My first house was in a town where the hall of records burned down in 1920. Which means that no one still around knows when anything older was actually built, butofficially everything older was built in 1920.

That guy doesn’t look like the dinosaur guy. Not yet, anyway.

On Thursday I attended a company-wide meeting wherein several coworkers tried (with mixed results) to persuade the rest of the company to start using AI. The primary way they did so was by listing incidents in which they’d found it useful.

One of the examples was (mildly paraphrased) “our other coworker is old, so he knows things like Tom Sawyer. He said he thought I was pulling a Tom Sawyer, trying to convince him to paint the fence.”

I respect the person who was giving that speech, they seem very knowledgeable, but hearing that they had to ask AI what that meant was just upsetting.

That said, I guess one use for AI is deciphering idioms?

I was going to mention DOS, but I looked it up in the hopes of not sounding like an idiot and it turns out the history is more complicated than I knew.

Uh … Definitely not me. Nope.

That’s why I said older.

But yeah … Sad truths.

And hoodie!

I use both and have been happy with both, but note that Element / Matrix have recently announced the intent to add paid service tiers.

I said in another thread about this, he looks like an older Tom Scott.

That indeed is a functional method, but I’m not sure I’d call it more accessible. Unless you mean that more people probably own a pot than an appropriate microwave safe container, in which case, fair enough.

A while ago there was a reddit post about how you don’t need bagged popcorn to pop popcorn. You don’t even need any of them there fancy air poppers. All you need is a glass container and the popcorn itself. And it’s true!

The only part that presented any trouble was finding a safe container with a safe lid - during the process of popping, an individual kernel is super warm, so if it hits a lid that can’t tolerate that it can melt pits into the lid.

Other than that (and making sure you don’t add too much popcorn, that stuff expands like crazy), just dump the kernels into your container, cover it up (don’t forget to vent as appropriate) and then microwave as you would the bagged stuff. Add your seasonings, shake up the container, and enjoy.

I was refraining from posting this, so I’m very glad someone else did. Back when we were masked up, I always appreciated the Maryland flag masks the most and made sure to compliment their wearers.

Thank you for your assistance.

To be fair, I am shocked… Not to see a Pikachu face in the comments.

I had guessed the nature of the site and “roleplay.” It is a tad silly on my part to not have guessed “erotic”; thanks for getting me there (and not in an erotic way).

edit: Had left out the word “there.”

… What’s ERP? Or don’t I want to know?

I agree with you … But the contention mentioned above is mostly just a joke between us now. The good news is that I plan to be with her the rest of my life and die before she does, so how long we’ve been together is less of a concern to me than how long we will be!

That’s similar to what I was considering saying - my wife and I disagree whether we met when I was 22 or 23 and all the services we used to talk back then (IRC server, Skype, AIM) are gone, so there are no easily accessible records.

That said, I’m about to turn 38, so also fifteenish years is how long I’ve known her. We got married about seven years after that.

My wife also made a spreadsheet detailing her symptoms before her assessment (which was with a GP, not a mental health professional). Apparently the mere existence of the document was sufficient to earn her a diagnosis.

https://youtu.be/o8ym0HBvpFA