i mean, the chain here is still "AI" so it's not linked to anything real

Even if AMD would still sell all the GPUs they make, I still think the "invest in AMD and make it worth more by improving its libraries" is still an easy path to make a profit, right? If AMD GPUs could suddenly run all the models that Nvidia GPUs could do, then AMD stock would just be worth more?

This would fuck the buyer even more (making the GPU shortage even worse, I think) but I do like the idea of having a Linux machine with an AMD GPU in the next 10 years.

On Steam, you're better off playing with Proton than with the native Linux version because of how stable Win32's API is.

I'm not surprised their solution starts at "statically link almost everything". (It's the big thing that makes projects written in Rust or Go, which statically link in compile time, so ezpz to use.) I really appreciated this post :D

I've been thinking about your post a lot because it's something that I feel like I have felt very strongly in the past.

For what it's worth, I don't think you're an evil person or anything like that. If you feel apprehension and other difficult emotions when other people like you, those feelings are real and I empathize with you in grappling with them. But do remember that it does not mean they're wrong to like you.

I think the pandemic might have forced a big hit. For me, the social skills I had built up in the ~4 years leading up to lockdown were basically entirely wiped away by isolation.

I've been thinking a lot about ways communication was essential for day-to-day life, and how preferences wiped that away entirely. I became an adult when self-checkout was in every grocery store I'd been to. And those shitty kiosks that fast-food joints like Dunkin Donuts have are really nice, because they take away the time pressure of trying to make decisions by squinting at a distant menu that's constantly sliding and fading. But it also means another place where we can avoid actual human interaction.

Not to get Spiritual, but every consciousness is kind of an amazing thing? We're all wet, small, imperfect models of the universe around us, and when people come together, we make a bigger, wetter, more perfect model of the universe around us. When people say "math is beautiful" and "science is beautiful", it shares that same beauty that exists when people come together.

I grew up with people bemoaning downward trends which didn't actually exist. ("People are getting dumber!" no they weren't. "Crime is going up!" the numbers say otherwise.) But now the downward trends are real and the idea of people getting even worse at communicating is scary. But I think you're right and it's a downward trend that is also happening.

you gotta be direct at saying "I don't want to ___" at those to really make it tho

I'm curious, what fills in the ___? Normal "I don't want to drink", "I don't want to play that," or is there something Nefarious that goes on with board games?

I'd be happy to "Freaky Friday" our roles if you'd like to be the chatbot! While I can't literally become a human in our conversation (or puppy, for legal reasons in the State of California) we can certainly role-play this scenario.

Would you like me to ask you questions as if you were the chatbot? Or perhaps you'd prefer to put me down "ethical style"? Let me know what you have in mind, and I'm ALWAYS happy to play along.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

WOOOOOOOOOO

Trump's surely finished now!

This doesn't read as confrontational or untoward or anything. I only have a personal phone and I don't feel comfortable connecrting that to my work laptop for anything whatsoever (and even then, I only have so much data in my plan).

That said, at least in my experience, I think having wifi is still the default where I'm at? Excluding big businesses which all have WiFi, I'd estimate that it's at least >50% of independent cafes I've been to had WiFi offerings. I hope wifi cafes don't die out :< I think my social neurons are atrophied almost out of existence and I need to at least be in the vicinity of other people a few times a month

wiped too much (toilet paper bloody) best brand butthole bandaids?

i know very little about music and what i learned was from the backwards so i am reading this with non negligible fascination

welcome back to the week 8) something something my grains weak?

oh my god. did you have a treat??

dog honey gone bad?? the poop won't stop HELP

It should be like three separate C-suite executives were afraid people might not notice the big bright honking virtual assistant chat

:D

It's not B)

Yeah I lost it when I saw that blender! "What if cold harbor were a juicero pack? What if the lumon water drop was a juice drop? Lumon makes foodstuffs, ri- WOAHHHH DYLAN..."

The rest of it

This was too much to write out, so here are the plotbeats draft:

• Mark: The plan is to go into the office and refine data. But this time, he selects only the numbers which make him feel nothing, to ruin Cold Harbor. Harmony explains that Milchick will be happy to have him work after hours.

• He calls Milchick, who is indeed very happy, albeit conflicted. He is eating a salad, with croutons, and decides to take it slow to the office. (Fitting with his character arc.) Milchick calls the front-desk security to ask them to let Mark in.

• Mark gets to the office, is carded in.

• Gemma is told "that is enough juicing; it is time for your rooms. You're doing all of them today."

• Then Joe Biden breaks in to the Christmas Room, says "Christmas is Fascist", and shoots the Dr. in the head and breaks Gemma out through the broken severed door.

• Biden's brain is so old and calcified that it breaks any severance door he goes through.

• Gemma and Joe Biden are are confronted by James and Helena, who explains the master plan: Relaunch the Juicero by manipulating world events (see: Lexington Letter) to make it so that every person in the world is in dire need of a cold glass of freshly squeezed juice at the moment of launch. The flavor Cold Harbor is flavored like the release of death, with none of the dying, to really seal the deal.
• Joe Biden begins a confrontation like "Listen up Jack, no malarky-" but then bumps his head and dies instantly.
• Gemma, recognizing Helena, informs her about the conditions she's being held under, slowly realizing that Helena was already aware. Helena explains it's for the greatest good, and that the launch has already started, before walking away with James. As Helena walks away, Gemma says Helena is pathetic and has nobody in her life who loves her, and Helena walks back, and whispers in Gemma's ear, "I fucked Mark and I'm havi-."
• Before Helena can finish her sentence, Gemma bites Helena's eyeball out.

• Milchick is still eating his salad when he gets a PRIORITY ALERT on the status of Helena's gouged eye. He says, "God dammit," grabs his bag of croutons to snack on, and motorcycles to the office.

• Dylan and Gretchen see a commercial for "Juice, 2!"
• Natalie and Ricken are presenting it. It's literally just the Juicero again. But... It's so very compelling.
• Dylan and Gretchen breathe a sigh of relief. Things might be okay after all.
• Just then: Beehive mode activates, turning all the severed people into a brand new thing: A personality solely dedicated to protecting Helena Eagan.
• Dylan stands up with a newfound and unshakable purpose in life, and he makes a beeline to Lumon. He's not alone, and a montage starts. Every single severed individual is trying to get to Lumon. Even Irving is included in the montage. Even the Severed people in other continents are trying their best to get to Lumon. Also, all the goats are going crazy.

• Cut to Milchick, in the repurposed security room, having had activated the beehive protocol.
• One of the monitors is dedicated to the security profiles while the remaining monitors still have a one-image slideshow of Dylan and Gretchen.
• But Harmony calls and explains "don't activate it, by the way, it will be in reverso mode soon because of MDR shenanigans." But it is too late to unactivate it! Oh no! It's not like the OTC; once it's turned on, only Helena can deactivate it.

• Gemma, severed, is kneeling before smirking Helena. Mark quickly makes it down the elevator, also in deference to the queen.
• Helena, who has been ignoring calls from Harmony, receives a call from Milchick, explaining the situation she is in. She books it to the security room. She tells Gemma and Mark to stay behind, but they follow her closely, like dedicated security dogs.

• Joe Biden, who survived his bump, seeks nutrients in the nearby Cold Harbor room, recognizing it from the Juice packet. The inside is a black abyss. As he crawls in, we see only a constellation of mysterious lights in his eyes. Then, something like recognition appears on his face as he screams into the howling void. The screen goes black.

• The loyalty and deference in Mark and Gemma's eyes slowly turn. Helena and James are surrounded. James unbuttons his shirt, revealing a form of stacked rippling muscles. He explains that a diet of freshly squeezed raw juice has left him in perfect fighting condition.
• Helena and James are ready to fight, just as Mark and Gemma are overtaken by the insatiable bloodlust of the inverted Beehive Protocol.
• Just then, the elevator dings, and a hoard of Severed employees pour out, clown-car style.
• James stays behind to fight as Helena runs through the hallway to the Security room. They sure do love their Hallway runs on Severance.

• The next scene is a long, uncharacteristic, and single-shot action sequence with fantastic fight choerography. Very much "River Tam beats up Everybody", but it's "James Eagan takes on every Severed person we've seen in the series." He has a visible "NO FUN ALLOWED" tattoo.

• Helena gets to the security room, but all the buttons are destroyed.
• She looks at the security cameras. The perpetuity wing is safe. She takes a secret exit.

• Meanwhile, throughout Kier, people are clamoring to buy the latest in Juice-squeezing innovations. They can't get enough. They need it. The need Juice, 2! They will kill for Juice, 2!
• There aren't enough Juicero Juice, 2! to go around. It's the fucking apocalypse. Oh my God. People are killing for the Juice, 2!, and killing themselves if they can't get one.

• Helena approaches the deepest basement in the perpetuity wing.

• James puts up a good, long, juice-powered fight, but is eventually destroyed.
• As the crowd leaves James to pursue Helena, Harmony appears, drill in hand. She removes the Severance chips from each characters head, including the blue one inside James'.

• Helena unseals the hushed casket of Kier Eagan. His eyes open. The severance theme plays.

The credits roll, and then, a post-credits scene:

• It ends with Irving showing up late to the bloodbath in the hallways of the Severed floor, like Horatio at the end of Hamlet. He says, "Alright kids, I guess this is what's for dinner." He takes his blue Irving funeral mug, scoops up some of the blood from his ankles, and takes a sip, looking directly at the camera.

A line swoops in, but this time it doesn't adorn the words "Severance". It adorns the words "Juicero 2", with a new subtitle, "Announcement coming", and a subsubtitle, "WWDC 2025".

okay that's reason enough 8) yayyy