MonkeMischief
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- Comment on Nurses Get Bitten, Spat on, Thrown. That’s Why We’re on Strike. 1 week ago:
That’s so freaking sad. No wonder I’ve noticed all these placards at every medical establishment now that say “We will not tolerate any aggression towards our staff.”
I hope they enforce the notion, but I’m so sad such a sign is necessary in the first place.
- Comment on To USB, or not to USB 1 week ago:
So true. It’s so insidious because there’s that vague hope that there’s a tiny chance he finds it and never goes back to work, or whatever.
It’s right there, balanced just at the end of his fingertips over the gaping maw of madness, like Indie in the Last Crusade reaching for the Holy Grail.
He needs that kindly father figure to tell him
“Lett et gohh, Shon…”
- Comment on To USB, or not to USB 1 week ago:
One of the classic blunders!
… Unless they’re using an airgapped device or carefully sandboxed VM (even still lol) to satisfy that curiosity.
Ugh I admit I’d be curious lol.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
Cool. I agree. Was just covering my butt online, I suppose.
Especially because I don’t want to come off as anti-education or anti-intellectual, but the gatekeepers to that education are so beyond corrupt at this point.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 week ago:
Ha! What an odd coincidence, and yet I’m not surprised!
Well, for the record, the webcomic cat would do things like get distracted and lose mousey toys during surgery, and I’d still trust him over Oprah’s favorite daytime human scat commentator. Lol
Best of luck on your journey engineering the perfect diss joke. XD
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 2 weeks ago:
Doctor Cat M.D!
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 2 weeks ago:
Certified hood classic lmao.
“He’s a REAL DOCTOR.”
“Oh shit, it’s Dr. Tran!”
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 2 weeks ago:
Dr. Tran
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 2 weeks ago:
“We’re all in this together.”
“You’re an essential worker.”
“We’re a family.”
Telltale signs of a malignant sociopath.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 2 weeks ago:
(non adult directed activities aren’t counted at all)
I guess this closes certain avenues of BSing the system but also, wow that feels crazy arbitrary and unfair. Damn, it makes a lot of sense that this would be some kinda unspoken rule of what counts.
Not to be too conspiracy-brain but it really fits that notion that modern schooling exists solely to subsidize corporate recruitment.
“We made our own film/robots/fundraiser/business!” 👎👎
“I did free labor for a wealthy multinational conglomerate!” <br>😎<br> 👈👈
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 2 weeks ago:
Am I out of touch
No :)
is this guy just an extreme privileged cunt?
Totes!
Although, my experience definitely differed. I tried the “Get a job out of highschool” thing, but there were lines around the block consisting of former cubicle-dwellers with 3 kids applying to my local In-N-Out Burger, so stuff was bleak. I was fortunate I was able to wait a little while.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
The fascist part is: Ohh humans are the problem Okay, which humans? Who decides who gets what? Who lives and who dies? Is there any consideration for the power dynamics in our society (spoiler, no there is not)
That’s the part that always gets me. When I hear that argument it usually goes like this:
“There’s too many humans, we’re killing our planet :(”
“Yeah good thing you’re not one of those! Oh wait you are so…Okay, are you gonna be first in line to sacrifice yourself for the alleged Greater Good or. . .?”
“. . .”
“. . .well?”
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Interesting (scribbles on clipboard)…and for how many football fields would it span, exactly? And weigh how many Ford F150s?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
but it’ll cost way way more, and the budget isn’t unlimited.
I wish things weren’t always so short-sighted by default. I mean sometimes things evolve so maybe it’s better to leave room for teardown and improvement or whatnot.
But it seems if you’re not thinking in “quarterlies”, infrastructure that’s built once and simply maintained should cost a lot less in the long run.
But then I guess the contractors would dry up if they didn’t have to come rebuild it a dozen times a decade. :p
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 month ago:
Seriously if we just hardcore PSA’d even basic media literacy skills into our culture, MAYBE people would stop thinking that random internet anecdotes (which are likely largely bot-driven these days) constitute “scientific evidence.”
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 month ago:
LOL I wish it were like that. The “kids and their superior grasp of technology.” That’s how it’s supposed to be. They’re supposed to be smarter than us.
Indeed, with desktops and internet forums it really did seem to be going that way…and then with smartphones becoming specialized as content consumption and attention-capture devices, the kids started going backwards.
Yeah, they can swipe their lil’ fingers and use instagram now, but using files and folders or printing their homework? Relegated back to the esoteric and arcane arts. It’s tragic.
But this kids who do make a point to learn and teach themselves are doing incredible things.
So I guess, the average has dropped, and now we’re seeing two more prominent extremes. 🤔
…/TED_talk lol
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 month ago:
And somebody’s gotta spray that RoundUp… hasn’t there been numerous class actions about the effects of that stuff? 😬
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 1 month ago:
There’s your “Loading screen game tip” for today lol.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 1 month ago:
This reminds me of an excerpt in David Graeber’s “Bullshit Jobs”, where he quotes a sailor from like, the East India Company or something.
Something along the lines of “Many suspect the monkeys of the island can speak, but wisely choose not to, knowing they would be put to work.”
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 1 month ago:
Haha yeah I always thought it was like the Japanese or Portuguese “Ne?” , or British “In’nit?”
It’s like a statement followed by a “You agree too, right?” Lol
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 1 month ago:
I love 3D art, and I want to make games eventually. I remember using my cracked copy of 3D Studio MAX to experiment and try things “just to see real quick!” when I was supposed to be doing more boring homework like report writing.
I even kept my obsession after a community college semester with the most joy-killing professor on the subject you could ever meet.
I dropped out of college because of life and found Blender, and kept learning as much as I could because I thought it was my ticket to a real job that didn’t involve “How may I help you?” every single day. It was going to be my way out.
Well, just a year or so ago I FINALLY got paid to do a freelance character sculpt. And…It took way longer than I hoped, I hammered on it like every single day, and I haven’t touched Blender since wrapping that project.
I really want to get back to modeling, but it made me realize I definitely don’t want to be an “industry” 3D artist making stuff to someone else’s exacting specifications for money. I still would love to sell a game on Steam or something some day.
…But I put a lot of skill points into these skills already, following what I love…so I’m kinda lost. Business and work is a realm that just makes me nauseous and anxious to think about as the water keeps rising, so to speak.
So I guess I’m saying: don’t make the thing you love your lifeline to surviving capitalist society, because unless that thing is “making money”, doing it for money or clientelle chokes the joy out of most human endeavors.
- Comment on Roundup of Roundup 2 months ago:
…and the kid who drew the orange was paid like, a TON by the…local orange juice cartel, or something…
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 2 months ago:
Oh that’s really cool! I’m gonna search for that! Maybe my library has it, or I can bug them to get it. :)
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 2 months ago:
That’s awesome! Thanks SO much for pointing me to that! I too wonder what the 2GB size is. It looks like they have two different sets of packages, one being a “source archive” that’s just a raw CD dump.
I can see it, since the game was on like, 4 or 5 CDs back then, and involved a lot of heavily compressed video!
I have a fun feeling that maybe I can run this really well in Bottles, it ScummVM alone doesn’t do the trick. :D
Here’s a link I found to the soundtrack in “CD Quality”, with a download link, if you’re interested.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSFnTrLHtkp8Yj7bSdaN_…
That 90’s crystal-synth is the most gorgeous thing…it reminded me very much of the soundtrack to Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time. :D
- Comment on Literally though 2 months ago:
So much this, although I really regret not just finishing college whilst all this crap was still in its infancy. Student exploitation is absolutely nuts these days.
“Turnitin”, the “Lockdown Browser” and its fellow RAT rootkit malware ilk, one time use serial codes to do the “homework” in $300 textbooks.
It’s absolute insanity. Especially nowadays when schools and wider society forgot what education was about, and run with the idea that it’s all to earn a lottery ticket to potentially landing a job that might one day pay off that exploitation.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 2 months ago:
This is the secret to where Roy Kent gets his power!
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 2 months ago:
I still need to read the book! My main familiarity with RAMA is the 199(5?) PC game that was mind bogglingly obtuse with math puzzles but the world was SO fascinating! I need to figure out how to play it again with my grown up brain…
The soundtrack was INCREDIBLE…
- Comment on Assumptions 2 months ago:
LOL sounds like that game gets it right too! In Cataclysm DDA there’s something called an “antlered horror.” Basically undead moose.
Sheer. Friggin. Terror!
Obligatory:
“A Møøse once bit my sister …”
“Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…”
“We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.”
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 2 months ago:
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
I’m grateful to your mom, and I’m glad you’re here. <3
- Comment on Assumptions 2 months ago:
Anyone who’s played Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead will tell you: Moose are NOT to be messed with. Hoo boi.
In the season, if you see them across the map, pray they haven’t seen you.
I imagine this models a healthy respect for real moose(s?) too lol.
