ininewcrow

@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes⁩ ⁨⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m worried about a bunch of 3.5" floppies I have that I used to store a bunch of personal documents and journal writing from high school.

  I haven’t seen any of these documents for years because it’s been a long time since I had a system with a floppy drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techno feudalism, here we come⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  How about make people study for ten years and make them pay tens of thousands of dollars to do it … then tell them they didn’t do the right studying for the work you want them to do so you don’t want to hire them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice … I look forward to the next generation of AI counter counter measures that will make the internet an even more unbearable mess in order to funnel as much money and control to a small set of idiots that think they can become masters of the universe and own every single penny on the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monty Python predicted social media⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No they didn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common British L⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always joked that you could batter a bunch of cardboard, soak it in buttermilk, cover it in spicy breading, do it again and deep fry it … and you could base an entire restaurant chain around it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raised by extra strict hispanic catholic parents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The dilemma of the chicken or the egg problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not how you ride a horse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every day we stray further from the light

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are no downsides⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  … (after 3 hours) … might as well make it 4 … (decides to just sit up more comfortably in bed) … sun’s rising anyway, might as well stay up … (sun is rising) … fuck it, who needs sleep … (alarm goes off) … falls asleep for two hours

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vampires are from Jersey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If vampires are sticking to a code of ethics and honour to enter your house than this wouldn’t work

  You are answering a question with an answer … not making a verbal contract

  You are making a statement … not giving permission

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when the americans invade⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry about it … they’ll be manufacturing millions of drones to do all the killing anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconditional support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew a guy that drank so much hard liquor his liver turned into a prune and he died

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconditional support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a recovering alcoholic with close to 30 years sobriety now … and the idea of drinking excessive amounts of any liquid will always be funny to me now … or to want to drink liquids like some sort of ritual.

  If you drink 6 litres of beer in a day in front of others and get blind drunk … you’re a party animal

  If you drink 6 litres of water in a day in front of people … you’re a weirdo

  Or you can sit at a dark dingy bar and sip on scotch or whisky for hours on an afternoon and it’s normal

  But if you sit in a dark dingy bar and sip on a glass of orange juice for hours on an afternoon … people think there’s something wrong with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is she‽⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dorothy: … WHAT DOES HE WANT???

  Lion: … I don’t know??? … I can’t understand anything he’s saying!!!.. It just sounds like mumbling!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrimpposters begone!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Complaining as he’s chowing down his third plate of Shrimp Fried Rice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you amused⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am amused

• Gary Devore: The Screenwriter Who Knew Too Much? | Murdered by Hollywood | Full Documentaryyoutu.be ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they building an army with troops, tanks, aircraft and naval ships? Are they going to physically and violently take over the social internet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm getting cancelled soon, aren't I⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Indigenous Canadian in northern Ontario. My ethnic group were here in North America before European arrived so our ancestors have always been here since humans first arrived in his continent. I’m 100% Indigenous on both sides of my family. The short history is that once Europeans arrived, roughly about 100-150 years ago they made agreements (called treaties) with local Indigenous people where Europeans took control of the majority of the land in exchange for the Indigenous people to get small parcels of land and some specials rights for hunting, travelling and other services, treatments or even monetary compensation. There were multiple treaties across Canada that varied in timing, types, amounts and variety of compensations … but all of them included setting aside lands for Indigenous people. The small parcels of land that were set aside were called Reservations … lands reserved for Indigenous people according to treaties.

  So today … when someone somewhere in Canada mentions the word ‘Reservation’ to an Indigenous person, it is a very loaded word that may mean different things to different people depending on the situation. Indigenous people like me like to play with it as a joke for amusement. Others would be offended by the word. Some non-Indigenous people use it in a derogatory racist way to make fun of a minority group.

  It’s also very interesting because the word is actually very negative to most Indigenous people now. For the past 100 years whenever that word was mentioned, it was always in the context of how the government controlled, manipulated or negatively affected Indigenous people. Today the word is not often used in official settings.

  Indigenous people now prefer to use the words ‘First Nation’ or ‘Indigenous lands’ or ‘Traditional territories’ to refer to the treaty lands.

  In city settings where few people know about this history, it’s still common to visit a restaurant and a waiter asks ‘Do you have a reservation?’ and to the majority of Canadians, the phrase means nothing … but to an Indigenous person, it means a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's yours?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ben Dover

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm getting cancelled soon, aren't I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  lol … I love Ken Hotate … and that is where I got that bit to look at people and tell them ‘that’s racist’.

  I also loved the part where he just laughs it all off and then asks for a whisky instead. I really wished they had featured him more in the show or even made a spin off with him and his tribe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm getting cancelled soon, aren't I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I not a travelling comedian so I don’t do this all the time every time. The times this went wrong wasn’t serious or anything … everyone just went silent and looked at me like a weirdo. I like to make friends but not everyone everywhere are ready to be fast friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As soon as we created highspeed telecommunications possible across vast distances and that we are making them faster all the time … making people travel to a work station makes less and less sense.

  What does it make in a modern city? Let’s make tens of thousands of people wake up at 6am and all travel to work at the exact same time every day. Let’s make them all travel simultaneously at roughly the same two hour time slot every morning in the same direction.

  Then at the end of the day, let’s make them all make the return trip between 4pm and 6pm.

  All because we want a captive group of workers to perform menial tasks they could perform in a couple of hours at home but instead they get to work and wander around and waste as much time as possible to justify why they are at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm getting cancelled soon, aren't I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol … I’ve been to restaurants where the waiter awkwardly asked me if I had a reservation.

  I’m obviously indigenous … in Canada where I’m from, most people like me who are big brown and long hair can safely be assumed to be indigenous

  I usually act out in one of two ways

  I look at them seriously and tell them that’s racist … then smile right away to tell them I’m joking

  Or I tell them that yes I do have a reservation thank you for asking.

  Any way I act, I tell them right away I’m having fun and 9/10 times, I get to have a good laugh with people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's her secret?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maple beans for those long days at the office

  Tomatoe beans for the weekends when you want to relax

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully she didn’t become a prostitute

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨moms spaghetti⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a serving for one, or are we both going to eat off your arm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Inside of me, my inner child is dead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to do this to devices as a kid … try to figure out how to set the switch to the middle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To me this is a fascinating analogy

  This is like having a civilization of Original Creators who are only able to communicate with hand gestures. They have no ears and can’t hear sound or produce any vocal noises. They discover a group of humans and raise them to only communicate with their hands because no one knows what full human full potential is. The Original Creators don’t know what humans are able to do or not do so they teach humans how to communicate with their hands instead because that is the only language that the Original Creators know or can understand.

  So now the humans go about doing things communicating in complex ways with their hands and gestures to get things done like their Original Creators taught them.

  At one point a group of humans start using vocal communications. The Original Creators can’t understand what is being said because they can’t hear. The humans start learning basic commands and their vocalizations become more and more complex as time goes on. At one point, their few basic vocal commands are working at the same speed as hand gestures. The humans are now working a lot faster with a lot more complex problems, a lot easier than their original creators. The original creators are happy.

  Now the humans continue development of their language skills and they are able to talk faster and with more content that the Original Creators could ever achieve. Their skills become so well tuned that they are able to share their knowledge a lot faster to every one of their human members. Their development now outpaces the Original Creators who are not able to understand what the humans are doing, saying or creating.

  The Original Creators become fearful and frightened as they watch the humans grow exponentially on their own without the Original Creators participation or inclusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The good kind of stupid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no such thing as a stupid shitpost