adam_y

adam_y, 8 days ago

I get it. We can’t buy houses, we can’t afford groceries.

Admittedly my parents couldn’t afford a house and we often had to skip on groceries too.

But as a kid of the 80s, the thing that gets me is how these memes seem to ignore inflation entirely.

Yes those numbers are lower but so were wages.

And of course we can can talk about real terms wage stagnation, but poverty is timeless and the 80s were an awful and unaffordable time for a lot of people.

But yeah. Sure.

adam_y, 9 days ago

And yet he’ll still get votes.

Whilst I’ve been waiting for this day for ages, it gives me no pleasure to realise it means very little.

adam_y, 10 days ago

Got through the whole article and they don’t say, “Fall of Duty” once.

What even is journalism these days?!?

adam_y, 10 days ago

Surely Call of Out drops in Fall?

adam_y, 10 days ago

Have to make it in AI because it will never happen in real life.

Fantasy bullshit.

adam_y, 10 days ago

Get yourself into photography. You don’t need anything expensive, if you have a phone camera, that will do.

Document the strange and interesting things in your environment. The people, the architecture.

It gets you out of the house a mission per day. It gives you a goal.

adam_y, 9 days ago

Genuinely, if it helps you feel better, you are always welcome to share your photos with me and tell me about them.

adam_y, 10 days ago

Well, yeah, but we are going to need a couple of monocles.

adam_y, 10 days ago

Hey, maybe the next leap will be the leap home?

adam_y, 10 days ago

Sounds like a phenomenological situation … Or as we like to call it in the sciences, “not science”.

adam_y, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Love how this has gone from “researcher at x university” to “tip from a friend of mine” in less than 48 hours.

adam_y, 11 days ago

Just so you know, this isn’t just an ADHD thing.

Most folk experience it and it’s one of the main causes of burnout.

That said, it’s always worth checking that you are getting enough vitamin d and that your thyroid is working right.

adam_y, 10 days ago

That. That sounds like it, coupled with frustration and feeling a bit overwhelmed.

It is cool to be exhausted after work if it fullfills you and you enjoy it, but most folk need the gaps between to be themselves.

adam_y, 11 days ago

Yes, do this if you want your work to have the same feel as every other writer who runs their work through an llm.

adam_y, 13 days ago

The cup on the desk… Uh… Yeah that means something different in Scotland.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ae58b3dd-16c2-43aa-b7d6-1c5dfab11d00.jpeg

adam_y, 13 days ago

Bucky has one purpose. It’s the thoroughbred of not-spirits.

Best served warm and straight from the bottle to the back of the throat.

adam_y, 14 days ago

I agree. I like the idea of the loch ness monster.

Problem is though, this stuff all seems to blob together and you start a conversation about the Baghdad battery and all of a sudden someone is making some pretty antisemitic theories about the world.

adam_y, 14 days ago

Massive spud of a human.

I mean, good luck trying to get this working in Northern Ireland too.

This is a classic Tory death rattle. Punish those lazy, entitled young people who, whilst not responsible for the 2008 crash (that was us and our banker mates) or the following years of austerity that ripped the heart out of public services whilst private services prospered (that was also us, but with our banker mates) or Brexit, an enterprise that spit the nation and has left us all worse off (again, us, but this time with our business and banker mates), it is those no good, molly-coddled young people with their funny hair colour and inability to buy houses, or food in some cases, that are the problem with the UK and we need to whip them into shape whilst we (who haven’t been whipped into any sort of shape at all) continue to be in charge.

adam_y, 14 days ago

My niece was stopped in the corridor at school by a teacher who shouted “are you deaf or something?”

My niece removed her hearing aids, slowly.

adam_y, 15 days ago

Can we swap out the word “hallucinations” for the word “bullshit”?

I think all AI/LLM stuf should be prefaced as “someone down the pub said…”

So, “someone down the pub said you can eat rocks” or, “someone down the pub said you should put glue on your pizza”.

Hallucinations are cool, shit like this is worthless.

adam_y, 15 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Absolutely. I wrote about this a while back in an essay:

Prime and Mash / Kuru

Basically likening it to a prion disease like Kuru, which humans get from eating the infected brains of other humans.

adam_y, 13 days ago

My experience with certain chemicals suggests this is true.

adam_y, 15 days ago

Just cant’t’t’t’t

adam_y, 17 days ago

Right?! When they could be playing Doom on it.

adam_y, 16 days ago

How you choose to fight hell spawn is OK with me.