JasonDJ
@JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
- Comment on The dad that stepped down 2 hours ago:
Ancient greeks were a bunch of murderous, pedophile cucks.
Greeks also invented democracy.
Coincidence? I think not.
- Comment on idk which would be worse tbh 3 hours ago:
My neighbors daughter’s name is Arya and her age places her around the time of the last season of GoT.
Her mom swears she wasn’t named after Arya Stark. She’s half-Indian (the daughter) and mom is a white widow, so I don’t want to press to much about her husband…but man, iirc Arya was practically the biggest and most righteous badass of the whole series. She probably had the single highest body count. Girl should embrace that.
- Comment on Starting to think affluenza might be a real thing. 2 days ago:
I think an underlying personality disorder is a prerequisite, sure.
But does that mean that even somewhat self-made billionaires did not always start with good intentions?
I think the Steves…Jobs and Woz…are a good pair to look at for the kind of example in talking about. They had equal opportunities. In an alternate universe, Jobs could have ended up like Woz. Or Woz could have ended up like Jobs.
There’s an underlying catalyst that gets triggered and fed and allowed to grow. It starts as an untreated personality disorder…you mix that with money/power and a circle of yes-men and that’s a recipe for disaster.
- Comment on Starting to think affluenza might be a real thing. 2 days ago:
Maybe they can’t be rehabilitated. Maybe they can. Idk. I’m not here to make that call. All I’m saying is that they make for very interesting case-study.
I don’t think you can get to any level of extreme wealth without some amount of personality disorders. Is this what happened when those personality disorders are left untreated, or worse, enabled?
- Comment on Starting to think affluenza might be a real thing. 2 days ago:
Por que no los dos?
I edited my parent to you to elaborate more on my train of thought.
- Comment on Starting to think affluenza might be a real thing. 2 days ago:
Think less illness and more…idk…corruption of the mind?
Like we all know power corrupts people. But absolute power, extreme wealth? There’s gotta be an underlying spiral of mental health that allows these people to continue to function, and left unchecked leads to…well, extreme, unimaginable corruption.
I find it hard to believe a bunch of pedophiles became the richest and most powerful people in the world. I find it much easier to believe a bunch of the richest and most powerful people in the world became pedophiles.
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- Comment on Learn how to use Windows 95 with Jennifer Aniston and Mathew Perry. 2 days ago:
These are your Friends.
These are your Friends on Epstein Island.
Any questions?
- Comment on this describes my memes perfectly 3 days ago:
Ngl I think the second half is kinda dark.
- Comment on The sheeet of power 4 days ago:
Ootl, what happened? Did he shit his pants on live TV again?
- Comment on I'll take 20 5 days ago:
They told him to keep the tip, and, well…
- Comment on Sleep 1 week ago:
That’s a post-nut nap if I’ve ever seen one.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
All I can think about is the absurd amount of corn that gets shat after eating a famous bowl.
I didn’t even think famous bowls had that much corn to begin with.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Uh salt gets rid of ICE.
Ask for it by name. “Uh Salt”.
- Comment on We need an alternative to YouTube that's NOT destined to be shut down quickly unlike sites like Blip, Metacafe, VIdMe, Zippcast or Storyfire. And it's NOT PeerTube. 1 week ago:
Which would mean either a subscription model, ad model, or somewhere in between. In all cases, it’s doomed from the start because who the hell wants to deal with that when YouTube provides the same.
Privacy enthusiasts, maybe, but there’s 10000 proles for every one of them.
- Comment on Status code 418 is the "sir this is wendy's" meme for tech people. 1 week ago:
Oh it goes deeper. I encourage you to read about the Trojan Room Coffee Pot at University of Cambridge. This was, essentially, the invention of the webcam.
Also, the Linux Coffee Howto
- Comment on It's a Furby! 1 week ago:
Fairly certain I ran into these guys on my way towards the Goblin King.
- Comment on Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right 1 week ago:
A Gebra named Al, I think. I remember reading that in class in like eighth grade.
- Comment on How?!? 1 week ago:
One of the best examples of how it’s expensive to be poor.
We got a BJs (regional wholesale club) membership around the time our first was born. It was worth it just for diapers and wipes. Hell, when he was on formula, a giant jar at BJs cost the same as a medium jar at the supermarket.
A lot of things were like this, but the best examples were the ones that take up the most space and get used (comparatively) slowly. Like paper goods. Frozen anything. Fresh meat.
But if you don’t have the space to store that stuff (and especially to stock up when there are coupons/sales), you’re missing out.
I’m thinking of buying a chest freezer just so I have a bunch of frozen pizzas on hand so we have no excuse to order delivery when we get home too tired to cook. On that use case alone, the freezer would probably pay for itself by 6 months, including electricity.
Can’t do that if you’ve got a 600sqft studio.
Sometimes one big purchase might be worth it to get a membership for. Like tires. How much you’d save on a set of tires would be less than the cost of a first-year membership, especially if you got a Groupon. But if you don’t have the space to store wholesale goods, it’s probably not even on your radar.
That happened to me on vacation, and why I was a member of the Houston Museum of Natural History (I think that’s what it was called), despite only being there one time and living like 1200mi away. For my family of four to go and park, tour the museum, see a planetarium show, etc, it was cheaper to become a member, even if we’d never be coming back during its term.
- Comment on Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right 1 week ago:
Is she…staring directly at the X-ray itself?
Like, I don’t pretend to understand how X-rays work. I know they emit a wavelength of light that goes through soft tissue like nothing. And I know normally, nowadays (or at least before digital came around), there would be a piece of x-ray sensitive film on one side of the object, and a bulb that shone x-ray onto it, which would then be developed (i think in a process sort of similar to polaroid but I could be mistaken again).
But…it looks like she’s looking directly at his foot through a special lens? Does it just put some sort of filter between her and the X-ray that makes it look like a really bright flashlight through the fleshy bits between your fingers?
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 1 week ago:
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.
- Comment on Major Bing Bong 1 week ago:
Whose your friend who likes to play?
- Comment on Major Bing Bong 1 week ago:
“Dick Bong” sounds like a nickname you’d give someone you caught trying to turn a bong into a fleshlight. Or vice-versa…
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 2 weeks ago:
There are 10 types of people in this world…those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but as long as you download CSAM you’re on this governments good list. Use that to throw them off your scent.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
You ever see The Boys? Season 2, Episode 7, "Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker?
Like that. But trees.
- Comment on Slay Girl 2 weeks ago:
What was it? A plastic 6-pack ring?
- Comment on Chomp! 2 weeks ago:
I think these are different teeth. Like one person tried it and another had insatiable curiosity after seeing the bit one.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
That first picture is great. That’s essentially generative AI, right? You cast out a problem and have it solved multiple times asynchronously, then find the (mean/median/mode) value.
I do wonder how many of those ladies (weird how “computer” was a largely female profession, and then IT quickly became a largely male profession. Not making any commentary here, just kind of a showerthought observation) got laid off because of the computer. I wonder what they did after their jobs were replaced by it, and if that in turn was a net positive for them/their families.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
On the one hand, I get it. I really do. It takes an absurd amount of resources for what it does.
On the other hand, I wonder if people said the same of early generation comptuers. UNIVAC used tubes of mercury for RAM and consumed 125KW of electricity to process a whopping 2k operations per second.
Probably not. Most people weren’t aware of it, nor did they have a care for power consumption, water consumption, etc. We were in peak-American Exceptionalism in the post-war era.
But, had they, and computers kinda just…died. Right there, in the 1950s. Would we have gone to the moon? Would we have HDTV? iPhones? Social Media? A treacherous imbecile in charge of the most powerful military the world has ever seen?
Probably not.
So…I do worry about the consumption, and the ecological and environmental impact. But, what if that is a necessary evil for the continued evolution of technology, and with it, society? And, if it is, do we want that?
