I just back from vacation, stayed at a hotel that had free breakfast from 6-9. I was in that hotel for a full week, didn’t make it to breakfast once. Felt like a waste of money, waking up at noon and walking to a breakfast place nearby, but I’d rather pay for a meal than wake up early so 🤷♂️
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How can anyone be working for ice and not think
jpreston2005to Uplifting News•CRISPR used to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome and restore cell functionEnglish21·13 days agoWatch The Sound of Metal, it’s very good
jpreston2005to Technology•Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of communityEnglish18·16 days agoThe ability to work from home has given me innumerable benefits, but I must admit that as a very introverted guy who’s been going through some shit, and who’s go-to move during times of anxiety and depression is to distance themselves from everyone… yeah, sometimes I do miss my coworkers. A lot of them are pretty great people. Doesn’t mean I’d rather spend 3 hours a day sitting in traffic to see them, just means I low-key miss someone to bitch with.
jpreston2005to memes•No wonder I always felt it in my biceps and not the trapezius muscle!7·22 days agoAh don’t worry about it. I’ve been working out since I was a kid and have fucked up so much it’s ludicrous. When nobody tells you how to work out, you end up doing shit wrong. It’s OK though, because just like life, it’s one long slow learning process.
Like, I want to compete in a body building competition, and so I diligently went about my training regimen with renewed focus and determination. Started posing practice after each workout. Couple weeks before the show, I’m at 6% bodyfat, lookin good, feeling good. Then I think “wait a tick, in all my posing, I’ve never actually seen what my back pose looks like.” So I went and set up a tripod and camera and took some shots and… woof. My back is underdeveloped as shit. Look like a body builder from the front, and a lil’ twink stick figure from the back.
So now I incorporate 3 more back exercises.
Also, I only ever started doing a regular Leg Day like 6 months ago (Just bicycled and ran before).
So, yeah. Now I’ve got a competition circled that’s further out so I can focus on back, and hopefully by then I’ll be ready. If not, oh well, just circle the next show on the ol’ calendar.
PROGRESS
jpreston2005to Showerthoughts•The biggest privilege rich people have is to be extremely stupid on purpose.1·22 days agoI dunno man, just look at ol’ rudie guiliani and mike lindell (the pillow guy). They’re both broke as shit, ruined their lives. Now all they have left is grift
I misread the headline and thought it was a cautionary statement, explaining that elon musk was going around “woo-ing” at people, and you should (under no circumstances) “woo” back.
jpreston2005to Ask Lemmy•Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime?2·1 month agoActually…
study - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718793115
CNN article talking about the study - https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/health/falling-iq-scores-study-intl/index.html
Is it just me or does Kahless always look like he’s wearing heels?
jpreston2005to News•Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling21·1 month agoThe article you didn’t read?
jpreston2005to News•Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling19·1 month agofatal police shootings in more-Democratic states have declined 15 percent on a population-adjusted basis, with the rate holding relatively steady since Mr. Floyd’s death.
But in Republican-leaning states, they have risen 23 percent. And within those redder states, exurbs and rural areas, which tend to be more conservative than cities, have the highest rates of police killings.
You’re telling me that in republican bastion states of lower education, less unions, less social spending, and more racism, is tied to more violence and a greater amount of extra-judicial killings by the state-sanctioned corporation-protectors? But they have almost 4 weeks of training! How could this possibly be??
But don’t worry! They’re trying to make it worse! Far worse!
This week, the Justice Department said it would no longer investigate or oversee nearly two dozen police departments that were accused of civil rights violations, including in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky. And in April, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at “unleashing” law enforcement, including by directing the U.S. attorney general to “provide legal resources” to defend police officers accused of wrongdoing.
jpreston2005to Technology•‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heardEnglish13·1 month agoI was thinking about their horrifying conclusion as well, and your comment made me pine for the days when you wouldn’t know something. Think about it, back before the internet, if you had a random question, you either had to interact with some trusted person, or you went to the library and looked it up. It’s like the ever-present access to all information has quelled or killed any notion of curiosity or boredom, and it’s within those frames of mind that learning and inspiration come. I remember as a kid when I wouldn’t know the answer to something, I’d think on it for days, weeks. I’d get stuck on a video game level, and hit my head against the wall for hours trying to overcome it, only to pick up a random gamer magazine off the rack at the mall, and read the solution. Treating that magazine like it was the lost treasure map of some ancient expedition, passing it around my group of friends… Interactions and experiences that are gone forever.
The idea that we’ve gradually went from relying on trusted professionals, learned educators, and scientific rigor, replacing them with a corporations data-harvesting LLM, on-line influencers, and click-bait “journals” cosplaying as academic centers with integrity. This article is basically celebrating the fact that we’ve off-shored all of our thinking, curiosity, and inquisitiveness to machines, all the while we struggle for scraps in a corporation dominated life devoid of genuine human interaction. We’re all to busy sipping dopamine hits from a screen instead of actually living our lives.
I grew up while the internet was being slowly rolled out, and being from the last generation to remember what it was like before the internet, I can say that the things I miss most are privacy, the ability to be bored, and not knowing.
It’s worse now, and it’s harder everyday to imagine that life on this planet will improve.
jpreston2005to Technology•Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situationsEnglish37·1 month agoThe existence of this kind of instinct within an LLM is extremely concerning. Acting out towards self-preservation via unethical means is something that can be hand-waved away in an LLM, but once we reach true AGI, this same thing will pop-up, and there’s no reason to believe that 1. we would notice, and 2. we would be able to stop it. This is the kind of thing that should, ideally, give us pause enough to set some world-wide ground rules for the development of this new tech. Creating a thinking organism that can potentially access vital cyber architecture whilst acting unethically towards self-preservation is how you get Skynet.
jpreston2005to Superbowl•Researchers tag Wyoming’s first barred owl near its Grand Teton nest4·1 month agoFrom where he’s holding out wing, seems to be gripping it where the owls “hand” is, makes it look like they’re shaking hands. Like they’re celebrating the successful tag-and-release together. “Hello, yes, fine job, you got me allright, well done”
Steelers releasing a star wide receiver is now, like, the clearest warning you can get that they are about to do some insane shit. Everybody watch out for George Pickens 😬
jpreston2005to B Movie Bonanza•Freaked (1993) ⭐ 6.4 | Comedy, Sci-Fi - Brooke Shields, Randy Quaid, Mr. T, and more! A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.English2·2 months agoSaw this when I was a kid and it scared me 😐
jpreston2005to Technology•Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviewsEnglish1·2 months agocooks make more than salads. You’re being an asshole.
jpreston2005to Today I Learned•TIL: "A Boy and His Dog" (1975) was a little cult movie with BIG cultural impact. Fallout games, Mad Max, othersEnglish12·2 months agoTried to watch it, the casual attitude towards rape turned me off.
Literally what the movie is about