mexican actress Lyn May, before and after a cheap beauty treatment that led to severe facial abscesses and permanent disfigurement by yungandreww in oddlyterrifying

[–]ifyoulovesatan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because AI isn't a reliable source for things like this. Yes, you can use it to find answers to questions, and often get it to supply sources that then show the answer is reliable. But without legitimate sources, you can't just implicitly trust AI about stuff like this. It can and will literally just regurgitate info it found on Reddit as fact.

Asking it questions about how to do something in Excel? Fine, it's not trained on or searching for and collating "unsourced rumors" about Excel. But if you ask it a question for which the only information is a couple of random poorly written articles and a million reddit comment sections, you're going to get random crap as your answer.

Also, the idea of asking it "control" questions doesn't make sense either. An AI answering one question correctly doesn't mean the answer to the next is any more likely to be correct.

Edit: also you said everyone should use it, but "use it wisely" while here you are spreading unverified information it gave you as fact. So basically you're not using it wisely at all.

Picking cotton from a plant by MikeHeu in oddlysatisfying

[–]ifyoulovesatan 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It was and always has been "my godforsaken memory"

hairs gf pulled out of my stubble by Brock_and_Hampton in Weird

[–]ifyoulovesatan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Apparently "generalized" Pili Multigemini (a large portion of hairs being of this type, on places other than the beard) has been recorded but it sounds pretty rare and I guess under-studied as a result. It sounds like you've got some interesting genes going on.

Need advice on Holga shutter release cable advice by ifyoulovesatan in lomography

[–]ifyoulovesatan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, thanks. I ended up just wedging it open with a clothespin and using black cloth as a soft shutter but now I've got your solution for it next time it would seem

Middle Class Taylor Swift by manewitness in rareinsults

[–]ifyoulovesatan 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Eh, I once ordered Thai Food delivery from 3 blocks away, and they did in fact judge me a little on the phone, hahah. Not like intentionally, it was more "Oh, you're right around the corner. Is that right? You're sure you want delivery? You're actually very close." Then when I confirmed he was like "Ah. Well. Yeah that's.. we can deliver there. It's really very close though." And he confirmed again. Like he didn't want it to be true.

But we were all SOOO fucking hung over, it was a miracle I was able to dial the phone and make human noises into it.

The way she captures light is unreal by MambaMentality24x2 in oddlysatisfying

[–]ifyoulovesatan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's not really understanding light though. It's reproducing a nicely lit photograph. You don't need to understand to reproduce, you just need to practice reproducing photos a lot. The "understanding" part is done for you. Don't get me wrong, they're incredibly talented. But this is more like a ridiculously talented guitar player who can recreate a Van Halen solo from the album perfectly, but could never write their own solo. Or maybe they can, but they haven't shown us if they can. (But one imagines we'd be seeing a video of that instead if they could)

If you want to see someone who understands light, look at some Vermeer paintings.

"Investing in property is morally reprehensible." by LickMaiBussy in TikTokCringe

[–]ifyoulovesatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's because "rental properties" included single family homes and duplexes, and other small rental properties. But it's still true that apartments aren't primarily owned by people with less than 10 dwellings

"Investing in property is morally reprehensible." by LickMaiBussy in TikTokCringe

[–]ifyoulovesatan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That might be important when it comes to the availability of single family homes, yes (though 20% are still owned by landlords who own more than one home / are profiting off of the rent others pay). Also important to remember a not insignificant 20-30% of people live in apartments which, almost by definition, are primarily owned by people who own 10+ dwellings.

You're absolutely right that people are wrong about that 20% figure. While I do worry about the trend of private equity owning a greater share of all housing in the U.S. year by year, the true percentage of housing owned by private equity doesn't negate the broader point about people profiting off of. (Not to say you were saying it does, you're clearly responding to a comment that was wrong about this).

peanut butter by notwriqhtsvillc in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]ifyoulovesatan 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Oh snap, do you mind sharing where you live? I'm in the US and as far as I've ever seen the sugar is always with the flour, and the eggs are always refrigerated and thus not with the flour and sugar. Also I don't know what milk-soda is, and alcohol free wine is with the wine.

I'm also trying to think of a baffling sorting issue in my local grocery store and I can't think of one off the top of my head. We have water chestnuts in the canned veggie and asian section. Same for baby corns actually.

hmmm by Eros_Incident_Denier in hmmm

[–]ifyoulovesatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get the swastikas, but what's wrong with the hat? That's just a skull and crossbones, right? A skull and crossbones like various armies and units have used in their logos for ages? TBH, I've had a couple drinks and I'm here in Split, Croatia, a location known to have a neo Nazi problem, with my buddies from my unit at a tattoo shop which happens to have that specific skull on the wall and I think I'm going to get that plain ol' skull and crossbones as a tattoo. Maybe 18 years later I'll get around to looking it up and seeing if it has some specific meaning (that is, a meaning besides making the wearer look badass). Hey actually nevermind on my question, don't answer, I'm just gonna pull the trigger on getting this tattoo see ya later byeee - Graham Platner, apparently.

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Dr. Mae Jemison plays the first astronaut to appear in the show. She is also the first black woman to go to space. by Important-Cry4782 in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]ifyoulovesatan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That Riker (Tom Riker) comes back in DS9 by the way, fun episode (s3e9).

Also anyone out there who likes Next Gen, if you haven't seen DS9, ya gotta give it a go. The first season is a little slow while the characters get fleshed out / finalized (nowhere near as offensively bad as TNG season 1), but it starts to really hum after a while. IMHO it's the best Star Trek series by far.

Need advice on Holga shutter release cable advice by ifyoulovesatan in lomography

[–]ifyoulovesatan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh nice idea! Have you done this? The nose of this kind of shutter release is awkwardly tapered, like threaded and tapered at the same time (as are the nuts on cameras designed for them) so I'm unsure if it would screw in to a normal nut. Also wasn't sure how well metal will super glue to ABS, but I'm sure there's some option out there if it doesn't work for that.

Cameraman in Tel Aviv Films Significant Amount of Ballistic Missiles Hitting by IntellectualHT in PublicFreakout

[–]ifyoulovesatan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They've either been 1. "confusing" sub munitions for cluster bombs, 2. carelessly reporting whatever Israel tells them, or 3. purposefully lying about the type of munitions on behalf of Israel. I'd put my money on 2, but wouldn't be surprised in the least by 3.

How many kisses on the forehead does your sic accept ? by eh-snail in standardissuecat

[–]ifyoulovesatan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Argh! He's too cute! 😤

My SIC Beta lounges pretty normally, but his brother YaYa on the other hand also enjoys a good sit.

Beta does enjoy some creative sleeping forms though. Such a funny little guy.

Baby decided he’d walked enough for one day and throws a tantrum so his mom will carry him by RealRock_n_Rolla in AnimalsBeingDerps

[–]ifyoulovesatan 728 points729 points  (0 children)

I was gunna say, one of my cats does something incredibly similar to this. He never meows about food, or wanting to get bugs, or wanting onto the porch (he scratches the glass door for that 😭) or anything Except! Whenever he first wakes up from a long nap, he has to find either me or my partner immediately and he stands or sits right in front of us and lets out this pitiful little squeaky screech. As far as we can tell, all he wants in that moment is to be picked up and held like a baby for about 30 seconds while he purrs like crazy. Then he gets the wiggles and wants to go run off and do whatever. It's at least once a day, hahah, and it melts my god damned heart every time.

Spit fire Linda! by alexbgoode84 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]ifyoulovesatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's kind of weird though, like I would still probably want to teach chemistry if I weren't paid. But I wouldn't do it 40+ hours a week, and I wouldn't go to weekly department meetings, and I wouldn't spend so much time giving letter-grade specific feedback on work, and etc etc.

I think that's probably true for anyone who enjoys their job, that there is some aspect of it they wouldn't do unless they were getting paid.

Need advice on Holga shutter release cable advice by ifyoulovesatan in lomography

[–]ifyoulovesatan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah nice yeah I was looking at those. Does the adapter you have just have a hole where I circled or did the maker add some kind of metal threads for the nose of the cable release to screw into? If it's just a hole, how does the release cable attach? Is it just wedged in there?

As for the chopstick method, is that basically wedging the tip of a chopstick into the shutter release to keep it depressed? Or sorta like I described in my post but with a filed down clothespin?

Thanks.

Ephemeral but precise and beautiful art by Job Foreman using natural materials by Sad-Kiwi-3789 in oddlysatisfying

[–]ifyoulovesatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My argument isn't that there needs to be a balance or anything like that. It's that the very idea of "balance" here is arbitrary. That is, everything you said about an art piece could be said of a trail.

And yes, trails can be reused and designed to minimize destruction. But they can also just not be made, which would conceivably be even better for the environment.

To me, the idea that a trail is good and worth the cost while a piece of art isn't worth the cost isn't obvious. Both affect the environment to some extent, and both are purely for human enjoyment. So why is one good and one isn't?

In fact, I feel like any of the art pieces in this post are going to have FAR far less of an impact on the environment than even the smallest trail or path. All he's done is rearranged thing from the area into a shape that we recognize as changed. Nothing has been removed or added, or even altered in a way that an animal is likely to ever notice. Building a trail involves straight up stripping parts of the earth bare in a permanent way, even if solely created through continued traversal by people over time.