MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 4 days ago:
This sounds like a way to die in one of the Space Quest games lol.
- Comment on Innövative sölutiön 6 days ago:
“That’s like 3 yards of class notes! That’s ridiculous!”
“What? Oh this? No I just got a pack of gum at CVS real quick.”
- Comment on they come 2 weeks ago:
It’s more kinda pitiful. They’re just really bumbling and clumsy so you’ll occasionally just hear a little thunk against a window like a lightly thrown acorn or something hahaha.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 weeks ago:
I kinda feel like we’re 75% of the way there already, and we gotta be hitting with everything we’ve got if we’re to stand a chance against it…
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think they meant that. Probably more like
“Don’t upload all your precious data carelessly thinking it’s un-stealable just because of this one countermeasure.”
Which of course, really sucks for artists.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 weeks ago:
I wonder, can I serve it ads and get paid?
…and it’s just bouncing around and around and around in circles before its handler figures out what’s up…
Heehee I like where your head’s at!
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 weeks ago:
I feel like the down-vote squad misunderstood you here.
I think I agree: If people made software they actually wanted , for human people , and less for the incentive of “easiest way to automate generation of dollarinos.” I think we’d see a lot less sophistication and effort being put into such stupid things.
These things are made by the greedy, or by employees of the greedy.
Ever since the Internet put on a suit and tie and everything became abou real-life money-sploitz, even malware is boring anymore.
New dangerous exploit? 99% chance it’s just another twist on a crypto-miner or ransomware.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t it insufferable? Agh!
I hope my version was at least sorta funny while making the point and highlighting a lot of those stupid tricks they use. I should drop a few lines though so it’s not so malicious lol…
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 4 weeks ago:
As evidenced by his preposterously plagiarized company naming schemes that obnoxiously demonstrate to the world how profoundly he missed the point of Lord of the Rings, by going team Mordor and thinking he’s the hero. . .
When above all else, he desires power.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 4 weeks ago:
The only reason employers still do shit like this is because individuals either don’t realize that they can sue for it, or don’t realize that lawyers will take their case.
Is this one of those instances where the corporation will do stuff like deploy their lawyer army to tie up the victim and wait them out with expensive and time-wasting legal process…before offering them a $50 gift card to shut up and hold them eternally blameless forevermore?
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 4 weeks ago:
Yo. That’s pretty extreme!
That’s another human being just like yourself, posting their likely well-intentioned observations on a situation to a public discussion forum. They’re not being actively hostile to anybody. Please try to have a little grace.
If the idea presented is wrong, attack the idea, not the individual.
The internet is savage enough as it is and we can make it better.
I sincerely hope you have a good day. <3
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 4 weeks ago:
I hope it was at least satirically entertaining and perhaps a touch cathartic! XD
I’m sure you’ve also had that experience where you ended up scrolling and scrolling those stupid websites to see what their deal was, even though you knew it was 100% nonsense lol.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure…
You’re not gonna believe this but…
I think it all came from web marketing guru types.
And it circlejerked with business types to capitalize on shorter and shorter attention spans.
I was like you. I was a normal guy. And one day I decided to take a guess at why this irritating “writing style” came from…
…and you won’t believe what I came up with…I think it’s because…
People scroll, and short little paragraphs keep you reading.
In bite-sized little chunks. So you keep scrolling and scrolling waiting for it to get to the point…
…so what are you waiting for? Lame call to action by clicking the button below to get added to my email list with 900 days risk free…
…and one day you too can have a Lambo.
…Ugh that made me physically sick writing like that even as a joke LOL.
- Comment on Something something far-left 4 weeks ago:
Hehe, that’s how pathetic things are here.
Retirement accounts? Since we’re talking minimum wage workers here, most of them have probably never even heard of those. I know I don’t have one, because I’ve only held part time employment while self-studying a bunch of other skills. I have just a savings that gets cleaned out whenever the car makes an expensive noise I can’t fix myself.
We pay into “Social Security” that you’re supposed to be able to pull from when you retire, but that’s been an iffy thing for years now and it’s definitely not something that can be lived off of anymore.
Over here by default if we hurt ourselves at work we get workers comp and outside of work we have salary continuance insurance
Yeah I didn’t even mean at work, just y’know, life happening can absolutely tank your finances with medical bills. Insurance is an absolute scam here, where the affordable ones can have a “deductible” in the thousands you need to pay before the company even pays out a time.
At work? Yeah, workers comp is a thing, but to your job that’s like declaring war on your employer, the way I understand it. Often you’ll need a lawyer and they’ll send private investigators to stalk you trying to catch you being “not disabled” so they can kick you to the gutter.
(Allegedly lots of people to try to scam the system, like anything else, but dystopian employer paranoia is comically ridiculous.)
If you’re curious about the situation here, there’s a book called “On the Clock, what low wage labor did to me and how it drives america insane” or something like that. Super eye opening.
Screw amazon but this is the first link I found because I’m literally rushing out of the house lol.
www.goodreads.com/book/…/42779084-on-the-clock
Hope this illuminates things a little. Pray for us plz. :)
- Comment on Something something far-left 4 weeks ago:
Wow, such a powerful quote.
It touches on something I’m worried about in our time: How we’ve started to monetize hobbies as “hustles” and watch other people enjoy them in our place because we’re too busy to do them ourselves.
It feels like enjoying “the sun and music and art” is now the job of an entertainer, who the audience lives vicariously through, whether it’s all these shows about celebrities who get to travel, or so simple as streamers getting to sit down and play games…
- Comment on Something something far-left 4 weeks ago:
Uh. One? Then if two people had basic jobs…Maybe two?
Maybe someone is able to claw their way above minimum wage and the other can quit entirely, whatever.
Nobody’s demanding McMansions for McDoubles. They just want the concept of a job to be more than an endless void that arbitrarily takes exponentially more than it gives.
Working two jobs and being one major illness or injury away from losing it all is a sick insult to humanity, for all it has achieved up to this point.
- Comment on Something something far-left 4 weeks ago:
Not even smart , in a genius-like sense. I’d settle for merely cooperative.
Like if people could drop the petty “movement purity” squabbles and just rustle up that meme energy “apes together strong” for each other as the working class, instead of individualizing their struggles and settling for misery, we could really get somewhere!
- Comment on Something something far-left 4 weeks ago:
This is even my problem with the system when it comes to “the little guy.” Say you make a coffee shop, or release art, or a videogame, or an invention… There’s always this looming pressure to scale . No matter how much of a home run, that success is almost designed to “dry up.”
Wow, one in a million success! You can chill now right? No, it’s gotta be bigger, better, repeated, infinitely! Franchises, chains, out of place sequels nobody asked for! Overly enthusiastic merch destined for the Pacific Garbage Patch!
It feels like the system forces greed upon people as the state religion because they are not naturally greedy themselves if they’re otherwise taken care of. Savvy business of the modern age has the mentality of cancer.
Even the wealthy need to be imbued with the pathological fear that all they have might get taken from them, so they must amass more and more. It doesn’t even end with their own lives! They must aim for generational private wealth now.
It’s feels like it’s such an outlier mentality to want to find “just enough success to support my people and do some good.”
- Comment on Something something far-left 4 weeks ago:
This sounds like a fascinating read lol. I’ve never heard of that before!
Regardless of ideology, I do find those “let’s start our own society” accounts very educational, because everybody thinks they can do it better, but there’s a lot of pitfalls and footguns to learn from.
- Comment on Something something far-left 4 weeks ago:
We should put the psychopaths that can’t care about others in a reserve, where they can make their own hellscape, away from normal people.
Digitally, we’ve already done this, and called it LinkdIn!
Now we just need to make their real-life influence null and void so we can get on to getting along…
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 5 weeks ago:
Nailed it. When casino and packaged goods marketers and executives started malignantly metastasizing into the games industry.
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 5 weeks ago:
Well if we’re listing all that, you forgot Predator! :p
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 5 weeks ago:
Peace is finally an option.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 5 weeks ago:
I hope they checked his pockets before the MRI violently pulls a bunch of rings at dangerous velocities!
- Comment on it's making the frickin frogs gay 1 month ago:
- Nanobots?
- Sorcery?
- Hotel?
- Trivago
- Comment on Kanyes new album 1 month ago:
Thank you. Every single time I read a comment like this, I don’t feel so alone. You get it.
I’m a Christian anarchist myself. There are lots of us scattered believers out there of many philosophies, even in the U.S, who understand that Jesus is love and He is for everyone, and we are called to love even our enemies.
Sadly, it’s harder to find us. We don’t have wealthy benefactors and think-tanks and politicians and mega-stadium churches, where sermons are more akin to conservative feel-good self-help seminars than Bible study.
The Gospel of Christ has been warped and co-opted by the rich and powerful to make them feel good about themselves, and to lure the masses to want to be like them, instead of like Jesus. They want Bibles closed and wallets open.
It’s one of the most ongoing and successful false flag operations in history: The americhristian cult has done so much damage. Indeed, how can one worship Jesus and money? Or a flag?
But we’re still out there trying to just be the best people we can. I appreciate it when people of any belief acknowledge the existence of flawed-but-trying Christians who will gladly ally with you to the death against this cult of hatred and lies.
- Comment on Kanyes new album 1 month ago:
I always thought of the repeated “Lord” almost to be like, a mocking repetition of those who come running to you for advice or wisdom and then disregard it entirely when you don’t instantly solve all their problems.
Like “Oh yeah sure, you kids come running ‘Dad, dad!’ when you want something, but where are you when I need help in the garage?”
But there could be other interesting explanations. Never really thought of that!
- Comment on Bet 1 month ago:
Suddenly tempted to send the image without context to a random phone contact. Just to make their day weird. :D
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 1 month ago:
“Magician’s Brick!”
- Comment on You are beautiful 1 month ago:
Taht “Donald Duck Butt” posture puts so much unnecessary compression on one’s spine. 💀💀💀