I was recently thinking - is this like a real thing? Or is it more like a joke since cucumber looks the way it looks?

I’m with you but I get it that sometimes it’s convenient. My wife likes what we call “cup recipes” in baking where everything is measured in cups/glasses (this was a new thing couple of years ago where I live). It’s very fast and convenient.

But yes, it gets out of hand. I mean “a cup of celery”? … How? Why?

9gag, they also have 816. Is this where the screenshot is from?

Citroen Saxo, everything was SO cheap. I remember I had to replace a side mirror and a new one was like … 30€? And I was able to do it myself.

Replacing a side mirror on my Octavia was almost 500€!

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Went to the pizzeria,

Came back with gonorrhea.

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It umm … It’s nice she’s giving them some helping hand, am I right?

sweats

Sigh … “robocall”

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I mean, probably not equally but isn’t it sort of true?

Wait, oh no. No, no no no no no Lemmy no! I can explain! No! Don’t hurt downvote me!

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Yeah, well maybe you should put this into your graph as a choice. You might not like it but Ubuntu still has a major support for anything Linux related. Any manufacturer or software development - if they support Linux, there is a high chance that they mean basically Ubuntu, quite often they tested it just there. This is a HUGE advantage for any beginner.

Beginners don’t care about behind the curtain stuff, they just want things to work. And you might not like Canonical but Ubuntu does this

Counted calories, ate less, reduced sugar, flour and potato consumption. No exercise.

Exercising has a lot of health benefits and helps with loosing weight but food consumption is the most important.

Eventually I started running but this was after I lost weight. If exercising demotivates you, don’t force it

AI generation can be used for disinformation which can literally destabilize or right away end the world as we know it.

But fake Taylor Swift pictures, this is where we draw the line …

I don’t get it :(

I never knew that Brendan Fraser won an oscar. Must have been for George of the jungle

Can someone list those piracy subscription services so we can avoid them as responsible citizens?

No no no, Hot Dog is a Quiche where I live

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That’s ok u/TacoButtPlug

I’d see 2 reasons:

1. A lot of people put a lot of money into it and they won’t give them up. They’ll keep buying and selling, keeping it sort of artificially afloat even if it has no real world usage. Well there is actually one which leads me to the next point
2. The illegal market (and gambling) has a use case for cryptocurrencies so they actually use them

But to put it simply - they don’t die because they don’t have to. There is no single company that would pull the plug. By it’s design, they can coexist in our world and no one can stop it, doesn’t matter if people use it or not

It’s like a torrent with millions of seeders. As long as there is at least one seeder, the torrent will exist even if the files it contains aren’t really useful

I was very sceptical towards the recent hypes (space exploration, cryptocurencies, self driving cars, …) which turned out to be fads but this time … this time I’m going to guess it isn’t going to be a fad. Well it depends what we imagine by “AI” - will you have a robot pal like in movie I Robot or AI Artificial Intelligence? Probably not. Will AI predictions and learning be put into majority of programms and quite clever AI voice-assistants will appear like in movie Her? Yeah, I guess this could happen. My main reasons are:

1. It actually isn’t that difficult, machine learning isn’t new and very theoretically speaking, as long as you have enough computation power, nothing is stopping you. Like at the moment I can’t think of any limit
2. Laws to stop it would be very difficult. You cannot just say “No AI!”, I mean people can run it at home, how do you want to stop it? Which leads me to other point
3. The OpenSource community had also made progress in the area
4. Major players are heavily investing into it

I’m into genealogy so my idea always was that before I go, I’d like to left something about me on some genealogy website like familysearch.org . Now bear in mind that the website is owned by some Mormon church but it’s huge. Afaik you can put quite a lot in there (not just birth date) although I personally never executed my plan of putting that much info in there (I’m a bit afraid that my info will be missused or cause problems for me or my children but once I’m gone it won’t matter that much). I don’t know if it’s right for you but there is this option. Maybe someone somewhere will make a family tree and say, hey, there was this distant relative of mine and this is their story