TheOctonaut

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How to make a month go by as fast as possible other than sleeping

I'm having some personal issues causing some severe depression and anxiety. I'd like to get past this time as fast as possible, and my days are dragging on. I can't sleep, which would be a good way to make time go fast. But I also can't just play video games, I don't have the motivation to play more than a few minutes and it...

TheOctonaut ,

Why the oddly specific time period? Is something happening in a month, or are you doing something so that you won't feel like this in a month?

TheOctonaut ,

> when you don't read to the end of the bible so you don't know why the US really wants Israel to exist

TheOctonaut ,

Some of us live in functioning democracies where "switch to USB-D" won't come with an "it's illegal to give your son a name that wasn't previous a job title" attachment.

TheOctonaut ,

You are being tested on your comprehension of the text given, not asked for your opinion on piracy and copyright.

TheOctonaut ,

I'm surprised to see this update- I thought MS were making a "new" Flight Simulator for this year. I'm aware that content creation and game creation are usually quite separate but odd that they'd be release stuff to "keep" you on the "old"/current FS iteration.

TheOctonaut ,

Oh I'm sure it's not wasted work. But any content delivered now, for free, is in direct competition with buying a whole new game, probably for >=$70. I guess they're very confident in the new game modes or something.

TheOctonaut ,

I mean they fucking advertised it as such when I bought it

TheOctonaut ,

As a vegetarian, aquarist and climate doomer, I want to point out your joke was pretty funny.

...It was a joke, right?

TheOctonaut ,

Excellent commitment to the bit. Well done

TheOctonaut ,

The first movie in the Child's Play movie franchise they saw was the third iteration, Child's Play 3; they were motivated to see it because it was banned, an ironic backfire of the censorship decision.

TheOctonaut ,

It's the same with the protests. "Why is this taking so long", not "why are we wiping out Palestinians".

TheOctonaut ,

SimCity4 Deluxe modded to a state of fragile beauty

TheOctonaut ,

Ukraine neither had control of those nuclear weapons, nor the ability to maintain them. It is probably for the best for humanity that they were removed. This is acknowledged by ICANW.

https://www.icanw.org/did_ukraine_give_up_nuclear_weapons

TheOctonaut ,

Did you just not read anything in my post? A nuke you can't use isn't a deterrent. It's a risk to yourself.

TheOctonaut ,

Because by that criteria every web page that's ever had a comment box is "social media".

Social media to me is, as the guy said, defined by the fact that you're following a person/persona, not a topic.

This site and other sites like it are link aggregators. If you wanted to, you could use and contribute to a link aggregator without ever writing or indeed reading a comment.

TheOctonaut ,

They share them as a once off. Very occasionally you'll get the "Update: MIL stole our baby" posts, but mostly it doesn't matter (and shouldn't matter) who is posting the content. In social media, who is posting matters.

You have the oddities on Reddit occasion like that terrible poet and the comic lady that has her OF simps brigade her posts, but just look at how utterly useless and rejected all of Reddit's attempts to turn it into social media are: follows, journals, chat - features of genuine social media but done poorly and with the wrong audience who distinctly Don't want to follow personalities.

TheOctonaut ,

Again, it's not about links or about comments. It's about the focus of the content. My friend, I have been shitposting on the Internet quite likely longer than you've been alive, so no, I'm not ignoring the content. And I was on Facebook for the best part of a decade so no, no shame there either.

But Usenet isn't social media. Forums aren't social media. Comment boxes aren't social media. The term came about when people started friending and following and tagging each other and generally caring who the other person is - without which all of these previous examoles are just more chatrooms and forums. If Social Media is literally just communicating in any way on the Internet, then the term is useless.

TheOctonaut ,

Now I want them to do The Chain but with trumpets

TheOctonaut ,

People still somehow paying attention to Twitter

TheOctonaut ,

This is a future prediction, not a current observation.

I'm not saying it's correct as a prediction, but "where are the extra power plants" is not good counter-argument.

TheOctonaut ,

It was 3.6 years after? And it was pretty dead at that point. Like it was popular with a core group who were making Niantic and TPC tons of money, but the phenomenon was dead by the anniversary.

TheOctonaut ,

I'm sorry what? Do you understand the difference between, for example, mocking a blind person for using a cane and wearing dark glasses, and mocking people who think it's cool and decide to start wearing dark glasses and using a cane while being perfectly sighted? Do you think that is a reasonable thing to do? Do you think it would be ableist to laugh at perfectly able people who are pretending to be disabled?

TheOctonaut ,

How exactly do you expect to see the "source" of a language model?

.....

Hey does anyone want to buy a t-shirt from me with this guy's worst comments printed on it?

TheOctonaut ,

Yeah that's not the source, that's still output. You don't seem to understand how LLMs work and yet have taken a bizarre stance on it anyway.

TheOctonaut ,

You know that's not the LLM's 'source' right? It's still output. Do you mean the training data? Is that what you mean by CoPilot should be open source? If CoPilot has learned from something GPL then everything else it outputs, or perhaps specifically its training data - should be GPL?

TheOctonaut ,

It's not just any water, it's holy water. If a priest has cast Ceremony to create the holy water on whatever, sure. But why when you probably have liquid water tk hand? God might wonder if it's very sincere if you're just basically doing it for a laugh. Might take away your spell slots.

TheOctonaut ,

She's like 7 years old and roughly that size too.

@fbi deal with this guy

TheOctonaut ,

It's a joke my friend. The FBI don't actually have a lemmy server

TheOctonaut ,

Nobody is disabling 4G bands except the bands they lied about being 4G in the first place?

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