uriel238
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 5 hours ago:
Well this just wrecked my evening.
But this is an ongoing, recurring story. Thief 2014 was a mockery of the original titles.
- Comment on Mages be like: 4 days ago:
Meanwhile 77 million Americans really let the Djinni out of the bottle in November.
Maybe every story is Pandora’s jar.
- Comment on Saying "It is what it is" when it is all that it is 1 week ago:
Obama campaigned on getting past it. ( Hope amd Change ) but then he didn’t. Corporations got their bailouts. OWS was cleared violently with the cameras off. BLM notice law enforcement kill a lot of people. The disposition matrix was a thing. The IWOT went on and on. The mass surveillance state was a thing. The economy was better but 88% of households were in precarity, and a lot of people were homeless.
And then Trump won by the EC.
So Ive been waiting for things to get better for a long, long time. I’ve just stopped expecting the suck to ever reverse, or even ebb.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 2 weeks ago:
I just use LGBT+ since it was LGBT for a long time (it was GLBT but the Ls earned their place at the front during the AIDS crisis) then it became LGBTQ, then a bunch of other letters were added while the community was recognizing is profound variety before it turned into LGBTQ+
Q+ has a nice ring to it, but since I’m an unusual form of NB, I fit squarely into the catch-all variety of Q.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 2 weeks ago:
Welsh?
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 weeks ago:
Wait until automated freight delivery services (from trains and trucks down to little carrier bots) kill about a third of the jobs that exist.
In ten years people would be working less than twelve hours a week, but rich and powerful people will not give up a jot or penny of wealth and power.
- Comment on spicy one 2 weeks ago:
That is a good assessment. Yes.
In fact, the race between capitalist interests to bypass safety and get AI soonest is entirely about getting that power to be able to use it to hold everyone else hostage.
- Comment on It's the dream 2 weeks ago:
My management tricks (which came from being managed) included calling for a 90 minute meeting if I needed 45 minutes, and bring snacks.
Oh and when someone finishes an all day job in half a day, let them goof off for the rest of the day.
But then I believed that whole happy workers are maximally productive workers thing that, well, every serious management study reports.
- Comment on spicy one 2 weeks ago:
Courtesy of XKCD, long before we have to contend with unfriendly AI (we have committees of AI-techs working on this problem already) we’ll have to contend with someone like Musk or Bezos determined to own everything and capable of creating an AI-controlled army of killer robots.
We’re not sure how rogue AI is going to manifest. We are sure rogue power-seeking humans exist all the time, and positions of power are commonly filled by them. (That’s the primary argument for election by sortition, or by lottery.)
- Comment on spicy one 2 weeks ago:
Whatever made that crater was an ELE. Bigger than Chicxulub.
We have plenty of great filters to navigate:
We end war, or we die.
We restore the atmosphere and rebuild global ecology, or we die.
We end stratified society and power disparity, or we die.
Where are all the aliens? Fermi asked. The first question is, how do we navigate our way to becoming a space-faring, world colonizing species, ourselves? It’s turning out to be pretty difficult for the common hominid.
- Comment on Future aspirations 2 weeks ago:
The… Crowmistress? Queen of Corvids?
- Comment on Future aspirations 2 weeks ago:
From the witching community, you’d have pretty good luck befriending the local murder of crows with cheap bread. Upgrade the bread as the shinies they bring you improves.
According to the meme, pretty soon you’re a Batman villain.
- Comment on Thing makes noise wallet goes empty 3 weeks ago:
Sacramento Police department has a helicopter, Air One, that the department is super proud of. I live in a not-rich neighborhood where Air One likes to hang out and help which sometimes includes shouting inaudibly on the PA. Air One has its own webpage which is sometimes current about what it’s doing, but not always.
Air One also likes to fly low enough that we can hear the thumping of the rotors through our apartments. At 11pm on a school night. We know it doesn’t have to because the rescue choppers zing by quietly on their way.
And lately Air One has gotten, whinier. This loud screeee! that wasn’t their before that makes me thing something in the rotors is not sufficiently oiled, or something is about to fall apart. I wonder if Air One is soon going to make an unscheduled landing in my neighborhood.
- Comment on Just be that way 3 weeks ago:
Well, I needed an example.
- Comment on But but but 3 weeks ago:
I may be thinking of the July Revolution of 1830, in which case you’re right. They’re not the same, just related.
- Comment on When the riot squads come... 3 weeks ago:
You’re going to have to elaborate on both. I can’t imagine a far-right opinion I agree with.
- Comment on When the riot squads come... 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, I don’t know what, in a meme format, differentates a shitpost from a non-shitpost.
- Comment on When the riot squads come... 3 weeks ago:
Yep. Saw it after I posted it.
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- Comment on But but but 3 weeks ago:
The French Revolution took about a century to fully process through. There were several instances of guillotines and piles of heads. We usually know about the first one (and the second one for those who’ve seen Les Misérables. ) During the post 1789 process there was also a weird cult thing that looked a bit like MAGA, until even the cultists got tired of Robespierre’s bullshit.
Marie Antoinette was a perfectly serviceable princess / queen and fielded charities and smiled at the commoners and all the things ambitious feudal ladies are supposed to do. She never said Qu’ils mangent de la brioche but the rumor of it was current, and sped her way to the guillotine. She was also accused of sexual perversities, including The German Vice (lesbianism) most of which had to be explained to her so she could deny having doing them.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 4 weeks ago:
Looney Tunes did it first.
- Comment on Has Slavic engineering gone too far? 4 weeks ago:
I presume the point that you only need one methane source connection for two appliances that use it heavily.
So, an appliance for low-drag homesteads.
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 4 weeks ago:
My first instance shut down permanently within days of my signing up. I believe it had sometime remotely doing with Russia suddenly deciding to invade Ukraine.
It really gave me that full cyberpunk experience.
- Comment on this is my hole! 5 weeks ago:
Whenever I see memes based on this comic, I remember the original and the creepy squicky feelings come right back.
- Comment on I know I shouldn't... 5 weeks ago:
These days, the best thing to be armed with when drama happens is a camera. Preferably with a tripod, a good zoom and a shotgun mic, but that is typically a big ask.
- Comment on I feel attacked 5 weeks ago:
I’d suggest a BDSM munch or a LUG at a cafe. Also writing groups.
- Comment on I feel attacked 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t pay $15K but I got a new one. And then the gears were two low because it was a mountain bike and I had to install a custom touring drive train. (I’m having the same problem with my current e-bike, in that I run out of gears and e- at about 20mph.)
- Comment on I feel attacked 5 weeks ago:
As a fellow gen-x, I had one in my early forties and again at fifty-seven!
- Comment on I feel attacked 5 weeks ago:
Um, a deep dive into moral philosophy? No academic institutions were attached to it. I just read a lot.
- Comment on Wishing for this kind of world 1 month ago:
Your problem is rich people. Don’t let them.
