It dawned on my that my wife and I pay 30k a year to live in our house. I made 65k last year, the most I’ve ever made and the amount I told myself in Highschool that if I could get a job making that I’d be set. Feels like I’m still bussing tables at fucking Texas Roadhouse.

For context, im in tech and she’s in the arts. Combined we’re at about 110k a year. Wild that that feels like just scraping by.

The Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but the seed rarely grows near the rind.

“During this downtime we would be reestablishing access to the new domain (or hexbear.net if we win the auction), access to server ownership, and donation accounts.”

That’s from the We Fucked Up thread on Chapo.chat

so they seem to have had at least some intention of bidding, but that was when it was under 1k.

This is my cat. Her name is Uta and she hungers for the flesh of oligarchs.

I saw this one in Baltimore I believe! It was outside this coffee shop on some main strip. My wife and I were admiring its construction. It’s concrete and rebar and plaster. Super cool walking through.

Edit: I misremembered it was in Philadelphia

Whenever you want one! They’re not too expensive, between $12-$19 a year depending where you register it. I have a few I got just cause I thought it was a great name and maybe would do something with it some day.

For example: Iguanayawn.com

Hope it’s not against any rules to “market” or whatever, but I run a web hosting company, Genlack.com. Check it out if you decide to get a website up. We’d love to help you out! It’s just me and my dad, but we have 50 happy clients and you can host your own emails easy peasy.

Unless some tech bro pays 50k for the $100 nice boobie bill slabbed and authenticated.

PMG (Paper Money Guarantee) appraised and slabs paper notes like this. Same company that does cards and comics (CGC). Basically you pay them money and mail them your bills and a bunch of dudes in a dark room verify it’s authenticity and grade it’s condition. Niche collectors thing.

Well PMG grading is like $30 a note so… $130?

With no context whatsoever my first thought was it was one of those “uh oh, if the thermal paste is on my hand, then that must mean I accidentally put the cum on my cpu…”

I will be deleting this shortly I am sorry

Edit: Most upvotes I’ve gotten on Lemmy. Listen to the guy below. Live your truth, lemmings.

Thanks so much for the material! I’m going to comb through these tomorrow.

Oh I understand how they work, I actually made an AI chatbot for a client of mine. Now, to be fair, it was mostly just fiddling with and fine-tuning a prompt in a WordPress plugin. It’s called AI Engine by Meow Apps. Super cool plugin, but It was the most frustrating project of my life because despite being given clear and consistent instructions, and having a dedicated database to pull answer from, it still just made shit up. I set the temperature to .1 and it lost all personality and still made shit up.

Finally got it to a usable place where it basically was just walking the user through a quiz but, yeah, I definitely take it with a grain of salt lol

I get that, and for sure always need to verify it’s results, but SEO has turned looking information up into a slog of AI articles and lists.

I very rarely am able to find the answers to my questions anymore. And I say that as someone who has always joked that my job was a professional Googler. Whereas I used to be able to search key words or vague snippets of something from memory or lookup a hyper-specific question and find a solid answer within a couple minutes, now the first 2 pages are ads and “websites” with “articles” that are just vessels for more ads.

Using something like ChatGPT gets me a little closer to that old level of access. The hand that feeds I suppose…

Anyways, thanks for the tip. I’ll check it out!

Could you recommend any? I’ve been using ChatGPT and it’s been helpful, but I’d love something more specific to the task.

As an example, there was some kind of event happening downtown near me last night. Really bad traffic and roads closed. I tried figuring out what was going on. Checked the city’s site, the Facebook page, googled around, couldn’t find anything. I asked ChatGPT and it told me it was the annual Christmas parade that started at 7:30, it’s route, and where I could catch it from where I was. Say what you will about AI, but that was unbelievably helpful.

My theory is that it’s just that episode of Its Always Sunny from the new season. Dennis is placed on a customer service loop and eventually gets so frustrated with robot receptionists, scripted tier 1 support, and a system designed to waste our time and pit us against each other, that he tracks down the CEO of the car company at his beach house and rips his heart out of his chest and eats it.

So maybe someone should try that next time?

It’s just getting more and more hidden in Oblivion

I went to high school in Manassas and there was an interesting blend. Like you had yor ignorant, racist, seemingly country assholes, but their parents work in DC for the government and make 300k a year. The older generation seemed more liberal or old school “fiscal” Republican, but my generation seemed full of the pampered edgelord and entitled frat bros that eat up trumps garbage.

Black and White for sure. I still get nostalgic for that one.

Idk man. It’s been 10 years since this meme of a presidential candidate went too far. This might be normal now.

I swear to God I’m not trying to be a dick, but just so you know the phrase is “for all Intents and purposes.”