I was coming here to comment, you see happy people in your electric rectangle of depression and surveillance? How? Can I join them?

either distract myself with media (video games, music, movies), distract myself with pot, distract myself with my dogs (who alleviate a lot of the loneliness, but I can’t have a good conversation with them unfortunately), or come browse and comment here. All my friends have drifted away over the years so I’ve learned to cope. If it’s the connection I miss, I can go pet the dogs. The conversation or intellectual stimulation, I go shitposting (hello!). If it’s just boredom stemming from loneliness, alleviating boredom with media or weed is easy.

someone had to say it, that alien has ass. I’m not against a finely detailed ass in art, but this seems hardly the time nor place.

Mmmmmhm. It’s why I say it’ll happen someday, almost certainly; but I doubt it would be in the way any of us hope for.

I’ve got a pair of Meze 99 Classics hooked up to a FiiO BTR5 (what I’m told is a reasonable quality set of headphones, and a reasonable quality DAC), and I’ve had hearing tests, my hearing is apparently fine. And yet, despite my best efforts including A-B testing, no, I can’t tell the difference between 320kbps and lossless. Having said that, anything below 192kbps is basically unlistenable as I am able to hear 99% of the detail that’s normally there; having it crunched down to something like 128kbps is just jarring, and even at 192 it’s still not amazing.

well, the room’s not picked up and I’m assuming she told you in English, so the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

the moment some dumb fucker (probably in the US military) leaves a kill-chain-connected AI exposed in any way to the internet, someone else (probably in thigh highs) will find it, break in, and prompt engineer it to do the dumbest possible thing at that particular moment. And as much as I want to believe it would be prompted with something like “kill all the billionaires”, they would probably end up starting with something like “gee, I wonder if I could drone strike my neighbor?”, get kicked out/patched immediately after, and the perpetrator arrested in short order.

in other words, probably, someday, yes; but actually no.

see this is one of the main things I don’t understand about real-world ultra-rich people, these individuals have a warped or nonexistent capacity for whimsy. If I had more money than I could feasibly spend and for whatever reason could not or would not donate it, then by god I should at least be making the world a more entertaining place to live in.

Instead they’re all techbro douches and old money who can seemingly only purchase indulgent material goods for themselves or, if they choose to contribute to greater society, do so negatively, like Thiel and Musk. About the closest Musk ever came was sending his Tesla to space, that was whimsical-rich-guy-behavior and probably the height of his popularity. Everything else in recent memory that the obscenely wealthy have done has been either forgettable and boring or actively harmful to society.

in summary, we need fewer Bond villains, more Austin Powers.

the only sane response to an insane world is to reject it wholeheartedly, possibly by lashing out; it is the most damaged among us who embrace it unreservedly.

effectively the same comment as mine (“hello yes I have identified the joke”), left at about the same time, +14 with witty responses vs -2 with smartassed responses as of writing

make it make sense to me, fediverse. I know the points don’t matter, but they should at least make some kind of sense to someone, and they ain’t makin’ no sense to me.

Ashens has absolutely tried these.

All I want is the Table of Contents, I feel like just that on its own would be enough of a laugh for me.

Chapter Nine: Guide to Furry Slang & Colloquialisms
“Everything you didn’t want to know about cheese graters, and knots the Boy Scouts will definitely not teach you.”

I’m sorry how many balls

I would not want to be in charge of cleaning up the road apples watermelons in that town.

Strauss Zelnick - Chairman & CEO, Take-Two Interactive Software.

having read nothing about him personally but plenty about how Take-Two acts as a company, I am not even slightly surprised that the head of Take-Two is the sort of chode that jives with Thiel and other techbro right-wing fascists.

It would be, yes; but this is America and we seem to have a permanent hard-on for punishment over rehabilitation, and it’s also a lot easier to make punishment profitable. remember, kids, slavery is still legal in the good ole “land of the free”, if you’re in prison – and several companies and their shareholders get inordinately rich off it. Hooray for profits derived from human suffering with no other benefit to society! Freedom! Justice! Capitalism! God, this place is hell.

just leaving a comment here so I remember to come back later and read the angry tankies flailing, it’s gonna be funny.

Oh good, it’s not just me!

listen, as a cheese-loving American I can safely tell you I have never in my life had a craving for a Kraft single or spray “cheez”, but a nice mozzarella? god, yes.