I could eat a party size bag of these things and still be craving more.

Good ass snack.

potentially possible
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Took me a second to realize how it was meant to be interpreted.

The fact that we could plausibly interpret it as trump calling him correct about something in some way though is still immensely disappointing about our reality.

“Don’t you see? Those people find civil rights offensive too! Why don’t we just compromise and only call klan hoods “divisive” rather than “hateful.” That will solve the issue!”

“I can explain, your honor… whoopsies! :3”

Anyone.

According to regulations.gov:

Absolutely anyone can submit a public comment on an agency’s proposed regulation. You do not have to be an academic, expert, or even someone who knows all of the ins and outs of the policy at hand. If you have something to say and think that your perspective could constructively add to the conversation, please comment.

Increase alertness

Decrease alertness

lmao

That’s a better photo of it than their own marketing photos 😂

Glad you could confirm its identity!

So it’s clear: This has a link where you can give public comment against the proposed new rules!!!

Go here, and either paste in what the EFF has pre-made for you, or ideally, write your own!

I oppose the USPTO’s proposed rule changes for inter partes review (IPR), Docket No. PTO-P-2025-0025. The IPR process must remain open and fair. Patent challenges should be decided on their merits, not shut out because of legal activity elsewhere. These rules would make it nearly impossible for the public to challenge bad patents, and that will harm innovation and everyday technology users.

And for anyone wondering, yes it’s real.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1990484929533419536
https://archive.ph/iBgPH

Apparently there isn’t much consensus on what the actual reason(s) are for yawning. Apparently fish yawn though, so that’s cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawn

Doesn’t even register in WHOIS searches anymore for me. Apparently Namecheap will sell it to you for $2.98.

Not all of those videos are fully AI-generated, at least not entirely. (voices and video itself are real, script is AI-generated) They are still slop content, though.

From what I can tell, most of the voices are real (you can hear changes in microphone types & background noises, reverb, natural stuttering, accent changes, proper tone, etc on many of them) but a lot of the scripts seem AI-generated, along with the actual face in the thumbnail, even when the voice is real.

Most of the videos are being generated by a semi-large media generating organization who just pumps out algorithmically optimized videos. I did see a few, mostly from smaller creators, that were entirely AI-voiced as well, though.

I think most of them were just copying the thumbnail design because it got clicks. Not uncommon on YouTube unfortunately.

For anyone curious, the videos are basically just them scrolling through the websites of each, while reading off a paragraph or two of general information about what each is that has that sort of AI-generated tone and order to it.

The video creation process is literally as simple as:

1. Ask ChatGPT “write me a script for a short video talking about what Actual Budget is vs. Firefly III”
2. Record yourself auto-scrolling slowly through the Actual Budget website, then the same for the Firefly III website
3. Record a voiceover of you just reading word-for-word the script from ChatGPT
4. Slap them on top of each other
5. Clone the thumbnail from the other channels that got the most clicks, just like everyone else is doing, so now all of your videos look the same.

Schools do indeed sometimes teach some conformist lessons, primarily regarding how you should operate as an individual to work within the Capitalist machine.

That does not mean we should abolish all schools. It means we should ensure schools that do sometimes push conformist messages stop doing that, while still remaining the educational institutions that they are.

Schools taught me the math I use every day both at work and at home, the history I derive various meanings and life lessons from, the art lessons I use to relax in my free time, exercise and nutrition advice that keeps me healthy, writing that I’ve used to publish articles read by thousands, better budgeting, leadership and coordination skills, and even some philosophy that I’ve used to better understand my place in the world.

Not to mention how schools are the primary way many kids create friendships, as it essentially forces you and many other people to all exist in the same, dense space, nearly every day, for extended periods of time, which is crucial for social development.

Without all of that education, I and many others would be in a much worse spot. I find it absurd you’d argue against a concept so deeply human that so many cultures across landmasses and time periods had some form of education through systems very similar to what we’d call “school” now, because it benefited not just society, but any individual that participated in it.

What do you propose as an alternative to school? No education at all, where we simply hope that people’s personal experiences will lead them to the right answers and knowledge they could need for their future?

I can understand that a lot of people would not want a machine that can’t play their favorite game. I think it’s a bad idea to simply shame them for wanting a machine that can play a game they want to play.

I think it’s good to shame the developer and platform that make it so locked-in to the Microsoft ecosystem in the first place.

But if the Steam Machine works for you, as it will for my uses, then I think it’s good to support it as an alternative.

Why would we abolish a system that exists so everyone gets a level of knowledge that ensures they can both be productive for society, but also productive in their own endeavors, whatever they may be, while better understanding the world and history that led to where they and society is now?

Education is very clearly a beneficial thing, and schools are a good system to efficiently and equitably distribute an education.

We are living in the content age. The information age was over a long time ago for most people, who no longer consider the internet a way to find the truth, but a way to confirm their existing biases.

Never had anyone download from any IA torrents I’ve hosted. I’d say only do it if it’s something you have a reason to believe will be taken down at some point. Whether that be from government censorship, for copyright reasons, etc.

It runs autonomously to a degree, but a lot of these sites operate via posting a wide variety of content on the same domains, after those domains have previously gained status in search engines.

So for example, you’ll have a site like epiccoolcarnews[.]info hosting stuff like “How to get FREE GEMS in Clash of Clans” just because previously they posted an article about cars that Google thought was good so they ranked up the domain in their ranking algorithm.

Permanently downrank the domain, and eventually they have to start with a new domain that, as is the key part here, has no prior reputation, and thus has to work to actually get ranked up in search again.

They’re also going to be making this a public database, and have said they’ll use it to train AI-generated content detection tools that will probably be better at detecting “AI generated articles meant to appear legitimate by using common keywords and phrases”, rather than just “any text of any form that has been generated by AI” like other AI detection tools do, which would make them capable of automating the process a bit with regard to specifically search engines.

It wouldn’t stop rich people from just paying and moving on, but rich people aren’t the ones being targeted here.

The vast majority of vehicle purchasers are regular people that are still relatively sensitive to price increases. It’s car manufacturers that have regularly raised the footprint of their cars, whether that’s to advertise a larger truck bed than their competitors, to add more legroom, or just to make their car look beefier/cooler than the competition.

They do this because it gets them more sales.

If the vast majority of people will suddenly be hit with an additional cost just to own that type of vehicle, manufacturers will stop making as many of them, and focus on designs with smaller footprints, because that then allows them to advertise a lower cost by saying “lower footprint, lower fees.”

Even if the wealthy are willing to pay more for their big cars, they not only make up just a fraction of the overall market, but they can’t even be doing that if manufacturers stop making big cars.

The wealthy drive many markets, but the collective mass of people that care very much about prices do, too.