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Lol, yeah I could've just looked it up but that shows me. I'm not from there. I love those cherries, I ate like 10lbs because they won't let you into Canada with them. The border guards were like yeah I get it at first but then it probably got to a concerning level.

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I've only been to places like the pnw when the berries are ripe a few times in my life. I've always wanted to go for like a month and just live off the berries that just grow everywhere. That's such a unusual thing for me to see and its amazing.

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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI | Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentatio…

Ever since LLMs where provided free to the public, I've been pen testing them. Not intentionally, I just like tech and have wanted to explore them. After getting all the info they're designed not to provide(which is so fucking easy, even on the most recent models that have corporate PC baked in to the core can't do shit) I turned to token burning. I could easily get 1M/24hr, but they've brought that cost down to like $0.10 so its not doing much anymore. I think I saw a model specific script that's doing 52k/min.

Point is it takes a day of coding and a shit PC to just sit there burning money directly out of their budget. It wouldnt take that many people committed to doing this to make AI less feasible.

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I'm nomadic but mainly stay in the rockies. There are strawberries in higher altitudes like >9k ft, but always tiny and grazed by the deer and other wild life. But I've been to the PNW when there are ripe blueberries, reneir(?) white cherries, blackberries, raspberries, every one of those types, then others like huckleberry I think, different style fruiting with round red berries. There's just food everywhere and it blows my mind. If I lived in a place like that I could forage a years worth of berry jam just on a daily stroll through the woods.

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We are currently witnessing the rise of a new 'Digital Amish' i.e people who refuse to interact with any form of technology made after 2021.

I was just thinking about how this is likely my life going forward. The last tech I bought was a first round preorder steamdeck which was a lot longer ago than I want to think about. If I need a phone I buy 5 year old refurb flagships instead of the overpriced disposable "budget" slop they make these days. New hardware is now a luxury item for the petite bourgeois so they can make slop to satiate the poor. AI has sucked up both more money and physical resources than it would have taken to globally eliminate poverty.

No thank you. I'd rather live off grid in the woods with some solar panels so I can emulate every game from the last 40 years. More than a lifetime of games. I don't need anything new.

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Fixing a washing machine

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Dang man. Yeah, I'm only $60 deep for a new starter motor but it looks like something electrical is just stopping it. A new control board is $500+ which I could buy a new generator for. And that might not even be the issue. So I just gotta hope I can find what's wrong and hot wire whatever it needs because its essentially scrap if I don't. It is kinda nice though because I increasingly have nothing to lose so it might get to the point of being dangerously hot wired but at least it runs.

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questioning my gender...

Gender is a social construct. You are you, and can always be your true self at least inside. Your outward appearance doesn't define that. Though hopefully one day you can have the outward appearance that you feel matches who you are inside, if you feel that's part of what defines you.

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Luigi Mangione's lawyers reverse course, say they won't pursue a psychiatric defense

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A psychiatric defense is an affirmative defense. There's lots of affirmative defenses for different reasons, but the main point of an affirmative defense is that you're saying you did do it, but aren't guilty because of X. Its essentially pleading guilty. The prosecutors job is then not to prove you did it, but that you aren't crazy/acting in self defense/were entrapped, etc. The prosecutor was probably sitting happy not doing much thinking it'll be an easy case to prove the person was of sound mind. Now they have to go back to rebuilding the case from the evidence that was legally submitted. Prove where he was at what time for weeks leading up to it, where he got everything, where he went after and how. It's a shit load of work.

But Luigi was at my buddies house in Utah when it happened so there's no way he could have done it. They need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he wasn't there.

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You're supposed to have a diverse diet. Mac and cheese, broccoli, a pork chop, some fruit. Its so weird that people keep narrowing their diet, globally. We're monkeys that are supposed to be eating many different things.

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he likes green because golf

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He doesn't know shit about real estate. He only knows how to grift and con, real estate is just one of the many ways he's been doing that. There are two things going on in trumps head, who can he scam and how, and then teenage girls nipples.