weights connoisseur @alice_meows@awoo.space

ok, edited for egregious typos, nearly a year later, here we go:

sometimes a call myself a fag or faggot. sometimes as part of working through my relationship with straight society, sometimes just because it feels straightforwardly good to self-id that way. I feel weird CWing self-identifiers so this is my account-level warning on this.

US Department Of Energy employees after finishing a really spicy meal: "whew, that was good, but a few hours from now i'm gonna need a deep cavern, very large electrodes, some clean soil, and a blend of industrial minerals and/or glass frit, am i right boys?"

today we are joined by the architect from the matrix reloaded, here to tell us why music used to be better

Glow Up? Area Man Known For His Anchor Man Quotes Debuts Big Lebowski Line

I hate this fucking reality. The other day my microwave started acting weird, the little 7 segment LED display that shows the time started showing random combinations of segments that clearly aren't numbers. I looked it up, and it's a known issue. There's a teardown online of this model and of course the front panel board has one of those fucking Pilot chips in it. Someone couldn't be assed to write a couple hundred lines of C and instead spent, somewhere between $2-3 per unit to put a fucking LLM in it. Apparently it works fine for a couple months or so, and then starts going off the rails. Fortunately they used one of the volatile state SKUs, so you can just unplug the microwave for a minute and it'll go back to normal. But Palm2 is discontinuing everything but the flash models next year, so expect this type of thing to get a lot worse.

Or like remember the Panasonic Adaptect recalls? So, what's important to remember is that Panasonic were the ones who invented the adaptive smoke alarm. (side note: despite everything, it is pretty fucking wild that we can super precisely identify different types of smoke with like, 6 LEDs, that weird vibrating disc thing, and a bunch of math. As much as they fucked it up later it's pretty neat that this exists!) Everyone else was still making threshold style devices, so they had like a full year where they were the only ones on the market that wouldn't like, trigger a full alarm if you burned something in the oven or whatever. And then there was some vague AI drama and now you can't buy them anywhere.

But did you hear about what actually happened with the recall? Because, oh boy. Turns out, in 2029, after 3 years of a very successful product, they just fired all their R&D people, bought an off-the-shelf clone of their own sensor, and hooked it up to a SensorTPU with the out-of-the-box GPSense model and called it a day. Someone dumped the EEPROM and they literally just had like, a couple sentences describing the pin mappings, one of those weird prompt engineering sounding poems, that seemed to be vaguely about smoke, all full of typos and spelling errors. The initial recall was because the new models would go off if you, like, baked something with too much cinnamon in it, or if your cat sheds too much, weird stuff like that.

BUT THEN later it came out that if you had either 5, 6, or 9 of them networked, every now and then they would just spontaneously "fight for dominance", and whichever device "won" would just permanently stop working with no indication this had happened. (and yes those are the terms they used in the recall document, it's fucking bizarre).

#whosampledwhom

i'll bet sharks aren't even that dangerous. there's probably some normal blub blub type of fish that's way more dangerous

sharks are fucking bullshit. imagine if your whole gimmick was just "a fish, but dangerous"

speedrunning idea: pi%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZSFRWJCUY4 try to beat DOOM (probably doom1.wad) as fast as you can with as low a value of pi as you can. lower pi value beats faster time, like in the A button challenge.

Ok wait we can go even further back. Cars is set in what Tolkien would call the Fifth Age, Sally is a short story showing a moment in time near the end of the forth age

ok i meant this as a joke but re-reading the ending now, i really do love the idea of this story being part of the Cars historical canon.

can anyone confirm if this is canon or just a fanfic origin story of the Cars universe? https://libgen.is/fiction/8D6406534B9FA34739662A93B68C75E3

#noovenmittschallenge2024 still #going strong #no #ovenmitts #challenge (I used a pot holder to hold the #hot pan #instead)

toxic positivity is when you put your hand on a van de graff generator for too long and the covalent bonds in your body start breaking down due to a lack of electrons

people always talk shit about Takumi, saying it's not physically possible for him to race without spilling the water. what they fail to understand was that this was perfectly realistic, he was simply using a little-known technique called "input shaping"

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product idea: popcorn kernels the size of tennis balls. you put maybe 2 or 3 in the microwave and then run for your life

pots with handles, pushing things around with sticks, no-bake recipes, the only limit is your imagination! (and oven mitts, since they are not allowed). lets hear about your methods to achieve your goals #without using #ovenmitts #noovenmittschallenge2024

no oven mitts challenge. it's just what it says, nothing more, nothing less. join in and share what you can make this year, with #noovenmittschallenge2024

do you experience a persistent, high-frequency sort of hissing sound? too faint to be tinnitus, too high frequency to be spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (which apparently top out at 4.5 kHz, while mine seems somewhere upwards of 15kHz (my bluetooth headphones can't go much higher than 15kHz and that sounds too low, but i remember CRTs sounding similar, and in NTSC land that's 15.734kHz, although i think it's more of a noise band centered up in that range rather than a pure tone, but it's hard to think about frequencies that high because i feel like all my mental representations of sound fall apart up there)

anyways, do you experience something like this, and if so, when you get a brain zap, does the frequency sharply drop (like, sweeps downwards over maybe 100-200 ms) maybe an octave or so, sit at the lower sound for maybe 10 or 20 seconds, and then slowly fade away (no sweep, just a crossfade) back to the higher one? (it's hard to say what frequency it drops to, because it's much more obviously a frequency distribution at that point, it sounds like the sound you hear when you press your temple or forehead against a running faucet and hear the turbulence inside

someone should really set up an alternate war thunder forum where uploading classified documents is allowed