I also don’t have sex with this guy’s wife

Hatred against gay people absolutely exists in people who aren’t gay themselves

I spent I think over ten hours just hanging out in Gerudo town in breath of the wild. I remember watching my “hero’s journey” thing and when I got there it was just stuck scribbling over the town for ever lol. Super chill vibes

Normalization is a legitimate, effective, and popular technique employed across the entire entertainment industry. Most well produced audio will have degrees of the effect applied tastefully.

I have no idea what youtube’s “normalization” is doing that ruins the quality of their audio to such a noticeable extent. It’s also totally indiscriminate of the video’s existing audio production. It sucks for someone to work hard and produce a good mix only for youtube to ruin it without your consent, possibly years after release

Could be the opposite as well, youtube a while ago rolled out a “normalization” thing by default that absolutely ruins all audio on the platform and needs to be disabled on every device you have. Supposedly it was set to automatically disable for music but that depends on the uploader

Spotify streams have always been garbage in my experience, but I haven’t had a subscription in about a decade now so no idea if that’s still true

I mean he also shouted the f slur at them and they got it on video

Perhaps a second laser defense system can be installed to ensure people stay out of the original room?

Could run it similar to those disinfecting light bulbs (only when the room is not occupied)

Total vertigo. Just walking through the streets is surreal. You crane your head to try and make sense of it but the buildings just keep going.

Individual buildings in NYC have more people in them than at any given time than my entire hometown. By a large margin. Just so cool. I guess that was the main shock for me, the sheer sense of scale

Couldn’t believe how good the tap water tasted either haha

Crosscode mentioned!

Words really cannot express how excellent it is. Whoever is considering it, just go for it!

Video games

Had a huge crash around the Atari era due to an overwhelming amount of shovelware being published. Games were also extremely expensive then

Nintendo famously reversed this crisis with the introduction of the NES and their “Nintendo seal of quality”. Consumers were able to access a curated collection of quality games, and it really turned things around and basically launched the modern gaming industry

Basic searches haven’t been working well for me either lately. I tried running the query through a basic AI-First Conversational Agentic Experience but it just keeps saying to stay where I am and that the police are on the way? Weird

I’m on ten seconds of thought now and I am FREAKING OUT

Beautiful rundown. For my comparatively worthless 2 cents, pretty much everyone I know has extremely strong negative opinions of doordash for much the same reasons you covered. Another factor I hear is people got hooked on it during covid and got financially burned and grew resentful of it after that

Gotcha, yeah I can appreciate insisting on higher evidentiary standards

Why omit “using” from your summary at the end there? They wrote a whole article about how they love using AI and think anyone who doesn’t is comparatively unproductive. In fact they have over a dozen articles about adjacent AI topics. It’s not really a weak connection at all it’s literally just them saying they do the thing lol

Regardless, the blog itself actually has an AI disclosure: “I use AI heavily on this blog”. Followed by another article about how it is used “correctly” in this case. If you’re just in the mood to argue or whatever I guess we can debate the specific definitions and nuances between literally just copying a whole article from AI output (which they emphatically say they do not do) vs passing your writing through AI to assist you throughout the process

Well, one of the first linked articles is them talking about how much they love using it and how fun it is and how everyone should be using it

Could I pay them to keep it undelivered?

You wouldn’t get it

A lot of men “learn” about sex via porn and later act out things they saw, even if it’s inconsiderate of their partner

To be clear, this is not a new problem caused by AI but I’m not excited about how AI will be interacting with the problem