doug
average man by day, average man by night. / you get more points being on lemmy than you do on reddit / movie enthusiast / formerly /u/doug on reddit
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•When “Watch Instantly” first came out. Before “streaming” was even the term for it.English
3·1 month agoWhat is the first movie in that list? It looks like Noah Wylie but I can’t make it out.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business NewsEnglish
14·1 month agoPull out, don’t pull out, we’re fucked either way.
Some matte tape will fix all of those problems…
…placed over their dashboard indicators, of course.
there is nothing in the desert, and no woman needs nothing.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.English
14·1 month agoMy Reddit account was 19 years old before I was permabanned by their stupid AI for liking Luigi pics and saying I wish Trump wouldn’t wake up in response to a pic of him napping 😔
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Games@sh.itjust.works•Control Resonant Is An Action Masterpiece For Total Sickos, Like MeEnglish
181·2 months agoSadly the older I get the less interested I am in reflex-heavy action titles.
I know Control had some welcome accessibility options including 100% aim assistance and 1 shot kills (that didn’t affect achievements!), but uhhh, at that point I’m just like what am I doing here?
I want a multiplayer game with roles for slow farts or non-sweaty people. Phasmophobia’s onto something with having someone sit in a van. Division almost had it with that tablet role they pulled before the game was released, where someone could just be on a tablet and buff/debuff people.
I’d love to see a 5 player spaceship game like No Man’s Sky where a ship can have someone just watching engines or shields and doing their station with no stress about much else.
…this comment digressed, but uhhh, all’s that to say this game looks good for people into it, but sadly not for me.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OSEnglish
5·2 months ago“no sloppy Windows, guys— I mean it.”
“LET’S SLOP IT UP!”
😮
(she asked me to marry her otherwise yeah I’d never know for sure for sure, y’know y’know?)
When I was in high school, a girl called me at home and this embarrassing conversation happened:
Her: So, this girl I know likes this guy I know, but he doesn’t seem to get any of her hints. What should she do to tell him she likes him?
Me: uh, I dunno, just tell him she likes him?
Her: …like, “I like you?” Just like that?
Me: yeah
Her: I like you.
Me: yeah, you got it, just tell her to tell him that and she’ll be all set.
Her: …
Me: …was there anything else?
——
The first girlfriend I had (not her) pulled me aside angrily in the hallway between classes and said something like “listen, I’ve been hitting on you for two weeks now and everyone else thinks we get along like gangbusters, I’m going insane; do you wanna go out with me or not?”
——
Anyways, I learned a few years ago I’m on the spectrum and it really helped give a lot of context for me and my dumbass.If it weren’t for pre-shitty OKCupid I’d probably not be married rn
and he doesn’t live in a hotel
I hate that planking is the best exercise for strengthening your lower back. They’re just so boring to do.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?English
2·2 months agofwiw I don’t believe any of what I just wrote.
It’s just a creative exercise imo/fun worldbuilding
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?English
31·2 months agoIt’s fun to think up thought experiments that explain away the reasons we can’t prove they exist.
Time isn’t linear, we’re just limited to experiencing it that way while we’re alive.
After we die, we experience time differently; in an impossible-to-describe way, but is akin to a book with limitless pages. Your existence is a bookmark in this book, and dying makes you lose your place.
It is possible to re-find your place, but with unfathomable access to unfathomable histories and futures, there is a near-infinite choice of other events and timelines for a ghost to visit and observe and experience.
Coupled with that, there are laws— some sort of physical laws, not arbitrary— to visiting the pages of this book, in that they can only be done in areas that do not cause pages before or after to change dramatically. A ghost is a spec of ink on the page; it cannot write letters, words, or sentences. If anything like this were ever done, we would never know as our minds would simply accept the memory as fact without knowing, or delete the memory of a ghost the way we space out driving on a highway or having to look at our watch a second time.
Lastly, our senses are all on varying spectrums; some of us able to see, hear, smell, experience things others cannot. One of our senses is a sense of time. Some people’s sense of time operates on a scope of a wider caliber than others, experiencing things others cannot, which is why some of us may have experienced ghosts while others haven’t.
edit: I guess it needs clarification based on the downvotes, I don’t believe any of what I just wrote (except the true bits like time not being linear & sense scopes). I don’t believe in ghosts/have never seen one, but I try to stay open-minded for friends who might disagree.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMsEnglish
100·2 months agoI think it was a Reddit scraper years ago that taught me that I should probably lie more often on the internet about my work, friends, family details, etc.
Just like, little lies that don’t really matter in the comment, but would misdirect an AI or investigator into things that aren’t true.
It’s just so much woooooork to think about this shit. And to come up with different screen names everywhere? And to like, sub to a city I don’t live in and comment there about shit I know nothing about? Exhausting.
Thankfully my brothers and three uncles are here to support me. And my alligator.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMsEnglish
21·2 months agoIt is!? Noooooooo! TIL
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Technology@lemmy.world•Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMsEnglish
1162·2 months agosadly I’ll likely support them through any shitty decisions they make as they are the only viable non-chromium alternative these days.
I get they’re chasing the buck and trying to stay relevant, but uhhhh… if they could be less Steve Buscemi-teen about it, that’d be great.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Life advice from the pedophile in chief himself.English
2·2 months agoI need to watch Superstore.
Everyone in that ad killed it and I’m always curious about the writer of it (and any other similarly clever ad) if they’re still in marketing where their talents are imo a bit wasted.


Nice sleuthing!