My partner gets some similar fancy eggs and loves them, but I have to hide 'em in something. They’ll definitely enhance a fried noodle dish, but if you’re just frying the egg on its own, I’ll pass.

I guess maybe some of us are more sensitive to sulfur than others. I’ve never had an egg that didn’t seem at least a little bit farty.

Ah no, definitely not losing your mind! I wish you luck (and infinite patience) in talking some sense into your friend.

“Crony capitalism” is a term invented by defenders of capitalism so that they can put all the bad parts of capitalism in a separate bucket and say “that’s not real capitalism.” It’s a “no true Scotsman” fallacy.

In Ontario, we have “provincial offences officers”, aka “POOs”.

Muppet: “yesss, the old lady disguise worked again!”

Software as a disservice.

We should really know better by now…

Yea, probably… That, or they’ll blockade the St Lawrence and starve them out.

Perhaps the island of Montreal could hold out as a revolutionary enclave against the facist theocracy.

I wouldn’t even recommend using LLMs in place of search engines, since they make stuff up. If it’s providing sources, you can check those, but you have to be rigorous enough to check every detail, which just isn’t realistic. People are lazy.

The best way I’ve heard them described is “bullshit machines”, and I don’t say that because I think they’re stupid, but because they “bullshit” as opposed to lying or telling the truth. When you’re bullshitting, the truth is irrelevant, as long as it sounds good. That’s exactly how LLMs work.

So if there’s a problem that can be solved by bullshitting, that’s where an LLM might be the right tool for the job.

Last time I tried to use AI at work, it decided lobster was vegan.

🤣

I like to show them this:

I kinda see liberals as generally fitting into two categories.

One is straight up horrible people who just want to maintain a decent image. (This includes like 99% of the politicians)

Two is generally well meaning people who just aren’t that politically savvy, and they hear scary stories about the “far right” and “radical left” so they figure “somewhere in the middle” must be the sweet spot.

I see this one got a couple of mentions, I’ll have to check it out!

Does anyone know a way to get the clipboard history on Linux?

Yeah…and I think there’s also a chunk of the non-techie population who are getting by with just their phones now.

I’ve just installed Mint as well. I am, perhaps, slightly more nerdy, but I’m also short on time to tinker with things, so it’s really nice to have a super simple setup process, with stuff like Spotify and discord just a click away. Now I just need to settle on a solution for graphic design/illustration software.

Oh man, this would be hilarious if it didn’t make me feel like I was having a stroke.

I kinda wish I had a gamepass subscription so I could enjoy cancelling it, but alas, I’ve already cancelled everything.