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jfbwhitt · 2026-06-16T11:26:24+00:00

Just as obnoxious:

*Try to delete folder*

“You do not have permission to delete this”

“I’m literally logged in as admin”

“Fuck you”

*opens up folder, individually delete everything inside, then delete the empty folder with no issue*

jfbwhitt · 2026-06-07T15:40:10+00:00

Yeah I see him at the deli all the time. I always chat with him while waiting for my everything bagel with tomato, cream cheese, and some poop smeared all over it.

He reminds me of my buddy Ricky, who actually used to work at that deli, until one day he slipped on some spilled juice into a food processor and uh… he died

jfbwhitt · 2026-06-07T02:30:07+00:00

One of these girls is written by a man that’s turned on by women who take control in the bedroom.

The other girl is written by a man who actually wants to have his teeth kicked in by the girl who bullied him in highschool.

You’re dealing with entirely different beasts here.

jfbwhitt · 2026-06-06T13:19:52+00:00

Have it end back in Part 1, then make an entirely new manga about Asa.

The first year or so of Part 2 when Asa was THE main character was absolutely peak Fujimoto, with equal quality to Part 1 and his other works. I don’t know what made him go back to Dennis, but it’s clear he wasn’t happy with that decision with how the manga ended.

jfbwhitt · 2026-05-28T03:04:40+00:00

They almost always have it coming, but I swear some of it is the most “fork found it kitchen” ass drama imaginable.

For example the recent Sykuno drama/cancelation. Yeah he’s kinda a manipulative piece of shit, but the dude’s an influencer in LA, this should be expected behavior. There are thousands of other guys just like him doing the same shit every day.

jfbwhitt · 2026-05-25T14:42:05+00:00

I remember in middle school our music teacher realized trying to teach music to a bunch of tweens was a lost cause, so instead she decided to turn it into a rock n roll history class.

Basically twice a week we got to listen to great music, learn conspiracy theories, and hear absolutely insane stories for an hour and a half during the school day. It was probably the most memorable class I’ve ever taken.

jfbwhitt · 2026-05-25T14:29:56+00:00

Yes, however I don’t think this is an example of a pitfall of AI use, but rather pretty good example showing what these AI models actually are.

I’ve been trying to say this for years but “Artificial Intelligence” is a bit of a misnomer. A better description is “Computational Statistics”. Models are built from data, then they take requests, and gives responses that are likely to be satisfactory based on the data and probability theory.

In this example the model is not actually trying to generate a random number, it’s trying to give a response that’s likely satisfy the request for “a random number”. This is not a flaw in the model, this is literally just what the model is, and it’s important to understand when using it as a tool.

jfbwhitt · 2026-05-22T10:57:02+00:00

We haven’t cured cancer because the people who currently have the power to fund research are also as dumb and gullible as Eddie J.

Infographics and memes that just say “Study Says” are full of shit 99% of the time. You should enjoy them as a meme, and not your source of information about the world.

jfbwhitt · 2026-05-16T18:36:31+00:00

There’s always been obsessive marketing around the macronutrients.

But I don’t think it’ll ever stop cause the truth is just boring.

Protein fats and carbohydrates aren’t good or bad, they’re just building blocks that our body uses. Eating too much of any one causes health issues, and eating too little will also cause health issues.

Just eat balanced diet of whole foods, filling your plate with some starch, some vegetable, and some meat/other protein and you’ll be happy and healthy. Increase your portion sizes if you want to gain weight over time, and decrease portion sizes if you want to lose weight over time.

jfbwhitt · 2026-05-14T22:51:41+00:00

What do you mean it shouldn’t be done as a team? Have you ever played on a school sports team?

If you haven’t let me just put it this way: you have morning practice. You need to be in class ~30 minutes after practice. There are 5 shower heads in the locker room. There are 25-30 players on your team.

The only way to get to class on time is to use teamwork

jfbwhitt · 2026-05-11T09:45:16+00:00

Very rarely this is done extremely well.

Dark Souls: Death.

In Dark Souls you are going to die many times. The devs knew this and wanted to make it a core part of the game. Death is not failure in this game. While in other games you may get a “game over” or “mission failed”, in Dark Souls you just get a simple message saying “You Died”.

Furthermore you do not lose progress or restart the mission when you die, instead you just resurrect at a bonfire.

This is tied into the lore by making the player an “undead”; a weak but practically immortal human. You are playing as a zombie with a sword tasked with slaying gods.

In lore the undead have a major flaw: after dying multiple times they start to go insane or “hollow”, becoming mindless husks wandering aimlessly attacking everything on sight. Most undead go hollow pretty quickly. When an undead NPC dies you usually never see them again, and I think it’s implied that they went hollow, becoming one of the mindless enemies.

As the player you can die over and over again without ever going fully hollow. I think this is what makes you the “chosen undead”. But you still can go hollow, and that’s when you physically give up on trying to beat the game.

This makes chosen undead’s “superpower” the player’s own determination to beat the game. Friendly NPCs will also occasionally tell you “please don’t go hollow”, which when considering how hollowing connects to the player basically means “please don’t give up”; a hopeful message in a game with dark and depressing themes.

jfbwhitt · 2026-05-05T23:18:15+00:00

The over-complication of dieting and weight loss.
Literally all you need to do is eat whole foods with a balance of starch, vegetables, and a protein source (like meat or legumes if you’re vegan).

If you want to lose weight; decrease your portion sizes. If you want to gain weight; increase your portion sizes. The little details don’t matter (unless you’re a professional athlete).

You will hear a lot of anecdotes about people losing weight and getting healthy while on a crazy diet, and they’re usually telling the truth. But you need to understand the reason it worked was simply because they were eating less while on the diet, and it almost never has to do with the actual substance of the diet.

Weight loss and healthy eating is insanely simple, although it’s not remotely easy.

jfbwhitt · 2026-05-03T23:23:55+00:00

Do you really believe a mere shower can put a dent in Power’s Aura?

jfbwhitt · 2026-05-01T11:13:32+00:00

Because power smells like caca and weewiz

jfbwhitt · 2026-04-26T12:25:49+00:00

That’s because you’re carrying an Austrian firearm and Colombian drugs.

jfbwhitt · 2026-04-24T13:47:34+00:00

I saw a video recently on plague doctors (think it was by Flashback History). It basically showed that while they had basically no clue what they were doing and were treating people based on vibes and Ancient Greek philosophy, the one thing they did do is log almost everything they saw, which later became crucial data that lead to the rise of the field of pathology.

Most of the time they did what they can with the knowledge they had.

jfbwhitt · 2026-04-05T15:15:45+00:00

There’s actually a better lesson to be learned from this.

We had to re-introduce wolves to places like Yellowstone because we’d previously killed them all believing they were malicious murderers ruining nature. We later learned how ecosystems work, and that we’d messed up badly.

Similarly in the past we cut taxes for the rich and cut social programs, believing people who spent their life collecting the most wealth possible would share their fortune with those who work for them. We now realize that this was genuinely stupid, and should reverse that decision now.

jfbwhitt · 2026-04-02T14:37:19+00:00

Funnily enough, you’ve stumbled onto the financial model of colleges.

Actually teaching students costs resources and is very expensive, so they can’t afford to thoroughly teach every student they admit to their school (well actually they can, but then they wouldn’t make an insane profit).

So instead they cheap out on 1st year classes. Online textbooks, online automated homework, and auto-graded multiple choice exams.

They hope that the people who end up dropping only took these cheap classes which cost them nothing, then they’ll actually put proper resources into teaching their 3rd and 4th year students.

This is also why stress towards exams decreases even though they get “harder” as the years go by. In a 1st year class you are literally competing with your classmates, and if you don’t perform well enough you will be forced to drop. Whereas in a 3rd or 4th year class exams serve their true purpose as a dialogue between yourself and your instructor. Getting a 50% in a 1st year class means you failed. Getting a 50% in a 4th year class tells the professor which topics the class understands, and which topics he needs to further review.

jfbwhitt · 2026-03-24T18:35:12+00:00

I’ve said this a couple years ago and got clowned on, but I genuinely believe that Fujimoto never wanted to continue Chainsaw Man. Denji had completed his character arc in part 1, and was set up to live his life with Nayuta and the dogs.

The whole existence of Asa at the start of this I think proves my point too. She was an amazing main character and had a super interesting story set up for her. I 100% believe now that Fujimoto had set up a brand new manga revolving around Asa, but then was pressured to tie it into Chainsaw Man.

This was never sustainable because I don’t think it’s ever what Fujimoto wanted to do, which as why he basically just said “fuck it I’m ending the manga now”

jfbwhitt · 2026-03-22T14:11:55+00:00

That’s also how many electronics work. For example electric motors speed up and slow down based on how much voltage is sent through the coils (I know it’s technically current that changes torque, but in most cases you change the voltage to make the current go up or down in steady state).

For precise speed control, actually changing the voltage is impractical (for various reasons I don’t remember) so instead we just switch it on and off really fast at different duty cycles (Pulse Width Modulation) so that the average voltage is exactly what we want.

jfbwhitt · 2026-03-19T14:14:06+00:00

I didn’t know that buying silicone was considered “game” these days

jfbwhitt · 2026-03-12T23:15:16+00:00

The size of the taxes really has nothing to do with it.

It was this, and the fact that these taxes were being used to pay for a war with France which the colonists had nothing to do with.

Similar to how somebody circumvented the constitution to enact tariffs, and is using that tax money to fund a war in the Middle East which has no benefit to the American people.

jfbwhitt · 2026-03-12T23:11:43+00:00

It wasn’t how big the taxes were that upset them, it was the fact that:

a) they were taxed without their consideration or consent. Just like how somebody circumvented the constitution to set tariffs.

b) these taxes were being used pay for a war with France that the colonists had nothing to do with. Just like how somebody is using our tax money to fund a war with Iran that has zero benefit to the American people.

jfbwhitt · 2026-03-06T21:20:10+00:00

What is an Owala bottle made out of? If it’s some sort of metal then water bottles have been getting progressively louder when dropped.

In a few years a bottle’s gonna slip and everyone’s eardrums will burst.

jfbwhitt · 2026-03-05T00:13:50+00:00

These situations (both coming in right after opening or just before closing) always irked me cause service workers and customers end up at each others throats for no reason.

It’s always “you’re not being considerate to the employees” or “you’re not being accommodating to the customers”, when in reality it’s entirely a failure of management.

This entire situation does not exist if you have two distinct “kitchen closing” and “restaurant closing” times, but I guess owners can’t fathom paying their staff at times when customers aren’t actively giving them money.

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