WaxedWookie

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WaxedWookie,

Based.

WaxedWookie, (edited )

The last time I was meaningfully using Linux was around the time of Ubuntu 8.04 - my experience was the opposite of this.

When I have the time, I’ll be dipping back in on Zorin (which I think defaults to modded KDE) - I’ve spun up VM, and it seems like it’s worth a shot… I just need to confirm it’ll play the small handful of games I play, find a slicer app, and pull the trigger. Damn near everything else is Web-based or self-hosted.

WaxedWookie,

For a laugh, here’s what this definitely consistent person with a principled dislike of politics (which definitely isn’t just things they disagree with) posted immediately after their complaint:

US fed doesn’t recognize basic ethics laws, how unsurprising

A boring dystopia

WaxedWookie,

I’m sorry people aren’t posting content relevant to your personal preferences.

May I suggest you use filters, or perhaps go fuck yourself?

WaxedWookie,

It’s functionally a wish every 4 weeks, and you know if you’ll succeed or not before you attempt whatever it is.

Win the lottery, invent time travel, learn to fly, solve world hunger, conquer the universe, create the other artifacts…

WaxedWookie, (edited )

I can’t speak for this particular practice, or for Mormons, but things like the poophole loophole and the clapper are definitely nonsense tricks to try and get one past an omniscient creator - to an outsider (in my case, one that lived in Provo for a short stint), it’s plausible.

WaxedWookie,

Ableist slurs aren’t coo- oh - you can spell above a second-grade level.

WaxedWookie,

Stir up the tankies - assuming you don’t have hexbear and whatnot blocked, they’ll never shut the fuck up.

WaxedWookie,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f2418877-1328-4e3b-a451-231d8d26e5b3.png

WaxedWookie,

Like… into the sun with an oversized circus cannon?

WaxedWookie,

The man on the TV said people would get angry at me for saying merry Christmas - the guy in the $6,000 suit - COME ON

Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)

ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more....

WaxedWookie,

Why bother when you can just do it with Google search?

WaxedWookie,

But everyone has to listen to me loudly whine about being silenced when I’m up here…

WaxedWookie, (edited )

Work like it’s a crippling addiction - it’s not as though crackheads have miserable lives, their bodies literally falling apart as their minds figuratively do the same, until they either muster the incredible willpower to endure the intense suffering required to drop the habit, enduring lifelong consequences, or die an early death.

As far as red flags go…

WaxedWookie,

I don’t see the issue - company towns worked out great, right?

…right?

…oh no…

…oh no no ^no ^^no ^^^no ^^^^no ^^^^^no ^^^^^^no

WaxedWookie,

That’s supposed to be an either thing?

WaxedWookie,

If there were aliens, there’s zero chance Trump could resist bragging that he knows all about them.

WaxedWookie,

I thought this was Tommy Wiseau as I scrolled past…

WaxedWookie,

I’ve been avoiding people management for years - and about a year ago, I was apprached by a company I’ve worked with for an exec gig. Dream job that would have shot me forward 10+ years in my career.

I lost it because I haven’t managed people since I worked in retail. It’s held me back pretty seriously, and I understand now that it’s better me leading a team than most of the schmucks I’ve worked for.

WaxedWookie,

There’s a widely spread, rumour that the last Australian Prime Minister - Scott the liar from the Shire Morrison shat himself in an Engadine McDonald’s in 1997 after his team, the Cronulla Sharks lost the finals. The rumours were persistent enough that he had to deny the rumours ~20 years later on one of the most popular radio show in the country.

Considering how much time he spends with a gormless shit-eating grin plastered all over his dumb mug, some of that shit was bound to overflow at one point or another.

WaxedWookie,

That did not age well.

WaxedWookie,

I’ve been under general anaesthetic 3 times in my life…

The first time was at a teaching hospital - I know the patient before me had created a bit of a bloody mess. One of the juniors was struggling to fit the bracket that would keep my cannulated arm from flopping off the table - a senior came over and fixed it, then asked the junior

“Have you changed your gloves?”

“uhhh …no?”

“CHANGE YOUR GLOVES!”

The last time I went under, I was chatting with the anaesthetist as he was prepping to put me under - seemed like a nice guy, but a bit of a loose cannon. As he put me under, he said something along the lines of

“We’ll take care of you - this was the stuff that Michael Jackson was on.”

“…wait what?”

WaxedWookie,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b9fe14de-882f-47d6-85eb-fba3e4ec7375.webm

ajsadauskas, to fuck_cars
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

Whoopsie! Sydney's road planners just discovered induced demand is a thing, after opening a new motorway.

For those outside Sydney, the New South Wales state government recently opened a new spaghetti intersection just west of Sydney's Central Business District.

It was supposed to solve traffic. Instead, it's turned into a giant car park:

"For the third straight day, motorists and bus passengers endured bumper-to-bumper traffic on the City West Link and Victoria Road. A trip from Haberfield to the Anzac Bridge on the City West Link averaged an agonising 44 minutes in the morning peak on Wednesday.

"Several months ago, Transport for NSW’s modelling had suggested traffic from the interchange would add only five to 10 minutes to trips on Victoria Road through Drummoyne and over the Iron Cove Bridge during morning peaks.

"Those travel delays have now blown out."

So what do motorists say when their shiny new road that was supposed to solve traffic instead turns into a massive traffic jam?

'Dude! Just one more lane!'

From the article:

"[Roads Minister John] Graham and his Transport boss Josh Murray appear reluctant to do what many motorists reckon is the obvious solution.

"That is, add lanes or make changes at the pinch-points that are causing the pain. A three-lane to one merge point from Victoria Road onto the Anzac Bridge, along with two lanes merging into one on the City West Link, are proving to be painful bottlenecks."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/how-planners-got-rozelle-traffic-modelling-horribly-wrong-20231129-p5ensa.html

@fuck_cars @sydneytrains @urbanism

WaxedWookie,

While the money sold have been spent on public transport, it’s a bit fucking premature to put this down to induced demand - the tangled mess has been operating for what - like 3 business days? People are getting confused and doing silly bullshit. It’s a problem, but it’s not induced demand.

Induced demand is a thing, and it’ll almost certainly be relevant here - there’s no need to lie about it - give it a minute to settle first. This is the benefit of being correct - there’s no need to be dishonest.

WaxedWookie,

Who sees the benefit of that increased productivity, Mark?

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