Evolith

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

Stephen King taught me that cracking eggs is skilled labor for homeless alcoholic vampire-slaying priests

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Why isn't he boldly smiling in this one

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Overused, rebbit's cup spilleth over

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Knowing my conure, I'm sure that these guys could've been wonderful companion pets :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Media and techsimps praise a bundle of code that can spew garbage with a dash of plagiarism. Ted from my college comp class does the same, but all he got was a failing grade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Obligatory ATHF: "See this? This line here? Line of death. Cross it and your freedoms no longer exist."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

*zon got to the point where they heavily counteract the refund game. They hardly check for items that are <$50, but, beyond that, there's an increased amount of effort to make sure that they can punish the customer. If there are enough returned items laying around that it becomes an issue from a common account, they'll actually look back over years to see the total value and if they shouldmake an example out of the person. That was a bit more common regarding high-priced tech items.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I say data corruption to generative AI!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

"See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; he holds us all within his mind."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Getting later and later into the original series and Frasier himself feels way more insufferable and egotistical. The scenes of the other characters are always a hoot, but Frasier just seems to complain about everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I have friends who do this at buffets; cookie at the bottom fits well into small soup bowls, top it with icecream so that slicing down with a spoon gets a harder base to dig into.

And they wonder why they're pre-diabetics who can't manage their weight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I did ride-alongs back in freshman year at a big university. There was a digital display in the brief room showing all of the service vehicles in use at any given time and what equipment each one currently had. Only ONE being driven had a taser, all others had a rifle or shotgun in the back. They could afford a whole storeroom of ARs, but only provide one officer at a time with a taser. They were still using floppy disks in some of the rooms too.

Unbelievable and this was at least eight years ago. I'll always remember that.

 

Was recently granted the privilege of a permanent ban on reddit for a username I had for over four years and it led me down the rabbit hole of seeing more and more claims from other people who went through similar experiences. Hell, there's a lot of them. Frivolous reports resulting in punishment, appeals being automatically denied, the works, etc.

It might just be a presumption, seeing how many bots slide under the radar each day on that site through posts and comments, but I have a strong feeling that most (seemingly random) admin bans are designed to flush out active and semi-active human users rather than weed out bot code posing as people online. The end goal? Whether it's to create an automated, cyclical platform designed to extract marketing and ad revenue from a steady stream of new users or anything else for that matter, I know not. All I know for certain is that the ban tendencies have ramped up in the recent year and the people actually being punished for it are those who have been using it for long periods of time and manage to conveniently fall on the edge of a subjective TOS offense.

I had my suspicions that it was gradually turning into an AI-fueled cesspit, but now I've had my chance to really believe that it has. Good riddance in that case

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