blargh513
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- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 1 week ago:
They all sit on each others boards.
However it just takes a few activist board members who have big time fomo and want to be early in with a virtual CEO.
I’m sure I will be put out to pasture first, but at least I will be laughing from my cardboard box.
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 1 week ago:
Lie to employees, absorb money, travel needlessly, tell everyone to RTO when they are never in the office, take a fat bonus, fire people, bullshit the board and stockholders, pull ripcord on golden parachute, lather rinse repeat.
Yeah, i think an ai could handle most of that.
- Comment on What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers? 1 week ago:
Because mike Meyers is entertaining and the movies are well-made goofy fun.
Its not so complicated. Also, does anyone still make comedy anymore? Seems like it has fallen off a lot.
- Comment on Winner winner! 1 week ago:
Dumb deer go away
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 1 week ago:
Seriously, I was em dashing on a goddamn typewriter, the fuck am I gonna change it now.
In the end, it won’t matter. Being able to write well will be like riding a horse, calligraphy or tuning a carburetor. They will all become hobbies, a quirky past time of rich people or niche enthusiasts with limited real-world use.
Maybe it is for the best. Most people can’t write for shit (does not help that we often use our goddamn thumbs to do most of it) and we spend countless hours in school trying to get kids to learn.
Science fiction has us just projecting our thoughts to other without the clumsiness of language as the medium. Maybe this is just the first step.
- Comment on Burgers 1 week ago:
I will never ever get tired of this meme template.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
I got a lot out of Wright’s book and I continue to revisit it.
It is a slow read that demands your attention, but it is very enlightening.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
Correct. In the case of the question, I believe there is value to be gained, even if there are flaws in the argument.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
Dear brother/sister rest your mind. You cannot control what will happen and worry/fear will only agitate you.
I don’t like the idea of life being over, but it is inevitable. Seek acceptance and peace with this so you do not waste your precious hours with unnecessary discomfort. There is so much more to enjoy while we are still here!
Loss of life is followed by mourning - except when it is our own. Some spend decades mourning the end of their lives because they are scared of facing it down. You’ve done the big scary part already. Now spend the time taking yourself through all of your fears. Once you come to acceptance it doesn’t change what will be, but it will trouble you a lot less.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
You might find some answers in Julian Jaynes The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
Short version: consciousness is kind of new. We aren’t really good at it.
Also, Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright is very good. Less about Buddhism more about how we think and why it works.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
You can’t know until then, so what is the value in worrying?
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
The thing is, once youre dead, there won’t be consciousness, you will not have any perception of a void, you won’t know anything because you will not be.
Marc Maron put it into good perspective. He was hiking in the hills and passed out. He noted that he could very well have been dead, and that would have been that.
You can’t be afraid when you dont exist and you will not be aware of anything.
- Comment on Light. Not Even Once. 1 week ago:
This was needed.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If you watched that and you’re mad, its not like you were going to do something else with the time but scroll and fuck around.
- Comment on The absolute WORST 2 weeks ago:
Take a big drink of olive oil before you take your pills and one after! Yummy!
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 2 weeks ago:
They sell stuff called Chewelry; it’s a necklace or wristband you can chomp on.
Maybe get the kid one of those? If not, maybe make one out of a piece of string and eraser?
This one’s for chewin’, this one’s for undoin’.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s in the name…
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 2 weeks ago:
I keep putting it off, but I’m creating an LLC so I can start a damn church.
I can’t get a fucking job to save my life, so why not just profit from the ignorance and stupidity of the lumpenproletariat?
My time is now.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, it wasn’t just elephants. He did it with dogs, monkeys, etc. This wasn’t a one-time thing, he provided this “demonstration” on a variety of occasions.
All because he wanted the world to adopt his standard for electrical transmission, direct current (DC) instead of Nikola Tesla’s alternating current (AC).
Tesla was a brilliant engineer and inventor. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing (though later he did get a little nutty). Edison just yelled at engineers he hired to do work for him.
I am so sad that Tesla’s name has been ruined. He was wildly intelligent and though he was a prominent figure in his prime, he died broke. It’s not bad enough that he went out like that, now we have a fucking clown pissing on his grave by using his name to sell his bullshit nazimobiles.
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
I got a nasty letter from an anonymous coward complaining about how I keep my lawn.
I dont give two shits about the grass. Bare minimum is all it gets. I also did a round of overseeding with microclover. All the retired boomers in my neighborhood have nothing better to do than dick around with their lawns.
I have every intention of making mine into a meadow or something. Need to figure out what I can get away with.
In the meantime, I will be making a Halloween display that will feature skeletons sitting on top of some pallets (letter writer was mad that I had one leaning against my trash can for a week) with trash cans and a whole bunch of weeds and crap. I also have a spare tire that was used to secure a transmission I bought down to the pallet. I also still have the broken transmission.
The whole mess will be going into the front yard, skeletons will get trucker hats, beer bottles and maybe a banjo.
I can’t wait!
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 3 weeks ago:
Thats the beef. If you try to get or use it, Amish Kapoor will typically take legal action.
Also, hes never really made any compelling art with it either.
He’s the guy who made that big silver sculpture in Chicago. He intensely dislikes that everyone calls it The Bean because he named it Cloud Gate. Really, he made a giant sculpture in a public place that is shaped like a massive shiny kidney bean and is big mad that people call it a bean. Seems like hes kind of a thin skinned baby.
- Comment on I may or may not have left my own contributions 😂 4 weeks ago:
The Spanish textbook was packed full of this. Not sure how it started, but it was on almost every page. Everyone loved that book until some heartless bastard stole it.
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 4 weeks ago:
Get fucked and/or fired a few times for no good reason. That hide will thicken up might fast. Forces you into a new perspective and resets some priorities.
I’ve learned that the boss can and will be a prick as he pleases (always dudes in my case). Hes going to do that and you can either fight with him and get fired or backburnered, or you can just eat shit and move on.
You can get into pissing matches with peers, but the person who wins is the person the boss likes more. If it isn’t you, accept defeat and move on.
Modern work is just the act of eating shit for money. There is no dignity, there is no payoff. You are just giving untalented clowns what they want in exchange for money. I don’t think any of us wanted it this way, but here we are.
I have fully been broken and institutionalized by the system. I have zero hope of ascending to some lofty position by virtue of my intelligence and hard work. Those who run everything pick their own. Unless you grew up with parents who run everything, there is a very low chance you ever will. They pick their own kind, anyone else is a liability.
- Comment on snack 4 weeks ago:
Why the hell would they use liquid nitrogen for that? You can throw a handful of dry ice crumbs in to get the same effect.
Liquid nitrogen is a pain in the ass to transport and store. You need special vacuum sealed thermoses (a little more expensive than your overpriced yeti tumbler) and it will boil away in a few days regardless so you need to have it topped up. Plus, it is far colder than dry ice, so accidents are more of a thing.
Dry ice can be kept in a cheap cooler and costs like $10/lb.
- Comment on XDA Forum User response to Google 4 weeks ago:
Aegis ftw.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 4 weeks ago:
And adding a trashcan full of opinions takes everyone further from truth, not closer.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 4 weeks ago:
The world does not need a fucking opinionpedia. We have enough morons filling the internet with bullshit; having an authoritative, factual source for a wide variety of data is a good thing.
I have no desire to read some crackpot’s opinion on JFK. Objective facts are critical to a healthy society. We can see how bad things get when people tear apart the fabric of knowledge and replace it with misinformation.
Fuck that right in the ear.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 5 weeks ago:
It will creep in slowly since most people dont touch any settings on their computer after the initial unboxing and setup.
Big box retailers will offer discounts on them, much like how you can buy a Chromebook for very little.
Enticed by cheap computers, people will buy not knowing that any limitations exist. They’ll be encouraged to use centralized app repositories but they can still install some other stuff.
A year or two later, some things won’t be permitted, computer will make scary warnings when installing, but with enough clicking, you can get past. Until the day you can’t.
It will be a progression, but it will happen eventually. I honestly am surprised that computers dont require some sort of registration. I’m sure that will happen eventually.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 5 weeks ago:
What has an odd number of legs and a partial house?
No, really, I wanna know.
- Comment on I saw what you did there 5 weeks ago:
I cannot let the invasive thoughts win.
Tablesaws take up so much space and I only need one maybe 2-3 times a year. The bucketsaw is very tempting. Just needs some ratchet straps and quick clamps.