I was born unfit to live

We all are, don’t worry, you need not chase death it finds us all.

That story is so much more than that though. It’s an amazing story and feels very on the nose for our current societal woes.

Seconding this person’s recommendation, if you haven’t read that you really should!

Yeah, I mean that’s the whole excess labor value theory of Marxist thought, right?

It’s not just outright wage theft - it’s that your labor is being used to create additional value above what you’re paid and that is what’s making the borgeousie rich. Obviously this is dumbed down to a sentence and this isn’t me disagreeing just adding add’l context for other readers.

We definitely get screwed so so sooo many ways on the whole of it by the 1% capitalist class.

I think you’re missing a /s at the end of this.

Otherwise, people might think you’re serious and not just making a joke about how we have crowdfunding for stuff which is just a version of spending money on helping someone else.

That sounds awful to deal with. Sometimes I wonder why people live in such conditions but I guess that’s just humanity for you.

Also cool fact -40C is -40F

My favorite part about studying history is those little moments where you really feel the human connection to our ancestors. Like, of course teenage boys were fucking around, they’re teenage boys. I’m sure it wasn’t anything too egregious - it was still a job after all. Just hilarious to think about these kids pretending to be some girl the other one was crushing on calling in or shit like that.

My utopia is a world without sales and marketing.

They’re just modeling human behavior at the end of the day. Or at least what they think is human enough, it’s hilarious that in a way they mess up worse than regular people and they’re being pitched as coworkers.

I mean we’re probably all screwed but hey at least the Earth will be on fire while we meme it up.

The AI is creating the captions.

Idk what the hell happened to baby boomers. When I was growing up my parents (boomers) constantly reminded me you can’t believe everything you read online and that the “girl” I was chatting with on AIM could actually be some fat 40 year old pedo.

That wasn’t uncommon, that was the same experience all my buddies had and same thing was drilled into us at school.

Now, I’m seeing these folks treat memes on Facebook like it’s the gospel truth. Or some random mommy blog post with zero references as straight facts. It’s so maddening … What happened to these people?

Damn I know hindsight is 20/20 but I feel like you could have just ran some wires yourself (it’s pretty easy tbh) with how much effort you went through to avoid it.

But yeah I hear you on network stuff in general. I know a little about that stuff and it still is basically magic to me. Sometimes I swear my modem and router just choose to misbehave until I give them a little reset. I think they might be alive…

Wow I never knew about the AACS encryption key stuff.

I’ve always wondered how much piracy really hurts companies or individuals. I mean, it seems to me even with piracy happening these corpos are making bank.

Razer, in my (very dated by now tbh) experience has really bad quality control but if you get a good one it’ll last for a long time. My mouse is 15 years old now and still working. Conversely my keyboard from them stopped working a little after the one year mark.

Idk seems that way for a lot of companies nowadays. Cheap out on QC and parts, hope people don’t bother contacting your support and if they do it’s cheaper to just replace some stuff and use a cheap 3rd party support center vs actually making sure the product is not a lemon.

I miss Windows XP. Take me back to the rolling green hills.

I saw the typo as soon as I hit post but I thought it was funny so kept it.

Drugs do need a good snuggle.

Oh I know that’s what makes it even worse. I’m just saying even if they were guilty of snuggling drugs the penalty shouldn’t be extrajudicial execution.

what is the operation actually meant to accomplish.

Test the waters for what officers and enlisted men will not follow an unlawful orders. Or the other way, make sure that the people will follow orders they should not.

I genuinely think that’s what it’s for. Testing the waters (if you’ll pardon the pun) for pushback over what I would say is pretty blatant violation of international law and overall norms our Navy has abided for decades now regarding how we do or do not intercept and interact with these “drug boats”.

I would argue it’s pretty wrong and fucked up just on the face of it to straight murder people for drug trafficking and it still is against the law. Not that we seem to care anymore.

Even in some contrived scenario where they were flying a flag that said “cocaine on board for sure” and the dudes driving the boat all were clearly cracked out and swore they were gonna sell them off to someone in the USA - it still would be inhumane and improper to do what we are.

I’ll tell you one thing for sure, any sort of good will agreements or help we may have gotten from partners in South America is gone now. If the goal was to lessen the amount of drug use in the USA, hell even if it was simply to try to slow and control the supply - this is yielding the opposite result.

OPs mom definitely got high as hell before eating her steak.

You already got the right replies from the other two. But I think your comment shows the danger of AI being talked about like it’s the fucking second coming.

They’re all based on LLM - large language models

They’re just modeling what “most likely” is the right response. AI doesn’t know shit and that’s why it also will yes and you to death because it really is just a yes and machine spitting out what is likely to appear as a valid response to a prompt.

It’s very dangerous that people treat AI like it actually has some understanding of the training materials or true knowledge of anything. They’re just very good little parrots.

I’m not one to get emotional watching TV or movies but I definitely teared up at the end with Eleanor and Chidi

I always enjoy the “love will find a way” trope and they did a good job writing the characters as earnestly loving in a relationship that felt real and not simply contrived for the plot in and of itself.

Definitely will have to rewatch the series for a third time at some point in this lifetime.