grrgyle
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- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 5 hours ago:
Yeah or they’re really introverted they’ll at least use their imagination to disassociate.
Like I used to look around and imagine little beings making their way around objects and walls. Or looking into the distance and imagining things farther away were right in front of me, but the same size — so now you’ve got a miniature waiter running around the table, trying to catch the little beings.
My ability to zone out probably masked a lot of brain problems, but it did also make me a champ at sitting in waiting rooms while having the time of my life.
- Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human 1 day ago:
LibreWolf crew ;p
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 days ago:
Holy fucking shit, what absolute trash
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 days ago:
There are certainly nice and polite people everywhere, but decency is a matter of ethics in this context, I would say. At least that’s how I’m reading it.
Like I’m a nice guy, but I’m not going to pretend it’s decent of me to replace data workers with software automation, even if it’s just the natural outcome of me putting my education into practice.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 days ago:
The ownership class and their mba lackeys have done a real bang up job not only separating the two cultures, but getting them both to think through the mental model of business and profit whenever they’re pondering how to practice their profession.
- Comment on cycle 4 days ago:
Is that the stoat?? 😍
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 4 days ago:
Rofl what a snowflake. Like you don’t want to tell your kids where babies come from? There aren’t that many sources…
- Comment on Self-host : review appreciated 4 days ago:
It’s in the body of the post: si3t.ch/ah/.
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 5 days ago:
Thanks for reminding me of some great memories showering with my dad. We would have these like endurance contests with the cold water lol.
With my partner I kind of squish myself against the wall so we have the water pouring between us. But you’re right it’s not as easy as just trending to yourself.
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 5 days ago:
Other people don’t just shower together for fun? Shower sex is awful, but tandem showering is lovely. Even used to shower with roommates back in the days.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 1 week ago:
Doing your own research involves trusting experts, but if the findings are easy to verify, like looking up number of open positions to students ratio, then it’s a good idea to just check.
- Comment on Side by side 1 week ago:
Oh that was so cool.
- Comment on Side by side 1 week ago:
I have no idea what this is about, but I like it.
- Comment on do what you love 1 week ago:
Lawful evil
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
Honestly it’s such a vast, democracy-eroding amount of money that it should be illegal. It’s like letting an individual citizen own a small nuke.
Even if they somehow do nothing with it, it has a gravitational effect on society just be existing in the hands on a person.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
It’s got a lot of stolen data to source and sell back to us.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
In before someone mentions P-zombies.
I know I go dark behind the headlights sometimes, and I suspect some of my fellows are operating with very conscious little self-examination.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
Yeah maybe don’t use LLMs
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 week ago:
I’ve been looking t fulltime for a long time now, and from what I’ve seen there are a tonne of jobs out there, it’s just that are that many more qualified devs than their were just a few years ago.
The way I see it, the hiring bubble that exploded during the pandemic let a lot of people gain proficiency, then followed by the waves of layoffs and you’ve got a lot of talented folks looking.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 week ago:
I blame social media and this perverse need to display notifications instantly. Technically very interesting problem to work on, but basically useless to a customer.
We had a button for that, on demand - it was called F5
- Comment on Stop! 1 week ago:
But this is at the top of my feed!
- Comment on Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years 1 week ago:
I understand you’re probably saying they’re a bot or a spammer, but I really don’t see it. Is it just because they share a bunch of links in a short amount of time?
I’m confused what your actual problem with their posts is.
- Comment on Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years 1 week ago:
Anything wrong with their behaviour or what they’re sharing? Looks all relevant and organic to me.
- Comment on Truly Lossless Music 1 week ago:
Lord Vetinari irl
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 2 weeks ago:
From my point of view something that brings out the worst in us sounds like a really big part of the issue.
We’ve always been modified by our situations, so why not create better situations rather than lamenting that we don’t have the grit to break through whatever toxic society we find ourselves graphed onto?
Sorry I know I’m putting a lot on your comment that I know you didn’t mean, but I see this kind of unintentional crypto doomerism a lot. I think it holds people to an unhealthy standard.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 2 weeks ago:
Yeah decentralization and open source software and protocols being big ones. It means that if the “main” culture turns reactionary, that we’re not trapped in the same spaces as the shithead just because we share a platform.
There could absolutely be two main fediverses, with no changes to the technology.
- Comment on This has happened to me 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for taking the time to explain all that.
I’m really sorry you have to deal with that.
I’m bad at personal admin, so I would be so lost if I had to manage my own healthcare logistics. It really is a crime what rich people put you through over there.
- Comment on High Score on DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu 2 weeks ago:
We used to have design!
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 weeks ago:
Same, I couldn’t take it. It’s hard to be in that position without feeling like a traitor.
Actually both times I got laid off my managers took the day off to hide while HR did their wetwork, only reaching out later to gush about how bad they felt.
Kind of cowardly tbh, but I get it—that’s why we aren’t managers.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 weeks ago:
Oh I still got laid off, just later in the day.
I think it messed with their plans to lock me out of everything after the meeting. Must be logistically challenging lining up all those layoff meetings. 🙄