wizardbeard

I've been coming for a whole mile and I think I need a doctor. And a lot more water.

It's absolutely intentional that tech bros stopped openly using the "move fast and break things" phrase. Sounds more violent and generally objectionable than "disrupt".

Yep. Pump the numbers and try to retroactively justify the absurd spending on it all. Everyone who accidentally opens it is another tick up for the user numbers.

I'm sure they also have some stats based on installs that this will spruce up too.

That could make for a fun little side plot setup. Whole town is convinced it's haunted, but it's just some guy who doesn't have a good grasp on common stuck in a cursed ring of invisibility.

Vomit in the Ball Pit

For anyone sadly stuck on Windows, please, please for fucks sake don't pay full price for a license. Go grab an OEM key from an authorized reseller for like $20.

There's some limitations on how many machines you can use it on simultaneously. That's it. Otherwise it's a full valid license at less than 1/4 of the price.

Even better, just use MASgrave and pay nothing. Yo ho ho.

I want to see someone make a fully articulated one of these with custom software running on it so it writhes along with whatever furby stuff it's doing.

Making toilet custard for fun and profit in tubby prison!

Pretty sure it doesn't do that on lemmy. I definitely have comments with blocked responses (they show up a specific way in Jerboa) from people I blocked ages ago. If I open the thread in a browser where I'm not signed in I can see their response clearly.

So they can still see and reply to my comments, I just don't have to see more than an error message that the comment couldn't be loaded on my end.

Yeah, there's been a lot of these very... saccharin posts here lately going "I'm not a human being with all the complexity that entails, I'm just a wittle bitty babby. I'm just a cutesy wutesy kitten! I poopy in a box and I'm all fuzzily! How could you be mad at me or hold me accountable for anything when I'm a little puppy dog? Look how cute I am when I get all chewy with your shoes! Oopsie woopsy, I tore the couch to shreds, but you can't be upset for it when I'm just a puppy!"

I can understand it if it's a sex or a fetish thing. I can understand it if it's a furry "this is how I self identify" or an alter ego sort of thing (I'm admittedly not very well versed in the whole furry culture stuff, apologies if I worded that poorly).

I can also understand the desire for escapism from the crushing weight of all of life's troubles, which I think these are ultimately an expression of, mixed with wanting someone to treat you in the sort of sweet and loving way people should treat pets. "I just want someone to take care of me and all this life stuff for me so I can just... be. I want people to have patience with me when I mess up because I'm doing my best. I want someone to love me for just existing."

But pretending to be a cutesy little pet isn't going to help lessen the weight of the world, it'll all still be there just getting heavier until you decide to start being a fully fledged person trying to deal with it again.

It's also potentially degrading to people not in on this whole "cutesy pet" schtick who are struggling their way through life's problems. See the comment I replied to. I don't think that's an unreasonable response from someone actively struggling through shit.

Ultimately I can't believe this "kittyboy/puppygirl" stuff is a healthy coping mechanism for life's problems. Temporary escapism, maybe, but that's not healthy if that's all you're doing.

Anyway, that's my great big entirely unasked for opinion.

Man, every time someone goes "I want to keep my news separate from my social media feed" you folks jump at the chance to be self righteous.

If Lemmy (or any social media) is your main source of news, or the sole way you keep up with politics, that's a problem.

If you think that constant exposure to an inconsistent firehose of news even more effected by personal biases than normal is some sort of virtue, then you don't have much media literacy, or any awareness of the many studies that show just how much this shit has negative effects on worldview and emotional state. Before you start in on "but the world is shit", more than one of these studies specifically tracked differences between what people thought crime rates were vs what they actually were, based off news exposure. The result was that all the people in the study exposed to news media thought things were a significant order of magnitude worse than the real statistics.

It's not a sin to curate your own exposure to the news media apparatus, or to control your exposure so it happens on your own terms. It is literally all designed to provoke strong emotional reactions in order to increase page views and therefore ad impressions.

Avoiding news entirely is a problem too, but this constant attacking of anyone who dares to publicly talk about curating their news media diet, and especially trying to lay the blame for current mess in the USA on them, is some bullshit of the highest fucking degree.

Nanotrasen thanks you for your brave sacrifice in contribution to robotics research and construction of a new Bio-Utility Techno-Tool on Space Station 13.