bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 9 hours ago

I'm kind of half looking forward to every soda being sweetened with aspartame or acesulfame potassium, so I can finally quit drinking them. Perhaps blue food might indirectly help people like me eat healthier for a while. Thanks, torment nexus.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 13 hours ago

Be proud. May the spirit of Doug McIlroy smile at you from heaven. When he gets there one day.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 23 hours ago

Fucking monodactyl ass cat

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Turdstock? Wow, the name immediately says this is a festival worth attending! The picture only strengthens the feeling.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

No, I just have ADHD and ability to quickly switch between hyperfoci.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Can't fucking look up the history of firearm propellant chemistry post-black powder as if I'm going to use that knowledge for anything more than for what I use all the other shit I google about. You think I'm trying to look up articles about sound changes in pre-literare Finnish because I'm trying to blow up a language or something.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Suppose further that enough powerful people are concerned about the poverty in Ireland, anti-catholic discrimination, food insecurity, and/or loss of rental revenue, that there's significant political will to Do Something. Should we ban starvation? Should we decolonise? Should we export their produce harder to finally starve Ireland? Should we sign some kind of treaty? Should we have a national megaproject to replace the population with the British? Many of these options are seriously considered.

Enter the baseline option: Let the Irish sell their babies as a delicacy.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

The whole internet loves Éspèrature Trouvement, the grumpy old racist! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the racist is not that old and actually has a pretty normal name. Also don't look up his runescape username.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

I bet they would have been happy to refuse him more than three times.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Every nazi got the black indigenous latinx disabled nonbinary trans lesbian sock puppet roleplay account that astroturfs in favor of conservative and fascist policies.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

I've always found transhumanism the segment of TREACLES I'm the most ambivalent about. Many good and cool things like gender affirming care and assistive technologies (hell, maybe even medicine altogether) are pursuits that could be described as broadly within the scope of transhumanism. Thiel is not strictly wrong to point that out. One should still note he's saying it in a super outdated and genital-centric way that's just barely shy of merely cringe instead of outright transphobic. Additionally, he's talking out of both sides of his mouth. All the nice stuff about gender transition is meant to convince you of the problematic transhumanist bullshit he also (or rather, actually) likes.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

A thing I recently noticed: instead of showing the messages themselves, the MS Teams application on my work phone shows obviously AI generated summaries of messages in the notification tray. And by "summaries" I mean third person paraphrasings that are longer than the original messages and get truncated anyway.

"Worse than useless" would be an understatement.

 

A tale of a man on the Internet who caught a cold

Based on a true story

Damn, the fever is down and the cough is easing up, but my nose feels like it's lined with sandpaper. What to do? Look it up!

Duck Duck Go: dry sinuses

Results:

  • (Amazon) Dry Nasal Passage – Deals on Dry Nasal Passage [ad]
  • (Thrive Market) Banyan Sinus Nasal Drops – Organic Sinus Remedy [ad]
  • (Healthline) Dry Sinuses: Inside Nose, Throat, Symptoms, Headache, and More…
  • (Medical News Today) Dry sinuses: Remedies, causes, and how to treat them – Medical…
  • (Healthline) 5 Effective Ways to Treat a Dry Nose

Alright, I'll take the bottom Healthline link, the one that doesn't look like it had a stroke.

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Duck Duck Go: dry sinuses !g

I'll just fucking ignore the AI answer before it tells me to eat glue. Oh, the results are the fucking same, but there's a Mayo Clinic in there. I know from experience that one has also cucked itself from the EU. Fine, I'll throw the Healthline link to archive.is

To verify you're not a robot, please click on tiny pixelated images of fire hydrants for five minutes while an actual robot pretends to know better than you what fire hydrants look like. Doesn't this make you so confident about self-driving cars?

One eternity of downloading later:

How to treat dry sinuses

Dry sinuses occur when the mucous membranes in your sinuses lack proper moisture. This can lead to dry nasal passages, discomfort, nosebleeds, and similar unpleasant symptoms. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur sagittis eros vitae elit vehicula congue. Curabitur pellentesque risus sit amet ipsum vehicula, nec elementum sem iaculis. Mauris fermentum egestas est non tempus. Aenean urna diam, bibendum ac aliquet id, vulputate ut nunc. Ut luctus leo eu lacus consequat vulputate. In consequat augue at cursus tempor. Aenean tristique felis id fermentum tristique. Maecenas fermentum nunc vitae purus efficitur, id malesuada dui elementum. Etiam lobortis viverra turpis eu eleifend. Integer ac efficitur lacus. Nullam rutrum nisl lacus, bibendum maximus turpis vehicula eu. In at turpis lacus. Etiam libero tellus, imperdiet a fringilla non, tincidunt id ligula. Ut sodales convallis mauris sed semper. Nunc laoreet eros eget nulla mollis consectetur.

What are the symptoms of dry sinuses?

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What causes dry sinuses?

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How are dry sinuses treated?

There are many ways you can treat dry sinuses at home to alleviate discomfort caused by seasonal allergies, irritation from chemicals, or drying from medications or dry air. To get relief, you can:

  • place a humidifier in your bedroom at night to keep the air from getting too dry
  • stop taking drying medications, such as antihistamines (or ask your doctor or pharmacist to help you choose something with fewer side effects)
  • drink plenty of water to stay hydrated get some fresh air if the air in your house is stale or stagnant
  • remove as many allergens and irritants from your environment as possible
  • irrigate your sinuses with sterile saline using a neti pot or similar product
  • use nasal spray to hydrate and lubricate your nasal passages and sinuses
  • take a hot shower and inhale the steam
  • diffuse essential oils like lavender, peppermint, or lemon for allergies

In some cases, your doctor might need to recommend treatment for your dry sinuses. Make an appointment with your doctor if you:

  • have an autoimmune disorder like Sjögren syndrome
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Alright, take it easy with antihistamines and dig out that nasal spray. Thanks, internet. This definitely needed all these steps to solve.

Edit: archive link to the actual article in case it'll save someone else a couple of minutes

 

Now that AI got involved it's on topic for TechTakes I guess. Making a containment thread because there might be a lot to sneer about this.

Train wreck at Montparnasse Station, at Place de Rennes side (now Place du 18 Juin 1940), Paris, France, 1895.

Boring version of of the main story: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5345802

Skynet declares trade war on penguins: https://archive.is/Nn5MC

Reactionary news outlet celebrates 77% drop in stock price by taking everyone else down with them: https://bsky.app/profile/brianmfloyd.bsky.social/post/3lluybov3i22o

 

Also a bunch of somewhat less heinous cringe shit.

 

Global outage on fetching posts. Funny enough, some features are still working as evidenced by the fact #TwitterDown is trending.

Two HN threads about this now, looking forward to some excellent takes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326

 

500+ comment thread on whether late marriage and young adult promiscuity causes de-emphasis on movie fanservice. Ongoing record lows of sexual activity among young adults do not seem to factor into the analysis.

 

Since there seem to be some fellow^1^ Lisp weirdoes around here, thought I might take the chance to submit the inaugural post of NotAwfulTech. Also I figured this is cute. Hope it's not offtopic.

^1^ I'm just a noob though, barely managed to implement my first Lisp today.

 

Occasionally you can find a good sneer on the orange site

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