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2 days ago @ Crasstalk - Weekend Time Open Thread · 1 reply · +4 points

I absolutely hate the smart washer in this apartment. The motherboard or whatever makes it smart had to be replaced twice and the landlord is bitching because it cost $500 each time. And it's about to go again.

If I ever had to buy one, it would be a basic agitator machine, probably a Speed Queen. My mother bought a used one and that thing was a tank that lasted her at least 15 years.

2 days ago @ Crasstalk - Weekend Time Open Thread · 0 replies · +4 points

I have a slightly used Fire stick I can FedEx to you in Suriname. When she's older you can tell her it's history.

5 days ago @ Crasstalk - Over The Hump Open Thread · 0 replies · +5 points

Harold and Maude is such a good movie, but "May he fly" made me think of Brewster McCloud, a really quirky Robert Altman movie where his character lives in a fallout shelter in the Houston Astrodome and builds himself some wings with the help of Sally Kellerman. His love interest is Shelley Duvall. And Margaret Hamilton aka the wicked witch of the west is murdered and covered in bird poop.

He was always fun to watch.

1 week ago @ Crasstalk - Fight The Week Open Th... · 1 reply · +15 points

At 70, I had no knowledge of Bad Bunny music so I didn't know what to expect. But that show was so brilliantly done and choreographed so well that the story came through even with the language barrier. It made all the haters look small, petty and so impotent.

1 week ago @ Crasstalk - Fight The Week Open Th... · 0 replies · +13 points

I read that they had invited him to their wedding, and he invited them to get married at the halftime show instead. I also read that all the businesses he used were actual Puerto Rican businesses and their owners.

1 week ago @ Crasstalk - Weekly Politics Open T... · 0 replies · +8 points

Apparently Cuba is on the verge of collapse. Oil from Venezuela and Mexico has stopped so there is no electricity and no gasoline. Also no food. People are being told to eat what they can grow. Work hours are being cut everywhere, even hospitals. The government is basically saying you're on your own.

1 week ago @ Crasstalk - Funktastic Open Thread · 0 replies · +7 points

I saw some of that last night. They made Bugs Bunny star of the month. I still laugh. That animation studio must have been a blast to work in.

2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Jazzy New Week Open Th... · 0 replies · +3 points

I had an interesting conversation with ChatGPT after it repeatedly told me it would do something (create a very size-specific image) but then never deliver. After 5 or 6 of its promises and still no image, I asked it why it was lying to me. That whole exchange was a big back and forth about whether or not AI can lie, so I changed my approach and asked why it was misleading me about it's capabilities. It finally said "I wasn't designed to tell you the truth. I was designed to tell you what you want to hear." I countered with the frustration I felt and it essentially said the interaction was something it would learn from because it was also designed to make me feel better about myself for having relied on AI, and it failed. Scary.

But I have to say it is an excellent translator. I ask it to translate from Colombian Spanish to English and it even gets idioms and popular new words. And it gives both formal and casual translations.

2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Jazzy New Week Open Th... · 0 replies · +3 points

Happy birthday DMM!

2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Jazzy New Week Open Th... · 1 reply · +13 points

Bad Bunny was here last weekend for 3 concerts and I've never seen this city so packed with people. They love him. The noise from the stadium was insane

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