Depending on the holes you count that’s anywhere between two and seven wolves needed, but my math could be off

https://youtu.be/7jVsQToSfag

Yeah the idea that Disney wasn’t already building their own AI shit to just pump out trash content, especially to improve costs on voice acting and render farms is pretty wild. What’s happened at this point is

1. They’re worried about the bubble collapse, when a ceiling is reached that there’s no way this is more profitable
2. They don’t have the time/money to fund bigger and and bigger server farms in an increasingly competitive space and it’s cheaper to just align with OpenAI for now.
3. They’re hoping when number 1 happens they just scoop up number 2. People will stop using AI for their daily life stuff. People won’t stop taking their kids to see the lion king 9 or whatever

Stoicism has become commoditized as a way to convince people that their lot in life is just their attitude, and the more they put their shoulder to the wheel to produce for the top of the pyramid, the more it works out for them, rather than questioning the wheel. The hustle and grind culture is just as much the goal of something like the heritage foundation as “deport the brown people.”

That’s true, but also inversely generally being gross on a property does not outweigh the value of the property over time in most cases. Even having gross tenants over time at market rent generally results in net profit after they leave and any additional cleanup costs incurred, plus you still own the property at the end of the day, and if we’re talking about houses, you probably own the land too.

I’ve seen what you’re describing and I think what you’re getting at is more of a societal systemic issue related to mental health and income. Most people I think would like to live clean and healthy lives, but they either need mental health support they aren’t getting/can’t afford, etc, and/or are spending more time working/taking care of family/battling addiction or whatever and end up not taking care of themselves or where they live

But at the end of the day this is all anecdotal and the whole thing should be addressed by a governing body made up of compassionate voted-in representatives using available resources and a scientific approach that want to fix the problem rather than arbitrary individuals chatting about it

On all my devices I automatically switch light / dark mode / blue light shifts based on sunrise / sunset. Granted my computer desk is against a window, but I find that my electronic screens generally aligning with outdoor brightness works pretty well for me

Yeah my old apartment had one shared old ass boiler in the basement for the whole building, like 35 units.

I would have to wake up super early for my job, and in the spring/summer when the boiler wasn’t on to heat the radiators, I would often be the one to kick start it by turning my hot water on.

It would take like 10 minutes to heat up so I’d just run the shower on low pressure and get a few more minutes of sleep

Well you have to control the faucets to where the water comes out that turns the frogs gay

Plus you might get free drugs, and maybe a story and a cool scar if they decide they only want a kidney

Sure, but to someone running a website out of their house, 100,000 bots trying to hit the site at the same time to scrape it is going to have the same effect. So yes, you’re correct, Anubis has nothing to do with stopping a literal DDoS attack, but it does help smaller websites stay alive by avoiding responding to requests from scrapers or one-off malicious agents.

A cheap VPS hosting

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/installation/

as a reverse proxy may work. The VPS will do the work of verifying requests and stopping bad requests from hitting the target resource. Though certainly if the DDoS is a matter of a massive botnet raiding your domain it may not work as well as something like cloudflare

Probably had a whiteboard and every executive in the room had to go up and add a word lol

I don’t care what anybody does to make money unless it puts someone else at risk. A car is a method of transportation, but more importantly, a weapon. Focusing on getting the right angle or right clip or whatever for your meme puts other people at risk as you control a 5500 pound piece of metal. My criticism is on the choice of using a moving vehicle as a recording studio.

Lol there was definitely an AIM mobile app for flip phones that I installed soon after getting a flip phone like freshman year of high school and then my parents realizing the bill I had unknowingly built up

Good call, I missed the grey on grey seatbelt. Edited my comment

it’s been a hard day making TikTok posts so I’m gonna drive around in my luxury car without my seatbelt on and film with my left hand and maybe probably not hit anyone while I check if the angle looks good

Appreciate it but no apologies necessary. You shared a story, I shared a story. Better done over a beer or coffee, but for now Lemmy can do. Absolutely don’t feel bad about your comment, I just wanted to spread a little awareness of the opioid epidemic in the US and how it was mostly caused by profit-seeking corporations. Cheers from across the pond and wishing you the best

Edit: forgot, totally reciprocating that hug!

Hey thanks! It was quite a long time ago, and I’ve since grown to using that experience to try to help others where possible. No trauma ever fully goes away, but healthily addressing it is key. Wishing you the best, friend, beating an addiction like that is no easy feat, always feel free to shoot me a message if you feel like it

My biological mom died from an overdose of a “speedball,” e.g. mixing heroin and cocaine at the same time.

And that was years after she went into the hospital for pancreatitis, and they just blanket prescribed her opioids. From there the doctors kept bumping her prescription up, and then from there she sought pills on the street, and then finally she moved to heroin. I guess if she was alive today fentanyl would have been the next jump.

She was a byproduct of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic

And I blame the pharmaceutical companies like Purdue who profited off it more than anyone else.

This was exacerbated by the aggressive and misleading marketing of drug makers, e.g. Purdue Pharma. Purdue trained its sales representatives to convey to doctors that the risk of addiction from OxyContin was “less than one percent.”