7bicycles [he/him] @ 7bicycles @hexbear.net

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I'm a RETVRN guy for attack vectors on consoles being hardware based like for the PS1 era. Like I'm sure it is insanely harder than finding some sort of software bug in the bloat but also you can't security patch "guy with a soldering iron"

I recently got a presentation at work about how some institute "found out" that by 2028 99% of all the internet will be AI generated. This was presented as some sort of "look at the future, dang!" type thing but It'll just be this. We're 2 years in or so and the things are already getting Kuru.

I'm much more inclined to believe a bunch of added labour and complexity contributes to the price of food compared to cheaper ingredients that last longer. Also when I'm talking vibe based that person'd be far ahead of the course here, most of the restaurant owners I'm aware of literally just feel their way into it. I mean I'd still rather just have "plant based" meals like Burger King does instead of true vegan and a surcharge but it's hard to fault them for it.

I know it’s pretty nitpicky but I’m sure a lot of restaurants that serve cauliflower “wings” just throw them in the same fryer as the chicken wings. then people make them at home and wonder why they don’t taste the same? Because you didn’t fry them in oil flavored with chicken fat

I'd wager a guess it's less this and more, like with everything else, the amount of fat and salt they put in there you'd feel uncomfortable doing at home, looking at yourself pouring 300ml of straight oil into the marinade and then adding 2 tablespoons of salt. If you ever made restaurant style food at home it really takes the fun out of it as you are painfully aware every bite is like at least half a teaspoon of fat. Tastes great tho.

Horse feet are so strange.

I'm oddly convinved that guys ancestors did eat all their piss and poo tbh

I'm guessing regional difference here, never had that. Every time an item was clearly "what do those dang vegans like!?" it was bean sprouts with imported quinoa salad coupled with a sourdough rye bread made in a kiln that has my grandmas ashes in it with avocado on top for 3x the price of anything else when all I wanted is the slop trough of of ketchup, fries and meat everybody else is getting except replace that one bratwurst you throw in there with a vegan option you make in the same deep fryer

The endpoint of liberal individualism is that it matters not what is done, it matters who does it.

Listen here, buddy, I'm not talking daily B12 pills like some sort of sickly person or drug addict. No Sir! I demand the animals I eat take them

Some chain restaurants seem to adopt some sort of "slight discount for the vegan option" variable, I assume due to this, which I'm sure they make even more margins on than the meat versions if only because a lot of vegan substitute meat keeps a lot better than it's meat-meat counterparts and you have less write-off to compensate for.

I think for anything non-chain it's mostly small business tyrant ideology where they either add a sin tax to vegan food because they're mad as fuck at having to do it to stay in business or, and I think this is the majority of them, all price and cost calculations are entirely vibes based anyhow and since we all know vegan is expensive, surcharge it is. I base this entirely on the fact that whenever you find vegan food that isn't purposefully vegan, because the dish just is, they never charge extra and this translates across all cuisines I've ever tried in a gastro establishment.

Small carveout here for people who realize vegans are shit-outta-luck some places and then charge extra, which I think is shitty, but at least makes economical sense. Feels more honest.

On the other hand, sometimes I stumble across a vegan option at a restaurant I would never expect to have them and they seem to take some sort of "we keep some packets of vegan protein in the freezer and whenever somebody actually orders this we just dump the whole package in" approach which leads to things like getting 25 falafels on your bowl.

I get how the LLM is bad at chess, I think most of everyone games of chess suck ass by definition but I'm kind of baffled about how it apparently not only played badly but wrong. How is there a big enough dataset of people yucking it up for that to happen entirely consistently?

That was I thinker but damn, gottem

Obviously the LAPD has gone woke and soy and needs to be immediatly dissolved

What? How? I played through it and liked it but even standing in the middle of the heat after a firefight doesn't tell you it happened barring the bodies laying there

It's both anthromorphizing animals to the point where they get fucked up I think. Which feels weird because in my anecdotal experience everyone who does this is also a huge fan of likening humans to animals in the "I am the wolf among the sheep" thing or "I have incisors like a lion which is why I must eat meat and also my stepson" type deal

I think you'd need to know when this was posted, there's both good and bad feminist movements trying to reclaim this sort of language by this point

I have some experience with this topic in real life and boy howdy would some of the people involved in the reclamation here get angry at the words "artifact". It probably makes sense for the game, it seems light hearted and all which is cool, but a surprising number of those "artifacts" are just human remains which are neither displayed - guess that'd be macabre - but also we're just not giving them back.

Point being; the idea that these artifacts and actual human remains were looted is an absolutely fringe position. Sure that comment section goes wildly fucking racist with it but I don't think most people'd disagree with it if phrased just a tiny bit nicer

It's so fucking dire. Even before AI any given half of an insanely popular slop cute animal compilation was animal abuse. Not in the sense that somebody punts a puppy through a football goal but where it was really obvious this animal got the raw end of the stick. "Chester the rabbit loves his weekly baths :)" as the poor thing is nearly dying of a stress induced heart attack type stuff.

But through the powers of computer we now combine footage of a roadkilled rabbit with footage of an entirely different, tortured rabbit to create a feelgood story to serve people who "love animals" in the sense that it's a piece of property that's cute to look at

destroying the local plant life it is then

so you destroying the local plant life or introducing invasive species here? Huh?

Good call. But also the newer titles are way worse at this specific thing for some reason