LanyrdSkynrd

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[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There were people going crazy for this in that unveiling clip I saw posted here. One dude yelled, "Fuck yeah" and another was going, "What is that?!?", like he was personally meeting Jesus. Made me sick.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

As much as I'd like to see big tech die, and bazinga billionaires to lose money, I'm afraid of what a market crash would do to regular people. Lots of pension funds and retirement savings are tied up in the stock market.

The very rich always find a way to come out of market turmoil with a larger share of the wealth, even if the total wealth is smaller. That'll be another opportunity to do layoffs to "discipline the labor market" and jack up prices, and the working class will once again pay the price for the hubris of the rich.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I think the broader tech market can escape the AI crash if it abandons or significantly scales back on its investments in this garbage. If they continue on the road they're on, I can see a tech stock crash on par with the dotcom bubble popping in the early 2000s.

If the tech stocks crash like they did back then, it will cause a lot more damage to the whole economy, though. Tech companies are seen as a whole lot less speculative than they were back then, a lot more "safe" investment money is tied up in companies like Amazon and Google.

Unfortunately, I think these companies are pretty incompetent and desperate to get back that exponential growth. I think it's more likely than not that they'll try to ride AI off the cliff.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

Insurance as a private industry is so stupid. They extract profits to protect people from catastrophic losses, but then when something catastrophic happens, the government has to step in to save the industry. We've seen it with the risk pools that states have had to create to keep health insurers from pulling out of rural areas, with last resort programs for home insurance and flood insurance, the AIG bailout, and the built in bailouts of Obamacare.

Why do they get to collect the profits if they don't cover the risks?

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's kind weird to have a 2 gang receptacle just for a coax cable, isn't it? It's not like an electrical box where you might need space for wiring. I'm not surprised they don't stock that on the truck. I guess they should have some of those build kits, though.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I saw an article about how rich people build museums attached to their homes. They get a tax deduction from the building costs, and don't have to pay property taxes on that part. They use them for private parties, weddings, etc.

They're supposed to be open to the public, but of course nobody from the government checks into that. The reporter wasn't able to get into any of them.

I'm assuming that's what the "philanthropy wing" is about.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe try something low in fiber, like white rice and veggies? Sautee some lower fiber veggies, like romaine lettuce, asparagus,mushrooms, green beans, or spinach. Make a sauce with soy sauce, maple syrup, garlic and ginger, thicken with cornstarch.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

This removes Copilot and telemetry, I don't remember if it has the option to remove onedrive, though.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I think it's significant that pizzagate(and then Qanon) suddenly appeared once the connections between Trump and Epstein became clear. Trump went from being associated with Epstein because he's a sex criminal to being a white hat pedophile who was only friends with Epstein to take down the deep state.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

I had to stop watching those channels, they go way overboard with it. They also do a terrible job of censoring the words in a way that still makes it understandable. They only need to mute the audio for a tiny part of the words to make it past the demonetization filter, but those channels cut the entire word with the video. It's makes it incomprehensible.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dumping some personal mental health thoughts, CW: depression

spoilerI'm feeling mentally unwell all of the sudden.

My last depression was the worst of my life and when it started getting better I constantly worried about slipping back into it. Anything that reminded me of that time made me feel like I was being dragged back to the depths of hell, but over time I felt it less. I just stuck to my routines and tried not to jinx my good fortune. I felt like those baseball players who won't change their socks because they're on a hot streak. It's been a couple years since then.

The last week I've been having random anxiety not seemingly connected to anything going on in my life, just being amped up. I've also been easily angered and feeling more awkward in my social interactions than normal. Today I woke up very tired even though I slept 8 hours. I'm feeling a lot of the physical symptoms I get when I'm depressed.

I'm just going to keep doing the stuff that got me out of the last depression and not worry too much about it.

It did seem to help to type this out, so I'm going to hit "post", but no response is necessary.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I just realized my label printer intentionally wastes tape. The print head is farther from the exit than it needs to be, so the beginning and end of every label has to have several centimeters of blank space.

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