MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on Our dancers have infinite curves 1 day ago:
Believe it or not, mathematics majors who didn’t put “engineer” on their resume. :(
(This is not meant to insult anybody, aside from whomever is responsible for this “degree market value” idea.)
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 1 week ago:
Unfortunately same with Bill Nye. He seemed so pissed at getting recognized by people at a Symposium.
Like geeze dude sorry you inspired people as kids and encouraged them to pursue science and they’re excited to meet you.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 weeks ago:
Not enough people talk about this.
When I found out how that worked I was like
“Lemme get this straight…they get whatever they want out of you, as long as they want, exempt from overtime, for a flat yearly fee? But of course you get benefits and vacation time you are socially stigmatized from using…Yeah that’s a scam.”
What’s with the obsession with renting/owning people?!?
- Comment on The Elder God 2 weeks ago:
“Everybody’s going to the party, have a real good time… … Dancin’ in the desert, blowin’ up the sun-shine…”
–System of a Down, “B.Y.O.B”
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 2 weeks ago:
And here we see this buffoon once again viciously attacking his political enemies…(Flips papers)…
…“Anyone with half a brain who works for a living.”
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 3 weeks ago:
This made me laugh way more than it should have rofl
- Comment on Radio transmissions 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, the dolphins decided to sneak out the back.
… At least they thanked us for the fish.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 4 weeks ago:
This sounds like a way to die in one of the Space Quest games lol.
- Comment on Innövative sölutiön 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Peace is finally an option.