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- Comment on Slow ass apocalypse 5 hours ago:
Basically, yeah. That was my math as well. The irony was thick.
- Comment on Slow ass apocalypse 1 day ago:
A Boomer family member that voted for this shitshow told me the other day I was right that my version of societal collapse, a slow crumbling as everything falls apart, was what was happening.
I meant like over 30 years. I’d hate to know what they think a speedrun would look like
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 3 days ago:
That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that the most basic of math should be as basic as reading. Something that anyone can do themselves.
Do you honestly think that for the rest of your life every moment will let a calculator or ChatGPT help you have every interaction you have? People are perfectly capable of basic math.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 3 days ago:
No, I’m here in good faith.
Being alarmed, I suppose, would be the subjective assessment that this isn’t too far off from all the cognitive decline correlated to excessive use of AI. It’s an extrapolation, sure, but similar.
It’s lovely to think that a phone will always be right on us all, for the rest of our lives. IRL, shit happens. Sometimes people sometimes just dug a calf out of a pond, theor phone got soaked, and still need to divide 250 lbs of fertilizer by 10 barrels and not be seized by indecision because there’s not a cell phone around.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 4 days ago:
The issue is that the floor on confidence in knowledge is now basically nothing.
Why is it that 8th graders in 1990 could do solid algebra and polynomials on paper and not need help? Nothing about the math has changed.
Slide rules do not do basic math, that’s a poor comparison. People that did higher math on slide rules only used it for part of the problem dealing with logarithms, and that was a shorthand for larger approximation tables in books. That’s necessary help. Solving for 2+2 is not. That’s for little children that count on their fingers. If you’re not in the “WTF?” camp, you’re part of the problem.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 4 days ago:
I saw that. It’s fucking breathtaking, the apologists for stupidity.
If I go start an account on a .ml instance and claim letters and numbers are colonial, patriarchal constructs and should be eliminated, I’ll be the most popular poster until I accidentally make everyone illiterate out of spite.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Are you taking angel dust instead of Dayquil?
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 week ago:
I know you mean well here, but this is fully bonkers. This is not how friends behave with each other.
They absolutely don’t owe me shit. We lived with them for a month before they moved, all in same house, for free. So there’s money we didn’t spend right there. We shared meals, shared hangovers, and shared their other friends in a place we were just moving to, which is priceless. But if you’re still really worried about money, they sold us their car for well under KBB as well. The guy’s brother and mom were who we called when stuff broke, and who brought us pupusas randomly when they were in the neighborhood. We trust them and they trust us, so we aren’t going to fuck up their house, and we got landlords that respond to shit immediately. I’m not going to ruin a 20+ year relationship with some tankie notions about “oh, bro, you owe me home equity.” And you can trust that anyone doing something like this knows when they have a good thing going without having to explain details.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Do you mean bad incentives?
And sure, I don’t disagree, but these people are also not actually that smart. I would worry more about this getting hacked in a week way before Elon gets a chance to use it against anyone.
- Comment on Well do you? 1 week ago:
I’m sure there are, but no one needs to be worried about Adams Family cannon.
Might as well spend all your free time worried about Flintstones or Felix the Cat cannon. The people making the media certainly don’t care to follow any of it, it’s not ever going to make sense. Just live in the moment and enjoy it for what it is!
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Quick everyone, install this just so that if Pete Hegseth invites people to the next airstrikes chat group, your satirical JD Vance account will be next to the real JD Vance’s account and he’ll probably add you both and figure it out later.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 week ago:
I once rented a house from friends that were out of the country. We paid exactly their mortgage payment (plus utils and I did and paid for handyman level stuff, they covered big stuff), which was $600 a month less than the market rate for places a step down in quality.
Once we left I told them to increase the rent by $200 for higher insurance and a real handyman and whatever else and it’s still a huge favor to anyone they get by word of mouth only. The next couple thought they had won the lottery scoring a place for almost $5000 a year less than the rest of the area.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 1 week ago:
In Serbo-Croatian, the acronym is САД. It transliterates to SAD.
- Comment on Wild Seals 1 week ago:
Same for hippos.
Hippos are monsters. They kill for the joy of killing. They’re vegetarians! They kill as many humans in Africa every year as crocs.
They spray their shit around by spinning their tiny tail as they shit, like a shit-filled garden hose.
They are moist and gross. Their call is laughing maniacally at the world. Moo Deng is damp Chucky without thumbs.
- Comment on Thanksgiving advice 1 week ago:
Take a massive dump in the closest bathroom to where everyone is, clog that sumbitch right up, shit water overflowing. As you open the door you let the host know, “you will never recover from this financially.”
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
Just a clock and a calendar? That’s not what these things do, but that’s easier to get without ads.
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- Comment on Daily Google Joke 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, buddy, you just can’t travel or buy a new device!
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 weeks ago:
I thought there was some other name for a clover-looking plant that started with an S.
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but this is a heat map. It’s only relative, not objective. If most of these were 3 months old, and one was only 2 months old, the 3 months would all be in the green.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 weeks ago:
Ahhh, OK, that’s my bad. I was thinking of some other name for clover. I’ve cooked with sorrel before, it’s nice. Same for clovers, nice lemony flavor.
Thanks for the correction.
- Comment on Lasagnaius 2 weeks ago:
I totally read this as it scrolled and thought you wrote “Brianna Ramosius”
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 2 weeks ago:
Hur dur Boomer humor.
Needs 30% more hating their wife for no reason at all.
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 2 weeks ago:
The age of a VPN isn’t a good indicator of how secure it is.
So then delete the row. OP, you control the spreadsheet, right?
Also, heat map conditional formatting favoring free is a bad metric. Free VPNs steal data, and Tor isn’t a VPN, so this skews all the other paid options to seem negative.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 weeks ago:
A lot of Lebanese shops sell sorrel. Sorrel is just clovers. 50% of people setting this meme are 100 meters or less from sorrel right now.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 weeks ago:
I genuinely wonder, do they just make up this obviously false BS to tell him to protect themselves? Or are they all on the same page with the BS to gaslight MAGA people?
In 30 years this will be a very well-studied period of human history and behavior.
- Comment on Careful what you wish for 2 weeks ago:
The ones right to the left of the kid’s head
- Comment on Careful what you wish for 2 weeks ago:
OK, but I’m still not clear on why that wire loop doesn’t connect to anything.
- Comment on Careful what you wish for 2 weeks ago:
This is AI slop. Or AI edited at least.
Cable to the left of the kid’s head doesn’t actually connect to anything.
- Comment on google maps 2 weeks ago:
Wut?