Is the US tax year just… The year?

Yes, and the deadline for filing is April 15th

Alternatively, a docked Steam Decl with the Grayjay flatpak works pretty well. You can even add it to Steam for easy access through game mode

They can’t add ads if they’re not connected to the ibternet

Seen it. It’s garbage

publicly sourced != public domain

In some states, cyclists legally get the entire lane. And when you’re going up to a low visibility intersection, you want to be in the middle of the road to maximize the angles that you’re visible

Nobody is dying horribly from emphysema because they accidentally contacted microplastics two decades ago.

Aren’t the vast majority of people suffering cancer from asbestos exposure the people that worked with asbestos for years? From what I understand, you’re very unlikely to suffer from a single exposure.

That being said, asbestos is fucking everywhere. Veritasium recently did a video on it, and a lot of the soil around Las Vegas just naturally contains it, and gets kicked up by vehicles, construction, wind, etc.

If you’re referring to the study blaming colon cancer on processed meats, it’s a major reach.

It was an epidemiological study, which are notorious for poor controlling of variables. If the effect has a relative risk increase greater than 100% (i.e. doubles risk or more), then you can use the results of an epidemiologal study, but results less than that should be treated with a lot of skepticism. This particular study was only 18%, well within the error bounds of this type of study.

For contrast, the epidemiological studies used to establish a causal link between smoking and lung cancer had a risk increase in the ballpark of 10,000%

Also, if you want to do blacksmithing you can get started with a 12" long piece of railroad rail as the anvil, and you can make a gad forge for under $100

Same in the US unfortunately. The few public lands that you’re allowed to hunt in are overhunted

Like I understand people say “it’s a fantasy world” but Khaleesi was 13 in the first Games of Thrones book. Celebrating her growing a meaningful connection to a man who abducted and raped her is just… Yeah

True, but if you think about it, a lot of GoT is just edge-bait. While it’s awful they’re normalizing that, it’s also not that strange from considering everything else in the series

Tbf, season 1 of that show is honestly good. After that it gets really stale and boring though

Reminds me of the AI-generated Seinfeld series that ran on Twitch for a couple weeks before it was banned for making fun of transphobes. It was fun as a novelty, and was also a good meta-commentary on the quality of sitcoms in general. But I never considered continually watching it for entertainment

The simple act of peeing makes a cloud of microsplatters on its own

Just peeing makes a cloud of urine droplets. Quit being judgemental douche

This is the way.

Also squeeze with the kegels while doing so and it pushes everything out. Shake a couple times for good measure.

his taxes are lower but not lower than his taxes plus his private school tuition of just one ki

It’s almost like profit-driven businesses cost customers more so the owners can get more money. It’s almost as if the saying “private businesses are incentivised to cost customers less” is complete horseshit

Honestly, this is probably the best use case for LLM’s.

Tom Scott did something recent 2-3 years ago where he fed a bunch of his video titles into an LLM and had it come up 100 new names with a similar style. Most of the output sucked, a handful he had already done, and a few more sounded plausible but didn’t exist. But he got 8-10 that he could have turned into actual videos (doing all the work himself) and even did so for a couple.

The hallucination of AI can be used to help a human artist or programmer, designer, scientist, etc.) make a new connection they couldn’t before, and they can then use that new connection to implement their new idea. But LLM’s generally suck for anything more than that, and over-reliance on them slowly erodes people’s ability to think and create over time

My company has some mandatory training videos they redid with AI. I don’t get it, none of the actual content was any different from last year’s video. They literally paid someone to redo the video with AI instead of just reuse the previous video.

It’s kinda the same thing as Coke’s AI Christmas commercials this past year. They could have run their old, classic commercials like Hershey’s kisses does every year. Instead they paid to make new commercials with and pissed a bunch of people off

Unfortunately they’ll never do that because they’re owned by Microslop and they can’t allow any marring of AI’s reputation