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How many of you are using ChatGpt to help you with your work, and not telling your boss/co-workers?

I had a coworker come to me with an "issue" he learned about. It was wrong and it wasn't really an issue and the it came out that he got it from ChatGPT and didn't really know what he was talking about, nor could he cite an actual source.

I've also played around with it and it's given me straight up wrong answers. I don't think it's really worth it.

It's just predictive text, it's not really AI.

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Home Depot to pay $2 million settlement for overcharging customers

One time I went to buy a power tool that was on sale at Home Depot. I did the self checkout and the sale did not ring up correctly. I got one of the employees attention and they just told me there was nothing they could do, whatever it rings up as is the price and they can't change it. No amount of pointing at the massive sale sign would change that.

So I put it back and bought it from an online site that was having the same sale. Fuck Home Depot... Since then I go out of my way to not shop there.

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Texas Sues Tylenol Makers, Claiming They Hid Autism Risks

The first individual officially diagnosed with autism was Donald Triplett in 1943. Dr. Kanner (The Dr. who diagnosed him) had noted Triplett's symptoms, such as social withdrawal and an insistence on sameness, as early as 1938. While not diagnosed as autism, there are historical accounts of individuals with similar characteristics, such as the "Wild Boy of Aveyron" in the late 1700s and Hugh Blair of Borgue in the 18th century.

Tylenol was introduced in 1955.

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Pirate Netflix

I think what you want is either plex or Jellyfin which will give you a nice UI to browse your already downloaded files.

Now how do you browse new releases and figure out what you want to download? I just setup https://overseerr.dev/ to go along with sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, nzbget, transmission... it's a lot of different services but they all work well together. Now to look for new movies, I or my family goes to Overseerr to request downloads, then plex to watch.

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wtf is even happening

Raspberry Pi's were amazing when they were like $30.... cheap enough to be accessible to most people and you could do a lot with them. I still have an older Pi that runs pihole.

Now that it's $300, there are a lot of other options out there. I find it hard to recommend a Pi anymore.

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Chipotle stock craters as company says young people without jobs can't afford their food anymore

Chipotle is on it's way out. When they first opened, at least by my work, the food was fresh and decent and could be had for a little more than fast food but not by a lot so it was easy to go there. I wouldn't say it's Mexican or TexMex but it wasn't bad. Changed jobs and hadn't been there in a while but I was on a road trip and thought what they heck, there aren't too many options and this seemed like it would be good. The food was not fresh the meat was over cooked, you didn't get a lot of food and it was kind of over priced... I haven't been back since.

If I want cheap food, Chipotle is out. If I want good food Chipotle is out. Maybe if I hate myself and want to spend a lot of money for shitty food?

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Ex-NFL star QB Tom Brady claims his dog is a clone

Piff the Magic Dragon also had his dog Mr. Piffles cloned before he passed. From what I understand, he tried finding another dog but they never really fit in his act the same way so as Mr. Piffles started to get older, he cloned him and now has Mr. Piffles 2.0.

https://www.tmz.com/2024/11/13/piff-the-magic-dragon-cloned-mr-piffles-chihuahua-dog-magician/

It's not cheap but I don't think Tom Brady cares about how much it costs.