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At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"?
  • I personally say "o one" "o two" etc. all the way up to "o nine" After that it just seems weird to say "ten" or "eleven" instead of "twenty ten"

    Even referring to 1910 as "ten" seems weird and wrong, though. In my mind, it doesn't make sense to leave the nineteen off until the 40s. For example, saying: "Back in forty-five" sounds right, but "Back in thirty-five" sounds wrong to me for some reason.

  • When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean?
  • The big players will likely continue to develop this tech. "The Bubble" is more about the marketing and speculative investing in anything with "AI" tacked onto it. There's no reality where everything AI is being ham fisted into is going to be successful. There will be some winners, but there will be a lot of losers when the bubble bursts.

    In the meantime, we have to put up with every company and product marketing that they now have "AI" in their product, whether it's actually useful or different from it was before.

  • whatcha gonna watch?
  • It's the 6th grade. The girls are taken to the gym for a presentation about menstruation. Us boys are put in a room with this cart to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

  • is it possible to download Tiktok videos on mobile?
  • My friends screen record the video and send that because I refuse to click tiktok links. I still don't watch them.

  • Did Trump vote? Could he have?
  • I looked this up a while back. Felons in NY can vote as long as they aren't currently incarcerated.

  • U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz defeats Democrat Colin Allred
  • That spineless wish dot com Herman Munster looking coward remaining my senator has been just as depressing for me as the result of the presidential election.

    I get why people didn't like Beto. I didn't like him much either but still voted for him.

    Colin Allred though seemed like such an excellent choice. An extremely likeable candidate, with quite moderate policy positions.

    Half my fellow Texans just cannot think critically and see through the propaganda they are being force fed.

  • strange workplace, how should I proceed?
  • I personally have no issue with swearing. I do it quite a lot. However I've got a pretty good filter for when it's not appropriate, like around kids, or in many professional settings.

    From reading your other posts about this it seems you are a nurse and dropped an f bomb while checking on a patient's wound care.

    To me, that seems like a pretty clear situation where it's inappropriate to swear. It's unprofessional and bad bedside manner from a medical professional. If I were a patient and heard my nurse drop an f bomb while working on me, I'd be quite alarmed.

    I suspect your fellow nurses are not mad at you because they are too sensitive about swearing, but rather they consider your outburst to have been unprofessional, and the fact that you refuse to acknowledge that, apologize, and promise to work on it in the future is what has them upset with you.

  • Realistically... How fucked is the US?
  • Right now, this is what I am telling myself. Let's just hope he is only as bad as he was the first go around, and not as bad as he has been claiming he will be on the campaign trail. He is the lyingest sack of shit to ever hold office. Let's cross our fingers he was lying about most of the shit he promised his cult.

  • Just finished a new set of arrows for the wife.
  • You can buy complete arrows, or mostly blank shafts where you add your own fletching, knocks, and threaded inserts. Also, common to cut them to ideal length.

  • Linux Mint and Framework Laptops Join Forces
  • Does anyone else have issues loading articles on linuxiac? Every time I open a link to an article there CPU usage spikes like crazy, firefox bogs down, and gives me a wait or kill page dialog.

  • Why do different ethnicities/races look different?
  • It's important to think about the time scale that evolution works on. These changes happened very slowly 50,000+ years ago.

    The regions near the equator where people still tend to be lighter skinned have been in contact with and interbreeding with lighter skinned people for thousands of years, plus many migrations and invasions.over the past 10,000 years.

  • What part of clothe shopping annoys you most?
  • I feel you. I'm 6'4" and the biggest hurdle is pants and shirt length. Unless they have tall sizes all shirts become halter tops if I even slightly raise my arms.

    Pants are a pain in the ass too because I need at least 34" length for them to not be capris on me. Most companies just make all their pants 32".

    There is a reason 90% of my clothing has come from Eddie Bauer for the last 15 years. I'm not particularly brand loyal. They just make clothes that fit me, and most companies don't.

  • A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source
  • Agreed. Automotive repair is a big exception to my video tutorial hatred. It just makes more sense as it's something being worked on in 3 dimensions. It would probably work well for home improvement stuff as well.

  • A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source
  • I watch a ton of YouTube. I love it for entertainment and some news. I absolutely hate YouTube for tutorials or guides though. If I'm trying to figure out how to fix a computer issue, I just want to read about it and have screenshots I can look at. I don't want to have to constantly pause a damn video or scroll back and forth to find info.

    As far as tiktok style videos go I just hate everything about them. I hate the auto play, I hate the vertical aspect ratio, I hate the stupid auto voiceovers, I hate the dumb floating captions and comments overlay, I hate the lack of volume adjustment or the ability to pause and rewind or seek. I hate the types of brainrot content that people make to work the algorithm. I hate that the format has infested YouTube and IG with no real way to be rid of it.

  • Straight men, what's the weirdest thing you've been told you can't do because it's gay?
  • Playing tennis.

    In jr high I had some friends who played football say my other friends and I on the tennis team were gay for playing tennis.

    I had to point out to them that the tennis team was co-ed and we regularly made out with our female teammates on the long bus rides to tournaments.

    While those on the football team were constantly manhandling each other, showering together and slapping each other on the ass to say "good game." But the tennis team are the gay ones?

    They got mad, but dropped it.

  • Having to use windows at work makes me appreciate my desktop Linux experience at home.
  • Oh yeah, I have noticed that the virtual desktop switching on windows 11 sucks. It's extra shitty if you set a different wallpaper for each one.

  • Having to use windows at work makes me appreciate my desktop Linux experience at home.
  • When teams is just doing chat things, it's fine. But the fact that it's the only program that doesn't remember which monitor it is supposed to be on, and never remembers the show on all desktop settings, drives me insane. Not to mention that it seems to restart itself multiple time per day and makes me fix its location each time.