Yeah, I have a lot of droughts of work. But also, my job is babysitting a little data center. If I don’t have things to do, its technically a good thing because it means everything is working right.

I also get a lot of praise from management for how great I am at my job, ahich feela really weird sometimes because I have had weeks where I basically did nothing. Hell in December we have a lot work freezes so nothing breaks and all the routine work for the year is done so sometimes jts an entire month of basically nothing.

I often spend the time learning new stuff so thats kind of work related.

I have seen too many rich assholes actually go to jail, then just get out a few years later and continue the same grift.

Fuck this softy nonsense.

Yeah, even just growing them are better. I thought I hated Cherry Tomatoes, but then I had some off my own plant and they taste so good.

Yeah, if we end up with cheap trash bags by mistake I find the rim always rips apart when I go to take out the trash and I end up using a second trash bag anyway.

My retirement plan is similar but it’s more that Climate Crisis is going to cook us all alive before I need to retire.

During Overwatch Summer Games, they have Lucio all, which is just Rocket League with Lucio, maybe that is what you are thinking of?

Eh, useless meetings are great for timesheet filler while playing Pokemon Go.

I have no idea about Google, I don’t use it, but Alexa, fuck Alexa is just more and more and more awful. It barely hears you, it does the wrong thing, it seems to just, forget timers. The other day my wife asked “What is the weather on Sunday” and it started rattling off about the weather in San Diego. Like, no, WTF Alexa.

Not the whole site but I got banned from World News a month or so ago for making a Luigi related Mario Brothers joke.

Such a joke. I am not even remotely a small time Reddit user either, been there for like 15 years and probably have over a million Karma across 3-4 accounts.

The people pushing these laws are hoping it will have the “California Effect.”

Like when California says “Cars need to meet X emissions standards” so far makers just make cars everywhere meet those standards.

They are hoping that by making age verification a thing in a few states, it will become a thing everywhere.

This fails to realize that one, it’s easy to geofence a state online (VPNs being anwork around). And Two, companies generally comply with California laws because, on the whole, California passes mostly positive limitations. It only makes the cars and world better if they all meet the better emissions standards. Blocking porn like this, is a net negative.

Also, on the subject of kids accessing porn. They are going to do it anyway, anyone thinking otherwise is oblivious to the world, and two, it’s not up to the state to nanny this shit, it’s up to the parents.

No no see, they SAID they were more fiscally conservative so it’s 100% true!

/s

They are not reducing the debt because they are fiscally conservative, that’s the sound byte they play for idiot suckers. All they are doing is cutting shit until it fails so they can point to it about how much “government doesn’t work” then they can just turn it into a privatized contract to price gouge the shit out of people for the same service they used to get much much more efficiently and cheaper than when it was part of the government.

The real shinning example here is the Health Insurance industry, which, as shown by basically every country that isn’t a crappy hell hole, runs much better when it’s centralize and universally the same for everyone.

But the US can’t seem to grasp that and instead we get endlessly rising costs because profits profits profits! On top of needing it to be a mechanism to strip elderly people of as much wealth as possible to prevent the unwashed masses from ever actually gaining any sort of generational wealth and power.

The Crypto Industry is full of Libertarian idiots who are not Liberal/Blue in any way shape of form. Its just another scam tool for assholes to sucker idiots out of money and it’s never ever going to amount to anything more than that.

At least you are able to admit it’s your opinion and not a fact.

They will just tell you Russia isn’t Communists.

I am not a professional coder, just a hobbyist, but I am increasingly digging into Cybersecurity concepts.

And even as an “amature Cybersecurity” person, everything about what you describe, and LLM coders, terrifies me, because that shit is never going to have any proper security methodology implemented.

Rapture already happened as predicted. The problem is, literally no one except like, one dude named Rick in Michigan and the Yang family in a small fishing village in China.

Everyone else got left behind in a spiraling purgatory chaos world.

“I don’t fully grasp the level of animosity that people have about this,” Pohutsky said.

Yeah, neither do a lot of people. Its this weird fucking obsession that the idiots of this country have latched on to.

Nah, educated people don’t agree with conspiracy theory nonsense enough to be useful tools.

I don’t know if its accurate but a long while ago (like, maybe the 90s) Invaguely remeber hearing something along the lines of, “No super power in the world has ever lasted more than 200 years”.

Basically in the context that the US was overdue.