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UCSD asking for money đŸ€‘ (lemmy.world)

It’s hilarious that I’ve been out of UCSD for 20 years and they keep insisting that somehow I’m part of that. Samsung sells me a TV and 20 years later is all
 hey wouldn’t it be cool if you give us more money for the same product? It would make the products cheaper for other people and we would actually pay our workers...

Rolando ,

My college started mailing me donation requests. They came with a postage-paid envelope and a form with suggested amounts.

I cut out my address, taped it to the form, and wrote “please take me off your mailing list.” It only took two tries before they did it.

Rolando ,

Study for college. Seriously, just allocate many hours a day for it. it’s boring at first but gets better after a while. You don’t have to go to an Ivy League, any mid-range state college will have cool people and walkable infrastructure. If you don’t have a lot of money, do the first couple years at a community college and talk to counselors to make sure the credits transfer. Once you’re in college, be proactive and seek more advice.

Amazon clearly lying about "ownership" on Prime. (lemmy.world)

You all remember just a few weeks ago when Sony ripped away a bunch of movies and TV shows people “owned”? This ad is on Amazon. You can’t “own” it on Prime. You can just access it until they lose the license. How can they get away with lying like this?

Rolando ,

So it’s basically an NFT.

Rolando ,

I’m wondering how often do people beyond kids re-watch movies and TV shows?

You should become acquainted with The Office fandom. Some of them have it on permanent repeat.

Rolando ,

The assumption is that you ARE going to buy the thing.

Sure, but that’s the assumption created by the advertisement. If you’re debating buying something, and the ad says “You can save up to 77% if you buy now” then suddenly the presupposition is (sneakily!) introduced that you are going to buy it. In that case, identifying and rejecting the presupposition is the smarter thing to do.

Rolando ,

Ok you’re right. This is worse than NFTs.

Rolando ,

Statement 1: “You can save up to 77% if you buy now”

Statement 2: “you can never save by buying something. I save if I don’t buy”

Statement 2a: “save 77% compared to buying at full price”

Statement 2b: “Save 77% compared to not buying the item”

Statement 2’s first use of “save” suggests that of Statement 2a, and Statement 2’s second use of “save” suggests that of Statement 2b. Statement 1’s use of the word “save” corresponds to that of Statement 2a. I don’t think we disagree on the semantics, though we may be phrasing things a little differently.

You’re playing a semantics game though. The assumption is that you ARE going to buy the thing. Society has decided that “save 77%” is a valid shortening of “save 77% compared to buying at full price” because that is the most logical comparison to make. Yes. “Save 77% compared to not buying the item” makes no sense, but that is clearly not what is being implied here. Implying and inferring things is a normal part of human communication, and refusing to accept the implications doesn’t make you clever.

I agree that the original poster was playing a semantics game; indeed, I interpret Statement 2 as follows.

Interpetation A: Statement 2 is a witticism that plays off the contextual use of the word “save”. Specifically, the humorous force of Statement 2 is in its reinterpretation of the word “save”. Statement 2 is saying: “Statement 1’s use of the word ‘save’ is that of Statement 2a, but I choose to reinterpret Statement 1’s use of the word ‘save’ to that of Statement 2b!”

Comment 1: The reinterpretation performed by Statement 2 is mildly subversive in that it rejects Statement 1’s interpretation of ‘save’.

Comment 2: The reinterpretation performed by Statement 2 is mildly empowering in that it performs a reinterpetation of ‘save’ to the benefit of the writer.

You say “refusing to accept the implications doesn’t make you clever”. There’s a bit of an aesthetic judgment to the “doesn’t make you clever” part which we can agree to disagree on. But Interpretation A does not depend on “refusing to accept the implications”. Rather, it accepts the implication, and subverts it to provide the effects described in Comments 1 and 2.

Note: The original post that started this discussion seems to be unavailable apparently because the original poster (I am not the original poster) deleted it. I believe we are just discussing among ourselves.

Rolando ,

My friend, I think I know why you’re unemployed.

Rolando ,

Until you need a doctor and suddenly discover a lot of rural areas don’t have any.

Rolando ,

Take a look at this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

AI has a strong boom/bust cycle. We’re currently in the middle of a “boom.” It’s possible that this is an “eternal September” scenario where deep networks and LLMs are predominant forever, or


Rolando ,

"Dear Suzie. I swear I’m not cheating, if I am may God strike me de

Rolando ,

Oh great, now I gotta change my password.

Rolando ,

Wait
 aren’t we going to try to find out why?

Rolando ,

Thanks! “The Slaying of the Spaniards” sounds like something out of Borat, but it shows how we take things like international rescue operations for granted these days

Rolando ,

Same. It wasn’t clear how to choose an instance, so I ended up creating accounts in three different places and posting a couple times before settling on this account. I haven’t used the other accounts in months, so they’re part of that surge.

Rolando ,

Due to a clerical error, the theme song to that newscast is the Theme from Godzilla vs Mothra.

Rolando ,

Don’t think there’s anything on lemmy yet.

!fosai – has a good overview/introduction

!localllama

!localllm

!localai

!localllama

Some of those are inactive, though.

Rolando ,

Maybe they would appeal to a gamer so casual they don’t bother to get dressed or have a shower, and just lie there in pyjamas covered in beans from last night’s dinner.

I feel attacked.

Rolando ,

Not only do I disagree with both of you, but I don’t even care enough to make a meme about it.

‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)

‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

Rolando ,

While traffic has not changed substantially,

This is a terrible thing for most social networks, which are expected to grow continually. When the IPO hits, who wants to buy stock in a stagnant social network? Especially one that has been described as stifling creativity?

Rolando ,

A: “Hey, remember me?”

B: “Oh yeah, we used to date. You single now?”

A: “Yeah. You too?”

B: “Yeah. Wanna give it a shot?”

A: “Hmm
 OK.”

Rolando ,

Agnieszka is not that uncommon a name, and it could be shortened to Agnes.

Rolando ,

Check your local public libary, a lot of them have DVDs you can check out for free.

Rolando ,

You can cancel Prime and keep your Amazon account. A lot of stuff still ships for free on orders of more than $25.

Rolando ,

Kentucky Fried Chicken-flavored meat product.

Rolando ,

And not one second later!

Rolando , (edited )

I want to know how all the people in that picture deal with parking. They must have huge parking structures.

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    Rolando ,

    Not comment-OP, but I get where you’re coming from. I suspect you’ll get better feedback on one of the privacy- or security-related communities here.

    Rolando ,

    OK, I always wanted to try to make a meme, let’s see how long it takes me


    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cf6b85c9-02b2-4824-bb3d-58fb51e5ae44.png

    oh man over 20 minutes. but in my defense I wasted time trying to do it on Gimp before I switched to a hacky approach. comment OP is right, I gotta optimize my workflow too.

    Rolando ,

    A man walking by loudly said “oh my gosh” when this happened.

    Why did he say “gosh” instead of “God”? Just another example of atheist liberals persecuting Christians. (shakes head). /s

    Rolando ,

    The first screetching part was like tires taking a curve at high speed.

    The boinging part was like hitting the bumpers inside a pinball machine.

    The final bit of static was like the fabric of reality tearing apart as you break through to
 SURF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY!!?!!

    Rolando ,

    In general,

    If it’s only semantically plausible with reference to a given set of corpora, then it’s a hallucination.

    If it’s a hallucination that satisfies an emotional need, then it has truthiness.

    If it’s truthiness that is backed by a sufficiently powerful political force, then it is The Truth.

    Source: it was revealed to me in a dream.

    Rolando ,

    I’m not the person you asked, but I’ve heard an argument that goes like this: Evil Company will “embrace” something, then “extend” it in a way that only works with Evil Company’s product, then “extinguish” that thing by making Evil Company’s approach incompatible with it. A discussion is provided here: ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-ne


    Rolando ,

    reddits true size lies at around 5 million or less. Less than 5 times Lemmy’s size.

    Lemmy doesn’t have 1.5 million active users; that’s how many active users the Fediverse as a whole has; most of those are Mastodon users. Lemmy has around 32K active users. So if your 5 million number is right, Reddit is around 156 times larger than us.

    Rolando ,

    Looks like a stock image of a goose. In truth, the goose has been delivered to Little Caesars.

    Rolando ,

    "“Oh God he’s looking at memes again
”

    Rolando ,

    False. The connecting rods were found to be part of a reactionary conspiracy, and were purged from the image.

    Rolando ,

    “Meesa no the father”

    Rolando ,

    Well, yes, the cat knows that a) you’re bigger than he is and b) you are not as perceptive as he is. So by letting you know there’s a problem and then letting you handle it, the cat is acting purely rationally.

    Rolando ,

    The Eternal Reward, that is.

    Rolando ,

    Show up with a box of donuts.

    “Hey, look what I got for us to eat while looking at that tape!”

    “Oh, I don’t think those donuts will last more than ten minutes here!”

    “No problem, I know a way that won’t take that long
”

    Rolando ,

    Can you convert that to Unix time? (seconds since Jan 1 1970).

    Rolando ,

    But if there’s none that’s even better.

    “The loser of a knife fight dies on the street. The winner dies in the ambulance.”

    Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?

    like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

    Rolando ,

    Taco Bell will just put out a “napkin tipping” jar and blame lack of tips for not providing napkins.

    Rolando ,

    “Ni!”

    Rolando ,

    Well, this conversation inspired me to finally read The Colonel, which reminded me of how great some of Watts’ ideas could be. Guess I’ll have to get a copy of Echopaxia next.

    Rolando ,

    I think if you’ve already read Echopraxia then The Colonel won’t tell you much new, it’s more like a transition between the two novels.

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