ArbitraryValue

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[–] ArbitraryValue 2 points 2 hours ago

I met my best friend because he was carrying around a traffic button and I asked him about it.

[–] ArbitraryValue -1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

How are you guys getting all these wrong answers? Because I do use ChatGPT to look up information about software development, which is something I have a lot of experience with, and it's almost always right. "Almost always" isn't "always" but, if I'm being honest, it's probably better than my own memory.

[–] ArbitraryValue 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Trump destroyed with facts and logic at Pope's funeral.

[–] ArbitraryValue 10 points 3 hours ago

I have a picture of myself sleeping on the floor next to my dog on the day I adopted him, but it's actually staged since my grandma didn't know how to use my cell phone to take pictures so she had to wake me up and then told me to pretend that I was still sleeping. I wasn't planning to adopt a dog (I didn't even like dogs) but I was at a shelter with my friend that day and one of the dogs there started freaking out when I just walked past his cage. For some reason I decided that meant I had to take him home with me. I wonder how selective he was with that behavior...

[–] ArbitraryValue 208 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (56 children)

I used to worry about what women would think when they saw my home, but it turned out that none of them ever see it at all so I might as well be true to myself and collect all the My Little Ponies.

[–] ArbitraryValue 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Uyghurs in Guantanamo didn't want to go back to China.

[–] ArbitraryValue 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Do you remember how prisoners were kept in Guantanamo Bay, even after they were no longer suspected of any wrongdoing, simply because there wasn't a country that would both accept them and treat them in accordance with US law? Many of those prisoners ended up nowhere near where they came from.

Some countries refuse to accept deportees. Some countries are so likely to mistreat deportees that sending them to those countries is illegal. Some countries simply don't exist anymore.

[–] ArbitraryValue 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

"Obligatory charity." Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

[–] ArbitraryValue 2 points 1 week ago

He didn't do well against Persia but he did bag an impressive number of Christian saints.

 

The fascinating thing here is that the government's lawyer, the one supposed to argue against this guy's return, appears to have sided against the government.

"Give us 24 hours to get him back, Reuveni said. "That was my recommendation to my client but that hasn't happened"

 

When I was a teenager, I thought people in their 20's were the most attractive. Now that I'm about 40, I still think people in their 20's are the most attractive. It's hard for me to believe that I might ever be attracted to someone past retirement age, even when I'm past retirement age myself, unless the person is like one of those celebrities who look way younger than they are.

This isn't something I can comfortably ask most older people I know, but there's one man who admits that he isn't and one woman who is. Which is more normal?

 

"Deleted" sounds so casual too, like God did it as part of some routine cleanup.

 

I live a bachelor lifestyle, so I have no food in here. Just alcohol. I hope the mouse figures that out and goes away. I should get some traps in case it doesn't. I hate killing animals but there's no practical alternative.

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I got a parking ticket. (self.dull_mens_club)
 

I was supposed to move my car last night but I forgot. The ticket is for $65 but I found a dollar on the ground near my car so I'm actually only out $64.

I set an alarm in my calendar so I won't forget next time.

 

It'll cost $9 each time. They're raising money for the mass transit system by charging specifically those people who don't use the mass transit system and that feels really unfair to me.

 

Archive link.

As recently as February, Mr. Walz said on a podcast that he had been in Hong Kong, then a British colony, “on June 4 when Tiananmen happened,” and decided to cross into mainland China to take up his teaching duties even though many people were urging him not to.

But it was not true. Mr. Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, indeed taught at a high school in China as part of a program sending American teachers abroad, but he did not actually travel to the country until August 1989.

Why bother making something like this up?

 

Pretty much every major shopping website has terrible search functionality.

I usually want something very specific, for example 60w dimmable e12 frosted warm led bulb. I have not found a single shopping website that won't show me results without many of these terms in the description. I don't want to see listings that say 40w and don't say 60w anywhere, and it isn't hard to filter them out!

Are these shopping websites bad on purpose? What's in it for them?

 

Before covid, I would be sick with a cold or flu for a total of about two weeks every year. That means I spent 4% of my time sick; one out of every 25 days. Since covid appeared, I've been wearing an N95 in crowded indoor areas whenever I reasonably can. (Obviously I can't if I'm eating something.) My main goal initially was to protect my elderly relatives, but during the last four years I have not gotten sick even once, except from my elderly relatives who didn't wear masks, got sick, and then infected me when I was caring for them.

Why isn't everyone wearing N95s? Sure, it's uncomfortable, but being sick is much more uncomfortable. And then there's the fact that wearing an N95 protects other people and not just the wearer...

 
 

There appears to be no straightforward way to permanently stop Windows 11 Home from rebooting on its own after installing updates. I looked for workarounds but so far I have only found a script that has to run on a schedule to block the reboot by changing "working hours". (Link.)

Is that really the best that is possible?

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