My Ass Generates A-bombs

In other news, Windows has Linux built-in now, so you don’t need to ever install it yourself!

The very first time I debated a christian about this, in 1992, I asked them what about back alley abortions, and he said he would charge all concerned, the conceivers and the abortionists, with murder.

They’ve been telling us the whole time this was their ultimate intention.

Can’t tell if that’s Jesse Ventura in a movie or G Gordon Liddy in his backyard…

8 bit kid here, I played with my uncle’s Atari VCS, the original one with six silver switches on the front, and my first computer was a C64.

It is definitely true that the only real difference between games released in the last ten years and games released in the 90s is prettier graphics. We still play platformers.

We don’t need all this to have fun. Trust me.

Also it will implode and all of this will be available at fire sale prices.

Don Tchak never! The dude is completely corrupt, and I hear he has some very nasty sexual proclivities.

edit: whoooooosh

My bad, I was a kid during his Oilers days and I mean, look at him…

I also didn’t know what it was when I discovered their forum, which is a combination of kool-aid addled VCbrains and tech geeks having normal, informed conversations about tech stuff. I was hanging out there for a while, until I realized.

He’s gonna go full Buggin Out

Talk to your kids about the dangers of carpentry

He’s from Alberta, he didn’t turn, just stopped hiding it.

It’s worse for GenX, we watched Fat Albert and learned about things like drugs and prejudice from it. The Cosby Show happened during my cynical, anti-wholesomeness teen years so I didn’t watch that so much.

I started reading for the same reason, except it was he Narnia books and my gramma 🫡

There are many people who want to go out and do stuff; you haven’t met them. I am in my 50s and I spent a couple decades trying to convince the friends I had to be more interested in doing, and I never succeeded. It is clear to me now that I should have been out finding my people who enjoyed the stuff I enjoy, and spending my time with them instead.

Don’t be me.

Agree. I live in Winnipeg, Canada, and I have visited local datacentres - anything built in the last twenty years would be very hard to physically penetrate with stealth alone.

There are older ones which might be a bit less sophisticated, but that’s not the norm.

Hi, occasional spreadsheet user here who cannot tell the difference between Excel and, say, LibreOffice Calc (which is what I use, disclosed). Why is Excel specifically better? No troll.

Those old computers you speak of: They worked. There is no comparison to be made here.

They were built in order to give us an edge on the battlefield. More accurate artillery and the like. They did math which humans could do, but which would take humans weeks or months, and the answers were required within timeframes more like 12 hours, because war.

They were so useful, so valuable, that they were worth the treasure spent. They conferred a kind of superintelligence to their users. Those with brains to understand could see this, and so yes, hobbyists found their way to building their own machines, once small CPUs became available, however janky. Anyone who had to do math, who had to do math, went into debt if they had to, and learned to use these janky beasts because the advantage was weeks or months of time they didn’t have to grind on paper.

There is nothing about AI that resembles any of that.

It me 😂

I made a lot of terrible choices in terms of friends. Not exclusively terrible ones, I have several high quality men that I still exchange emails with at least a few times per year, and we talk a lot about lunches and stuff that don’t happen… but they’re quality men, and we are still friends.

Along with them, two or three times as many dudes who I should’ve just left where I found em, and who eventually forced me to do so, usually by treating someone else rather than me like shit.

Some others that I know I should have tried harder to move acquaintance into the friendship category.