adam_y

adam_y, 4 months ago

Start a ghost pets crusade.

“My dead cat came back last night…” and see how it goes.

adam_y, 13 days ago

My experience with certain chemicals suggests this is true.

adam_y, 14 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, 10 days ago

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

adam_y, 10 days ago

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

adam_y, 13 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, 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, 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, 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, 13 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, 10 days ago

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

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, 3 months ago

This was the translation that appeared on Wikipedia. I remember a version that was more florid too… Must have been elsewhere.

On a cool, clear night (typ­ic­al to South­ern Cali­for­nia) War­ren G travels through his neigh­bour­hood, search­ing for women with whom he might ini­ti­ate sexu­al inter­course. He has chosen to engage in this pur­suit alone.

Nate Dogg, hav­ing just arrived in Long Beach, seeks War­ren. On his way to find War­ren, Nate passes a car full of women who are excited to see him. Regard­less, he insists to the women that there is no cause for excitement.

War­ren makes a left turn at 21st Street and Lewis Ave, where he sees a group of young men enjoy­ing a game of dice togeth­er. He parks his car and greets them. He is excited to find people to play with, but to his chag­rin, he dis­cov­ers they intend to relieve him of his mater­i­al pos­ses­sions. Once the hope­ful rob­bers reveal their fire­arms, War­ren real­izes he is in a less than favour­able predicament.

Mean­while, Nate passes the women, as they are low on his list of pri­or­it­ies. His primary con­cern is loc­at­ing War­ren. After curtly cast­ing away the strum­pets (whose interest in Nate was such that they crashed their auto­mobile), he serendip­it­ously stumbles upon his friend, War­ren G, being held up by the young miscreants.

War­ren, unaware that Nate is sur­repti­tiously observing the scene unfold, is in dis­be­lief that he’s being robbed. The per­pet­rat­ors have taken jew­ellery and a name brand design­er watch from War­ren, who is so incred­u­lous that he asks what else the rob­bers intend to steal. This is most likely a rhet­or­ic­al question.

Observing these unfor­tu­nate pro­ceed­ings, Nate real­izes that he may have to use his fire­arm to deliv­er his friend from harm.

The ten­sion cres­cendos as the rob­bers point their guns to Warren’s head. War­ren senses the grav­ity of his situ­ation. He can­not believe the events unfold­ing could hap­pen in his own neigh­bour­hood. As he ima­gines him­self in a fant­ast­ic­al escape, he catches a glimpse of his friend, Nate.

Nate has sev­en­teen cart­ridges to expend (six­teen resid­ing in the pistol’s magazine, with a sol­it­ary round placed in the cham­ber and ready to be fired) on the group of rob­bers, and he uses many of them. After­wards, he gen­er­ously shares the cred­it for neut­ral­ising the situ­ation with War­ren, though it is clear that Nate did all of the dif­fi­cult work. Put­ting con­grat­u­la­tions aside, Nate quickly reminds him­self that he has com­mit­ted mul­tiple hom­icides to save War­ren before let­ting his friend know that there are females nearby if he wishes to for­nic­ate with them.

War­ren recalls that it was the prom­ise of cop­u­la­tion that coaxed him away from his pre­vi­ous activ­it­ies, and is thank­ful that Nate knows a way to sat­is­fy these urges.

Nate quickly finds the women who earli­er crashed their car on Nate’s account. He remarks to one that he is fond of her phys­ic­al appeal. The woman, impressed by Nate’s singing abil­ity, asks that he and War­ren allow her and her friends to share trans­port­a­tion. Soon, both friends are driv­ing with auto­mo­biles full of women to the East Side Motel, pre­sum­ably to con­sum­mate their flir­ta­tion in an orgy.

The third verse is more expos­it­ory, with War­ren and Nate explain­ing their G Funk music­al style. Nate dis­plays his bravado by claim­ing that indi­vidu­als with equi­val­ent know­ledge could not even attempt to approach his level of lyr­ic­al mas­tery. He also notes that if any third party smokes as he does, they would find them­selves in a state of intox­ic­a­tion daily (from Nate’s oth­er works, it can be inferred that the sub­stance ref­er­enced is marijuana). Nate con­cludes his delin­eation of the night by issu­ing a vague threat to “busters,” sug­gest­ing that he and War­ren will fur­ther “reg­u­late” any poten­tial incid­ents in the future (pre­sum­ably by enga­ging their enemies with small arms fire).

adam_y, 10 days ago

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

Fantasy bullshit.

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, 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, 3 months ago

I love that this song only exists because a denim company wanted to use the Smashing Pumpkins song ‘Today’ and were told no.

So they hired a bunch of lads and they churned out this banger.

The lyrics are the most grunge-pastiche nonsense ever written and work perfectly.

adam_y, 3 months ago

Meanwhile the rich people that are responsible for the majority of climate damage stand in their own private collections completely undisturbed.

Sure this grabs headlines, but momentarily and often preaching to the converted or the disenfranchised.

I’m not saying I have any good answers, and I’m sure we’ll all burn and starve thinking of ways to change the minds of people that have power… But there has to be some way to take the protest to them in ways that actually inconveniences them, as opposed to the people that already broadly support this cause.

And yeah, it grabs headlines, briefly, but look at how the media is complicit with the companies and individuals and governments causing the destruction. If they were really bothered about this sort of protest, the chances are you wouldn’t see it. The fact we are seeing it probably means that they’ve evaluated it to cause more contention among the voters, which works in their favour.

I realise I’m starting to sound like a conspiracy nut. Too many references to shady power and control… But sanctioned protest isn’t protest at all. It’s a sideshow that makes people think they are helpless or that work is being done when it isn’t.

And before the “acshurly this wasn’t sanctioned” reply… No, you’re right, not explicitly, but we still allow people to walk into public buildings without the sort of security you find at airports. I do wonder if that will start changing. I already know a few that won’t let you walk around with bags of any kind, and next up comes a frisk and an interview.

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, 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

Surely Call of Out drops in Fall?

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, 4 months ago

It’s almost always childless young men saying this.

For a truly contentious opinion I’d love to see a married woman with three kids say it.