I have a syringe of RSO earmarked for that day too. It’s no bottle of wine, but I’ve yet to encounter a bottle of wine that can get me fucked up that well for that long.

A fate worse than death.

yup. at the moment if you want a truly private, properly useful local AI agent you basically have to set one up correctly, manually, yourself. Having one come as part of the OS already largely set up for the user would be a massive W.

but yeah, If.

[wistful sigh]

oh good someone else remembers he went this way, too, I’m not just imagining it.

Personally I’m quite a fan of Peter Brown, Styropyro, Chronova Engineering, Attoparsec, and Robert Dunn’s channels (the woodworking/maker channel Under Dunn, the car channel Aging Wheels, they’re both fantastic), to name just a few of the better ones. I do genuinely miss AvE’s storytelling abilities and Red Green style humor, but there are still lots of people who are enjoyable to watch who I don’t think support fascists, or at least have the good sense to keep it to themselves.

I knew someone was gonna ask me about this, so allow me to clarify: I don’t know that for a fact, but I picked up on bits and pieces and you would too if you watched him long enough. The thing that made me say “yeah this dude’s politics are probably problematic” was when he put out a video in support of the Freedom Convoy. He never came out and straight up said he loved Trump or Poilievre or whatever – at least not up until then, but that was the point I stopped watching. But it was enough altogether that made me go “yeah nah I don’t need to watch this dude I’ve got other ‘make/do cool things’ youtubers I can enjoy”.

you mean, someone else found a way to do the exact same job but cheaper? According to capitalism, all is as it should be and you should rest easy buying the knockoffs.

More pragmatically speaking, from what I recall when I watched AvE (before he revealed himself as a canadian maga), the performance of knockoff batteries was in general adequate as long as you didn’t expect the same low temperature performance. That’s apparently where knockoffs and the legitimate batteries tend to differ, is when you’ve got to use them in freezing temperatures. So if you’re planning on using your power tools in a frozen shithole, stick to buying legit batteries – I know you were asking about the ethical concerns, but that’s something else to keep in mind. but imo fuck DeWalt, they’ve already got their pound of flesh out of you buying the legit tools in the first place.

it is safest to assume that any and every communication you have on the open internet that is not end to end encrypted has been ingested, identified, catalogued, and stored in an NSA data center and can be called up at any time for future reference – and even the encrypted communications may not be secure for much longer, if quantum computing keeps progressing the way it is. Conduct yourself accordingly.

It definitely does not answer their question, as the Sentinelese seem to consider everyone and everything that comes near them an enemy. Given how colonialism usually plays out and how contemptible other people are in general, I can’t say I particularly blame them.

When you can’t wrap your hand fully around it, I’d say, is the boundary between a stick and a log.

This is the second foreign-lottery-related question I’ve seen this morning. From two different accounts. /

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I would also add, probably watch alone. Not exactly a great movie to watch with family, nor for a romantic date. Could maybe crack some good dark jokes with friends if you’ve got the right kind of fucked-up buddies, but that’s about the only possible “enjoyable and not awkward shared viewing of Deliverance” I can envision.

not every showerthoughts-worthy post is necessarily envisioned in a shower

Also, if it’s been more than a few days, take a shower for me, homie. If you won’t do it for you, do it for me. Depression is a fuck.

the world is not made up of exclusively binary good/bad characters or outcomes, and most half-decent TV shows aren’t, either.

the commercials themselves predate me, but you seem like you might enjoy Nostalgia Critic’s series on old commercials if you haven’t seen it already.

Also, holy shit, there were only five episodes of this last I checked, there’s like twenty of them now.