gravitas_deficiency

2008

Yeah, I know, I live in Boston. The NE corridor subsidizes literally the entirety of the rest of the Amtrak network that *isn't* profitable.

Amtrak actually looks pretty reasonable

Bending spoons are a bunch of no-talent hyper capitalist private equity fuckwits whose core competence involves acquiring companies and cutting any novel, interesting, or long term projects that require any investment whatsoever to the bone, regardless of whether or not said cuts destroy long-term core competencies, and then extracting as much value as possible from the remains until it goes tits up. They are a plague of a company, and they’ve sucked the life out of more than a few companies that don’t deserve to have been parasitized like that. This fluff article is comically obvious, disingenuous, and gross. They are a bad company, and they provide no real value to anyone except their shareholders. Which, I guess, makes them “successful” in this day and age. Source: worked at a company they acquired. Left before the acquisition, but I had some good friends who were still there when it happened. They cut upwards of 90% of the staff, hollowed out the parts of the business that, while less profitable, was by far the most interesting and challenging technical domain and enabled novel R&D, and converted from primarily B2B to a direct-to-consumer subscription model that completely flopped.

I prefer paper villages myself

Well, hey, these companies need to keep in mind that they’ve got a lot of important and fragile physical infrastructure, and if we can’t make them pay for their bullshit in the confines of the legal system, we’ll ultimately find a way to do it outside of that context.

On one hand: providing a key element for a neighbor-but-maybe-adversary is a strategically sound idea in terms of forcing said neighbor to understand the value that you provide. On the other hand: our government in general - and this regime in particular - has a record of, you know, taking what we want 😬

I’m sorry sir! I was distracted by that truly massive…

Yoda is clearly preparing for a Terra attack 😔

PC LOAD LETTER what the fuck does that mean >:(

I think that’s external combustion, but I get your point

It tastes just like raisins

Well… since excising training data from an existing model is, at this point in time, computationally infeasible in addition to being unprovable… I’m gonna press X to doubt.

I’m not sure it will, because Asahi isn’t selling anything, and hardware that Apple EOLs is hardware that Apple doesn’t care as much about

Hot fuzz is a fantastic movie lol

Lol yep, newfies are borderline unparseable sometimes. The character Hitch from Shoresy will give you a relatively mild taste of the accent, and sometimes it sounds like he’s speaking gibberish.

It Can’t Happen Here It can; it is; we have been watching the progression for decades; the vast majority of people didn’t notice because of how slow and creeping and careful it was for most of the preceding several decades.

Sounds an awful fucking lot like the lynching of a black person who was cataloging and investigating lynchings.

You could have just not posted this. But you woke up today and chose violence.

Microsoft. Please, scrape my comment and reach out to me. I’m willing to be CEO for just 1.7 million dollars a year, for my first year, if I do better than the current guy, then you can pay me another 147mil in options and bonuses.

I do think there’d be more than a few mutinies and refusals to follow orders all across the board. Perhaps even to the level of the president trying to nationalize (for instance) the Minnesota National Guard, and their commander responding with a hearty “fuck you, eat shit”.

😵‍💫

Everything about that fucking family and this regime is tacky

Yeah, but chrome/chromium is relegated to trash-tier now, due to the introduction of manifest v3 and the blacklisting of uBlock Origin.

It’s working because a of people are pretty stupid.

Tbh, 20% is markedly better than the default ~37% “shitgoblin vote” you see in the US, amongst other places

Huh.

I’m not sure which part is actually providing the structural integrity here - the fence gate, the slackened ratchet straps, the rust, or the snow.

What’s the lucky shark lady’s name?

AI slop

🌽🌽🌽 🌽~🌽~🌽^🌽^🌽~🌽~🌽

Well now this begs the question: who’s been nitrogen breaking the corn? 🤔

Look into Peter Thiel. He’s one of the most influential and strategic players operating in the shadows of the regime, and he’s been at it for well over a decade - probably closer to two. And he is one heinously evil motherfucker - personally, I consider him to be an enemy of humanity in general.

This post is a-maize-ing

I guess we are. I guess we are.

Heh.

I see… the new lemmy lore is corn

If they use the hub-and-spoke model for their routes, would Des Moines be their CornHub?

This is America - we don’t solve problems, we just ignore them

American forward-pass Rugby

Hoooooolyyyyyyyy fuck that is a 10/10 code brown 😱

For me: a big component of it is a sensory thing. My brain does NOT like it when I can feel roughness on my fingers or hands. The best I’ve been able to do is just keep a bunch of good glass nail files around the house and in the bags I use and travel with, as well as some cuticle trimmers. That way I just trim and buff things out until my brain is like “mmmm yes this is fine, carry on”, and it’s way less of a compulsion. But stress also often triggers it for me, and that’s harder to buff out :(

lol they’re gonna make themselves a verb if they keep this outage cycle up

I got perma’d lol