cgriswald (u/cgriswald)

cgriswald commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01

RIMR · 4 hours ago

I'm just going to go ahead and say that "free love" is a terribly inappropriate way to refer to sex trafficking, regardless of the age of the victims, unless you're being facetious (e.g., The Onion's "Penis Goofin'" allegations against Epstein).

cgriswald · 3 hours ago

I’m going to suggest re-reading the top level comment and the GP’s response. I don’t see anyone suggesting non-facetiously that free love and sex trafficking are synonymous nor that sex trafficking of adults is acceptable. I think the top level poster is being facetious; such a view is how these creeps might think. I think the respondent is, intentionally or mistakenly, ignoring that context and using the term at face value.

cgriswald commented on Hacking Moltbook wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltb... · Posted by u/galnagli

xXSLAYERXx · 7 days ago

Imagine how specific you'd have to be to ensure you got the actual items on your list?

cgriswald · 7 days ago

You won’t get them anyway because the acceptable substitutions list is crammed with anything they think they can get away with and the human fulfilling the order doesn’t want to walk to that part of the store. So you might as well just let the agent have a crack at it.

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JimboOmega · 8 days ago

(This is a total digression, so apologies)

My mind instantly answered that with "bright", which is what you get when you combine the sun and moon radicals to make 明(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E)

Anyway, that question is not without reasonable answers. "Full Moon" might make sense too. No obvious deterministic answer, though, naturally.

cgriswald · 7 days ago

In the game Clair Obscur sun plus moon equals twilight.

cgriswald commented on Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc. collections.leventhalmap.... · Posted by u/speckx

cgriswald · 8 days ago

> Tom Thumb is somewhere here but he is too small to draw.

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honeybadger1 · 9 days ago

your bias is showing. humans would certainly almost do anything they are told to do when the person acts confidently.

cgriswald · 8 days ago

I had a construction worker absolutely screaming at me to go through an intersection and refusing to look where I was pointing, when I was correctly waiting for a pedestrian to cross.

So, naturally, I ran over the pedestrian.

cgriswald commented on Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT openai.com/index/retiring... · Posted by u/rd

jzb · 11 days ago

“No advertisements” seems extreme to me. I want to know when a good band is playing at a local venue, or has an album out. I like hearing about new books, or a restaurant near me.

The absolutist position that “all ads are always bad” is a non-starter for me. Especially as long as we exist in a capitalist system. Small business, indie creators, etc. must advertise in some fashion to survive. It’s only the behemoths that could afford to stop doing it (ironically). I’ve never really understood why, e.g. Pepsi and Coke spend so much on advertising: most people already have a preference and I am skeptical that the millions they spend actually moves the needle either way. (“Is Pepsi okay?” “It absolutely is not.”)

cgriswald · 10 days ago

There are (and continue to be) millions of young people who do not yet have firm preferences. For the already faithful, their advertising is mostly about reminding them to consume more.

cgriswald commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster

ryandrake · 12 days ago

Apple does this all the time, though, and seems to get a free pass here. I have four Macs in my home, and they are cut off at Ventura (for the 2017 iMac), Monterey (for the 2014 Mac Mini and the 2015 MacBook Air), and El Capitan (for the 2014 iMac). They are all stuck at 3, 4, and 5 major OS versions back. Nobody really seems to complain about this, though.

cgriswald · 12 days ago

They didn’t get a pass from me. My MacPro has been running Linux longer than it ran MacOS. Apple stopped supporting it officially at Mojave but I jumped ship earlier when I was forced to do a clean install rather than an upgrade because I had a RAID.

cgriswald commented on Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes" shreevatsa.net/post/dougl... · Posted by u/speckx

esafak · 18 days ago

At school??

cgriswald · 18 days ago

I watched it at school too but just once. We all sat in the gymnasium. We also had a magician perform, some type of band, and some other activities over the years. Looking back I think there was always some “special” day right around the corner.

Unrelated, in high school we watched History of the World Part I in World History and our teacher had a piece of cardboard that said “censored” or something that he put in front of the screen during various scenes like “Bishop humps Queen” but allowed the audio to play through.

cgriswald commented on Erich von Däniken has died daniken.com/en/startseite... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy

cratermoon · a month ago

von Däniken was the original Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, aka "aliens" meme guy. He never met an archeological artifact that didn't look like alien technology to him.

cgriswald · a month ago

What really drives me nuts about von Däniken (and Tsoukalos, Childress, et al. …) is that he contradicts himself. (Sorry, I don’t care about this stuff enough to have a recent example.) His position isn’t consistent.

Zecharia Sitchin’s arguments are also frequently not good but he at least seemed to be trying to construct a consistent whole whereas these other guys will just say anything.

cgriswald commented on Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/mustaphah

smeej · a month ago

> There is no question if I want to do it, it is set at that time and I have to do it, period.

Gosh it must be nice to have at least an ordinary amount of executive function skills. Is it really this easy for neurotypical people to build routines? That's really all it takes?

I don't see how this removes willpower at all. It just determines what time you have to use it.

cgriswald · a month ago

Willpower is what you use when you’re allowed choice and know you should make the good choice but actually feel like choosing the bad choice. The trick to good discipline is to never allow it to be a choice. There are no excuses. There is no negotiation. It just is the same way the sun rises or the tax man comes. Good discipline is a skill you develop and it is far easier than trying to live via something as temperamental as willpower.

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