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Apple Talk / Re: The Compleat Billy Chronicles (thanks to Zenpatista)

« on: May 24, 2022, 02:23:08 am »

Billy:  "Are you having some kind of ethical crisis here?"

Tina:  "Yes, and I'm not sure..."

Me:  "Your salary will be <amount>.  Not bad for right out of college."

Tina:  "..."

You see, Tina, your salary isn't just compensation for the work you'll do, it's part of the service you provide; helping to extract money from <agency>.  In fact, it would be unethical not to take their money.

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Literate Chaotic / Lemonade

« on: May 06, 2022, 05:12:37 pm »

You can make lemonade out of your lemons, but the acid remains.

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Or Kill Me / Re: Buttons

« on: April 28, 2022, 02:28:19 pm »

...

Yow.

Framed and formatted like that...it hits different.  I almost don't recognize my own words.

Ship it.

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Apple Talk / Re: A thought experiment

« on: April 27, 2022, 03:18:05 am »

Hiring new employees always has some element of risk; the guy with 20 years of experience could still be a dud.  But, that's not a useful hypothetical, since any new hire is a gamble, regardless.

If the black dude was the only resume you got, would you hire him?  Does his lack of experience increase risk significantly, or only slightly?  What about the personalities of the applicants; experience aside, is there any way to determine which one is more likely to have a safety-minded work ethic?

I don't think the race of the people on the floor should be a significant factor.  My monkey brain says "maybe the black dude will get along better with the floor employees, or feel more responsibility towards them"... but that's racist/tribalist bullshit, and my monkey brain needs to SHUT UP.

Less "human ethical", and more "corporate ethical"...how much extra is your inexperienced engineer likely to cost you in accidents/errors/training while he's coming up to speed, and will his lower initial salary make up for that?  (I'm guessing not, it's just another thing to think about).

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Apple Talk / Re: The Compleat Billy Chronicles (thanks to Zenpatista)

« on: April 27, 2022, 02:43:33 am »

So the drones scrapped each other, as they were the highest concentration of metal in the immediate area.

That is so beautiful it almost brings a tear to my eye.

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Or Kill Me / Buttons

« on: April 27, 2022, 02:42:52 am »

No one likes to think they can be manipulated.  Yet here I am; I have buttons, they can be pushed, and if you push them, everybody loses.  I can be acquaintances--maybe even friends--with someone for years, but if they push a button... we're done.

He said that companies would be within their rights to break people's fingers for copyright infringement.  It's not the worst thing I've ever heard of, but it hit a button.

I expressed dismay/disgust, drew the obvious parallel with the practice of cutting the hands off thieves, and he didn't back down.  He wasn't joking.

Now, I'm something of an armchair tough-guy, myself.  I believe in grand destruction.  I believe in disproportionate response.  Your dog poops on my lawn, I sprinkle birdseed on your car.  You slap my face, I punch you in the neck.

But breaking someone's fingers for copying a fucking video game isn't funny.  It's petty, barbaric, fascistic, corporate.  It's the kind of attitude that reminds me of my father, may he rot in hell.

And that's one of my buttons.


I was a member of a certain video game forum/discord server for years, now I'm not.  The clincher...some time after I soft-flounced, I got a DM telling me I should return, and resume my place.  So I naturally cut off all remaining avenues of communication, without so much as a good-bye.

My place is where I am, not where I've been.

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Apple Talk / Re: OH NO

« on: April 20, 2022, 01:10:17 am »

Can someone please link to his Discordian Sermon on cameo?

Okay:

We only got the first paragraph, but it was like the voice of an angel to my ears

https://www.cameo.com/v/o6prlOXzc

If others want to buy the rest go for it

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Apple Talk / Re: The Compleat Billy Chronicles (thanks to Zenpatista)

« on: April 15, 2022, 02:05:32 am »

It went really well, too.  We got a whole cow through the grinder in less than 5 minutes.

Newsfeed.

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Apple Talk / Re: The Compleat Billy Chronicles (thanks to Zenpatista)

« on: April 12, 2022, 03:00:28 am »

This has sort of split me and my group off onto a tangent, and we have proven there was more information moved between government and NGO departments prior to email than there is today...When measured as "useful, actionable information."

How is that measured?  Does the reduction in information flow appear to be an artifact of technological change, cultural change, or some combination?

(I'm quite cognizant that making it easier for people to ask questions results in a higher proportion of stupid questions.)

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Apple Talk / Re: Seriously, NOW where is the Youtube thread?

« on: April 12, 2022, 02:35:38 am »

This attempted rocket(?) launch is one of the most glorious things I've ever seen.  It's worthy of John Clark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GkzxeDQRj0

Quote from one of the project's founders:  "You have to work hard, but you do not have to be very smart."

Quote from an industry professional: "When you decompose HNO3 with other things, you get nitric oxides in the cloud. This is Not Fun."

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Apple Talk / Re: Official shit on rong thread

« on: April 08, 2022, 03:27:06 am »

I was trying to find this loser's house on google streetview because why not, but I think it's on a dirt road or something, so I skipped down a highway a little ways--just being a tourist, you know, I do that with streetview sometimes--and I saw a sign that said "Escabana Felch ->"  and I says to myself, "What's a Felch?  Is it some sort of geographical term?"  So then I googled "define felch" and

I have the damndest gaps in my vocabulary.

Anyway, Felch Mountain Bible Chapel is a real place, and that fills me with glee.

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Apple Talk / Re: Official shit on rong thread

« on: April 08, 2022, 12:31:00 am »

I did, yeah. I just wasn't digging hard enough for the first round. His email is going to be canned soup in two days time. And I can't WAIT until the winter, when all the schools in Wisconsin have closing alerts.

Hold on, Wisconsin, or <state name redacted to protect the guilty>?

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Apple Talk / Re: Official shit on rong thread

« on: April 08, 2022, 12:25:24 am »

my youtube channel is blowing up with views - is that you?  did you like the balloon joke?  get it?  it's a magic balloon

I may be one of those views, although I don't know if looking at something for five seconds before clicking dislike would count as a view.

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Apple Talk / Re: Official shit on rong thread

« on: April 08, 2022, 12:23:12 am »

With this, you've dug yourself a hole that Elon Musk would say is a bit too deep. It's a shame you aren't as identifiable as Fujikoma or LuciferX, because I would love to just crush your online presence from all conceivable angles. I would make you feel dread to comment on a Youtube video. I have the time, I have the means, I have the energy. Alas, you've covered your online ass -- almost like you know the shit you get up to and what will happen to you for it.

If you're already sending him email, I guess you've already completed a trace, but I found the two posts below quite informative.
Far too informative, really.  A few minutes googling got me to a full name, state, city and street address, and phone number (oops).

rong, like...dude?  You left your address in your profile on that bicycling forum.  You haven't posted there since 2019.  You should really scrub that.

cool stuff - I'd not heard of oculus medium but I am slowly learning Gravity Sketch and I'm absolutely enthralled with it.  I've used it to make a few worlds in Altspace and I can't get over how well it works.

It does seem the healthcare sector is warming up to VR the fastest.  There's a weekly meetup in Altspace (do I maybe spend too much time in altspace, oh probably . . .) on Thursdays called Health Systems chat.  If you haven't been it may be a good networking opportunity for you.

Here's a couple worlds I've made if you're interested in checking them out:

https://account.altvr.com/worlds/1585892395680006822/spaces/1687287820437159965

https://account.altvr.com/worlds/1585892395680006822/spaces/1671215999967297633

this seems like a good place to post my balloon joke.  i hope you like it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6h_OHwfSWM

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Propaganda Depository / Re: Discordian Initiation Into 8 Circuit Awareness, An Ostrich Cult

« on: April 07, 2022, 02:27:46 pm »

geeze, cut a guy some slack, would ya?

What have you ever said or done that would earn you any slack?

1) we all know it's impossible for people to change

Have you changed?  Do you want to change?  Are you going to change?

i just try to make jokes but suffer from bad taste

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