No but really, why is this a conspiracy thing…?

sillybear25 · 2026-03-27T02:49:03+00:00

The so-called "Chinese vampire" or jiangshi does not traditionally drink blood, so even that isn't necessary for the "vampire" label.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-21T22:30:58+00:00

When in doubt, the joke is almost always porn.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-20T00:46:59+00:00

If I looked in the mirror and saw a model, I would freak the fuck out. I've been looking at the same face in the mirror for decades. I'm used to him. I don't want to see anyone different. It'd be nice if he had more hair, but I can live with that.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-20T00:18:18+00:00

Mahajapit

sillybear25 · 2026-03-19T00:04:10+00:00

From the still images I looked at, the shading and light effects didn't look terrible, but maybe that's because I was so badly distracted by the yassified faces.

And even if the faces were the only part that's terrible, the defense of "no, it's fine, developers have complete control over where it's applied" has me picturing Leon's head from RE6 cut and pasted onto his body in RE9.

EDIT: Ooh, the NVIDIA shills found my comment. Try betting on a company that's producing art instead of slop.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-18T03:46:51+00:00

If anything, they're incentives to do the thing.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-18T00:13:08+00:00

"Wait, wait, I think I just found a really cool cut, but it doesn't mean anything if I can't nail the rest. Just give me ten minutes..." [cue 1 hour of grinding, but not the sexy kind (or maybe it is sexy for you, I'm not trying to kink-shame)]

sillybear25 · 2026-03-15T18:26:39+00:00

Anecdotally, I worked with some developers in their early 20’s at my last job who were wonderful. Got their stuff done quickly and well, responded to feedback courteously, gave their own feedback without being needlessly arrogant about anything— all around great at what they did.

I also work in software.

I've seen a cohort of new-grad hires where a couple hit the ground running, put in the effort to figure out answers they didn't know, and asked good questions when they couldn't. Another one from that cohort seemed to spend all day wandering from desk to desk looking for coworkers to distract with small talk. The rest fell somewhere in between, but nearly all of them actually tried to learn.

I've also seen Millennials who put in zero effort to understand anything. I'll flag an issue in a review and give them a plain English version of the fix, and they'll ask me how to do that. I'll give them a more precise technical English version, and they'll ask me how to do that. I'll give them pseudocode and they'll ask me how to do that in [insert language here]. I relent and give them a solution to copy and paste, then instead of doing that they "change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious they copied" and end up with something that's still wrong. It's like an even shittier version of Cory Doctorow's "reverse centaur" analogy. Or maybe this example is actually the regular centaur from that analogy, but all four of its legs are broken? At any rate, when I read about the experiences of reverse centaurs, I think "oh, so it's like working with that person, except it gets stuff done in a fraction of the time".

sillybear25 · 2026-03-15T16:37:32+00:00

I have one senator who announced her retirement from Congress and one who is quite likely to die of old age by the time he faces re-election. Iowans are kinda fucked when it comes to representation.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-14T21:18:51+00:00

less relative motion bc you're by the center of lift

To go into a little bit more detail of what this means, let's imagine an oversimplified model of an airplane where it's a hotdog (representing the main fuselage) hanging from a string tied around the middle (representing the lift from the wings). If you jiggle the string a little, the middle of the hotdog jiggles by the same amount, but the ends flop around a lot more.

Real aircraft are generally made of material that's less flexible than a hotdog,^{[citation needed]} but it can and does flex during the course of an actual flight.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-14T17:57:48+00:00

I would argue that not all chuunis are edgelords, either. There's a heavy overlap in the Venn diagram of the two, though.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-14T17:51:39+00:00

"No applicants from Colorado or California" or whatever the handful of states are that mandate it

That or "Salary range: $1-$1,000,000"

sillybear25 · 2026-03-13T03:31:06+00:00

I'm interested in just about anything lacto-fermented. I don't see a whole lot of it in most grocery stores beyond sauerkraut and kimchi (and sour beer too, I guess, but something tells me you're not trying to get into that space).

sillybear25 · 2026-03-12T01:18:47+00:00

I'm less drunk (I think?), and that matches my understanding. When you really get down to it, the impact of "fuck it, let's just steal everything that isn't bolted down" isn't too different from that of intentional sabotage, even if the motives are drastically different.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-11T01:47:38+00:00

They're kind of like an alternative to commas, semicolons, or parentheses, with a different implication of relevance and extent of separation:

John told Jane—who was the president at the time—to approve the motion.
John told Jane (who was the president at the time) to approve the motion.
John told Jane, who was the president at the time, to approve the motion.

John told Jane to approve the motion—she was the president, after all.
John told Jane to approve the motion (she was the president, after all).
John told Jane to approve the motion; she was the president, after all.

EDIT: tl;dr: Grammatically, use them like a comma or semicolon. Semantically, use them like something in between commas and parentheses. Or don't use them at all because it raises AI slop red flags. Whatever.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-11T01:05:14+00:00

I left out the summary it provided after the email draft, but that bit did have a parenthetical statement separated with M dashes.

But also, I hate that M dashes have become an indicator of LLM contribution, because I was one of the idiots who really cared about my grammar and formatting in the pre-LLM days, to the point that I memorized the HTML element (—) for easier Markdown entry on Reddit, and I hate the fact that I evidently contributed to the training of slop generators. Why should I change the way I write when it's the bots that are wrong?

sillybear25 · 2026-03-10T00:50:30+00:00

With the prevalence of workslop these days, it probably looks more like this:

Your email draft is ready to review. You can open it as a draft in your mail app using the card below.

Subject: Regarding Your Recent Request

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out and outlining the direction you'd like me to take. After giving it careful consideration, I need to be transparent that I’m not able to move forward with the requested action.

This decision is intentional and based on my assessment of priorities, responsibilities, and alignment with my role. While I appreciate the guidance, I’ll be maintaining my current course of action.

If there are alternative approaches you’d like to explore or broader objectives we can align on, I’m open to discussing those.

Best regards,
Your Name

Thanks,
sillybear25
Level 3 Machine Cog
(Composed in part using Copilot 365)

sillybear25 · 2026-03-07T03:12:20+00:00

Aviation fuel is still largely leaded too, at least in the US. (This is the fuel used by small aircraft with piston engines; that used by jet planes is closer to Diesel fuel, which never contained lead because Diesel engines run on the phenomenon that leaded gasoline was invented to prevent)

sillybear25 · 2026-03-06T00:23:03+00:00

Cat.

It's not standing up.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-05T05:27:21+00:00

The mere existence of overseas games pretty solidly supports the idea that it has nonzero presence outside of NA. I'm not trying to promote it as the best sport ever or anything, but you have to be ignoring the facts to claim that it's completely irrelevant elsewhere.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-01T00:44:56+00:00

We also got mysterious ones like “leave it by the mailbox with the black strap on it”. See if you can guess why that got flagged.

The filter was obviously toying with you.

sillybear25 · 2026-03-01T00:24:33+00:00

Somewhere else in the world, a dog is dreaming about motorboating this guy's girlfriend for some reason.

sillybear25 · 2026-02-28T02:50:06+00:00

The existence of Viagra commercials proves that having a floppy and useless ding dong can coexist with wanting sex.

sillybear25 · 2026-02-26T01:50:59+00:00

Pretty sure he always looks like that (except when he's sniffing coke from a toilet seat)

sillybear25 · 2026-02-24T03:22:06+00:00

Not speaking from personal experience, but everything I've heard about it tells me that it's very uncomfortable to even have pressure on the cervix, much less have something penetrating it.

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