_bcron

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[–] _bcron@midwest.social 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] _bcron@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

I can't vouch for the others but I just remember seeing that truck pic make its rounds on reddit. Hard to tell what's real and not with the compression in this pic tho and with all the AI stuff floating around, never hurts to be skeptical!

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 16 points 1 day ago (8 children)

That one's real tho - higher res image here. Truck beds are mega flimsy up top aside from the stake pockets

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago

I got carried away with a 2004 Chevy Cavalier coupe at Ikea like 15 years ago. I bought a bedframe, nightstand, dresser, and a couple cheap wood chairs.

And then I saw a small cheap couch and decided to grab it impulsively on my way to checkout like it was a pack of gum or something.

I got everything except the couch to just barely barely fit, and I started looking at that huge box for the couch and thought "have I lost my mind" and had to go back in and return it right then and there

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Be me, postal worker. One of our machines uses a csv file to attach zip codes to bins. See fresh engineer decide to change one zip code in notepad really quick. See file's formatting get wrecked. Spend next 6 hours watching all the mail spit out of the very last bin every time they think they finally fix it as if machine has irritable bowel syndrome. Engineer earns nickname 'boy wonder' first week on job

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel bad for the kids working in these conditions

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 9 points 4 weeks ago

And then we have beavers which have seemingly mastered the use of gates in order to direct and impede flow

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If the media would quit making articles out of X posts and hosting said posts for clickthroughs that'd be great.

They'll even link to X in articles specifically discussing how bad X or Musk is, like no drop is responsible for the flood

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

The only people wishing for civil war are too short-sighted to understand how horribly it would go for them. Ports, airports, water treatment plants, data centers, power stations etc etc etc predominantly located in urban areas. Good luck to the AR-15 loving whackjobs when they're instantly landlocked and deprived of foreign trade and means to communicate. They turn on the TV and the only broadcasts they'd see are "this can end now and it all starts with you"

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trump is gonna ramble on about what a "woman job" means in an attempt at damage control, mid-debate with Kamala, and the collective sound of 100 million Americans sharply inhaling will echo through all the streets when he unintentionally endorses her on national TV

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree with you in the though that humans have been doing this stuff for the longest. We're sophisticated algorithms that look at the work of other people, attempt to discern what has merit, and if the stars align we might write the screenplay to the Notebook, publish Twilight, or doodle Deadpool on a napkin.

But the theft in my opinion is that a minority control this nascent tech, based on existing capital, and most of that 'venture capital bro' money funding this was made off of platforms that became wildly profitable for them from humans that were doing this. But now this is going to displace them and create no more need for them.

There'll come a day when Youtube and Tik Tok design their own 'content creators' and at that point they'll start cutting ad revenue to the people that put them in this position in the first place. Betrayal. It's like Spez calling mods entitled crybabies, once this is in full gear everyone who helped get it rolling will be cast aside like chaff and a couple dozen people will get billions of dollars out of it

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 33 points 1 month ago

Votes are the only thing that's gonna make him lose, and we're gonna need enough votes that something like that couldn't be remotely feasible. I'm hoping no one reads all these articles and thinks there's no reason for them to vote because it's already looking like a slam dunk because it's absolutely not gonna be a slam dunk

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