I felt pressured into it.
I was 19, and struggling.
No branch would take me, despite having a nearly perfect ASVAB score. Missed one question, and its because I never had access to fucking diesel engines growing up.
I’m epileptic.
So, after multiple attempts, I don’t qualify as “disabled” enough to receive benefits, but I can’t even sign my flesh away for an hourly rate like the dregs of society to die in some foreign shit-hole.
I’ll just die in my local shit-hole, thanks.
Plenty of firemen start fires to put them out, wind up with arson charges.
I’d feel safer at a waffle house deep in the hood, wearing a red shirt while everyone else had blue on.
In the grand scheme of things, we’re all animals.
Push any of us far enough, starve us enough, etc.
This is why we have self-defense laws. It is inherently understandable that under duress a person (or lion) will act outside of their usual nature to secure food, shelter, or safety.
That being said, this is no way in defense of any mass-shooter types. There is a difference between self-defense and mass-murder.
If an amateur mycologist picks and eats the wrong mushroom that an LLM said was fine to eat, is the LLM liable for the death legally and/or financially?
I mean, I know better than to pick random mushrooms and eat them, but I don’t really care for mushrooms - though some have some delightful effects when metabolized, lol. The only ones of THOSE I tried, I knew who grew them, and saw the “operation,” and reviewed his sources before trying one.
Call me paranoid, but I’m not blindly trusting a high school drop out to properly identify mushrooms when professionals make mistakes to the point where any mycologist will tell you, DON’T TRUST PICS OR THE INTERNET.
It can be too difficult to tell from those sources, and I doubt the LLM and the human asking questions have the right wavelength of discussion to not produce misleading, if not entirely fabricated, results.
Yeah, I shave my head fairly routinely (damn genetics) and a bar of soap is generally fine for head, face, and body. Though if I’m growing my beard out past the “scruff” level my wife generally likes, I’ll apply some beard oil there.
I have definitely used some “girly” body wash in a pinch though.
I’m a gamer, and I do…
Then again, I’m mostly excited about using CUDA cores for cracking hashes and the like, lol.
I think you’re trying to lead them on too much.
Obviously, you want to see chaos, explosions, fire, and mayhem. Of course you do, so do I, and if its in the process of destroying a fascist foreign interloper who somehow gets a pass for being an illegal immigrant from this joke of an administration, then all the better.
Bury the lede a bit. Let them think they came to that conclusion.
People don’t like being overtly manipulated. Covertly is a different matter.
Some wrinkles, some grays… Well, a lot of grays in the beard.
I got a genetic double whammy. Baldness on my mom’s side, and my dad (and his father and brother) were gray by 25.
That being said, I blame it mostly on a certain group of people I can’t seem to escape.
They make my life more difficult at every turn.
Their mere existence is guaranteed to give me a head ache down the line.
Of course I’m talking about youthoughtthiswasgoingtoberacist end users.
Reminds me of a boss I had.
He seemed almost proud that he has never met his grandchildren, because his own children hate him so much that after they left the house, they cut contact.
Yet all he talked about was how family was the most important thing, and that if your family needs anything… yada yada, I caught hell for trying to support my wife when her father died. Fucking hypocrite.
I decided to be a smartass once and made a 63 character long password.
It wasn’t too bad at a keyboard, though if you make a type you’re screwed.
Trying to use my AD account to access admin tools on printer? I got it fixed, and immediately changed my password, lol.
Had a coworker who decided during his shift that he was going to buy “that” TV that he pointed at.
Of course he did not have the funds to do so.
So he went to the payday loan place in the parking lot.
He didn’t last long at that job. Wonder if he ever paid that off…
I worked at an elementary school (public) in a very red state.
I had been overhauling the library computers (I was IT) all day and had been chatting with the librarian. Cool chick, probably 10 years older than me, so late 30s. I was dating my wife at the time, so I wasn’t looking to date, but got invited out for drinks with other librarians from the district.
After a few rounds, the topic turned to censorship, book bans, etc.
Every single one of them, from the churchy prim and proper lady, to the more alternative types, we against banning books and discussed how to get the kids access and and encourage them to read them, without losing their jobs.
I had to shutdown their plan to distribute cheap flash drives with banned material on them a la guerilla distribution - ie, leave it where kids would find them.
And that is why next week Mr. Case’s cyber security BS thing was about how we don’t plug random shit we find in to computers.
She ruined the only opportunity I had to see Iron Maiden.
They dropped off the Ozzfest tour that year because Sharon was a cock-juggling-thunder-cunt right before they got to my town.
Mea-sles? Ohhh, my freedom rash.
Nah, its fine. Not contagious or potentially life altering for the worse even if I survive.
I don’t know where I picked it up, but my toddler son came back from preschool with something similar! Any way, I’ve got to get to his funeral. Merica!
Rain and thunderstorms used to be nice for me… used to.
7ish years ago we (wife and I) rescued a pitbull mix. Well three of them, but only one has an issue.
Wind, planes, rain, thunder, all of that kicks on the fight or flight response to 110%.
If she is crated, she will try to bust out to the point of injuring herself. At our hold house we had a two story, she broke through a banister spindle and nearly fell to the ground floor. Hard wood. Would have been bad. We’ve found her in the top loading washing machine - it was closed. She will try to go through solid objects. Walls, doors, windows, whatever.
CBD is about the only thing that helps her. We’ve tried various medications through the vet, even one they use as a sedative per-surgery.
Its been raining here for about two weeks, on top of other issues in life, and I have a migraine that may just kill me at this point. Not to mention sleep deprivation.
Also, as current day shift at my new job - I hate it, I want to go back to graveyard shifts, lol. Though, I did get some comments when I stopped at a liquor store right after they opened. Once they realized I worked overnight, they used it to mess with OTHER customers, lol.
I mean, chemo is primarily used for cancer - however it is also used to treat some autoimmune and blood disorders.
I assume you mean as a healthy person though, which yeah… sounds miserable if you have no reason.
I’m kind of the opposite, lol.
I miss my overnight shift.
I’d wake up, the world was quiet, there were no harsh lights to contend with, very few coworkers to deal with, even less management…
Just go in, put in my earbuds between calls, and do my shit. Then, when everyone is grumpy and trying to get coffee, I’m going home.
That being said, when the time changed it could be a blessing and a curse.
On one hand, sweet, short(ish) day… well, 11 hours. Then it swings the other way, and 13 hour shifts suck even more than 12 hours.
Watching the time roll back an hour feels very unfair when you’re on the clock and just want to go home, lol.
As someone who used to be skinny, and now, decidedly, isn’t…
I’d take metabolism any day. That being said, I do have a friend who struggles to keep weight up due to a medical issue. Taking that dude to an all you can eat buffet is almost traumatizing, lol.
My wife would agree. She has… so many womanly issues, but can’t find anyone to yank the damn thing out.
She wants no children.
I, her husband, had a vasectomy before we ever met.
We have no use for the damn thing and it just causes so many problems.