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  • Put the money back in you pocket and use YouTube and the muscle wiki to do a combination of body weight training and yoga.

    If you gotta buy something, get a good workout mat, sneakers, and wireless headphones.

    Some personally experienced and psychologically supported things to consist

    • Unless you’re getting into serious weight training, marathon running, or a very specific physical shape, any large purchase is just going to exist as a guilt bank if you don’t get the results you want out of it.
    • Any machine you get is going to fail you if you don’t have proper form and thus either hurt your progress or body if you don’t spend enough time up front getting that form.
    • Are you making this your passion? Most people work out for a goal and when you hit that goal you’re going to find it a lot harder to justify the space the equipment takes when you’re working out for maintenance instead of progress.

    On the counter to that, body weight training uses nothing, can be done everywhere, and focuses on form. Combining it with yoga and you either get a perfect rounded workout that will get your results with minimal recovery time, or you will figure out where you need the most help while building that form you need for a machine. Then you will already know what you need to buy and have an understanding your body instead of the advice of a pool of strangers who don’t know you, don’t know what you need, and don’t know what you’re expecting.

    Personally, after that I’d use the money for a local martial arts program, which will also give you a support community to encourage you to keep working at it.


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    Don’t fall for traps.

    If you’re driving in a rural or deserted area and you see a vehicle stopped on the side of the road, slow roll it with the doors locked and the windows up to scope the scene, then drive to the nearest populated area and call the authorities to inform them of the situation.

    Doesnt matter how rich the van or dead the driver seems to be, you aren’t doing shit if you end up human trafficked.






  • Personally I find them boring. I’ve seen the exact same points displayed in more nuanced and entertaining ways so they just feel uninspired.

    What I dislike far more is the discussion about it. This has to be the 5th post I’ve seen about this artist in the last 2 days. I now know the name, that she has an onlyfans, and a very detailed map of her political views, all without my interest or intent to learn this. I do not understand why so many people are that invested in this specific comic.


  • For the same adhd reasons I’ve tried to learn programming languages about 8 times a year since 2011 and can’t make it stick.

    Ive got this idea for a pocket pet game that’s sort of a love letter to all those toys from the late 90s that never really hit their full potential. It uses qr and barcode scanning to generate loot, your pet can change species and color with your effort so you never have to replace them and you can customize them to your identity, it uses real world travel to generate battles, and you can battle other players locally.

    The code scans would be used as a seed for a random table and then be account locked so every time you scan that can of soup you get the same item reliably every 24hrs. With the idea that dedicated players would collect the codes that they’d want to repeatedly use. Then when you meet other players you can scan each other’s collection to get a quick boost of loot, facilitating a reason for the player base to socialize.

    I have dreams of making it FOSS, supporting its expenses with monotized cosmetics for sprites and UI with an open invitation for players to make their own cosmetics that they’d receive a 50% cut of the profits. If it ever got big I’d get modified versions of those dog tag engravers you see at tourist traps that would print out a token featuring your pet, your account name, and a one of a kind qr code on the back that gives a slightly better reward. I’d put these machines in silly places so the players would have a neat experience visiting them and a one of a kind physical reminder of the fun to show off to their friends.

    I have the whole game complete on paper but I don’t know how to make it work digitally so I doubt it will ever happen.




  • That first part is kind of what I mean? Computers are functionally just math and parity checkers, they do the tedious and complicated parts of finding the data, checking it’s validity, and distributing it into shades of light that create an image of Piper Perry getting her tonsils massaged. They do it quick and they do it cheap, that’s why they’re good tools.

    LLMs are no replacement for that. They get math wrong regularly because they don’t actually calculate they just guess. They get indexing wrong because they don’t actually check it like conputers do. Yeah, they can also provide some amalgam of digital flesh with fake blonde looking hair but they do so at a cost that would make the real actress look like a charity. Nothing about AI makes sense because it’s smoke and mirrors to distract us from all the money that’s getting stolen.

    The only way this week cause an AI Apocalypse is if it’s actually a human error apocalypse or a human greed apocalypse wearing a cyberpunk hat.






  • It’s not one person’s data, that’s functionally worthless. It’s the aggregate data of a majority of the population that they’re selling.

    Think of it like this, a survey answered by a single person doesn’t tell you anything. A server answered by 100 people is considered good data in research. LG claims over 240 million people own smart TVs or monitors globally, that’s nearly the entire population of Pakistan or the combined population of Texas, California, New York, and Florida, a survey of that many people is unheard of in standard research methods.

    But it isn’t just one survey. Every ad you skip is a survey answer. Average viewing time, media genre or categories, preferred platforms, veiwer retention, time of day, number of ads you will tolerate, preferred volume, preferred content, preferred aspect ratio, preferred color tone, and on and on, and exactly accurate instead of the feeble self assessment of such. That’s not even including the verifiably proven things they pretend they aren’t tracking like every conversion you have in range of the remote.

    Your specific data is relatively worthless, but as a datapoint in a chart of 72% of the population of the United States, that data can be used to change the information landscape of the world.