I was chitchatting in a jury waiting room yesterday, on the day of the guilty plea, and there’s a fun little “what side are they on” when talking to strangers- especially boomer strangers in California- that happens when Luigi is brought up.

I detected a “Luigi deserves jail time” from her but I could tell she was playing the same game with me so I just nodded along and changed topics. Lol

Though, if I made it to voir dire, I was so ready to preach the gospel of Luigi and go full ACAB to get let go. Can you believe they only pay 15 bucks a day for jury duty if your employer doesn’t cover? Man fuck that, lol.

The stalking charge, oddly, includes someone dying. Stalking doesn’t usually do 25 to life without that “resulting in death” bit.

Similar doodles forced me to see a counselor in middle school, once. Lol

Ah fuck, there goes my right to vote in Jim Crow South.

It’s not too unusual, as subscription sales might be worth the risk if they figure the exclusively isn’t keeping people on Windows/Xbox. And that’s probably true, there’s a ton of Windows users who haven’t swapped for work reasons or because they want kernel level anti cheat, etc.

Plus aren’t most of those games already available on Linux through Steam?

This is a parody of parody and I’m down for it but who’s the artist in this case?

Wanna add: technically a Not The Onion, lol

I see, she fell off Cletus’ truck. Well, shucks. Good luck getting get back to the Krusty Burger where she belongs!

Catticus Finch

At some point their corpses start to smell unbearable and you need to find fresh bodies.

No but really, same with what others said. Make sure they treat you kindly and respect your boundaries and such.

:(

Terraria is one of my favorites and I haven’t had a chance to play Calamity. RetroAchevements had, remarkably, added support for the base game and I think there were hopes for set support of this and any other big mods (tracking completion, doing additional challenges, etc). I’m sure this puts some damper on those efforts.

I’ll have up make do with just trying to finish the Completionist set if the craving hits again (it’s insane, every item in the game must be collected!)

For some reason an Nvidia RTX 5090 and 128gb of DDR5 RAM, because whoever designed this game decided it’d be funny to put a target on my back.

“No! It’s much better to face these kinds of things with a drop of sunscreen and hydration.”

I admit, I’m tempted to read the AI answer when I search something; but holy crap is it a patronizing waste of time. Just now I was searching about a game and the long page of AI answer essentially boiled down to “kill stuff to get stronger,” like brah, I know, I’m trying to look up exact formulas here, you piece of shit.

My questions are never answered by it, and when it tries, it’s wrong even with follow up info. Man I really could live without it, lol.

Edit: oh, and this is a relatively new game but on both Google and Bing indexes, the first page and a half are clearly AI generated. Same boilerplate nothingburger answers. No surprise the search AI isn’t good, it’s regurgitating other AI answers. MAN I could live without it.

It’s very interesting to hear your perspective. They’re getting hit by propaganda, that’s for sure, and I see a lot of Mexican-American men in Los Angeles acting the same way. There is definitely a toxic masculinity problem for young Latino men, as bad or worse than White men.

I’m not sure if half your county is lost, but without proper education and upward social mobility they may remain ignorant. Poverty and religion tends to promote ignorance, and Mexico has a lot of that. At least your president and government seems to be doing a fantastic job from what I can tell (although the bar is pretty low). Universal healthcare, public support for affordable EVs… uh, their own national chocolate production(?), I hear a lot of things almost every week. It might not change overnight but that’s how you push for better future generations.

I’ve been getting Trader Joe’s fruitie cuties and they taste a bit like Froot Loops, however they use vegetable juices to get the color. They’re still not super bold colors, but they look more natural. I’m curious if that’s what will happen to Kellogg’s cereal colors.

Y’all thinking mules and horses but I’m thinking Satyr for all ones’ Greek mythos or demon sex play needs.

Yes, I didn’t mean to imply it’s a bad thing. Just that it simply is. Plenty of comic artists do that, and I wanted to give context.

Artist self insert, given Lemmy even accused them of being AI despite them documenting everything. That’s unfortunately the only way to validate at the moment, although if I’m being honest I kinda dig behind the scenes. It is especially interesting if you can see a beautiful photograph and all the work they put into getting the lighting just right.

I don’t buy the bot narrative, but I also won’t say this is a genuine jump in Linux users. Rather, as someone who has done statical research before, a sudden jump like this feels like a change in how that data was gathered plus a rather high point on natural variance.

For starters, why would bot behavior change in a month? Any serious bot network would already be on Linux, so unless bot filtering got significantly worse in a single month, I’m skeptical on that front. I suppose it’s possible a patch to scrapping plugins happened, or a change in bot sensitivity on the researcher side, or something, but you’d assume someone would point that out.

However, Linux adoption explanations are also iffy. The “Year of the Linux” people point to summer being a factor, or maybe Steam machine release. Maybe someone went viral promoting it and somehow… doubled installs? Seems unlikely, although a small jump can be attribed to these factors I suppose.

But back to the statistics – all samples naturally vary over time and this can be a major factor month to month as statical noise exists. If it drops back to, say, 7 or 8%, that’s probably that factor, although this is much less an issue if the sample is large (which I think it is?). It’s also possible there’s a change in measurement error, such as Unknowns getting parsed correctly this month, though I’m not sure if that can explain most of the chunk coming out from Windows. I think these are the explanations I’m leaning towards, though (e.g. the Linux was there all along!)

All I can say from my experience is a jump like this is unnatural and usually points to variance and/or measurement error. Rather than the actual population having a change, the researcher does something different that changes results. It doesn’t necessarily mean the new results are biased (they might be less biased!), but it also doesn’t mean reality has suddenly changed. After all, we’re talking about a doubling of the population; if 300 million use the Internet in the US, that’s 15 million people changing to Linux in a month.

Hmm … Bike Courier sounds more like an ideal job in a 15 minute walkable city. In most parts of the US, not so much.