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We’ve already been “told” what some of the costs relate to our various AI tools. The tokens. 
 

I do worry though about it making things too easy. At least for some of us. Like GPS and knowing “where you are”. I’ve always had a good sense of direction so that doesn’t apply to me but I know peoole, younger ones, who can’t go further than 20 minutes with a GpS telling them where to go.
 

But I have been using it for some kind of basic questions where I just didn’t want to bother figuring it out or remembering.  Like something in Excel. So I just ask our tool. I could have had it myself in maybe a few minutes or farting around. But I got it instantly. Especially with the way you can be specific and it doesn’t forget.  But is there value in me spending that few minutes figuring it  out? 

There's going to be a backlash I think against AI.  We cannot predict the future.  Regarding the doom and gloom... if everybody's replaced by AI then who will the customers be?

We were all given AI objectives this year and we laugh at it.  Maybe off the cliff but we see the holes already in trying to implement it in our work.    Then it becomes "Well, just call this AI to check the box".

Using in place of something like google has been fantastic.  It absolutely helps me do my job faster but it does not replace what I do.  I'm not special. Just a hack grinding away.

7 years ago I spent 3 months on something because autonomous vehicles was the way forward.

8 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

I'm not a fan of artificial sweeteners, and they seem to show up everywhere. I prefer things with less sugar, so I definitely don't want something that tastes sweet but with a funky aftertaste. And stevia to me has an even more unpleasant aftertaste than saccharine.

Me either. I can always tell too. There’s an aftertaste and my stomach will notice. 

**** them.  

Some of my favorites;

The introduction of Larry, Daryl and Daryl on Newhart.  

Bob and Chucks magic trick on soap. 

from movies, the only times I sustained a laugh to where I had to fight to stop, in a theater happened 3 times

Naked Gun when he had the mic on while urinating. 

Dumb and Dumber when they ate the burgers with all the peppers. 
 

Something about Mary, the “hair gel”
 

I’m pretty sure that fans of participating teams are not considered at all in the equation for an NBA playoff game 7. It’s whatever the league and entity paying for the broadcast rights want. I went to a tiger playoff game on a Saturday night and came right back Sunday morning for a noon start time. 

Now we will hear a bunch of stuff. The only good Republican is a retired republican. 

Today is the 40 year anniversary of the Dallas episode where Bobby Ewing “came back” from the dead by appearing in the shower to close out the season. (He died the previous season in their cliff hanger. It all ended up being a dream).  Patrick Duffy’s in town at comic con and someone shared these photos where he’s having fun with it  

Once again I switch from Heat to Cool. 

3 hours ago, buddha said:

i also really hate cleveland fans.

i remember them from the 90s too.  They were very annoying AND cocky.  like "were not from detroit" as if cleveland was a much better city.  the indians hadnt won anything in forever (and still havent), and they came in and acted like they were superior to the tigers historically.  

i ran into cleveland fans in napa of all places and they were talking a lot of smack.  not like in a funny way, but in a serious "**** detroit, you suck" way.

so cleveland can go **** itself.

 

The cocky part is the key. Jays fans flooded tiger stadium but their team just won a title and seeing how close we were it made sense. Canadians from Ontario are harmless. Cavs fans got cocky in 88 and 89 thinking Mark Price and Daugherty were going to skip past the Pistons. Mahorn elbowed Price and he cried like a bitch.  Then Jordan took care of them. 

I have a 30 year hatred of Cleveland fans. Goes back to when they flooded Tiger stadium.  No other city fan base makes me angry.  I can’t explain it. But F them. 

35 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

It's very telling how you always comment on this cherry picked nonsense and completely avoid talking about the blatant corruption going on with Trump and his kids.  For as much as you cared about Hunter Biden being on the board of an oil company, you sure don't seem to care about Trump's kids making hundreds of millions of dollars with shady deals.   Why is that? 

By “be normal” he means “don’t nominate a girl, especially a back girl”.  

Alternate uniforms and Apple TV and a Bullpen day... a lot to complain about.

2 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

That’s a nice neighborhood. I’m in Pingree Park which borders Indian Village. 

That's great.  My wife used to work out at a place on Mack near you.  Run by a very good person.  Detroit Body Garage.  She only left due to some scheduling issues.

Thirteen Days is a great movie, pretty accurate, but nearly ruined by Kevin Costner trying to do a Boston accent.. then he kind of gave up at some point

11 hours ago, guy incognito said:

He’s going to use that money to turn the J6 thugs into his own personal army so they can defend his underground bunker when the time comes.

The good news is those guys are a bunch of fat asses that are a 1/4 mile run away from a heart attak.

17 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

As someone that moved to Detroit last year (four years in Ann Arbor previously, and many years in the burbs prior to that), this makes me happy. I’ve loved my neighborhood so far, and there’s so much to do in the city these days. 

My son's thinking of the Woodbridge area.

Yes.  I've always said Bruh-shetta... but with a bit of flair which makes it worse as I was just emphasizing how wrong I was.  I can pronounce all the other things.  My wife's best friend is Italian and I spent many days with old men speaking Italian.  They came to Windsor in the 50's.  Not sure why I never picked that one up.

I learned yesterday I had been pronouncing Bruschetta wrong.

24 minutes ago, Stanley70 said:

One my least favorite actors attempts at another accent was Al Pacino in Scarface. Even when i was like 18 and should have liked that movie i didn't because he came accross as so fake.

That's when he became a caricature of himself.  The only movie of his after that where I can take him seriously was Sea of Love and I assume that's because it is a throwback to his 70's work.  Seriously.... that movie was good.  Saw it at the time, no big deal. Just another movie duruing a great era of movies.  Watched it again a few years ago and it's a banger.  Nothing special.  No grand meaning or whatever... just something to entertain yourself for 2 hours.  For a lot of reasons we don't have that anymore in film... not complaining about it... it's just reality.  We all have too many choices now.

45 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

i disagree on this one. something they did in red october on a different aspect demonstrates why: the cinematographer on hfro realized that he needed some way for the viewer to instantly recognize which sub he was looking at, so he lit each one in a different color. the subterfuge works perfectly, your brain picks it up but you hardly notice at the conscious level. IIRC a similar trick was used in VanillaSky to id dream sequences. 

accents work the same, it maintains a level of illusion identifying the difference in context but still allows you access to dialog you understand. 

yeah that makes sense, especially when you need to contrast.  I do recall reading specifically about that movie and the use of colors to let the viewer know which sub he was watching.

I'm listening to a podcast about Robert Duvall's career. They pointed out some movie he did where he played a Nazi general.  He used a German accent. The other nazis used their british accents.

I remember the first time I tried to watch Hunt for Red October I struggled with Connery's attempt.  My take is just talk.  It's silly to portray a Russian by speaking English in a Russian accent...  Just talk normal or speak Russian and use subtitles.  

8 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I never heard that expression until I just saw it over and over again in a book recently: "The River" by Peter Heller.  Excellent book by the way. 

I thought it might just be a made up expression for the book, but now I know it's for real!

I first saw it in the movie The Right Stuff... Gus Grissom, played by Fred Ward would say it.  Then later on, the clean marine John Glenn almost said it after complaining about the pussy footing around by leadership when Gagarin went up.  He wanted to say but was too nice to say such a thing.

6 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Years ago, when local TV ratings wars were the thing, one of the Detroit stations brought in a new crew, mostly hired from out East. The station with the people with most local depth started running commercials against them that highlighted an anchorperson representing one of the foreign imports mispronouncing Gra.tee.ot. It was a very well done takedown.

In the Detroit area there are two road names that betray the foreigner - Gratiot, and for West siders 'Lahser' which the unfamiliar (including too many Detroiters actually) invariably dyslexicly read and pronounce as 'Lasher'

When Van Earl Wright had his brief stopover in Detroit they had some fun with that concept.  It was a night of a snow storm and they had him take a turn reading the school closings.  When he got to L'anse Creuse the others started laughing like "Ok, how's he going to do this one?'

Another is Westland.  We say it West Land.  Foreign readers of things like traffic and news reports will get caught saying "Westlund"

Near me is a street called Dartmouth.  I say Dart Mouth.  Everyone did.  Then I moved to Croissant after getting married.  I said it "Cruh-sant".  then I got scolded for turning into a snobby Dearborn resident instead of a lowly Heights resident who said "Croy-sent" 

Getting back to parking... if you do use the ParkWhiz app for events, I always suggest typing in the name of the event.  That gets linked to it. It's important for TIger games as if there's a rainout you will get your money back.

But if you can't find a spot in one of the lots on the app, try changing the event to something else.  Sometimes they reserve places for things going on at The Fillmore or Fox or LCA.  

During the playoffs in 2024 when they announced one of the games as a day game, I snagged a spot for $10 beacuse the owners of that lot near Elephant and Co. didn't update their pricing in time.  It was $50 everywhere else.

I used to have a spot at bagley and grand river, next to the gaslight, but honestly once everything went cashless that is why I quit parking there. But you can find some good spots in that area.