Notices by vic (vic@shitpost.cloud)

It still amazes me how many people, even around here, come out of the proverbial woodwork to call you crazy when you point out all the very strange "coincidences" about that particular rally.

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they are attempting to rot brains which are already rotted from the start

No no, pentagrams are still bad. Those are evil and occult. It's hexagrams that are the wholesome symbol of God and our greatest ally.

Remember: five points wicked and satanic, six points GIVE ALL YOUR MONEY AND DO WHAT THEY SAY

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I 3D print my own 2D printer to avoid the tracking. But how do I deal with the 3D-printed 2D printer being trackable? Well, I already solved that by 4D printing the 3D printer.

I don't even like the idea of unions, they shouldn't be necessary and they often lead to lazy workers. Companies should just pay their workers well and treat them decently, and workers should work reasonably hard in return.

But of course all of this is a symptom of a much greater problem, which is that money has become more important than community in today's work world. It's always been that way to some extent, but bringing in interchangeable foreign workers (who work for less and don't complain, but you get what you pay for) has compounded the issue. There's very little trust and loyalty between workers and management in most places these days.

too bad software devs never unionized, but even then, today's union leaders in every industry are a bunch of faggots who are more on the side of the company leadership than the workers

that's how all these startups work, they give you good pay and make you think you'll be there indefinitely but then they burn you out with insane demands, and if you still stay anyway then they just fire you for not being good enough, so they can bring in some other loser and work him 80 hours/week until he burns out too

as it ever was

"would you kindly"

It disappoints me that the whole world is apparently wowed by increasing complexity and stacking higher and higher upon a shaky tech foundation to begin with, but such is industry.

Terry was right.

An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity, a physicist tries to make it simple, for an idiot anything the more complicated it is the more he will admire it, if you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it he's gonna think you're a god cause you made it so complicated nobody can understand it. That's how they write journals in Academics, they try to make it so complicated people think you're a genius.

Make a very simple processor with well-defined instruction set to control critical infrastructure? Nah, slap Windows Server Goyslop Edition with ChatGPT on it, look, I can tell it to run diagnostics for me and it works 80% of the time, that's so cool right??

oh noooo your electrical grid was hacked by AI oh gosh oh heck that sucks but it's kinda cool right haha

sure hope "AI" doesn't "hack" your bank infrastructure next haha

I think a lot of people fantasized about AI for the past six or seven decades without really considering the implications of it actually succeeding. Well, we're finding out now.

People losing their sense of purpose.

"Why read a book, AI can just summarize it."

"Any job I could do, AI can do better and cheaper."

"AI even writes and makes art better than I could."

Nothing being trustworthy.

"I don't know if that news is real or not, it's impossible to tell now. I don't even know if a human was involved in making the video or article."

"Was that line always in that TV show? I don't remember it being there. It seems out of place."

"I got a call from my brother, and it was his voice, but something seemed off. He sounded normal but he wanted me to send money somewhere."

And complete, total domination of humanity.

"The algorithms know more about me than I do."

"Even if I wanted to fight for freedom, they would know and stop me before I even tried."

"Every system--political, financial, law enforcement--has access to AI analysis of me and uses it against me."

you have the absolute most naive view of the world

that's like saying "the government isn't corrupt, they have an ethics office"

I'm pretty sure OF is a money laundering front

bitcoin bros: "our currency is so great because it frees us from the US and their evil dollar"

also bitcoin bros: "our currency is super legitimate because the US government is endorsing and stockpiling it and it can be traded on the NYSE!!"

Flexing oldfart skills like “filesystem navigation” (what even is that??) as if it’s some kind of badge of honor. Meanwhile, real gen Z chads are busy creating, innovating, and running a world you’re too slow to keep up with. Stick to your relic tech and let us handle the future.

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every time some new super duper secure chat comes out, we find out it was actually the CIA the whole time

100 million people?? I guess that's spread across all these countries but that is still an insanely high number of people going on payment plans for everyday stuff

I think it's because people don't actually want painless execution, they want it to hurt the criminal for 1) a sense of revenge and 2) deterrence of other would-be criminals. However, it doesn't work for 2) since executions aren't broadcasted/livestreamed.

Really we need two classes of execution: private and painless or very public, painful, and drawn-out.

I thought nitrogen was supposed to not be painful and you don't even notice it