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Cake day: April 12th, 2024
  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•gaudy and not my vibe
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    2 days ago

    I tracked down the house I lived in until I was 5-6. I have lots of pictures of it in its glory and I remember it fondly.

    It was an old 1800s school building that my parents converted into a house. Very cool building, lots of old-school charm (hehe).

    Finding it was a huge mistake. The present owners don’t even live in it, they built a house just to the side of it and use the old structure as support for solar panels, and probably storage for the junk sprawling over the property. Which… I’m down with solar but it’s so sad to see something with so much history, charm, and character… absolutely ruined in under 30 years.

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoCool Guides@lemmy.ca•A cool guide Men’s dress codes - DecodedEnglish
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    4 days ago

    You are more than welcome to do so, but I don’t really make posts in communities I don’t have an investment in. Or many at all really.

    I can send you the URLs for the original pics and all, if you like :) it turns out those I linked are super low quality and a simple screenshot would have higher res.

    But I probably don’t belong there; I have no skin in this other than finding men in manskirts psychologically attractive. And even that’s a bit of a stretch as an asexual ;)

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Progress happens with every deathEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I mean… No offense or anything but I really don’t care if I mis-spell a brand name. It’s super unimportant in the grand scheme of things. It’s… all just stupid marketing anyway, and if they cared, they would have used a smarter spelling.

    What I am concerned about is calling oneself stupid and a nazi (of any sort at this point) while actually being neither. Even as a hyperbolic thing, it’s something I greatly dislike.

    Please be kinder to yourself. It’s ok to be pedantic, but just say that instead :)

    I also have things that make me unreasonably annoyed. It’s ok to have those things :)

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Progress happens with every deathEnglish
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    5 days ago

    This is basically the reason we have artificial sweeteners, too.

    Some dude was trying to make/do something, and labs were sort of “lol everything is safe” back then so he like… had a sandwich… and noticed it was sweet… so he just sort of tasted all the stuff he was working with and found aspartame. (I believe it was aspartame)

    I believe the same is true for fabreeze, the underlying chemical mechanism was an accidental discovery because the researcher’s wife noticed he didn’t smell of cigarettes. It never caught on tho because it, naturally, has no smell, and you become blind to smells you are constantly exposed to, so until they added perfumes (fabreeze as we know it today), even tho it worked, nobody cared to use it. I wish I could actually find it unscented… the scented shit stinks and gives me headaches.

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoCool Guides@lemmy.ca•A cool guide that works really well for meEnglish
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    5 days ago

    lol this guide has me doing nothing but tons of jumping jacks, a few crunches, squats, and way too many wall sit minutes. It might be ok for like… once in a while…? But I’d probably need to repeat several times to get any sort of workout from it, and it wouldn’t be a very effective workout.

    Cool idea, but maybe needs more variety so that doesn’t happen. Lunges, planks, up-downs, jump rope, left-right glides, tai-bo punches, high-knee twists, etc. (skip jump rope if this is fully equipment-free) Or like maybe if the letters rotate on the daily or smth.

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings
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    6 days ago

    I find this wholly unsurprising.

    All ai projects should be forced to show the entirety of their training data. I don’t give a flying fuck if they want to call it proprietary, they don’t own most of the data in the first place. Even if they bought it, it doesn’t belong to them, just like we don’t own digital movies we buy.

    And if even a single piece of that training data doesn’t have proper licensing for that specific use for that specific model, or they are ever found to have withheld any of the data, the model as a whole should be immediately scrapped, along with everything even tangentially derived from it, and the company should be fined fully double whatever amount of money that model generated or one years revenue for the company as a whole, whichever is more (no I don’t care if this leads to bankruptcy, should have thought about that before you stole data), and like use if for affordable housing programs or public schools or something, whatever.

    They can try again with clean data, also subject to review. One time. Second time they do the same shady shit, permanently banned from the entire sector.

    But regardless, we need to stop rewarding them for this behavior. And we need the consequences to actually hurt or we can expect it to get worse, not better.

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Price of blood?
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    9 days ago

    Considering the super shady practices involved with plasma “donation”, and the fact that it’s used to make very expensive cancer drugs, take your text and good vibes. That’s literally the better outcome.

    Most of the world won’t even buy US plasma because of the really lax collection regulations and super sus conditions of most of the plasma centers (basically the fact that it’s paid and on such short turnaround causes a lot of people to game the system, it’s dangerous, and potentially unsanitary/risky.)