swlabr

joined 2 years ago
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ofc! Death to Chronos >:(

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago

I believe in you!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I’ve been taking a long break from reading anything here. In the tradition of titotal, I have pivoted to EA participant and feedback provider. In this case, my EA is the Hades II Early Access, which is great, by the way.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Before clicking in, I was convinced that “RightMove” was some new treacles aligned community and was trying to make sense of the name

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

I think it’s hard to grow up in our society, without harboring a kernel of fascism in our hearts

Absolutely, and this is unfortunately a deep and far reaching thing that requires tons of unlearning. That’s why I will never let my kids watch paw patrol

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago

I used to work at Big Tech Co where I was told that they designed their promotion policy to avoid the Peter principle, which is why I, an engineer, would not be promoted without going outside of my responsibilities to build up my promo packet.

Later, when I was fired, I thought about how my manager was probably going to be given kudos for firing me. I had been contending with undiagnosed ADHD, and when I told my manager that I had been diagnosed and that they should accommodate my needs, I was told that I needed to be more flexible, i.e. act like a “normal”/neurotypical person. So to the company, this manager was doing a good job, since I was now a drain on resources. But clearly this manager was a failure for not learning how to manage someone with ADHD. Peter principle fulfilled!

I had heard that managers fucking suck, but experiencing it IRL was a different story. So everything ed writes here aligns with the patterns I have experienced. Managers ain’t shit.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Embed AI into physics? OK now you’ve completely lost me.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

Ugh, at least some scams are novel or entertaining.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

I initially deleted this because these ideas aren’t really that fascist, so I was gonna take a second pass. Then I remembered that thinking of fascist ideas makes me feel awful so here we are.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mean yes this is all very off the rails fascist but I can do better.

  • bribe the government for nuclear bombs and detonate them in volcanoes to trigger The Big One and separate the bay area from america
  • Install high powered laser to roof of salesforce that sweeps the bay
  • clone elon musk

I have plenty more where that came from. Money please, m4s a8n

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

Well it’s one thing to see someone tie red strings on a corkboard to try explain gases, and it’s another to see people in the comments buy into the idea. But then again, we are in the presence of acausal roboticists

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