If it was really important it would be shown on the keyboard.
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If it was really important it would be shown on the keyboard.
I don't have "Option" on my laptop, is that the same as Alt key? Because shift+alt+hyphen seems to just do exactly the same as the hyphen key on its own. The dash is the same length. Shift control and shift tab don't do it either.
If em dashes are so important, they should make it easier to type them on a computer keyboard.
"commissioned twiblings" which I guess is supposed to be twin siblings? But twins automatically are siblings anyway
Thinking of that old twitter thread about Irish people mocking the shit out of people's fashion choices www.buzzfeed.com/alexalisitza...
I was at a conference today where a speaker talked about her grandmother who was born in the 1910s and had lived through the depression, and how she always felt supported and seen by her, and then went on to say "and AI makes people feel seen too"
Cos you can't do anything else while the alert windoe was on the screen, so had to quickly close that and try to make your next move before it came back
Memories of accidentally downloading a virus on the family PC, and the resulting speed challenge of closing the alert window, uninstalling it and finding and removing the .exe file before it automatically installed itself and popped up an alert again
youtu.be/HqjhHVUzl8o?...
Did AI also write this headline?
As opposed to what?
Even doing a google search would be adult online activity. Meanwhile parents will be bringing up kids YouTube videos to entertain their toddlers and searching for toys
It's nuts, because if the age assessment is based on browser behaviour, going to a porn site is adult behaviour. Watching extremist politics is adult behaviour. All the stuff they want to stop kids from accessing is adult, but if they get to it, that's going to ping them as adult
How would users talk to 13 year olds about KPop demon hunters if 13 year olds are banned? This is going to end up adults talking to adults about it (which already happens, Disney adults is a thing, boomers share minions memes and there's Bluey fan groups on Facebook), but they get flagged as kids
My family always does a "bring a dish" style Christmas which helps reduce the pressure on the host. Then if there's leftovers either people take home what's left of what they brought, or sometimes it gets divided up a bit. If Christmas has to be at hers, she should make that the new tradition.
Behind the Bastards podcast did a multi-episode about RFK Jr worth listening to. when he was older there was a place near his school where farmers would dump corpses of cattle, and he would hang out there hunt rats with his hawk
Also, the woman was cold, and that's why he had selflessly taken his pants off to give to her before the accident
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
If part of the issue is that kids are accessing adult content, then isn't inference by usage already flawed? Like if there's teens following porn or extremist political content or anything considered to be an adult subject, the algorithm would go "ok, this person must be an adult"
On Facebook there are groups of adults following Bluey and discussing details in the show
Have these people been living under a rock, "Disney adults" is a whole thing
He doesn't laugh once throughout that whole thing, he just orders her around like they have to get through this as fast as possible. The trapdoor was the only thing where it was reasonable to tell her what to do, and that's for safety because he didn't mark the trapdoor out with warnings
"Wow, it's like you live in a funhouse! What do you do all day?" "I have fun" he replies, in the most matter of fact, unfun tone of voice imaginable
I once saw a penthouse advertised for sale that you had a weird space to crawl under the fireplace from the living area to enter the bathroom and that was already fucked up enough. It didn't even have a door on the crawlspace
Wonder if they went in dressed like that expecting to be kicked out or something, so they can film it to show how persecuted white Aussies are
It's anti-immigration, but only certain colours of immigration. They're not complaining that there's too many British moving in
Wow, that was a lot
Astrid Johnson
Why does she remind me of Alanis Morissette in that clip
Wtf guys, I was off social media for one day out getting sunshine and touching grass, and now I return to hear Trump's dying?
What's happening, or what's the rumour? I've been offline until now!
"AI can do your job, saving you time!" "AI can organise your life, saving you time!" "AI can summarise your movies and books for you, saving you time!" "AI can create art for you, saving you time!" "AI can communicate with your family and friends for you, saving you time!" Just eat and sleep now!
"it's more productive, more efficient, you'll get your work done faster!" "oh cool, so we can get out work done in shorter hours, then we'll have more leisure time for other things, right?" "Haha, no"
Like this was the kind of thing I remember from my teenage years. Christina Aguilera's Dirty. And that Benni Benassi Satisfaction song with the power tools youtu.be/Mzybwwf2HoQ?...
It's funny revisiting early to mid-2000s pop music videos now, and comparing it to the "sexy" stuff getting people outraged now. Weirdest thing is seeing ones where they are dripping with sweat and realising that doesn't get shown anymore. Even the WAP music video is relatively clean in comparison.
We've had a bit of scrutiny on guns in Australia again this week because a sovcit guy shot 2 cops, and apparently we have more guns now than we did pre-Port Arthur massacre and the restrictions, but the actual rate of gun violence has still been decreasing, which is interesting
The universe, pelting you with ice: "you need to chill, dude"
Prompting an LLM to write a concise and grammatically correct sentence to prompt an LLM to write your book for you, because you can't write
"This would kill a Victorian child on contact" buddy, that kid grew up with heroin in their cough syrup and arsenic in their wallpaper. A Victorian child would probably kill YOU on contact.
I was lucky enough to have stayed in Brisbane when the tornado hit the Gold Coast on Christmas a couple of years back, and my home was untouched. But driving back through all the damage on Boxing Day morning was wild
Not the main point, but what's with news outlets including the property value and style of the house in articles about murders? It smacks a bit of "this hot property is about to hit the market at a discounted price, real soon"
The irony of people fighting to ban hormone replacement therapy for trans kids, while parents are buying hormone gummies off the internet to feed their kids just to make them go the fuck to sleep
What porn is he watching, I didn't think sweet and softly spoken was even a stereotype for Russian women? Normally they get portrayed as ballbusters in American movies
There is some ugly expensive shit out there.
Most people who just don't get expensive jewellery and therefore aren't connoisseurs who can pick diamonds from zirconias, they're not necessarily going to open a gift like that and immediately go "oh wow this must be super expensive" it is just whether they like the look or not
Like I bought my mum a food thermos for mother's day because months earlier she complained she'd have to go to the opposite end of her new school to heat her lunch in a microwave. And she was so happy with it and then looked at me and said "I can't believe you listen to me that much when I complain"
Also just shows that he actually listens to you when you're talking about even unimportant stuff about yourself.
Reminds me of my mum's dog catching the mouse that was under the fridge, and then she refused to give it up, just playing with it like she was enjoying the feel of the little corpse rolling around in her mouth 🤢 eventually convinced her to drop it for a schmacko, but she was determined to have both
Jesus, given the statistics on police being domestic abusers themselves, can see this being weaponised against victims
At this rate, they'll take a paramedic in the middle of performing CPR next
2 cops were shot by a sovcit recently here in Australia so we've suddenly had a bit of scrutiny on gun ownership in the past week, which now has risen to above pre-1996 Port Arthur massacre rates. But weirdly the actual gun violence rate is still going down
The guy in that first one looks like his head was badly Photoshopped on. Also maybe they could have spent some of that money on replacing their flyscreen, it looks like it's all torn
I'm just going to follow anyone I find funny or interesting, or have cute and interesting pets. Like I follow you, and I follow the menswear guy, and I follow a cartoonist, and I follow a farmer in South Australia who has a really big dog and tiny little lambs
Tbh, part of what I like about social media is coming across accounts by people who are passionate about their chosen subject, no matter how niche it is and not being anything I've given thought to before, and are willing to share interesting bits of info about it.
Powdered Tasty Sugar Donuts
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
"another part wonders if I should wait and see how things develop" At this point there seems like a big chance that if ex beats the cancer again she'll still be his number 1, and if she dies, do you really want that to be the only reason he comes back to you?
Sounds like a good grift though. Charging rich gullible parents $65k a year for their precious babies to sit on the internet for a couple of hours each day? You don't have to pay teachers their wages, don't have to provide full supervision, supplies and resources, that's all into your own pocket
Those accounts where posts are just entirely aggressively political opinion, whether it's for or against Trump, they start to just look like bot accounts. Especially if they have something dumb like AI generated Trump baby throwing a tantrum in their banner. And it always seems to be US politics
Also they're really tying outlook to OneDrive which is a nuisance, you go to attach a file and it tries to upload it to one drive and just send a link, got to make sure not to. I don't even know where in OneDrive that attachment goes to
Right, like if I wanted to open outlook to create an event, I would be opening outlook to create an event, not excel. Why would I be opening excel to enter a date to open outlook to create an event
Back in 2019 the drought was bad enough that Mount Tamborine's school bore ran dry and the town was dependent on water getting trucked in, but Coca-Cola company was still allowed to extract water for bottling nearby
Did you see they also made Excel less reliable at calculations by adding AI? Something that's been its primary function for the past like 40 years?
It's like my ancestors via mum's side were Italian back in the 1850s and would have faced racism when they immigrated. But now it's just a surname and liking pasta, but everybody likes pasta, that doesn't make me Italian.
I think it's partly that it allows white people to claim "my ancestors had hardship and faced racism too", and also you get to get drunk on Saint Patrick's Day in the name of great-great-grandad, but aren't really expected to engage in any other cultural traditions
"beaming with quaint racial happiness" Jesus christ
I like Turkish delight, but then I also like musk sticks, which are another old fashioned divisive treat. I do not like licorice or aniseed.
The image suggests that the biggest stress she's having to deal with is putting up with her kid wanting to play with her, and not something like having to run a household on the pittance of housekeeping money her husband allows her while he's getting angry at her for "wasting" it on the kids' shoes
"back in my day, we had a tv ad that asked our parents if they knew where we were because we were out drinking hose water in traffic until the streetlights came on. And that's why I always call Timmy 20 times an hour at school now, to remind him mummy misses him"
Do the parents not have anything better to do with their time while the kids are at school? Go do some grown up stuff. Or some childish stuff without the kids, whatever
Based on fictional books I've read set in the past, my impression is that it was mostly used for really cheap shitty but somewhat edible candles by poor people and maybe greasing moving parts in factory machinery.
"maybe our food isn't good, but..." Is a fantastic way to promote your restaurant
A group of girls who hunt cake pop demons
The general population have been hurting from Trump administration for ages now
By "my people" does that mean fellow rich politicians?
Australia Post is restricting post to US to just letters and documents, and items declared as gifts worth under US$100 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Also apparently they connect to your phone via Bluetooth, so you need your smartphone nearby anyway? It's not replacing your phone as an alternative device
Or inside, or at night, without severely reducing your own vision. But I'm sure meta would encourage people to buy both the sunglasses and the clear lens variations
Ok surfer guy points out into the water. It's not clear whether this is suggesting the glasses help him identify a rip or spots a shark, or what. but he's also not going to be able to wear them into the water
Hundreds of seagulls are ruffling feathers outside Parliament House, with the birds seeing the island in the middle of the forecourt water feature as a perfect nesting ground for their breeding season.
Also being an electronic device, not sure they'll mix well with sand and surf. Probably sunscreen, sweat and makeup wouldn't be good for it either
All those people shown wearing them in this, what are they actually using them for in these activities aside from just as regular sunglasses? It doesn't show how they help the golfer, surfer, lady walking down the street. Yeah cool, stylish, but what are they doing with them?
Feel like there has to be more backstory to this one, because if he was just being lazy he wouldn't have taken it anywhere. Packing it into the car and taking it to the dump requires deliberate effort so he must have some bizarre stubborn "fuck you" thought process behind it
What is crashing against the pristine sky of the jumbo jet?
It's funny, I've never heard the term "dog in a manger" before, and now I've heard it twice today about totally unrelated subjects
This almost makes me miss the explanation of "a stork brought the baby". At least a stork can drop the baby off to anyone who wants one
It's not even like the movie showed childbirth or IVF treatment or anything, just say "they adopted" if you don't want to discuss the sex and conception side of it
Seriously, like he could even just say "they adopted" or something, if he wanted to avoid a deeper conversation. It's not like the movie went into the details of IVF and sperm donation
If the attitude from the boss is "don't question it, just do it", that's going to wear people down
It's good that some people are still teaching that in relation to AI, it needs to be widespread, but also those kids are going to enter the workforce (if they can) and be faced with the old guys in business being enthusiastically gullible about it and limiting their job prospects even more
When I was a kid in highschool in early to mid 2000s, we had information literacy lessons on how to recognise reputable internet sources of info, as well as recognising scam emails and such. And from memory we went over it again in classes like English and History where we needed to research.
Just tinned sliced beets, nothing fancy. No idea if there's difference in flavour between Aus and US, or brands. The pineapple slices get thrown on the grill too, if the takeaway shop is doing it properly. That makes a difference. Some places add shredded carrots as well, but I think that's rare.
Like he wasn't being dramatic and trying to hurt her feelings when he said it
Here in Australia there's a classic "works" burger (or burger "with the lot") which has beef patty, cheese, lettuce, tomato, grilled onion, bacon, a fried egg, sliced beetroot, sliced pineapple, and your choice of either bbq or tomato sauce.
As if he doesn't know where she is and can't just tell them "she's with her friends at X". And she's probably told them all before she left
Also notice they're all white
Might be alright if everything was still as cheap as it was in the 80s. And no screens? Do they think tv and video games didn't exist back then?
A lot of weirdness happening in the back end of that thing