Used to drink out of the hose all the time growing up in the 80s, but it was usually after playing in the sprinkler or otherwise running the hose for quite awhile. But never really thought twice about it either way.

Now as an adult the hose water always has this super appealing nostalgic smell, but I don’t run it very often, and the idea of whatever might be lurking in that stagnant water just squicks me out too much to take a swig :(

This pretty petfectly illustrates the problem with using genAI for anything factual.

To someone who had no idea how a pressure regulator works, the illustration could actually be pretty convincing, since it’s presented in a coherent way and superficially looks like it knows what it is doing.

But do a little fact checking, and it’s wrong about nearly all of the important points. In fact its kind of impressive at just how thoroughly wrong it is.

Anyway, thank you, I’m going to save this image to whip out next time a coworker responds to a technical email with copy/paste from ChatGPT.

Yep, you’re right. I have never been inside a mosque before, so the stairs looked very odd out of context.

Thank you! The uncropped version of that photo makes a whole lot more sense!

Yeah, Lidarr is easily the weakest of the *arrs in my experience. As a newbie to setting up that stack, it was definitely nice to have a similar interface and functionality between the apps, but the last few months have me ready to look for something different for music.

As far as I can tell, no. I haven’t been able to search or import releases since about April.

I think the issue they are referring to is that Lidarr’s API or interface with the MusicBrainz database has been broken for a few months now, which means it’s impossible to search or add new artists/releases to your Lidarr library.

And as far as I can tell, it’s still down. I have been unable to use Lidarr for anything since about April, except for finding releases that I had already added to my local database.

That background has to be AIgen, right? It’s a doorway in the middle of a an open area of a church, no walls around it, leading to super steep stairs that appear to go nowhere, and… carpeted floor?

Jesus man, if you’re going to post shit like that, at least hide it behind a spoiler tag with a graphic violence warning or something like that. That poor cop’s family might be browsing.

Fella here.

Guilty!

Let’s be real, if you are wearing an intact Sub-Pop tee in 2025, you’re a tectbook hipster.

Yeah, you stupid vending machine, just accept it! What are you broken and incapable of accepting a perfectly good dollar!?

But forreal, as someone who relates to this meme and would love to not feel awkward when getting a compliment that I recognize is valid, this is kind of like telling someone with depression to just cheer up because it’s all in their head.

Edit: on reflection, my reply was more aggressive than I intended. You’re right of course that, just like that wrinkled bill, the compliment is valid. Accepting it though is something that requires a lot of practice and effort for many people.

Like a lot of people have already said, people are complicated and contradictory; they are rarely one thing.

So you can judge him for, and learn from, the way he has treated other people, while also being grateful for the love, respect, and good parenting he has shown you.

Another aspect is that people often make mistakes and grow from those experiences. It might help you resolve some of the dissonance to talk to him about those things. Many people have experienced that having kids radically changes their priorities. Some people are fiercely loyal to a few people, but couldn’t care less about everyone else.

There are kind of two different questions here.

First of all yes, humans are pretty good at telling whether someone is looking them directly in the eyes or not. So if you were to ask someone directly whether you are looking in their eyes or some other part of the face, they would probably be right most of the time.

The second part is whether they would notice it consciously without bring asked. That’s a little trickier. I suspect if you were staring directly at some other part of their face, people might get self conscious (do I have a zit? Is my nose that huge?) But looking at a spot between their eyes, or shiftng your gaze periodically would probably fly under the radar.

Also maybe the fact that he’s looking at kids in a fuckin airport. If there is one public space I’d condone parents shoving an iPad in their hands and letting them binge YouTube while sitting quietly, that is it.

But how can electricity if not burn fossil fuel??

I’m partial to the dill pickle beer from Giggles’ myself. So refreshing on a hot day!

Also, I know it’s a reddit thing, but I always got a kick out of the MN karma train

I will cop to not having fully read the original source, but going off the excerpts posted, my takeaway was that participants were told they were getting AI generated recommendations–the difference was whether it was explicitly stated that they were based off their previous consumption/preferences or if they were not explicitly told this fact.

IMO generating recommendations for new content to explore is actually one of the better use cases for a LLM, since reading and distilling tons of organic online conversations from people who have expressed similar interests to me is exactly how I would ideally go about it.

But yeah, back to the main point…maybe there is more to it, but this seems like a relatively neutral point that can be spun in either direction depending on which echo chamber you’re in. For example, imagine r/conservative being all “those silly liberals hate AI so much that they would rather get random recommendations than ones they were told come from AI”

Maybe I’m reading too much or too little into this, but I think I would be more likely to entertain AI-generated recommendations that I was told consider my past media consumption or interests, since the alternative seems to be considering AI-generated recommendations that do not consider my past behavior.

I’d assume the latter would just be a bunch of algorithmic slop based on what is trending in general, and therefore of zero value to me.

There’s maybe a subtle detail in that “recommendations based on past behavior” could mean “more of the same”, which is not necessarily helpful. But my default assumption would be that it includes “people with similar habits to you also like”, and/or “things that combine your known preferences”. Even then, if typical streaming services recommendations are any reference, I’d take “more of the same” over “trending” 9 times out of 10.

I love Biscoff cookies, but had never had them outside of a snack on a plane either. First time I realized they sold them at stores was when my local Costco started carrying them in giant boxes, which is a little like being Sir Gallahad the Chaste, and stumbling into the castle Anthrax.

Aldi has a pretty goof knockoff version in normal size packages if you have problems with moderation 😉

But to answer your question, a long time ago, my wife and I did the “Love you”, “Love you too”, “Love you… three?” thing, and apparently got up to 5 before we decided it was silly. Many years later, “Love you five” is the normal response to “Love you”.