starbreaker
@starbreaker@kbin.social
writer by choice, programmer by necessity, metalhead by the grace of the witch
personal website: https://starbreaker.org
main fedi account: @starbreaker
I know I could post to Kbin from my Friendica account, but I created this account for convenience.
- Comment on Common Voice - Donate your voice to teach machines how people speak | Mozilla 6 months ago:
Funny that you think $10,000,000 is "a little money", but whatever.
- Comment on Common Voice - Donate your voice to teach machines how people speak | Mozilla 6 months ago:
Mozilla wants data that can be used to impersonate me? They can fucking well pay me for it.
- Comment on The fact that there's a lady out there named Stephanie who insisted the whole world call her Lady Gaga and we're all just like, "okay." 6 months ago:
TERFs are just Wilhoit's law in action. Show me a TERF and I'll show you a conservative who hates men.
Wilhoit's law:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
- Comment on Save thousands 6 months ago:
Hell, it's in my will: funeral roast, weenie roast, Judas Priest on the boombox, and public bisexual fornication for all willing adult participants.
- Comment on The fact that there's a lady out there named Stephanie who insisted the whole world call her Lady Gaga and we're all just like, "okay." 6 months ago:
I'd love to see Republicans up in arms over preferred names and pronouns try giving Alice Cooper shit for calling himself Alice Cooper instead of Vincent Furnier.
- Comment on Why do it 6 months ago:
Why do it? For the same reason Mt. Everest is littered with human corpses, shit, and garbage. For the same reason there's an American flag and a plaque immortalizing Richard fucking Nixon on the goddamned moon.
Because it's there.
- Comment on The History and Future of Digital Ownership 6 months ago:
Why is it like this? Because this is what the rich want, and the rest of us don't have the nerve to guillotine them for it.
- Comment on Save thousands 6 months ago:
When I die, roast weenies over my funeral pyre and blast old Judas Priest albums out of a boom box.
- Comment on Laundry day 6 months ago:
Even if I was into sounding that would be too hardcore for me.
- Comment on Back in my day 6 months ago:
Upside of being a GenX latchkey kid, even if I was born in the tail end of that generation. My parents didn't really give a shit what movies I rented as long as they weren't pornos. Not that they looked too close. I got away with renting Caligula by passing it off as a sequel to Masterpiece Theater's I, Claudius.
- Comment on Back in my day 6 months ago:
Here were mine:
- Spaceballs
- They Live
- Escape from New York
- Hellraiser
- Heavy Metal
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Also, this:
“The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, *The Illuminatus! Trilogy *
and this:
“A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame… as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world…aware that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.”
Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Self-government, which all governments ultimately depend on anyway. "Obeying the law" just means that you are governing yourself in accordance to dictates handed down from on high. It's not like they can assign a cop to watch you 24/7, even in the most blatant of totalitarian police states.
- Comment on Hey, Asimov. Bite me. 6 months ago:
The basilisk can eat my meaty ass. The nerds at LessWrong plagiarized Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and they're too fuckin' ignorant to realize it.
- Comment on There's no money for education and health care but they'll always find some for war. 6 months ago:
Reminds me of something Will Rogers wrote about Herbert Hoover:
This election was lost four and five and six years ago not this year. They dident start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickled down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the dryest little spot. But he dident know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow's hands. They saved the big banks but the little ones went up the flue.
- Comment on In Defense of My Students 6 months ago:
Substack is a Nazi bar, and anybody who posts on Substack is a Nazi.
- Comment on There's no money for education and health care but they'll always find some for war. 6 months ago:
And if putting "too much" fiat currency into circulation is a real problem, then tax the shit out of the rich. Republicans under Eisenhower were OK with that in the 1950s. If that's unpalatable, why can't we tax corporate revenue instead of profit? It's not like I only pay taxes on what's left over after I've paid all my bills (though there is a standard deduction for individuals).
- Comment on Workplace dictatorship. 6 months ago:
Profit uber alles. Arbeit macht frei.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 6 months ago:
I didn't say I was holding my breath, just holding out. Besides, I can breathe through my ears.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’ 6 months ago:
I know. But try telling that to centrists and liberals in the US. They just give you shit for thinking "both sides are the same". No, you ignorant shitfountains, they're not the same. It's neoliberals on one side and neo-Nazis on the other, and neither of them give a fuck about anything but rimming their billionaire donors.
- Comment on Glad it's almost over 6 months ago:
Because From Software games aren't hard anymore.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 6 months ago:
This is why nobody likes used car dealers.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 6 months ago:
I know. That's another reason I haven't bought one yet, besides being the sort of miser who would rather drive the same car until it falls apart beneath him than take out more high-interest loans.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 6 months ago:
I own my 2008 Sentra outright. Why should I take on a car payment just to "go electric" when the car I have still runs well?
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’ 6 months ago:
This is why I hate the Democratic party almost as much as I hate the Republicans. They're not the same, but they're both scum and I want them all to shit themselves to death.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’ 6 months ago:
Biden's a neoliberal stooge. What we need is somebody like FDR. Never mind that we limited Presidential terms to a maximum of 2 precisely because FDR broke Washington's 2 terms and out precedent.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’ 6 months ago:
I hear similar nonsense at my day job. Senior management wants me to risk my ass driving to the office, where I will sit at a randomly assigned desk in an open-plan space attending meetings that should have been emails using Zoom and Teams. Not happening. I've been working 100% remote for these assholes and crushing it in annual reviews since 2018. If they want me on-site again they need to offer me a much better incentive than "do it or we'll fire you".
'Cause if they fire me, and decide they still need me after all, then I'll damn well hold out for $100/hour as a 1099 merc with contractually-guaranteed time and a half for overtime after 32 hours/week.
ProTip: If you've prepared a PowerPoint deck for your meeting, then your meeting should have been an email.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 6 months ago:
They can't sell EVs because they cost too fucking much. Everything's gone up but our wages, but we're supposed to just keep buying shit anyway? Fuck this economy.
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 7 months ago:
The viewing experience already sucks. I'd like to see them make it worse than it already is.
- Comment on Programming As a Career Isn’t Right for Me 7 months ago:
Programming is thankless work best left undone if at all possible.