ArbitraryValue

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago

The guy selling your the property is much less likely to rip you apart with his powerful fangs than the wolf would be in the analogous situation.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 61 points 17 hours ago

Your computer will be restarted. Do not attempt to resist.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 105 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (8 children)

I saw a guy yell at the gate employee. The guy's flight had arrived late and the employee was telling him that the door to his connecting flight was already closed so she could not let him board even though the plane hadn't left yet. Eventually a manager showed up and got yelled at too and he opened the door and let the guy on the plane. So it can work.

I would have just taken no for an answer and ended up waiting in the airport for however many hours it took for them to find a new flight for me. Stupid me.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

attacks

MONSTERS

go to hell

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was looking at some bees working near their hive when one of them decided to take a break by landing on my (closed) eye. I kept still for a while and eventually the bee went back to work.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I really can't. Divide by zero error.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

TIL that

Affinity graduations are optional events typically led by students to celebrate different student identities and ethnicities. Commonly held ceremonies often honor Black, Hispanic, Asian, first-generation and LGBTQ+ students.

That doesn't sound any more controversial than campus clubs for specific minority ethnic groups. Are colleges worried that they fall into the "racist if white people did it" category? (I would argue that they don't.)

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As if 21st century kids have the patience to learn to play a musical instrument voluntarily...

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't think the graph is showing the phenomenon that OP thinks it's showing - there was a crime wave that started in 2020 which isn't over yet, but things have gotten significantly better since 2022 and that's the same internal when police killings went up, so the straightforward conclusion is that there has been more intensive policing in the last three years which is what has reversed the dramatic increase in the homicide rate.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That's not correct. There were 15% more homicides in 2024 than in 2015 but the homicide rate went down since the peak of the 2020 crime wave.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (13 children)

But AI is actually way ahead of where I thought it would be in 2025.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

plant has mouth

humans put words in the plant's mouth

Rude.

 

The fascinating thing here is that the government's lawyer, the one supposed to argue against this guy's return, appears to have sided against the government.

"Give us 24 hours to get him back, Reuveni said. "That was my recommendation to my client but that hasn't happened"

 

When I was a teenager, I thought people in their 20's were the most attractive. Now that I'm about 40, I still think people in their 20's are the most attractive. It's hard for me to believe that I might ever be attracted to someone past retirement age, even when I'm past retirement age myself, unless the person is like one of those celebrities who look way younger than they are.

This isn't something I can comfortably ask most older people I know, but there's one man who admits that he isn't and one woman who is. Which is more normal?

 

"Deleted" sounds so casual too, like God did it as part of some routine cleanup.

 

I live a bachelor lifestyle, so I have no food in here. Just alcohol. I hope the mouse figures that out and goes away. I should get some traps in case it doesn't. I hate killing animals but there's no practical alternative.

 
 

I was supposed to move my car last night but I forgot. The ticket is for $65 but I found a dollar on the ground near my car so I'm actually only out $64.

I set an alarm in my calendar so I won't forget next time.

 

It'll cost $9 each time. They're raising money for the mass transit system by charging specifically those people who don't use the mass transit system and that feels really unfair to me.

 

Archive link.

As recently as February, Mr. Walz said on a podcast that he had been in Hong Kong, then a British colony, “on June 4 when Tiananmen happened,” and decided to cross into mainland China to take up his teaching duties even though many people were urging him not to.

But it was not true. Mr. Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, indeed taught at a high school in China as part of a program sending American teachers abroad, but he did not actually travel to the country until August 1989.

Why bother making something like this up?

 

Pretty much every major shopping website has terrible search functionality.

I usually want something very specific, for example 60w dimmable e12 frosted warm led bulb. I have not found a single shopping website that won't show me results without many of these terms in the description. I don't want to see listings that say 40w and don't say 60w anywhere, and it isn't hard to filter them out!

Are these shopping websites bad on purpose? What's in it for them?

 

Before covid, I would be sick with a cold or flu for a total of about two weeks every year. That means I spent 4% of my time sick; one out of every 25 days. Since covid appeared, I've been wearing an N95 in crowded indoor areas whenever I reasonably can. (Obviously I can't if I'm eating something.) My main goal initially was to protect my elderly relatives, but during the last four years I have not gotten sick even once, except from my elderly relatives who didn't wear masks, got sick, and then infected me when I was caring for them.

Why isn't everyone wearing N95s? Sure, it's uncomfortable, but being sick is much more uncomfortable. And then there's the fact that wearing an N95 protects other people and not just the wearer...

 
 

There appears to be no straightforward way to permanently stop Windows 11 Home from rebooting on its own after installing updates. I looked for workarounds but so far I have only found a script that has to run on a schedule to block the reboot by changing "working hours". (Link.)

Is that really the best that is possible?

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