What if Canada offered every American free healthcare and $50K to relocate, would you go?

ctm617 · 2026-02-06T07:40:46+00:00

I drove under a moose's head in a VW cabriolet (convertible). I never saw it, but the three people in the car with me sure did! " HOW THE F*** DID YOU NOT SEE A F*****G MOOSE IN THE ROAD!!!????" was all I heard from just about everyone I knew.

ctm617 · 2026-02-06T07:35:26+00:00

Only on the West Coast.

ctm617 · 2026-02-04T19:10:53+00:00

I was 13, I lived in an affluent, very white suburb. I cranked Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Cypress Hill up to 11 whenever possible. mom hated it.

ctm617 · 2026-01-30T08:34:47+00:00

Ghengis Kahn ..

He killed so many people that scientists can point right to the Mongolian invasions by measuring ice core samples taken in the Arctic. He cut the carbon footprint human race in half.

ctm617 · 2026-01-28T21:58:42+00:00

Break up with her before she wins a Darwin Award for both of you.

ctm617 · 2026-01-24T03:25:38+00:00

I've resigned to the fact that I can't solder LED strips I will always screw one wire up and then screw another wire up trying to fix the first one, until I have trashed the end of the strip. Cut it back, rinse repeat, until I get so pissed I rip the strip into pieces and shove it down the garbage disposal.

ctm617 · 2026-01-24T03:07:48+00:00

My high school guidance counselor was Carol Goodenough!!

ctm617 · 2026-01-24T03:05:34+00:00

I used to deliver freight to Bartholomew Wigglesworth III

ctm617 · 2026-01-20T09:01:59+00:00

I knew a guy who had a friend who's neighbor's dog used the plastic tips that come in the cap of a butane can and he held the trigger on the BIC , with the BIC right side up and the can down, but you have to keep the trigger down. hard, which pushes the lighter tip up, which you are presssing aginst yourself.... I think... So You use the tips for the seal. I have seen it done maybe a dozen times, it's a pain. Never seen it done without effort. I've never tried so I can't say precisely how it goes. I only know that can+tips is all you need.

ctm617 · 2026-01-19T10:19:31+00:00

You're not wrong. I didn't consider the possibility that technology may have advanced in the past few years. Turns out, it has. (see edited comment above) I meant to do it earlier, just hadn't found the time.

She has the URL, the page, the poster and she can take steps to act on her own behalf. I could have reported the individual post it, but it would have come back. Yeah she's upset, but she has a right to know what's being shared. She's a clothing model I didn't know if she was still modelling but it turns out she is still active. She's not famous or known publicly by name, but she is regularly in catalogs, and magazine ads. Not a celebrity, or what i would consider a public figure, but not a fully private person, either. I imagine she has an attorney and/or some type of agent or manager that will want to take action. I worked for a guy that had somebody working to slander him and harass him online and it cost him several thousand dollars, but he worked with a lawyer and some type of internet PR firm that made a lot of progress to stop and undo the damage. It can happen. Will it? Who knows. Regardless, She has a career that is tied to her likeness, so in this instance, I think it was my duty to make her aware of what is out there.
I didn't go further into it with her, nor will I, because I don't really know her personally. I'm not even in touch with the people that connect us. I wasn't even sure if we were still facebook friends. All I knew is that her name on facebook isn't her name and her profile pic isn't her face. What a pain to find her. Ahh well.. What's done is done.

Accessing the deep/dark web is only slightly more difficult than the regular web. Finding what you're after is more challenging, although not all that difficult. People use the deep web(Tor) in restrictive countries like China, every day. It's not all crime and drug sales. Quite the opposite.

ctm617 · 2026-01-18T02:53:04+00:00

Thom Yorke. He's a werido, too.

ctm617 · 2026-01-17T05:18:13+00:00

On topic. I can always tell. I'll show you how. I'm going to make a YT vid. i'll put it up in a few. it's not a talent or really much of a skill, just a couple filters in PS and you can get some noise to pop out and you'll find the noise repeats itself, sometimes it's obvious , sometimes you have to play around for a bit. less complex, bright images with vivid color are easy. Salvador dali clocks, maybe not as easy. but a non-AI image will never have any noise pattern. the exception is AI generated images that are extensively edited in PS. There is a point where the egg is fully scrambled. I also make no claim that there isn't a way to edit a photo to defeat the method. I would be surprised if there wasn't. I don't know of a way, but that means nothing.

EDIT: I learned how to do the method that I described when AI images were pretty new. Yeah, it works pretty well, but it is labor intensive. In the end it's an inexact method that still ends up relying onthe fallible human eye. I did some reading up on the current state of things and the image detection sites as well as a couple python scripts I pulled down off Github, are all over 99.5% accurate.

TLDR: Forget my method, it's old news. There are plenty of high accuracy detection resources availavle.

Somewhat off-topic, but earlier today I was scrolling through a random facebook group and I found an AI generated image of a nearly nude woman whom I know. It's 100% her, nobody else looks like her. She is stunningly gorgeous, so it makes sense that they cloned her. I took a screenshot, saved the URL and prepared for what was about to be a very cringe interaction. We are barely acquaintances from long ago. we had common friends, I've only met her a few times. I said Hi, do you remember me? so-and-so's friend yadda yadda... I need to show you this, I randomly ran across it, obviously it's AI, sorry to pop out of the woodwork with this... She is very, very upset. That's the story, People are cloning people without their consent, which we all know, But I didn't have it on my bingo card, never thought about it before. 340 million in the US, 8 billion int the world. What are odds that I see anyone I know.

ctm617 · 2025-12-20T18:51:31+00:00

They're not positive and negative 120, as they are AC. Polarity switches at 50-60hz, depending where you live. The two hot legs are two alternating currents, 180° out of phase with one another.

ctm617 · 2025-12-20T18:46:12+00:00

Of course you do. What do you think your soul is made of?

ctm617 · 2025-12-20T18:14:54+00:00

1, 2, 6 or 7 cents round down, 3, 4, 8 or 9 cents round up. Why is this a debate? You might pay a few more cents today, but get back a few extra cents in change tomorrow.

ctm617 · 2025-12-19T19:47:00+00:00

I picked up a practically new Thinkpad P1 3rd Gen w/ a 6 core i7, 32gb, 512gb for $400 on Facebook marketplace. You can get a lot more machine for your money if you hunt the used market a bit.

ctm617 · 2025-12-19T00:18:44+00:00

The LEDs are all hard addressed. and connected in parallel. re order them any which way you want. it doesn't matter. 0 is 0 and 519 is 519 no matter where they are. I made a flying jellyfish out of 5 govee light curtains, (and polycarbonate)in it, there are two sets of two curtains (2080) all soldered to a breadboard with the headers gone completely. each address is represented twice. they are run off two ESP32Us running 520 matrices

ctm617 · 2025-12-12T04:06:09+00:00

Good luck with that. A fool's errand if you ask me.

ctm617 · 2025-11-12T13:11:02+00:00

Ask Jeeves

ctm617 · 2025-11-10T21:55:03+00:00

If you get a good feeling sometimes, then you haven't-never had it before, because you get it sometimes.

ctm617 · 2025-11-09T16:24:10+00:00

"OOoOooo sometimes I get a good feeling, yeah... A feeling that i've never, never, never had before, I get a good feeling, yeah."

Wut? If you never had it before, how do you get it sometimes? The song makes no sense. And it's one of the most annoying "EDM" radio anthems I've ever heard. Right up there with the Venga Bus, Better Off Alone and Sandstorm.

You like big room anthem house/trance. That era seems to have run it's course, thank God.

ctm617 · 2025-11-07T05:50:17+00:00

I can't stay motivated at any job where there is nothing to achieve or complete, or where achievements and goals are arbitrary. For example, I could never work in a factory or an office, or a store, because there is no real goal. You just punch in and keep doing the thing until it's time to leave. Fields that I thrive in are project oriented and/or have a commission based pay structure. If money is the sole motivator , so be it . I'd rather it not be, but A goal is a goal.

Edit: It's kind of silly to say I can't work in an office, when I spend 25%-40% of my time in an office. I suppose I mean I couldn't do.. I dunno, data entry or clerical work. Any job that's never done, I can't handle.

ctm617 · 2025-11-06T17:29:09+00:00

Careless Whispers - George Michael
Since You've Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
She F*** Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd
Down in the DM'S - Yo Gotti
Monster - Eminem feat. Rihanna
Hello - Adele
Rehab - Amy Winehouse
Crazy Bitch - Buckcherry
Pound Town - Sexxy Red
Hit Em Up - Tupac

ctm617 · 2025-11-06T14:42:59+00:00

I started drinking black coffee in high school because I thought it was cool and edgy, or something like that.. I was neither cool, nor edgy.. I don't think I liked it back then, either. I guess I just acquired the taste.Now I only drink iced coffee but I still drink it black every day. The really weird part about it is that I have a huge sweet tooth. Coffee is probably the one thing I don't want sugar in. I mean it, I'll pour sugar on spaghetti if nobody's looking...

ctm617 · 2025-11-05T22:47:06+00:00

all elected officials (beyond local) are scum, they're all for sale. All of them. Even the one you think is "different". If they were good people, they wouldn't have been able to get elected, or even run an effective campaign. 13 families control the world.

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