Yeah I hate fake nerds on TV. Big Bang Theory being the absolute worst.

Obligatory Portlandia Nerd PSA (invidious link)

I grew up with actual nerds in the 89s and 90s. No one was like Big Bang Theory. We were not cool.

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I’m going have to agree with this.

There are plenty of trash-ass wrestlers to equate this trash-ass UFC fighter to. Macho Man Randy Savage is not one of them.

I’m 50 years old.

Most of my life alcohol has just been there and had never been a problem for me. I just drank alcohol when appropriate. As I got older and had kids and a house and responsibilities, having a cocktail in the evening was a nice treat that I felt like I deserved. Still no problem. To me I had a normal relationship with alcohol.

Then I started on a GLP-1 med a few years ago. And I stopped wanting alcohol. Was I an alcoholic all that time? I really don’t know. I definitely looked forward to that evening cocktail…was I addicted to drinking alcohol? I just didn’t see it that way and assumed I had complete control. But now I question it.

Man I’d love to have an entire drawer of different kimchis in my fridge.

Do young people make their own kimchi and store it in the drawer, or do most go buy it premade and stock the drawer?

We have some really good stores now in my part of the southeastern US where I can get pretty much any kimchi imaginable, which means I have stacks of round plastic containers in my fridge.

I learned about Korean kimchi in my teens. It was one of those things that white American people would talk about while eating mashed potatoes.

Apparently Korean people would bury cabbage in their backyard and then leave it there for a month and then dig it up and eat it!

Now I have kimchi 2-3 times a week. My favorite weekend breakfast is over-easy eggs with jasmine rice and kimchi, with a little soy sauce, sesame oil, and sriracha.

Oh Snap! Y’all got slammed, son!

I’m not paying $640k for that thing for other reasons. What the hell was Ferrari thinking? Are they trying to make the ugliest Ferrari ever so they can say “see, nobody wants and EV”?

Is that some kind of gotcha or something?

The average car buyer does not want to buy an expensive EV just to have an EV and will buy a $40k Toyota Sienna before they buy a $60k VW ID.Buzz.

Pretty easy to grasp…It’s not rocket surgery. Make affordable EVs and not upmarket EVs and people will buy them. China figured that out.

Make it affordable and I’ll buy one tomorrow.

Let’s talk VW specific. I would absolutely love an ID.Buzz. But you made the fucking thing SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

This confirms that they know. They know where the timeline split.

That’s the rub. They don’t even say “we are cutting workforce to invest in AI”, they say “we are cutting workforce because we’ve already replaced people with AI”, which they have not. They’re just such hype driven buffoons that they actually believe that LLMs are going to easily replace the people they just cut in their hubris.

Saying they’ve cut people to invest in AI is actually a little more honest because it admits that they haven’t actually already succeeded.

What of you’re in IT and are ready to leave but don’t like gardening or woodworking?

I still like electricity. Maybe I can be a part time electrician.

Faith No More’s cover of War Pigs is so much better than the original Black Sabbath version.

Marketing BS. The bad part is all the C-Suites falling for it.

I agree. The word “literally” was literally perfect. It was a binary descriptor. Other people’s poor vocabulary ruined it, not the people who used it correctly.

Once I found out that that the definition of literally has literally been changed to “literally, but sometimes figuratively”, I’ve switched to objectively and subjectively when describing things, which aren’t quite the same but I literally don’t have a word anymore that means literally.

So instead of literally you could use objectively. I like that no one is going to use objectively as slang because it’s kind of a clunky, obtuse word that doesn’t literally roll off the tongue.

Unfortunately we will always have problems explaining to people how to use the right tool for the right job.

The old “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” saying still applies.

Using LLMs to automate your social media is dumb as shit and I don’t understand why people are doing that. It is actively destroying social media. Which may be the natural end-state of a social media platform. Isn’t that why most of us are on Lemmy right now? Because of the state of Reddit and Xitter?

Also, generative AI making art and music and literature is dumb as shit too. Why would you make an AI that does the fun stuff that humans actually want to do? I can’t wait to have AI finish playing BioShock for me…

We also have “the Internet” slurping up massive amounts of energy.

Current Global Electricity Breakdown:

• Total Data Center/Infrastructure Demand: Approximately 2.0% of global electricity.
• AI-Specific Share: Roughly 0.5% of global electricity.
• “Traditional” Internet/Cloud: Roughly 1.5% of global electricity.

The Internet is also a tool that humanity uses. Should we shut that down too? (I would argue yes considering how the “Information Superhighway” somehow made the average person dumber, but that’s a different discussion.)