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Nothingland » Words that need to be taken behind the woodshed and shot » 4/14/2025 5:11 pm

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Saying "the wow factor" is in my DNA, if we're being honest.

Technology & The Internet » Technology pissing me off today.. » 4/14/2025 2:55 am

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Oh good, 24 hours later I have five copies of that note. This is really useful for when you're 100% sure that you're dictating a note you won't want to edit, and you won't need to read again until the next day. Totally common use case.

Technology & The Internet » Technology pissing me off today.. » 4/11/2025 4:18 pm

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The new generation of applications that natively autosave your work. Microsoft OneNote is so sophisticated that it doesn't even have a save button! This is really cool because all you can do is dictate a note and then back out of it and hope that it saved a copy of it, which is a 50/50 proposition. I just dictated the same note five times in a row, I cannot get it to save. There is no option to manually save. There are no configs you can adjust for the auto saving feature.

Oh well, guess I wanted something that's worse than notepad.

Politics » America has spoken » 4/11/2025 4:16 pm

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"someone who isn't me"

Nothingland » Words that need to be taken behind the woodshed and shot » 4/10/2025 6:22 pm

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this will restore 10 hunger and 12 hunger saturation:

Politics » America has spoken » 4/10/2025 2:19 pm

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S.W.I.M.'s company just lost* a $xx million federal grant that was integral to their long-term planning.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fema-to-halt-billions-in-grants-for-disaster-protection-internal-memo-says/

*like, maybe? they didn't really get a notification, just reporting that the program has been suspended..
 

Nothingland » Words that need to be taken behind the woodshed and shot » 4/09/2025 1:15 pm

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tw wrote:

Honesty.  The word was murdered long ago.
 

I see your "Honestly" and raise you one, "If we're being honest"
 

Technology & The Internet » Technology pissing me off today.. » 3/31/2025 2:26 pm

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oh crap. this is bad news. how are you listening? me = phone, android

Technology & The Internet » Technology pissing me off today.. » 3/31/2025 12:14 pm

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OH BOY!

I can get AI to help me with my taxes!
Thank you, daddy H&R Block!

The amazing technology that, when asked what popular films were released in the 1980s, will confidently tell you-- Toy Story 1, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, Toy Story 5, Toy Story 6, Toy Story 7, Toy Story 8, Toy Story 9, and Toy Story 10.

What else could be better suited to doing my ƒUCKING TAXES?!

Nothingland » That's what they wrote » 3/28/2025 5:22 pm

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what the fuck. hi

Health » The"c" word. » 3/28/2025 5:21 pm

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If all else fails, my uncle shared a tip he got from a veterinarian. Turn a container of canned air upside down to spray refrigerant on the site. Freeze the tissue and pick it off. Repeat daily as needed.

Politics » Future of the internet » 3/28/2025 5:18 pm

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If Elon Musk succeeds in getting Reddit censored, then the last major website that is accessible to internet searches will fall. Everything else is behind a black box that searches can't index.

In this case it will be up to old timers with boomer message boards like this one to rebuild society.

I truly wish I were just speculating about this.

Philosophy » Help me, if you feel like it » 3/27/2025 1:12 am

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They're called pneumaticons, or technically soma pneumaticons*. The otherworldly representation of a person's true aspect, the "fighting ghost" e.g. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure "Stand" power (a visual manifestation of life energy). However, in this case, usually percieved to be an antagonistic force. Because all information contained within an N dimensional volume can be encoded on the surface area of an N-1 boundary (the Holographic Principle), our universe is contained within a "holographic layer" therefore both ourselves and our pneumaticons are a reflection of our true aspect. The antagonists are an aspect of our true selves, equal in validity to our own perspective.

*From Greek, [soma = body] + [pneuma = spirit] + [eikon = an image, figure, likeness]
"...a body that is related to or characterized by the spirit, often used in a theological context to describe a resurrected or glorified body..."
“It is sown a psychic body (soma psychikon), it is raised a pneumatic body (soma pneumatikon). If there is a psychic body, there is also a pneumatic body.”—1 Cor. 15:44
"...Paul identifies human being-living as experienced through a “psychic body” (sōma psychikon) or a “spiritual body” (sōma pneumatikon)..."
 

Philosophy » Help me, if you feel like it » 3/26/2025 2:39 pm

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BIG PROBLEM:
I had assumed that, since [the past can be known, and the future is unknown]; this means that [all knowledge lies in the past, and no knowledge lies in the future].
 
However, in some situations, this is nearly the opposite of the truth:
 
Example. You find a half-melted ice cube in a glass of water.
1) It is simple to accurately predict the future state of the ice/water
2) It is IMPOSSIBLE to determine the past state of the ice cube (size, position, etc.)
 
I think this is a function of entropy, meaning that the flow of entropy might influence a conscious being’s ability to access knowledge, regardless of the direction they perceive time to be moving in. This would mean that a  time-reversed consciousness can’t be written as a simple mirror image of ourselves.
 
They may have memories of their past (our future), and also the ability perfectly infer the behavior of some physical systems into their PAST; while having no direct knowledge of their future (our past), AND lacking the ability to make any kind of prediction about the behavior of some physical systems into their FUTURE.
 

Technology & The Internet » Technology pissing me off today.. » 3/25/2025 12:05 pm

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Pasted something in Word lately?
Annoying ƒucking rEsEaRcH panel pops up EVERY TIME.

Wondering how to turn off this AI slop that nobody asked for?
Ever clicked around looking for the settings, only to be mystified?

Well, it's so simple and uSeR fRiEnDLy!1


  • Start Word.
  • Press Alt+F11 to activate the Visual Basic Editor.
  • Press Ctrl+G to activate the Immediate window.
  • Enter the following line, or copy/paste it from this post into the Immediate window:
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    Application.CommandBars("Research").Enabled = False

  • With the insertion point anywhere in the line, press Enter.
  • Press Alt+F4 to close the Visual Basic Editor.
  • The Research task pane shouldn't appear any more.


The ƒucking thing is designed to be impossible for regular users to turn off.
The executive that pushed for this useless feature will be happy to see how many people are using it*

*because they can't figure out how to turn it off
 

Home Base » Where The Cellar went » 3/20/2025 11:13 am

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this is going on your permanent record

Home Base » Where The Cellar went » 3/19/2025 8:04 pm

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We don't call it global warming, please use the correct terminology, "democracy re-zoning"

Nothingland » Apropos of Nothing » 3/19/2025 6:46 pm

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I saw a hotel room number listed as 419+1

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