I’d think if your dog is too hot, you’d be better off making it a chili dog.

In my efficient capitalism?

(/s)

I was on a trip as a kid (probably… I dunno, 9 or 10 years old?) with my family. The hotel had a pool and the family brought me to have a swim. (They didn’t swim, just sat around the pool while I swam.)

It was just us at first, but soon another kid about my age showed up with no parents/supervision. He sat down on the edge of the pool at the deep end and dangled his feet. He conversed a little with me and my family, but otherwise was just there hanging out. He mentioned in passing that he couldn’t swim.

But then suddenly he was in the pool, thrashing and struggling.

My parents honestly had no idea what to do. One ran to grab the life buoy. I don’t remember quite what the other did.

But my swim lessons training kicked in and I did the thing. Jumped out of the pool, ran around to the side of the pool right where the kid was struggling, laid down on the ground next to the pool, and stuck one arm into the pool for him to grab. Worked just as well as my old swim instructor indicated it would.

Once he had me to hold him up out of the water, he was fine, of course. The rest was just a matter of helping him out of the pool.

It was after that that he revealed he had an ostomy bag and wasn’t supposed to be swimming at all, deep end or otherwise. (It was a hospital town and I got the impression he was in town to get some kind of treatment.)

We made sure he got back to his room safely and all.

That’s pretty much the whole story. I don’t know that he’d have died had nobody been there. And my bumbling parents probably would have figured a way to help him even if I wasn’t there. But he had a better chance of walking away from that by virtue of my (admittedly very rudimentary) swim lesson training.

And it was really dramatic being part of it.

I love when I idly wonder something about a post, click into the comments, and the top comment is exactly, specifically the answer to my idle curiosity. Cheers.

LLMs aren’t capable of doing any better. The only reason you or anyone might think they are is because of aggressive marketinggrifting by the very few people in a position to profit by convincing the world LLMs are basically the main ship computer from Star Trek when in fact they’re more like ELIZA.

As a super Dune nerd, Erasmus.

From DC: Larfleeze and Volthoom tied. Oh! The Anti-Monitor too.

From Supernatural (the TV series), Crowley is amazing.

BSG: Dr. Gaius Baltar.

I hate when apps say “3 years ago” or whatever and don’t make it easy to see more specifically when. Just put it in an on-hover popup please. (Lemmy-UI does this just fine, but there are plenty of sites out there that don’t.)

Username checks out.

Can’t tell if its the propaganda machine invading, or annoying teenage tech-bros who are detached from reality.

Does it matter? Either way, it’s just a symptom of the hype/bubble around “AI” lately.

Can you… make a community for this and confine it to that community? So I can block it?

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Macrovirus ?

Me with an inclined plane: “Challenge accepted.”

If we come up with something in this thread, I’ll be here to corrupt its meaning by misusing it.

Why? Does fungus need a reason to give you jock itch?

Because Democrats are less petty?

• Video Killed The Radio Star cover by The Presidents of the United States of America
• Major Tom (Coming Home) by Shiny Toy Guns
• Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These by Marilyn Manson

Way ahead of you.

I was recently reminded of Shining in the Darkness for the Mega Drive and got super nostalgic. I might have to play that again.

The same thing recently happened to me with Descent 3. I’d never played Descent 1 or 2, so I figured if I was going to replay Descent 3, I ought to play the other two first, so I’m currently working my way through Descent 1.

But more to the heart of your question:

• Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
• SimCopter (super buggy, but fun none-the-less.)
• OpenTTD
• Mindustry
• Luanti

Unauthorized Bread (knife)

Exactly.