To be fair, he said the same thing when someone asked him what he thought of Sesame Street.

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I think the minimum deposit for most of them to even talk to you is $10,000 or $100,000. I realize that’s a big range, but I can’t remember if there were 4 or 5 zeroes when I did some cursory research. Either way, too rich for my blood.

Harvard: You first.

Yeah, not sure how long that’ll hold up for me, but for now, so far so good.

The rule-of-thumb used to be “look at the hands”, but I use a combo of focus, lighting, perspective, background objects (especially ones with text), color saturation, common sense (e.g. ‘could this even be remotely real?’), etc. The scary part is if someone would run that through a filter and present it like grainy CCTV footage, all that (minus the common sense part) would be lost and I’d likely be stumped.

This probably isn’t a super-helpful answer, but for the most part, I haven’t needed to use any (yet?). Dunno if it’s just me, but pretty much every AI generated image still just looks “off” and uncanny in a perceptible and slightly off-putting way.

That said, there are occasional false positives depending on the lighting, focus, and filters used for legit photographs. No false negatives yet, though.

Speaking from experience, it’s a hard habit to break. But you’d think the mental image of rolling up a $1 bill and lighting it on fire would push some people away.

he found enough money in the couch the night before payday to buy a pack of smokes

Relatively speaking, did he even find that much? I live in a poor, red state and cigarettes are almost $10 a pack (which is only a bit more than what they cost in NY in 2005). If I hadn’t quit almost over a decade ago, I’d for sure be quitting now.

Edit: I quit in 2013 and am now realizing that’s over a decade.

You mean the IRS alone will not steal an additional +$500 billion from the poor, helpless billionaires this year, right? /s

should have named it the Department of Dismantling the Administrative State, but that’s not a meme.

At least if you read the acronym backwards, SADD, it’s fitting.

“Musk will have effectively crippled the modern American state and ripped vital services away from ordinary Americans in order to pay for more waste at the Pentagon.”

So, mission accomplished then? I never believed for a moment it was ever about reducing waste / increasing efficiency. At best, it was scrounging the government couch for change to pay for tax breaks for the rich.

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Good to know. I just went with the Tasmota ones because I’m familiar with the firmware and can upgrade it independently from the manufacturer. Plus, it takes a month to get a shipment from Ali, so I didn’t want to play any guessing games; I knew Tasmota worked.

Good luck. I’ve had issues finding non-cloud smart bulbs/plugs. These came from Ali with Tasmota pre-installed. Haven’t looked for a couple of years, so hopefully the non-cloud options are easier to source these days.

I think Hue or ones that use Zigbee are viable. !homeassistant@lemmy.world may be able to offer some suggestions.

Four lamps in different parts of the room, all with smart bulbs.

They’re tied together into a single dimmer/color/temp selector in HomeAssistant.

For ambiance, they’re usually running at like 35-40%.

(Alien life realizes humans have detected them)

Quick, turn off the lights! Maybe they’ll think we’re not home.

Finally: He asking the same question as the rest of the world.

You’ve unlocked a memory (Doug) but not the specifics. So, maybe?

You’re probably not wrong, but hopefully there’s at least a paper trail the judge can work his way up.