Mega Thread The Questions Thread - Part III

[frontierpsychiatrist]

When you hear the name Christian Bale, what's the first movie you think of?

The Prestige

 

[rocker_oz33]

Little Women just watched it last week

Only Psychos watch little woman .

 

[troybe]

Only Psychos watch little woman .

I’m not American

 

[peternorth]

Do you have any behaviours garnered and perfected during the Covid lockdowns which have become part of your daily life?

When going for neighbourhood walks (which in itself is a covid practice), I move to the other side of the road when faced with other people coming from the opposing direction.

 

[the_interloper]

Do you have any behaviours garnered and perfected during the Covid lockdowns which have become part of your daily life?

When going for neighbourhood walks (which in itself is a covid practice), I move to the other side of the road when faced with other people coming from the opposing direction.

I sneeze into the elbow still

 

[Beerfish]

I move to the other side of the road when faced with other people coming from the opposing direction.

That sounds... extreme.

 

[peternorth]

That sounds... extreme.

More than words.

 

[Over The Post]

Do you have any behaviours garnered and perfected during the Covid lockdowns which have become part of your daily life?

I use hand sanitiser religiously at work. Back from the loo, going into the lunchroom, etc. Lunchroom bottle (opaque) ran out a couple of days ago and I made an annoyed noise before heading back to my office. Chuckles from those eating lunch. Yeah well you're permanent staff with sick leave, get stuffed.

I'll also mask up as a matter of course when going to the doc, chemist etc. Keep forgetting to do it at the mall, but that's where I got the last bout of covid from so I should be more conscious of it. Not as many stares as when I was one of the first to be masked/gloved in 2020 but you do feel the odd one out.

 

[revo333]

I sneeze into the elbow still

Same.

 

[peternorth]

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I sneeze into the elbow still

So you use the other elbow to shake “hands” with?

 

[the_interloper]

So you use the other elbow to shake “hands” with?

No that's fallen by the wayside. I wish the fist bump replaced handshakes tbh, I feel way cooler doing that.

 

[Cruyff14]

Anybody had a battery changed in their Mac at an Apple store? How long did it take?

 

[The Dice Man]

Anybody had a battery changed in their Mac at an Apple store? How long did it take?

Takes 5 minutes at home and is really simple. Plenty of YouTube videos around to follow.

 

[Over The Post]

The Algorithm.

I'm at a loss to understand it.

In the last 6 hours my twitter feed has become a huge race war primarily US and Canada vs India. I think it was triggered by Musk bemoaning the lack of engineering talent and being promptly ratioed by posts like "you mean the lack of engineering talent prepared to work 80-90 hour weeks for 9-5 wages" and "no white males can get an interview let alone a job"...

It's just gone haywire. Anybody any ideas? There were NONE of these posts yesterday or even earlier this morning.

 

[Chief]

I think as Twitter shrinks into itself, smaller "issues" can swamp the algorithm.

Musk writes some half-baked weirdo racist bullshit and people start fishing for responses purely in order to make money off their blue tick account.

1. Have a AI write a script that takes in the feeds of accounts with high response rates.
2. Have the script process those in an AI, looking for the most likely veins to mine for reactions.
3. Have the AI write responses and post them.
4. Make 12c off of a post.
5. Repeat 100,000 times per month.

 

[drd23]

I’ve seen one post on that topic in the For You section on my Twitter, but maybe that is because I’ve muted Elon

The weird discourse that seems to have made my algorithm is an argument on whether people should know what The Odyssey is/should have read it

 

[raskolnikov]

Do you have any behaviours garnered and perfected during the Covid lockdowns which have become part of your daily life?

As an introvert lockdowns were right up my alley. But before at least I did go out fairly often. Since covid, apart from my overseas trips that I have done I rarely go out these days. But that just might be called getting older.

 

[Over The Post]

I think as Twitter shrinks into itself, smaller "issues" can swamp the algorithm.

Musk writes some half-baked weirdo racist bullshit and people start fishing for responses purely in order to make money off their blue tick account.

1. Have a AI write a script that takes in the feeds of accounts with high response rates.
2. Have the script process those in an AI, looking for the most likely veins to mine for reactions.
3. Have the AI write responses and post them.
4. Make 12c off of a post.
5. Repeat 100,000 times per month.

 

[MP_]

What’s the go on people charging their ev’s at someone’s house. Do you charge them for it or let it slide?

 

[Beerfish]

What’s the go on people charging their ev’s at someone’s house. Do you charge them for it or let it slide?

Presumably it would be an emergency or they wouldn't even ask in which case it's fine to help a friend out. If it's someone trying to scam free power they wouldn't be the kind of people I'd be friends with in the first place.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

I have an EV and I would only ask to charge at someone's house if I was desperate. It's easy enough to find an EVIE station or similar to do a proper charge.

 

[MP_]

Presumably it would be an emergency or they wouldn't even ask in which case it's fine to help a friend out. If it's someone trying to scam free power they wouldn't be the kind of people I'd be friends with in the first place.

Got a tight arse family member from the wife’s side coming round and can almost guarantee he’ll ask.

 

[Off The Couch]

Got a tight arse family member from the wife’s side coming round and can almost guarantee he’ll ask.

Park your car and leave it charging while he is there. I don’t know how they work but can it be plugged in without it charging

 

[Beerfish]

Got a tight arse family member from the wife’s side coming round and can almost guarantee he’ll ask.

Start talking about intermittent power outages you've been having lately and then kill the power to the house at an opportune moment.

 

[Nothing]

What’s the go on people charging their ev’s at someone’s house. Do you charge them for it or let it slide?

If they are from more than 150km away then I could understand them asking. Any less than that and they could charge at home.

If they are staying multiple nights then maybe. It costs you $5, make them buy your dinner one night.

FTR I've never charged at someone else's house, it's easy enough to charge at home.