it’s gambling for children is why. While I can choose to not buy the MTX inside a game, children and some young adults are more vulnerable to psychologically manipulative dark patterns that have been designed to mimic addiction as closely as possible.

to clarify I am speaking “culturally” not legally.

Most people go out for drinks and drive home.

in my experience, culturally, drinking one (1) 4.8% ABV 33ml can of beer in Europe is drunk driving

Drinking two (2) 6.2% ABV fl oz (946ml total) glasses of beer and smoking weed in the USA is not drunk driving.

Not defending it, just saying that it was eye opening how many people in the US get behind the wheel after drinking what they consider a small amount of alcohol

I wanted a cat when I was 5. My parents got me a fish instead. So, in my innocence, I named the fish “Pussy”

TIL - thanks

Is this not IPA? I thought the article said it was

as written it should be pronounced

shw-meth-quey-em-ass-em

where the shw is throaty - is it different because of the language?

i do music and comedy, a bunch of venues, groups, bands, jams, open mics operate through whatsapp. “privacy” doesn’t really blip most of their radars tbh and I want the gigs

there aren’t that many, if you’re talking specifically LLMs, but ML+AI is more than LLMs.

Not a defence or indictment of either side, just people tend to confuse the terms “LLM” and “AI”

I think there could be worth in AI for identification (what insect in this, find the photo I took of the receipt for my train ticket last month, order these chemicals from lowest to highest pH…) - but LLMs are only part of that stack - the input and output - which isn’t going to make many massive breakthroughs week to week.

quarter millennium

likely because it’s somewhat an uncomfortable holiday, celebrating when slaves in Texas were told they had been free for 2 and a half years, but didn’t know it yet, and the slave owners were forced by the army to set them free.

i think theyre referring to the mnemonic

King Phillip Came Over From Great Spain

=

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

and theyre saying they should add Domains to this (that precedes Kingdom)

you can do what you want. Personally it hurts me to hear the f-slur due to a lot of trauma, regardless of context. But I’m a big boy who can deal with it, but useful context for you to consider

I’d add some drugs too just to be safe

including others in your kink without permission is a violation of consent, easy break up - this man does not respect boundaries, and does not practice SSC/RACK

I have a great deal of job security by not being a software engineer and knowing “how to code”

they love me at my job in supply chain b2b marketing because I can build an API connector to the DoT database, and build a simple savings calculator in WordPress that connects to hubspot and Salesforce, or I can parse 20 csvs and exclude all duplicates in python…

all low level stuff but if you don’t know what a variable even is it seems like magic

is it Kujo he has no memory of writing due to cocaine?

he’s old to 13 year olds. And young enough to 40 year olds to want to sacrifice himself in the name of space flight.

And also young enough to piss off his wife.

!Judy cheats on BJ with the guitarist at the church!<

I feel like the Righteous Gemstones - for a silly, flight of fancy / action movie-inspired series - depicted it pretty well.

Damaged people compelled to seek attention and solace without thinking of the consequences. Senseless, illogical, stupid, ill-considered, badly hidden, not even really what any of the people actually involved want.