I especially like the little glimpses to the advertisement hellscape I’m avoiding when my adblock plugin fails to work (usually right before they need an update). I especially like how the ads are rocking some kind of premium low-latency CDN while the rest of youtube is served from a cluster of used xboxes, presumably co-located in an abandoned Radio Shack in suburban Alaska. Treat your users better, Google.
All I know is that the thumbnail looks like a Portal map.
These ‘zipper merge’ vs ‘early merge’ arguments are really the worst. At the same time, the lack of consensus fully explains why merge zones like that are such a mess.
I doubt anyone is driving slow just to fuck with me. A stranger in another car. You know?
I’ll add to this that a lot of people are walking around with this fiction in their head about ‘good drivers’. In reality, driving is a skill and not everyone can be good at it. We really don’t want people like that driving fast, and maybe not as fast as everyone else at that.
So, I see someone driving slow and I honestly think “maybe this is the best they can do knowing that it would be dangerous to go faster, beyond what their reflexes can handle.”
No, romantic in the “I love god” and embracing the majesty of a wonderful universe sense. In 40k lore, it actually means stuff like this.
Although if automated sex toys were a thing in 40k cannon, they would almost certainly be the domain of The Adeptus Mechanicus.
Working on the helldesk of an internet provider in the early 2010s.
Former helldesk employee from the mid 1990’s here. Thank you for serving.
Dude had our bog standard account and tried to claim he was our biggest customer.
I had one that did this. Dude bought 10 years worth of dial-up access in 1995.
All I needed to know was to pay attention to the terminology and optics of NFL drafts and the power dynamics following it. The fact that those in power are a-okay with problematic stuff like that, strongly suggests they have skewed ethics and likely apply that ethos everywhere.
What’s crazy is that last line sounds like mere romantic sentiment until you read up on 40k lore.
I work in IT. Some days are better than others. Framing seems to be key to keeping my psyche intact.
I constantly wrestle with the environmental impact of this field. More so now than ever. Everything that goes into consumer and professional electronics generates a lot of waste, and as a professional, I’ve had my hands on more systems than the average home user.
I also do not work at any FANG company, nor for anyone in surveillance like Palantir or Flock. Besides, I don’t get invited to those parties.
Everyone in IT has contributed to both negative social and environmental impacts in some way. Some, much more than others. AI has thrown gasoline on the fire, but we still have the same problems as before: pointless commutes, e-waste, planned obsolescence, power-hungry software, enriching the rich, and so on.
Meanwhile, (without doxxing myself) I work at a company that helps their customers do good things.
I think that’s where I keep my conscience clear for the most part: I’ve made decisions that place me in a relatively better place, with some sense of karmic balance that tips towards better than it is bad. Telling oneself “it could be worse” certainly seems fragile - and it is - but it is what it is.
I’ll add that, in a capitalist system, even the concept of employment is coercive and not 100% voluntary. Also, the way companies proceed in this environment exploits the built-in demand for employment, while exploiting and extracting all kinds of things, both real and virtual. IMO, this puts the most (if not all) of economy on trial for ethical concerns, so we’re only left “how (non)ethical is your workplace?”
was a yoga teacher for 3 years earning $25 a week and no man wanted me […] in Northern Virginia & Washington DC […] And I didn’t have a car.
TL;DR: even with treating your body like a temple, having a low income and low transportation mobility makes one unattractive in the DC metro.
In that region, single-income setups have low viability due to the egregious cost of living in the area, so people actively seek to partner up with high-income earners. Plus, the whole suburban sprawl is designed, and ultimately requires, cars in order to get around. You’d think that location would matter - and it does for schools and employment - but nobody lives near anyone else they want to date, and not being hyper mobile by driving all the time is practically a social death sentence. It can be a brutal environment that is hostile to most activities outside of earning an office-job income.
For example, the NoVA subreddit had recurring threads started by young professionals looking to move to the area. Every time, they’d ask where the nightlife is and what rent is like in those neighborhoods. Cue the entire subreddit throwing buckets of cold water on OP, as they’d get a reality check that as a post-grad, they’d be able to afford rent anywhere from 40-60 minutes (by car) from any such hot-spot. Oh, and the same would go for their commute too, and work might be just as far from said nightlife as it is from home.
I… I may need to frame this and hang it over my monitor.
Otezla. It’s relatively new(ish) and used for autoimmune stuff. Documentation said that some abdominal pain during the titration period was typical.
What I experienced was pretty consistent searing hot pain in my gut after the second day. Blood test would later confirm this to be my liver; my enzymes were all over the place. It was so bad, I didn’t even get five days in.
I don’t know. I didn’t think to ask.
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What else should I be asking about? I usually just pay for the drugs and go.
The single most important character on the team.
Also the second most terrifying, after Pyro of course.
As someone that once took a prescription that violently disagreed with my biology and general well-being, that sign is entirely appropriate.
This is a literally comically stupid idea, its a B movie plot element from an 80s scifi movie.
This may be from the meme graveyard, but it has never been more appropriate:
Of course Japan decided to use robots. But why not use a big dog instead? Maybe it’s a humanitarian concern since they’d be facing off with bears…
:: looks at image from article ::
Oh. It’s a fucking robot yokai-cyber-demon-dog: pure nightmare fuel. They’re clearly on to something here.
Which is amazing since pigeons are usually kinda shit at making nests: