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	Her job is guaranteed; what are you even talking about?

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

I brought that up about the Moon a few weeks ago, but I can't remember which thread.

I do remember that someone made a complete arse out of themselves by refusing to believe it, though. That was good.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 16:05

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 07:34

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

pr0zac posted:

I think the best side effect of the S3 outage today was this tweet:

https://twitter.com/TheAVClub/status/836665124354150401

What was it?

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 10:41

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

MiddleOne posted:

Stove camera surveillance just seems like a recipe for disaster.

But think of just how much more insufferable foodies can be when their every post on social media has time lapse videos.

cowofwar posted:

Has anyone considered just putting a straw in the $10 caprisun bag yet?

I'd certainly like someone to take a pair of scissors to one so I can see just how lovely the contents are.

EDIT: And here we go:

Devor posted:

Hardly what anyone would call "chunks".

Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Apr 20, 2017

# ¿ Apr 20, 2017 00:03

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

We can disrupt their business model by buying fresh blood of homeless people!

# ¿ Jun 1, 2017 16:55

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

I'd certainly sell my blood if I could get even half of $8000 for it.

It's not like I could donate it thanks to visiting the UK :argh:

Who cares if rich people get vCJD?

# ¿ Jun 1, 2017 16:59

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Rhesus Pieces posted:

https://twitter.com/johnlescarre/status/895410073488338944

"severe rationality"

No, the opposite of of basic human empathy and decency is not severe rationality, it's narcissism and cruelty.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2017 11:19

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

I like the cupboard in that picture. I wonder where she got it.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2017 15:42

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Sage Grimm posted:

I also just learned there is another company selling a similar product as my brother works for one that apparently is not this one.

(He had difficulty articulating what a 700 dollar lock provides that a 20-30 standard one could not)

I'm guessing 99% of buyers would have ended up putting that $700 lock on a $50 door.

Which reminds me of a interview I saw ages ago with a cop and he told how druggies would buy incredibly expensive locks and even metal doors with bars, so the cops would just smash in the wooden frame next to the hinges and bypass all that poo poo entirely.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2018 16:07

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

I think she's about one post away from her trademark "kill the president" rant and ban.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2018 15:05

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

duz posted:

They'd have to find a new speaker to hide the latch behind.

There's a very good reason engineers are traditionally kept far away from the public and final designs.

Take the BMW i8, for example. It's engineered out the wazoo, but at no point were things like "must be used by humans" or "will be driven on the road" taken into account.

Certainly "what if something goes wrong" was never even considered for a moment.

For instance, the i8 has a pressurised fuel tank and no manual release for the filler cap. You must wait for the pressure to equalise on its own. This may take up to 5 minutes. Up to 15 with extreme weather.

If you need to pop the hood, you will require two people, each working from opposite sides of the car. They must each pull on their respective release cords at the same time to release the hood. When opening the hood, both people must lift at the same time and by the same amount or the carbon fibre making up the hood will crack. After opening the hood you will find that there is no way to hold it open. BMW technicians recommend jamming screwdrivers into the struts. Really.

The manual emergency exit controls for the doors, to be used in case of power failure, accident or ~~when~~ if the vehicle is on fire, are incredibly small, fragile and counter intuitive. BMW technicians says most people break them when trying to use them. It should be noted, this means "they break them and are now unable to exit the vehicle". Not good if you're on fire.

And all of these things (and many more!) are not oversights which only came out after the car was released. They were, each and every one, by design.

Engineers sat down and deliberately choose to take away control from the driver in a thousand little ways which probably look great on paper, but none take into account that, in the real world, things break.

Here's a great youtube video of what I'm talking about. For several years you couldn't find it anywhere online because BMW was putting so much effort into getting it taken down.

I heartily recommend watching just the first 30 seconds to see the emergency door release I was talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxe_b2GRwok

# ¿ Feb 17, 2018 11:37

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Trevor Hale posted:

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/790347673341665280?s=20

Oh wait, wrong Altman.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 06:16

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

"Vistas" surely?

# ¿ May 18, 2018 15:54

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Sir Tonk posted:

Hey can we get back to Elon saying the Jews control the media? Cause he's having quite the meltdown lately.

Ohhhh, this is why that tweet's been everywhere.

I thought he just meant rich people.

Sometimes I forget the weird hate boner some people have for Jewish people.

# ¿ May 28, 2018 13:33

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

PT6A posted:

Is there any reason why autonomous vehicles would be a better idea than bus-rapid-transit vehicles using the tunnels, assuming you had a deep and abiding interest in ripping out the tracks for... some reason?

1900 World Fair in Paris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0xoUki128

(footage shot by some guy called Thomas Edison)

# ¿ Jun 11, 2018 06:52

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Mr. Nice! posted:

Not only children in pens, no one has publicly seen any of the girls being held. Government photos and tours only showed the cages where the boys are being kept.

Girl's might engender sympathy.

I hope like hell that's all it is and not something worse.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2018 15:21

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

HootTheOwl posted:

SO they don't let you have diamonds until year seven?

Please! We let undergrad microscopists use microtomes all the time.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2018 18:18

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Elias_Maluco posted:

Jesus Christ, why???

Have you read about the car's A/C vents?

Read about the car vents.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2018 10:59

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

ToxicSlurpee posted:

There was a time when salt was used as currency in parts of the world.

In Australia, we used to use rum as currency.

Explains a lot, really.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2018 06:01

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Solkanar512 posted:

I work in a massive factory and everything she says is correct. Holy poo poo, how can you not have things organized?

Ditto. You can't afford to let poo poo like that happen. Especially tonnes of flammable rubbish lying about near electrical equipment and powerlines :stare:

"There's no such thing as a small accident" - anything can snowball into a full scale disaster if you don't keep on top of things.

At every single stage, Tesla is acting like they have no clue what they're doing. Like a smart kid who spent his entire life cruising through school then got to university and for the first time gets hit with poo poo that's hard and that they don't understand and now has no idea what to do.

Everything in modern manufacturing and plant design, not to mention the very specialised subset of car manufacturing, is there for a reason. All the tests and failsafes. All the safeties and modelling. All of it.

Then Tesla comes along and thinks they can just do whatever. Make it up as they go along.

For one, that means you spend 99% of your time reinventing the wheel and making mistakes which were solved decades ago.

Secondly, it means waste and inefficiency.

Third, you're putting the safety, even the lives, of your employees and customers at risk.

"Oh, no one knew to look up 'Driver Safety Standard (emergency exit) #34201-A" isn't an excuse when they had every opportunity and ability to get this sorted before it ever left the factory.

Elon comes up with a design? In it goes! Is safe? Who knows! No one told me I had to check that, so I didn't.

Years of testing and improvements? No, out the door now! We're making this up as we go along!

Legal and moral obligations? No, we're being disruptive!

# ¿ Aug 28, 2018 15:31

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

My first car was a tiny Ford Laser hatch and just having one other person in the car made a very noticeable difference when accelerating.

Had to drive four friends to the mountains in it one year and goddamn, what a loving nightmare. We got overtaken by a bus SMDH.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2018 16:17

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

DC Murderverse posted:

Hey guys, there is a group of Facebook employees who just wrote a letter about the "political monoculture" at Facebook. Is it because they got bullied for reading Ayn Rand? Is it because their pro-defense spending ideas got laughed at by everyone? Is it because they believe in small government, and that created a vast cultural divide within the company?

of course not it's because they're a bunch of loving bigots who think that including trans people in corporate art is "politically radical"

quote:
We throw labels that end in *obe and *ist at each other, attacking each other�s character rather than their ideas.

Yeah, nah mate. It's not words that end it *obe is it.

It's words that end in *phobe.

And I'm gonna guess, the words ending in *ist is just racist, no * required.

Motherfucker's trying to hide behind *ing a couple of letters like anyone's going to be fooled for a second.

"(A)ttacking each other�s character rather than their ideas" - you mean calling someone out because they're a loving bigoted oval office?

I mean, this guy's literally aiming for this:

Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Aug 30, 2018

# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 05:20

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Oh, of course. I had just him being sexist that as given.

fishmech posted:

Consider: what if he's mad about words that end in "obe" because he's a flat earther too and mad at the globe too. And he's also mad at how people mock him for ranting about "globalists" both int he flat earth and in the other conspiracy theory senses.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 13:10

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Many tech people aren't socially progressive at all, they've just found new language to dress up their bigotry.

Or they're just so blinded by their privilege that they refuse to see what their policies are doing.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 17:20

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

baquerd posted:

No, though you are part of a heavily persecuted minority, you don't seem to truly understand tolerance. It's not supposed to be easy or make sense, but we need to accept people's beliefs just as importantly, and in the same way that you want people to accept your preferred gender. This does mean that you will need to accept people who hate you intrinsically, though you've done nothing wrong.

Twice in as many days now, I've had to post this.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2018 06:43

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Blut posted:

Sadly, no. Unions have been very successfully demonized and undermined in the US. There are far too many temporarily embarrassed millionaires who think they have more in common with upper management than with their peers.

And when was the last time you saw a union portrayed positively in the media?

# ¿ Sep 4, 2018 08:32

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Pochoclo posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/13/amazon-jeff-bezos-philanthropy-day-one-fund

�We�ll use the same set of principles that have driven Amazon. Most important among those will be genuine, intense customer obsession,� he wrote on Twitter. �The child will be the customer.�

This bodes poorly for teachers.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2018 07:38

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

pangstrom posted:

Funny, a few weeks ago I met a very grandiose techbro-ish VC guy who (claimed to be) looking at Sumerian records because he said their economy didn't suffer from boom/bust business cycles. I didn't engage. There are also just a lot of normalish people.

Should have just asked him why he didn't fly to Sumer and ask them himself.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2018 14:23

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Wow, I didn't know you could get flights with GTA5 cash.

You can literally buy ingame currency with real world money, they're called Shark Cards.

Linking game money with real money means any item or attribute which can be purchased now has real world value.

So, if you cheat yourself to an expensive item, that's money Rockstar Games doesn't get.

Which is why they're going after the cheaters.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2018 06:33

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Dylan16807 posted:

That's probably the weakest possible justification for this. Especially since you could say the same thing about single player games that have microtransactions.

It's a multiplayer game designed around people constantly spending up cash on stupid ingame poo poo with a constant trickle of insanely expensive gimmicky items being released each month.

There's a flying bike that cost $5million ingame dollars. That works out to around $75 in real money.

Now think about a dozen new vehicles being released every month, along with weapons and clothes and masks and so on, and you see how the game has made $6billion since release.

I agree totally that any pay to win game is trash that deserves to be mocked, but the guy was asking why Rockstar was raiding people's homes.

Now, that to me is the thing we should be focusing on - that a private company can search the homes of private citizens. I know that's not a new thing, but it really skeeves me out every time I hear about it..

# ¿ Oct 22, 2018 12:35

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Seriously, the four fundamental cornerstones of being a libertarian are tech, property rights, racism and child porn.

Is anyone surprised that the tech sector is awash in libertarians?

# ¿ Oct 28, 2018 04:17

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Absurd Alhazred posted:

DISRUPTION!

Pince nez are also uncomfortable as loving hell unless you have exactly the right shaped nose.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2018 05:03

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

iajanus posted:

One thing that worked for me was just saying "gently caress it" and wearing my sneakers everyday. Strangely after a few looks nobody said anything and I continued on with my work.

I work in a lab, so non-slip leather is mandatory.

Thankfully, no one gives poo poo beyond that, so I wear leather crocs boots. They weigh practically nothing and you can actually stand in them for 8 hours, unlike drat near anything else on the market.

And Nthing, gently caress all dress shoes. They're just the dumbest, worst designed things from the dark ages. It's like expecting someone to go to work wearing a neck ruff.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2018 14:42

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Spacewolf posted:

I think he's supposed to be from India.

Fantasy Island, originally.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2018 13:38

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

UCS Hellmaker posted:

Who even used google plus?

I have never been to the Google+ website or created an account for it, yet I still have an account there because Google decided I should.

Like when they linked my anonymous youtube accounts, via my various Gmail accounts, to my real name and displayed it for all to see.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2018 13:10

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

SimonChris posted:

https://thespoon.tech/alpha-dominche-shuts-down-is-commercial-coffee-tech-dead/

At least the Juicero was only $400...

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa inhale HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa

They bought $15,000 coffee makers which need server access. IoT may be the funniest loving thing ever.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2018 13:35

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

RandomPauI posted:

Why do they need to be connected to servers?

Precisely.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2018 14:16

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Weatherman posted:

"Dying"

The pogs are moving out of the accounts in question, apparently.

The court should seize the bitchain.

Shut up, that's totally a thing that can happen.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 03:37

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Introduced, not passed. Though who the hell knows with our government.

Rupert doesn't like competition.

It'll pass.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2019 16:06

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Rent-A-Cop posted:

How do they think they'll even enforce this?

Doesn't matter.

It's all performative wank dribble to show their loyalty to evil uncle Rupe.

In 2017, the Australian government gave Murdoch $30million because they love him so much.

quote:

The federal communications department has refused to release details about $30 million in sports broadcasting funding given to Foxtel, because it says documents about the deal "do not exist".

# ¿ Apr 5, 2019 12:34

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 07:34

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

duz posted:

Companies are using it for corporate training. Don't know if it works better than just watching a normal video.

This creeps me the gently caress out.

Last thing I want when I'm being bored out of my mind with corporate propaganda is someone standing in front of me, who I can't see or know is there, gauging my expressions.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2019 04:49

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