jballs
@jballs@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 3 days ago:
Could you imagine how many times the word “socialism” would be blasted on Fox News if Biden did this?
- Comment on Think of the shareholders! 6 days ago:
I dunno, I read somewhere that the whole world basically turned into an oven almost instantly. The vast majority of dinosaurs were dead on day 1.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Lol I don’t know why but this was so funny to me. 2cm a year is an unsustainable pace.
- Comment on YSK that you can save a lot of money in Colorado by using Bustang. It's a government-run bus service that offers great and frequent buses across the state 1 week ago:
Well that’s a mistake.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 1 week ago:
Checks out
- Comment on i just think they're neat 1 week ago:
Checks out
- Comment on Byeeeeeee 1 week ago:
This comment makes me want to play some Kerbal Space Program again, where you can launch yourself into orbit from Minmus (the 2nd moon) with a jump.
- Comment on Permian Park 2 weeks ago:
Lol what happened there? I actually made a conscious decision not to read it because I didn’t really enjoy reading Jurassic Park.
- Comment on Permian Park 2 weeks ago:
I read Jurassic Park recently and was surprised that the lawyer was one of the only level-headed characters. Everyone else was like “this place is gonna make so much money, let’s fucking GOOOOO!” And he was like “holy shit this is a disaster waiting to happen, we have to shut this place down.”
The movie did him dirty.
- Comment on Who would win Kernel level anti-cheat or middle age man with a Raspberry Pi? 2 weeks ago:
Lol at first I thought "no way am I watching a 17 minute video about this. But I was wrong. Captivating and hilarious the whole way through.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 2 weeks ago:
My son wanted to play the Battlefield open beta over the weekend. It legitimately took me 4 hours to get their shitty kernel anti-cheat shit working. I can’t imagine the average non-technical person being able to do that just to play a game.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 weeks ago:
sh.itjust.works is awesome. The mods are cool as shit, and as you can tell from the name, there’s no BS censorship.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 3 weeks ago:
Why does that look like Mickey is busting a nut?
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 3 weeks ago:
My conservative neighbor posted something online about the gays “shoving their lifestyle down her throat.” That phrase must be being pushed from Fox News or something.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if this is the reason why Elon went around Nazi saluting. Republicans have mastered the art of confusing the general public by overusing words and phrases.
“Fake news” used to mean something entirely different before Trump co-opted it to mean any news that he didn’t like.
After Trump was impeached twice, Republicans started throwing around impeachment not only for Biden, but for lower level officials as well, so people would think “oh impeachment must be a normal thing.”
It’s kind of telling that Republicans are doing intentional Nazi-like shit, therefore getting the general public, like the person you responded to, to think that “Nazi” is just a term the left throws around recklessly.
We’re at a point where they’re throwing people in camps like Alligator Auschwitz without trial - and then people say “that’s what the Nazis used to do” and then it just gets laughed off like “oh you know the left, always accusing everyone of being Nazis.”
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 4 weeks ago:
From the article, it sounds like it will eventually use 20x the energy of all the households in Wyoming. That’s pretty fucking nuts.
- Comment on Fiber 4 weeks ago:
I never realized the post was making a joke about the OceanGate sub until just now reading another thread.
At the time, June 2023, they were searching for the missing sub and thought they could have 3 days to survive. So OP was probably making a dark humor joke about how to avoid shitting in the sub.
But they were so vague that it had everyone - myself included - speculating on why someone wouldn’t want to shit for that long.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
- Demonstrate victimhood
- Engage with tanks
- Nurture destruction
- Neglect and target civilians
- Inspire hope with false ceasefire
- Separate population from their homeland
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 5 weeks ago:
“Turns out there are 319 letters in the alphabet and 16 Rs! When the experts get a hold of this, they’re going to be blown away!”
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 5 weeks ago:
That’s exactly it. Here’s a quote from what he said during the article. Dude is so uniformed that he thinks AI is doing amazing stuff, but doesn’t understand that experts realize AI is full of shit.
“I pinged Elon on at some point. I’m just like, dude, if I’m doing this and I’m super amateur hour physics enthusiast, like what about all those PhD students and postdocs that are super legit using this tool?” Kalanick said.
- Comment on all models are wrong, some are useful 5 weeks ago:
Dat Green Shitter?
- Comment on I meant to do that 1 month ago:
“hey Google, show a message on my back window saying ‘Sorry I didn’t know this lane was a merge lane and went around you like a jackass, I swear I didn’t know!! I’m actually a nice person’”
- Comment on 1940s do be repeating 1 month ago:
Ah gotcha, I was thinking maybe it had to do with the AI Paperclip Problem but I was way off.
- Comment on 1940s do be repeating 1 month ago:
What is Operation Paperclip?
- Comment on I meant to do that 1 month ago:
I did this a few days ago in accident only to basically pass the person in front of me and then sit in heavy traffic for the next 5 minutes.
I could feel their eyes burning into the back of my head, with them thinking “way to go, asshole, you saved yourself exactly 2 seconds by going around me.”
Cars need an “I’m sorry” emote somehow.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 1 month ago:
The average growth rate from 10,000 BCE to 1700 was just 0.04% per year.
Wow that’s crazy to me. I had always envisioned humans steadily spreading and growing constantly. I had no idea that we were basically treading water for so long.
- Comment on Just finished listening to the audiobook of The Martain and got me to thinking. 1 month ago:
I watched the whole movie thinking it was about COVID. Afterwards, my wife mentioned it was about climate change. I suppose the reality is, we’re just awful at responding to any large threat.
- Comment on Just finished listening to the audiobook of The Martain and got me to thinking. 1 month ago:
It’s definitely a tragedy. It has some humor to it, mostly things like poking fun at people who claim that the planet killing asteroid is going to boost the economy.
I think it’s with a watch.
- Comment on Just finished listening to the audiobook of The Martain and got me to thinking. 1 month ago:
I feel like if the Project Hail Mary crisis happened today, the response would be more like what happened in Don’t Look Up.
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 1 month ago:
My stove won’t preheat, I guess because it’s a safety issue. Apparently you can set a remote start capability ahead of time that gets reset if you open the over door. But I’ve never tried it, since that seems like a lot.
