Hey you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, amigo!

Very good analysis, because I always wonder “Why THIS song?”

Like, is there an alternate universe where it’s like "OMG the thing you’ve been waiting for! (link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

…okay maybe the lead up takes a lot longer. Never Gonna Give You Up hits you immediately with those drums and a dance that can easily be repurposed as a taunt. Lol

I know! It’s the very best kind of prank… it’s a gift. :D

EDIT: The animation is hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux0YNqhaw0I

(Link in the open to foster trust lol)

Yeah, it made me feel kinda sad. I’m trying so hard learning to code games and I’m a 3D artist still trying to learn to draw traditionally, only using “AI” for nothing more than “Hey can you explain the relationship between classes and objects” or something…

And if the constant slop-replacement of the Internet wasn’t bad enough, it’s a constant uphill battle of mockery and harassment from these chucklenuts.

It’s so discouraging. Like if we do succeed against the odds, jerks like these will be cheering on the robots ripping us off.

… I’m glad seeing this crap downvoted to oblivion though. :)

Hahaha I’ve heard it described as “competence porn.”

I’ve heard similarly positive things about “Madam Secretary.”

Huge red flags…

…are missing from the proposed blast staging site, this is massively unsafe. :(

I would sympathize with this one, honestly.

I think we all (in the US at least) grew up with a very skewed and generalized / propagandized version of its history, one that’s specifically designed so we identify proudly with it. (I’d imagine most countries are similar on that last bit but idk)

The more time goes on, the more atrocities come to light, the more insanely layered and nuanced and complicated it all is, it’s quite an overload with everything else we have to deal with as adults. (Especially when most of it is crap we can’t even do anything about.)

The constant realizations that approach closer to the truth are often painful. Nobody likes realizing they were lied to so much in their formative years.

Yeah, I too would like if my country was run by virtuous people trying their best, and if unknown badass action heroes stopped the bad guys, instead of living in an evil empire run by those bad guys, and if hard work actually meant something.

. . .flip it off very intentionally.

Heehee I’m kinda glad I’m not alone here. I walk my neighborhood and people install those STUPID cameras facing the sidewalk to catch EVERYONE walking by, that whistle at you, or say “you are being recorded!”

I give it the finger without looking at it basically as a reflex now. I’ve never even flipped someone off in traffic, I’ve been told I have the patience of a saint.

But surveillance capitalism and stupid paranoid suburbanites satisfying their nosy-neighbor compulsions is definitely a line.

We’ve got those stupid towers all over the place here too. Construction sites, parking lots.

Freaking absurd. I’m upset that it’s the best crime deterrent they can come up with, because I suppose skulky fellows lurking around dark parking lots aren’t preferable either.

Ow, geeze. “Thought as a service.” Ew.

I might have a lot of fun things that aren’t legal in California. Never thought my OS would be one, but here we are.

If people went out of their way to learn a damn thing about computers, and all-consuming jobs didn’t force entire generations raised without parents, and maybe they didn’t let their 6 year olds on social media / online gaming / whatever unsupervised, maybe there’d be more backlash to the state and corporations trying to step in as parental figures.

…Wish that wasn’t too friggin’ much to ask.

Servers and data centers have zero business knowing anything about who’s behind my machine by default.

Oh no, people are gonna start being called “Rizzards” soon.

Dicks out for Harambe. 😔

It will get repealed when all the always-working parents can’t stand “teenager smell.”

Those kids ain’t right, Peggy.

everybody gave up on snooping around on my desktop

Bonus points if you can touch-type: Legendless blank keycaps. XD

Exactly like a Chromebook. Those stupid things were (are?) such a coordinated landfill and education-decimating campaign.

With my mom in law’s, I had to go through so much crap to overwrite the bootloader using some saint’s scripts just so I could put Linux on it. The stupid thing (an Asus) actually said “We’re done updating this thing. Buy a new one. Lol.”

The way they foisted that Temu-grade hardware on impoverished schoolsystems across the country is disgusting.

It rings a bell but I’m not sure if I’ve watched it. Will definitely check it out. Thank you!

Yeah, I’m also sad to think how many brilliant souls wander the streets because care is withheld out of reach. Whether the victims are geniuses or not though, the streets were the wrong replacement for mental institutes.

I agree, chat bots can be neat (HUGE caveats), but in the midst of unprecedented loneliness and mental anguish, they’re gasoline on a trash fire.

Illustrated plainly by the fact that the next post to this one in my feed was about the always-controversial bcacheFS author claiming he’s achieved AGI and has a self-aware AI girlfriend.

“Oop…hup… Uh-oh. I’m in a hole.”