[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I just moved and wound up getting an LG C4 65", put off getting internet service, TV worked fine

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I grew up in the sticks where, if you didn't pay your bills, people would gossip about you being a deadbeat and spend all day speculating about what kinds of problems you have. So it's kind of funny to me that those folk just rationalize all of his shit and at the same time drag their kin through the mud. Some random nobody pulling his shit, those kinds of used car salesmen have a special place in hell when you're from a town of 300 people

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

"The pedestrian was involved in a collision with a vehicle"

By using the passive voice you can just flip the subject around and not even mention the other party

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I forgot I even did this but I'm coming up on 10 years in just a couple weeks.

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He has a lot of supporters that'd do it for free, but he's also the kind of client who would insist on so much stupid bullshit that the app has a 300MB patch every other day. "Let's make the news feed a 4K video of a bullet point slide because the campaign team can just whip a new one up every day alongside different music, and it has to be 4K otherwise it might look gross". Basically the Homer Simpson bubblecar of apps

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

Other Trump supporters were heard shouting, "too soon!"

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've been getting better at making small but meaningful changes to my life by recognizing that a lot of it is simply habit/routine, making an earnest effort at thinking of ways in which I can modify them, and making an earnest effort at applying them.

Very generally: Think of something I do that I might want to curb, think of why that thing is what I do, think of things I could do that would impede on my ability to do those things, and implement those changes.

Couple specifics:

I'm fond of beer. I don't binge or anything but if it's in the fridge I'm probably gonna grab one every couple of hours, and that's not too healthy and kind of a waste of money, so now, when I buy beer I just toss a couple cans in the fridge and put the rest in the cabinet above the fridge. If I run out I'll toss a couple in the next day. Now I drink a lot less because I'm not gonna drink warm beer and when I open the fridge I see the scarcity and tend to just shut the fridge and walk away.

I'm an introvert and I love reading about things and events, non-fiction crap, walking around on Wikipedia and stuff. It drives my wife up the wall when I'm doing and I don't blame her because I'm bad at listening when I'm not giving my full undivided attention, so I removed all my phone chargers except for the one in the bedroom. Now, I just set my alarms and plug in the phone, walk into the other room, get out of that headspace, and engage my wife in conversation.

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I just thought it's funny that AI can't determine I'm talking about memes. It's like, look, Gemino bro, all I use you for is making Garfield and Shrek comments

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

It'd be kind of sad to see how delusional he is if I didn't know he's a gigantic asshole

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Further, it is often difficult (or impossible) to discern whether some observed group-level differences in data are genuine or reflect some sort of systemic bias.

The fact that systemic bias is sufficient to make someone say this is kind of problematic, no?

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Giving me Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected vibes, if you haven't seen this it's hilarious and is probably slightly older than Youtube. There's irreverent, and then there's this

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 133 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Props to anyone who can laugh at themselves over something like this, although it might be the kind of attitude that got him in that pickle in the first place

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