I can’t imagine homeschooling. Not that I think it’s bad but that it has to be so hard to do. And harder still to do it right.

Glad you pulled out of that course. PragerU is hot garbage and I hate how my autocorrect apparently knows PragerU and didn’t try to change it to something else.

How hard do you find it to homeschool? How many hours do you reckon it takes a day?

Video of a skateboarder skating off a roof of a church (I think. It was a multi tiered roof with at least two tiers church). Pretty sure the guy falls when he hits the ground. The roofing tiles were those red brown half circle shingles they have in the south western United States.

It’s an old video probably from 2005ish. I have no idea what site it was from. And now that I think about it he might have been a roller blader. It’s been a long time since I’ve looked but I could find it for the life of me when I was trying to find it again

Sports game based around cheating (including murdering opponents) and covering it up could be fun

There were more than one person using different techniques to screw with the LLM bots. Haven’t seen anyone but them personally in a whole. I think they also mentioned their job or hobbies include something with old language.

I highly doubt changing a couple characters screws with the data scraping much. Or that it matters if it does but I also understand wanting to protect your own thoughts and words.

I loved coin pushers as a child. More so than every other gambling game in arcades.

I still like coin pushers. The few times I’ve been to arcades (the non good kinds) I’ve had fun with the coin pushers. Not the same fun as a child but still.

Most of the coin pushers on steam suck. Coin Push RPG is halfway decent. I’ve played enough to get my money’s worth.

I have this game wishlisted. I’m sure it won’t be the same as a kid but hopefully the extras will make it fun.

As a side note on the gambling thing, I sometimes play the lottery but I definitely have a problem with gambling. I stay away from real gambling as a rule. I know myself.

I’ve owned this game for a long time. Never can get into it. Bounced off limbus company too

Got more time in library of runia but not much. It’s a shame because the world of the games really draws me in.

Was AI not outlawed in the expanse?

I haven’t watched/read it in a while but that was my understanding. Maybe I’m thinking of a different series

Edit: Nevermind I looked it up and am wrong

Pretty sure outside of scifi circles it’s niche. I can think of maybe two people I know that may possibly have heard of it.

At least in the US. It must have been more popular across the ocean

The audiobooks gave a real sense of loneliness and not fitting in/trying to find a place.

I loved them but probably will never revisit them.

Was reading the text like that too? I ask because I rarely read actual novels anymore and wonder how much the narration colored it for me.

I absolutely adored sliders when it was on tv. Glad that you enjoyed it after learning about it somewhat recently.

The nineties reboot of outer limits was also something I very much enjoyed. I bet some episodes hold up. Not a show like sliders but had some decent 90s scifi in it if I remember right.

“because AI reads that ads also” is fucking funny

You’d think summarizing just the article is something a LLM could do. Ah well

There was also a study going around claiming that llms caused cancer screenings by humans to decrease in accuracy. I’m not a scientist but I’m pretty sure the sample size was super small and localized in one hospital?

Anyway maybe they’re remembering that in addition to the automatic AI hating down votes.

Not that I’m a fan of AI being shoved everywhere but this isn’t that

Oh gross

My parents have a garage full of junk. It used to drive me crazy. We have strong storms where we live and a tree/branches falling are a real possibility of damaging their cars. Plus hail storms sometimes.

It’s mainly my moms stuff. Some of it is worth money but it’s not being sold or anything.

If they used the garage as something other than storage it would be one thing. Instead it’s full of stuff for no real reason.

I was watching some TV with friend. Show on prime and on Hulu.

Both had ads. Granted they were far less than actual television is but I do not miss ads at all. They really spoil the experience. Especially for a paid service.

When money and power are funneled to the few then yes. Something more cooperative or democratic probably wouldn’t have the same intensity of the problem.

I think it’s only inevitable because of how our society is structured.

My autocorrect always tries to correct “its” to it’s" no matter the context

Holy crap that website is quick

That makes sense.

I was imagining individual people listening to his words. Having church leaders disseminate it makes it more powerful.

I haven’t gone to church in years and I freely admit I didn’t think my question all the way through before I asked it. Of course people will listen to what their clergy say. It’s kind of the point.

I’m not Catholic and live in the US

How much power does the Catholic Church and Pope really have anymore? I can’t remember the last time anyone has mentioned the Pope in my day to day life. Not that I’m around people that would talk about it much to begin with.