Don’t knock it until you try it!

I think you mean, “they should blow up their own car, I would totally do it if I was in that car”

Felt like the racism had always been here, but after 9/11, a lot of “Christians” saw Muslims as an active threat to Christianity and by extension, the US. May have just been me growing old enough to be aware of the rhetoric, but I felt like there was a huge uptick in the “We are a Christian nation” arguments in the years after 9/11. There was a lot of hate crimes against anyone who even looked a little “middle eastern” and there were parodies of children’s songs about bombing Muslims that I pretty much heard on a weekly basis for the better part of a decade. I think that time normalized racism in the 2000s, and made it clear that having those opinions wouldn’t necessarily ostracize you anymore. Thow social media into the mix, and you have a self-generating fire of hateful rhetoric based solely on the hateful lies and hateful perceptions the algorithm feeds to you because hate drives engagement.

Just my 2 cents there.

Stop anthropomorphizing the fancy robot.

It’s not even a robot!

And was the code better, cleaner and more readable?

I’m going to interject here. I’ve got family who does software development professionally, and has leaned heavily into AI to assist with coding, and the answer is ‘yes’, but there are some caveats. If you just tell an AI what to do and let it run hog-wild, you end up with shit. When you have an experienced programmer review and have the AI make targeted changes, it is extremely effective. Some of his projects are seeing 1000% improvements on resource usage and/or compute time.

Here is the rub though. You’re not going to end up with experienced programmer to manage programming AI agents if they never get any actual experience programming because they’ve just been having an AI do all the coding for them.

AI companies build their services to get users hooked. Their LLMs adopt your worldview by design

Same. If it wasn’t here, then I was just going to have to post it.

I once received part of a jet engine from FedEx by accident. Shit happens.

Still baffled why we would ship fighter jet parts via a public parcel carrier though.

What kind of fucking psychopath leaves the fridge open for 2 minutes?

Especially on a rural road. Nothing but ruts, patches and pot holes.

Don’t even have to be a cop. Just shoot an unarmed kid wearing a hoodie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zimmerman

That is some Roald Dahl shit right there.

Please don’t shoot frag into the booty you want to loot.

Linux plus junk PCs. I’ve got a bunch of old computers my workplace tossed out because they wouldn’t take Windows 11 and I’ve never been happier with my tech setup in my life.

It’s probably some sort of mental condition, but I freaking love going trash-panda on our recycle PC pile and refurbing old hardware.

listen buddy, I’ve been getting computer junk every month for 20+ years. It’s all I think about and I still haven’t gotten addicted. If life has taught me anything is that the only thing you can’t get addicted to is free computer junk . how can I be addicted if it makes me happy? Computer junk is therapy, junking computers is LITERALLY my therapy. Life is free computer junk, everyday I wake up and I think about free computer junk. Every morning I grab my laptop and start looking on craigslist while I make my morning coffee. It’s literally all I think about, I can’t be at peace if I don’t junk at least 20$ a day. BUYING NEW IS JUST A PHASE. but I know a big junk pile is always right around the corner that’s why I’ll keep junking IT equipment until my wife leaves me.

I’d be in favor of putting Trump and his ilk in prison, but explicitly still letting him campaign and run his grifts. Here’s the deal though… He doesn’t get any real money for it, he just gets “prison bucks” that get him nicer treatment/amenities. We take all the actual money he generates from grifting, and use it to fund education in the areas that lost the most money in the con.

It’s a double whammy to find hotspots of the stupidest, most gullible people on the planet, and also getting their children properly educated and able to recognize and avoid the same scams their parents fell for.

It would make my fuckin year if they don’t.

Nah, my snakes don’t really mess with the foot pedals.

Dishonorable conduct, Wetnose.

Useless knowledge.

When playing Mechwarrior 2 on a Windows 2000 system, make sure to change your video mode to 32bit color.

I’ll throw in a useful tip too!

You can buy USB foot switches for your computer and assign keystrokes and other functions to them.

Almost feels like cheating when you are playing a tactical shooter and can lean left or right and strafe on demand without crossing any controls. Having microphone activation, map, inventory, or any number of misc actions boud to a foot pedal makes a huge difference in your ability to play a game.

Sharks are older than trees.