[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Ahh, I wish it were that easy, but 4.1% of 350 million is like 14 million people (I’m willing to accept that my math is wrong but I double checked it 4 times including using the internet.. and idk if I mathed it wrong or if that’s just an accurate number… I really kinda hope I’m wrong..)

That’s a lot of people either way.. and you can’t fault them for looking out for themselves or their family.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They do, you aren’t wrong, but I’m not remotely the right person to post this stuff there since I’ve never even visted the community and don’t care about men’s (or any) fashion. Beyond like.. wanting some more interesting options as eye candy..

So by all means, have at ^_^

Here are the URLs from which I grabbed the images. Do with them as you like, but it’s not a topic I’m qualified to post about (I have the style of.. well I haven’t.), nor have interest in posting about, so please do enjoy! Take all the warm fuzzy upvotes for yourself! I have no need :) but that style is still chef kiss. And also skirts are comfy af.

https://media.gq.com/photos/6053c975b67457239e9ba337/master/w_1024%2Cc_limit/GettyImages-1210001440.jpg

https://fashionterest.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Men-Wearing-Skirts-4.jpg

I can’t find the third pic so here’s some bonus pics that I’m into instead! Maybe you’ll also like them! Idk!

https://assets.vogue.com/photos/60e71bdeb0ad2c65600f4956/master/w_960,c_limit/00_social.jpg (zoom this out there’s a totally stellar dude on the right ;) he’s why I picked this)

https://www.pinterest.jp/pin/753578950125231974/

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/220819015346-14-men-wearing-skirts.jpg?c=original&q=h_778,c_fill

https://www.pinterest.de/pin/585186545305995728/

https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2021-10-13/mens-skirts-gender-fluid-fashion-trend-worth-trying

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago

Oh.. umm.. well have a good time with that, I guess.. 👍

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days ago

I’m almost 40 and still get carded a lot..

Not at bars. They don’t care and haven’t since I was 18. But my chosen place to buy beer has a 100% carding policy regardless of age, so it doesn’t even feel nice. :( I just have my card ready before I get there so they are just like “ooh your totally on top of it!” That feels alright.

About a week ago I got carded for a video game rated M. First time that’s ever happened in my entire life, no joke.. I’m still salty about that.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I’d like to see more of this sort of thing, personally. As just part of the available options. Colors would be great too!

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is basically the reason we have artificial sweeteners, too.

Some dude was trying to make/do something, and labs were sort of “lol everything is safe” back then so he like… had a sandwich.. and noticed it was sweet.. so he just sort of tasted all the stuff he was working with and found aspartame. (I believe it was aspartame)

I believe the same is true for fabreeze, the underlying chemical mechanism was an accidental discovery because the researcher’s wife noticed he didn’t smell of cigarettes. It never caught on tho because it, naturally, has no smell, and you become blind to smells you are constantly exposed to, so until they added perfumes (fabreeze as we know it today), even tho it worked, nobody cared to use it. I wish I could actually find it unscented.. the scented shit stinks and gives me headaches.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 9 points 5 days ago

I really enjoy coconut oil as a rough weather gauge.

I cook with it a lot, but prefer it to be in liquid form for easy measure (which only happens in the warmer bits of summer here), so in winter, I keep a jar of it on top of a particularly warm heat vent.

I keep my place at 60f/15.6c in winter or it costs a fortune to heat. When it’s relatively warm out, the heat doesn’t kick on often enough to melt it, but when it’s real cold/windy the entire thing will be liquid.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 27 points 5 days ago

Ooh I’m in the half not paying, woot woot!

I haven’t even needed to recertify that my income is too low to have a payment (which it is, but not the point). They just sort of extended it again. Which is great, because it means other people also likely got that break and aren’t paying even if they “should be”.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 days ago

lol this guide has me doing nothing but tons of jumping jacks, a few crunches, squats, and way too many wall sit minutes. It might be ok for like.. once in a while..? But I’d probably need to repeat several times to get any sort of workout from it, and it wouldn’t be a very effective workout.

Cool idea, but maybe needs more variety so that doesn’t happen. Lunges, planks, up-downs, jump rope, left-right glides, tai-bo punches, high-knee twists, etc. (skip jump rope if this is fully equipment-free) Or like maybe if the letters rotate on the daily or smth.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That depends very much where you live. Around me, 8-15 is a pretty standard range for decent sit-down places. You can pay more, but most places hit that range pretty squarely. Depending where you go, you can get burgers and the like for under $4, much better quality than fast food, but not sit down places.

Wages here are pretty damned low, though, so they really can’t charge a lot and actually have business.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 96 points 5 days ago

I find this wholly unsurprising.

All ai projects should be forced to show the entirety of their training data. I don’t give a flying fuck if they want to call it proprietary, they don’t own most of the data in the first place. Even if they bought it, it doesn’t belong to them, just like we don’t own digital movies we buy.

And if even a single piece of that training data doesn’t have proper licensing for that specific use for that specific model, or they are ever found to have withheld any of the data, the model as a whole should be immediately scrapped, along with everything even tangentially derived from it, and the company should be fined fully double whatever amount of money that model generated or one years revenue for the company as a whole, whichever is more (no I don’t care if this leads to bankruptcy, should have thought about that before you stole data), and like use if for affordable housing programs or public schools or something, whatever.

They can try again with clean data, also subject to review. One time. Second time they do the same shady shit, permanently banned from the entire sector.

But regardless, we need to stop rewarding them for this behavior. And we need the consequences to actually hurt or we can expect it to get worse, not better.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 35 points 6 days ago

I saw him speak the other day and he was totally with it. Like that super old person who lives to be 120 and is sharp as fuck right until their body gives up, but until then they are firy and physically fit.

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