I can somewhat move my eyes independently. I credit this skill to us having had magic eyes books as a kid and I just learned to control eye muscles willingly.

Samesies

HMD, Human Mobile Devices. Afaik a lot of them are former Nokia. Or it’s a light rebrand and not a new corp. Dk. Some connection though

I myself eat venison, moose and reindeer. Sometimes horse when it’s off-season for hunting, but that’s kinda janky as it’s not really game, but the incentives for “farming” horses don’t really exist so…

Anyway, my local butcher’s has some frozen 'roo. I’ve had some on a pizza when drunk once, but don’t really recall it that well for my BAC was kinda high. I do remember feeling a tad absurd eating a pizza with kangaroo on it while a guy rode past on a unicycle. I’m not imagining that, although I may have also been high at the time.

Anyway, my point is how’d you compare 'roo to beef in texture and taste?

I hated lamb for instance (and generally don’t buy it because the morality is horrible, just had a chance to taste and didn’t like). Venison, moose, reindeer, horse, all awesome. Reindeer most gamy, moose second, then venison and horse on a pretty similar level. All really lean usually.

It’s not that bad in a train, as people can’t just run away before the next stop. You wouldn’t have this level of trust in a street cafe for instance.

Just today some bastard stole my headlight from my bike. Like two hours ago. Finland. We’re known as rather honest.

But the junkie who desperately needed a 10e flashlight is welcome to have it, the pathetic sack of shit.

Most people would still say they’re going to a grocery store, they wouldn’t specify “hypermarket”.

It’s mostly to due with sizes. There’s three levels, and the leading chains in Finland both (or “all” before one got bought up by the second biggest and now there’s generally only two) have a small store, which have their own names, Sale/Alepa and K-market, then there’s the larger ones, S-Market and K-Supermarket (formerly KKK-supermarket, really), and then the largest ones, Prisma and K-Citymarket.

It used to be only the small grocery stores had the longest opening hours, but some years ago they released those regulations and now even the hypermarkets are 247. But the small and medium sized usually don’t. Some small ones are in larger cities, I think.

But yeah it’s generally just about the size, and “just” supermarkets not having department store shit as much. Like the supermarket K-Supermarket 1.2km away from me has their own fish& meat counter for instance.

The grocery store near me has a pharmacy, but the hypermarket has a pharmacy, a few restaurants, large deli and meat counters, and of course an a liquor store as in a government store that sells specifically alcohol. They’re allowed to sell any alcohol, whereas grocery stores are just allowed to sell drinks up to 8%, and that’s up from like 4.9% for the most of my life. Some years ago they changed it so grocery stores can sell up to 5.9, then when that didn’t break society, it took like 2 years for the limit to change to 8%. And I’m pretty sure someone’s gonna push for it to go to like 14 so we got proper wines in grocery stores.

The 8% crap is just awful wine. But drinkable if you carbonate it a tad. Sounds weird perhaps but I enjoy it.

Anyway the department store part of the hypermarkets is often kinda meh. Like if you want electronics or something, you’ll usually go to a store that specialises in them. Like a large electronic store for clothing store or whatever. But you can sometimes get decent deals or some store brand clothes for a nice price. But like in general electronics, hardware, general hardware. There’s kind of a lot of places with a lot of stores like that.

Like 2km from me by bike is an IKEA and then lots of similarly sized stores selling hardware / electronics / and always a few competing ones. Like there’s several furniture stores within literally a stones throw from the ikea parking lot. (You’d have to be pretty good at throwing, but I maintain the assertion. Like frisbee golf throwing distance, definitely.)

Same with electronics stores. Like three huge stores in the same area, all within like 2-3min drives from each other. Some almost next door to each other.

Also hardware stores.

And sports stores.

Tons of others.

There’s even I think like a horse-supply store, but that’s a bit to the side. Not as mainstream.

Well no, not just produce. You’ll find a section for general shit even in the smaller stores. Like tape, glue, underwear (at least for women, usually really thin cotton ones and I’m furious they don’t sell the same for men, but I’ve still used them very comfortable). You can find basic household items like cleaning stuff and diapers and everything you need. but like the selection of tapes or glues won’t be anything akin to a proper department store or a hardware store.

You can definitely find dog food and laundry detergent in all stores. And I mean it, I’ve worked in a bunch basically Kwik-E-Mart style shops and they all had those as well

But hypermarkets will be like almost on the level of specialised hardware stores in their selection of actually usable things. And they’ll have bikes and whatnot.

Basically the sizes go with the square footage of the market in Finland at least, I don’t think it’s to due with what is being sold. And at one point only smaller stores were permitted 247 opening hours or sunday opening hours, whereas larger stores would only be open from 7-21 or something. Nowdays they’re actually open 247 as well.

But they can only sell alcohol from 09 to 21

Well a hypermarket is to a supermarket what a supermarket is to a small grocery store.

So just a very large supermarket that families would usually use for “the big shop”. I assume the equivalent is one of those markets you need a card to enter in the US, idk.

Except you don’t need a membership (but usually there’s good benefits if you have one) and you it’s not all family size products.

Oh my bad, actually the definition is just supermarket+department store, basically.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermarket

500m to a small one, 1.2 to a fairly sized supermarket, some 3 km to a hypermarket.

Walking to the hypermarket and back is something I used to do quite frequently with a friend or another, but it is a slight chore, and I wouldn’t enjoy going in -25C.

Usually if I have to walk I’ll go to the supermarket, 1.2km is a very reasonable distance to walk.

Or 500m for some quick stuffs like a few beers or tobacco from the closest small store

and party on dudes

This is why punctuation matters.

It’s the difference between helping your uncle Jack, off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

Well, yes, that’s my point, sort of. I’m pointing out that it’s never really black and white in that way, so his proposal of opposites isn’t really that good.

It’s genuinely just business.

Legalise all drugs and this all goes away.

There’s no Al Pacino’s shooting up the streets since the prohibition was lifted. Weirdly alcohol companies which can rely on the law don’t find a need to take a Thompson to their business opposite’s offices.

Whereas the Sinaloa cartrel does. They can’t just let shit go. You’ve seen drug shows. (There’s genuinely so many it’s annoying.)

Prepping a little bit of “undesirables” rhetoric.

Lemmy is fucking swimming in shit propaganda

“The opposite of drowning is asphyxiation”

Nah man, it’s being able to breathe.

May it be so then

Cowardly tactics

Yesterday I honestly had the bot flip and flop on an answer while deeply apologising and everytime saying “now you can actually trust, I checked and rechecked and now it’s definitely correct”.

Like a simple question with two choices.

It didn’t know the answer so then it prompted to choose from two answers. One which confidently said one thing and one which confidently said the other. I called it out on making me choose the answer to a question I asked. Then it decided itself. I then questioned it. It changed it mind. And around and around we went for like 20 minutes, everytime it swearing this time it isn’t hallucinating.

They suck so bad for most things, but they’re useful for some very niche things, but even for those, they still sort of suck at those as well a not non-significant. They’re definitely shouldn’t be used for official shit, but they very much are.

It doesn’t have a corresponding wavelength in the spectrum of visible light, but as we perceive it to be there and have a name for it, it doesn’t really matter that there’s no specific wavelength it corresponds to.

By that metric abstract things likely love, justice, duty, honour, could be argued to not be real either. Can’t touch them or there’s no corresponding physical thing in the world to measure them.

So hiding the fact they use Palantir, not hiding their work by using it?

(The title is ambiguous)