It's like gorilla glue: made by gorillas for gorillas from gorillas.
I don't think they stomped loudly (except when they ran) but I don't see how they would be able to move through the undergrowth without snapping a lot of branches. (Or how they could move through dense forest at all.)
I wanted to conquer the world like Alexander the Great. I'm not sure why that appealed to me, in retrospect.
(A friend gave me some advice a few years ago. He said "You're much more normal than you like to think. You have normal needs and you will be happy if you live a normal life." I don't know if he's right.)
I have a hard time imagining a stealthy t-rex. He's going to be making some noise even if he tiptoes.
I refuse to believe that Romans painted theirs. I mean, the evidence is clear that they did but it would look so terrible!
Yeah, as far as I'm concerned most AAA games might as well be part of a totally separate hobby that I don't pay much attention to.
Also the craft of game-making has improved, so that even an average modern game is in many ways better than the best games from 25 years ago. For example, consider Diablo II. I played the remake a lot and large parts were as good as I remembered but what really stuck out to me was how boring the boss battles are. The height of skill is running in a circle around Diablo when he does his lightning hose attack. It's far worse than pretty much any modern ARPG, not because the technology has improved but because people have learned from Diablo II's mistakes.
Diablo II blew my mind in 2000 in a way that a better ARPG wouldn't today, but that doesn't mean that games have gotten worse. It means that I have gotten used to playing great games.
That lie was definitely inappropriate, but it would still have been inappropriate if it was told by a human. I think it's useful to distinguish between bad things that happen to be done by an AI and things that are bad specifically because they are done by an AI. How would you feel about an AI that didn't lie or deceive but also didn't announce itself as an AI?
ChangeMyView seems like the sort of topic where AI posts can actually be appropriate. If the goal is to hear arguments for an opposing point of view, the AI is contributing more than a human would if in fact the AI can generate more convincing arguments.
Is there a reason to think that there have been any casualties?
I used to imagine it would be sexy to shower with my partner but I've learned that even women who appear physically delicate in most other situations still temper themselves like steel when they shower. I think that I would get burns from sustained exposure to water that hot.
IRL I'd be worried that she would still be angry about this after she got sober. I've never dated anyone who liked being picked up at all and the one woman small enough for me to have carried easily would have been so mad.
Sorry, I'm not into gorillas.
I didn't realize that I have a weird laugh until someone found me by listening for it. Apparently normal people don't laugh by inhaling rather than exhaling.
Some episodes are just jerks.
Having a private office would be a nice symbol of status but I don't think I'd actually enjoy working in one - in grad school, I was really happy in my shared office since the other guys there were my friends. I graduated a year after them and that last year was not fun. Of course new people took their spots but those people were strangers to me.
no assigned seating
One professor in my department was so protective of her lab's space that when she noticed me sitting at a desk assigned to one of her students, she went and complained directly to my advisor. The desk's owner was a friend of mine and on a month-long international trip at that time and I wasn't even making a habit of using his desk - it was just a convenient place to sit while talking to another one of her students.
How did you guys share computers? My work was 100% on the computer so we would have had to work in shifts if there had not been enough computers for everyone (but there were).
7x7ft is tiny but 7x7m would be remarkably big.
This is why cars had to be invented.
Is that from a robot mower?
They say so, right above "Never: come in without knocking."
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken to El Salvador on March 15 because of what the Trump administration has called an "administrative error."
The fascinating thing here is that the government's lawyer, the one supposed to argue against this guy's return, appears to have sided against the government.
"Give us 24 hours to get him back, Reuveni said. "That was my recommendation to my client but that hasn't happened"
Are old people usually attracted to other old people?
When I was a teenager, I thought people in their 20's were the most attractive. Now that I'm about 40, I still think people in their 20's are the most attractive. It's hard for me to believe that I might ever be attracted to someone past retirement age, even when I'm past retirement age myself, unless the person is like one of those celebrities who look way younger than they are.
This isn't something I can comfortably ask most older people I know, but there's one man who admits that he isn't and one woman who is. Which is more normal?
"Deleted by creator" sounds like the poster was destroyed by God.
"Deleted" sounds so casual too, like God did it as part of some routine cleanup.
Saw a mouse in my apartment.
I live a bachelor lifestyle, so I have no food in here. Just alcohol. I hope the mouse figures that out and goes away. I should get some traps in case it doesn't. I hate killing animals but there's no practical alternative.
I got a parking ticket.
I was supposed to move my car last night but I forgot. The ticket is for $65 but I found a dollar on the ground near my car so I'm actually only out $64.
I set an alarm in my calendar so I won't forget next time.
There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere.
It'll cost $9 each time. They're raising money for the mass transit system by charging specifically those people who don't use the mass transit system and that feels really unfair to me.
Tim Walz Said He Was in Hong Kong in 1989 During Tiananmen. Not True.
As recently as February, Mr. Walz said on a podcast that he had been in Hong Kong, then a British colony, “on June 4 when Tiananmen happened,” and decided to cross into mainland China to take up his teaching duties even though many people were urging him not to.
But it was not true. Mr. Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, indeed taught at a high school in China as part of a program sending American teachers abroad, but he did not actually travel to the country until August 1989.
Why bother making something like this up?
Shopping website search is terrible
Pretty much every major shopping website has terrible search functionality.
I usually want something very specific, for example 60w dimmable e12 frosted warm led bulb. I have not found a single shopping website that won't show me results without many of these terms in the description. I don't want to see listings that say 40w and don't say 60w anywhere, and it isn't hard to filter them out!
Are these shopping websites bad on purpose? What's in it for them?
Not wearing a respirator in crowded places is dumb.
Before covid, I would be sick with a cold or flu for a total of about two weeks every year. That means I spent 4% of my time sick; one out of every 25 days. Since covid appeared, I've been wearing an N95 in crowded indoor areas whenever I reasonably can. (Obviously I can't if I'm eating something.) My main goal initially was to protect my elderly relatives, but during the last four years I have not gotten sick even once, except from my elderly relatives who didn't wear masks, got sick, and then infected me when I was caring for them.
Why isn't everyone wearing N95s? Sure, it's uncomfortable, but being sick is much more uncomfortable. And then there's the fact that wearing an N95 protects other people and not just the wearer...
Ka-52 believes Russians and Ukrainians are one people.
Can automatic rebooting be disabled on Windows 11 Home?
There appears to be no straightforward way to permanently stop Windows 11 Home from rebooting on its own after installing updates. I looked for workarounds but so far I have only found a script that has to run on a schedule to block the reboot by changing "working hours". (Link.)
Is that really the best that is possible?
Should I risk breaking my LG V20?
I bought a new-in-box LG V20 about 18 months ago because I was tired of phones without removable batteries and headphone jacks. However, it gets absolutely terrible reception for some reason (as in, no signal in the middle of Manhattan). Some guy had the same problem and he soldered a big antenna to his phone to fix it. I might try to do that but given how great I am at soldering, there's a good chance I'll break the phone. Should I do it? I don't want to have to buy a modern phone with a built-in battery but I can't just have a phone which doesn't work when I'm away from wi-fi...
Cars are awesome.
Driving is the most comfortable, convenient, and fun mode of transportation. Walking and biking can be OK but only for traveling relatively short distances in good weather. Mass transit is inherently unpleasant. No matter how nice you try to make it (and most mass transit systems aren't nice) the fact of the matter is that passengers are still stuck in a crowded box with a bunch of strangers and limited to traveling to the mass transit system's destinations on the mass transit system's schedule. Compare this to getting into your own car and driving wherever you want, whenever you want...
I currently live in a place too crowded for driving to be practical - I get that places like this need mass transit. But needing mass transit sucks!