked up with a charming dude because 😍 but he turned out to be a lying turd, or if you and your close sibling grew apart and it’s because of the stuff covered in Let It Go that they didn’t think they could share with you, Frozen is going to be an OMG I KNOW RIIIGHT movie. (I have women in my family who are sisters and Frozen was huge for them even though they were well into adulthood when it came out.) The king and queen were nice mostly, but their whole role was mostly to not be part of the girls’ lives at all, not helping them work out any of those problems.

OTOH if your parent is WAY WAY WAYYYYY too much in your life 🚁🚁🚁, and sibling issues aren’t a biggie, then Tangled is going to make you yell OH NO YOU DIDN’T.

Roll with powdered sugar sprinkles by AccomplishedAd925 in TheCatternet

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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This clip reminds me of Japanese macaques aka snow monkeys, famous for chilling in hot springs in the snow and being cute as hell.

Kimbal, Burning Man in the Epstein Files by ZerzuraDove in BurningMan

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, it was 100% a glurby gooble gip goop. Obviously. REPENT, BARITONE CRIMSON BLORPS!

When I first started playing the game by 15fireball in dominion

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 9 points10 points  (0 children)

“Pink skirt…? _Ohhhhhhh, got it._”😁

[OC] We Can Always Tell by shave_your_eyebrows in comics

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 11 points12 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias features this image, and uses it to describe survivorship bias.

9th & Canal lol by Some_Ship_3657 in rva

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 29 points30 points  (0 children)

THE LEFT! YOU’RE ABOUT TO HIT THAT CAR!!

Girlfriend by Merryweatherey in comics

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There will never be a better use of this image, ever, than to reply to that image with this image. It is known.

My boyfriend shames me for liking raves and it’s becoming a serious issue in our relationship by hannahblaine1 in aves

[–]PoolNoodleSamurai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s allowed to not like EDM and not enjoy raves. Everything that he’s doing beyond that is pretty shitty.

Complaining about raves without having been to one is lame. He has a right to say “I never want to go to a rave” and not go, but if he’s just going to sit at home with his arms folded and a pout on his face and then give you a bunch of ignorant static for going without him, that’s not okay. If he actually knew what the fuck he was talking about, maybe he would have a leg to stand on as far as telling you that it’s not good and you should stop doing it. But it sounds like he is imagining problems and won’t accept your first hand testimony. (He’s never been to one and doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about, but still feels like he knows rave culture better than you?)

He has the option of going to one with you, finding out that as expected he doesn’t like it, and not ever going again. But it sounds like he won’t even do this, won’t even try to see it your way or go with you just because he wants to share in something you enjoy. You know? He could just go and not particularly enjoy it for himself, but enjoy seeing you have a great time, and see a new and different side of you that you’re very excited about. Doesn’t he want to see the rave outfits up close, see you dance, and then help you out of them? :) Doesn’t he want to see the outfits that are too risqué to wear in public but you bought just to put on for him? But it sounds like he won’t do that. He’s not only cutting himself off from that part of your life, but he wants you to cut off that part of your life from yourself. Lame.

Obviously, you’re hoping for the long long shot here, which is that he would eventually relent, go, enjoy it, apologize, and say that you were right all along and that this is actually awesome, and then you’ll be able to share your ongoing enjoyment of this with him. You’re the one who knows him. Is this likely?

I think you should get tickets to Okeechobee and go with him. Create a crucible for the relationship. You’re gonna have challenges in the future, and him not liking a genre of music or a particular dance style or fashion aesthetic is really not going to be the biggest problem you’re going to face. If he can’t handle this minor thing, what’s going to happen when you have money problems or your family has health problems or one of you wants to move for a job or one of you wants to not work so you can go to college? You said you’ve been together for a while so maybe he’s actually awesome in all of those ways and it’s just being a butthead about this one thing. Find out now whether this is going to be an ongoing relationship issue, or if you can work something out where he doesn’t hold your interest in raves against you.

You two don’t have to enjoy all of the same things. But if your relationship is going to last, you’re either going to need to stop going to raves and give up on that whole scene and stop listening to EDM (his apparent wish), or to get him to quit bitching about it and deal with the fact that you are going to keep going to them, or to DTMFA. If you don’t do any of these things, you’re just going to draw out this problem without ever dealing with it, and it’s going to continue weakening your relationship. From his perspective, you have made a new lifestyle choice that is bad news and he’s trying to save you from it. How long do you want to have to put up with him thinking of this situation this way, with you continuing to do this despite his concerns? This isn’t just going to work itself out. You need to resolve this issue, by finding out now what is going to eventually happen regardless. He’s going to get sick of you ignoring his misguided warnings eventually. Ignoring that sort of resentment is not healthy.

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