The city is buying me like 15 grand in new software licenses this year, but I can’t convince them to spend another 2 grand on a new fucking computer because mine is “supposed” to be good for 2 more years.

My work laptop was upgraded to Windows 11 and performance has severely suffered.

As someone who usually uses 3 monitors (sometimes 4) and does GIS, it’s an issue.

It’ll be handy to have a tool that makes things up that they can use an an excuse to arrest you.

I feel like there’s an opportunity for a multi-layered Epstein-Barr joke in this whole situation, but I can’t quite put it together.

That’s why you have to light the fireworks before eating them. They undergo a chemical reaction when lit and are not longer gunpowder after a few seconds.

I’m an American worker. Bitching is pretty much the only benefit we get.

That’s the beauty of AI. It can look everywhere without requiring additional manpower.

He was such a terrible candidate. I think he may have been okay as President, but he had zero charisma. The right couldn’t even be bothered to hate him.

Howard Dean was a more exciting candidate, but him making a weird sound in a speech somehow disqualified him from office.

I wouldn’t sign that. I work in government, and with new generative AI tools some of the emails are getting very good.

We had one sent to an applicant pretending to be me thay appeared to have scraped data from staff reports and minutes for public meetings for vatiances and SUPs. It was very detailed.

It had also scraped our fee schedule, so it had convincing fee amounts with links to the relevant codes and everything. It’s just that the payment site was not actually us, but a site made to look just like us with a 1-letter change.

They’re were like President Bush.

In 2004/2005 everyone claimed they hated them to their friends, but the numbers told a different story.

Yeah. Bastards everywhere should feel insulted.

Did you see the video?

Even the AI knows he has issues with his diet.

They shouldn’t be. My internet comes from a WISP antenna network that I help manage connected to Fiberlight.

We’re a small neighborhood across a lake from any meaningful cities, so we have a 150-ft tower on either side of the lake. One side is connected to the fiber and the other has directional antennas aimed at receivers for each house.

My internet isn’t great (about 15 megabit), and HBO has really bad compression artifacts and buffers really often, whereas Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney, etc all do just fine.

University is overpriced, but a degree isn’t just saying that you’ve gained knowledge. Being able to look up and memorize stuff doesn’t mean you’ll be good employee. if you can’t work effectively with a team or tend not to finish a project all the knowledge in the world means nothing.

The most important thing most degrees demonstrate is that you can work for years on a project with multiple milestones involving multiple disciplines, work with others or self-direct, and meet goals.

My biggest issue with them is their shit streaming quality.

The Oas was actually pretty solod. The only real problem was the removal of the start menu and traditional interface for non-touch computers. It’s just that it was a huge fucking problem that destroyed the perception of Win8 even after the issue was addressed.

If Metro had been the alternative interface and the traditional experience the default, it would have been celebrated as a great OS.

Sometimes there simply isn’t a good substitute for a wooden spoon.

If I’ve got marinara in the pot, you keep those plastic and metal utensils away.

It’s easily his best film. Everyone shits on it because it was another “twist” while completely ignoring the excellent dialog, acting, character building, and theme. At its heart, it isn’t a story about an invasion. It’s the story of a grieving family leaning on each other for support after a tragic loss.

Gibson’s character had been outwardly the strong, moral man of faith at the center of his family and the community. His wife’s death pulled him into deep despair that had left him a broken man. He no longer had hope for the future and had stopped providing hope and comfort to his family and community.

Throughout the film, you see not only his grief over the loss of his wife, but everyone else’s grief over losing him as a fixture of compassion, comfort, and grace. The story is about his faith and hope being restored. The events that lead to that involve hostile invaders, but they’re just a mechanism to tell the story of grief and healing.

There’s a scene with Phoenix and Gibson whispering quietly for like 10 minutes about belief and fate with no action - just great acting and dialog. There’s a scene where he breaks down crying over his family and how cruel he’s become due to his fear and hopelessness while simultaneously eating a meal.

And in the end, many of the aspects of his normal life that contributed to his grief, annoyance, and fear were key to his family’s survival. He accepted what life had thrown at him, and was able to heal.

They’re not aliens. They’re demons.

You never actually see a spaceship. They don’t ever show any technology or even clothing.

And they’re defeated with an act of faith.