VitoRobles

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[–] VitoRobles 11 points 19 hours ago

They're monopoly only because all of their competitors fail to capture the audience. You might as well say Water is monopolizing hydration.

[–] VitoRobles 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

AI, how do I take the executive producer of Xbox Studio Publishing's job?

[–] VitoRobles 16 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

As a older millennial, I'm watching America continue to be overtaken in so many areas since 2000s.

There's so many countries doing things better and I can't even explain it to people.

[–] VitoRobles 1 points 21 hours ago

Hey we use Avatar to talk about the wrongs mankind has done to the ecosystem.

I think. Maybe? I have no idea what Avatar is really about beyond being Ferngully with tall blue people. And I watched both movies.

[–] VitoRobles 5 points 21 hours ago

For me, it's like how people played with train sets in the 40s.

You're just watching the system go. You fix some things here and there. There's no reward, besides intrinsic dopamine boosts. And little to no failure. Except from outsiders who mock it.

[–] VitoRobles 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

This is actually a great idea.

Cops ticketing random people? Put on your ICE uniform and watch them wave you by.

Huge line of people at a restaurant? Put on your ICE uniform and watch the line separate.

Gotta take a dump? Put on your ICE uniform and shit on the floor.

[–] VitoRobles 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The hobby one was the one that hit me the most.

I love a specific hobby. I don't like to engage much of the community because my opinions go against the hive kind. I also don't have interest/energy to debate. I also am not that interested in engaging daily. Weekly, sure. Monthly, absolutely. But day after day? I have a life to live.

But Every time I introduce people to it, I have to dial down my excitement. I invest a lot into my hobby and I'm really good at it.

Who controls the Reddit narrative of my hobby? Not people like me.

[–] VitoRobles 6 points 21 hours ago

Pretty sure that is already a Harry Potter character.

[–] VitoRobles 36 points 1 day ago

This has Nathan Fielder energy and it's great

[–] VitoRobles 7 points 1 day ago

I mean sometimes it's better that way. I like watching live comedy, in dingy comedy clubs where there's a strict no phones policy. A lot of the best stories all live in my head.

[–] VitoRobles 46 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I met the neighbors who talked about their trip in Europe, and then proceeded to show me a 2 minute video of fireworks in Paris off their phone.

It wasn't even like a good shot or framing, nor could I tell it was Paris. It was just a random hotel room, and in the background, fireworks.

She then put her phone away and said, "Neat, huh?"

I don't know if it was just peak comedy or if I was being Punk'd or something.

[–] VitoRobles 1 points 2 days ago

I've been spending the past hour before bed just going hard on my writing. I like writing fiction for fun, but I also like spending time writing backstory/world building that I'll never use. So I do that part right before I fall asleep.

Last night, I fell asleep to writing how my alien race uses food utensils. It's pretty boring in general for me, but it helps my brain get to a happy spot for dreams.

 

I work in a 4,000+ person company. Two years ago, the CEO created a dozen new positions underneath him. President. Chief of Marketing. Chief of Design. Chief of Product. Chief of Buildings. Etc.

Some of it was needed. Many were not. My boss, a director level person, would end up in a room with like 15 of these Chiefs-of-X, and hundreds of other directors. There was no heirarchy. You'd have a Chief of Product working with the Chief of Design and Chief of Marketing.

Many of them would just walk around, making demands to push their personal initiative, do 2-3 "update meetings" a day then go fuck around and collect their $500k salary

Late 2024, a lot of us found ourselves in "Office Space"-level BS where we'd have multiple bosses. I was reporting to two directors, and four Chiefs myself. Every week, I would get verbally chewed out by one, and praised by another - all different every time.

Last month, we got a memo that there was going to be some "restructuring" of departments. Then last week, half the Chiefs were quietly demoted to Dept Leads managing a small team, or fired. No other staff was fired except the C-levels.

I don't know what sparked it.

But I won't deny this seems like a path in the right direction.

 
 

Been loving Oblivion Remaster and not sure where to share these.

 

I work downtown. I personally take the bus to work and walk.

While getting feedback from our paid intern's experience, one complained about having to pay for parking.

Because I naturally always support the interns, I pushed for that perk. Why shouldn't they get all the help they need? They're young, they have a busy life and they're trying their best.

But my coworker (who drives) said, "Theres street parking and they are complaining they have to walk 14 minutes over."

Now my internal "Fuck Cars" position is battling with my "Give the Interns everything".

I'm not the deciding factor. Just wanted to share this.

 

John Schwarz, the 57-year-old founder of The People's Union USA, is calling on Americans to boycott Amazon and its companies, including Zappos, Ring, Whole Foods, Twitch and Prime Video, for one week.

 

Summary

Alan Filion, an 18-year-old from California, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for orchestrating 375 swatting incidents between August 2022 and January 2024. Operating under various aliases, Filion charged clients for making false emergency calls that prompted significant police responses. His hoaxes included threats of school shootings and bombings, targeting institutions across the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Despite being questioned by the FBI in July 2023, he continued his activities until his arrest in January 2024, where he pled guilty to multiple charges.

 

A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.

The updates, shown in Github commits, are to a database for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Head Start program. They show a project called “Remove-DEI,” which reveal some of the back-and-forth that is happening behind the scenes to align federal agencies with Donald Trump’s executive orders that forbid almost anything having to do with race or gender within federal agencies. The Github pages show software engineers discussing amongst themselves how to best remove all instances of “forbidden words” from a specific database, and the code updates they used to do it. The changes also show that, while thousands of government datasets are disappearing from the internet, even ones that remain are having parts of their utility deprecated or broken in a way that may not be visible to those outside the government.

 
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