Up all night, and all you got to see was a boob
Sometimes a boob who spent the previous night compiling a custom webcam driver. :(
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Exactly. The man saw horrors we pray the world would never see again, and still somehow, he came home and finished one of the greatest legends ever told about the indomitable power of fellowship, hope, goodness, and love, against the machinations of ever-hungrier evil and darkness.
He faced the abyss and found light where others would have emerged only with cynical disillusionment and despair.
He fought for a belief that there was still good in people. He wrote the story about those who wanted to turn back and lose hope only they didn’t.
Those are the stories that really stick with us.
I’m with you. People can be… Yeah, I can’t really top:
willfully ignorant assholes sometimes
…But we can be the light even they can’t ignore.
Actually no, not the guy who tries to name everything (and everyone) “X”, but one of his fellow Mordor-mentality’d ilk, an entirely unoriginal and stupidly rich aristocrat spawned from the same pits, Peter Thiel .
Most famously, founder of, I kid you not, “Palantir”, a big-data information analytics and surveillance company…with military contracts and ethics that mainly revolve around “How much line go up tho?”
Would certainly get Saruman’s approval, but I have no freaking idea how he got the Tolkiens’!
Here’s a quick article just listing how profoundly the guy misses the point with his LOTR
inspiredblatantly plagiarized naming scheme, over and over again, wrecking the good name of a fictional world we hold dear as a contrast to this ridiculously stupid timeline.(Don’t care much about the article, it just lists the companies and their primary functions in one spot.)
https://qz.com/1346926/the-hidden-logic-of-peter-thiels-lord-of-the-rings-inspired-company-names
And of course, he’s a major player for the Republican machine, because why not? (He’s apparently got a husband too, which is even more LeopardsAteMyFace.)
Dude really, actually, got super into Lord of the Rings, made his whole life about pursuing neverending wealth and power, contributes to the military industrial complex, starts ventures about unnaturally extending life, likely contributes massively to climate change, and decided to make the world look more like the one Frodo saw in Galadriel’s mirror in Lothlórien.
If you asked him, I’m sure he’s the Good Guy™ in his story.
Freaking LOL. It’s all too stupid to make up.
What artifact do we gotta throw into the fires of the NYSE to implode all this nonsense and save
MiddleEarth?
Its so ridiculous that one of the worlds villains uses LOTR as his naming scheme.
100%. This deliberate villain-for-lulz flaunting of his lack of self-awareness is one of the most irksome annoyances of our era.
3·8 days ago“Magician’s Brick!”
That “Donald Duck Butt” posture puts so much unnecessary compression on one’s spine. 💀💀💀
Absolutely timeless wisdom.
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam.
SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?
But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.
FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?
SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
“Space. It seems to go on and on forever… But then you get to the end and then a giant gorilla starts throwing barrels at you.”
–Fry, “Futurama”
There’s a fun open source app called WhoBIRD that identifies birds by their calls in real time!
It’s actually really impressive and a lot of fun identifying the local birds. This is a use of learning models I can totally get behind. :D
4·13 days agoKinda disagree on Never Split the Difference! Listened to the audiobook of it and found it to be a good primer on the basics of negotiation, something I profoundly lacked, was never taught, and had that used against me on more than one occasion.
Nothing mind-blowing, but for the price of free from my local library, I feel like the techniques gave me a little confidence in the process.
I do agree that a lot of these books could have easily been WAY shorter but try to sell you on value by page count lol.
Goes double for anything using that trend of trying to make it seem hard core by putting random censored explitives in the title and the text.
That said… I got all the self-help I need from Self-Help Singh LOL.
If that’s not a New York Times Best Seller book jacket I don’t know what is!
once I quit a major source of stress.
Job? Like 95% of my mental problems disappeared right after quitting that job…
3·22 days agoOkay hang on…this could be a thinly valid use for “vibe coding.”
Is the only software for a particular use case proprietary, ad-ridden, and/or subscription forced, but you don’t have time to dedicate to an entirely new project?
Quickly throw together open sourced “good 'nuff” alternatives to big corporate software!
Put their own tail between their jaws and see how they like it.
Hey, points for Lutris! Thanks for sharing!
I’ve had issues in the past installing stuff with Lutris, although for advanced scenarios like using community engines and stuff, that’s really cool. I definitely have both installed on my machine for different reasons. Lutris handles EA / Origin stuff pretty well. (Titanfall 2 and Sims 2 Ultimate (not the Steam one) run beautifully on Linux, truly glorious!)
Electron annoys me as well, but I will say that I appreciate how Heroic hooks into GoG APIs. It handles auto-updates, cloud saving, play time logging, that kinda stuff that made Galaxy decent and had a degree of convenience-parity with Steam.
(Maybe Lutris does this too now?)
For a complete newbie , I’d say Heroic has a bit of a smoother and expected ramp to just “Download game and run.” But if you want more control, Lutris definitely has more options!
I also can’t recommend Bottles enough for other games that aren’t from distribution platforms. Shockingly simple.
I think we’re saying a similar thing, but I understand your point better.
I have read plenty of research essays where you can feel the emotion, you can surmise the position and most of all passion of the author.
Exactly! That’s what I mean. There’s so many subjects I expected to be incredibly dry, but the writing reminded me it was written by a person who obviously cares about other people reading the text. One can communicate any subject without giving up their soul.
(I am always surprised, but I find this in programming books often, haha.)
But that’s what I meant by cardboard as well, I think we might be in agreement:
We expect to see a lot more writing that comes across like “This is what writing should look like, right?”
Writing that understands words, and “averages” the most likely way to convey information or fill a requirement, but doesn’t know how to wield language as an art to share ideas with another person.
1·28 days agoSo you just wanna expand the absolute bonkers premise of Kid Nation . Lol
This is how I was taught to write up to highschool. Very “professional”, persuasive essays, arguing in favor of something or against it “objectively”. (Assignment seemed to dictate what side I could be on LOL.) Limit humor and “emotional speech.” Cardboard.
I was taken aback in my first political science course at the local community college, where I was instructed to convey my honest arguments about a book assignment on polarization in U.S politics. “Whether you think it’s fantastic or you think it sucks, just make a good case for your opinion.” Wait, what?! I get to write like a person?!
I was even more shocked when I got a high mark for reading the first few chapters, skimming the rest, and truthfully summarizing by saying it was plain that the author just kept repeating their main point for like 5 more chapters so they could publish a book, and it stopped being worth the time as that poor horse was already dead by the 3rd chapter.
It was when it hit me, that writing really was about communication, not just information.
I worry about that these days: That this realization won’t come to most, and they’ll use these Ai tools or be influenced by them to simply “convey information” that nobody wants to read, get their 85%, and breeze through the rest of their MBA, not caring about what any of this is actually for, or for what a beautiful miracle writing truly is to humanity.
Off the top of my head:
Gmail or any email: Thunderbird is pretty sweet and I need to use it more, but mostly just use the web clients anyway.
If you own GoG games, you can use Heroic Launcher instead of GoG Galaxy. It’s gotten amazingly good, really fast. :)
Lol reminds me of a movie…
– Be Kind, Rewind (2008)