tried to watch a movie on the train with the onboard entertainment options AND IT IS FUCKING DUBBED IN SPANISH. ALL THE MOVIES ARE DUBBED IN SPANISH. honestly one of **the** dumbest things about Spain is this obsession with dubbing, it is **awful** like, please join us in the 21st century ffs.
it’s fucking crazy that the Prado and the Reina Sofia collections are like right next to each other in Madrid. one of the most incredible art experiences in the western world imo. overwhelming.
gonna fire some shots here: Madrid is not a good place to eat. it’s expensive and mediocre, I’ve had like a dozen meals in Madrid now and not a single one has been memorable or remarkable in any way. in contrast, there are at least eight restaurants within three blocks of my apartment in Barcelona that I’ve been back to multiple times. Barcelona is just a **much** better food city, it’s not even close.
@07e2d0cd I watched it stone sober and I still understood like maybe half of it. it’s a movie that **requires** you to watch it multiple times, which I don’t think I’m gonna do, but also 👏👏👏 I respect the hustle.
ok look, “Tenet” is a hot mess, but it’s also fuckin’ **great** really disappointed in everyone who said not to watch it. there’s no possible way anyone could get that movie right, but it’s thrilling someone would try. just watch it like a comic book movie and it’s delightful and dumb and a total mindfuck. better than 99% of action movies out there, easily.
PETA is a false flag op run by the Farm Bureau, right? is this a just a conspiracy theory, or I feel like there must be some clues someone could track down. nothing in the world has made me **less** interested in being a vegan than PETA’s “go vegan!” bit.
@54a21f42@9cbde81a i sort of don't think we can just blame Republicans for this one. Silicon Valley has done an **excellent** job buying influence with Democrats. hell, Jay Carney is their head of policy.
my dog has the unfortunate characteristic that she runs **toward** things that terrify her, making it very difficult to practice flying a drone indoors.
i'm developing this theory that the people who love ChatGPT the most are people who are already used to giving detailed instructions that have to be adjusted over and over again with mediocre results (university professors, managers, people with servants, etc.)
personally, i fuckin' hate telling someone to do something for me when i know i can do it faster and better myself.
hilarious watching people who are used to ChatGPT doing prompts. "please prepare a grocery list. the list should contain food that is not toxic and normal in size. please make the quantities reasonable for a family for a period of one week, and assume the family is less five people. the groceries should be readily available in an American grocery store and a mix of frozen, canned, dried, and fresh. Assume a western diet, and please do not add any car parts or large rocks to the list"
a better way to deal with cheaters in online shooters would be to turn them into bullet magnets and set their aim off by a couple clicks outside the hitboxes. or queue them exclusively in lobbies with other cheaters. banning them just means they'll start a fresh account.
more than anything, it is reminding me of the whole 3-D printing thing: lots of engineer-type guys raving about how cool this technology is that takes six hours to print a plastic trinket that looks like shit.
(i do think 3-D printing has its applications, as does ChatGPT, but in both cases they are way more narrow and targeted than the boosters would have us believe.)
so far, my experience with ChatGPT tutorials and how-to's is some way-too-enthusiastic guy puts in a very complicated prompt and gets back a lengthy and extremely boring series of bullet points giving the most basic of college freshman answers, but you have to read it carefully and in full because it may randomly include something that is completely wrong, and he goes "wow! wow!! this changes everything!!"
ffs worst of all possible worlds.
more than anything, it is reminding me of the whole 3-D printing thing: lots of engineer-type guys raving about how cool this technology is that takes six hours to print a plastic trinket that looks like shit.
@55f1cb6e wait i thought the only reason the imperialists want to get involved is because white people are threatened??? the discourse is so confusing!
again, funding Ukraine is the best value the Pentagon or NATO have ever gotten for any military project, ever, and it's completely bonkers that anyone would be like "hmm, idk, is it worth it??"
you have a chance to fundamentally ball-slap one of the world's foremost adversaries to democracy without risking a single one of our lives **and** while aiding the victim of an illegal war of aggression, essentially heading off a genocide. of all the dumb shit we spend war money on, this one seems like a pretty good deal!
again, funding Ukraine is the best value the Pentagon or NATO have ever gotten for any military project, ever, and it's completely bonkers that anyone would be like "hmm, idk, is it worth it??"
@c45dcdd0@4ebb1885 yeah, the same thing is happening in translation: fewer actual translation roles, more post-editing. some people like debugging/post-editing, but tweaking an existing thing is fundamentally different (and doesn’t pay as well) as making the thing yourself.
**really** glad to be living in a city where cycling for transportation is a thing everyone does, not just psycho weirdo risk-takers who like to do extreme sports before work.
it’s pretty wild that Web 2.0 is turning out to be temporary. we watched “Zola” the other night and it was **surreal** watching two 20-something women exchanging their Facebooks. that was in 2015, imagine meeting someone today and asking to connect with them on Facebook.
have occasionally encountered motor vehicles stopped in the bike lane in BCN but it doesn’t make me as mad as it did in DC because a) there’s **so much** bike lane it’s not like they’re encroaching on your tiny sliver of non-car space, there’s plenty of non-car space, and b) the speed of traffic in general is sooooo much slower it’s not nearly as scary or tricky to go around. oh and probably c) it just happens a lot less because there are real penalties.
@e44af31c no idea, It’s paywalled, but if they’re saying it’s a gender thing, Bill Maher is getting dragged all over the internet too. I think these publications just need contrarian takes.
here’s the thing, Hunter Biden is a page 10 story. it has nothing to do with the country or with political power in any conceivable way and putting it on the front page like every single legacy media outlet is doing is just playing to the (insane) rightwing conspiracy conviction that There Is Something Going On (there isn’t).
with the enshittification of Twitter and now Reddit, i no longer have a place where i can get kind of a broad overview at what "people" are saying, across a broad array of internet/IRL subcultures, interests, and news items, and i don't like it.
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