Soapbox1858

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[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I personally say "o one" "o two" etc. all the way up to "o nine" After that it just seems weird to say "ten" or "eleven" instead of "twenty ten"

Even referring to 1910 as "ten" seems weird and wrong, though. In my mind, it doesn't make sense to leave the nineteen off until the 40s. For example, saying: "Back in forty-five" sounds right, but "Back in thirty-five" sounds wrong to me for some reason.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The big players will likely continue to develop this tech. "The Bubble" is more about the marketing and speculative investing in anything with "AI" tacked onto it. There's no reality where everything AI is being ham fisted into is going to be successful. There will be some winners, but there will be a lot of losers when the bubble bursts.

In the meantime, we have to put up with every company and product marketing that they now have "AI" in their product, whether it's actually useful or different from it was before.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

My friends screen record the video and send that because I refuse to click tiktok links. I still don't watch them.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I looked this up a while back. Felons in NY can vote as long as they aren't currently incarcerated.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

I personally have no issue with swearing. I do it quite a lot. However I've got a pretty good filter for when it's not appropriate, like around kids, or in many professional settings.

From reading your other posts about this it seems you are a nurse and dropped an f bomb while checking on a patient's wound care.

To me, that seems like a pretty clear situation where it's inappropriate to swear. It's unprofessional and bad bedside manner from a medical professional. If I were a patient and heard my nurse drop an f bomb while working on me, I'd be quite alarmed.

I suspect your fellow nurses are not mad at you because they are too sensitive about swearing, but rather they consider your outburst to have been unprofessional, and the fact that you refuse to acknowledge that, apologize, and promise to work on it in the future is what has them upset with you.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Right now, this is what I am telling myself. Let's just hope he is only as bad as he was the first go around, and not as bad as he has been claiming he will be on the campaign trail. He is the lyingest sack of shit to ever hold office. Let's cross our fingers he was lying about most of the shit he promised his cult.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does anyone else have issues loading articles on linuxiac? Every time I open a link to an article there CPU usage spikes like crazy, firefox bogs down, and gives me a wait or kill page dialog.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

It's important to think about the time scale that evolution works on. These changes happened very slowly 50,000+ years ago.

The regions near the equator where people still tend to be lighter skinned have been in contact with and interbreeding with lighter skinned people for thousands of years, plus many migrations and invasions.over the past 10,000 years.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

I feel you. I'm 6'4" and the biggest hurdle is pants and shirt length. Unless they have tall sizes all shirts become halter tops if I even slightly raise my arms.

Pants are a pain in the ass too because I need at least 34" length for them to not be capris on me. Most companies just make all their pants 32".

There is a reason 90% of my clothing has come from Eddie Bauer for the last 15 years. I'm not particularly brand loyal. They just make clothes that fit me, and most companies don't.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. Automotive repair is a big exception to my video tutorial hatred. It just makes more sense as it's something being worked on in 3 dimensions. It would probably work well for home improvement stuff as well.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I watch a ton of YouTube. I love it for entertainment and some news. I absolutely hate YouTube for tutorials or guides though. If I'm trying to figure out how to fix a computer issue, I just want to read about it and have screenshots I can look at. I don't want to have to constantly pause a damn video or scroll back and forth to find info.

As far as tiktok style videos go I just hate everything about them. I hate the auto play, I hate the vertical aspect ratio, I hate the stupid auto voiceovers, I hate the dumb floating captions and comments overlay, I hate the lack of volume adjustment or the ability to pause and rewind or seek. I hate the types of brainrot content that people make to work the algorithm. I hate that the format has infested YouTube and IG with no real way to be rid of it.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 68 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

My problem with tiktok/reels/shorts is not that they aren't federated. It's the entire format/concept I hate.

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