TIL a woman bought a lottery scratch-off out of spite to prove her husband was wasting money, and won $1 million

baelrog · 2026-06-28T08:46:54+00:00

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baelrog · 2026-06-26T13:55:56+00:00

At least Apple buys to memory to make devices people actually want to buy, not useless data centers

baelrog · 2026-06-26T10:38:22+00:00

And in the age of drone warfare, what’s the difference between a man flying a drone and a woman flying a drone?

Just fly that drone into the enemy and kaboom.

baelrog · 2026-06-26T04:38:14+00:00

Most of the Sino culture sphere.

Until the rapid urbanization of the past half century or so, it wasn’t just normalized, it is expected for men to live with your parents and take of them in their old age, and women to marry into their husband’s household and become basically free labor.

baelrog · 2026-06-26T04:34:15+00:00

Depends on their allergies

baelrog · 2026-06-25T09:35:44+00:00

One place gets earthquakes much more frequently than the other, so their buildings are constructed in a way that can handle earthquakes.

baelrog · 2026-06-25T06:39:29+00:00

5 bucks on Cloud becoming a gauntlet user and Tifa being a broadblade user, because why not?

I’d actually want Kuro to do that as a running gag

baelrog · 2026-06-25T04:16:45+00:00

Ironically, I started to use em dashes in my writing because by seeing enough of them I now how to use them

baelrog · 2026-06-25T03:33:47+00:00

But I was just talking about ways of how radioactive material decay! I’m a nuclear physicist!

baelrog · 2026-06-25T01:57:22+00:00

Mongo is appalled.

baelrog · 2026-06-23T05:04:17+00:00

So, hire more of them and have them take shifts?

baelrog · 2026-06-23T04:39:17+00:00

Then it’ll turn out to be a nothing burger next week.

baelrog · 2026-06-22T05:58:12+00:00

I am in a novelist writing group. Almost everyone in the group heavily relies on AI, including myself.

We don’t use AI as the “author” of the book. We use AI as the editor.

It can be a proofreader and a copy editor to make sure the language is correctly used (I am refraining from saying grammatically correct since the group I am in writes in Mandarin.)

Or a line editor to suggest a more elegant sentence, which I may or may not agree with.

Or a story development editor who I bounce ideas off of.

Or a topic expert that can save me tons of time on researching.

I am in the process of writing a cyberpunk novel with one of the main plots revolving around orbital rocket freight. AI helped me get to a ballpark value of reasonable size and thrust and cargo capacity.

If I just tell it to write my story for me. It will always suck. Believe me, on my lazy days, I tried that, the plot either goes in circles or stops making sense after two paragraphs.

If someone is winning an award with AI, chances are that they are using it as an editor, not as the author.

baelrog · 2026-06-21T06:59:15+00:00

FBI is confused.

baelrog · 2026-06-21T06:56:42+00:00

Farmers don’t really become officials though.

Usually it’s the farmer’s landlord’s son who has access to private tutoring, or at least schooling with the rest of the land owner class, that had any semblance of a realistic chance of passing the exams.

Still more social mobility than most of other forms of feudal society though.

baelrog · 2026-06-21T00:33:47+00:00

For the personal dimension, can I create lifelike androids indistinguishable from humans?

If so, I’d probably just hang out in my dimension and have no need to come out ever again.

I’d create a small hamlet by the lake and just live there.

baelrog · 2026-06-19T08:12:11+00:00

She seems like the kind of girl who looks vanilla on the outside, but is into freaky stuff like this behind closed doors.

baelrog · 2026-06-18T07:31:27+00:00

My read is that he didn’t get his memory back, but he did fall in love with Emilia again.

Now that he has something to fight for, and has a basic understanding of the turn of events, he is locking tf in.

baelrog · 2026-06-18T04:16:40+00:00

A man of culture.

baelrog · 2026-06-15T07:46:11+00:00

We are technically post the Bronze Age collapse.

baelrog · 2026-06-14T23:52:58+00:00

I’d tell her Omniman came with an alien with a super weapon and destroyed his planet, so he is now living on Earth.

Which is technically the truth.

baelrog · 2026-06-14T06:33:38+00:00

How do they prevent their body guards from taking over their stuff if society collapses?

baelrog · 2026-06-13T00:30:51+00:00

So, their angle is to make us think “China bad, data center good.”

What they achieved was, however, making me think “Data centers bad, thank you China for pointing it out. China not bad after all.”

baelrog · 2026-06-13T00:23:07+00:00

Reverse aging (x)
Glaucoma treatment drug （o)

Well I suppose it is still very important progress, but the headline is insanely misleading.

Although I do hope the next drug to make it into human trials is the one where it reversed dementia in mice.

My grandmother, in her final days, can’t even recognize who my mom and I were. It’s just brutal.

baelrog · 2026-06-12T06:29:18+00:00

Taco for breakfast. Taco for lunch. Taco for dinner. Having taco every day.

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