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Why are men so fucking loud? There's two in this train station having a casual conversation and somehow everyone has to hear it because their normal tone is yelling

It's still very funny to me how many of the people who are now against generative "AI" used to be some of the worst defenders of this shit before it got obvious how destructive it is. Yet never apologized for the shot they pulled back then.

Maxed out one of the leg presses at the gym today. The other one goes a bit further but it was taken

Weight stack in a leg press machine. Pin is all the way at the bottom

I need someone to teach me proper sumo deadlift. When I try it on my own, it just doesn't work well and I keep bumping the bar into my legs on the way up.

Please, an enlightened American needs to explain to me, an uneducated European peasant woman from 1572, how an AC unit works outdoors.

I'm watching a review of body fat scales and now I'm convinced that giving people access to these devices is evil. I can see how one of those things would absolutely rot your brain, if you're susceptible to unhealthy behaviors around weight and body fat.

In statistics there's a really important thing called error multiplicity, aka the multiple testing problem. It describes how when you do multiple inferences, the error rates compound and p values in trials must be adjusted to compensate for this.

I am enjoying Dune Messiah a lot more than Dune tbh. The loose episodic style works really well to tell a story that unfolds over a longer time period where the exact time spans aren't that important but the relationships between characters and institutions are.

Paperback edition of Dune Messiah
Æ.@aesthr.com · 2mo ago

Ok here we go. This is going to be the thread for my opinions while reading the original Dune for the first time (having seen ALL film/TV adaptations, yes even the weird French one that you probably don't know about)

Paperback copy of Dune. Cover shows illustration of red and yellow sand dunes

Many invoke the Butlerian Jihad from Dune when talking about resisting "AI" and as a metaphor that works, sure. But it should be noted that the thing in Dune goes much further. In the Empire of Dune owning as much as a calculator is punishable by death.

Oh the guy known for the game with the sexist macho one-liners has opinions about how gaming shouldn't have politics in it? Wow. Weird that