So true. I bet it happens a lot. I got my degree in English with an eye towards becoming an editor. Now I work with CRMs.

I like it when I’m remembered because it means that I was worth remembering.

Always boggled me to see people trying to post long write-ups on complicated topics on Twitter of all places.

I’m still kind of surprised we haven’t seen a similar model for gamers/streamers yet.

Always wondered why some of the CSRs at the call center would get chewed out more than others despite being polite and respectful and I think you just made me understand that it was because they sounded false. They had a very obvious “customer service” voice. The ones who didn’t tended to just sound like normal folk having a good day. (That’s the secret sauce, they usually weren’t having a good day, but they sounded like they were in on some joke with you, that joke being ‘ahh talking to people, am I right?’)

It wasn’t what introduced me to linux entirely, but it is absolutely what made me realize that Linux COULD be user friendly, so I definitely give credit to Valve for that. I am now gearing up to make the switch in the near future on my desktop.

Ayy same age, got a stuffed whale and a stuffed kitty!

Big Al’s Big Gay Ranch was already taken unfortunately.

Who’s out here defending an ad?

Do Not Talk. Do Not Think. Simply Consume.

They are anti-LGBT. I don’t have a source handy for you at the moment so encourage you to search it up.

I don’t think so. A smaller pool does mean smaller odds that someone will take what you are offering and do anything with it, but it’s still possible to affect change, especially if you are asking people to affect things actually within their control.

But, with that said, your impact will likely be stronger if you communicate with the people near you locally instead of online, since you and those (physically) around you are affected by the same localized forces.

The internet is a good place to collaborate on ideas and methodologies; your local community is a good place to try to implement those things.

One of my relatives’ primary concerns isn’t ticks, it’s mice getting into the house. Is that a valid concern? Personally I think just keeping a couple of indoor cats would offset encroaching rodents.

Interestingly enough, you are correct, and I read about it in the same article that is being depicted in this comic. (MIT’s paper on the subject.)

https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117

I thought all the energy drain was from training, not from prompts? So I looked it up. Like most things, it’s complicated.

My takeaway is that training an LLM is the biggest energy sink, and after that it’s maintaining the data centers they live in, but when it comes to generative AI itself, prompts aren’t completely innocent either.

So, you’re right, energy is being wasted on silly prompts, particularly when you compare it to other AI types than generative. But the biggest culprit is in the training and maintaining of the LLMs in the first place.

I don’t know, I personally feel like I have a finite amount of rage, I’d rather write an angry post on a blog about the topic than yell at some rando on a forum.

I will give it this. It’s been actually pretty helpful in me learning a new language because what I’ll do is that I’ll grab an example of something in working code that’s kind of what I want, I’ll say “This, but do X” then when the output doesn’t work, I study the differences between the chatGPT output & the example code to learn why it doesn’t work.

It’s a weird learning tool but it works for me.

It also reminds me to post something back somewhere.

I didn’t know, thank you!

Was really hoping to see better discovery/searching/browsing of instances.