ByteOnBikes

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What does "new PR" mean?

In programming, it's a request to combine code. But if homie is rawdogging work with blank screens, I'm not following.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Americans reject most of that garbage from the 1950s-1970s.

Where British people are jolly excited over bread on bread sandwich

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 48 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Theres literally documentaries from 2010 about manufacturers who make a "Walmart version" because Walmart demands these factories make them at a specific price.

Like in one documentary, the same toaster from Target and Walmart, the Walmart one had different cheaper parts inside. TVs, furniture, lamps. Even the plastic storage containers like totes and Tupperware had "Walmart" versions that were real flimsy.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

People are sharing content from there to other places too.

I saw that shit on LinkedIn.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

I do this at work, because people gloss over details on really IMO emails that can affect them.

But I say exactly what it is.

Like in Slack, I go "Woah number 6 really said that our healthcare will now be decided by a d20". And then watch the conversation unravel.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

I prefer "til" myself

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

spend money to generate quality LLM output, they can post as much as they want on virtually all social media sites.

$20 for a chatgpt pro account and fractions of pennies to run a bot server. It's really extremely cheap to do this.

I don't have an answer to how to solve the "motivated actor" beyond mass tagging/community effort.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 months ago

NGL, that's a good looking meme setup.

Would be a shame if someone happen to put words like Luigi or healthcare CEO. Not saying what order though.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Almost every sit-down chain restaurant in my state closed down/failing because of quality issues or local competition. Chili's, Red Lobster, Long John Silvers, Applebee's...

It was HUGE local news during the pandemic with franchises begging people to "Support their local Chili's" and everyone laughed. Then one really loud owner bought lots of local ads that we don't deserve it and the locals dunk on them.

As of last month, another chain restaurant faded away, while more local restaurants popped up.

Nature is healing.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

A coworker said this to me. We were at a Chinese Restaurant. They were adamant on someone else ordering for them.

I ordered them the Cheese Burger and french fries.

They chickened out and picked a real order.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

that then the person you're with suggests fucking Long John Silvers.

Shit. I am that guy.

I say the worst possible ideas out of my head for laughs.

One time, I said PF Chang's AS A JOKE. And everyone politely agreed and we went to PF Fucking Chang's and it was the grossest Chinese food I ever ate. I FAFO myself.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This happened yesterday! As a Christmas gift, I got a book of Sunday comics.

As a group, from boomers to my under-10yo kids, we skimmed through it. The kids laughed at the weird abstract ones. I loved the ones with wordplay. My neighbor in her 60s laughed at the husband/wife joke.

Found it really fascinating how no comic made everyone laugh at the same time.

The one everyone agreed was a good comic, I'm even though it wasn't funny, was the "peeing in the pool" comic. Relatable brings us all together.

 

Sequence of events:

  1. Lightning-Saddleback made a 911 call at 12:28 a.m. stating he was being followed by a group of people who wanted to harm him.

  2. In an interaction captured by the officer's in-car video system, the two spoke about the situation, and the victim gave the officer a machete and a knife that he had in his possession.

  3. The officer determined that the victim was at risk and attempted to arrest him.

  4. The victim panicked and ran. He was struck by gunfire and fell to the ground.

 
 

Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate and current Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson bought “hundreds” of bootleg porn videos and went to a porn shop nearly every day of the week in the ’90s and early 2000s, according to a new report.

Robinson has run on his evangelical Christian views and ultra-MAGA politics and has been strongly endorsed by Donald Trump.

A Donald Trump acolyte and espoused Evangelical Christian, Robinson has professed hard-line stances on everything from abortion to members of the LGBTQ+ community, whom he once referred to as “filth.”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Throughout the 19th century, news reports and medical journal articles almost always use the plant's formal name, cannabis. Numerous accounts say that "marijuana" came into popular usage in the U.S. in the early 20th century because anti-cannabis factions wanted to underscore the drug's "Mexican-ness." It was meant to play off of anti-immigrant sentiments.

 

In 2022, the federal government reported that, in samples seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration, average levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC—the psychoactive compound in weed that makes you feel high—had more than tripled compared with 25 years earlier, from 5 to 16 percent. That may understate how strong weed has gotten. Walk into any dispensary in the country, legal or not, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a single product advertising such a low THC level. Most strains claim to be at least 20 to 30 percent THC by weight; concentrated weed products designed for vaping can be labeled as up to 90 percent.

The high that most adult weed smokers remember from their teenage years is most likely one produced by “mids,” as in, middle-tier weed. In the pre-legalization era, unless you had a connection with access to top-shelf strains such as Purple Haze and Sour Diesel, you probably had to settle for mids (or, one step down, “reggie,” as in regular weed) most of the time. Today, mids are hard to come by.

The simplest explanation for this is that the casual smokers who pine for the mids and reggies of their youth aren’t the industry’s top customers. Serious stoners are. According to research by Jonathan P. Caulkins, a public-policy professor at Carnegie Mellon, people who report smoking more than 25 times a month make up about a third of marijuana users but account for about two-thirds of all marijuana consumption. Such regular users tend to develop a high tolerance, and their tastes drive the industry’s cultivation decisions.

 
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