myrrh

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

...microsoft applications have an annoying habit of auto-replacing my dashes with emdashes; i don't even know how to type an emdash...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

...there are sugar babies, sugar mamas, and sugar daddies...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

...large-language models do not comport with lossless data reconstruction in my experience; quite the opposite...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

...nah man, that's on the domestic dealers + automakers choosing not to market small affordable cars in favor of big profitable road-tanks, and it's not the first time they've priced themselves out of the market like this...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

...meanwhile stateside, the executive branch are planning auctions of federal land to corporate developers...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

...i think the social conditioning to marry prince charming was profound; kind of like religion, we all want to believe in someone to sweep off our feet and make our dreams come true...

...i don't have my finger on the pulse of generation alpha but for awhile i hoped generation Z might leave that baggage behind them...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

...tildes reminds me a bit of usenet culture before the eternal september...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

...i disassembled the factory radio in my 1990 geo prizm and soldered an auxilliary cable onto the pre-amplification stage traces; it worked pretty well suspending a portable CD player from the rearview mirror for shock protection back in the days before memory buffers were a thing, even better with those little vinyl bands installed around the disc edge for additional gyroscopic stability...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

...i shop women's shoes when i can; they generally offer a much wider selection...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

...my mazda 2 outhandles my MX-5s and is the only car i've driven which keeps pace with my elise; we've been waiting for an electric subcompact hatchback for about ten years now but the stateside market keeps doing everything it can not to offer me one...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

...nope; her education was 1980s DoDDS, mine was 1980s TEA...

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