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[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 123 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You mean like... curtains?

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't buy the argument that he has dirt on them anymore. They believe in this shit, they don't need convincing.

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

To each their own ¯\(ツ)

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

A lot of people on Lemmy work in tech so responses are going to lean heavily in that direction. I'm not in tech and if you check my answer to this you'll have a number of examples. I also know a few people who wanted to learn a new language and asked ChatGPT for a day by day programme and some free sources and they were pretty happy with the results they got. I imagine you can do that with other subjects. Other people I know have used it to make images for things like club banners or newsletters.

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I use it like an intern/other team member since the non-profit I work for doesn't have any money to hire more people. Things like:

  • Taking transcripts of meetings and turning them into neat and ordered meeting minutes/summaries, or pulling out any key actions/next steps
  • Putting together objectives and agendas for meetings based on some loose info and ideas I give it
  • Summarise the key points from articles/long documents I don't have tome or patience to read through fully.
  • Making my emails sound more professional/nicer/make up for my brainfarts
  • Giving me ideas on how to format/word slides and documents depending on what tone I want to employ - is it meant for leadership? Other team members?
  • Make my writing more organised/better structured/more professional sounding
  • Writing emails in foreign languages with a professional tone. Caveat is I'm fluent enough in those languages to know if the output sounds right. Before AI I would rely on google translate (meh), dictionaries, language forums, etc and it would take me HOURS to write a simple email using the correct terminology. Also helpful to check grammar and sentence structure in ways that aren't always picked up by Word.
  • I sound more like a robot than an actual robot, so I ask the robot to reword my emails/messages to sound more "human" when the need arises (like a colleague is leaving, had a baby, etc).
  • Bouncing off ideas. This doesn't always work and I know it doesn't actually have an opinion, but it helps get the ball rolling, especially if I'm struggling with procrastination.
  • If my sentences are too long for a document, I ask it to shorten/reword and it's pretty capable of doing that without losing too much of the essence of what I want to get across

Of course I don't just take whatever it spits out and paste it. I read through everything, make sure it still sounds more or less like "me". Sometimes it'll take a couple of prompts to get it to go where I want it, and takes a bit of review and editing but it saves me literal hours. It's not necessarily perfect, but it does the job. I get it's not a panacea, and it's not great for the environment, but this tech is literally saving my sanity right now.

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

Hobo salad: Canned kidney beans, canned sweetcorn, canned tuna, salad dressing. If I'm feeling fancy/not lazy I'll add some chopped shallots or scallions.

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah Combogesic is an example of combined ibuprofen and acetaminophen. Advil also makes a combo of the two as well. The main issue to keep track of what you're taking and take care that you don't exceed the daily dose for each. That's something to watch out for whether you take them separately or in combination with one another.

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As I said lower down, you can take ibuprofen and acetaminophen (paracetamol) together . It's advised you wait an hour after you take one type before you take the other to see if the first medication works well enough. There are even medications sold as a combination of both. What detrimental "synergistic effects" are you talking about?

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where have you been told this? Are you perhaps confusing acetaminophen for something else? Doctors will tell you that you can take ibuprofen and acetaminophen (paracetamol) together . It's advised you wait an hour after you take one type before you take the other to see if the first medication works well enough. There are even medications sold as a combination of both. What you shouldn't take ibuprofen along with other Non-steroidal anti-i inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin.

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you haven't already, have you considered installing a few small ramps around the pool for animals to climb out when they fall in? You can find some simple cheap-ish ones on amazon like this one: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81hGTaHIS3L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_DpWeblab_.jpg

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

So many people being "wooshed" by this comment

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I saw one of these some 30 odd years ago (not in the UK) as a kid and it ignited a lifelong love of birds. Haven't seen one in almost as long, but they'll always have a special place in my heart. Lucky people getting to see them in the UK!

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