UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on Shhhh! it's sleeping. 54 minutes ago:
That’s why you don’t build a million of them.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 hours ago:
I just finished the power leveling last night.
Huge mistake. Now all you have left to do is martyr yourself for the benefit of your nefarious ex-best friend’s political ambitions.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 hours ago:
No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it’s still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You’re still alive.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 hours ago:
Armored Core VI is a FromSoft game. Fortunately, not quite as bad as the Usury Simulator of prior editions. But I’m still ghost-in-a-shell working odd jobs in war zones to afford a new human body. So, I’m thinking I’m pretty deeply fucked.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 4 hours ago:
People are so much more rude when they can’t see your face!
Unsolicited sales calls - especially at modern day volumes - are about as well-received as someone knocking on your toilet stall to try and convert you to Jesus.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 4 hours ago:
Is no one here going to tell me why this is fake and gay?
Given the type of person who frequents 4chan, it is likely the most heteronormative and real-ass thing ever posted in green.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 4 hours ago:
all he’ll need to do is get to a shelter
Famously very luxurious, accommodating, and safe places to live long term. There’s never a space shortage. You get three squares a day of very tasty and nutrious faire, no questions asked. There’s never any kind of Kafka-esque bureaucracy to gaining entrance, much less obligations on the people in the shelter to maintain residence. It’s definitely not boring. Nobody is ever exploited. Mental health of all the residents is top notch and you never experience and physical violence or emotional abuse while there.
If he has any documented physical health issues, then he needs to get a disability lawyer going.
“I’m broke, I have no transportation, and I’m about to be homeless”
“Have you talked to your lawyer about it?”
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 1 day ago:
His stepdad, of course.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 1 day ago:
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 2 days ago:
I wish this were true. But the machinery of capitalism can buy up and integrate private journalist institutions (or censor them out of existence) faster and more fluidly than individual information consumers can get out of the way.
Look at the way Newsmax has supplanted Fox, despite hosting all the same awful opinions from many of the same awful opinions. Or how Musk has gobbled up Twitter and Reddit, pushing a minority of a minority onto spaces like Mastadon, Bluesky, and Lemmy. Or Bezos buying WaPo. Or the Ellisons gobbling up CBS. Or Biden letting Donald Trump hand TikTok to his former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin for a song.
At some point, there’s nowhere to run.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 3 days ago:
Really the problem is not cs degrees being bad its that bachelors degrees are not all that useful in general any more.
I’ve worked at a few places that won’t touch you without one. But the GPA also counts for a lot. Anything under a 3.0 regularly gets ignored. For the bigger firms, it can go up to 3.5
I had a weak GPA and took a job at a real bottom of the barrel company. But after five years, it was just “oh, this guy can hold a steady job” and GPA stopped mattering.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 3 days ago:
In my experience, people can start as server or network admins and pivot over pretty easily.
The skills continue to have plenty of value, even if the official title isn’t a hot hire.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 3 days ago:
Not nearly as bad as the now headline news presents.
Tech unemployment is still just about the lowest of any industry. Pay remains competitive (although nothing like the $200k entry level jobs of the 1990s). The labor demand is definitely growing, both domestically and globally.
Silicon Valley is shedding jobs. But if you go chase a job at EPIC up in Wisconsin or JP Morgan out in New York or take a job at Deloitte or SAP or Schlumberger, you’ll find them. Look for positions in the airline or finance or real estate or energy industries, there’s a superabundance of work and a perpetual shortage of labor.
Most of these big corporate outfits are glued to Microsoft products, though. Oracle also remains a popular database environment. Or they’re using some proprietary nonsense - Dell Boomi for visual programming of interfaces or UIPath for botting or some other ill-conceived overpriced insanity.
But - at least where I’m sitting - AI hasn’t replaced shit. My office is still trying to implement Agile and we’re a Fortune 100 company.
- Comment on Fogey-assed old dude says 3 days ago:
Top 500 songs from the 1970s
Oops, all Cher
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I wouldn’t hold my breath. Kissinger made it to 100.
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- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 days ago:
What does that have to do with the drm mandate being easy to get around?
You can get around the DRM mandate with a bicycle. That doesn’t mean you’ve solved the underlying problem
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 days ago:
I’m not sure honestly sure what your point is
3D printers produce plastic crap.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 days ago:
She’s one book deal away from joining Obama on Martha’s Vineyard
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 days ago:
Or did obscene insider trading like Dan Crenshaw, who took office the same year.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 days ago:
every neighborhood has a few people who can build you a car from scratch in a day
How many cars does the city demand be produced each day? Cause my own city of Houston sees over 380k new cars sold annually.
the city already has several thousand car factories that don’t require registration
Itty bitty ones, sure. And they take weeks to produce a working vehicle, of substandard quality.
there’s no mechanism to enforce registration
Until you get pulled over
the cost of building a new car is a few hundred dollars
A plastic car that can go maybe a few hundred miles before falling apart if it’s made perfectly.
Building a 3d printer from a kit is different from building one from scratch
You can build cars from a kit, too. But I’m not going to do that when I can buy a used Corolla or KIA for couch cushion money and drive it into the ground over the next fifteen years.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 days ago:
That seems like a nightmare to set up
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 days ago:
Getting a proper industrially manufactured firearm has never been easier.
The paranoia around Ghost Guns is more an expression of the gun regulation movement’s impotence.
If you want a gun in this country, and you’ve got more than a couple hundred dollars, you can get one.
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- Comment on Unregulated Capitalism would kill the planet. 4 days ago:
Capitalism rewards selfish individualism, greed, and encourages competition.
Capitalism rewards private accumulation of capital operating at a profit.
Selfish, individualistic, and greedy people often jerk themselves off about the merits of capitalism. But far far more of them fail than succeed under it. Meanwhile, tightly knit families, close friend groups, and religious collective routinely mop the floor with anti-social self-obsessed rise-and-grind types.
And capitalism does not encourage competition. Just the opposite. Cartels and monopolies regularly outperform competitive enterprises.
How about a system that rewards selflessness, and encourages cooperation? Which are also a natural part of human nature.
Human nature rewards socializing up to the Dunbar number, eating, fucking, working as little as possible, and doing unspeakable violence to your distant neighbors and vulnerable peers.
Idk why we hold it up as some kind of metric for a functional society when it’s a real mixed bag on a good day.
Also, annoyingly essentialist, as though humans - like any other species - aren’t constantly diversifying and evolving.
No issues with poor leadership would be outright eliminated, but we can do better.
We can define a target and work towards it for 40 years. And then the next generation can reevaluate progress and adjust course.
“Better” is in the eye of the beholder, in the end.
But you do need something to move towards. Utopianism gives people an idea of where they’re going. You can’t just Doomer yourself out of a bad historically moment.
- Comment on Unregulated Capitalism would kill the planet. 4 days ago:
I’ve heard Monarchists use this line.
At some point, no system is going to be better than it’s leadership. And competent, benevolent leadership has come from somewhere. You can’t build a functionally society out of negation.
Demagoguery isn’t unique to Capitalism and it isn’t resolved merely through nationalization.
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 5 days ago:
I would do just fine without AI like I did when we didn’t have the Internet.
I mean, I considered the internet a godsend for a whole host of reasons and have been much better off with it than without it. Auto-Nav alone has saved me more hours utterly lost in my car than I care to think about.
But i would manage either way.
Wouldn’t really have a choice.
But then that’s the thing with AI. It’s not “the internet”. It’s this superfluous annoying add-on that keeps getting forced into platforms I was perfectly happy to use without it.
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 5 days ago:
Mail Models
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 5 days ago:
Me, a Meth Addict, constantly trying to blow meth smoke in your face and stab you with meth needles: “You’re going to have a pretty hard time getting by without it!”
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 5 days ago:
So does Pikes Peak in Colorado, all the way up 14,000 feet.
