josephc

Joke’s on you. The porch pirate that stole my replacement GPU ruined my day before you even got here!

Honestly, “He was pretty funny.” Something with warm, happy memories and none of the bittersweetness of missing someone. I want my net contribution to this world to be joy.

The parent comment is joking that the grandparent comment has guessed the name of the dog to be, “I had a massive collection of original little rascals vhs tapes growing up!”

Yah, tbh this really smells like an implemented feature that got depriotized on the roadmap. The developers were probably like, “we can make an entry that has it as pending deletion, stop showing it in the UI, and then have a reaping job that actually deletes all the files.”

Later on, someone says, “Hey, to save on compute, we could just reap when we’re low on space. No need to delete on a cron.”

Then six months later someone says, “Hey, did we ever implement that? It’s high priority.” And someone up top says, “It’s not in the OKRs. Quick; make a chat app so we can shut it down in a year.”

Google also heavily enshittified search in 2019: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

tl;dr: The engineer who spent his life trying to make search good disagreed with the suit that pointed out, “but if people have to keep coming back then we can show more ads!”

Words were exchanged. Mostly “fuck” and “you” in that order. Money won.

My mum’s birthday. Was a pretty awkward party in 2001, but what can you do?

I’m fortunate enough that it’s not hard to be good. I’ve rarely, if ever, been forced into situations where I have to cause any kind of hardship to anyone to get my needs met. I try to leverage the privilege I’ve been afforded to act in ways that are more globally conscientious (i.e., I have the time and money to choose ethical alternatives to Amazon, live in a city with public transit, can afford non-meat alternatives and still have a nutritionally complete diet, etc.)

I try to be socially conscientious. I try to limit the problems I cause to others. I take care of people where I can and say hello to my neighbors. I give to charity and sponsor artists. I’ve broken up a street fight and walked a stranger through a scary part of town because she asked me to.

But if I had to make the really hard choice I’m not sure if I could. “I’m not a coward I’ve just never been tested. I’d like to think if I was I would pass.”

I shit louder.

Let the butt-song echo through the porcelain trumpet, that it might sound through the heavens.

Summon the butt-cracken.

Love it.

Quick edit: ^ this is not sarcasm.

I’d want to do a near remake of Deus Ex, the original, with the first person interactive/immersive simulation aspects and role playing, but set in the Murderbot Diaries universe. You get to play another recently freed security unit and need to escape to some outer rim world. Maybe Preservation Alliance? Maybe you’ll do some good along the way.

I think that mean, “Don’t vacillate wildly between the two in the middle of a story or try to poorly justify something with half considered hand waving in the guise of science.”

Ah. I only played OoT, never Majora’s Fentanyl.

This is some really good photomanip work. They even got the raster lines on the narcan correct.

Mostly I’m just really fucking sad.

There was such a potential for all of us to live brilliant, flourishing, fulfilling lives.

Instead, half the folks in my country decided to shit on everything and everyone. The remaining half of us are now too fucking busy cleaning up after those fuckwits to make forward progress. We can’t even advocate for changes to things we know are bad because we’re trying to defend the broken status quo from something worse.

It’s going to take generations to unfuck the damage. More than my lifetime, at least.

I think it’s an old trauma inducing video from early Internet days where a man attempts to fit a jar into his butt, only to have it break in the attempt. It’s really utterly horrifying, but I’ll admit to laughing at the reference here.

You’ve invented Groupon!

I always interpreted it as the number of people whose day I made slightly better. That’s a nice feeling.

“Chivalry isn’t dead!” [fucking javelins your ass with car ladder]

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Basically the same for me. After they squashed the counter protests I decided “fuck them”.

20 year old account with probably 10k karma. Not much by today’s standards, but I gave it my best.