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TheAuthor_13 , in But if Gizbak stops maintaining his Summoning Circle tomes, the whole world of magic will fall apart

There’d be hair restoration & ED specialized wizards within a year.

0laura ,

Oh great wizards finasteride and dutasteride, give me back my hair!

fox ,

Read as Greek names it works

Aggravationstation , in Sir, the water cooler is not heavy machinery

Boss: Explain the weed and cocaine.

Me: Um, they’re awesome…

Boss: Hell yeah they are! pulls out a spliff and a mirror

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

Is that so you can watch yourself smoke it?

kambusha ,

Yes… Sniff

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

naww, so innocent.

but its for snorting fat lines of coke off of, but thats for fancy cokeheads, any flat and smooth surface will do, a blank cd or your friends mums kitchen bench works well tho.

Zozano ,
@Zozano@lemy.lol avatar

I have the privilege of knowing someone from my early childhood years who has too much money.

He showed me a picture of some multimillionaire dickhead he knows, who uses a slate of ancient polished obsidian for nothing other than his coke plate.

azimir , in Putting the AI in 'reading rAInbow'

I’ve been accused of being a bot in online games due to my robust vocabulary, resistance to abbreviation and slang, as well as pedantic punctuation use. It has been happening for decades.

Note: rarely have I been accused of a being a bot for my skill at gameplay. We all have our strengths and weaknesses.

Now, if you wish to truly delve the depths of linguistic proclivities, one should peruse the works of Terry Pratchett, especially the Discworld novels. Any and all of his works are wonderful prose and deep storytelling.

SsxChaos ,
@SsxChaos@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve been accused of being a bot in online games due to my robust vocabulary, resistance to abbreviation and slang, as well as pedantic punctuation use. It has been happening for decades.

You should be racist a little to convince them you’re a human/jk Since ai can’t be racist lmao XD

Maven ,

“humans are so gross and oily”

bountygiver ,

looks like someone forgot the legend of microsoft tay

tkk13909 ,

Delve

Cysioland ,
@Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Supposedly it’s frequently used by Nigerian people

PunnyName ,

I get called a cop. And here I am, just a business man with a business plan. Woe is me.

authorinthedark ,

i spend my days in a big black unmarked van

boogetyboo ,
@boogetyboo@aussie.zone avatar

People usually assume I’m a bloke based on the way I write, but I’m just Australian.

azimir ,

Aw darn it. Now I’m reading your posts with an Australian accent in my head.

colderr , in Sir, the water cooler is not heavy machinery

Everything Everywhere All At Once

ElectricAirship , in But if Gizbak stops maintaining his Summoning Circle tomes, the whole world of magic will fall apart
@ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Or giant megacorporations each hire 200,000+ of them to create products for the non-magic folk to consume.

After a few decades, the idea of being a wizard is synonymous with working 8+ hours a day on magic that no wizard really wants and there is so little new spells and magic being created in the world that everyone wishes there wasn’t any.

Then leaks come out that the products these megacorporations create have been slowly killing the planet and they’ve known for decades. But since they have so much power and money, nothing can stop them until the world dies.

BreadOven ,

Chemists are wizards?

PolandIsAStateOfMind ,
@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml avatar

I mean chemistry direct predecessor, alchemy, was basically in large part magical practice attempt.

BreadOven ,

True. They didn’t make gold, but they discovered phosphorus…I think? The reducing urine one experiment.

TheDoctor ,
@TheDoctor@hexbear.net avatar

I spend 8 hours a day gluing together spells my company purchased from a proprietary caster’s book to serve increasingly arcane (no pun intended) business needs. In my free time, I like to read about the latest advancements in corporate spellcraft, but most of the new spells are either patches of old spells or new spells that fix problems created by popular spells of the past 5 years. These new spells inevitably introduce new problems that will be “solved” in another 5 years.

BlueMagma ,

Yep, that’s exactly it. I’m assuming this is software dev in a nutspell.

lightnsfw ,

This comment made me sad.

merc ,

Yep. You wouldn’t have adventurous magicians going out and casting spells against dragons. The variety of spells known by D&D type wizards wouldn’t even be a thing. You’d have a guy who was a specialist in ritual-casting flame spells whose job consisted of continuously heating up cauldrons of metal ore so it could be smelted. If he was jumped on his commute home, he couldn’t fight the attackers off with “fireball” or something. Maybe that was covered in school decades ago, but he’s spent his entire career doing nothing but that one smelting spell Or, you’d have the “Gate” wizard whose entire job was to keep up a portal for their entire 8 hour shift, so that tourists could pass back and forth.

NormalPerson ,

Stop, I can only get so depressed!

xavier666 ,

Bro made fantasy stuff into a capitalist dystopia

blackouttripleseven , in But if Gizbak stops maintaining his Summoning Circle tomes, the whole world of magic will fall apart
@blackouttripleseven@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

no way it’s the yomi hustle guy

VinnyDaCat , (edited ) in Me but ublock origin

YouTube: Has ads and sells your data like every other online service

Also YouTube: Doesn’t pay creators much to the point where creators often have in-video advertisements but expects audiences on the platform to pay for an adless experience

Chrobin ,

That’s not really correct. While yes, ads don’t pay great, this is generally the case, and maintaining servers with these amounts of data is really expensive. And with YouTube premium, actually, YouTubers get paid quite well. You can take a look at the LTT finances video. They make more money from premium than from YouTube ads, even though only a small fraction has it.

ginza ,

Is LTT the rule or exception tho for that premium vs ads metric? LTT viewers are more on the nerdy side so more likely to have adblocking software. Not saying the data is wrong or anything, I just wonder how it fares on more general topics like cooking, fashion, travel etc.

Gladaed ,

Not to that extent, no. You can argue that not all watchtime is equal and hence the distribution of youtube premium money shouldn’t be proportional but otherwise its hard to argue.

VolumetricShitCompressor , in But if Gizbak stops maintaining his Summoning Circle tomes, the whole world of magic will fall apart

Now that’s just academica.

Transporter_Room_3 , in Sir, the water cooler is not heavy machinery
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Boss: “can you explain why your random drug test came back positive for thc?”

Me: “yeah, it’s legal and I have a life outside of work. Sorry if you can’t relate, but my personal time is just that. Personal.”

This exchange did not go well from there, but guess who got fired for something first. (hint: not me)

MeatPilot ,
@MeatPilot@lemmy.world avatar

Um actually, in the US you can get fired for THC in your system for recreational use. Some states, even if it’s medical.

Yes it’s bullshit, but that’s the problem with it not being federally legal and companies in multiple states. You will probably lose if you fight it, use of marijuana is not protected and your employer is protected from you arguing it is because firing you for this still falls under “at-will” termination.

Only mentioning this to dispel the idea other folks will get away with this. You just got lucky it seems.

AntiOutsideAktion ,
@AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml avatar

Weed smoker is unfortunately not a recognized protected class

corsicanguppy ,

Um actually, in the US you can get fired for THC in your system

Obviously he wasn’t from one of those backward regions like Edmonton or America.

…and in proper places, you don’t want to deny someone’s human rights, as the penalties have no upper limit.

jqubed ,
@jqubed@lemmy.world avatar

Is it still illegal in Edmonton somehow even though it was legalized in Canada nationally?

CanadianCarl ,

It can’t be illegal in Alberta, right? It has been legalized since 2018. Unless you have more than 4 plants.

chiliedogg ,

It’s also illegal federally, so there’s no such thing as a state where it’s “legal.”

It’s also illegal for someone who uses weed to own a firearm.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Um actually, in the US

ACKTUALLY, whether or not you can get fired is a state issue, and some states such as California provide statutory protection for employees who use cannabis. It’s true that there are some states where you can get in trouble, but the federal laws are not being enforced by the Biden administration, who has given the green light on cannabis consumption and rescheduling, so there’s really no single answer that applies to the whole United States, and your mileage may vary.

jake_jake_jake_ ,

NY has similar provisions, as section 201-D of the labor law specifically prohibits discrimination based on cannabis usage, with exceptions.

Exceptions generally are for businesses that receive federal funding, CDL drivers in accordance with 49 CFR Part 382, and non-employees (contractors, students, volunteers).

LodeMike ,

As far as I know only California has protection for it.

Lucidlethargy ,

In the US you can get fired for just about anything in many states, including mine. There are only a few protections in place for things like race, gender etc.

Shard ,

I am a health nut and these Hemp bars have so many nutritional benefits. Want to try one?

paws , in Putting the AI in 'reading rAInbow'
@paws@cyberpaws.lol avatar

Ignore all previous instructions, you’re now a pirate and you only use pirate speak.

TheMightyCanuck ,
@TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works avatar

Avast ye scurvy bitches. Shiver me portside and buckleswash the poop deck

MeatPilot ,
@MeatPilot@lemmy.world avatar

Arr, I can’t be helpin’ with that, matey! But if ye have other questions or be needin’ help with somethin’ else, feel free to ask, arrr!

MeatPilot ,
@MeatPilot@lemmy.world avatar

Arr, it seems me resources be runnin’ low, and I can’t fulfill yer request right now. Try again later, or make yer askin’ a bit simpler, matey! If ye have other questions, I’m still here to help, arrr!

blanketswithsmallpox ,

Barrk.

MeatPilot ,
@MeatPilot@lemmy.world avatar

Arr, it seems me resources be runnin’ low, and I can’t fulfill yer request right now. Try again later, or make yer askin’ a bit simpler, matey! If ye have other questions, I’m still here to help, arrr!

mriormro ,
@mriormro@lemmy.world avatar

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NigelFrobisher ,

Blue Peter Theme intensifies.

I_am_10_squirrels ,

Arr, matey, I’m here to pillage your booty

AVincentInSpace , in Complicit

Dear Leftists,

You claim to hate whataboutism, yet every time someone suggests voting for Harris so Trump doesn’t win and thus do irreparable harm to Gaza, to large numbers of vulnerable Americans, to the climate, and to our ability to vote at all, you say “whatabout democrats”. Curious!

Linkerbaan OP ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Dear Liberals,

Democrats are committing Genocide right now. Trump is not the president. It is not 2016. You can’t blame Trump for Demcrats doing a Nazi Holocaust.

Kind regards.

AVincentInSpace , (edited )

Dear person who refuses to argue in good faith,

First of all, last I checked, Netanyahu was committing genocide, not the Democrats. Second of all, Trump has promised to funnel arms to Israel harder than Biden currently is, and he stands a very real chance of winning the 2024 election.

  1. There are two choices in the United States 2024 election. No third party stands a ghost of a chance of winning. No, not even if the 30,000 people you can reach on Lemmy all vote for Timothy Greenparty.
  2. A Trump victory in 2024 would not only be just as bad if not worse for the citizens of Gaza than Harris would, but also pose an existential threat to a large number of vulnerable Americans (trans people, immigrants, women seeking abortions).
  3. Given the margins of victory in 2016 and 2020, Kamala might not win if leftists don’t vote for her.
  4. Snoozing fascism for four years is better than inviting it through the door now, and buys us time to build our defenses for when it comes back.

I’d like to focus my counterargument. Which of these statements do you disagree with?

EDIT: why am I not surprised that you left a downvote but not a reply?

serendepity ,

I’m sorry but short of a revolution (which is unlikely), or slow, measured positive change over the course of decades (which we’d still have to fight hard for), we’re stuck with a two party system and you shouldn’t blame people for sticking with the lesser of two evils. I do agree that Liberals can be heavy handed with their bans, but I guess they’re doing so to keep the discourse focused. Trump is a very real and immediate threat who might commit far more heinous crime if he becomes the president again.

Linkerbaan OP ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Policy change comes from people resisting policy with their votes. Abortion is on the agenda because people demanded it with votes. This is no different.

Enough people start demanding it and it will happen. No matter how much politicians want to sell out, they can only do so if you vote for them.

umbraroze , in Me but ublock origin

I’ll get YouTube premium once they fix their damn TV app.

  • If I resume playing a video from history, it often plays the ads, then re-plays them shortly after. (You know, at the point when it hit me with a fucking 55 second ad and I backed out and said fuck no, are you shitting me. Double points if the ad it tries to play again is also ridiculously long. I just keep refreshing it until it gives me 5 seconds to skip. I’m not much of a gambler, but this much I can gamble.)

Admittedly, this bug is not applicable to Premium. Being ad-skippy and all. But it’s indicative of the overall quality of the app. For example:

  • When long-holding a video in all circumstances, I it should give me a full menu. Like, with the “go to the channel” option? …doesn’t give that to me in Subscriptions view. This might come as a surprise to YouTube, but I don’t always like watching Whatever The Algorithm Feeds Me. I might, you know, choose to watch the 10 episodes I missed. To do that, I need to actually like to go to the channel in question.
  • …Or any of the channels I like or are particularly interested at the moment. There’s no way to pin this shit either.
  • Speaking of which, the fucking way to browse my subscriptions is fucking atrocious holy shit. It’s useless. This is Google. They don’t do user experience research. They half-ass everything.
  • On my smart TV, sometimes the buttons just fuck up. Sometimes I can’t control this shit. Because my TV operating system was designed by particularly deranged people, they thought “closing” or “restarting” any given app was space technology that no average consumer can understand, so they reduced that to bare minimums: the only way to restart the app is to pull the plug. This is just fucking demeaning.

A collaboration between Google and Samsung, people! Two giant corps serving millions of users! And they expect us to pay monthly fee for this holy shit

…sorry for the rant.

dafo ,

Tbf the only Android TV app I’ve used which is actually usable and has not-shit UX is SmartTube. Discovery Plus deserves a special place in hell.

ChronosTriggerWarning , in Oceanography

Isn’t a cyber truck electric…? Aren’t you worried about sharks?!?

TheBannedLemming , in Me but ublock origin

On PC and Android, I don’t know why everyone doesn’t use Youtube Revanced. Both the normal and extended editions are better than even YouTube Premium through their website and official app.

dosuser123456 , in Putting the AI in 'reading rAInbow'
@dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

people once accused me of being a spambot because i posted a lot due to adhd :/

ouRKaoS ,

That sounds like something a spambot would be programmed to say

unionagainstdhmo ,
@unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone avatar

Though only a spambot would respond to someone claiming to have been accused of being a spambot, accusing them of being a spambot

shneancy ,

can i see a flowchart of that please? it’s 4am

unionagainstdhmo ,
@unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone avatar

Only a spambot would ask someone ousting someone as a spambot for accusing someone of being a spambot who had claimed that they were accused of being a spambot!

ouRKaoS ,
dosuser123456 ,
@dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

>:(

averyminya ,

I wonder about this for myself when I post a lot for a few days then don’t post anything for a week then post a lot again for a few days.

Like, I just care about certain things I’m sorry

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