Linus Torvalds???

I really liked Deep Dream. As a fan of Lovecraftian horror, it really tickled a niche for me. When chatGPT first hit, I was down with the general vibe, but then gestures around at everything.

Are you me? This is blow-for-blow exactly what has happened to me over the last year or so. I am hanging on by a thread against the desire to get into woodworking, someone send help.

The text on his shirt says “Celine” in latin characters, but it’s mirrored, unless I’m missing something?

Gonna copy in my comment from the other thread bc I want this video to reach as wide of an audience as possible:

Struthless has a really good video about this. I’ve seen it happen to the young men in my life first-hand. To my siblings, my friends, and - yes - even to myself at one point. And that hole is a hell of a lot harder to climb out of than it is to fall into, and I’m very lucky to have had some good, caring people in my life who helped me to do it. An uncomfortable truth that we on the left must face, is that this is an issue that will only get worse the longer we pretend it doesn’t exist.

Struthless has a really good video about this. I’ve seen it happen to the young men in my life first-hand. To my siblings, my friends, and - yes - even to myself at one point. And that hole is a hell of a lot harder to climb out of than it is to fall into, and I’m very lucky to have had some good, caring people in my life who helped me to do it. An uncomfortable truth that we on the left must face, is that this is an issue that will only get worse the longer we pretend it doesn’t exist.

Was he Roderick Heffley???

Both beat me - my last name is a little unusual, but not hugely - all I know is that I opened the report, and that’s what was highlighted :/

I use the radio, so that I don’t get conditioned to hate one specific song, but still have something more pleasant than an alarm tone (which I’d also grow to hate)

I once got flagged for plagiarism because I had page numbers! Also once got a flag for plagiarising… ✨myself✨ because I had ✨my name✨ on the front page 😔

I used it for a few things in uni, then a few more, then a few more, and eventually realised that my workflow had become

• Boot windows
• Turn on VM
• Use Linux the whole time
• Shut down

So I decided to cut out the middle-man

“Common sense” when it actually means “something you would know if you’d lived my exact life”. There are very few things in this world that are actually “common sense”, and to be honest the whole concept should just be removed from cultures in which it is present.

Honestly I’ve been told this a bunch, but I cook so much tomato-filled Italian/Mediterranean food and then just leave the pan until the next day to clean, never seen any serious issues from it. Seasoning is also regenerative, so even if you do fuck it up a bit, a couple of meals later it will be basically back to normal.

It’s entirely possible, I’ve actually never even had one last even that long and just kinda guesstimated how long a pan that had been absolutely baby’d would last.

Sorry for linking R*ddit, but this thread seems to mirror my suspicions, 3-5 years on average, 10 if you treat it insanely well.

Folks love to harp on about how “iTs So HaRd To CaRe FoR” but honestly Teflon pans (the more common option) are worse

Cast iron:

• be a little careful when washing it
• will last longer than your grandkids

Teflon:

• don’t get it too hot
• don’t use metal tools
• don’t use too much oil
• often not oven-safe
• will last like 10 years at most

Off the top of my head I’d say a poem called “an ode to what is now, effectively, stairs” about shutdown escalators in an abandoned mall. I’ve had a search around for it a couple of times, including on the forum that I’m pretty sure I saw it on - the Agora Road Macintosh Cafe (I think this has since become a right-wing cesspool, it was last time I was there, so not a recommendation), but no luck :/ This was only like 7 years ago, so I’m almost impressed at how quickly it’s disappeared.

Given their rank, they’re probably not doing it in private, but just in general

That’s sort of where I’m at right now to be honest. Google has removed or plan to remove basically everything that gave Android an edge over iOS. Meanwhile Apple, for all their flaws, has actually put out some pretty compelling offerings with the iPhone 17 line both hardware- and software-wise, and has made meaningful improvements in the realm of repairability and side-loading, albeit under regulatory pressure. At this point, it’s looking like going to be harder than I’d like to choose between the two when I go to replace my phone in 3-5 years - provided both companies stay on their current trajectories.

Honestly I’ve found there’s way more to do for fun that’s free in cities compared to when I lived in a small town. The libraries, museums, parks, etc. are all much larger, more exciting, and easier to access - I don’t even need to own a car to have fun anymore. There’s also more social groups for more niche interinterests. Back when I lived in a town, the options for free(ish) fun were: go to a house, go to a mountain, go to the beach, and all were places you had to drive, god forbid you want to take a bus or walk somewhere, and then the people you would hang out with at those places were just co-workers or people you met in school, because there was no other way to meet people.

People say “RTFM” then you get to the manual and it’s this