MelodiousFunk

@MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the undercarriage looks like it hasn’t fully loaded into the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Tech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  except for the AC compressor, which the generator actually would have had enough power to run, but not to kick-start.

  This sentence triggered my PTSD. Imagine, if you will, a world where executives insist that datacenter AC be put on UPS battery. A world where those same executives declare that a different datacenter is just fine running at 95% power capacity because “it’s not 100%.” A world where inrush current does not exist. Except it does exist, but all professional advice is ignored until there are consequences. And even after such consequences are realized, one of those same executives still tries to run his home sump pump off of a desktop UPS during a power outage, pops it immediately, then goes and gets another from the office, which also pops immediately.

  The sign in OP’s post will always be relevant somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so tired.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I’m convinced that the terrors are persisting out of spite for me, personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you’re in academia you should be able to produce a five paragraph essay.

  So, K-12 is “academia” now?

  Being able to produce a narrative is an essential life skill.

  Lots of essential life skills are difficult for lots of people. Something we get reminded about every time it comes up by people who have no clue what they’re talking about yet see fit to tell others what they should and shouldn’t do, and how to feel about it.

  The world isn’t going to cater to you

  No fucking shit.

  your self diagnosed executive dysfunction

  I’m sorry Dr. Jackson, I’ll have to let my old neurologist, psychologist, neuropsychologist, and psychiatrist know that The Internet told me that the assessments I had done at ages 23 and 44 are all in my head.

  learning to adapt is probably a useful habit.

  You’re right! I’m just going to do that instead of being in constant psychological agony. Where were you all of my life? ❤️ If only I had someone talking down to me saying Just Do The Thing over and over again, from childhood onwards, life would have been so much easier.

  🤡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …so you just gonna leave everyone in suspense? The internet loves armchair psychology!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi,

  I would have failed every single one of your tests. Not because I don’t understand the material, or the English language, but because structured writing, to this day, makes me seize up. Blank space is one of my biggest triggers for executive dysfunction/PDA. Turning everything into a cookie-cutter essay is just a different form of trying to fit everyone into the same box. More selective than making everything multiple guess, but no better. I feel bad for your students.

  Signed,

  Former “gifted” kid (with then-undiagnosed AuDHD) who got sick of bad teachers 30+ years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll go first⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Road trip! To Altoona!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oof⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it makes you feel any better, this all happened 20+ years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anferny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Bank says Saudi Arabia and Qatar have paid off Syria's outstanding debt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  Someone forgot to switch accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oof⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens if your school loses accreditation

  Ooo ooo I know this one! That’s when you get a letter in the mail saying the feds have taken over your loan, the month payments start being due, and literally no other information. And then you call them and ask where to send payments and they say to send it wherever you had been sending it, seemingly missing the part where they just took over the loan. And then life happens and you realize you haven’t made payments. So you call and get the same runaround. And then you call later and give them an address update when you move, ask them about paying, and get treated like you have three heads. And then a few years later you get a very angry letter that the loan is in default. So you call and explain, and the person on the other end treats you like human filth, barely stopping short of using obscenities. So you hang up to let your anger simmer down, call back, and speak with “a manager.” Explain the whole thing top to bottom. That’s when you find out that when they took over your loan seven years ago, they immediately put it into the delinquent bin even though it was quite fresh at the time. And everyone you’ve talked to since just assumed you were a deadbeat.

  Then you pay off the loan total using a credit card (because it’s thousands of dollars and you’re broke) and pay the interest again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at you with your fancy PowerPC model. We had to make do with a 68040 and we liked it!

  goes outside to yell at the clouds to get off of his lawn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only line dry my clothes when I think they need to be seasoned with some guano.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Better put the bread box in the cupboard, just to be on the safe side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like it ever gonna happen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is much easier (and infinitely more socially acceptable) than misreading the situation and getting labeled a creep etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m getting a headache just thinking about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have fond memories of Hexen. But most of those are overridden by it being the unfortunate game where I finally realized that first person games make me motion sick.

  “Oof, I don’t feel so hot. Let me keep playing to keep my mind off of it. Maybe a bite to eat. Back to the game, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m…” running to the bathroom and honking up everything I just ate and then some until I’m dry-heaving. I didn’t eat hot dogs for a good five years after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh god⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, except mine has a fan on it. 🪦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coincidence?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  5G makes people glow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with hard shell tacos?

  takes one bite and the rest disintegrates

  That’s what the fork is for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s not like these measures have been 100% accurate in the past.

  This is the part that really frustrates me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of the wording here. Account ban? Sure, against TOS, etc. But affecting the device is a whole other story. Especially when prior account bans have come under dubious circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a cishet white male in the USA, anyone afraid of being “replaced” should actually be replaced. Net positive for the country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on glue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be good at googling. But then Google changed what googling did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are the aliens. We alternate ten-thousand years in the dreamworld with 80 years here. And spend every moment here homesick, trying to turn the material world into the dreamworld.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not wish, in any way, shape, or form, for my dreams to enter the material world. You ever have that dream where you spend hours picking chicken out of your teeth? How about the one where you need to pick up your great-grandparent’s remains from a firebombed warehouse that is simultaneously in the middle of the city and surrounded by swamp? Or the one where a turtle comes out from under the stove, a spider starts stalking it, and every time you look away and look back they get bigger, then the turtle is a beetle, and then the spider finally catches the beetle by impaling it on 4cm fangs?

  No? Just me? Fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried getting into that one, but I noped out when it became clear that it was just a monster-of-the-week high school drama.

  /s, but so big it blots out the sun angel in orbit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm, had one on semi-perma-loan for a few years. Bought a secondhand Canon from a friend and never looked back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those things were like the perfect compromise between frisbee and throwing star.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this for? (Wrong answers only)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a butphor. Glad you remembered to bring it.