I live in an apartment building on the ground floor, I always tape a sign to my decorated window to inform people where to ring for trick or treating. It works quite well for me, and groups know immediately who is willing to give out candy

Shoutout to the 3DS custom theme shop for having a Tuxkart theme

You’re saying that and yet the farmers market closes at 12pm. That shit is my fun, and yet I’m too sleepy to appreciate it

You literally put the money + a piece of paper with your account number into an envelope and mail it to them

Those who continue to do business with them will be punished

Most AI models used Books3 as part of their dataset which is a collection of pirated books. Here are a few articles talking about it:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/20/24224450/anthropic-copyright-lawsuit-pirated-books-ai

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-29/australian-authors-copyright-books3-generative-i-chatgpt/102914538

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/books3-ai-meta-llama-pirated-books/675063/

My biggest gripe with vegan communities is that a lot of them have an “All or Nothing” mentality, going fully vegan is a luxury not everyone can afford, and yet I find mainly malice when trying to talk about reducing ones own reliance on meat and other animal products in online communities.

And veganism, if taken to the “no suffering of sentient beings” full extreme, forbids buying things (not just food) produced by slavery. And those things, especially electronics and clothes, are not financially viable for most to be bought without any slavery involved in any step whatsoever.

Small boys are the best, you can use them as an arm rest, and if need be they can be picked and held up to give you a tactical advantage for spotting potential predatory species ❤️

The average tansport van is about 18ft long. And the standard U.S. parking space is also 18ft long, this means the average van will still slightly stick out no matter what, but by no means as much as a 22ft beast on wheels.

There are also older model vans, which are more common, only reaching 16ft in length, so those will be able to properly park in standard parking spots.

Damn, I turned old when I grabbed some coloring pages off the ground to give them back to a child and got called the “nice fat lady” afterwards by the child. Double whammy

Fellow Zer here, my elective IT class had grading done depending on how well you could use the computer:

‘A’ if you could do everything perfectly well, ‘B’ if you needed some help from the instructor, ‘C’ if you needed a lot of help, ‘D’ if you couldn’t even get past the login screen on the windows machine.

We had a lot of people who got a pity ‘C-’