Older AI image generation be like

This reads like an LLM trying to impersonate a human who is trying to impersonate an early generation LLM.

And I am here for it.

Lmao, love those descriptions.

It was more the second one (tho I think the dose was small enough to miss the full jerked off effect).

But it also wasn’t a full “being put under” (they said they were aiming for a full under situation, but that they really just needed to “turn off” my sensitivity in some sensitive spots), and so I have at least a fuzzy memory of everything that happened along the way.

I’m not sure.

I want to say they gave me two stages of anesthetic, but I also think fentanyl was the first of the two stages (counter to what you’re saying should have happened). But also, I’m at best an amateur at chemistry; even less when it comes to medicine. That said, reasonably certain what they gave me was not milky nor did it burn going in (you’ll have to excuse me if I misremember any deets, it was my first time going under and I was irrationally nervous about it)

I could have some things mixed up, but it did stand out in my mind that they used fentanyl (and I remember how fuckin’ nice it felt when they threw it in my veins). But that’s how I remember it.

Came here to say this. Glad I was beaten to it.

Had a minor surgery earlier this year. They gave me fentanyl as the drug to put me under. Was hella surprised about it. Also I see why people love that shit so much.

But also for fentanyl’s danger, I think it comes down to how small a dose you need to hit the LD50/50 point is so low that you can hit it by accident without even trying. Street drugs are also being laced with Fentanyl and not in safe / well regulated doses. If you had a lab grade supplier, it’d probably be safer / easier to do safely…but I don’t think that’s what people are doing…

Yup, this (I feel) is one of the few areas where AI is valuable.

I’ve got a buddy who just got hired on at a large company as a software developer. Apparently their code base is so arcane and in such unusual frameworks that they recently fed all their documentation to an LLM and are using that to help onboard new employees (vs trying to have experts try to train up people personally).

While I think having a clean and clear codebase should have been their priority, patching it over with an AI teacher is far from the worst solution.

I’m mostly cool with it because they disclosed it was AI up front. Its also a summarization (vs OC), so even if it isn’t exactly correct it probably just mixed up a year/dollar value pairing at worst.

You’re probably not wrong.

Still, I doubt the rise of AI and the requisite data centers are going to help.

I think the worst part is that 90% of that could’ve been filmed with absolutely no visual trickery. Like, its mostly just people doing people things.

I could see them trying to fill in a couple of the trickier shots with some AI assisted shots, (like the one where they’re at the turn table and it flips between animation, puppets, and “Real Life”).

But there’s so many AI-isms in here that it legit distracts from the whole vibe. The pinball bouncing before going in the hole and the hair bounce when people turn their heads grate my vision like nails on a chalk board.

My electricity rate went up about 60% from 2020 to 2024. I only pay mind to it once every year or two (primarily to double check if a TOU plan would be advantageous).

Just dug into some docs for the 2026 rates and its looking like we’re in for another rate hike next year (+22% from 2024, +92% from 2020).

This is getting out of hand.

But I want to believe she can at least stir up 8 votes.

It’d be fun to watch some more disunity ahead of the midterms.

I need to experience my midlife crisis first.

I feel you brother. Boy, if only I’d known what I had when i had it, ya know?

Exact thing happened to me ~2018. Haven’t changed it since. (Though my growing bald spot may ruin it in the next few years)

“More” story

Not doubting if this was bad, but wanted to see if they commented as to the scale of the problem sin e they just state “of some Americans” in headline (and they do!):

Kashtan and colleagues estimate that the average total residential long-term NO2 exposure across the U.S. is 24 percent lower for people with electric stoves, which do not emit NO2.
The average American’s exposure to NO2 exceeds the World Health Organization’s recommended levels. However, approximately 22 million Americans would fall below the WHO-recommended limit if they stopped cooking with gas or cut back their use of it, Kashtan said.

On the one hand, it sucks that sometimes really bad people who’ve done really bad things go free because of a seemingly minor technicality.

On the other, there’s a set process to help keep the law fair. Miranda rights and the need to voice them to suspects when they’re arrested exist because police will totally take advantage of arrestees, and because police have acted unethically towards ignorant people who don’t know what rights they retain when arrested.

I’m confident Luigi didn’t need a reminder of his rights when arrested, but if the cops really thought they were arresting the killer of that United Health CEO, then there’s no excuse for them not bringing their A-game with how high profile it was all bound to be. It’d be really embarrassing for them if they missed that tiny detail.

Edit: spelling/grammar

I was wondering what happened with this the other day (haven’t kept up with XKCD since highschool).

It makes me happy that they’re both still here.

Link for the lazy

You wanna look under Retirement Under FERS > Retirement with a deferred, full pension

Edit: god that document is a pain in the ass to read and comprehend. Looks like it was designed to answer specific questions (vs getting a holistic view of the retirement program)

Can’t decide how I’d feel about this.

On one hand, they’d probably ruin the scenic ocean views from Mar-a-lago. On the other, the owners would probably make a tom (more) money off it.