Rock stars, groupies, parties and drugs are as old as music itself.

That doesn’t apply to having a team that does sex casting on social media for the artist though.

Just in case you missed it: there have been serious accusations against Till Lindemann, the singer of Rammstein, recently. Apparently his band managers contact young female Rammstein fans on social media before concerts, inviting them to secret after show parties where they get lots of alcohol and Till can choose one to drug even more and take to bed with him. Multiple women have come forward with similar claims and the social media thing has been well documented as far as I know. The case went to court but was dropped because there wasn’t enough proof and now he acts like nothing ever happened. I think everyone listening to the band should know about this.

My parents used to keep chickens in their garden. They could roam in the garden freely during the day, the coop was only closed at night to keep predators out. One day a chicken decided it would like to check out the roof of the house across the street. Now my parents’ house is at a hillside so the neighbor’s house was quite a bit lower but the chicken still had fly at least 3m up and probably almost 10m across the street. It sat there for quite a while and we were a bit worried it wouldn’t dare to fly back down but eventually it did. Chickens are funny.

And 3 is obviously on the right side of a clock and 9 on the left so the debate is settled.

I think it’s a “Europe minus UK” thing, but I don’t know for sure. Pretty certain though that the French write it like that too.

Thank you for being responsible. Maybe another rapid test can clarify things. Whatever it is, I hope you get better soon!

There was no doubt I was still positive, I was in bed feeling like crap and going absolutely nowhere. I actually did the test to see if these rapid tests actually give consistent results rather than to see if I still have covid. And because I’m a scientist and I just like measuring things.

Even if it’s negative now?

Yeah I had 3 shots, but the last one was two years ago. Had thought about getting a 4th one for months but there is no official recommendation for a 4th shot for people under 60 in my country so I didn’t. I actually regretted that now, it was pretty nasty. But yeah, completely without vaccines it probably would have been horrible so I’m really glad I got those.

I had the sweating/freezing thing too, didn’t put it into the diagram because I thought it was a side effect of the fever.

There actually is a faint control line. I’m pretty sure it was so “positive” that there were not enough color particles left for the C line.

MKBHD made an interesting video about this already a year ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8giCWDcyE

Yes, that’s exactly what I had in mind. The characters need to have their story and their intentions hard coded. But using that as a basis, how cool would it be to have an actual natural conversation with them where you can just ask them questions that come to your mind instead of having to choose from a set of pre defined questions. It would certainly require some re-imagination of RPGs but that wouldn’t actually hurt at all.

I have no idea if this could work anytime soon, but at some point I’m sure it’ll be possible.

An RPG where all the characters are LLM-powered with their story baked in, so you can actually have a free conversation with them and they’ll be basically chatGPT pretending they’re an actual real character. Bonus points for it being a VR game.

Next iteration: a game that’s generated by an AI while you play it so every playthrough is absolutely completely different.

I can’t wait for AI-powered games, to be honest.

Is it just me or did the recommendation algorithm become much worse a few years ago? I think there was a big update at some point and it’s sucked ever since. If feels like it remembers about the last 10 videos I watched. You were interested in topic XYZ a few months ago and there is lots of new content about it? Sure you don’t want to know anything about it!

Ah okay. Well maybe GPT 4 is better than I thought. I’m kind of happy to be wrong, it’s really impressive if it’s real.

I honestly kind of doubt that. It’s too good.

I think green bubbles (non iPhone) means it’s using SMS so it can cost people money to send messages, especially images which would be sent as MMS I guess.

I’m an Android user though so I don’t really know. Also I’m in Europe where nobody cares and just uses Signal, WhatsApp or Telegram.

I have no idea if they exist for parchment too. I got one like this:

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0BZ4RKFHG/ref=sr_1_8?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=3S2LTVKTG6QSY&keywords=kitchen+paper+holder+wall&qid=1699471558&sprefix=kitchen+paper+holder+wall%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-8

A kitchen paper holder that you can mount to a wall, shelf, etc, and that has a stopping mechanism so that it allows you to rip some paper off the roll with just one hand. Absolute kitchen game changer.