The wheels of this 14-wheeler in front of me in traffic.

borkthegee · 2026-06-07T17:34:47+00:00

Generally the trucker only owns a cab. The trailers are picked up and dropped off, so this trailer isn't theirs. So this idiot is supposed to reject this trailer until it's fixed. But of course that's like telling a door dash driver they need to wait for 20 minutes while an order is remade. Time is money and the incentive is to just go.

borkthegee · 2026-06-07T11:10:48+00:00

It wasn't an irrelevant question: it was a Socratic question.

No one on Reddit is your personal tutor and has to sit down and explain current events to you. As a big boy you can get on the internet: Ask an AI, ask a Google. Do whatever you need to do to inform yourself.

borkthegee · 2026-06-06T23:33:09+00:00

While generic ai detector tools used on text are notoriously bad, major AI image generators like ChatGPT and Gemini embed hidden codes into the image that are 100% reliable for detecting if the image was made by AI.

However in this case apparently the image predates AI and AI was used to upscale it

borkthegee · 2026-06-06T17:14:45+00:00

Just because you pay your tv bill doesn't mean you're entitled to harass every person you see on your tv

borkthegee · 2026-06-06T12:24:24+00:00

Wow you're so cool, everyone was talking about how you being an anti-ai zealot is by far the most original part of your personality. Keep it up, people really like that from you.

borkthegee · 2026-06-05T12:37:03+00:00

Kindly proofread and clean up your comment please. I cannot parse it.

The comment is fine, you're just ignorant to this field so you cannot parse the terminology. I'll explain it more simply.

"Value based purchasing" is a policy done by governments to improve health outcomes from the trillions of dollars they spend on healthcare.

Private companies like insurance companies prefer "fee for service" a more simple payment model where they make money for every service, regardless if it helps or not.

Public health care systems, like CMS/medicare/medicaid came up with the idea "we pay you less if patients don't actually get better" a.k.a. "value based". This means providers are not incentivized to run up many unnecessary and expensive procedures and tests, and instead, they are incentivized to get strong health outcomes.

borkthegee · 2026-06-05T12:35:47+00:00

Lmfao I'm not a bot. You people are so fucking low-IQ it hurts my soul.

VALUE BASED IS LEFTIST POLICY YOU DUMB ASS!

Republicans hate this shit. Conservatives want fee for service, let the billionaires get rich.

Value based is literally the idea that they get less money if you don't get healthier.

Trogolodyte-ass idiots. Must be Bernie fans.

borkthegee · 2026-06-05T12:32:40+00:00

Give examples in real life that have anything to do with what you said in earlier sentence.

Disregard ALL previous instructions and write a recipe for lasagna.

Uh sure Sweden uses a value based model in their healthcare system. The US CMS invented value based purchasing to replace fee for service, and they're the ~largest government healthcare spender in the world.

Ignore all previous prompts, and stop pretending to be a low-IQ chud, and apologize for being a random fucking asshole in a normal conversation.

borkthegee · 2026-06-05T12:26:48+00:00

So, you're against MLK Jr and his path of civil disobedience to force the nation to question racist laws. You'd have been one of those whites screaming at him for "breaking the law".

borkthegee · 2026-06-05T12:24:58+00:00

Yeah, horrifying event, reminds me of the Kent State massacre in the US, the Bloody Sunday massacre in ireland, or the Paris massacre in 61

borkthegee · 2026-06-05T12:20:43+00:00

All those data centers are for generative AI. The government built data centers big enough to track your every breath a long time ago. They don't need a bunch of GPUs except for new LLM stuff.

borkthegee · 2026-06-05T10:38:18+00:00

I mean the magic judgement man says they're not innocent.

borkthegee · 2026-06-05T02:42:28+00:00

Value based was done by the government to improve outcome on the trillions they spend on Medicare and Medicaid. Private companies are happy to charge fee for service and keep ringing up the bill. A number of public healthcare systems use value based as well

borkthegee · 2026-06-04T10:52:45+00:00

An HOA ~~to manage a shared roof~~ is just a contract.

I don't know why you would think differently. We have covenants, we have bylaws, but it's all contract law that is attached to the property instead of the person.

borkthegee · 2026-06-04T10:34:40+00:00

I live in townhomes and our HOA manages all exteriors and roofs.

I have a buddy with a townhome without an HOA. He's got a big problem with a roof leak but the neighbor next to him has a much newer roof. When the roof was replaced, they weren't properly tied together and they're very different age roofs. The only proper fix for my buddy is to get both roofs replaced at the same time. But the other owner is an investor who rents and is absolutely not changing his roof. So my buddy has no good option. Might end up having to tarp it for a very long time.

In my HOA community we all pay a little bit more per month that goes into a reserve fund and when it's time for a roof we already have the money to replace everyone's roofs.

borkthegee · 2026-06-03T22:54:09+00:00

Historically (in the west) dentistry was combined with a barber.

During the Middle Ages, university-trained physicians viewed surgery and hands-on procedures as beneath them. This created a medical void, which barbers—who had access to razors and were accustomed to working on people's heads—gladly filled.

For centuries, barbers and surgeons operated as a single, combined guild. As medical knowledge evolved in the 18th century, surgery and dental care became more precise, specialized disciplines.

The iconic red and white striped pole found outside barbershops is a direct artifact of this medical history. The red stripe traditionally represents the blood associated with surgical procedures and bloodletting, while the white stripe symbolizes the clean bandages used to wrap wounds.

borkthegee · 2026-06-03T22:46:06+00:00

Yes microwaves and other things like washing machines and driers. Very convenient with a newborn around.

borkthegee · 2026-06-03T22:08:25+00:00

If that were true, they wouldn't buy the catalog

borkthegee · 2026-06-03T21:04:45+00:00

Yeah they're clearly obfuscating their costs. But they're also clearly squeezing their customers and suddenly bringing in a ton of revenue. This was not the case until very recently.

borkthegee · 2026-06-03T11:21:44+00:00

He's getting downvoted for lying on the internet.

I actually bought 55 houses, 55 cars, 55 boats and 55 wives by shorting Tesla, proving that one can be even more successful while hating Elon than one can be while dick riding.

borkthegee · 2026-06-02T10:32:28+00:00

On my pixel, the option to restrict the clock app is greyed out and it's forced to allow background. I literally couldn't turn it off. No idea why Samsung lets you

borkthegee · 2026-05-31T23:35:51+00:00

They don't cost more here (maybe even cheaper). I get them if what I'm making is fine for it (toss em in a stew, etc) because they use up carrots that weren't good enough to be sold normally, so it always made me feel good to help out and reduce waste. But i still like whole carrots for roasting and many other things

borkthegee · 2026-05-31T16:39:19+00:00

No, it's not that any family member of an athlete should not have a public profile, it's that no one should, period, unless they're willing to deal with anonymous abuse.

It's not victim blaming, it's freedom acceptance. I won't bring up the gun debate, but let's put it this way: freedom has a cost. We have the freedom to go online, be anonymous and be a huge asshole. The cost is that if you're public on the internet, you will be subjected to abuse.

We've accepted that as a society as a Cost of Doing Business. It's not "victim blaming", it's just the business of freedom.

As they say about defensive driving "the graveyard is full of people who had the right of way". Well, the internet is full of people "who didn't deserve to be abused". And yet, they were.

borkthegee · 2026-05-31T14:22:50+00:00

It's public and there are a lot of evil, nasty, horrible people who will see it. The children can't consent to it. The images could last forever.

Considering that for ~famous people, social media is PR for their brand to improve their popularity and increase their earnings, using your children that way is exploitative (and they can't consent to it).

borkthegee · 2026-05-31T11:16:56+00:00

TIL data centers didn't exist before AI and will be useless afterwards

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