self-overheard:
“i’m only cynical about things that objectively suck”

I don’t have an “A Game” to bring. I have more of a “D+ Game.” But I’m still bringing game!

One of you needs to bring me a snack.

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Highland Cow Stuffed Animal. All cows are Highland cows, most of them are just shaved so that their white and black spotted skin is visible.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9BXL59C/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_apa_gl_i_55YN1KQ5BEMTCNBHQRWF?linkCode=ml1&tag=lowqualityfac-22-20&linkId=6908f456499d5105de1129fa36ced82d&gaOptInStatus=true

As opposed to the babies that aren't breathable, I guess?

@fesshole one of my friends has a neighbour that does that. He's got a double lock up garage, both empty enough to park his car in. He's got a driveway long enough to park a car. But he parks it deliberately on the street smack bang at the edge of my friends driveway, who has not done anything wrong. I detest this fvckin bastard so much.

I will break this world

@startrekgifs Watcher

Which episode do we see here?

#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #guid531472194f7f

I will break this world

@clowdersiege yeah! It was almost sun dogs. That distance and shape, but refracting in colors.

Some kind of ice halo. Neat to see.

@bigzaphod I fully agree with the latter points. The brittleness of it all is mind-boggling, to the point of being anxiety-inducing. The foundation we have is from the 90s, everything written in unsafe programming languages, except all the poorly thought-out specs and standards, when the entire software engineering discipline was still in its infancy. And as if someone decided 'eh, it's good enough', everyone stopped rewriting, rethinking, reinventing. We only piled more and more code on top, to hide all the ugliness beneath layers and layers of abstraction. Just like the sshole vulnerability recently, this is what happens when the stack is treated as a Jenga tower: no one dares to touch it, change it, no matter how arbitrary the state of it is. Instead we're forced to do the only realistic thing anyone can do, piling even more on top. However, I disagree with the former points. There has never been a better time to dig deep and wide into any detail. LLMs let you explore almost at the speed of thought. But it's a double-edged sword. Most people seem to use LLMs to generate heaps of new code, piling it on, rarely stopping to ask if they should, and often not even reading the output. This guarantees that no human will ever know how this next layer of cruft really works. These people advocate for ignorance over understanding, after all.

@paperposts 😬

@ai6yr yep, and that’s an actual quote

So, if anyone tries to suggest "When Worlds Collide!" (1951) for #monsterdon

Don't.

Peak 1950s whiteness, boring dialog, eugenics, utterly dull plot for a world ender, and, most importantly, not even fun to riff.

@carstenfranke It seems they are flouting the law and don't care. Let's hope the election changes the direction of this. (no idea if it will... but at least, I have hope).

Should have listened to my guidance counselor and made a career fleecing audiophiles

https://youtu.be/f-QxLAxwxkM

@paperposts LOL that you have a playing card already for this fellow