Oh its a utility?

… so it should be publically owned and operated?

He didn’t even say ‘like’ or ‘akin to’ a utility.

He said ‘is a utility’.

… So then democracratize it.

And yeah, if WiFi is like that too, then yeah, lets have the public manage that as well.

… I wonder if ChatGPT can draw Altman looking at a broken clock being right twice a day.

Control, control! You must learn control!

Do. Or do not.

There is no ‘try’.

They already admitted they’re a corpo yuppie. I just pointed out their misplaced guilt complex.

I’m being an asshat performatively to serve a purpose: bullshit detector.

Yeah I jump straight to being a dick when I get a strong whiff of out of touch privileged bullshit.

You’re still responding to me because you were lying earlier when you acted like I wasn’t worth responding to… thus I hit a nerve somewhere, you can’t handle someone being rude to you.

‘Blah blah blah’, anyone bringing up points you don’t like being brought up is dismissible… because they were rude to you.

See how your ability to evaluate situations just… you know, hinges on how polite someone is to you?

You said I was contributing nothing.

No.

I contributed something, you just… couldn’t comprehend it.

But I do respond to insults in kind, old man.

Anyway yeah, thanks for your boomer advice, I’ll be sure to tell every single left wing or consumer advocate, you know, every actually anti corporate streamer or creator on youtube to just, you know, stop doing the youtubes, because they can just get their information from…

… uh … the … public… broadcasting service?

Oh wait that basically doesn’t exist anymore.

Does Democracy Now cover tech news very in depth?

NPR?

Whatever, the kids are wrong, somehow.

(ps you can use youtube without giving them any data or money or ad views or anything if you understand a bit about web browsers)

Ok, you have a parasocial problem, good for you.

You’re the one that started with the insults.

You’re not gonna gaslight anybody into forgetting that.

I just parodied your level of critique, and hypercharged it.

You went for the bait.

It’s called trolling for a reason.

Anyway yeah, your age isn’t that hard to approximate, you’re an older Gen Xer or younger Boomer, you know, a yuppie.

I’m so glad that you getting rid of cable TV and Nestle signifies that your’re not a corpo, after a career in logistics.

It ain’t left your bones or your brain yet, you’re just overcompensating for your guilt.

… and I’ve already got what I wanted from you.

If people like me make you even consider cheering the corpos on, then you don’t actually care about anything other than outward appearance, and your allegiance and opinions mean nothing, because you just like whoever has the best PR.

What, should Steve just also start his own video streaming or distribution service?

You’re gonna say that using a corporate tech platform to expose corporate tech bullshit… well in this case, that’s bad, because, capitalism is still happening?

Would you prefer a much tinier number of people be able to see this content?

Do you value ideological purity over broad dissemination of information?

Lemme know when your LORA meshnet video streaming network is up and running, you know, nationwide, globally.

It means you’re very superficial, and attacking credibility by means of criticizing image and style, a misdirect.

What, do you want an E3 booth babe from 2004 giving you a 30 minute version?

Its original reporting.

They did interviews.

With tons of people… in the industry.

Its a double feature length documentary expose.

There are no alternative sources in this case, because him and his team do original work that no one else does.

If you think Steve is … being needlessly mean, to other dipshits in the space, whom he meticulously documents his well reasoned grievances with…

If you finding him generally ‘cringe’ inducing… inspires you, out of the goodness of your heart, to… consider that all people deserve some grace, even this strangely purist… ambulance chaser…

You have some kind of a parasocial problem, or, you’re just actually one of the people he’s criticized, or you’re in their friend group.

Frame setting? High School level insults used to present yourself as a reasonable truth seeker? Wildly out of touch taste compared to most people actually in the space?

Yep, common tactics and traits of corpos and parasocial obsessive fans alike.

You’re trying to degrade investigative journalism by way of Mean Girls tactics.

You’re using too many buzzwords to not come across as either an insider or one who seeks their validation via emulation.

Well, if I do it, I’m now a Professor of Applied Moral Philosophy…

I’m sorry your coworkers have terminal NPC-itis.

I will make sure to press X to pay respect.

… Who… where did the crayon jar go?

Goddamnit!

Private Schmidt!

How did you even-

I’m not breaking that thing untill you either pass out or say ‘Sir the crayon jar is not a helmet liner, sir!’

Things cannot move through space at a speed faster than lightspeed.

This rule does not apply to space itself.

Also, interestingly, shadow boundaries can ‘move’ faster than the speed of light.

https://www.iflscience.com/shadows-can-move-across-a-surface-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-75112

Because a shadow isn’t truly a ‘thing’.

Its just an area where light bouncing off of something is not happening (as much).

omg corpo simp harder daddy!

You can have my PC when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

and also

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

cyberpunk cowabunga it is then

The way I see it is basically -> I thought I might need the crook, but it appears I don’t, and thus I’m the idiot standing around with a crook for no reason.

So thus it conveys yes, a bit of my own latent foolishness, but it also displays that that is foolishness.

I would say basically the same, though also sometimes its closer to befuddled, but also sometimes amused.

I landed on this piece of art because I think the cubist style applied most prominently to the primary figure conveys that… the face is abstract, and basically at least myself as the viewer can see multiple different expressions basically depending on how you squint.

The crook, the implement of imposition of order… its there. But it isn’t actually being employed. Is it needed? … maybe?

But the cats are all just there, being fine, doin’ their thing. And they’re less ‘odd’ looking, less heavily stylized. The main figure is the stand out, the odd one.

The juxtaposition is thus somewhat absurd, but not overwhelmingly so. Everyone is ultimately just lollygagging, standing around.

If I could actually tweak the image, I’d want to make the primary figure less primary, less large. I’d found another image that was… apparently just a real picture of a pretty average dude just sitting down, calm, looking contemplatively off into the distance, in a field of many other real cats, similarly all just doing their thing, less prominent size difference.

But this image is basically funnier, lol.

Err, excuse me, not lol, :3

Approximately how I feel as a cis bi (trans inclusive) dude in trans fem spaces:

(Apparently credit to Susan Sanford on redbubble, didn’t even know that was a website)

((Also that’s a crook, not a scythe))

System Shock 2: Med-Sci 1

looped until SHODAN gets you, you p̶̢̝̣̰̃͘͝͝a̸͉̓t̵̬͖̂̀́h̶̘͗͘ȩ̷̬̠̮̦̔̓̓ţ̵̯͔͉̏̓͛̆́i̷̭̰̺͔͊̋̅̽̒c̸̳̆ ̸͎̈́͠ͅc̶̢̞̝̣̽͂͘r̴̢̧͖̲̒̃̑͋̑e̵̠̔a̵̪̔͌́̚t̷̢̮̙̍͊ụ̸͔̪̑̐̊́̍ŕ̵͉̝̫̝̏͜e̶̘͊̑͝

No problem!

Now, spread the gospel of Fela, and let there be funky afrobeat jazz, ahhahahah!

Ah guerllia gardening! Or something like that.

Also not the worst idea.

Just make your own unauthorized food garden haha!

Fela Kuti - Zombie.

I propose this as anti-coworker-music; for maybe 70+% of them, they’ll be amazed or impressed if they’ve never heard it before

Its obviously old school, but its also obviously incredible, is energetic, has a solid driving rhythm and melody, and at least parts of the lyrics are simple enough you can sing along or they may get stuck in your head.

But its not offensively noisey/distortiony or sappy or whiney.

Then you also tell people the backstory behind the song and album, if they ask about it, which is basically equally incredible.

Its kind of like the opposite of a guillotine.

Doesn’t always work, but when it does, you basically did it to yourself.

The corpse pile problem on Everest has been getting significantly worse for a while now.

… same thing, to a lesser extent, with the Titanic.

Maybe we could make an empathetic argument that there shouldn’t be any billionaires: Having that much money makes you so stupid and encourages such risky behavior that really, you should be thanking us for not allowing you to get into a dangerous headspace.