Google did what Google does
I remember wrapping my head around "Google Wave" and being like "Hey that sounds nea--oh it's gone already?"
MonkeMischief
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That's a good point, most major conflict is caused by people who make/pay/coerce people to do their adult responsibilities for them. 🤔
Chores...really do build character? Dad was right?! (Of course he was.)
It was SO smooth I literally just thought "Ah must be nice having a boat to go clear one's head on the waves once in a while since you're not hustling to pay for all them textbooks."
Whooshed me like a salty breeze, it did. XD
North American here. Funny how it's very much less "which is it?" And more "Yeah. Basically."
We've been culturally domesticated to not cause trouble for our bosses / schools / etc. If the State steps in after you cause trouble for enterprise, it's usually to kick you back into your place.
We might not live in a State dictatorship, but that only matters so far, because that State enables many tiny, petty dictatorships that more directly affect your life and run amok unopposed.
Somehow people accept petty tyranny in everything from corporations to universities to shifts at the burger joint. They'll get all riled up that some politician they never met is bawking about foreign policy, but their tail is tucked firmly when their company tells them they can't get sick days and arriving a minute late is a fireable offense.
Many have bought the lies of rugged individualism and competition. "An insult to one is...well, that really sucks for you but I told you to just stay quiet. I'm just working hard doing what I'm told."
Like someone said before me: Even the most rebellious in us think twice about making our move, because many people simply think "That's how it is." And don't believe it can get any better.
There's not a lot of examples of collective action winning in recent history, so a lot of people don't even know how to begin to push back in the first place, besides writing an angry tweet or two.
That's an excellent point. It's amazing how fast it'll heat up a room!
I just learned there's a company that takes advantage of this by using render farm nodes to provide hot water or something?
Genius idea. Render farm as space heater. Don't see why compiling / transcoding would be any different. 😂
I'm definitely gonna have to wait until next winter. It's foolishness to be running the GPU that hard when it's 100⁰F+ outside!
[the crew is being told their sweded movies have to be destroyed] Mr. Rooney: The FBI Warning is at the beginning of the tape.
Jerry: But we erased that!
--Be Kind, Rewind
🎵It grows in buuuunches!🎵
Right?? No, there ideally shouldn't be gouts of flame spewing from the enclosed top of a grill like that. 😆 That optical illusion is near perfect lol.
But there's a ton that's just a bit unsettling about this picture. Like the super bloodshot wide eyes for instance. For some reason "and also the smoker's on fire" seems mundane.
The light hitting the tree trunk had me thinking the smoker was just casually on fire behind him lmao.
Lol sure, resilience and grit are great markers of success!...Provided you can afford enough resilience and grit until you succeed! Lol
After a long time waiting, OBS seems to work with Wayland now. I use that to stream via Discord. Maybe worth a try?
Here's a fun one. The entire city is just being treated as one big pump-and-dump stonk for predatory real estate investors at this point anyway.
https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/2024/may/30/las-vegas-spaceport-seeks-to-build-space-economy/