Why does the seatbelt make a “cuck” sound?

The cat in top panel looks like a dog.

The one in bottom looks like someone dressed as a cat.

TIL I’m gay

Because you don’t know where this information will end up. Companies often get hacked and the information leaks out.

Your email, address, phone number can be used to spam and scam you.

Other information can be used to make scam you more effectively, or even scam your relatives if they sprinkle enough seemingly private information in it.

Your public photos and videos (tiktok, YouTube) can be used to make a deepfake of you and end up online to blackmail you.

Ask yourself what you have yo gain from sharing information online, and remember that the internet never forgets.

Rookie numbers

Playing an instrument, like a guitar. It’s great being able to play, but it takes time to learn it.

It’s their inhouse project, so if they’ll probably focus their efforts on it if they’re no longer investing in 3rd party.

Ona scale of units consumed, yes. A TikTok lasts seconds whereas a book takes days to compete.

However, I’ve read books more engaging than some tiktok videos.

AGI could be possible if a new breakthrough is made. Currently LLMs are just pretty good text predictor, and any intelligence exhibited by them is because they are trained on texts exhibiting intelligence (written by humans) . Make a large enough model, and it will seem like an intelligent being.

That’s ableist. Not every voter can can get in the booth by themselves.

Age is no exception. Older voters lean conservative, while younger voters are more progressive. Age restriction is voter suppression.

There are a lot of adults who shouldn’t be allowed to vote, but in democracy you let everyone have equal say and don’t make arbitrary rules to exclude certain groups.

Are you a citizen, bound by law, or pay taxes? Then you have a say in who makes them.

Because some mice have a secondary scroll wheel, or the scroll wheel can tilt to scroll sideways

People like to procrastinate

Was this on Darknet Diaries? I must have missed that ep. Sounds interesting.

The times doesn’t pay you royalties for your book sales, and it doesn’t cost you anything. They also detect if someone is messing with the system and display a dagger symbol if you are found to inflate your numbers.

The crime isn’t in publishing AI music. The crime was that he setup fake listeners streaming his songs so he could get royalties and inflate popularity. Initially he published his own songs, but to scale up and avoid detection he started creating music at scale - That’s where AI Comes in.

Smith’s scheme, which prosecutors say ran for seven years, involved creating thousands of fake streaming accounts using purchased email addresses. He developed software to play his AI-generated music on repeat from various computers, mimicking individual listeners from different locations. In an industry where success is measured by digital listens, Smith’s fabricated catalog reportedly managed to rack up billions of streams.

Maybe 4 weeks in a row?

Yeah ive seen this happen. After €15k grant was introduced, all house prices went up by that much. At least 1st time buyers are at an advantage in this case, over those who already have a home.