Ashitakaaaaa!!!

You probably can. Practice literally rewires your brain.

Maybe astronaut for me? Oh, or professional gymnast. I was pretty good, but practice will not rewire these tendons like you can rewire your brain.

The more you block the crappy instances, communities and users the nicer your feed looks.

Depends what you’re looking for. I’ll point out I didn’t mention a resume, suit or handshake, but direct communication and looking someone in the eye is the brave old world and still an effective way to build and establish trust.

You’re welcome

Lol, got it.

Weird formal grammar, way too much detail way too fast, non-substantive message content, or long pauses before responding to what should be a simple question are red flags.

If the conversation feels normal going back and forth, you’re getting the information you want from this person and they’re directly answering your questions, green flag.

There’s really no way to tell if they’re using AI on the back end, unless you’re extremely computer literate, because even if you find someone trustworthy, you don’t know what they’re doing, and some legitimate web developers use AI as a legitimate tool, so I’d encourage you to first make sure that you know exactly what you want for your website, because knowing exactly what you’re looking for makes any web developers job way easier, and then make sure that’s what the person is developing and that if you guys agree to work together you have a simple written contract that says the developer is going to build this website for this amount of money as specified in our agreement.

If they are a real web developer, they shouldn’t blink at a contract. If they are not legitimate, they will not want to sign an agreement.

All of that said, there are quite a few platforms that are drag and drop GUI build your own website templates you can use without any coding knowledge that you could check out and even participate in the free trial for and see if you want to build the site yourself first.

Squarespace, Wix, there are plenty of platforms on which you can build your own website that will include annual hosting for probably less than hiring a professional developer, especially if you’re looking for a simple website.

Totally depends on what you’re trying to create.

You know, fiverr has probably a billion vibe coders, but you could easily ask for a consultation with any of them and get a free five minutes Q&A so you can get used to asking developers questions.

Full disclosure, i’ve worked with a web developer tangentially, but have never hired one myself, so these are all general business suggestions rather than direct hiring experience talking.

Direct communication with a real person should be your main goal. Call-up phone numbers, email people for Skype meetings, face to face. Real, no bs web developers will often be happy to give a consultation and price quote, so if they don’t want a meeting or they ask you to talk to their AI agents, move on.

Lol, good shot, fella. You keep on talking to your buddy nobody else can see. He appreciates ya, lil’ guy!

Actually laughed at yours though, lol, good stuff.

Oh, I see your confusion.

Very good! You did a very good job!

Sometimes words have more than one definition! While “slop” has(yes) always described something messy and disorganized, sometimes, like many other words, “slop” can also, at the same time, have other definitions, and will continue to evolve over time, like most words.

Always?

Nope.

Words do change over time.

Did someone tell you words never change? My comment must have been a revelation for you.

You’re welcome!

Go look up “etymology”, the whole field is going to blow your mind.

Who are you talking to?

Are you trying to follow my advice? Because you sound like a pedantic child.

Which, as I just explained to the other pedamtic child above, is the opposite of how PSAs work.

Your message is not persuasive.

If you just want to lash out, there are other places for that. If you’d like to inform and persuade, impotent aggression will have the opposite effect.

nope, just a long press, but % looks normal now.

3rd confirmed American measles death this week and I stress confirmed, the CDC is nowhere near having an accounting of, let alone a handle on all the outbreaks and casualties.

A person with measles on average infects 9 to 10 people.

As of August 20, 2026, the CDC had confirmed 2,777 measles cases for the year, spread across 47 jurisdictions, already surpassing the full-year 2025 total and marking the highest annual case count since 1991.

1℅ better *if I receive subsidies, devour natural resources unsustainably to the detriment of entire cities, and you allow me alone to determine my chatbot efficacy.

“slop” isn’t a word that was invented for AI, it’s always been used to describe something disorganized and messy.

As long as AI produces disorganized, messy content, that content is “slop”.

Guessing you havent been around horses before. Real strong.

Ha, I just worked hard writing two paragraphs, butI think you kind of nailed it here.

Many idealists enjoy the passive role of being a noble martyr(less work), but leftists make plenty of terrible decisions, not the least being spending so much time and effort trying to prove they’re differenti from people with the exact same ideology and principles as themselves.

Liberals and leftists both make memes, and the meme makers are useless people.

Liberals and leftists both go to protests, call up their senators, and enact change in their communities, and the action-takers are useful people.

I hear you, but I think those complaints lean too heavily on the 1982 movie events purportedly setting “the canon”, or any canon existing. Problem there is the 1982 movie isn’t canon according to either the original novel, The Thing from Another World, or John Carpenter himself, it’s just a really good movie including cinematic decisions they thought were right for the movie.

2011 never aimed to be a direct prequel that strictly followed the setup of the 1982 movie, it was another take on a great century-old novella with a great monster informed by other media like '51 and '82, and I would wager the video game. Which is fun.

Carpenter himself treats his movie as a fun movie and apparently couldn’t care less about what is or isn’t 1982 canon. He’s very clear that he created his own movie loosely based on a novella he liked, but not restricting himself at all to the contents of the novella or a set of in-universe rules and norms if they didn’t work for his movie.

2011 did the same thing Carpenter did, and has so many great moments

that while I like parts of 1982 better, I recently watched 2011 and got to show it to a friend for the first time because I know there are moments in there that I can only get from that movie. And I loved watching it again, they keep the tension guitar-string tight the entire runtime.

My friend actually watched 1982 first and then 2011, and was on the edge of her seed with 2011, while 1982 she could take or leave.

That doesn’t mean 2011 is an objectively better movie. It’s another unique movie that speaks differently to different people.