the fuck do you mean there is no plan?

stop making pennies. transactions in cash can be rounded to the nearest five cents. pennies are still legal tender

the fuck else do you need to do about it?

too bad nobody nearby has done anything like this recently, and could be studied

man I fucking hate how sometimes in my dreams I can just start flying, but other times I gotta like work up to it

it’s like, c’mon, I already know I’m dreaming, I am in control of like everything else that’s happening, why won’t you just let me fucking fly, stupid brain

I love the public washrooms in parks that are closed ‘after hours’, despite the park facilities being rented out for adult sports outside of those hours

they’re really streamlining that sex offender pipeline by telling adults to piss in the woods next to a park, often near a school

yeah I usually go work out while it’s running lol, or do some yardwork or something

rely? no

find it a useful assist? yes

the Roomba can:

• get under couches that my other vacuums cannot

• deal with 90% of the average mess (dog hair and miscellaneous crumbs) without my input

• pick up the little bits that you can never manage to sweep into a dust pan

• do this within about 10-20% of the time it would take me to do it myself

things it cannot do:

• vacuum carpets

• get into corners

• deal with large messes

typically, I will sweep crumbs and crap out of corners into the middle of a room. I do this all the way around this level of the house in under two minutes, which includes picking up the large clumps of fluffy dog hair that have accumulated along the walls and tossing them in the garbage and putting the broom back. I can then run the Roomba, and the only thing left to do after is brush/vacuum the carpets & rugs well.

I also like the mopbot thingy because that definitely takes less time than doing it myself

I’ve actually used chat GPT (or was it Cursor? I dont remember now) to help write a script for a program with a very (to me, a non-programmer) convoluted, but decently well documented API.

it only got a few things right, but the key was that it got enough right for me to go and fix the rest. this was for a task I’d been trying to do every now and then for a few years. was nice to finally have it done.

but damn, does “AI” ever suck at writing the code I want it to. or maybe I just suck at giving prompts. idk. one of my bosses uses it quite a bit to program stuff, and he claims to be quite successful with it. however, I know that he barely validates the result before claiming success, so… “look at this output!” — “okay, but do those numbers mean anything?” — “idk, but look at it! it’s gotta be close!”

convince people of what, reasons why some people like yachts?

this isn’t fucking reddit, use your fucking head and recognize the difference between trying to argue a position yourself and suggesting reasoning for other people

and sometimes it’s actually good value!

I still don’t buy it because fuck Loblaws, though

true, effectiveness is not guaranteed

but you can still opt out entirely. bought a 2012 without that bullshit just yesterday

that’s an excellent move

no, I paid to get a car without that telemetry, as it would be part of the condition of sale

people don’t need to just accept what the dealer says. they can tell them to fuck off and go buy somewhere else

I’ve got like 8 but that doesn’t do everything I need it to

I just bought one today because of that. they’re just getting older the longer I wait, if I don’t need it right now, I might as well buy it so that it’s not getting rustier being driven by someone else

there are places that don’t follow a weekly schedule but rather another number of days, presumably because it’s considered a balance of lower cost and frequent enough pickup

I’m happy with my alternating garbage/cardboard and plastics/glass weeks, with the green bin picked up every week, though. seems like a perfect schedule — just enough time to get a bin of recycling worth putting out, and with the green bin coming weekly, I sometimes struggle to even get enough garbage to bother tying the bag up and putting it out

nah that’s separate, more like negligence

difference being (as I understand it) that manslaughter is negligence outside of criminal actions, and felony murder is manslaughter while committing a crime

compare it to a glass of milk

lmfaoooooo

I was actually considering making a real new account (since anything with a temporary email generator address used seems to be instantly shadowbanned), this is a good reminder to not bother with that shitty site

it’s so telling when they unnecessarily use this language instead of at least a neutral “who died imprisoned” or something

isn’t the difference here supposed to be the level of danger/lethality/intent?

like if you burn someone’s house down with them inside, vs quietly breaking in to steal shit. if you burn down a house that probably has people in it, that’s murder even if it wasn’t 100% intentional, you should have known that was a likely outcome

the concept is okay, even good, I would say. if somebody does as a direct consequence of your actions, well, you murdered them — but that requires some nuance and work to determine how “direct”.

but the implementation, oh boy, that’s classic police state america