SteveAgain
3hr ago
I actually tried that with chatgpt last night, and it did a decent job of working me through all the stuff I'd already wasted hours figuring out. Didn't solve the chromium issue, but at least went faster than using Google.
I use Linux and fucking hate it. There's no clear instructions on how to do anything. I have hardware encoding and decoding working perfectly... Except in any chromium-based browser, and no amount of troubleshooting has gotten me any closer to figuring it out.
It's not even clear to me how to go about finding out how to find things out with Linux. Programs end up in random folders that can only be accessed through the terminal, unless it manages to make it into the macOS ripoff start menu which there's no button to add stuff to manually
And oh god the audio drivers. Most of my restarts are to fix audio glitches or (yesterday) videos just refusing to play after any Bluetooth device had been connected.
My fellow forklift-american, have you ever written up details of your bulking diet? I've just been eating the same meat, starch, brassica meal in some combination for the last 20 years. Tuna salad for lunch, granola and yogurt for breakfast.
Could use some shaking up and probably a lot of optimization
SteveAgain
15hr ago
How the fuck did turok of all people get filtered
SteveAgain
16hr ago
On the plus side container export to China is incredibly cheap. Shanghai to LA is like $4000, the reverse is $700. If you guys have the port capacity, there's a huge market out west in the far east.
Not sure about bulk rates tbh, and a lot of Canadian exports are bulk iirc.
SteveAgain
20hr ago
Blue, sure, but if UwUers get to call themselves normies now I'm quitting life IRL
SteveAgain
20hr ago
And I'm a little sick and tired of certain people ignoring the last four years of blatant looting, forgiving or just denying leftist violence and tribalism as you did in that linked post, and then smugly acting as if they're principled and above it all rather than active partisans.
Yglesias, as long as you follow closely enough to catch all his "haha I was actually lying to you about that the whole time, aren't I clever" admissions. He embodies the zeitgeist better than anyone.
The Economist used to be ok, although it's gone downhill. (And wow they've even paywalled the front page, that's crazy. Never mind)
Can't recommend podcasts because I'd rather read with focus for five minutes than absent-mindedly listen to someone's propaganda for five hours. That seems absurdly dangerous for your mental hygiene imo.
SteveAgain
21hr ago
you taught her how to hate, but she taught you how to love
I'm dying lol
SteveAgain
1d ago
You been playing soma recently?
SteveAgain
1d ago
I thought it was fairly well established that he was originally given a sweetheart deal retiring to the Virgin Islands because he did have a network of backups. And over the next few years the people he was relying on as his dead-mans-switches were either turned or otherwise taken out of the picture.
SteveAgain
1d ago
Happens a loooot with patrons who don't keep enough leverage over a pawn they underestimated (or who got new patrons). And sometimes even what you thought was solid gold leverage disintegrates mysteriously when enough powerful people feel threatened by it, as Mr Epstein found out.
Yeah, I did the napkin math once, and it's mostly sex. Between women living longer, working fewer years, and inheriting their husbands' payments, they get a much better deal, even at the same yearly salary.
Race does make a bit of difference too, but not always in-line with actual life expectancy (technically a guy who died of a stress heart attack at 64 got a worse deal on SS than a guy who got shot at 19, because he paid in for 45 more years and still got nothing). It's the groups who regularly make their 90s that really get the best deal, which is rather unfair.
SteveAgain
1d ago
I'm just going to keep using 10 for whatever hobby stuff I need it for (mostly Photoshop tbh). I've never once had a security issue with any PC, despite always delaying and often turning off updates.
How many security threats are there for your own home system? Most of the issues I see patched are things where software already running on your PC can bypass permissions to do things it shouldn't. How many threats are there where attackers can sneak through your modem and install a keylogger whenever the PC was turned on?
SteveAgain
2d ago
I guarantee the kiwis have the whole thing recorded and analyzed in grotesque detail, although maybe not quite what you'd call fair and unbiased.
SteveAgain
2d ago
I'll pm it to you.
We already had the discussion on reddit about how your institution was using diversity statements to filter out 80% of applicants solely by the DEI office, before the actual hiring committee even got to see their resumes.
You can pretend to have been secretly against this now, but you can't pretend to be ignorant of it because we told you.
I know you were up around Maine or NH at one point, right? I remember the leopardsatemyface post about the cod fisherman. But I thought you were from Canada originally or something, my bad.
You're buying into it being lazily-indiscriminate, but the case in the OP was literally about "we will use this federal money to exclude white boys from internships for the crime of other white men being a lot of scientists."
That's not indiscriminate, that's a precision guided bomb lobbed through a window at the enemy general smoking a cigar.
All they have to do to stop it is stop trying to kick white boys out of the science career pipeline, but they won't ever stop because for some reason it's the most important thing in the world.
The specific issue was actually feminist glaciology, but you are being deliberately obtuse by pretending to not know what he means.
"I cannot fail by now to recognize the tactic of wholly emptying out one's head when put on the defensive" really stuck with me because of how often you see it.
"I don't remember, I've never seen that, I don't know what you could possibly be talking about, why do you keep causing Culture War by bringing up examples?"
SteveAgain
3d ago
Just resubmit it without the "no white boys allowed in our science club" line. That's literally it. That's what people find objectionable. I don't know how else to possibly say this.
SteveAgain
3d ago
The space station that I always called a boondoggle ended up funding SpaceX, and it's made me reconsider a lot of beliefs about wasteful spending... Maybe there really is a positive multiplier to a lot of this stuff, if you commit to setting enough money on fire for long enough.
I'm going to be equally honest here and say please, do not move to the US. I've known you for years, and in all that time on reddit you were fine with the cultural revolution, sometimes actively prosecuting it yourself.
SteveAgain
3d ago
It won't be in Ukraine, but I'm going to die in one of those drone stuff videos
Is tuna officially off the list for some reason?
I basically don't eat beans except the occasional lentil dish. Or fruit aside from raisins, most of the year (fairly short growing season for it here). Most of it seemed to just be sugar?
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