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aramis87

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  • Is there an actor you can't stand? Do they have any exceptions?

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  • All the supposed comics - Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Steve Martin, etc. Even a lot of Jim Carrey's stuff - the humor is sophomoric at best.

    Tawny Kitaen and Alex Kingston. I can't stand them, they're nails on a blackboard. It's why I gave up on NuWho. Gal Gadot, but that's mostly because her acting is wooden and characters uninteresting.

  • Man Steals $21M of Lunar Rocks from NASA to Use During Sex After Promising His Girlfriend the Moon

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  • I mean, you can just buy lunar meteorites and not have to risk the jail term, if you're that into the idea of "having sex on the moon". Hell, you can buy Martian meteorites, or outer space meteorites for that matter. The small slices aren't even all that expensive.

  • How does one get started in the invite-only tracker / indexer world?

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  • I've dropped you a pm.

  • Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates

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  • Honestly, I'm mostly wondering about the nutrition factor. Not that you expect much from butter, but we all know this will be slipped into other things, just like hfcs.

  • Trump Floats Deploying National Guard to New York, Chicago, and LA After DC Crack Down

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  • And they're Black.

  • TIL Washington State Is Preparing For a Powerful Megafire That Will Be Nearly Impossible To Fight

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  • Ex-Superman actor Dean Cain says he's becoming ICE agent

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  • Pols have been saying that, in various forms, since Reagan.

  • Ex-Superman actor Dean Cain says he's becoming ICE agent

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  • Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display

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  • Okay, cool. Hey, I'm now taking bets on how long until someone uses the ads to inject malware into a car or truck ...

  • Trump plans 100% tariff on computer chips, unless companies build in US

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  • Oh good, more empty "factories" built in the middle of nowhere and left to rot ....

  • Republican says state's GDP has plunged 6% due to trade war—'Troubled time'

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  • It's only starting. It'll go up more now that the harvests are supposed to be coming in. And once the non-harvested wheat isn't made into flour, and the excess veggies aren't frozen and canned. It's all going to go up this fall.

  • Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices

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  • We've already paid for nationwide broadband, and the corpos took the money, did a fraction of the work, and called it done. I don't see what this latest infusion of cash-to-corpos is going to do for the average Joe.

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    Will I be not eligible for rehire by HR?

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  • It's your employer's responsibility to ensure that they have sufficient people trained (or at least their responsibilities documented) so that someone else can pick up the slack during vacations, illnesses, accidents, family responsibilities, etc. If your employer hasn't been doing that, that's their problem, not yours.

    During your final two weeks, your employer should be asking you to help train your replacement, or at least document your job to help your replacement. Plus there's an additional two weeks for your coworker to help train your replacement after you leave. Four weeks of training should be more than sufficient to get your replacement comfortable enough to handle everyday tasks, and they can bring anything they need help with to your manager.

    This situation isn't your problem to solve.

  • Sick should work on farms to avoid losing Medicaid: Trump's agriculture secretary

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  • 2/3's of those on Medicaid do work, they just aren't paid enough or given enough hours to get off Medicaid - and this is often a deliberate choice by employers to avoid having to pay benefits; they'd much rather have the taxpayer subsidize the corporation.

    Most of the other third aren't working due to illness, being in school, or because they're taking care of other people, all of which are currently allowed.

    You want to lower Medicaid and food stamps enrollment? For every employee a company has on Medicaid, food stamps, or other public assistance, the company has to pay that amount plus 10% as a penalty to the government. And if someone is working multiple jobs, then each if the employers has to pay in the full amount of assistance they're getting. If you can't afford to be in business without the government subsidizing your company, maybe your company shouldn't exist.

    Do a phased-in approach, hitting the companies with the highest number of subsidized employees (looking at you, Walmart and similar) first, then going for companies with lower numbers as time passes. Oh, and none of this bullshit like they pulled during the pandemic, where McDonald's suddenly counted as a "small business" because they're mostly franchises.

    Start there with getting people off public assistance, then get back to me about sending people to work on farms.

  • What AI tools have you found useful?

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  • Uh, kinda, maybe? Most use cases are things that I don't really see the use of, or have found to produce more flawed results than previous ways of doing things.

    However, a couple years ago, someone on reddit said their perfect use case was using AI to hunt down things you enjoyed but have forgotten the titles of - books, movies, tv series, songs, videogames, etc.

    Well, I have a few of those half-forgotten items, where I've remembered snippets of things but have no idea what they actually were called. I've tried looking them up over the years with regular search engines, with no luck. And a few times in the past couple years, I've used random AI engines to try to track these titles down.

    And the thing is, AI absolutely has not been able to tell me what the titles to anything was. However, in trying to come up with more details to pass to AI, I've accidentally found other webpages that helped me find what I was looking for. Like, one of the things I was looking for was a horribly bad 1970's tv movie and, in my latest search for the title, on like page 8 of my google/duckduckgo results trying to find something to feed the AI from what little I remembered, I ran across a website that lists the cast and plot of, like, every tv movie. Not just top ten, or people that became big stars later, or horror movies or whatever, but every movie from like the 50s /60s on. And I sat on that website and read through the high-level plotline of every tv movie from, like 1968 on, and eventually found the movie.

    There was a book where I remembered the first name of the main character and a very specific scene, even some of the exact words, and the three AI engines I tried couldn't tell me anything. But in searching for more details (and I had tried serving for it before), I eventually ran across a book site that helped me out. Interesting thing: when I passed direct quotes to AI, they couldn't tell me, when I asked what books had that plot, they couldn't tell me, but if I asked if a specific scene happened in the book, they said it was there.

    I have one game that I'm still searching for, but AI engines have inadvertently helped me find most of the rest of my wishlist.

  • Abbott orders arrest of Democrats who fled Texas

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  • FTA:

    Paxton in 2021 won a state Supreme Court ruling allowing the arrest of legislators — Democrats by definition of the state’s partisan mix — who broke quorum.

  • ‘Grow up’: Conservative senators, economists slam Trump for firing labor stats chief

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  • I'm sure Susan Collins will be concerned and Lisa Murkowski will be disappointed that he didn't keep to some nebulous standard she expected and trump will have learned his lesson ....

  • Senate Republicans Vote to Allow Trump to Keep Gifted Qatari Jet After Leaving Office

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  • They should force him to repay the money being spent to renovate the plane.

  • Kamala Harris will not run for governor of California next year, she announced, leaving the door open to another run for president in 2028

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  • I'm not interested in anyone, unless they're speaking out against the regime now. She's not, so she can just step back.