And they will be right to do so. The Dems are fully complicit in enabling this.

Tends to spend the winter in there, when she’s able to sneak in.

I trapped a mouse in my trash can and killed it. And then I fed the dead mouse to a feral cat that sometimes lives in my basement.

Don’t drink out of it.

Give it to your landlord as payment-in-kind for several months’ worth of rent. Maybe your landlord will drink out of it.

To be fair, I doubt people understood statistics much better back in the day, either.

We don’t label anything else that can kill dogs. Just don’t give human food to your dog

Might maybe be a good idea to start. (And cats as well, as the other most common housepet.)

And as for ‘just don’t give it to them’ … well, sometimes dogs get into things they’re not supposed to. It might be good to have things that are dangerous to dogs labeled so that you quickly and easily know which foods need to be extra protected to make extra-sure your dog can’t get into them.

(Then again, I expect a lot of corporate resistance to this. Because stupid people will see the ‘this may be dangerous to dogs’ label and think, “Wow, if it’s bad for dogs, it must be bad for me as well!” and they won’t buy it. Or they won’t buy it because they don’t want anything dangerous to their precious pooch to even be in the house at all. So forcing companies to have that label will probably result in reduced sales for those companies. Which means reduced profits, which means they’ll fight hard against any requirement to label their products this way.)

It’s absolutely disgusting and shouldn’t be called anything other than ‘trash’.

I tried it once, and never got past one little sip. Definitely in my top 5 of ‘worst things I’ve ever put in my mouth’.

That’s the tricky part, innit?

A few good options:

A) Set up your backup/restore procedures immediately after setting up your fresh new system. And then immediately test them to see if you can successfully restore, before you’ve done anything important on the new system that you can’t afford to lose. If the restoration completely fails, no biggie. You just have to start over on setting up your fresh new system.

B) Attempt to restore your backup to a different system, not your primary one. You’ll need a second set of hardware to do that, but if you’ve got the hardware lying around, it’s a great way to test your restore procedure. If you’re upgrading your hardware anyway, it could be a good time to do this test – use your backup restoration procedure to move your data to the new hardware. (As an extra bonus, this doesn’t require any downtime on the primary system.)

C) Simulate a complete hard drive failure and replacement by replacing your primary system’s drive(s) with a blank new one. If the backup restoration fails, you should (fingers crossed) be able to just plug the old hard drive back in and everything will go back to how it was before your test.

D) Have multiple backups and multiple restore plans, and just hope to fuck that at least one of them actually works during your testing.

Option A can only be done if you’re proactive about it and do it at the right time.

Options B and C require extra hardware, but are probably the best choice if you have the hardware or can afford it.

And Option D will always have at least a tiny amount of risk associated with it.

The ATF at least had advance notice of the Oklahoma City Bombing, and perhaps had a hand in planning it and carrying it out.

Four most damning points:

• ATF employees in the Federal Building were mysteriously seen emptying their offices out the day before. Despite it being a normal weekday and normal workday, none of them happened to be in the office on that particular day.

• Despite all the chaos and destruction left in the wake of the bombing (and ongoing search for survivors), they supposedly found the license plate of the rental truck and called the rental company and found out who rented the truck … all within 30 minutes of the explosion. (And this is with 90’s tech, by the way, so it all had to be done over the phone and mostly with paper records.) Within only hours, local police found the (alleged) perpetrator, supposedly in a completely random, unrelated traffic stop. (To me, this reeks of them already knowing exactly who did it and where he was, and them using parallel construction to find a chain of evidence for that which wouldn’t lead back to them.)

• The surveillance tapes of several nearby businesses were seized as part of the investigation. That’s fairly normal. What’s not normal is that none of those tapes were ever seen by the public again, not even featuring as evidence in the ensuing court cases. They were collected as evidence and then just … disappeared forever.

• With astounding quickness – in less than 30 days – the entire site was bulldozed and paved over, destroying and covering up any evidence that may have been there. It was a huge building, the site of a major disaster, and an active crime scene … and they still managed to turn it into a parking lot within only 30 days.

Do you know how to transfer the files back if your OS has completely failed?

Verifying the files are there in your backup is only, like 10% of verifying that it’s a real, usable backup.

The important question is: can you successfully restore those files from the backup? Can you successfully put them back where they’re supposed to be after losing your primary copy?

Not entirely, no. But after investor capital dries up, it will become more expensive. So it will only be economically viable if your AI slop spam gains you significant money. And you’re not going to get significant money by posting slop spam to Lemmy.

We need new solutions to adapt to this reality.

Problem should solve itself once investor capital is no longer flooding into these AI companies and subsidizing the cost of generating that text.

Once these spammers have to pay the full cost to generate their LLM-generated spam, it will no longer be financially viable for them to do so for so little return. They’re only doing it now because it’s free or next to free. Having to pay what it actually costs will slow the pervasive AI slop to nearly nothing.

Time to start a new dark web social media network that can only be accessed through TOR.

I’m convinced you could create such a food for humans too,

You could, and it would be very simple to do so.

1: Take all the food you’d eat for, say, a week. Absolutely everything.

2: Blend it. Maybe add some extra vitamins to make up for the ones that will be lost due to processing.

3: Dehydrate it. (To make it more compact and less likely to spoil.)

4: Compress it into pellets.

Done. You have now created ‘human food’.

Quantum physicist: “This is the equation that describes the phenomenon and has so far done a very good job of predicting the outcome.”

“Cool. Why does it work like that?”

Quantum physicist: *shrug* “Hopefully maybe someday we can figure that out.”

Eat anyone who has more than 1 billion dollars.

I’d argue that quantum physics is genuinely difficult, but also not very applicable to most people’s daily life.

Anybody who claims to understand quantum physics … doesn’t. If you think it’s easy to understand, then you have a very superficial and incorrect understanding of it. Actual quantum physicists, the foremost experts in the field … they may know the math behind it and be able to figure some of it out … but they’ll be the first to tell you that they don’t understand most of it, though they’re constantly trying.

Honestly, Linux is great for two groups:

A) People who extremely tech-savvy.

B) People who aren’t tech savvy at all.

It’s the people in the middle, the people who know just enough to get themselves in trouble, who want to screw around with things and do weird custom stuff, but aren’t good enough at it to handle learning a new OS, those are the people in the middle Linux isn’t well suited for. But the two opposite ends of the technical ability spectrum are perfect for Linux.

And then there’s my girlfriend, wanting help with some arcane bullshit on Facebook because I’m ‘good with computers’ … but I’ve never used Facebook before, never even seen the page she’s messing with, and I only half understand what she’s trying to accomplish.