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To have the highest incarceration per capita rate in the world, Vatican City would need to imprison 13 people.

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I love texting someone on discord and seeing the gray activity notice turn green. Look at your phone boy

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I've said it before and i'll say it again: THAT IS NOT A FUCKING METAPHOR, JOHN GREEN

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I waited up until midnight just to be able to post this

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good lord WHAT is your job?

I'm a software engineer for Microsoft. Which is a job I DID honestly enjoy quite a lot until whatever the hell's been going on lately.

Like imagine you're an architect and you get pulled in to help build a house. And it's a pretty well-engineered house! You can recognize and appreciate this and contribute the same standard of quality.

Until the guy who controls all the money shows up one day and says houses are NO good anymore. People want a BOX for the AI to live in. And actually start tearing down walls and ripping out the electrical and plumbing because the AI doesn't work with all that. Just make it a BOX for the AI.

So you do what they say and rip out things you're proud of and smash holes to drag all the AI through. But the AI is constantly changing and no one knows who you should ask to understand the shape the house needs to be to fit the AI. And the people who do know are probably too busy getting their necks breathed down by members of leadership who are paid millions a year to tell you to just do whatever ChatGPT does. So your team gets dicked around with unclear instructions given with absolute urgency. Also every 6 months they lay off 3% of the company so you walk in one day and Bob who's worked here for 25 years is just gone.

Also the AI is supposed to get good enough at building houses to replace your job. Maybe. It doesn't actually do that but the guy who controls all the money is hinging all that money on convincing other people that's true.

I miss house.

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For some reason we were given access to custom emojis on teams and it took people less than 24 hours to add the logo of the local unemployment office and start using it as a reaction when something goes wrong or upper management announces another shit decision

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it's a well-known secret among time travelers that you can just do whatever you want to genghis khan and it won't affect history at all. just last week i visited late 12th century mongolia to do a Hot Ones-style interview with him and someone had already given him a PBR baseball cap and a steam deck- the butterfly effect has that name for a reason but temüjin's destiny is just so firmly rooted that no amount of interference could possibly change it. dude absolutely kills it at Crypt of the Necrodancer

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hope nothing on this list is in my house lol

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200% on the Kickstarter already? Amazing!!!

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I wish I was eating a shitty fast food burger right now. ZERO nutrients TOO MANY calories BREAD THAT'S CAKE and weirdly runny sauces that make the bottom of the bun soggy and wet. So devoid of flavour that the onion overwhelms the whole thing. Sesame seeds on top.

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rewatched chicken run

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i don't want to pick a fight which is why this isn't a reblog but seeing the thing described in this post summarised as "the best argument I've ever seen for the worth of public art"... imagine what all the other arguments must be like.

idk this looks like some asshole doing something annoying but people deciding because it was called 'art' everyone else has to be fine with it. "Art should make people uncomfortable" is not a good ethos to keep to when your art is in the middle of the public square maybe?