My dramatic account detailed here: https://lemmy.world/comment/13482252

(Incidentally, if you can believe it, I used to use floccinaucinihilipilification unironically when I was a teenager)

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State a single mainstream western political movement in which marriage at 9 is not complete insanity

Nothing to see here guys. All cultures are equal and thinking the West has a better way is colonialism

/s

Even now and then it just catches me how absolutely insane it is how long the planet sustained complex life without any humans whatsoever. We’re an evolutionary accident. A footnote consequence of unlikely circumstance. Were it not for a number of unlikely destructive events this planet might have quite happily continued ad infinitum with only dinosaurs on it. Can you imagine that, if this whole universe had happened and this one random blue marble had dinosaurs on it and not a single minded being anywhere to appreciate the magnificent insanity of it all?

Now that I think about it I’m not sure why they had to accept investor money at all. I wonder if it would have turned out differently if they had remained 100% privately owned?

So, this is what winning at life feels like eh?

I was getting in an MRI machine and had a sudden panic that the aglets on my shoes were metal. I garbled out my concern quickly to the nurse and was surprised to hear myself say “aglet” in a sophisticated manner rather than “the little end things on my laces” like a pleb. Of course, she didn’t actually know what I meant and we all died. Joking. Some people died. This story is half true.

I don’t get it. They were rich beyond most people’s wildest dreams. Why did they jump aboard the enshitification bandwagon?

I’d say the rambling trucker is the shallow end of lib right. The deep end is 400 pages of PhD research on the psychology of consent…

Twitter: looks like the reich guy won!

Me: https://open.spotify.com/track/2RlgNHKcydI9sayD2Df2xp?si=H4xTyfGUTputdg6R4GVAbA

Interesting!

More of this sort of thing! State shouldn’t be involved in the market of choice. But in the market of “no choice” it should absolutely step in and give people basic quality options to help prevent them being gouged.

I think they should do it and print breastfeeding class info on the container if they really want to

“is it fit for purpose?” is a better question because if you don’t know if it’s reliable you have your answer already

eye of sauron frantically watches base of tower give way

Problem with one line of data? Better shutdown the airspace.

Amazing this hadn’t happened before with a strategy like that.

Also, duplicate waypoints are allowed, just not in the same region. But also exit points don’t have to be explicitly indicated and the system will just look for the nearest waypoint in another region.

Sounds like the whole thing was a needlessly hacky messy standard. I’ve dealt with quite a few of them, but to tolerate it in air traffic control? Good grief…

I’m just saying that to point out the job is neither useless nor redundant…

Lots of jobs on bigger projects feel like production lines. And it’s quite easy to feel lost in the process. I feel like that in many IT projects I’ve been in. “Oh I’m just drawing up this spec for the developers to follow, they don’t really need me to do it. Am I redundant / useless?”. Turns out it’s actually very useful to have documents pass through people in specific roles. I make sure things are written well. I catch inconsistencies. I, through force of habit, output things in a consistent style that then makes it easier for others to read. I suspect many of these things are true of you too. That said, being a part in a machine isn’t for everyone, have the confidence to look for roles in smaller companies where you’re likely to need to wear multiple hats. Or find out what the next steps are towards a role you really want to try.

Plot twist: AI comes to believe humanity consists solely of shithead scammers, initiates nuclear war

Yes! And this happening is exactly what allowed gravity waves to first be detected

Amazing, thanks