public-chat

[orchid walrus]

😂😭

[magic cloak]

Who wants to see my plants

[median idol]

My sincere condolences

[west rampart]

Yoooo I wanna see the plants

I better see a whole forest in your room

[orchid walrus]

Based Kotori enjoyer

[serene zenith]

[winged spire]

Brother apparently Claude can just say no ??

It refused like 7 times until I just immediately told it it’s now morning and to give me the problems 😂

Never had an LLM just completely refuse to give me the response like this

Can’t put your foot down you fucking clanker

[rough socket]

lmao

[wide ginkgo]

What the heck is Antigravity 2.0

Where is my IDE??? And why does it auto update with No option to let me halt the update???

WTF are you doing Google

[wide ginkgo]

And as I complain I just see Linus release a video agreeing with decision google make with Antigravity 2.0???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLP3ag0YpyA&t=690s

Hello Linus? How is a "IDE" without access to Folder and Code and unable to run Terminal command better

[hardy pilot]

Cuuuuttteeee

Hey, all plushies are cute

[graceful matrix]

It's a message to go to bed

[wispy marsh]

It's in 长坪沟

[hollow token]

looks like from a vibe coders perspective, which is fair enough. vibe coders don't need to know about terminals or logic or anything of that matter

[dense blade]

New phone who dis

[eternal trail]

rip
the 18$ b365 board didn’t work
i pretty much expected it, but the pins were far too damaged

a few of them were just displaced or bent up

but several of them were literally folded backwards in half and try as i might, i couldn’t fix it

[dense blade]

Yeah, LGA sockets with bent pins are just something else. It's super easy to fix bent pins on a PGA cpu even without a magnifying glass, but fixing LGA sockets just get too tricky and in most cases, the board is not worth the work

[soft cedar]

hey yall what budget should i expect for a new pc for some heavy unreal engine 5 cinematics and some blender modeling rendering and most adobe apps also some daily AAA open wolrd gaming on max settings on 2K res

[graceful matrix]

15k dollars

Or 50k

[soft cedar]

Bro

That’s if I get a pro 6000 Blackwell

Im saying like ryzen 9 9950X3D and RTX5090 32GB of ram and 4TB ssd

[tough wigeon]

heyyyy👀

[rustic tundra]

2k as in 1920x1080

[soft cedar]

Nah 1440p

[rustic tundra]

that would be 2.5k

[soft cedar]

I have 2 oled monitor

[soft cedar]

Oh ye sorry

[rustic tundra]

marketing makes it all confusing i understand

[soft cedar]

I work in marketing lol

[rustic tundra]

why not 4k?

[soft cedar]

I mean I’m not tryna buy new monitors as I said I have 2 oled 27inch 240hz 1440p

[rustic tundra]

at that territory i would expect someone to do dual 4k

1440 is broke boy res

[shut sable]

@next jetty accept the friend request from the notepad account and this one , its my alt.

[rose cargo]

4K is stupid even Linus says that

[hollow token]

depends on pixel density

[next jetty]

🤨

[hollow token]

a 4k phone is stupid but a 4k 70" TV makes sense

[shut sable]

i explained it in dm

[rose cargo]

they're talking about monitors and gaming. Not 70 inch TVs and just watching.

[hollow token]

4K just barely makes sense, but 1440p is respectable

Albeit I'd rather have a 1440P color accurate 144HZ monitor than a 4K washed out 120hz monitor

[rose cargo]

yeah

[rustic tundra]

4k makes sense for editing

[rustic tundra]

most accurate screens are 4k these days on top end models like ultrasharp

as well as 5k monitors

[hollow token]

5k? they do that?

[rustic tundra]

5k has been a thing for some time

including apple displays

lg sells a 5k professional monitor

[hollow token]

I'm still on 1080p

[rustic tundra]

also what you mean by washed out

nobody is selling a 4k tn

ips is accurate my itself

but as i said, professional 4k displays use calibrated ips that delivers higher accuracy than many 1440 ones

nobody is making an accurate 1440 144 monitor

thats gaming territory

dell is making 4k120 ultrasharps instead

[rustic tundra]

that screams accuracy above 3

delta e

[rose cargo]

anyways you didnt read their question as they want a 1440p display anyways. Also didn't ask for exact perfect colour, so honistly anything would be good, they'd be fine getting an OLED or a Mini LEED panel if they want high brightness for a cheaper price.

[vapid smelt]

Sony makes 4k display phones it's very stupid like 643ppi

[rustic tundra]

i would recommend doing 4k for editing related stuff and gaming

no matter

[orchid walrus]

4k only really makes sense for 32" and above

If your buying a 27" monitor. Your essentially wasting GPU power with anything above 1440p

[hot tartan]

27” 4K is peak

[short rock]

I envy you, you with your 1440p and above capable GPUs

[hot tartan]

So sharp

[vapid smelt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/JFf9rG over $6k

[orchid walrus]

Nah bro. 27" 1440p is plenty sharp

[hot tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/fr-lie-gif-9063740662564569899

For how close the average person sits to a 27” display it’s not sharp enough

[short rock]

3800 dollar GPU, 1300 dollar CPU ram combo

and you forgot fans

[orchid walrus]

At home I sit pretty close and it's sharp

[rose cargo]

i dont think that guy knows what he's talking about🤷‍♂️
He sees 4K and think it's some super insane display, 1440p is plenty for 27 inches.

[vapid smelt]

The case has 3

[magic cloak]

not in my room

[hot tartan]

I know what I’m talking about

[magic cloak]

they are outside

[orchid walrus]

Fr. Sometimes bigger number isn't better

[short rock]

you're telling me in a 6k+ PC you're going to have 3 fans, also (genuine question) will that peerless assassin be able to cool the 9950x3d

[orchid walrus]

1440p is legitimately a perfect sweet spot for gaming and productivity. If only they sold 16:10 1600p gaming monitors.

[vapid smelt]

Yes

The 9950x3d is a 170watt CPU the dual tower cooler is more than enough

[hot tartan]

My old 1440P display was solid for gaming, for text and productivity I was not a fan

[orchid walrus]

Was it one of these weird panels with a BGR subpixel layout?

[short rock]

oh cool

[hot tartan]

No

[orchid walrus]

For text and productivity I like my 1440p monitors. That's what I'm using in the office right now lol

They gave us 27" 1440p 120hz displays

[median idol]

It's been 5 years since I've been on my LG 27GN950

[rustic tundra]

27 and 32 4k is sharper

i used 27 4k and its the best sweet spot

[soft cedar]

Oh boy

[graceful matrix]

Just sit 2 keyboards away

[graceful matrix]

I use 1440p 27i

[hot tartan]

I’m not going back to 1440p

[rustic tundra]

i am currently on 32 4k

[hot tartan]

42” 4K 💪 (I sit 42” away)

[rustic tundra]

too large for me i plan on going back to 27 4k

most likely that one new ultrasharp

[hot tartan]

Yeah if I had to downsize I’d do 27” 4K

But 42” is peak

[vapid smelt]

That card is $12k alone

[orchid walrus]

For large format stuff. I do 55" 4k.

[slender lantern]

I just recently went from a 24” 1080p I believe IPS monitor to a 27” 1440p oled. I didn’t realize how much I could love games until that switch

[soft cedar]

Ye that’s why I’m not risking living on the streets for the rest of my days

[hot tartan]

65” 4K in my living room, I want like a 75-77” TV but I got a good deal on my LG g5

[orchid walrus]

People don't need 27" 4k unless they got the posture of a professional cago player

[median idol]

I have my TCL 4K 55" (non-OLED) TV in my room mostly for watching YouTube, movies/shows, and muh Arabic TV. I don't game that much

[rough socket]

what does that mean

oh csgo

Well, I sit at normal distance and I see an enormous difference between 4K 27" and 1440p 27"

[rustic tundra]

the ppi of 4k is just too big

[slender lark]

for me
screen is screen

[rough socket]

Yeah because you never tried it lol

[rough socket]

Why ?

[slender lark]

i use same laptop screen

[rough socket]

That's deep

[slender lark]

its only 15.6 '

[rustic tundra]

no other common resolution and size can match it

27 4k is the ppi god

[rough socket]

Oh I thought you were saying it's literally too much

But yeah, 5K is a thing too not that common

5K 32" would be peak

[rustic tundra]

27 5k exists though

apple mentioned

[rough socket]

Yeah well if it's not oled it doesn't exist to me

[calm swan]

LG ultrafine

[rustic tundra]

same panel

[calm swan]

well yes because lg makes it

[rough socket]

Speaking of monitor I really don't know if I want a 1440p 480Hz oled or a 4K oled for my next one, currently have 1440p miniled and it's utter garbage, I just don't know if it's due to lack of oled or lack of 4K... though it's certainly just both
(I already have 2 gaming computers with 4K oled)

[rustic tundra]

4k is worth

[hot tartan]

Miniled tech in monitors was not great for a while, we’re seeing promising models coming out now

[rough socket]

Mine is quite recent, but it's not the best yeah. Though considering how good oleds are now I only see them as a budget option

[tawdry light]

holy shit what kind of specs are these

[rough socket]

What is what

[tawdry light]

my mom taught me whenever i see something magnificient i ask god to bless it

[rough socket]

lmao

[hot tartan]

I just need a 42” LG OLED TV with tandem RGB stripe

That would be peak

[tawdry light]

im literally saving up for a 1080p ips 100hz monitor and i think its too much and gonna go with a 60hz one instead

cuz cant save up money

[rough socket]

One of those 4K oled gaming PC has a 42" LG TV oled yeah

RGB stripe is super nice... but i'm not sure I want to wait one whole year to get it in a cool monitor

.... i could buy a somewhat cheap 1440p oled to wait a super nice one though

[tawdry light]

no income

[rough socket]

Yeah, sucks not being an adult lol

[hot tartan]

Yeah sadly 42” won’t get nice panel tech for a while

It’s still on WOLED

[rough socket]

They are usually the one forgotten indeed

There isn't even a G5 in 42"

[hot tartan]

48”, 65”, 75” are all tandem this year (in the C series lineup)

[eternal trail]

that, and the fact that it was a dozen or so pins, some of them completely destroyed beyond manual fixing means I’m just going to use it as a donor for a socket swap.

[hot tartan]

The 48” version of the G series is nerfed compared to its bigger brothers usually

[rough socket]

oh wow

[eternal trail]

some of them were BAD. i’d post a picture here if i could but it might be classified as gore rofl

[rough socket]

@tawdry light Do you live in europe ?

[tawdry light]

no in Egypt

[eternal trail]

one was so bad it looked like a pig’s tail lol

super curly pin

[rough socket]

Rip, I could have sold you my 1440p miniled for an interesting price

[twin raft]

Interesting price?

[rough socket]

Yeah

[twin raft]

Not good price, not bad, but interesting

[tawdry light]

shipping exists btw

[twin raft]

Is it like solving a puzzle to find out the price

[tawdry light]

but no shit it would arrive as glass pieces

[rough socket]

Interesting in french is "intéressant" and is used for this kind of sentence, I guess it's not the right word in english

I don't know the price yet, I'm not sure what I want to buy and if I do wait more

But since i have one of those shitty "storm beast" or whatever it's called in english inside the monitor it just destroys the resell value ...

It doesn't really affect the experience, but still destroys the value, which makes it an "interesting" price i guess lol

[eternal trail]

Is there a public channel where pictures are allowed cuz i kinda wanna show off how bad some of those pins were

[rough socket]

This.... It's not really visible in normal use but it's there... Can't do anything, a bit like a dead pixel

So this will make me sell it at a super low price...

[twin raft]

Oh yeah dont worry, wasnt putting you down, just found it a bit funny

But no offense meant

[vapid smelt]

The rest of the channels

[rough socket]

Yeah dw
So that's not common to say "interesting" ?

For a price
In french it really means "yeah the price will be low"

[twin raft]

It is but not for that sentence

[twin raft]

Yeah usually we'd say good price or use the word cheap

[eternal trail]

sick, much appreciated

[tawdry light]

it could indicate a cheaper or a more expensive price ig so its a bit confusing

[rough socket]

Okay yeah

Well, cheap then it is

[tawdry light]

i am subscribed to some guy's telegram channel he keeps posting about monitor deals in egypt thats all what he literally does

once there was a really good philips monitor fhd 144hz ips for 69$ but my dumabss

was hiking in the desert

at the time

since that moment i didnt go out of home unless it was for school and had my mobile data while checking every notifications

i am not missing no more deals

oh no i cant send pictures

please the linus tech tips gods grant me the attachtments permission i will not abuse it i promise

[rough socket]

I also have a 60Hz 1440p 24" laying around you know 🫡

Hp e24q G5

A bit dusty but barely used

[rough socket]

You need to talk more, you'll get the role

Or you probably can in #tech-chat-1 ?

[hot tartan]

You have to link an LTT forum account

[tawdry light]

did you just say an ltt forum

[tough palm]

I dont know which one i approve more of.
Google workspace or Microsoft 365

[tawdry light]

XMPP mutli user chat

[tough palm]

no like. the email, file sharing, cloud, etc. teams??

[twin raft]

Fuck both of them

[tawdry light]

idk any of these but as far as i know XMPP is the culmination of human electronic communication

[tough palm]

was going to say. both of them are honestly kind of 💣 anyway
like, omg OneDrive. but then, I dont think I am looking forward to having to deal with gmail, either

[tawdry light]

i think what might be more important to talk about is how to obtain money

[mortal kraken]

irc betterer

[tawdry light]

flash drives and FTP server mogs

[tawdry light]

i couldnt figure it out

[tough palm]

yeah honestly, USBs and locals

[tawdry light]

thats how i know it sure is peak

[hardy pilot]

Udp broadcast based chat is better (so secure (trust) it only works with devices on the local network)

[hot tartan]

Yes

[tawdry light]

perfect for introverts

[rough socket]

You don't have anything for a monitor?
But anyway, shipping to Egypt is probably too expensive for the price of the monitor

[tawdry light]

i am actually assembling a whole new pc for the first time

and i am a dumb 13yo kid they doubt young people in here

all i can do is to probably work as a part time cashier for 40$ monthly

[rough socket]

Oh well, you can't do a whole lot about that yeah

[twin raft]

Holy fuck you were born in 2013

Jesus

[vapid smelt]

But but that was only like 5 years ago

[twin raft]

Literally dude

I remember playing on my Xbox 360 in 2013

[vapid smelt]

I remember buying GTA V for the Xbox 360 in 2013

[vapid smelt]

Holy fuck your only as old as GTA V

[tawdry light]

a year older

my birthday is after half a month

[twin raft]

I got it in late 2013 like I think November, I was playing GTA 4 and need for speed something

[slender lantern]

Hopefully in the meantime the market will stabilize and you’ll have saved enough. Good luck!

[median idol]

I remember getting Assassin's Creed when it was first new

Holy shit this game is almost 20 years old

[hollow token]

I remember getting the wii for christmas

[strange elk]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-i-member-south-park-s20e1-member-berries-member-gif-20603952

I chose hand warmers over a PSP as my early Christmas gift

I thought it was a pair of boots or smth and the hand warmers were a game

[median idol]

That was the first handheld I bought

[hollow token]

the first handheld I bought was a switch

[strange elk]

I think same actually. That or 3ds, got them a year apart

After 2022

[median idol]

I was gifted a GBA when I was fresh off the boat many moons ago

This was 2004-2005?....

[silent maple]

I'm new here. Hello.

I just want to join you and learn this job.

[north escarp]

Learn it real good yiss

be the best there ever was

To train them is your causeeee

Pokemonnn or however that song went lol

[hollow token]

I always thought pokemon was easily better than digimon

[north escarp]

Ofc snivy enters chat xD ❤️

[hollow token]

until I learned about gundramon

[north escarp]

[north escarp]

The first Digimon games where unique at least

But Pokémon kinda took over

[median idol]

In the old country, It was either Sony or Sega for consoles..... Microsoft and Nintendo were virtually non-existent in MENA in the 90s - early 2000s for gaming consoles

[north escarp]

Yugioh got convoluted and become a 1 turn game

[hollow token]

you only need to play pokemon once, but spinoffs are a different feature

[north escarp]

Mtg is cool if with the boys or smth

Get red deckeddd

For somone to run blue

The bs beginsss

[median idol]

And for my family, PCs were way more common. Socket/Super Socket 7 was common to build around a new system even well into the early 2000s at that time.

[north escarp]

For anyone running red your welcome

[split swift]

Not bad for how low geared the mini is

[rough socket]

Forgot to remove the plastic wrap lol
I literally put seasoning on the plastic and cooked it like that
I'm so incredibly dumb

[vapid smelt]

How does it taste

[slender lantern]

$300 in Paris. That’s sum shit ratatouille made

[rough socket]

i'm french, checks out

[rough socket]

I removed the plastic, seasoned again and put it back in the oven lol, we'll see

It was at 46°c out of the 58°c I wanted

[slender lantern]

Is it chicken or what kind of meat is that?

[vapid smelt]

With the extra micro plastics it should taste better

[rough socket]

It's calf

Orloff calf

The one with the cheese and bacon

[winged spire]

I want food ):

[hollow token]

Im so tired

[split swift]

https://tenor.com/view/teto-kasane-kasane-teto-fatass-kasane-baguette-gif-17117578320952348304

[split swift]

https://tenor.com/view/microplastics-tom-and-jerry-yummy-gif-25682895

[north escarp]

[plucky thorn]

I love Ai

[split swift]

Ok

[jade violet]

hey

[crystal flare]

just took my zepbound injection.

[winged spire]

What is that

Oh is that like ozempic

[hot tartan]

Peptide

[winged spire]

That’s quite a large category lol

[hot tartan]

GLP-1

[winged spire]

Ah

The ozempic craze has been insane

The company that made it first is now worth more than the country it’s based in lol

[crystal flare]

appetite suppressant and helps with severe obstructive sleep apnea.

[hot tartan]

If it helps you live a healthier life more power to you

[winged spire]

Oh the spike already basically evened out 😭

Lmao

Never mind then

[hot tartan]

Yeah now there’s hella competitors

People love peptides

I think there’s a newer weight loss that isn’t a GLP-1 but I can’t remember the name

[mystic tundra]

wouldn’t ever invest into people artificially losing weight for aesthetic reasons and health endangerment

side effects go brrr

[winged spire]

Obesity is an insanely big health risk

[mystic tundra]

glp-1 doesn’t fix the core reason why you’re obese

[winged spire]

Doesn’t matter

[split swift]

Yeah

[mystic tundra]

if you stop taking it the consiquences might be you end up being even more obese within two years as body tries to compensate

[hot tartan]

You have to develop healthy eating and exercise habits while on Ozempic and maintain them after

[mystic tundra]

and if you keep taking it you’re at the risk of various diseases

the chance isn’t low either

[rough socket]

I need the inverse of ozempic

[hot tartan]

Ice cream

[winged spire]

Extremely high chance of devastating disease from obesity

[hot tartan]

With peanut butter

[mystic tundra]

baklava

[rough socket]

Yeah well the whole thing about struggling to eat is that you struggle to eat lol

[hot tartan]

Then eat the most calorie dense foods you can

[winged spire]

It would take a LOT for ozempic’s side effects to be worse than the issues caused from obesity

[mystic tundra]

again even when you treat obesity artificially, it doesn’t make you much more healthy, mostly apparently

[hot tartan]

Especially get calories in liquid form

[mystic tundra]

you don’t fix the core issue with ozempic

[rough socket]

I started eating mass gainer every morning yeah lol

[winged spire]

Bruh that’s the celebrity diet

[rough socket]

Yeah well that's not for no reasons

[winged spire]

When actors need to gain weight quickly they will let like a gallon of ice cream melt, then drink the whole thing down

Obv with other stuff too but

[rough socket]

I do'nt think that's super healthy lol i prefer eating mass gainer

[mystic tundra]

it’s not quite but similar to eating artificial sweeteners when you’re really close to being categorized as having type 2 diabetes

[winged spire]

Yeah it’s not healthy at all 😅

[gilded quest]

Yeah. Many people who lose ozempic coverage gain the weight back over several months

[winged spire]

It’s for when you need to gain like 80lbs in 4 months like what’s that one actor

[gilded quest]

They need those bars from mean girls

[winged spire]

Is it Christian bale that’s always changing his weight

[echo sluice]

80lbs in 4 months is crazy

[winged spire]

Just an example

[mystic tundra]

plus with ozempic you don’t enjoy all of the benefits of having healthy weight

[gilded quest]

Brendan Fraser in the whale

[supple marlin]

whats good cat

[supple marlin]

anyone playing subnautica 2?

[gilded quest]

NVM it was incredible makeup

[echo sluice]

55kg

is crazy

[plush grotto]

I stopped using wegovy after like 8 months. I went down 30kg. Got tired of spending 400$ a month on it. Took like 3 months to gain it all back.

[hot tartan]

Was it called the whale because of how big he was

[winged spire]

I hope that man has like weekly blood tests and full nutrient supplements

[rough socket]

I've been at less than that for years lol

[winged spire]

He is absolutely gotta be deficient in a ton of stuff when he’s cutting down

[gilded quest]

Damn I wouldn't have said half of those are Christian bale

[hot tartan]

Yeah because most people don’t change their habits

[mystic tundra]

@winged spire obesity is linked to high and unhealthy cholesterol but ozempic doesn’t fix bad cholesterol

[echo sluice]

at what age

[plush grotto]

The bulk of those 30kg was in the first 4 months.

[gilded quest]

Bruh 💀

[hot tartan]

Genuine question

[echo sluice]

it took me like 2-3 months to gain 5kg

[gilded quest]

No he was an actor who played the main character smh

[hot tartan]

Ah

[rough socket]

I'm 28 now
I started eating mass gainer in the morning and now I've stopped collpasing from lack of food around mid day and I think i'm around 55 now

[mystic tundra]

what i’m trying to say is you might not enjoy all of the benefits with ozempic compared to naturally losing weight, yes for some ozempic with diet is better than just diet but for many it may give an illusion and then they gain back

[gilded quest]

The Whale (2022) is a film directed by Darren Aronofsky about a reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher, Charlie (Brendan Fraser), who tries to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter, Ellie (Sadie Sink), for a chance at redemption before his health fails. The film, based on a play by Samuel D. Hunter, earned Brendan Fraser an Academy Award for Best Actor, with Hong Chau also receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. It explores themes of grief, guilt, and self-destruction, and was noted for its powerful performances and emotional impact.

[hot tartan]

So yeah because he was big

[gilded quest]

Those are amateur numbers

[hot tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/heyy-how-you-doing-come-here-gif-22076790

[gilded quest]

I could do 5kg in a month ez

[mystic tundra]

it’s just ozempic in many cases doesn’t fix the issues of being obese (high body fat), instead ozempic might just fix the obesity without fixing all of the other issues that come with obesity

[echo sluice]

Wtf

[echo sluice]

personally im not a big fan of eating

[hot tartan]

That’s why you drink calories

[echo sluice]

thats what i did in those 2-3 months

[gilded quest]

Yeah if you wanna gain weight, drink soda and eat pizza

[hot tartan]

Beer

Beer belly

[gilded quest]

Naw man kids these days don't do the alcohols anymore

[hot tartan]

Or just drink olive oil

[rough socket]

I don't feel hunger
Like literally to the point of collapsing
I never think "oh i'm hungry", just at some point I start feeling light headed and I'm shaking hard and it took me literally years to understand that it meant that I was hungry

[mystic tundra]

my best recommendation is fructose

[gilded quest]

Great for bowel movement

[hot tartan]

It’ll slide right out

[winged spire]

Used engine oil is more ecofriendly

Reduce reuse recycle

[rough socket]

No guys, take mass gainer if you want to gain weight
I live like a human since I started drinking it every morning

One day I counted my calories intake it was less than what they were eating at auswchitz ( !!! ???? ), I've been trying to find ways to want to eat for years, nothing works
Mass gainers is easy, I just mix water and powder, drink it, next, no "friction" in the action, though I take 2h to drink it lol

[echo sluice]

Why not eat people then

[rough socket]

And it's way better than eating fructose or melted ice cream

[gilded quest]

want to eat
Yeah for me it's usually the sensation of hunger. Can't explain it

[mystic tundra]

i can go a whole day without food as long i don’t eat anything in the morning, if i do then i’m hungry

[echo sluice]

i would gain more weight if i just ate more, 90% of the time i dont eat cause im too lazy

[rough socket]

I either don't feel hunger, don't understand the feeling or i've lived so long in a constant hunger state that my brain stopped thinking it was abnormal lol

[echo sluice]

i feel like i could too but idk ive never gone past like 6 hours, cant you faint from not eating

[jolly mist]

Wsg lads

[winged spire]

Adderal fixed my appetite for the most part

[mystic tundra]

i did 2 days my best i think

[rough socket]

Now that I eat more thanks to the mass gainers I think I understand that maybe constant "hollow" pain in the chest is hunger ... lol

[echo sluice]

wtf

[winged spire]

If I skip a day or 2 I end up binging though 😅

[mystic tundra]

at the end of day 2 i felt strange pressure sensation in my head but def not fainting

[rough socket]

In which way ?

[mystic tundra]

slightly tired

[hot tartan]

Damn not even milk

[winged spire]

I don’t feel hunger when on my adderal lol

[hot tartan]

My stomach gets a little rumbly

[mystic tundra]

i could go third day no problem if i didn’t have school, and well that would be counterproductive

[winged spire]

Like I guess physically I’m still hungry, stomach might growl, but mentally I just don’t feel hungry when I’m on it

[rough socket]

Milk is not dense enough
The mass gainer it's 500mL and 575 kcal in liquid form, it's half of what I was eating (per day) before that

[gilded quest]

When I feel tingling in the back of my brain is when I know I'm in need of food

[hot tartan]

Nah I mean mix the mass gainer with milk not water

[hot tartan]

It’s my stomach first, then my hands get a little shaky

[mystic tundra]

i lose apetite after 1 hour of my stomach growling

then no growl

i mean humans were built to survive without food

[rough socket]

Well it's already powdered milk tbh
It's whey + oats + a bit of sugar I believe

And I already take 2h to drink the water version lol

[winged spire]

I guess that’s why you never see an obese methhead

Same shit as my adderal 😭😭

[hot tartan]

I guess +100 calories isn’t much with 1500, but I feel like it would taste better

[rough socket]

It tastes ok

It's already half powdered milk since it's whey so eh

[winged spire]

1500 calories a day is really low

[hot tartan]

I’ve got whey protein powder, no mass gainer and it’s way better with milk

[rough socket]

I was around 1000-1200kcal without the mass gainer

[hot tartan]

1500 is what mass gainer can go up to

[winged spire]

Mass gainer ?

[mystic tundra]

i gained a ton of energy when i was eating like 500 calories a day in veggs

[rough socket]

oat + whey + bit of sugar

[hot tartan]

Protein powder with hella calories

[winged spire]

Oh

[mystic tundra]

but it was unsustainable

[winged spire]

I meant like total

[mystic tundra]

hunger got to me

[hot tartan]

Yeah 1500 calories total would be not enough for me

[winged spire]

Because everyone says it’s 2000 calories a day so people will just take that number and eat under to lose weight, but it’s not nearly that standard among people

[mystic tundra]

2000 is min for me

[rough socket]

Depends on the person, at some point it was like 40% more than what I was eating lol

Now I'm above 1500 but probably still below 2k

But i'm small so it helps

[winged spire]

I think my maintance weight is like 2500 or something, anything less I can lose weight

Maintance calories? Idk

[mystic tundra]

if you’re a tall man with large organs and body weight…. yeah 3k minimum

if you’re a 150cm gnom… a lot less than that

[winged spire]

I need someone to invent like fake snacks or something, that would solve obesity

[mystic tundra]

also depends on metabolism

even indentical body weights can burn +10% -20% calories

[winged spire]

Brain implant to simulate eating snacks lol

[mystic tundra]

diabetes 2

[winged spire]

I think that’s where a big part of America’s obesity comes from

[mystic tundra]

coming to haunt you

sadly doing such implants would trigger more type 2 cases

[winged spire]

Just like snack food is not nearly as common in Europe and whatnot

We have So Many snacks in much larger containers

[echo sluice]

What is considered as snack food

[winged spire]

Like junk food

Chips

[mystic tundra]

when you first taste something sweet, at that point body releases small amount of insulin

[hollow dust]

hello

[mystic tundra]

and more insulin in blood = bad when it’s not used properly

[winged spire]

In Japan you basically just won’t find snack foods like in America

Even the like “culture” around snacks there is different

[hot tartan]

You’ll have to pry my Dot’s pretzels from my cold dead hands

[winged spire]

I can tell you most of my weight gain was from soda

[echo sluice]

i mean theres no way you could eat snacks every day and not get sick of them eventually

[rough socket]

It's not so much basal metabolism who has been proven to not differ much but how people behave
Like you can have two similar people one will be "slow" and don't move much doing anything while the other will be quite "energetic" in whatever they do. Like movements with the hands while talking, fidgeting in place etc

After that weight increase the amount of calories you burn at rest

And then metabolism comes, but it really is so incredibly tiny vs the 2 previous things

[winged spire]

I love soda but it’s just so insanely bad for you

Coke Zero and Diet Coke (most diet sodas) taste like shit aswell

Diet Coke especially, I know atleast one of you is a freak for Diet Coke 😛😛

[alpine gale]

Japan also serves smaller portions, not just because their existing population is slim, but because they operate on the idea of only eating until you're 80% full, and throwing away food is not just wasteful, it's considered rude.

[rough socket]

Don't drink soda?

If you want to become thin just come live with me for 2 months lmao

[hot tartan]

Eating food is wasteful?

I’m actually curious I want to learn more lol

[winged spire]

Gorging yourself

[mystic tundra]

if it’s unhealthy could be

[echo sluice]

japans culture seems pretty weird

[hot tartan]

Ah ok yeah that makes sense

[rough socket]

You'll get purged of every bad eating habits, though you'll gain other eating problems with me lol

I don't drink soda, don't eat snacks, basically eat nothing that has sugar (besides the mass gainer), never order food, never eat pre-processed stuff

[winged spire]

You’re eating to get the energy your body needs at the end of the day, It only needs so much

[alpine gale]

Loool I fixed it. Damn, if I'm typing like that I need water and sleep. Think I can convince my boss to let me go home early?

[alpine gale]

This too, but I meant to type wasting / throwing away. I am le tired.

[hot tartan]

Ahhh ok lol, doesn’t hurt to ask go for it

[rough socket]

The amount of activity matters a lot too

Which leads me to ask (serious question please don't laugh), is it true that americans don't walk ?

[winged spire]

But like the amount of people in America that will buy a large family sized bag of Doritos and eat half the bag watching a movie or something

[mystic tundra]

i promised myself i’ll never even try any soda ever again, last time i tried some cherry flavoured soda as a try and there was so much co2 and some type of soft acid that my teeth literally felt softer

[alpine gale]

To be fair... Every culture has its quirks. What's weird to us could be normal to others. Like how North America puts the toilet in the same room as the bath / shower. (Many other countries put the toilet in a separate room.)

[winged spire]

I love fizzy drinks

really don’t like flat drinks at all tbh

Normal water is ass, but carbonated water is peak

I want my water to hurt a little 😛

Extra carbonation

[mystic tundra]

there was some artificial sweetener in it that i never seen so tried it bc my family was offrering it to me

it was bad

i didn’t like it, it was not fullfilling

[winged spire]

Some places put them in the same room, then have the entire bathroom BE the shower

[alpine gale]

It's true that much of modern Western society has been conditioned into the notion that owning a vehicle means independence and lots of North Americans can't walk because our cities have been designed like shit for those outside of vehicles. People will keep driving until public transportation becomes a more viable option, which will only happen if we build our cities differently.

[winged spire]

Not like a closed off shower with a curtain and stuff

That’s actually crazy, horrible design lol

[rough socket]

But like if you want to buy bread you have to take the car ?

[echo sluice]

well yes

[alpine gale]

Many of us do, yes. We shouldn't need to, but zoning laws in many North American cities mean I couldn't even open a small grocery store in my neighborhood if I wanted to. It's illegal to do so, therefore we end up needing to drive 15-30 minutes to access The Mall™️ just to get milk or bread. It's awful and I hate it here.

[winged spire]

https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.LOKa6VnWmb45kZfhwgDMsAHaFj?dpr=3&pid=ImgDetMain&o=7&rm=3

Like this

[echo sluice]

Wtf

[mystic tundra]

ngl i also prefer on public transport that you don’t have to pay attention on road as you do with cars

[winged spire]

Yeah it’s cursed as hell

[echo sluice]

What is going thru peoples heads

[winged spire]

You just shower in the middle of the room

[echo sluice]

Entire floor wet after one person takes a shower

[winged spire]

It’s called a “wet room”

[echo sluice]

U slip and die

[jolly mist]

Idk dude I just got to bed

[winged spire]

SOME wet room designs are actually sick ngl

[rough socket]

That's utterly insane to me lol

I've seen people saying that when visiting america they got arrested by cops for suspicious behavior because .... they were walking

[alpine gale]

Love me a wet room. Much easier to clean.

[winged spire]

https://ey2msiqxj7z.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/13152556/0123_NB_Reno-Panner_AlexandrasClient-7-scaled.jpg?strip=all&w=1536

I really like this style

Best of both worlds

[echo sluice]

u still get the entire floor wet

[rough socket]

We call those "italian showers" in france

And you don't get the entire floor wet, the floor is angled a bit

[winged spire]

Also you gotta have the most luxurious rainfall showerheads in the ceiling for a room like that

[alpine gale]

IDK about the arrested for walking part in Canada, but the inability to walk or even easily bike to the store here is insane indeed. We have walking trails and bike paths, but few of them are connected in such a way that I'd feel safe biking home with a small basket of groceries, plus, the minimum amount of time I'd need to bike to the store outweighs the convenience and time to drive there. It shouldn't, but it does.

[rough socket]

Yeah it is SOOOO nice to have, though it's not forcefully "luxurious", just consume lots of water

[echo sluice]

it doesnt look like the floor is angled in that image and idk how it would be because of the bathtub

[mystic tundra]

more space as well

[winged spire]

Since I didn’t chose to live In a desert I’ve got all the water in the world to waste 😂

[mystic tundra]

i’d just be careful with slipping

[rough socket]

it would be 2 degrees and to the left, this image is probably an unreal showroom, and the baththub usually would have it's base not be angled

[winged spire]

My friend is legally required to use water saving spigots and shit and it’s horrible

[echo sluice]

Where is that

[winged spire]

Not a single California resident has a good shower experience (assuming they comply with the rules)

[echo sluice]

How do you even enforce that

[rough socket]

I have something like that in my house, without the toilet

[alpine gale]

To be clear, walkability can be better for those who live in a big city, but that also depends on where you live in said city. Some have good public transit and connected pedestrian infrastructure, but many have gaps in both that make it simpler to drive than it is to walk or bike. If your public transit vehicles (bus, train, tram, etc.) get stuck in traffic, you've designed your city / infrastructure incorrectly.

[winged spire]

All the faucets you can buy in the state come with I would assume

[echo sluice]

what if you order one from outside of the state

[winged spire]

It’s some stupid little diverter thing near the aerator

[winged spire]

I mean yeah you’re able to break laws

[echo sluice]

lol i mean i guess the better question is, is it even enforced

[rough socket]

I live in toulouse, france, almost every road has a bus lane and 1 or 2 bike lanes, we also have a tramway and subway

[echo sluice]

sounds like a well planned city

[alpine gale]

And I bet your buses / trains / trams arrive at each stop every 10-20 minutes, on average?

[winged spire]

It’s copilot so grain of salt but

[fossil creek]

Yo what’s up

[winged spire]

Something along these lines

[echo sluice]

[rough socket]

Look at how small it is for cars lol

[winged spire]

But yeah, don’t choose to build your city in a desert and you won’t have water issues 😅

There’s a LOT of fresh water to go around

[echo sluice]

i mean the city probably wasnt created intentionally

[rough socket]

subway is <2min at peak hours, bus probably 5 and tramways less than 5 ?

Heavily depends on the location and hour but yeah

[winged spire]

We shouldn’t of built a single thing in like Arizona

No reason to ever subject people to that

[rough socket]

My city, and it's the center of it

[winged spire]

https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.iKEXeXd0FjkzRdSvGal1BQHaFj?dpr=3&pid=ImgDetMain&o=7&rm=3

My city center:

[vapid smelt]

Looks like communism

[winged spire]

Actually insane bro 😂

[rose horizon]

I have to do better with drinking water. I drink too much iced coffee

[winged spire]

Iced coffee is 99% water

[rough socket]

lmao why
tbh france is probably one of the closest country to non-dictatorial communism

[winged spire]

You’re fine

[vapid smelt]

We all know no cars= communism/s

[vapid smelt]

So is diet soda

[winged spire]

Yep

Diet soda is more water than non diet soda

[rough socket]

Oh
Well all the commies joke don't talk to me much as an european, we don't view communism as a bad thing here, we even have a communist political party that's totally legit and normal

So i didn't know this kind of joke

[winged spire]

Bad policing is not exclusive to the US

[rose horizon]

I’m on a weight loss journey though and cutting out caffeine helps

[winged spire]

I need to lose more weight

Honestly my bigger issue is probably my resting heart rate lol .. it’s very high

I think that’s because of my adderal and caffeine though lol

Cannabis also increase your heart rate so who knows

[rough socket]

Stop cannabis and start doing some sport

[rose horizon]

I’m debating on whether to career transition to the medical field or tech so my heart rate is gonna be cooked from the stress

[winged spire]

No

[rose horizon]

Just kidding. I don’t get stressed a ton unless it’s really bad

[rough socket]

tech is stress free

[winged spire]

Idk why people want a stress free job

[rose horizon]

That’s not what I’ve read on Reddit about help desk experiences lol

[winged spire]

Can’t imagine doing something so boring for 40 hours a week

[rough socket]

Don't do help desk then

[winged spire]

Give me the exciting stuff

[rough socket]

Don't work for 40h 😉

[echo sluice]

For years

[chilly egret]

Lot of people dont manage stress well lol

[winged spire]

I would prefer to work more than 40 but not many companies let me

[rough socket]

Why lol

[winged spire]

• More money

And I love engineering

[rough socket]

I'm earning my life well enough so that I prefer working less at this point

[rose horizon]

What are some other good entry level roles then? I have a BA degree even though it’s not tech related and I help run a small business, I need a cert and side projects, just need to figure out what to get a cert in and which side projects to build

[winged spire]

What degree

[rough socket]

i have strictly no idea how the US market work so can't help

[winged spire]

For like tech support / IT? Geek squad is a good job ngl

[echo sluice]

Why do I want to do everything that I usually dont want to do when I need to study

[winged spire]

Decent pay, good upward mobility

Good benefits

Managers make over 6 figures

If you actually like doing tech support I guess

[twin raft]

Dude same

I once was with a company that didn't care and let me slave away, I did 72.5 hours for a few months

I was actually happier, money was good

[winged spire]

Yeah absolutely

[rough socket]

You can't do that for years

[winged spire]

You wouldn’t have to

[twin raft]

Now I'm just hovering around 40-50 a week

Yeah, he gets it

[rough socket]

I'm working like 4-5h per week currently lol

at most

100% WFH too

[winged spire]

I been thinking about just signing like 6 months or a year of my life away and working at some oil fields or something

LONG hours and you’re in employee housing on some shithole dusty plains but the pay is just absurd

[rough socket]

You'll lose your girl

[twin raft]

I was thinking about that too

But in the mines

You get like over 150k a year

[winged spire]

I wouldn’t be doing the dangerous stuff, idk if I’d want to work on a well lol

on site engineer

Louisiana has a ton of oil industry as you can imagine

I think it would be cool to work on an ocean platform but fuck no I’ve seen deepwater horizon

[rose horizon]

Poli sci. My parents wanted me to go to law school and forced me to be the stereotypical prodigy that graduated college early

[winged spire]

I guess you can transfer your general education credits over if you wanted to pursue a degree you’ll see a return on 😅

[rose horizon]

Half way through my freshman year I didn’t want to go to law school because I’d be in a lot more debt and have a hard time breaking into the field because California field for legal work is oversaturated

[rose horizon]

That’s what I’m thinking. I could also get an job in the medical field with a cert and then move into IT in a hospital before going back for a degree in cybersecurity or go for an forensic science/biology related degree

[winged spire]

Just don’t get a business degree

Whatever you do

[rose horizon]

I wouldn’t do that in a million years

[winged spire]

I’ve got one business major friend and his homework is literally coloring

It’s so embarrassing 😭

Like he will be given a completed graph and he has to color in the different parts 😂

[vapid smelt]

[winged spire]

Forensic biology is pretty neat

Is there a massive demand for that though 🤔

I can imagine it’s probably not a massive field?

[vapid smelt]

For adults that can color graphs?

:p

[winged spire]

I hate biology personally, absolutely grosses me out

I can’t even watch medical shows lol

[winged spire]

Look how fast “administration” positions are growing

[vapid smelt]

Chat should dm aquatic a picture of my open stomach, for 5 gifted subs I will

[winged spire]

It’s insane

[rustic tundra]

and there is me who plays games with gore with a straight face

[rose horizon]

I love anything politics/history and science related

[winged spire]

games are whatever

I turn gore to the max

[rustic tundra]

i dont get disgusted by real blood either

seen enough drip out of my nose

[winged spire]

I just don’t wanna see 4k ultra HD macro shots of like someone slicing open a throat to do a tracheotomy or whatever

It’s not blood that’s the issue

[oak pier]

If i know it’s real blood/gore, then i get grossed out, but when i know it’s fake, like medical dramas and games, i don’t normally get grossed out

[winged spire]

Or like when they have just intentionally gross shit

[rustic tundra]

i dont get grossed out by any

[winged spire]

Like parasites and stuff in medical shows

[oak pier]

Yep, no thank you

I don’t like being intentionally grossed out by media

[winged spire]

There’s this one house episode with this guy that had like a 30 foot tapeworm and them pulling it out and stuff just 🤮🤮🤮

Obviously it’s fake but

[vapid smelt]

Thank you for the 5 gifted subs Steve!

[winged spire]

I like viruses and stuff, only part of biology I really find interesting

Love pandemic movies and whatnot

[vapid smelt]

When is the us housing market going to crash i want a 2 bed 1 bath house for $150k

[winged spire]

It’s crazy how much people over reacted to the Covid restrictions, being asked to maybe please not travel somewhere if you don’t need to is not the same as the government locking your town down and forcibly keeping you inside

If there’s ever a REALLY bad pandemic we are fucked

[vapid smelt]

Sweden had no lock down

[winged spire]

Nobody is going to let a real quarantine happen irl

Unfortunately

[rustic tundra]

cpu riddle, i am mobile, got only 2 cores, less than a decade old but struggle to run windows 10, what am i?

[oak pier]

People got pissy about quarantining a single cruise ship, we’re so fucked if anything significant happens

[winged spire]

What happened to the Americans

They all ended up going to quarantine huh?

Some media was reporting they didn’t have to

Like 13 Americans or something

[vapid smelt]

We should've done the Sweden method and up it up a notch and had all the young healthy people party outside among another for 2 weeks and kept all the at risk people locked up. Boom heard immunity in under a month :p

[oak pier]

Some under strict quarantine, some just being monitored

41 total, 18 under strict quarantine

[winged spire]

Absolutely everyone potentially infected should be quarantined for the 8 weeks

Hantavirus is very bad

Inb4 that guy that thinks it’s not an issue if you workout joins in

[vapid smelt]

Isn't it like a 70% death rate

[winged spire]

~40%

Idk what age bracket I guess

Covid it was like 5% if you’re over 55 or something

[vapid smelt]

For covid I was more likely to die from a car accident

[winged spire]

It wouldn’t take much at all for a virus to absolutely fuck the US

Like you wouldn’t need some crazy really unlikely super virus

[vapid smelt]

Polio will take over again

[winged spire]

We got “lucky” with Covid in the sense of it’s low mortality rate

It overwhelmed hospitals but that’s because the sheer number of people infected

[vapid smelt]

Wonder how many healthy adults went to the hospital for covid when they didn't really need to

Like oops I posted positive let's go to the ER

[winged spire]

Then they go without a mask and in a crowded ER waiting room

Another reason I don’t like hospitals lol 😂

[vapid smelt]

While talking to the front desk asking why the wait is so long

[silver sun]

841

[placid hearth]

Just read this banger of a line from my accounting textbook

Additionally, some companies require their employees to make deposits for the return of keys or other company property.
UHM ESCUSE ME?!?!?

there's employers out there making employees give them non interest-bearing money for critical work equipment?!?

what fresh hell is this?!?!?!?

[oak pier]

No fucking way

When i got my work keys all i had to do was sign my life away, no money involved

If i lost my keys tomorrow they’d have to rekey like 30 doors

[winged spire]

Always the business majors 🫠

[hollow token]

I don't have key necessary equipment but they just gave me a laptop I have minimal privilege to

[oak pier]

I have keys that can open just about every door in the business, short of the literal safe

[elfin jetty]

https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-lithium-refinery-texas/

https://tenor.com/view/batman-thinking-gif-18107621495886085895

Tesla? Doing shady shit? Who could have guessed

[crystal flare]

I've been using brave and I've noticed in the evening it runs slower. Tested browsing on Firefox and no issues.

[hollow token]

Weird. Wonder why the time of day matters

[gilded quest]

Lol what do people believe now?

Chugging protein powder = immunity???

[winged spire]

The state didnt test for heavy metals?

idk why id expect regulators to be competent

everything else came back within the permit and then they just didnt test for heavy metals

[elfin jetty]

wonder why....

[plucky thorn]

I love heavy metal 🤘

[winged spire]

explains a lot

idk why the article only included a reference point for 2 of the tests

is 1.17mg/L of strontium actually a relevant amount?

what does "abnormally high" mean

1.17mg/L of strontium is significantly under the EPA's limit of 1500ug/L

[plucky thorn]

What do you mean?

[gusty leaf]

shout out to duckduckgo

google would never

[hollow token]

Gonna start jumping off increasingly taller ledges until I can jump off the empire state building unscathed

[gusty leaf]

that's more or less what army jump school is for the most part

I never went but I knew a few people who did and you're basically just jumping off boxes forever

[hollow token]

Ill be the first person to do it

[gusty leaf]

it's less about learning how to jump than it is learning how to fall

[winged spire]

your busted knees are not service related

no money for you

[gusty leaf]

oh I was a lazy reservist in the navy

5 years and peaced out

[hollow token]

I should've armied

Or national guard at the least. They pay your college tuition

[gusty leaf]

never went to college either, I just threw "military veteran" on my resume and rode it for as long as I possibly could

[hollow token]

I wasn't sure what to do post hs

So I just eh fuck it cs

[winged spire]

I dont like being owned by the government so probably not gonna join

[uncut aurora]

Hello

[winged spire]

national guard does keep texting me about paying my tuition 100% then also paying me a couple grand a month for like 1 weekend a month and a week in the summer

that would be nice

[hollow token]

I take it you skipped your ss# registration?

[patent violet]

[pliant karma]

A wild Rouing has appeared

[plucky thorn]

What do you mean by that?

[pine slate]

Hello everyone decided to finally join and im wondering if i may have to much storage. Used for mostly games and 3d modeling. 14TB all together

[tough palm]

Seems fairly well organized. Other than the nondistinct lack of any backups

[alpine gale]

Once can never have "too much" storage. See /r/DataHoarder

[pine slate]

How would one go about setting up a backup considering i just installed the 4TB drive so id have enough space for atleast windows and major 3d projects. Games saves arent terribly important to me with everything being minimally saved to steam cloud

[tough palm]

Idk just duplicate the important stuff to have at least 2 copies. You can use "freefilesync" for that. It does checksumming

[wide igloo]

does ram oc boost fps

[hollow token]

Not really

If your processor is processing quicker than your ram can table relevant information from the hard drive i guess? But youre better off ocing the cpu and getting it as cold as possible

[plucky thorn]

You can never have too much storage

it's impossible

[dim agate]

well whats the G drive about

[blissful kraken]

Ultimate gaming setup

[brisk tendon]

pee pee

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

build my new pc and need to activate windows...

[near nymph]

get a key from a dodgy site or use the good old microsoft support trick

[white finch]

microsoft support trick?

[rose horizon]

Being sick is the pits

[pliant leaf]

so how long until ticket scalpers learn to use google's ticket agent to scam people automatically?

it would be extremely easy to trick the slop machine into believing a website is legitimately selling tickets

[gleaming cove]

How is it going to be any different from what's happening right now?

[pliant leaf]

it would happen automatically

[gleaming cove]

No. that was just for the video
Instead of going to the app to click "Buy tickets", it would act as an agent and do it for you. You still have to tap the final confirmation after checking the Price, venue and time details.

[pliant leaf]

and you wouldn't even get a ticket

[pliant leaf]

so basically it's useless because it doesn't actually instantly buy a ticket?

having to wait for user confirmation nullifies the point of having a bot wait for you in line

[gleaming cove]

It does everything for you, but you have to provide the final confirmation with a manual tap or probably a voice instruction (for the money to go through).

[pliant leaf]

does "what"

ticket websites don't allow for reserving tickets

you would have to pre-authorize it

and if you pre-authorize it it's liable to find a fake website and give your money to whoever

[gleaming cove]

It does whatever you currently do before buying a ticket for anything. The payment window is at the last right? It does everything on it's own TILL the payment window. There, it stops and asks for your permission to continue, and when you say yes, it continues with the payment.

[gleaming cove]

I'm sure Google would only use that with supported websites or apps. I doubt they'll allow Gemini to book random tickets from random websites. It would be easy to sue them when gemini messes up

[pliant leaf]

if we lived in a world where AI companies were legally liable they would have already been atomized by IP and copyright law, but they bought every government that matters

• their vision for the internet is explicitly one where an agent has control over your credit card

[gleaming cove]

They're screwing over other companies and copyright holders, not their individual customers (except for customer data). If a customer got scammed by an AI agent, where it went and bought fake tickets from a fake website and lost all their money, google would have a lot of things to worry about.

[winged spire]

If you give ChatGPT the ability to make purchases you shouldnt be able to sue OpenAI for it ngl

That’s on you

[pliant leaf]

yes and no

[winged spire]

Personal responsibility is dead 🤷

[gleaming cove]

It would be easier to pause ChatGPT at the payments screen, where it displays an overview of what it is purchasing, and then give you an option to proceed with the payment.

[winged spire]

I posted my credit card details on Twitter and someone took all my money, this is Twitter’s fault for letting me post my credit card members !!

[pliant leaf]

they could probably make it a point in the EULA that they are not responsible for the accuracy of the purchase but it would conflict with their marketing material and that would be legally problematic, at least in EU where marketing is actually regulated

[gleaming cove]

But twitter never claims that it will keep your credit card details safe if you provide that to it. Twitter specifically says whatever you post is your responsibility.
If you provide your details to an AI agent, that claims that it will be used for agentic tasks like booking tickets for you, you expect to receive a ticket at the end of that booking and money to not be misused.

[winged spire]

Does google say they guarantee it to make correct purchases?

Or will they say “may make mistakes, verify information” at the bottom like literally every other AI product

[gleaming cove]

Since it pauses before the payments screen and provides an overview, and also shows how much it costs, it is safe. If it did it automatically, they're screwed.

If I got a screen saying "Seats A-2, A-3"
Cost: "$5000"
And then I click on Proceed, that's on me. If the AI did that automatically, then that's on the AI

[winged spire]

Nope

[plush grotto]

AI should NEVER be able to do the last transaction steps.

It can do everything apart from buying.

Preferably a 2fa system

[alpine gale]

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” IBM coined this decades ago. Only humans can be held responsible for decisions that computers make on our behalf.

[gleaming cove]

AI is just providing a better front end. We still have to do the final transaction steps. We just click the "Proceed with payment" button

[rough socket]

I watched la la land with my wife recently, she cried and thought it was a sad ending
I thought it was a happy bittersweet ending lol, am I dumb ?

[winged spire]

Humans are sometimes held accountable

[alpine gale]

Absolutely. We're only responsible if someone makes us that way, or we have a genuine consciousness about our lives and those around us.

[neat gull]

Dumb mf on marketplace thought I was gonna give him a gift card code for free before he payed 🤦

what kind of logic is this

[winged spire]

Yall see the car that blew up in wall street

[neat gull]

No

[plush grotto]

Not big enough news to reach Norway

[winged spire]

One of the more violent car fires I’ve seen

[plush grotto]

oh that one, got a reel about it

[winged spire]

Gas car, of course

It always is

[plush grotto]

Hydrogen?

[winged spire]

Gasoline

[plush grotto]

Ahh

Oh yeah that's right, you call a liquid gas.

[winged spire]

RAV4

[plush grotto]

But EV fires are worse, insert this image.

Meanwhile I'm sitting in a underground carpark filled with 70% EV's

[winged spire]

So it COULD have been the hybrid model

The hybrid model has a 1.6kwh NiMH battery, so extremely tiny and not even lithium based

[plush grotto]

ITS AN EV!! electric car bad!!!!!

It has battery

Cars shouldn't have battery

they should be Burning fuel

They should be using the bones of dinosaurs.

Welp, time to unplug the car and drive back home.

[rough socket]

But they'll say that it's always the EV that catch fire 😢

One funny thing would be to go to a muscle car subreddit or smth and post this saying "yet another EV that catch fire" and laugh at the reactions lol

[hollow token]

Lithium adjacent explosions are always disastrous like this

We've had to invent new firefighting techniques to the battery

Im seeing no definite explanations of why it decided to explode other than electrical fault

[hollow token]

You saying this makes me wonder how much of a disaster it'll be when we eventually have the news story a car park full of evs exploded, chain reaction style

[plush grotto]

We have had 3 fires the last few year in car parks. All 3 of them have been diesel cars

[hollow token]

Yeah diesels are rough mfers too. They're awful to watch runaway

Although, if everyone is from a safe distance, a diesel car experiencing runaway is entertaining to watch

[plush grotto]

@hollow token 1300 cars destroyed because of a diesel car.

[mystic tundra]

although there are way more combustion vehicles on roads worldwide

[hollow token]

Damn I guess it already happened
https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3350032/large-fire-breaks-out-chinese-electric-vehicle-company-byds-parking-garage-shenzhen
Thankfully it was a warehouse full of defunct EVs, and not a parking garage, but still

[mystic tundra]

15-20 diesel or gasoline failing are equivalent to one EV failing on the road roughly

as there are like 15-20x more combustion vehicles than there are EVs

[mystic tundra]

i’m always for renewables as long they’re actually better for the planet

you need to account for material extraction, material and part transportation, processing, the stores trying to sell you the cars

[hollow token]

An 8 year old ev is better than a new gas car

[mystic tundra]

yeah but i see people rarely buy these

sadly

[plush grotto]

US numbers.

[hollow token]

True

[mystic tundra]

manufacturers would looove you to buy their cars every 2-3 years

EV or not

[hollow token]

Damn those hybrid numbers

[mystic tundra]

wt is wrong with those hybrids

[plush grotto]

No idea, and why the fuck is Sweden in the picture.

[mystic tundra]

didn’t know EVs catch that much less on fire than ice

[plush grotto]

They catch much less on fire, it's just they burn MORE

[mystic tundra]

oh

i wonder how the numbers will look like in 10 years

[hollow token]

Itll just get better for evs

[mystic tundra]

well, you don’t know in 10 years there’ll be more old EVs which could be more susceptible to spontageous battery flames

[plush grotto]

EV fires are more of a pain in the ass to extinguish than others since the batteries are producing oxygen when burning.

[mystic tundra]

or might not be

[hollow token]

I guess battery swelling will be a variable in them

[mystic tundra]

water extinguishers actually help lithium ion react faster

lithium just happens to really like to steal h2o

[plush grotto]

Something something lithium burns hot AF and feeds the fire

[rustic tundra]

lithium feeds itself

[oak pier]

lithium feeds me, it's so yummy

[mortal kraken]

Spicy pillow ;3

[dense blade]

Mobile phones at their finest

[shut lichen]

Helps not having a big tank of burny stuff that gets pumped through rubber lines up to things that get very hot

[rough socket]

Probably because EV cars catch fires :/

[plush grotto]

Because a diesel car caught fire

[rough socket]

It was a joke lol

I know that EV cars are 100x less likely to catch fire

Which when you take 0.1s to think is obvious

ICE are literally MADE to explode things with super highly volatile combustible lmao

[plush grotto]

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/s/V8azYhs5CL

And yet when a car is burning it's "typical EV"

[rough socket]

Yeah people are so mind controlled it's insane

[plush grotto]

For that car park fire before it was known that it was an older diesel people rallied to ban EV's from parking garages

[rough socket]

I really have NO idea how someone could think that something that literally explodes thousands of time per minute could be less likely to catch fire than a battery+motor

[plush grotto]

The misunderstanding is that because it burns better it also means it burns more often.

[rough socket]

In my town / region the only EV fires I've ever heard about in the last few years was .... people burning teslas after musk did his hand "gesture" lol

[plush grotto]

That's the entire thing I believe

[rough socket]

People had to put on the back of the car "i bought the car before musk went insane" lmao

[plush grotto]

I'm going to search car fire and post the first result

[rough socket]

Well you'll probably get the wall street one from this morning

or last day

[rough socket]

12 tesla fires

I wonder if they are added in the stats lol

Since they are criminal fire targeted specifically to EV cars

[plush grotto]

Difference on arson and oops

[plush grotto]

Still not reached the news here

[slender lark]

arson happens
oops happens too

[plush grotto]

👀 prices for the new Cupra Raval has been revealed.
Starting at $27k

https://www.cupra.com/en/cars/raval

[slender lark]

electric?

[plush grotto]

Of course

[slender lark]

my cupra didnt have option to become electric

while costed more

[plush grotto]

Only the electric cupras are on the market here. That explains why i said "of course" didn't even know they did ICE

[slender lark]

thats like 3 or 4 models only

[slender lark]

while we have 8 cupra models here

[plush grotto]

An ICE wouldn't do well here since we have a 98% EV sales rate

[slender lark]

what does ICE even mean

[plush grotto]

Internal combustion engine

Diesel or benzine

[slender lark]

i thought you meant the ICE of usa

because there was something like that

[slender lark]

norway or finland then

[plush grotto]

Norway.

[slender lark]

in my country its hard to see a electric car

[calm swan]

the only ones you see here are teslas

occasionally a rivian, merc, or bmw

but mostly tesla

[plush grotto]

Top 10 in Norway

[calm swan]

thing is i’m uninterested in buying an EV 🤷‍♂️

or really any modern car

[slender lark]

i mostly saw teslas
few cupras
and few other brands

[split swift]

Same

[winged spire]

https://x.com/interesting_ail/status/2057233730939314514?s=46

Interesting AF (@interesting_aIl)

An injection that can double a cat’s lifespan to 30 years has been developed

Clinical trials have begun, with regulatory approval projected in 2027

X · May 20, 2026, 10:55 PM

[slender lark]

does it work on dogs

[split swift]

It says for cats, so no

[boreal void]

Do we have any pokémon game collectors here?
Found a copy Pokémon Black that seems to be legit, but the sellers claims that it's a repo

[magic cloak]

can i post pics here

[slender lark]

maybe yes maybe not

[twin raft]

Damn so much effort wasted on so many garbage vehicles

If only we spent that effort and money elsewhere

[rough socket]

On what

[plush grotto]

Wdym?

[magic cloak]

so yes

[twin raft]

The cars in the picture

[twin raft]

The cars

[rough socket]

No where do you want to pour this effort

[plush grotto]

And what is wrong there?

[slender lark]

give the money to me

[twin raft]

Literally anywhere else, healthcare, recycling, housing market, reducing emissions in factories and power plants

Anywhere else

[twin raft]

They all belong in a scrapyard

[plush grotto]

Healthcare - we have that.
Recycling - we got that too.
Housing market - it's there....
Reducing emissions- yep, we do that as well.

[twin raft]

It's not there tho, none of them

[slender lark]

reducing ram price

[plush grotto]

Not in the Uneducated States of America.

[rough socket]

While this line of thoughts is cool it applies to basically everything

Also, most countries solved quite well most of what you've cited lmao

[twin raft]

NHS England, you want back surgery because you're dying from the pain? Okay, £40,000 or wait 4 years

[rough socket]

Not the 3rd world country that is the US sure

[twin raft]

Yeah the us is fucked

[rough socket]

I had back surgery 2-3y ago, paid 0€

[plush grotto]

@rough socket hey. Let's base the entire world on 1 countrys issues and make sure those issues apply to other countries.

[rough socket]

And speaking of reducing emission, EV do reduce emission so at least it's not the worse thing to do

[twin raft]

Yeah we do have healthcare here too, but the waiting list is incredibly logn

[twin raft]

Do they do?

[rough socket]

You need a ... list ?

I just go to the doc/hospital and that's it

[white finch]

hi give visa

[twin raft]

Let's mine lithium in Canada, then let's transport 1000s of tonnes of it on a big cargo ship to china so we can build them, then let's ship those tonnes of cars on another cargo ship to whichever country they go to

[rough socket]

Yes people/media saying otherwise are just manipulated by oil lobby

There are plenty of studies, and they do take into account cleanness of the electricity and manufacturing and recycling/landfilling

[twin raft]

That process alone burns more emissions than ev car does good

[rough socket]

Studies take into account that

[rough socket]

This is false

[twin raft]

Alright well, I respect what you're saying, taking into account what you've said. If this is the case, then either way EV cars just aren't there

[plush grotto]

If I need healthcare I call my doctor, schedule an appointment.
If emergency same day, if it can wait next day or next week.
Say I need help, he looks at it and says okay. Il schedule a hospital visit.
2 weeks later im at the hospital getting an ingrown nail sorted.

[plush grotto]

"EV's just aren't there" still living in 2016 are we?

[twin raft]

UK:

Doctor I'm in pain, please

Aaah I don't see anything, you're fine

Repeat process 10 times

Alright fine here's a date 8 months away

[twin raft]

No 2026 and as good as they've gotten, they're just not as good as a hybrid or a normal car

[plush grotto]

Not every country is as fucked as UK is

[twin raft]

Nah America is worse tbh, but this is the price we pay for free healthcare

[plush grotto]

What is "not as good"?

[rough socket]

Yeah well EV do have problems I agree
Those problems are just most of the time NOT what anti-EV people are saying, and funny thing ... the problems are probably worse than what they say lmao

Like the biggest problem is ... how do people leaving in big buildings/flats and no garage charge their car lol ? Yeah they can go to charging station but that's bothersome

But people saying it's less ecological : false/lies
People saying the autonomy is a problem: in europe at least it's not, idk about the usa since everything is so big
People saying charging time is a problem : no it's not at all, over the course of 1y people with ICE cars will spend like 10 times the time pouring gas into their car lol
People saying they are not reliable nor durable: multiple stats show otherwise, EV aren't that new anymore we have lots of them for 10y+ and lots of km on them

[plush grotto]

An EV is sure as hell better to drive it's more comfortable to drive and its easier to drive

[rough socket]

And there is less friction to drive it, never having to go pour gas in it is so nice

[twin raft]

I can drive across England by spending 5 minutes to fuel up my car, and I won't have to stop once. EVs just don't have that kind of range and no matter how fast charging gets it's still not 2-5 minutes as it is with a normal car. I hate the way they look, they have no sound and all of them come with 49 inch ultrawide monitors inside, track every single little movement or thing I do

[rough socket]

Just come home, plug it, that's it

[twin raft]

Easier, yeah, comfortable nah

I drive an EV in work, I still prefer my own car

But that's leather seats over cheap foam seats so

[rough socket]

You have enough range so that after driving said range you will need a pause, and by the time you'll go pee or whatever the car will be charged

That's it

[plush grotto]

We base the entirety of better because of the 30 minute charge

Such a typical anti EV POV.

[twin raft]

30 minutes is 25 minutes longer than I can tolerate for fueling up my car

And chargers cost money at your house and also can't always have them installed

[rough socket]

it's not 30min

I NEVER charged my tesla for 30min lol

Absolutely never ever done that

Also, while you fuel your car for 5min, i charge my car 5min while drinking a coffee, stretching my legs, going to pee

[plush grotto]

The average charge time is between 20-45 minutes