That is my right now at the midpoint of this three day weekend.

Worth it now that I've stumbled upon your comment and this whole damn post!

Thank goodness that isn't their default state. First officer Jean-Luc T. Lincoln over there world be incapable of leaving any women (or men) for the restv of us.

Thought 1: That setting kinda reminds me of pat of the quarters you get as the Arch-Mage of the College of Winterhold in Skyrim.

Thought 2: So many hands! This image is both full of stuff that a generative model would suck at drawing, while also being a trap for us nerdy humans to examine them looking for AI screwups.

Awesome job!

Will [____] make us less caring? ...NO

I love how well most of this has aged, but that line there feels very pre-2016 to me, unfortunately.

And that's not even just hinting at politics and world events, but also about how much more we know about those empty experiences from the last line, and how they are meticulously engineered to fuck with people's brains for juuuust a bit more engagement.

Sounds like her issue is their otherness, not their medical history.

Racists and xenophobes are capable of believing some really stupid, easily disproven shit.

I think it's not that "the dems" will save us, but that the structural flaws of our system mean that progressives getting into power at the federal level need to do so by winning democrat primaries.

You would THINK that of all people on the planet, CEOs should understand the enshittification strategy.

...Or the board of directors, or the major investors, etc.

If you outsource the entire value chain of your $million/billion business to the $trillions guys, how do you think that will go? What would YOU do in their place knowing you have all the leverage and none of the risk (re: the smaller companies being bled dry and left to rot)?

It's funny to see it happen to other predatory tech companies like uber though.

I love being able to post this yet again:

I have a lifetime Plex pass I got during a big sale like a decade ago, at 1/10 the price they are raising it to. I haven't used it in about 6 months and never plan to even log into it again. Jellyfin 4 life!

I mean, I also have a whole bunch of windows keys from old MSDN accounts and stuff, but I am sure as shit not going to install Windows on my machines just because I can!

Yeah sure, give me whatever cookies aren't already blocked. I love cookies. Is that all of them?

(closes LibreWolf, which nukes everything except whitelisted sites)

...pathetic.

I have the fun privilege at work these days of being the guy who sometimes makes things work just by walking in the room.

It feels like a tale as old as time. I'm one of the few software engineers working on the embedded code in our new product, and occasionally a technician or V&V tester or different discipline engineer will ask me to look at something acting funny. And I fully believe them, not just because they have no reason to lie but because "acting funny" is exactly the lifestyle our system is living!

Sometimes I get to lean on my experience with the code, then glare at something on the screen and say I don't trust it, and that leads us to the fix. But about half the time, just sensing that somebody called daddy into the room makes it stand up straight and stop fucking around, lol.

The guy with all the money says that other people getting some of the money wouldn't help them.

And in the US a huge number of people just nod along because our culture tells us that net worth = human worth = intelligence = trustworthiness.

There's no continuing the thought, like if the money won't help struggling teachers then why is it so important that it stay with the person who already has ten thousand times the amount of money that would make a teacher rich and set for life?

Wow, you really DO have abnormally good insurance, to only pay a grand in a year.

For anybody else confused by this because you live in a civilized country, let me translate: The standard offering from employers nowadays is called a high deductible health plan. The deductible is the amount you have to pay* for healthcare before your insurance pays anything, and it is typically several thousand dollars.

(* There are a few preventive services that are 100% covered, so if you have no health issues whatsoever you can still get a yearly checkup and a flu shot without paying extra)