UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT
@UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Modeling shows green roofs can cool cities and save energy 8 months ago:
Let’s do both! I welcome our imperfect solarpunk future with open arms
- Comment on Reddit signs content licensing deal with AI company ahead of IPO, Bloomberg reports 8 months ago:
I mean I hadn’t seen this until now, so thank you
- Comment on *ACTION ROLL* 8 months ago:
Well I know what movie I’m researching this week
- Comment on idk why i wasted my time making this 8 months ago:
Dammit now I’m pulsing manually
- Comment on Wholesome 8 months ago:
It was an asexual shitposting community back at the old place
- Comment on Taylor Swift getting the airplane delivered that will fly her to her airplane on which she'll fly from one side to the other on an airplane, eating food delivered by airplane 8 months ago:
Got it, thanks. Ugh rich people, amirite?
- Comment on Wholesome 8 months ago:
Thought this was an aaaaaace community for a second
- Comment on Taylor Swift getting the airplane delivered that will fly her to her airplane on which she'll fly from one side to the other on an airplane, eating food delivered by airplane 8 months ago:
What happened with Taylor Swift and airplanes? Is this a super bowl thing?
- Comment on The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco 8 months ago:
Parallel means poopie
- Comment on Mario Sunshine’s Mysterious Text 8 months ago:
Me too, smeg
- Comment on The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco 8 months ago:
“We’ve replaced some pieces of that political machine—specifically, we have parallel media now with Elon’s Twitter, or X,” crowed Tan during a presentation at the 2023 Network State Conference. “Getting a parallel media was a key piece, and it wasn’t through voting. It was done by building.… […]
Got it so parallel means privatised. He’s a privatisation hawk.
What a tool. A cat would not even sit on his lap.
- Comment on The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco 8 months ago:
CEOs like this are aiming to indirectly rule/control others with their money
It breaks their little heads that they can have all this money and power, and yet still a random poor person has the legal right to say “no” to them.
They don’t understand why the state doesn’t work 100% just for them.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Indeed
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Did someone say “preorder?” Where do I sign up?? Is this the right queue? Literally standing here with my credit card, please just tell me
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Lol let them
- Comment on 8 months ago:
It was a box with a big x in relief yeah
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Now if Sony and Nintendo will just return the favour… That would be so great!
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 8 months ago:
Agree with the article (and the 10 other ones I’ve already read on the topic) but Paul Graham’s website looks like ass on mobile as of 2024. I couldn’t even figure out how to get to the content, at least on cursory examination.
- Comment on put em in your balls 8 months ago:
Zoplfli & Iltorb!!
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 8 months ago:
Fuck man, that’s so sad. You tell it really well, too. I can’t imagine hanging on if the adults in your life kept letting you down that consistently. Poor guy… And like you said, he’s just one person. 0 doubt there are others out there there who’ve got it way worse (not that it’s a contest).
Reminds us to try and be kind when we come across someone who’s struggling. We don’t know their story but guaranteed they have one.
- Comment on Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’ 8 months ago:
One hundred. It was like having an excuse to be a loner while also contributing to society, but by your absence from it. You got the feeling that everyone was cooped up for the good of each other, trying to ride this thing out. A beautiful hybrid lonely-solidarity: a unique feeling that will never happen like that again.
- Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? 8 months ago:
This is basically what The Witness is all about, every fifteen minutes
- Comment on Sometimes, homeopathic medicine works! 8 months ago:
But what a party!
Mine was a pacifist, but spoke German, so they had him guard the POWs and report on what they said.
- Comment on Samsung purposely knives customer's TV to weasel out of repair 8 months ago:
I wonder if the cost of shipping a defective item were higher if it would happen so frequently. Polluting on that scale is largely free, even though it costs us all dearly.
Like you said, we don’t have many tools other than regulation
- Comment on Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed' 8 months ago:
An interesting proposition, and one I’ll be thinking about for sure. Sadly we probably won’t ever get “VC as Code” hah so none of us are safe
- Comment on Samsung purposely knives customer's TV to weasel out of repair 8 months ago:
Thanks, McFap, I’ll try to remember that.
- Comment on Samsung purposely knives customer's TV to weasel out of repair 8 months ago:
What sucks is that stuff ends up in the landfill most of the time instead of being recycled.
Yeah that’s the sad part. It’s such a colossal waste.
it shouldn’t bother you to destroy it.
I disagree. I think should, and probably does, butter everyone involved. Why damage it further, when it could be sold or even just given to a refurb/repair outfit?
I mean I know why, it’s because there’s no immediate profit motive there. Maybe even the opposite. Which again, is sad.
- Comment on Samsung purposely knives customer's TV to weasel out of repair 8 months ago:
Yeah I was talking to a friend just yesterday about how a TV isn’t really a big purchase anymore, but the houses/rents are crazy expensive. It’s kinda fucked.
Anyway my tv was $0 (from brother), about a meter across, and has a permanent green bar on the right side that only guests notice. I’m oddly proud of my shitty TV, which probably isn’t healthy, but by plan is to ride this thing until it’s unusable lol
- Comment on Samsung purposely knives customer's TV to weasel out of repair 8 months ago:
That’s so sad
- Comment on Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed' 8 months ago:
Yeah I can’t feel good about that kind of stuff anymore (it’s the same thing in my field with IaC - Infrastructure as Code). Even if I agree that these are good ideas, it all comes down to being able to treat workers like interchangeable cogs rather than people who can amass knowledge and expertise over time.
Then the dream: that you could sell an entire skeleton of a company with none of the old workers clinging to the bones, and another team of replaceable workers could just slot themselves in place and start making money for investors!
I’m not sure it’ll ever get that extreme, but it’s not ethics that is blocking it from happening, but material reality.
So yeah, fuck the docs.