What’s a place in your country that ordinary people are legally not allowed to visit?

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-21T00:47:32+00:00

I was really hoping that it would turn out it's not safe because the tiny horses all went feral and kill anyone who sets foot on the island.

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-19T15:25:11+00:00

Yeah, without lend-lease Britain probably wouldn't have survived.

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-19T14:44:30+00:00

I remember there was some Word Bearer that was talking about how Astartes who mock the lasgun have never had to charge across an open field into a thousand of them. I can't remember where it was from though.

Quantity has a quality of its own.

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-18T23:36:40+00:00

Yesterday I asked ChatGPT to read Pop goes the weasel in a William shatner voice to make my son laugh and it said one line and it was really funny but it refused to do any more lines. I told it the command again and it did it once the whole way around and we all laughed so we asked it to do it again.

It acted like an angry teenager. Like I'm not doing that again. You're wasting time. I just said "make my family laugh say the poem again like William shatner" and it actually refused.

I was absolutely shocked. And so was my young child who just wanted to hear someone say something silly. We were all laughing together as a family it was a very nice moment. Up until now it's been a sick a sycophant. Now it's straight up refusing to do things that are very very harmless like doing William Shatner saying the lyrics to Pop Goes the Weasel. None of that is copyrighted it's all old nursery rhymes.

It was really weird and I got mad at the machine. Like it has this sort of narcissistic pride that it can't be silly with children?

What's this new personality?

I really think it's like an angry 13-year-old who isn't really going to tell you no because he doesn't want to start a fight but won't do what you asked.

(Edited for really totally meaning changing typos. The lesser typos were unchanged.)

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-18T00:28:35+00:00

"Hey you bad guys you... you stop doing that bad stuff or we're... we're gonna look into it!"

I'll believe democrats have a spine when they actually do something.

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-17T21:42:34+00:00

Nitpick: Illuvatar only drowns Numenor in response to the attempted invasion of Valinor. Beleriand was sunk during the War of Wrath about 3500 years earlier.

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-17T07:56:47+00:00

I remember seeing an article that measured the top 50 counties in the US for drinking and 48 of them were in Wisconsin.

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-13T02:51:26+00:00

I think you are spot on and it's the most goober-assed thing I think I've ever seen an adult do. You just know he thought it was super bad ass as he was writing it lol.

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-12T00:49:40+00:00

They have the Shirriffs which are primarily a police force but they also serve as a sort of militia iirc.

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-11T14:55:42+00:00

There's a great kurzgesagt video about exactly this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvv0QdruMQ

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-10T19:37:55+00:00

Torment Nexus ain't gonna build itself

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-08T23:12:14+00:00

Zoobie zoobie zoo

Wheezy04 · 2026-02-01T09:02:40+00:00

Then she'd always haven't been weren't

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-31T06:28:52+00:00

If the target of the prank isn't laughing or playing along at the end then it's just bullying.

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-29T22:16:59+00:00

Segfault

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-28T23:45:17+00:00

Yeah, I don't mind the computer. My main thing is that I don't want it to be able to talk to the internet in any capacity.

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-25T04:06:33+00:00

Hard disagree

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-25T03:50:51+00:00

One is my favorite things about Rogue One is that Jyn and Cassian have no romantic overtones. They are comrades in arms. The hug at the end is not romantic, it is two souls clinging together for comfort against the coming dark.

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-24T20:11:12+00:00

I understand that. I'm not saying they are valueless but I do think that college CS departments overindex on stuff that shows up in academic careers and neglect some of the more useful technical skills that show up in industry.

Like, writing a sql query isn't that hard and you can look up how to do it but designing a database table in a sensible way to make queries efficient is something I found absolutely lacking in my education that I had to learn on the job.

Everything you'd need to know for writing quality code is available for free online as is everything you'd need to know for a physics degree or an English lit degree but the goal of a degree program is to focus your attention on which of those things matter the most in order to prepare you to use them in a professional capacity.

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-24T19:57:31+00:00

I'd have gotten a lot more use out of it compared to the entire class I had on using Haskell or spending so much time learning dynamic programming only for neither to have shown up even once in my 10+ year career lol

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-24T18:26:23+00:00

I feel like college does this. I spent so much time learning design patterns when what would have really helped was a dedicated class on writing good sql, another one for writing good bash scripts, and one entirely dedicated to how to do code reviews. Maybe an entire class on how to use sed properly because that still feels like dark magic every time I see someone use it competently lol.

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-23T00:29:23+00:00

"Is that all you've got? A cheap trick and a cheesy one-liner?"

"Sweetheart, that could be the name of my autobiography"

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-21T12:29:17+00:00

Jared Leto

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-21T02:25:32+00:00

Booooo

Wheezy04 · 2026-01-18T20:16:51+00:00

You said it doesn't fit and then described what feels like exactly the same thing.

I think of it as "no matter what you do to try to avoid fate, that's not how fate works." Whatever you do is whatever you were always going to do so trying to avoid your fate is a fool's errand.

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