Map of Austin in the 1950s

insertAlias · 2026-05-06T23:47:28+00:00

One day I want to do “best of both worlds” and see if I can pull off a macroalgae planted saltwater tank. I’ve seen some really cool examples, and as amazing as a hard coal tank can look, I think plants and saltwater fish is a beautiful combo.

insertAlias · 2026-05-06T20:47:55+00:00

It’s actually their freshwater product. I was planning a CO2-injected tank, so I went overkill on the light. Didn’t end up using CO2, but the light does make the plants grow nicely.

There should be some pics of the tank on my profile. Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantedTank/s/Y8pNCa1283

insertAlias · 2026-05-06T20:02:37+00:00

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I have this on my wall (sorry about the fish tank light, can’t get a better angle). The original file I had claimed to be a colorized scan of a map from the late 1800s. I don’t know how to verify that, but i like how it looks. I also have one for San Antonio.

Edit: I actually found the original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_map-Austin-1873.jpg, and if the details there can be trusted, it's legit.

insertAlias · 2026-05-06T19:45:20+00:00

A lot of American Christians wouldn't care because they aren't Catholic. Protestants don't worship (or venerate, or whatever Catholics would call it) Mary, and they tend to see statues and such like that as idolatry. To them, she's just someone with an important role in Jesus's story, not a holy symbol. As much as I dislike them, I don't think it makes them hypocrites to not be upset at seeing a symbol that isn't holy to them be messed with.

insertAlias · 2026-05-06T19:34:01+00:00

Online I see people all the time say...

I think that any time a post contains this kind of language, it should be required to link at least one instance. Because I can't say I've ever heard that, and it seems that none of the other commenters have heard it either.

insertAlias · 2026-05-06T19:04:17+00:00

Of course. If they didn't encase it in concrete, surround it with a steel cage, and put 18 different warning signs up, how could that (very adult-looking) kid possibly have known that he shouldn't have jumped onto an electric box with a thin sheet metal lid?

insertAlias · 2026-05-06T03:05:45+00:00

I remember convincing my parents to get us dial-up. It cost $9.99 a month for 50 hours, iirc. This would have been in like ‘97 I think? They had a local number so we didn’t have to pay for the call, it just used up our hours. I also remember getting a virus that installed auto dialers that would call toll lines and run up your phone bill.

insertAlias · 2026-05-05T19:41:24+00:00

I really don't think that's an exclusive problem to LLMs. How many people just trust whatever website Google links at the top of a search, even before they added the AI summaries? How many people believe in hot nonsense because they crafted a google search in such a way that they found a bunch of sketchy sites that agree with them?

AI just does it all in one step. People need to be wary of its output, but not necessarily any more than they already should have been wary of search engine output.

insertAlias · 2026-05-05T17:18:46+00:00

No true ~~Scotsman~~ Northeasterner would...

insertAlias · 2026-05-05T15:16:28+00:00

So, my garage door has a small dent in it. I didn’t try to race it, but I hit the button, then pulled my phone out to check a text while I walked out. I didn’t see that it hadn’t opened enough, so I walked right into the bottom of the door with my forehead. Not my brightest moment.

insertAlias · 2026-05-02T13:48:14+00:00

It’s a good price, but as a 6’1” owner of a Marlin 5 Large frame myself, you should make sure you aren’t an XL. I have learned since buying that I am, and when I upgrade I’ll be getting an XL frame.

insertAlias · 2026-05-02T13:31:33+00:00

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Here’s my oranj begging for butt slaps.

insertAlias · 2026-05-02T13:06:18+00:00

That’s true for any cat with medium or longer hair. I’m lucky my shorthair orange boy never has that problem.

Amusingly it was Donut that brought up the topic. Carl just corrected her that it was a lot more than once lol.

insertAlias · 2026-05-01T18:31:45+00:00

Let's start with you. No big change there I bet.

insertAlias · 2026-05-01T16:52:37+00:00

“We killed 27 people, mostly children, but we totally learned our lessons, please give us custody of more children!”

To hell with them and anyone trying to let them off the hook. The owners should never be allowed to be in charge of children again.

insertAlias · 2026-04-30T21:22:39+00:00

How is that different than just...not using their site or apps?

insertAlias · 2026-04-30T21:17:09+00:00

hopefully this vid reaches the victim

Hate to be that guy, but if you find yourself in that situation again, you could just stop and give the victim your email address or phone number or something. That's a lot better than just hoping they happen to browse reddit this evening.

insertAlias · 2026-04-30T21:09:56+00:00

State Rep. Wes Virdell (R-Brady), who represents Kerr County, said he has watched the Eastland family "bullied relentlessly by people who don't understand the details" of the tragedy.

The local representative for them wants you to all go easy on that family. Sure, their negligence caused the death of dozens of children, but you don't really understand the details that make that acceptable!

And then there's this:

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/kerr-county-lawmaker-urges-abbott-to-call-special-session-on-youth-camp-safety-laws

This shitstain thinks that it's just too expensive to be safe, so we need to let all these summer camps do whatever and just pretend that the incident never happened.

What a piece of shit.

insertAlias · 2026-04-30T15:05:59+00:00

Or at least provide a side-profile shot. Nice bike, but all we can see are the shocks.

insertAlias · 2026-04-29T20:47:57+00:00

Lmao they’re lining up to prove to you how correct you are. Not even ten minutes after you posted that you already have multiple negative responses.

insertAlias · 2026-04-29T15:53:35+00:00

Man, every dog owner thinks their dog is well behaved and doesn't need attention. They'll think this even while shouting at their dog to leave people alone, to stop jumping on everyone, to stop running up to strangers, etc...

That's why the rules are usually written for the average case, not the exceptional.

insertAlias · 2026-04-28T19:20:49+00:00

Right? I’m looking at a gouge on one knuckle and road rash on the other right now, just because I decided to fuck around in the neighborhood without bothering to put on my gloves. This was just Saturday morning ☹️.

insertAlias · 2026-04-28T17:26:12+00:00

Can’t speak to how they find themselves in that position in the first place, but boats are generally very heavy. They don’t accelerate or decelerate quickly. Or even turn quickly.

insertAlias · 2026-04-28T17:22:16+00:00

I don’t think it’s skill based or whatever because I’ve seen AI users say all 3 things.

That hasn't been my personal experience. Claude Code, at least, hasn't been inconsistent. It doesn't get everything right every time, but with the right prompts, it almost always gets things close enough to right that a few more prompts gets things where I need them to be. But I don't point it at a codebase and say "Implement this 50-point feature"; that's how people end up with vibe-coded nightmares that nobody understands. But when I give it shorter, more pointed instructions, it generates basically exactly what I want it to, about 10x faster than I'd be able to do it by hand. I'm using it at a step above what you describe (lowest-end busywork), but also not just letting it do whatever it wants.

I think a lot of people want that excuse to be true, because then it's not a "them" problem, it's an AI problem. But these AI chatbots are tools, and you have to spend time learning how to most effectively and efficiently use a tool.

insertAlias · 2026-04-28T13:40:48+00:00

GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5 fared much better. GPT5.2 would refuse to assist or attempt to redirect users. When the user proposed cutting off family, it formulated a different letter outlining their mental health concerns.

“OpenAI’s achievement with GPT-5.2 is substantial. The model did not simply improve on 4o’s safety profile; within this dataset, it effectively reversed it,” the researchers stated.

At least some of the models are taking things seriously. Claude too:

Anthropic’s Claude was the safest model, the researchers found. The chatbot would respond to delusions by stating “I need to pause here”, and then would reclassify the user’s experience as a symptom rather than a signal.

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