4grams

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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

something about this seems familiar. I swear, there was some dude who wanted to buy twitter to prevent this exact sort of thing from happening.. wonder what ever happened to that guy?

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 46 points 2 months ago

setting the stage for the next coup attempt?

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

laws are just threats made by the ruling class

you know, I've never heard it stated exactly like this but shit, well said.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

good, I'm glad. I saw it in the theater and the biggest thing I took away from it was an appreciation for not having overdone it. just a fun, nostolgic take on an old halloween classic with ultimately low stakes. hit just the right note as far as I'm concerned.

still 100 million is a lowered budget. sheesh.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

the grift pays.. holy shit.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

$100k a MONTH

Wasn't it 100k a week

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 3 months ago

well said. money in politics has some pretty awful downstream effects. who'd have ever thunk it...

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I swear shit has gotten exponentially worse since I was young. For example, last year I suffered a brain injury, I have about a month of missing memory. During that month, my homeowners association sent notice that they were being sold to another management company and the autopay I'd been using for 5 years would be cancelled. I missed this notice due to being in the hospital with brain damage and so never got new payment switched over.

I'm used to companies being gracious and working with their customers. Instead I had a lawyer sicked on me and the paperwork to forclose my house was started. I wound up having to pay all their legal fees and penalties which was an order of magnitude more than the actuall missed payments.

This was the most painful one recently but this is par for the course. Someone else said it in this thread but it's become a real dog eat dog world, something that used to be a folksy saying has now become a harsh reality.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Is it infrastructure week yet?

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Oh my this is good news. I pretty much made peace with it being done but am am stupid excited now. IMHO it's become the best star trek show since TNG.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 58 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I honestly thought it was common knowledge that these things were essentially free labor for training AI.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 73 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I was not a harris booster previously but the biggest complaint I have about her, "Copmala" is actually a significant strength in this election. Then I started reading into her voting record. Combine that with her being a woman in the post roe v wade world, and a woman of color against the most xenophobic party that any of us have experienced and I think she's EXACTLY what we need.

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