Per my experience, Oklahoma has the dumbest drivers, Texas and California are tied for the most aggressive drivers (but simultaneously skilled just enough to not cause mass genocide), and Virginia has the worst road layout.

There’s a lot of different flavors of shit.

Don’t do this.

Use a rifle instead - you can stay at a much safer distance.

Oh, uh… In Minecraft. Modded, ofc.

Americans associate the orange colour with cheese

We used to. Lately it’s more an icon for fascism.

Murican here. Our food needs to be color coded or we get confused.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I had an X-ray and some ibuprofen at an ER two years ago, and if I miss another payment they’ll put out a warrant for my arrest - off to my side hustle! (top and/or bottom hustle still available, if anyone’s hiring!)

…I mean, this isn’t automatically bad advice. Kinda depends on the quantity and frequency of the alcohol vs calories. If you’re having a glass of wine at the end of an otherwise nutritionally well-executed day; vs going apeshit with candy, soda, chips, etc - but not drinking; the former is definitely the better of the two. Recognizing and leveraging those kinds of patterns are key to making some new change into a habit.

Especially if you treat this as a stepping stone to develop some good habits while weening off of bad ones - for that to work you need to tolerate some degree of bad ones as you dial them closer and closer to zero.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Yeah like I said, it sounds like they’ve done a lot to try to turn their product into something closer to what they advertised, but that doesn’t excuse their initial deception.

If they were a car dealer or something, and advertised a souped up 2026 Ferrari, which their customers enthusiastically ordered en mass; only to realize upon delivery that they received a 2007 Honda Civic with the Ferrari logo sloppily painted onto the side, they’d be in jail. Because it’s a videogame, the legal system didn’t give a fuck, so they just let it slide, but what they did was 100% false advertising. They didn’t just bite off more than they could chew, they stated clear as day that it contained a plethora of features that it simply did not.

Their decision to later send a series of free Honda-to-Ferrari conversion kits was a nice and extremely unexpected gesture, but doesn’t absolve them of their initial crime.

No Man’s Sky, near it’s release. Starting out it felt pretty novel, and finishing that first repair of your ship, getting inside of it, lifting off, looking up at a distant planet in the sky, and just fucking going to it all without a load screen… I cannot overstate how insanely epic that felt!!

…and then the player experience hit a brick wall as you realize more and more clearly that the game you bought doesn’t come close to the game that was advertised. Ya done got scammed!

Word is they’re done a shitload to correct that last paragraph, but dude, that initial wound still fucking stings.

push-to-talk

That is a must-have not just for me, but any other fucker in the channel who doesn’t want to be muted.

I don’t want to hear the fuckin darth vader breathing, dorito crunching, parents arguing, dog barking bullshit on the other end of the mic.

IIRC George Jetson was canonically born in 2022.

So… we ARE living in the Jetsons timeline… you and I were just born in the Jetsons slums.

It still bugs me how our vocabulary just immediately goes out the window to market this shit.

• NOTHING is powered by AI. And unless some poor fucker’s cranking away on a standing bicycle turbine or something, it’s not powered by humans either. It’s powered by whatever’s giving their grid power - solar, wind, nuclear, dinosaur juice, that shit.

• Humans grouped up for the purpose of taking and processing client requests isn’t a fucking ‘chat bot’, it’s a call center. This concept isn’t new or novel in any way.

• Even “AI” itself has become synonymous with ‘computer generated’. Intelligence that’s artificial still only exists in science fiction/fantasy. We’ve been misusing this term well before shit like LLMs existed - calling shit like NPC pathing in a videogame “AI” which is also stupid… but lately we’ll slap an “AI” sticker on anything with an algorithm. We even moved the goal posts on this one with the new term “AGI” but I guarantee that one will be marketed into meaninglessness in the near future too.

This post is powered by my phone’s battery and last night’s dinner.

I mean, fucking with a PDF isn’t exactly arcane knowledge, even after it’s been signed. It’s just cumbersome and tedious and requires counterintuitive actions like pressing Ctrl+P instead of Ctrl+S.

If their purpose is to be secure, they’re shit at their job.

Sounds like screen readers need some improvement.

Open Office? Libre Office?

Open Office? Libre Office?

Chipmunks, 5 year olds, salt/pepper shakers, and paint thinner, also all make terrible doctors.

Follow me for more studies on ‘shit you already know because it’s self-evident immediately upon observation’.

Anyone remember xFire? It was better 15 years ago than Discord ever was or will be.

…damn I miss that shit. They were litigated out of existence by a frivolous lawsuit from Yahoo. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Tech muggle here.

Could we just get rid of PDFs and switch to word docs and spread sheets instead? I know this will likely cause a slurry of consequences, especially in professional circles, but have you considered: fuck it.?

K thx bye.

…I’m actually quite thankful my anus doesn’t have taste buds.

YSK legal rights don’t mean shit to administrations that don’t respect the law. Compliance with ICE can be deadly - arm yourself and do whatever you need to do to stay safe.

Deep south checking in. His approval rating locally is probably above 90%, because the vast majority of people here are hateful, spiteful, self-defeating morons.

When you see national averages, remember things like Alabama’s healthcare, or Oklahoma’s education system, etc are there dragging everyone else down.