jkf
2d ago
If this OP (and the bulk of OP's followup comments) are less than 40% AI, I'll eat my hat -- it's plausibly 100% autobot stuff, although "cut & paste with minor tweaks" would be my modal prediction.
In any case, if the rule is "more than x% AI content, but 'x' is measured by 'trust me bro', there might as well be no rule at all. Which is why 'zero, but if your LLM process is such that it's indistinguishable from zero, nobody is looking over your shoulder so whatever' is the only feasible decision matrix.
The problem being that the koolaid crowd seems unaware that obvious LLM output is obvious, and will probably get pissy -- c'est la vie, I say.
jkf
2d ago
This is the "just build your own financial system if you want to [political act]" finally deployed against the outgroup.
Particularly juicy in that the nations of the EU, uh -- did in fact have their own financial systems previously...
jkf
2d ago
Tres drole -- what actually is the exact rule about AI posting? I forget, but I thought it was theoretically not allowed on grounds of low effort. (other than the "but I was just using it to help me edit" excuse/loophole, which is clearly not true with this guy -- have you been reading his replies?)
jkf
3d ago
Just because smh rationalizes his AI usage with "well I wrote some of it myself" doesn't mean we need to take that excuse from just anyone -- this post is the very definition of AI slop; if you're going to let that slide there might as well be no rule at all. Enjoy your 10k word back-and-forth posts as people point their AIs at each other, I guess.
jkf
3d ago
someone obviously posting an AI-generated post is going to have that post removed
Is this not a prime example of such a post?
jkf
3d ago
jkf
4d ago
Is my plan generally sound?
No.
What is the best way to test these boots
I already told you - put the liner back in and sell them; put the funds towards a (properly sized) pair of these:
https://www.baffin.com/products/3pinm002?variant=8572562702387
Or similar; I think Alfa makes something like them? Either way, you don't need to test them because people have already tested them extensively in actual arctic conditions.
Even putting insulation and sizing aside, tech bindings are quite a bad choice for the trip you are proposing.
jkf
4d ago
Yeah like said they don't exactly give you that "look at me the fine craftsman" feeling -- but in practice I've never had an issue, and the speed and precision are hard to beat.
The people who say things like "biscuits don't add strength" also say things like "a good glue joint is stronger than the wood" so I've just run with biscuits for any number of things and haven't really seen a downside.
IDK man, the joke about the Jew reading Der Sturmer to lift his spirits in 1939 translates pretty much word for word into a dude reading The Atlantic or something in 2023 -- regardless of the truth value, the next steps seem like a valid thing to worry about? I mean, if Hitler had been correct about an overarching Jewish conspiracy, I'd still be pretty concerned if I were a German Jew?
(Another similarity between Nazi Race Theory and Critical Gender Theory is of course the extent to which they are self-refuting -- if the Jews/Patriarchy are actually secretly controlling Germany/the workplace, then how come all these Nazis/girlbosses are running the place?)
jkf
5d ago
That's... kind of not true in this case. Building inspectors do have four inch spheres (usually more of a cone) that they will try to push through deck/stair pickets if they have concerns; the amount of force that they are to use for this is underspecified (comes up with cable railings a lot), but I'd think that that well-fastened chicken wire (usually hexagonal; you are maybe thinking of page wire?) would utterly defeat such an inspector even if he tried to literally throw himself out the window.
Not sure that making your house look like a chicken coop is the Chad solution here though -- "fuck you, make me" is much better, as I describe above.
jkf
6d ago
the thought process that lets one realize that seatbelts don't actually do anything if you don't crash your car is also what allows people to realize that you can sell cocaine and get rich as long as you dont get busted.
Yes!
Granted becoming a cocaine dealer is beyond my (current) risk tolerance, but if you are struggling to develop a sense of agency in the face of increasingly totalitarian bureaucracy, it would certainly help!
jkf
6d ago
"Competent and dangerous dude takes a heel turn" is a pretty well established (if not exactly common) trope though -- see, um -- Magneto, off the top of my head?
With women, I don't think I've seen it.
jkf
6d ago
suck it up and route rabbet joints.
A biscuit jointer is... kind of uncool, but "strong enough, perfect alignment" is sort of the whole deal with 'em -- very fast to assemble, you still need clamps and dry time though.
jkf
6d ago
Building up one character as an Overpowered prodigy to then have her flip to the bad side is a great way to raise stakes.
"Mary-Sue but evil" does sound fun -- I can't think of it having been done, in fact?
jkf
6d ago
Still missing the point -- the idea here is to build some risk tolerance, and notice that many of the things that a giant propaganda machine has been blaring are way too dangerous since the day you were born -- are not.
The responses here are a great example; you'd think I was suggesting BASE jumping every weekend or something.
The agency you are taking is not strictly contrarianism; it's also that you are taking responsibility for your own actions in the car. Making it clear (to yourself) that your life is in your own hands. Bird on a wire stuff.
It is anyways, we are all fragile and hanging by a thread -- making that apparent to oneself has intrinsic value. Like I said, there are other things you could do that would work -- but the options that are strictly safer than taking your seatbelt off and going for a drive are probably much fewer than you think.
jkf
6d ago
What are the benefits of not wearing a seatbelt while you're sitting in a car anyway?
You feel a bit free, take some agency -- maybe notice that being slightly safer is not the be-all or end-all. Like I said, the exact thing that you do is not very important -- although if your risk tolerance doesn't extend to not wearing a seatbelt sometimes, you are probably going to struggle with alternatives.
When was the last time you crashed your car? On average you can go like half a million miles without your seatbelt becoming relevant -- quite a bit more if you aren't also drinking or whatnot. Consider how your opinion has been formed, and whether this is truly too risky for you -- it will give you the tools to evaluate other risks in your life.
jkf
6d ago
Don't worry about the specifics -- just find something that you can choose to do that safety-fuckers won't like.
It will probably end up being at least as dangerous as seatbelt miscreantism, but I guess those commercials were really effective given the nerve touched by the very idea of it; people who ride motorcycles are no longer (on the whole) any kind of rebel, but that is way more (statistically) dangerous than unbelted automobile operation.
Think of something for yourself; that's largely the point.
Tearing the bullshit out of your windows would be a good start.
This part is 100% not true -- if your home price goes down so will your property taxes, but if everyone's home price goes down, the taxes will stay the same. Your town has a budget -- it determines the tax bill per dollar value, not the other way around.
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