It goes into your subconscious.

Oh, that’s an idea. Unfortunately my work has no union. Tech is full of rugged individuals.

I used some AI at work to do some stuff in polars, because I don’t really know that library very well.

As a result I have a function that does what I asked for (I wrote tests), but I don’t understand it and didn’t really learn anything. Not a great trade.

I broke a player’s brain in college playing DND where an NPC just lied to her.

She’d asked where so-and-so was. NPC didn’t like her or her faction, so he just lied and said he’d taken up boxing. This isn’t an especially credible lie because so-and-so was a lightweight nerd. But she says okay and goes tearing up the local boxing clubs, and can’t find the guy.

She’s like “where is he?”

Me: “you don’t see him, and no one’s even heard of him.”

Her: “but the guy said he was here”

Me: “he did”

Her: “so where is he”

Me: “doesn’t look like he’s here”

Her: “but he said he was”

Me: “he did say that”

Her: “so why isn’t he here?”

This went on for a while until one of the other players got impatient and said “the guy who doesn’t like you maybe lied to you! Or was wrong! Can we move on please??”

Is it better to skip work entirely or go and just goof off? Probably the former?

Do you think the people that send junk like “hi” or “quick chat?” get annoyed when they’re the recipient? Or they just think it’s normal?

I feel like this topic somehow aligns with the form of a 2017 Twitter screenshot posted on tiktok posted on Lemmy.

At one of the bigger groceries I’ve been to, the wheels would lock up if you got too far from the store. Well, we’d parked outside that range so the wheels locked up and I had to awkwardly drag the full cart to the car.

Being a good person, I went to drag it back to the return spot. The wheels did not unlock. Dragged it all the way back anyway.

But given this, I can see why someone might just abandon their cart if the wheels are locked.

know your rights! All three of them!

You have the right not to be killed

Murder is a crime!

Unless it was done by a police man…

The clash from 1982 still timely

…what? Go do something else instead of watching YouTube-style content then. Read a book. Take up knitting. Do crosswords.

You can live a full life without Internet videos.

I had a guy do this once when I was struggling to get my laundry bag into my cart. He just used his free hand to steady the cart for me, but didn’t stop his phone call.

I wonder if McCain is dishonest, stupid, or both. I think both, but stupid is the dominant mechanism here. I think she’s too idiotic to grasp that all things have a political context and subtext, even when it’s not an explicit “vote for XYZ”. But maybe she gets that and is just being dishonest for clout.

Either way I hope she goes away and never impacts the world again.

I was hoping step 2 was going to be “and then they don’t leave”, but your plan is pretty good too.

Turning off almost all notifications, running adblock , and ditching social media (except Lemmy, if that counts) , seems to really limit the damage.

I am a few steps removed from his social circle. I’ve never met him, but a few friends of mine have. They all have said he’s a sincerely good person.

Now, that’s just a second hand story from the Internet, but for my part that’s helping me be optimistic about him.

I’ve read that conservatives model the world as “strict rules that have exceptions made on a case by case basis”. That maybe works if you’re in a small village. Smarter people realize that doesn’t scale and you should write better rules in the first place.

Installed Pop!_os maybe a year ago. It’s been fine.

I couldn’t quite figure out how to make the bg3 mod tools play nice. There’s probably some proton prefix stuff I’d have to do and I gave up before getting too deep.

I bet the next time I want to play a game with mods it’s going to be a bit of a headache.

Other than that, it’s fine. I ran mint for about a year before this, with an interlude of windows 11 that came with the desktop.

Oh man kids and making shit up.

There was a kid who told me he had all these new mortal Kombat games. Just complete fabrications.

I told another kid that if you got all the chaos emeralds in sonic 3 (I’m old) you could turn into super sonic. Imagine my shock when that turned out to be true.

A couple weeks ago I was working with another developer, and we realized we had to change a string’s format slightly. He was like “I’ll do it in chatgpt!”. I just did it in python. Mine worked. His, we would’ve had to check carefully.

Justin Humphrey should be removed from office.