Oh yeah, here comes the hard sell, people.

They’ve seen what people really talk about on the internet, and they haven’t dumped all this money into massive botfarms to push narratives (yeah Russia aren’t the only people who do this) without expecting a return on their investment, so now comes the hammer to shut out real people and make it even easier to propagandize the populace. Can’t have all that Luigi love out in the open.

Cue the Barbossa Cyberpunk image.

LGBTQ+ people need to get the the fuck off of Meta services now, they’ve showed what side they’re on.

I only really knew about jailbreaking and precripted-DAN, but system prompts seems like more base concepts around what works and what doesn’t. Thanks you for this, it seems right inline with what I’m looking for.

Oh they have mouths and try to scream but all that comes out is Kpop

Are there any other confirmed versions of this command? Is there a specific wording you’re supposed to adhere to?

Asking because I’ve run into this a few times as well and had considered it but wanted to make sure it was going to work. Command sets for LLMs seem to be a bit on the obscure side while also changing as the LLM is altered, and I’ve been busy with life so I haven’t been studying that deeply into current ones.

You have entirely new skin cells every two to four weeks. The dead cells are shedded regularly.

So technically your clothes only last two to four weeks.

As I posited elsewhere in the thread (source: I’m old), a big part of that isn’t even reduction in quality of materials but rather change in type of materials as new textiles have been invented.

I can tell you, my socks and drawers may not last as long as they used to, but god damn it, they’re the most comfortable sets of them I’ve had in my entire life.

You don’t want to know how it was wearing boxers, briefs, and socks in the 80’s/90’s, because it was bad and uncomfortable. I remember being embarrassed because I felt like I was endlessly adjusting my dick in them due to discomfort.

Modern socks and underwear are made from much lighter and more comfortable material, which in turn means that they simply don’t last as long because the material just isn’t as sturdy.

I can tell you when I’m underwear shopping I aim for comfort over longevity of material, because I prioritize basic comfort over the underwear lasting forever. I’m sure I’m not the only person who approaches it this way, I’d wager the majority of folks prioritize comfort of undergarments over longevity.

…because he wasn’t ever actually meant to be the main character, he just happened to steal the show, like a good pirate.

I personally think spending enough money to get boots that can be re-soled is worth it, but then I have a local shop that does that sort of thing. If you don’t have a local bootshop, kind of a moot point, for sure.

Clothes were built of sturdier stuff back then as well, even t-shirts. Modern fabrics that are soft and thin are relatively new inventions. Even t-shirts from the 80’s/90’s are a different story and a lot less comfortable.

A massive amount of effort has gone into making things comfortable in the last 40 years. We don’t have have itchy tags inside t-shirts anymore.

Finally, when you pass it on to your child, either it fits both of you very badly, or you’re re-sewing it to fit the new person.

I have three shirts in good condition I got in 2007. Two are t-shirts, one is a plaid overshirt. I’ve had to re-sew the overshirt a few times.

I also have at least one pair of pants from the same time period, same thing, have patched and sewn it up when needed.

Anyway, I’m glad to know I’m not the only person who takes good care of their clothing so they don’t have to spend much on it.

Tips: Don’t dry things like t-shirts in a dryer. Wash them on a delicates cycle with a small amount of vinegar to help cut through bad smells, and then hang them out to dry. Get a clothes drying rack if you can, and if you’re in humid climate, get a dehumidifier for the room you dry your clothes in. Finally, learn some basic hand-sewing techniques.

I could fix her.

I’m personally with you, I’m no fan of Anderson, but we can’t deny that the Resident Evil movies were moneymakers, which means on some level they were actually very popular films. Often popularity and perceived cinematic quality are in direct opposition of each other, some of the films that are considered cinematic masterworks are often kind of boring and most average people hate them.

He directed the first one and then the fourth one, only writing the second and third. The fourth one is when the money started really rolling in. 1-3 made about $100 million profit each, while 4 is when the series started pulling closer to 250 million per movie.

And all that’s just for box office numbers, it doesn’t include money made from like DVD/Bluray sales and streaming services. Undeniably popular series, even if we don’t think it’s anything to write home about.

So I guess Paul W.S. Anderson got tired of doing Zombie post apocalypse stories and decided to rip off Mad Max/Fallout instead?

Yawn.

I had hoped Bautista would stop being in so many action movies and focus on more unusual roles.

Also, unrelated, but who’s placing bets on this is another “We can imagine the end of the world, but we can’t imagine the end of capitalism” stories?

“Xbox” will just be Windows going forward, at least on handhelds.

We’ve come full circle, almost like a red ring of death.

I wish, but it feels like Valve is still mostly trying to support x86/x64 type devices and ARM/RISC-V doesn’t seem on the roadmap as much.

Dude off the top of my head Balatro (won many Game of the Year awards), Vampire Survivors, Terraria, and Minecraft all have Android ports.

I wonder if Valve plans to release an Arm version of SteamOS

The problem here is you’d be relying on a translation layer similar to Proton, but would probably have to be built off of something like Box64 for it to work. There just may not be enough horsepower on these small devices for that to do well.

I’ma be real: It fucking kills me that Steam on Android has been mostly used for 2FA and the idea of it being an alternate game store for Android somehow just… doesn’t exist?

Especially, out of all companies to take the fight about that kind of stuff to Apple and Google, Valve has the punching power, and they’ve literally already had Epic forge a path for them in this regard.

Why is my Android copy of Balatro unable to use the same cloud save system as Steam? Why am I stuck in Google’s fucking lame gaming ecosystem? It just makes me heave and sigh because I’d way rather be purchasing games for Android via Steam on the Steam Android app. It just feels like such a missed opportunity.

I can’t, for the life of me, shake the feeling that the person writing this is Captain Beatty.

Lately, our independent work has coalesced around a particular shared idea: that misinformation is powerful, not because it changes minds, but because it allows people to maintain their beliefs in light of growing evidence to the contrary. The internet may function not so much as a brainwashing engine but as a justification machine.

The current internet—a mature ecosystem with widespread access and ease of self-publishing—undoes that.

I’m not trying to be dismissive of the important things the article is talking about… but this is almost exactly the kind of justifications Captain Beatty uses in Farenheit 451 for the of burning of books. Boiled down to the basics, what Beatty preached was that all books disagreed with each other, and it made things confusing, and people didn’t know what to believe, and people were in constant argument and disagreement, so the best way to solve it all was to burn all the books so people couldn’t find differing ideas and disagree anymore.

This article makes no such prognosis, in fact, it’s not making a prognosis at all other than “this is happening and you should know” (making it good journalism), but I do worry about the way it’s framed and how that could lead people down the path Captain Beatty traveled. Especially when it seems like it’s on the verge of understanding but falling short.

The commission’s work was the sort of precise and methodical case-building that is the opposite of the frenetic and immediate justification engine. In an anti-institutional moment, the congressional truth-gathering process read to some as academic, slow, even elitist.

On some level here they understand it, but they’re failing to admit to themselves truly how many it read to as academic, slow, and elitist. It read that way to so many people that literally millions of Democrats chose to stay home in 2024 because they felt like their party was failing miserably in fighting against real, actual fascism on our doorstep. Instead of trying anything daring and new the Democrats were going to trod the same broken path that had failed them time and time again.

They weren’t shy about it being fascism, too. You can’t scream from the rooftops how dangerous the fascists are and how we need to stop them and then roll over to shake their hands and hand them power and act like anyone is going to take you fucking seriously. Because at no point did the people in positions to change anything take big risks themselves. They’re all going to be comfortable and pampered because they’re part of the elite, while the rest of us are going to be literally crushed to death in the Orphan Crushing Machine that Trump is going to build into an All-Humanity Crushing Machine.

So yeah, when they are literally just going to hand Trump power after Trump clearly broke every rule in the book to make this happen, the people who supported you up to that point now view you as not being serious. You won’t put your money where your mouth is. You’re not stopping certification using legal trickery like the Republicans, you’re just saying “Well I guess fascism won and we’re good people, so we always let winners win.” Even when those winners plan to basically start a genocide, that’s fine to them, I guess.