:(

At the risk of spoiling it, it's definitely a bit magical and very impossible. It's the most exaggerated part of the show, but I feel seen for lack of a better word.

I don't want to spoil too much, but every element of it, I can relate to with my dissociative identity thing.

The titles of all the episodes are made to reflect the filenames commonly found in torrents.

But I never knew how accurate it is regarding plurality. It seems rather ham fisted and over the top at times to me, a non plural.

I do love the show though, I've watched it through like three times I think.

I forgot to ask, can you give the make/model/specs of your netbook? That will help a ton

Pop! OS: https://pop.system76.com/ is the Linux distro I recommend for basically everybody.

It's based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, so it has most of the community knowledge around support. It's the "happy path". Pop! OS is nice because it removes the bad part of Ubuntu, called "snaps", but keeps the rest.

The only thing I'm not certain about is using the external display. That's something you will probably need to figure out from googling ;(

As a side note: Befriending the command line is daunting, but pays dividends. A lot of the help online will recommend the command line. You can't avoid it entirely, and it's a superpower.

i think you're wrong about this. anyway, time to read the news.

Ive been doing this since I was younge and i will keep doing it till in gone. Which probably wont be long. Because of the amount of plain single slices of bread i consume

That is weird as fuck I'm sorry

people must be going nuts at antifa hq. wait until the president of antifa hears about this.

oh

I always got the vibe that the scorn was for people who were doing it just to look good but didn't actually care or were fairweather friends. Like, if you're an ally you should be doing it because it's right, not going around bragging about how good you are to those poor, benighted trans people.

On the other hand sometimes people take it a bit far and are dismissive like you say, which I can get, i understand it, I don't think anyone should be too broken up about it. But it does suck to feel like you're trying to do the right thing for someone even though they seem not to really like you very much.

It's complicated I think. It's good to express appreciation for people being with you, but at the same time you don't want to feel like someone is lording something over you.

prophetic post. this was even before the "pedo guy" thing. fuck elon musk

warriors of yoke lol

YES MA'AM YES

God willing. 🙏🏼

no just normal sandwich bread

when i was a kid i would take plain slices of white bread and roll them into a dense doughy ball and i called them bread balls and ate them

i am hooting and hollering for this for you hoppet

I do think the borderline scorn toward allies, in addition to just like kinda sucking, was a horrible tactical move that set things back pretty badly (and like tbc I was totally on that bandwagon back in the day, I am not immune to social trends).

I think there's been a lot of nuance lost in the sense of like.... "It is not anyone's personal responsibility to praise an ally for being an ally" is true, but that is NOT the same thing as "allies should perpetually be on thin ice and shouldn't get praise for anything short of heroism and if they want to feel good about doing small good things that's proof that deep down they suck actually"

To the extent that anyone "deserves" anything, people deserve praise for doing positive things whether that's doing the dishes or deciding to stick up for marginalized people whose circumstances they might not viscerally understand. We are all just silly little monkeys made of meat and positive feedback has really consistent effects on our little monkey brains! That tiny little tickle of reward for doing the bare minimum makes people want to do the bare minimum more, and makes it easier/more appealing to take bigger steps past that bare minimum!

decadence....

The boom-bust cycle of tech is well known, and the AI one we're going through is one of the most clearly prepared for I've ever seen. Microsoft in particular is set to cash out once the bust goes through, the terms of their investment in OpenAI is such that when they bust they essentially get the whole company with no fuss. Meta is the only company that seems to be hugely exposed to failure once the bust happens (massive investment but little to show for it, the rest of their company is hurting very badly) but they're the only company I can see actually being hurt. And I'd be surprised if they actually disappear, I'm sad to say.

The only thing that could actually hurt these companies is if Chinese technology is allowed to flow freely into the US, and the government is going to step in before that happens. This will fuck over everyone but major tech companies.

I will always wish for consequences, but I'm not expecting them this time.

Yeah, I've seen that. They conflate peoplishness with money, and the less you are worth the less of a person they think you are.

Is it like a fresh baked loaf or is this just sandwich bread?

They've actually gone on record and said that they have a definition of what "AGI" actually means: AGI means an AI system that makes them 100 billion dollars in profit. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-documents-show-openai-has-a-very-clear-definition-of-agi-2000543339

for what it's worth, early covid and about three years years after the start covid were kind of minor collapses, at least for some subsections of the industry

i've also started to think maybe one of the things that prevents actual collapse is the yearly mass layoffs. the financial distress of what would be a collapse is instead passed onto laborers, so we're basically having a collapse every year while businesses cruise above that with great end-of-fiscal-year numbers since they cut so much staff.

which... sucks. a big whole lot lmao