Like the other person said, Coolio didn’t like Amish Paradise for years. He eventually realized he was being a dick about it and apologized to Weird Al.

Prince despised the idea of parodies for his songs and at one point Prince’s management told Al to not even look at him while they were both scheduled for the same show or something.

Paul McCartney rejected a parody called Chicken Pot Pie on the grounds Paul (and Al too) is a vegetarian, but was otherwise down to let him do parodies.

Lady Gaga’s management DID NOT want weird Al to do Perform This Way, but Al released it anyway and Lady Gaga loved it.

TBH, these are things I remembered off Al’s Wikipedia page.

Chamillionaire (writer for the original Ridin’) loved this and thanked Weird Al after winning a Grammy. He also put it on his MySpace page.

Ontario canes from the Huron language meaning “Great Lake”. Actually 3 of the lake names basic ally translate to “Large/Great Lake”

As someone currently going through the hassle of getting a solar setup going, I feel like I should inform people what I have learned. These solar systems use an inverter, and there’s 2 kinds of inverters. 1) the cheap kind that matches an AC wave form and will not work without being connected to a powered grid and 2) a wave generating inverter which will work without a grid allowing your house to still be powered in the event of a power outage

Yeah, at times just having a nice simpler job sounds nice. Not needing to deal with stupid error messages and poorly documented libraries.

He was one of 2 people that would clean like 4 buildings. Sometimes the other person wouldn’t show up (or one time his boss was arrested and given 22 years) and sometimes he’d call me to be the other janitor (sometimes he’d just do the job solo and keep the extra cash).

While it was kinda fun “mindless” work, I just bought a house and need my software developer pay to keep the house.

Buddy of mine was a night janitor during college. I had to help him a few times, and it wasn’t a bad gig, run around and vacuum, mop some stuff, take out the trash. Dude listened to music the whole time and basically never saw anyone. Sometimes I kinda want to quit doing software just to do night janitoring.

Just bought a house and I was really glad the seller didn’t add shit ai furniture. It’s my space, my canvas let me paint it.

Is this a Liam from WTYP podcast quote?

As someone dependent on that canal living in the states, do it. Make that dumb fuck hurt and all of his dumb fuck supporters hurt too.

Iran’s got america by the balls for oil right now why not kick us while we’re down.

I mean the old site’s /r/PoiSonai has had success in getting LLMs to spew factually incorrect beautiful data that clearly came from that subreddit. This us an effective method of fighting LLMs.

Theres also a reason some art sites now integrate things like nightshade, it subtily alters the art but in ways that would throw off a computer.

TL;DR Make your data poison. It is effective at damaging the models.

I never got the hate for Saints rows 3, 4 and gat. 3 starts to take things a lot less seriously, but 4 and gat are incredibly fun and stupid sandboxes even if they don’t take anything seriously.

I mean, I have seen at least 1 Lemmy.world user here simp for the CEO.

Oh man, there’s been progress made. You must REALLY be going through it if progress is uplifting news.

I mean, our stomach acid is hydrocloric acid. Just ours isn’t nearly as concentrated.

I mean, by US law (back when analog TV was standard) all TV broadcasts had to include closed captions on scanline 23(?) for people with hearing disabilities. it was part of the vertical blanking interval so it didn’t interfere with the regularly visible broadcast. It is good to include subtitles for all dialogue, spoken in the local dialect, in a foreign dialect, and even the various sign languages. That’s isn’t to say that yes, I fully agree that differently abled people should be able to take part in the dialog and should have accommodations where needed.

Semi related, did you know American sign language is closer to French sign language than it is to British sign language?

I’m a software developer, though one of my minors in college was IT so I didn’t mind doing IT work, but man. I am at my current job writing tools for internal use, and most of the questions I get asked are just thing’s I literally wrote in the documentation.

A few weeks ago I got a meeting invite asking how to enable some feature, it was literally described on a step by step instruction in the documentation that is supplied along side the tool. I am getting pretty miffed about needing to read to my coworkers

I did some part time IT at my last job. IT really ruins your respect for people and faith in humanity. There were so many tickets we got that were just “I got this error message I didn’t read”.

Hell, for a few months there was a bug in our ERP’s clock in system. The client’s time would desync from the server’s time (don’t know why the system didn’t just treat the server time as authoritative), so we added a message when that happened “Please close this program and reopen it, you are not clocked in/out” and it would secretly log the user that didn’t clock in. There was one dude that tried like 5 tikes to clock in on the same machine, another time we could see that he got the message and tried a different computer and then another and another and another before finding one that worked.

No one reads error messages no matter how clear and concise they are. No matter how simple the instructions are.

The “patch” for the X1 also allows anyone on the home console of the account to play the game, which has led to many people game sharing with a friend.