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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 04:53:41 JST 
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@sickburnbro
step 1. cut the jet into very tiny pieces
step 2. seal each piece to continue to displace 'internal' space
step 3. dunk each piece in a small tank
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 04:37:55 JST
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@get @Xenophon @PNS
Canadian (existential dread): I'm a Canadian, which means not an American.
Canadian (smug): I have Indians. Lots of Indians. Americans don't have Indians. Having Indians makes me Canadian.
Americans (sad): there's no point in applying to FAANG, it's all Indians now. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 04:03:39 JST
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@get I drink drink coffee for most of my life, and then I drank nothing but energy drinks for a long while, so it's not like I need coffee. But I'm going to have coffee I want to get the coffee that I clearly intended to order. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 03:54:54 JST
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>search for WHOLE BEAN COFFEE
>get ground search results
>order without noticing
>receive ground coffee
seething right now -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 03:17:15 JST
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@get what happens in that job is that your body starts to forget how to manage your circulatory system for motion, and when you stand up you nearly faint from the delayed response.
Try a job where you pace around and stare at walls. A guard job in a Metal Gear game. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 05:41:05 JST
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left: slightly weary guy
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 04:26:52 JST
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@pettanko what's really funny is that this nonsense makes people think better of SI units. Yeah, it's not "the unit shall be whatever this thing right here weighs", that would be dumb and primitive. We're an advanced people who can reverse-engineer "however much this thing right here weighs" and build a bunch of arbitrary math that turns some universal constants into that number. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 04:26:51 JST
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@pettanko of course. You couldn't come up with the math without a reference target for the math. The problem the math is solving is "what if the sun blinks and destroys our entire civilization and we lose the reference weight?" and it's not actually a solution for that because the math will also be lost. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 03:53:27 JST
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@lain is this a suggestive pickup line, a request for investment advice wrt. Canadian or US National Park lumber, or a thought that you had while reading Pentti Linkola's "Can Live Prevail?" during his griping about the corruption in the Finnish limber industry? -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 13:32:10 JST
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@nyanide @kakafarm I want tempered glass that doesn't shatter. East Germany created it and the patent's expired so anyone can do it now. That glass still breaks is a cynical decision pushed by companies that have since moved to man-made horrors with plastic. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:15:34 JST
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@teto
>I still can't make sense of it
1. the adults don't want this to happen again
2. the only leverage the adults have is screaming and administrative threats
3. screaming and admin threats work well on you, the victims in this interaction, and not at all on the perpetrator
4. the adults therefore use the only leverage they have against the only relevant agents receptive to it
5. a just outcome is not in their eyes at all. None of them are willing to be immediately exiled for sufficiently and immediately punishing the perpetrator, who is of a higher caste than any of you. All they can hope to achieve is to put you on edge enough that you avoid any more accidental provocations. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 07:41:15 JST
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@AidanTTIerian @egirlyuumimain your position here is the same as Tim Wise's, but even Tim Wise dialed it down a bit to say "MAGA" instead of "MAGAt" for his tweet. You're right, but unless you enjoy Cassandra's role or saying awful stuff like "TRS was right", you should find some other angle to attack, like
1. the tariffs are being implemented ineptly by ChatGPT-using retards with insane numbers
2. the tariffs are not actually "reciprocal" but are connected to country-to-country trade deficits which is fucking dumb (you have a permanent trade deficit with any store you shop at that isn't a pawn shop)
3. the chaos and lies and inconsistent messaging makes it impossible for businesses to plan around this and is killing the market independently of the tariffs themselves
4. the tariffs aren't targeted at all, but are LAZY and STUPID, and have the immediate effect of killing American production because the inputs to production are also tariffed. With Americans unable to produce anything to sell to other countries, the only way to bring these trade-deficit tariffs down is simply for Americans to cease to buy from other countries. But Americans will also have very little that can be produced to sell to Americans
5. tariffs aren't something that other countries pay at all. It's a tax on imports paid by Americans. That the tax burden can be shifted, that the buyer does not necessarily pay +tariff% for each product, that tariffs can benefit domestic production, is all stuff that you can't say about LAZY and STUPID tariffs which are all that we're being given here. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 04:57:23 JST
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@sun look around for smaller cities with a lot of bike paths, check those out on satellite view, shop for a nice place within walking distance. I've lived in cities for years and years and hated it because I lived in a bad area, and I've lived in overall worse cities that I enjoyed more because at any time I could walk out the door and start skating/biking/walking through nature, over bridges, along waterways, dodging group bike riders, dodging women walking a large dog. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 04:39:25 JST
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>rivers of blood
blackpill for you:
>once Rome no longer had the strength to enforce the Roman peace or Roman law, that didn't mean it no longer had the strength to create Roman disorder. The strategic policy of the Eastern Roman empire along frontiers it could no longer govern was to make them ungovernable so no one could. Once [Washington DC] can longer be the city on a golden hill, it will not fade quietly but instead seek to be king of the dung heap.
>Once you move from a win-win game to a lose-lose game, the strategy becomes to make sure that others lose more in relative terms than yourself.
imagine getting, instead of a total collapse where the armed American obviously instantly wins, a near-total collapse where the government only functions well enough to punish anyone trying to restore order. Nothing but those guys in Georgia getting long prison sentences for getting attacked by a "jogger". -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 01:31:32 JST
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@PurpCat
>convince your 90-year-old grandma to use Linux to check her email
1. install brave browser
2. "hey grandma here's your browser-in-a-box. This one has unusually good antivirus." -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 00:39:35 JST
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@professionalbigot69 it's trivially exploitable, but also very obviously exploitable, and locking email down would actually fix the problem in a way that doesn't require more intelligent users. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:39:25 JST
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@sun @hfaust @kakafarm science fiction novels? I bet there's a lot of the ouroboros problem there, also seen in gaming: the early works are based on worldly experience (in practicing science, in military service) and then later works are based on SF experience (in reading Asimov, in reading Heinlein).
This was in in AngryJoe's criticism of the Minecraft movie: the writers had clearly prepared a list of "children's movie plot points" and those plot points too deliberately. Checking all the boxes but not having a vision of its own. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:32:29 JST
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@sun @hfaust @kakafarm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers'_room
>The "proliferation" of mini-rooms in the 2020s, partly as a cost-cutting measure by producers, was one of the major issues in the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.[7] Historically, television seasons had so many episodes that writers' rooms worked on the later episodes while filming began on the first few episodes. Thus, writers had plenty of writing work to keep them busy, and were also able to provide extensive feedback on the production of early episodes and interact with cast and crew on set.[6][7] This traditional arrangement allowed them to gain valuable experience on the production side so they could then pitch their own shows and become showrunners someday.[6][7] The shift to shorter seasons for streaming series meant that mini-rooms would churn out an entire season of scripts first, then only the showrunner and one writer would remain with the series throughout principal photography to revise those scripts further as needed.[6][7] This shift meant less work and less money for writers, along with less opportunities to graduate to showrunner.[6][7]
glad that my Dick Van Dyke knowledge matched up somewhat with reality, even if the only highlighted issues are very recent. You had huge writing rooms, which then probably gained many collaborative impairments from social issues, then got cut down to skeleton crews that let studios milk the experienced writers without ever raising new writers to replace them. I've seen this same thing in IT, where there was a gradual collapse in institutional knowledge. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:21:25 JST
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@sun @hfaust @kakafarm my feeling is that writers have gotten destroyed somehow as a profession - that the entire industry stopped regard writing as a serious activity that needed resources or attention, and decades ago switched to the biological equivalent of ChatGPTing it.
>Lucas writes the prequel script in a weekend
>Disney lets different directors write the script, and picks a guy whose only writing technique is mystery boxes who then just rehashes the original trilogy
>scripts don't survive editing and reshoots and studio control in any case -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:21:24 JST
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@sun @hfaust @kakafarm as for why, maybe digital editing got too easy to make the reshoot meta possible. Maybe digital production improved so fast that Hollywood's still very impressed by CGI and thinks this makes other elements of movies less important. Maybe fads like mystery boxes and cinematic universes were too successful despite cheating at the writing. Maybe a series of writer's strikes made it riskier to rely much on writers. The details I think you'd need a good historian to describe with insider reports, but the result I think is clear enough: the writing is always impressively bad.
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