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Does anybody else always find themselves sending large enthusiastic texts to people but don't usually receive such texts?
  • So much text in one message comes across as monologuing. It makes sense that someone would only be interested if it involves something they're very interested in or passionate about.

    The same amount of information broken up across several messages usually comes off better and invites a conversation. Especially if you wait for a response before going on with your subject.

    Edit, also be open to the conversation moving away from the subject you wanted to go on about. Constantly moving the conversation back to your topic so you can finish your thought doesn't work out well

  • What are some illegal things that should be legal?
  • Ah, so getting things out of the trash could be legal, but making a mess from a dumpster should have consequences

  • What are some illegal things that should be legal?
  • A car being used as a place to live becomes a need for the owner of said car.

  • E-6000 plus denim makes a patch on jeans
  • Oh, well then this project fits perfectly. The whole point was to stop throwing out jeans and buying more just to send them through the shredder of outdoor work. Nice!

  • What are some illegal things that should be legal?
  • Oh, so that's the attitude. Make an easily misunderstood statement to feel superior to anyone who doesn't figure out the hidden meaning.

  • What are some illegal things that should be legal?
  • And if the vigilante thinks they are absolutely justified to shoot someone for walking across their lawn?

  • E-6000 plus denim makes a patch on jeans
  • This post goes there? I suppose I did make a sewing-less repair to some clothes

  • What are some illegal things that should be legal?
  • That's what I'm going for, yes.

  • What are some illegal things that should be legal?
  • Well, I mean, someone's evil ex shouldn't park in front of their house. And people should not park for a nap in a handicap spot. And not in the driving portion of a road, not in the breakdown lane of a major highway, not on anyone's lawn.

    But yeah, basically any place where parking is allowed, sleeping while parked should be allowed and protected.

  • What are some illegal things that should be legal?
  • Sleeping in a car that you own.

    I think there should be restrictions on where to park for this, but in general people found sleeping in cars should be protected by the law against theft and harassment.

  • Whats your favorite desk knick-knack (office toys) or one you know of?
  • That is a pretty interesting piece. I'll have to remember die cast direct whenever I have some space and money to expand my model car collection

  • Whats your favorite desk knick-knack (office toys) or one you know of?
  • How exactly does a newton's cradle help with focus? I never had one, and I think I'd end up focusing on the motion of it instead of anything else I'm supposed to be doing.

  • Serious - what job should be replaced by AI?
  • The only full job I can think of is assistant to a busy person. I don't think any whole jobs are done better by ai. Some of the jobs recommended in this thread would be better to be removed rather than replaced.

    So, I think ai makes a better assistant to a person doing a job rather than a replacement to compete a job on its own. It can write rough drafts that a talented writer can expand and edit. It can quickly generate several plans that an experienced leader can pick from or discard. It can look through a designer's portfolio and spit out "new" combinations of their past designs that the designer can then build upon.

    Any one of these jobs could give up and submit the AI's output as their own, but I think the quality of the results would suffer.

  • Serious - what job should be replaced by AI?
  • Scam detection would be more helpful

  • Takes takes takes
  • Career advice be like:

  • E-6000 plus denim makes a patch on jeans
  • Unless you hold your fingers together with pressure for more than a day, it won't glue fingers together.

    Getting it out of carpet is a big deal though

  • E-6000 plus denim makes a patch on jeans
  • It's not like super glue. Several days' curing time. It washed off easily with regular hand soap

  • E-6000 plus denim makes a patch on jeans
  • I got some on my fingers several times during the process, and it wipes off easily with a paper towel, and residue washes off with regular hand soap.

    The curing time is very long, 36 hours if I remember it right. So I usually plan to leave it for a week because if I move the glued item too soon it falls apart again

  • E-6000 plus denim makes a patch on jeans

    I just wanted to say, in case you didn't know, that E-6000 can glue a patch of denim to a pair of jeans well enough to survive the washing machine and heavy use.

    I cut up one old pair of jeans to patch several other old pairs of jeans. One bead of glue around the edge of the patch, one bead around the edge of the hole I'm patching. Some wax paper made sure I only glued what I wanted to glue, and a stack of books on top of the patch for a few days let it cure in place.

    They've survived several months of regular washing, as well as working outside with no issues.

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    Living Wage
  • Expanding this, perhaps no one should take their place because the entire premise of their business doesn't deserve to exist.

  • Why is everyone vehemently against easier lives?
  • Dang, this post needs a Fediverse equivalent to raisedbynarcissists.

    You were raised by mindless people who constantly misused their time and money in ways that directly affected your daily life. Their anti-logical ways left you constantly neglected in some ways, despite the fact that they had the means to cover all your basic needs. This neglect was obvious to anyone who saw you day to day, but they blamed you because your family controlled many decisions that are normally left up to the kids.

    That being said, you're not asking about "everyone" as your title says, you're asking about your family. Also, their words are complaining, but what they are doing is actually bragging. There is a high cultural value on being busy, and they've found ways to be VERY busy by having a literally insane way of life, with exhausting routines that are built around excess and waste.

    Still, this is not a question for a broader audience, but a rant about one stubbornly insane family.

    And the answer is, because they are more proud of their exhausting, difficult lives than you are proud of your planned, easy life.

    edited to clarify and expand

  • show me your best: generated gingerbread house

    I like the idea of eating a gingerbread house, so I thought of a large bell jar to cover a cake topped with a gingerbread house as a way to display it and also eat it later.

    What do you want to see in your gingerbread house?

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    so I'm at my favorite fictional club, and I ask the DJ to put on a specific Classical Composer's music

    He says he can't. I'm so bummed.

    This club can't even Handel me right now

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    AI Generated Music @sopuli.xyz Usernameblankface @lemmy.world

    I Love French TOAST

    suno.com I love French toAST by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    Screamo, heavy metal, energetic, guttural scream, bass beat, guitar solo song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

    I love French toAST  by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    I just thought it would be great to hear a metal band screaming a repetitive song about how much they like French toast.

    I put in a few lines into the Suno lyrics generator and hit generate. I deleted about half of what it spit out for me, (like the ever present lyrics that include "night and day" and "feels so right")

    Then ran through some changes to the prompt as well as fine tuning the lyrics to get this short little ditty.

    Another result from the same prompt: https://suno.com/song/13b61691-2d30-4332-81a1-c04a7986fa75

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    AI Generated Music @sopuli.xyz Usernameblankface @lemmy.world

    Meticulous Tortise

    suno.com Meticulous Tortise by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    Fast rap, upbeat, strong male voice, battle rap, powerful beat, doubletime song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

    Meticulous Tortise by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    After a lot of lyrics edits and rerunning the prompts to get a beat, melody, and voice I liked, I finally got a fast song about being slow.

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    I don't always serve lavendaer garrhsh drinks from the back of my unspecified vehicle...

    In Copilot Designer, DAL-E 3 Prompt: lavender garnish cocktail themed show car with a large speaker system

    Rolling through the "surprise me" generated prompts, landed on the lavender garnish cocktail. Added the rest and hit generate.

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    What is the kindest, most thoughtful thing you've seen a driver do on the road?

    An obvious opposite of a recent question

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    it's practically Christmas

    In Copilot Designer, DAL-E 3 Prompt: a knit sweater with mechanic tools all over it. featuring the slogan, "FIX IT AGAIN TONY" and a fiat logo

    Bing still struggles with words

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    AI Generated Music @sopuli.xyz Usernameblankface @lemmy.world

    Fast Family (Fast and Furious inspired)

    suno.com Fast Family by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    pop edm, driving beat, bass boosted song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

    Fast Family by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    I threw together some lyrics and had Suno put a voice and music to it.

    Also, what prompts have gotten you the best deep thumpy bass results?

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    iridescent cat in the jungle

    In Copilot Designer, DAL-E 3

    Prompt: a big cat with shiny-iridescent fur, balances on a branch in the jungle

    In other news, Copilot Designer can now resize its output from 1:1 to 3:4 landscape

    Before resize:

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    AI Generated Music @sopuli.xyz Usernameblankface @lemmy.world

    Thanks, I hate it

    suno.com Thanks, I Hate It by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    electronic, pop, synth, electro, powerful beat, clear enunciation song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

    Thanks, I Hate It by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    I started with "thanks, I hate it" and put it together with some of the other common responses to awful posts that people wish they hadn't seen. The automatic lyrics generator on Suno filled out the lyrics and made it all rhyme. Then I added some more common comments on awful posts. To get around cursing, I used Well That's Fantastic

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    AI Generated Music @sopuli.xyz Usernameblankface @lemmy.world

    City trains and street vendors (heavy metal remix)

    suno.com City trains and street vendors (heavy metal remix) by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    Heavy metal, dubstep remix, powerful bass, sub bass melody song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

    City trains and street vendors (heavy metal remix) by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    I thought it would be funny to have it generate a country song about city life, and then have it generated in a metal / dubstep style.

    as a country song, it sounds like this

    https://suno.com/song/ddf705ad-c022-4b78-8f8e-7e1039354a8d

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    AI Generated Music @sopuli.xyz Usernameblankface @lemmy.world

    I Own It All (I'm a large language model)

    suno.com I Own It All, All All. (I'm a large language model) by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    catchy, pop, sweet female vocals, dubstep drops, fun song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

    I Own It All, All All. (I'm a large language model) by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    I was just thinking about how LLM's sweep up all these words from everywhere and use it for training data, some of it bought and paid for, most of it not.

    So I put some lines into Suno and let it fill out the rest of the song. A few iterations later, this came out

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    Is it a good idea to get a high wattage phone charging brick and standard USB C cord to use for a laptop charger?

    My laptop charges with USB C, so when the standard charger broke, I just used the USB out port from an EcoFlow battery. The display on the battery said the laptop pulled 25-30 watts while charging. So, why can't I use just any USB brick that can output more than 30 watts?

    Is there something that is bound to go wrong that I don't know about?

    Are laptop chargers really that special?

    (Edited for clarity)

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    Chucky's Cheese, serving up Mac and Cheese and chills

    Bing

    Other examples

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    Bing definitely understood the assignment

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    Chuck -n- Cheese's

    Bing

    A few other results

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    The last one looks so worried

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    Cadillac and Cheese

    In Bing Image Creator, DAL-E 3

    Prompt: a classic lowrider Cadillac celebrating Mac n Cheese in fancy airbrushed style. the trunk is open, showing a large subwoofer setup in the trunk themed for Mac and cheese

    Bonus messed up versions

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    Hey, let's ask him how to spell that employee who drives their boss everywhere

    In Bing Image Creator, DAL-E 3

    Prompt: a very fancy show truck pickup with "Rich McGee" in fancy script on the sides and large golden chrome rims, gold trim, and diamond headlights

    Other ones

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    What makes a good whetstone set? What sets should I avoid?

    I'm looking for a better knife sharpener for my hard steel chef knife. I think whetstones are the way to go, but most of the sets I see are 4 double sided stones. Do I need that many stones?

    Is there a totally different type of sharpener that you have had success with?

    Edit: I should add that I like my knife very sharp, and I have a few tiny chips in the cutting edge from a cheap drag-through sharpener.

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    AI Generated Music @sopuli.xyz Usernameblankface @lemmy.world

    What if an Amish guy made a diss track about AI?

    suno.com An Amish Man's diss track about AI by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    electronic beat, aggressive rap song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

    An Amish Man's diss track about AI  by @wiredsoundengineer218 | Suno

    I edited some words, but the vast majority is just what the AI spit out

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