LovableSidekick

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey says...⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Seems like an arbitrary threshold. Does anybody actually need $900 million? Or $300 million? Or…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey says...⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
The human compulsion to invent religions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A FYI from Skeletor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
To be fair tho, nobody ever stuck explosives up Superman’s ass - that I’m aware of.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A FYI from Skeletor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That’s no the only reason, but it does rank high among the perks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
IDK how the business works, but if I go to pick up an order for myself and they gave it to somebody else, I don’t lose any money, they’re fucking making it again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So guess what boss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Aww haww
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So guess what boss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Dragonslayer!!!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spoilers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I heard the app collects personal data to sell to floss companies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spoilers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Better keep that kid off social media. When he sees some of the rampant “logic” he’ll go insane.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I use Ubuntu btw.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Fish oil secretions are stored in a gland

…the gland doesn’t just store it, it converts it to a waxy substance that comes out somewhere and the penguin rubs it all over to help waterproof their coat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I think this, like most binary shorhand common on social media, would be a superficial analysis.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That was McCoy’s attitude about dialsis and 20th Century medicine in general, which was well in keeping within his crotchety nature and was slightly comical, not meant to preach that 20th Century medicine is backward. But if we went to medieval times and called them dumbasses for not knowing about modern biology, that would be showing our own ignorance.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The complaint isn’t about the woke sentiments themselves, it’s about replacing interesting storytelling with lecturing on those themes, and the people in charge of trek right now using the show as their pulpit. IMO it’s phony virtue signaling, but it’s working because the main target audience has largely been ignored in the past, and are very easy to bait and quick to defend anything that looks like an ally and see any critics as evil enemies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe it’s a question of degree - I didn’t watch all of DS9 and don’t remember those two episodes, but I honestly can’t think of other instances where characters walked around bemoaning the state of affairs beyond a comment or two. In the Harlan Ellison episode with Edith Keeler nobody commented on it being a shame that there were still millionaires while poor people were eating soup kitchens, for example. Same for the Gary Seven episode - there were brief matter of fact comments on young people being unhappy with things, but no lecturing on the military industrial complex profiting off the Vietnam War. Maybe what you’re talking about evolved later.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
At the time, I didn’t even think of that outfit as “crossdressing” - it just looked like they were trying to say styles had changed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
This is a complete misunderstanding of the wokeness complaints. They aren’t about who or what is presented in current trek, but how it’s presented. For example, instead of playing out insightful allegories that let viewers figure out the message, thereby crediting us with intelligence, the characters in Picard S2 walk around LA saying, “Wow what a terrible century, there’s so much social injustice.” That isn’t good storytelling, it’s a combo of lecturing and virtue signaling, and the fact that it’s the right message doesn’t change that.

Also, minor correction: Checkov wasn’t added until Season 2.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five injured in suspected Islamophobic attacks as bare-chested man roams Edinburgh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
He reminds me of a guy who used to roam the streets of Seattle back in the 90s. His local nickname was Conan. But IIRC he was usually barefoot, and at least some of the time he had a sword strapped across his back.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ez gg⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m American, I think billionaires are always fucking everybody, and I think the human race has better odds of surviving another 100 years than the USA as an entity. But I don’t feel like debating whatever train of thought you’re on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ez gg⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Actually I give a lot more for humanity’s chances than this organization we call the United States of America remaining as a unit for another 100 years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ez gg⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The USA surviving another 100 years is taking a lot for granted.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Because people don’t really think about it as much as they should. Leadership is easier to fake than expertise.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Poorly designed process. Would you want to work for that company?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"This Is Why Preservation Matters" - 14 Years Of RPG Maker Community Content Is About To Be Erased⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Wayback Machine archive - you’re welcome.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone make sense of this chemical?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Definitely Lupus
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah it sucks that they won’t let you make a better post about a more modern game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Translation: “We were just shitting you, so don’t buy our game.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It's Literally the Gulag': Furious Meta Employees Speak Out on 'Soul-Crushing' AI Jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I agree, I left software dev 10 years ago. The previous 3 decades were a golden age - we went from working with wild-west code and flat files to modular programming and databases, then object-oriented programming, then the web came along and brought another wild-west period, then came millions of packages and frameworks du jour. When I left a giant wave of all that was just curling overhead but hadn’t crashed down yet. Now if you don’t use 47 libraries to make a web page with a button on it you’re not a software engineer lol.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It's Literally the Gulag': Furious Meta Employees Speak Out on 'Soul-Crushing' AI Jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
LOL, I once met a manager who said he wouldn’t even interview devs who had Amazon on their resume.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It's Literally the Gulag': Furious Meta Employees Speak Out on 'Soul-Crushing' AI Jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
In other news, furious Meta employees think “literal” means “virtual”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Oh yeah, that’s been a common pattern for years and years. I think “9 to 5” refers more to higher-ranking people who get a paid lunch hour out of their 8 as a perk.