It still bugs me how our vocabulary just immediately goes out the window to market this shit.

• NOTHING is powered by AI. And unless some poor fucker’s cranking away on a standing bicycle turbine or something, it’s not powered by humans either. It’s powered by whatever’s giving their grid power - solar, wind, nuclear, dinosaur juice, that shit.

• Humans grouped up for the purpose of taking and processing client requests isn’t a fucking ‘chat bot’, it’s a call center. This concept isn’t new or novel in any way.

• Even “AI” itself has become synonymous with ‘computer generated’. Intelligence that’s artificial still only exists in science fiction/fantasy. We’ve been misusing this term well before shit like LLMs existed - calling shit like NPC pathing in a videogame “AI” which is also stupid… but lately we’ll slap an “AI” sticker on anything with an algorithm. We even moved the goal posts on this one with the new term “AGI” but I guarantee that one will be marketed into meaninglessness in the near future too.

This post is powered by my phone’s battery and last night’s dinner.

Chipmunks, 5 year olds, salt/pepper shakers, and paint thinner, also all make terrible doctors.

Follow me for more studies on ‘shit you already know because it’s self-evident immediately upon observation’.

Anyone remember xFire? It was better 15 years ago than Discord ever was or will be.

…damn I miss that shit. They were litigated out of existence by a frivolous lawsuit from Yahoo. This is why we can’t have nice things.

I’d be worried about purines. A diet of pure steak would likely lead to an insane case of gout, which is a buildup of uric acid crystals in your joints… which ranks pretty high on the list of excruciatingly painful things you can be diagnosed with.

Just containing some chemical doesn’t mean it will have same effect as it does in a different product.

Chocolate, milk, butter, cheese, and papayas are each a chemically distinct environment, so what this acid does to chocolate may be mitigated or completely offset by the chemical makeup of those other environments.

A more appropriate comparison to chocolate with butyric would be to chocolate without it, and between those two, the difference is a subtle acrid flavor reminiscent of vomit. If you don’t personally pick up on that flavor, you should count yourself as lucky - once you notice it, it really does ruin the experience.

Any favorite recipes?

It was a fire the first time and every time since. It’ll be a fire next time too. Likely we’ll continue the trend of doing nothing about it while we slide deeper into Nazism, cuz that’s how murica do.

“We require privacy not to conceal our own wrong doing, but to protect against people who would abuse their authority to pry into our lives and do us harm by misrepresenting what they find.”

Yeah I don’t think we’re gonna be able to litigate the Nazis off the beaches of Normandy.

YSK legal rights don’t mean shit to administrations that don’t respect the law. Compliance with ICE can be deadly - arm yourself and do whatever you need to do to stay safe.

Seems pretty much anyone with a smartphone will run into that. The devices themselves are crazy surveillance tech… but fuck are they addicting.

Posted from my smartphone. -_-

The important part is the “and domestic” bit. Active duty troops are oath bound to engage Trump the same way they do any other enemy of the United States. Their decision not to this far is a breach of their duty.

Better late than never though - do your job already, troops!

We don’t have the spine for a civil war. Closest thing we’ll feasibly see are a few targeted political assassinations. Things will get kinda noisy after that in a bickering kind of way, but most of us won’t even remember it by the following Monday. It’ll fizzle out.

At time. …but really, this shit is pure gold from start to finish!

https://youtu.be/e1VGzGcSqhA?t=478

On a long hike, pushed the whole ‘stop and set up camp’ thing way too late, so it’s already dark as I’m starting to pitch the tent. Start feeling really uneasy like I’m being watched, so I do a quick sweep of my surroundings with my flashlight - and sure as shit two reflective eyes become visible for half a second before the critter that owns them gets spooked by light and runs off. Couldn’t see the actual animal, just the eyes, but now I’m borderline shitting myself with fear, so I get in the semi-pitched-but-fuck-it tent and lay down listening for footsteps or something.

Never did hear footsteps, but about 20 mins later that little shit let out an incredibly loud and absolutely blood curdling scream… like, women getting actively murdered whilst screaming into a megaphone, kind of scream… right outside the tent.

Then nothing for the remainder of the night.

I get home and start searching the web for what the actual fuck that was: 99% sure I was being stalked by a cougar.

and you will pay for your part in it.

I mean, here’s hoping, but real accountability is a fucking unicorn nowadays.

At the last hospital I worked at, a nurse was badly injured on the job for something totally out of her control. Probably shouldn’t give more details than that so I don’t dox her or myself.

Instead of giving her worker’s comp and helping her recover, the hospital fired her over some completely unrelated frivolous bullshit (along the lines of "a patient overheard you using profanity while talking to a co-worker). This was also like a couple months away from her becoming vested in their retirement program.

I’m just a tech, but it was abundantly clear that giving my time to that company would be an incredibly risky move - fuuuuck that. I put my notice in the next day.

I hope she sued the absolute fuck out of them.

Order of operations:

• Start new email

• Add desired attachments

• Add title

• Write the actual message in the body

• Select recipients

• Double check above in the same order

• Send

Feels backwards, but you’ll never fuck it up again.

May the public reciprocate his actions in kind.

This always cracks me up in the OR - in C sections, the mom is usually awake, so the staff in the room need to watch what they say. Baby comes out like a fucking chest-burster from Alien, covered in blood, that vernix gunk that looks like rancid cheese, and sometimes literal shit. Nasty goo aside, babies pretty much universally look like a hairless pug when the first come out.

Invariably, 2 or 3 nurses start doing the whole “Oooh she’s so cuuuute!” thing. I still can’t tell if they legit think it’s cute, or if they’re just really good at putting a show on for mom… cuz they look like something from a bad scifi-horror movie.