ggleblanc

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[–] ggleblanc@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

The main reason I'm still posting and reading on Reddit is that I belong to a lot of small subreddits that haven't had any reason to migrate elsewhere. You can dislike what Reddit leadership is doing, but lots of people belonging to small subreddits haven't been impacted as much.

[–] ggleblanc@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago

There’s a difference between saving money so you can live and hoarding it.

Okay, what's the difference? 100,000? 500,000? 5,000,000?

f you have so much money that you could trivially buy people out of poverty, but you don’t because you’d rather have seven yachts and a bigger bank account, we have a problem.

Who has seven yachts? Most wealthy people invest their money. The only reason you know the names of billionaires is that Forbes magazine publishes their names. You have no idea who all the millionaires are and what they do with their money.

If we're speaking of social consequences and eliminating people, it makes more sense for the populace to go after crooked politicians and judges than rich people. Just saying.

[–] ggleblanc@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which make[s] the statement, "much more likely to rob you themselves than save you from being robbed" true.

In Chicago, sure. What are the statistics for Lafayette, Illinois? Harvel, Illinois? Kell, Illinois? I could go on, but astute readers already get my point.

[–] ggleblanc@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago (18 children)

That said, [the police's] main job at the moment is to protect hoarders of wealth from the social consequences of wealth hoarding.

We are all wealth hoarders. What are the social consequences of wealth hoarding? Is it okay to steal? How much does a person have to have before it's okay to steal? Most of the people of the world live on a couple of US dollars a day. Is it okay for them to steal your wallet when you have 40 dollars?

[–] ggleblanc@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This question had me trying to get ChatGPT to code a simple game.

My prompt was "Create a Tetris game using Java Swing". ChatGPT provided code. I copied the code into my IDE and found an entire missing class.

ChatGPT is basically a natural language search engine. If what it finds is wrong, its code will be wrong.

[–] ggleblanc@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you can't code, what are you going to do when a ChatGPTgenerated game fails a test?

Even a simple video game requires hundreds of hours of play testing.

[–] ggleblanc@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I was speaking from personal experience in the states I mentioned, as well as everyone else responding to your post.

You can separate native recipes from recipes brought later by other cultures, but the only difference is native recipes were brought by the original settlers.

Burritos are an interesting example. In Mexican rural areas, burritos were plain, as the people didn't historically have access to spices. When the burrito was originally brought to Texas, the cooks added spices. Now, you can find burritos almost anywhere in the world, each city making them with their own flavor. Just like hot dogs and pizza.

[–] ggleblanc@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You could have a month (or quarter year) featuring food from the different states. Louisiana is known for boiled crabs and crawfish, as well as Cajun and creole cooking. Maryland is known for crab cakes. Utah is known for gelatin salads. Nebraska (Omaha) is known for its steaks. North Carolina is known for two distinct types of barbecue sauce.

[–] ggleblanc@kbin.social 54 points 1 year ago (14 children)

It depends on where you live, but a lot of large US cities have their own fueling stations. That way, the city can buy fuel by the tanker load and avoid gas taxes.

[–] ggleblanc@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stones placed on line intersections

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