I used to work the IT help desk as well and I didn’t want to fix broken shit in my spare time either. Friends and family were constantly on me to fix their shit or worse, help them setup their new thing / upgrade or whatever. The thing that always irritated me about it was that no one ever considered this a favor, you know, actual labor. To them, I just knew the secrets, and should simply share those secrets with them like a good friend. Because whatever they wanted to do, in their minds, was very very bad easy, they were just missing some small secret answer that would make it all suddenly work. And of course they’d only consult me late in the game after they’d made the purchase or whatever and gotten stuck because it didn’t work. Eventually I had to formally declare that I wouldn’t be helping anyone anymore.

Infowars.com has a big banner up proclaiming: “The Onion Lies To Internet Again, Falsely Claims Control Over Infowars”

I’ll join in the fist-pumping when that’s gone.

I’m a little confused by the opening paragraphs. So the advent of computers was hailed as a great productivity booster, but in the beginning, productivity actually went down.

Is the article seriously contending that computers have not improved productivity? So there were grandiose expectations of huge boosts that would arrive immediately - so what? That’s naive and dumb.

But in the long run, computers found their applications and people figured out how to put them to productive use. The world is unrecognizable today as a result.

So what’s the implication for AI? Thousands of CEOs admit that their hamfisted shoe-horning of AI into the workplace has done nothing? Big surprise. Are we just in the awkward adjustment phase, though?

You know they have impeached him twice already, right?

I forget: is it Fortune or Forbes that started putting out gaming guides a while back?

Why make it complicated? Just hit them with a “we hate you” tax.

If we should be nuked from space for anything, it’s Trump’s insanity, not calling it out. Yesterday people complained that Democrats don’t even put up any opposition. Now we’re complaining when they begin the process of removing him from office. 🤷‍♂️

Name this movie:

John Lithgow: “okay this is just a practice, nobody do ANYTHING. 3 - 2 - 1 - cut.”

Maybe you don’t lose an inch of penis length, but perhaps you do lose an inch of skin.

But I agree this is stupid because 99.99% of people are going to think “penis length.”

This is perhaps the dumbest circumcision awareness sign I’ve seen. And I support the cause.

MAGAts don’t deserve a place in society.

I agree with this sentiment. It really drives home what the word “rights” means: you don‘t have to deserve them to get them.

“You just say bingo.”

I like the light.

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Hah I can believe that.

I’m not technically synaestehtic but I do have strong associations between numbers and colors, days of the week and colors.

Saturday has always been blue. Sunday is red. Number 4 is green, 3 is yellow, etc.

For a time I moved to an Islamic country where Friday is the holy day, not Sunday. So the weekends were Thursday-Friday and not Saturday-Sunday.

What was weird is that my red/blue associations with Saturday/Sunday shifted onto Thursday/Friday after a long time of living like this. And then I left that place and my associations shifted back.

The “nineness” of a thing, as you say, is hard to describe.

No I don’t work in finance. I consider myself pretty low on financial literacy to be honest. But that may help with writing explainers. I find that advanced people very often make poor explainers because they don’t realize when they are using jargon or high level concepts that their audience doesn’t have the foundation to understand.

And no I didn’t use AI.

I grew up with a Betamax tape player under the family TV. It had a 24 hour clock and it was the timepiece in the house that was in the right spot to tell us all that it was bedtime. As a result I have an intuitive feel for the 24 hour clock. But if you haven’t used it regularly, which most ordinary Americans don’t, then yeah you just have to stop and do the arithmetic before you can connect 21:00 to your sense of time.

He did say it always fucks him up :D

The US has worked steadily to make Iranian nukes absolutely inevitable.

Wouldn’t the treasury yield rate be the more precise answer to their question than the federal prime lending rate?

I’m really asking. I’m not that educated on this stuff.