funkless_eck

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funkless_eck,

personally I think its better to be afraid of real things that are happening than things made up by Facebook boomers.

why this particular issue fools even the most technical of people I’ll never know.

funkless_eck, (edited )

obviously what you vaguely describe has been around since 1945.

That home assistant devices are constantly listening and feeding back marketing data on every conversation is patent and disproven nonsense.

they have done packet sniffing investigations, they have disassembled the devices, they have run meters on the electrical charges… everything in every way you can imagine.

But even if you just think about it for a second - processing a live audio feed at a rate of 1 second per second indefinitely and correlating that data via voice recognition to your Google profile all to… make your ad personalizations… worse? more inaccurate?

like what the hell is the perceived benefit? That my wife says, “oh my dad found my old barbie house!” while at my neighbors house and my neighbor gets served barbie ads? Why would Google want that?

funkless_eck,

Nate’s (Frog’s) most famous work is his friend Daniel’s birthday:

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funkless_eck,

Footloose was a documentary

funkless_eck,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/6668664a-9088-4168-a208-b4f7cbc71954.jpeg

funkless_eck,

just remember it with this simple mnemonic:

Some Oranges Have

Curly and Heavy

Toes On Apples

funkless_eck,

Although in some ways i do get “it sucks that I can’t make money from people who use the bathroom” when you run a business, also — would you prefer I shit all over the floor? It’s not like I go into bathrooms for fun.

funkless_eck,

without an identifiable accent

so… like Borat?

funkless_eck,

there are a few in very popular yet casual categories like Overwatch, but yes you have to go into hot tubs to see them and spend time in those streams to get recommended them

funkless_eck,

I mean by the token of there being “a few” there…aren’t many.

I guess checking on a Saturday night might be my only advice. YMMV, I’ve seen it happen rarely, maybe it was a fluke.

funkless_eck,

slight defence: forces many jobs to give people time off. If it didn’t have that pressure can you imagine the glee of managers dictating how hard you had to work up to the last minute of Q4?

funkless_eck,

a “monstrum” is a “warning” - so a warning incarnate would be, what, the super nanny?

funkless_eck,

useful implementation of AI silo’d to the applicable function.

some examples:

  • “rename these images with X pattern, add their description to the meta data”
  • “correctly capitalize all the names in my address book and tag them by how i know them”
  • “show me how much i spent on fast food last month”
  • actually good and useful autocorrect / spell check
  • find all the emails about Jane’s wedding next year and let me know where we are with the planning
  • find me an app for windows desktop that does XYZ

edit to clarify: I know there are algos and LLMs that do this, but I don’t want a “machine” that does all of them, I want a machine that only does each one really well.

funkless_eck,

I’ve taken H2H, rapier, short sword and shield, sword and dagger and a few other stage combat classes in both UK and US — and then in production you usually just get “any old sword” (usually a heavy one, as Tybalt in R&J they gave me this really fancy grip with a finger hole for my index, but it made supranative positions difficult)

You’re right in that they are based on real combat — you learn fencing footwork and guards, but also you’re learning a mix of slight of hand (how to “knap” - fake the sound of hitting /being hit while reacting like its real), and safety instructions. As someone who came from ballroom to jazz/modern dance to acting, it’s more like dance, especially freeform contact improv dance, than it is like actual fighting.

I imagine in real fights-to-the-death there’s a lot less concern about safety, distancing and the lines your body draws in movement, and more about hurting the other fellow as efficiently as possible.

funkless_eck,

not a huge expert so people might offer better context or explanation here. I just know enough to be in Shakespeare, really so -

in a way, yes, but also - how often does pronation-prime into moulinet into brisé occur in real life? but you see it a lot in fight choreo. it’s entirely theatrical. Same for the amount of banderole cuts you see (looking at you - The Witcher!) - when in reality the vast amount of blood drawn would be from the thighs and shoulders as most guards protect the trunk and head.

then comparing “real” fighting to fencing - depending on the weapon things like legs and head aren’t point-scoring contacts so nobody attacks them in the sport. in real life, you wouldn’t hesitate to cut at someone’s head.

H2H experts might chime in here but I imagine a straight up punch to the nose is a lot less successful in real life compared to movies for example…

funkless_eck,

all fair points but one final thing I would say is that taking a hit from someone going for you is an important part in training. That’s why you always see that scene where the young padawan or trainee etc is beaten by the old Master.

In fight choreo getting really hit means everyone slams on the breaks immediately. It’s no good knowing all the moves if the moment someone is on par with you you’ve never experienced taking a hit before — no matter how much protein and reps you do.

funkless_eck,

to clarify, I meant it looks and feels like contact improv (the so-named discipline of dance, not to be confused with improv comedy etc) not that it was improvised.

funkless_eck,

yes.

funkless_eck,

their reply: “oh so just normal male bonding, then?”

funkless_eck,

in the uk this led to the meme of going to the post office to ask for a wank ticket. I am so sad that never became a reality.

funkless_eck,

“what did you really do?”

“I sucked off a monkey for a bet”

funkless_eck,

it’s pronounced “hiccup” but some people don’t respect the spelling and write it phonetically.

funkless_eck,

what do you mean by “says”? everyone in English says “hik-up”

some people spell it hiccough and others hiccup.

funkless_eck,

why they never marketed a ti-85 mount for everyone’s daily carry Glock 19 I’ll never know

funkless_eck,

that’s just normal people.

“no one wants to work any more” is code for “no one wants to be blackmailed into volunteering extra time for less money”

which, no shit.

my manager gave us all a speech on how we need to work extra hard to close the year out with a bang. My dude, me working extra hard only earns you extra money (he’s C level company founder), not me.

if you want me to work extra hard, set me achievable targets properly recompensed. It’s not personal, it’s just business.

funkless_eck,

I’ve had human breast milk ice cream. it was ok…

funkless_eck,

oh come on now. don’t talk like that. there’s many more reasons to feel bad about being a bassist.

funkless_eck,

oldie but a goodie:

“what has three legs and a cunt on top?”

“a drum stool”

funkless_eck,

https://media1.tenor.com/m/qs9MzyA6E8YAAAAd/alan-partridge-cup-of-beans.gif

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/partridgecloud/S02E03/gif/kVYx2FaNQ5WL.gif

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/partridgecloud/S02E03/gif/BkGRYlhxcDZk.gif

funkless_eck,

ah yes, comp sci majors. the most happy and fulfilled people there are.

funkless_eck,

you mean my cousin Joel?

funkless_eck,

Frank Zappa

Mika

Peaches

Living Colour

Bowie

Bright Eyes

Maris

King Princess

Girl in red

Hozier

Queen

funkless_eck,

bisexual. was bullied with the f-slur intensely in school. I can’t reclaim it because it’s too painful for me. Happy when other people can, but it makes me too uncomfortable, so in the remit of “would I enjoy hearing a song that uses it”

The answer is no, and that’s okay.

funkless_eck,

in the 1900s?!?! 🤯

funkless_eck,

no. Beckett specifically said “If I meant God I would have written God.”

He also wrote in French, where God is “Dieu” and Godot is “Gohdough” so the pun doesn’t work

funkless_eck,

Both work with the following caveat:

the “twice” is “once with similar gender, once with different gender”

the “every other” is “every member of similar gender and then again with other gender”

funkless_eck,

Elon already put beds in the twitter offices

funkless_eck,

it doesn’t refer to anything, they picked a silly name they were confident no real person had.

funkless_eck,

and yet he does in 4–7

funkless_eck,

you are a very attractive young lady, however, how am I seeing this with NSFW posts blocked on Sync? Is it a glitch or because you posted it to your profile not a community?

funkless_eck,

step on me walpeach uwu

funkless_eck,

I love this meme because it’s got a stupid looking cat.

we are not the same

funkless_eck,

this was genuinely my fantasy as a kid. Pause time to sleep.

funkless_eck,

your reminder that NNN was created because the adherents thought it would give them magical powers.

thing is a mental illness top to bottom

funkless_eck,

kinda. IIRC some greentext 4chan anon said it gave them superhuman concentration which kicked it off.

Probably it just meant they concentrated normally without jerking off 10 times a day

funkless_eck,

the B stands for bozo

funkless_eck,

his name is Jeff

funkless_eck,

it’s crazy this movie is so well constructed considering each scene was written the day before filming

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