BertramDitore @ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

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It’s definitely pedantic, but I’ve had more than one friend from countries in Central and South America comment on it, so it’s not just me noticing.

Ugh us Americans from the USA don’t seem to understand how arrogant it is to say he’s the first American pope. Argentina is in South America. This guy is the first North American pope, or better yet the first pope from the United States. This is going to bug the shit out of me.

Edit: Because I’m genuinely loving the downvotes (you really felt it when I called you arrogant, huh), if the next US president was from North Dakota, we wouldn’t say they were the first president from Dakota, would we?

Yeah my bad, that can definitely be true depending on the credit union.

Many if not most CUs join a co-op of tens of thousands of fee-free ATMs, but depending on where you are and which CU you’re a member of, it may not help.

That article feels unfinished, but at least the author pushes back a little. Those numbers cannot possibly be true. And if they somehow are, based on my experience cleaning up that code will take nearly as long as a person writing it from scratch.

Completely agree. I totally got off my couch and started dancing along with her during that scene. This whole season is so visceral.

This only works for certain kinds of mailboxes, not the standard ones many apartments have that only open for the carrier from the top. The carrier has a key that opens the whole box from the top, they put the mail in that way. It’s only incoming mail, there’s no external slot to put outgoing mail. If there’s anything left in the box when they’re delivering, the carrier just assumes the resident hasn’t picked up the previous mail. They never take mail out of an incoming mailbox box.

Eh I guess it’s possible, but probably unlikely. You could always stick some tape on the sticky note if you’re worried.

I just replied to a similar comment, but here it is again since you replied while I was typing :)

Yeah, I have the same issue. I just keep the misdirected mail for a week or two until it stacks up and then drop it all in the nearest blue USPS mailbox, which is in the center of town. It’s annoying, but not a huge deal. Also I’ve read you shouldn’t write directly on the envelope, the post office prefers sticky notes so the original envelope isn’t defaced.

Yeah, I have the same issue. I just keep the misdirected mail for a week or two until it stacks up and then drop it all in the nearest blue USPS mailbox, which is in the center of town. It’s annoying, but not a huge deal.

Also I’ve read you shouldn’t write directly on the envelope, the post office prefers sticky notes so the original envelope isn’t defaced.

You should definitely switch to a credit union regardless. There are no downsides.

But fault for this kind of issue is shared between the previous resident and the bank. When someone moves, it’s their responsibility to change their address in all the various systems in which they exist and set up mail forwarding, which lasts for a year by default, and is free.

It is your responsibility to forward any misdirected mail you receive. The alternative is throwing it out, which is illegal. Just put a sticky note on the envelope that says something like “wrong address, return to sender” and drop it in any outgoing mailbox.

This is a pretty standard issue though. I lived at my previous apartment for more than 7 years, and I was still getting mail from the previous tenant when I moved out. People are so lazy.

It’s not just that it was written by an LLM, it’s that you didn’t write it.

This platform is for reading stuff written by people. Whether that’s news, comments, whatever. You’ll find plenty of AI communities here, but each community has a culture and norms, and you’re now feeling what it’s like to push against those norms.

There’s an obvious difference in language and tone between LLMs and a genuine comment written by a living breathing human being. Most of your comments read like they were written by a PR firm, and that’s just not fun for anyone.

Don’t rely on a machine to filter and improve your thoughts. Use your own thinking and writing to do that, otherwise you’ll quickly be blocked by all the humans here who actually participate.

Lemmy users are pretty skeptical of anything that reads like it came out of an LLM. I downvote and block all the low-effort slop I see.

This might fly on other platforms, but lots of Lemmy users came here to get away from this kind of stuff.

If you want to engage with people in good faith, then take the time to think through your thoughts, and write them out using your own words. If you’re not willing to take the time to write a post yourself, I’m not going to take the time to read it.

I kind of get it in cases where no one has commented yet, and the OP realizes a mistake or how stupid a question it is. But once there’s engagement, I wish the OP would leave it up.

I’ve noticed this a lot lately: I’ll comment, my comment will get engagement, so I’ll check the thread again to reply or read other comments, do that, then come back later to follow up again, and it’s all been deleted. Like, even if the original post was stupid or embarrassing, the fact that there was genuine engagement, to me, means it shouldn’t be deleted.

But again, I understand the anxiety of leaving your own stupid words up if they really bother you, so I won’t lose sleep over this.

This wasn’t just one intelligence agency’s finding, it was a report that was signed by every single intelligence agency in the US. They all explicitly agreed with the conclusion that TDA is not controlled by or affiliated with the Venezuelan government.

In fact, the memo states, Maduro and top Venezuelan officials view the gang as a threat.

This is important because it makes the president’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, which requires an organized invasion by a foreign nation, patently illegal.

Yeah the single camera thing is a lot. I usually get used to it, but it’s a ton of movement.

It’s really funny, but it’s also kinda hard to watch. That’s probably at least partly the point, Rogan’s character reliably makes the wrong decision or does the most cringeworthy embarrassing thing possible, in every situation. I’ve started guessing what wrong thing he’ll do, and he always does it. It’s a really well-made show, with an absurdly good cast, but I have to be in a specific mood to enjoy this kind of comedy.

That sounds quite awkward and strange for you. I honestly can’t imagine how weird that must be. But it sounds like you’re handling it the best way possible by supporting your daughter, maintaining your relationship with her, and keeping an eye on the whole thing. She’s an adult who can make her own decisions (granted a very young adult), so from what I can tell you’re being a great dad!

In my experience, the invite-only ones are cleaner, index releases faster, and have less junk. They also typically have active support communities so you can talk to a real person if you need to. There are some open paid ones that are great (nzbgeek is pretty solid), but the invite-only ones index significantly higher quality content in many categories. Though to be honest, depending on what you’re looking for and how picky you are about quality, a couple of the standard paid ones would probably sufficient.

Some of the invite-only indexers do open their registration periodically, so I’d recommend keeping their registration page open and just refresh it every day if you can’t get hold of an invite. Drunken Slug, for example, opens their registrations to the public every so often.

I bet that adorable dude can move.

Good tip!