Surprisingly reasonable?

I was terrified that entering the corporate world would mean being surrounded by people who are obssessed with AI.

Instead like… The higher-ups seem to be bullish on it and how much money it’ll make them (… And I don’t mind because we get bonuses if the corp does well), but even they talk about how “if you just let AI do the job for you, you’ll turn in bad quality work” and “AI just gets you started, don’t rely on it”

We use some machine learning stuff in places, and we have a local chatbot model for searching through internal regulations. I’ve used Copilot to get some raw ideas which I cooked up into something decent later.

It’s been a’ight.

~/Brojetos (anything relating to making stuff, writing, drawing, video creation, programming, etc., professional or personal)

~/temp (a non-hidden temp folder with a script that wipes it when the PC shuts down or reboots, used for downloads and such to prevent the “downloads folder is an abomination” problem that plagues any computer after a while of usage)

~/AppsGames (appimages, applications compiled from source and not installed to system, personal use scripts, wineprefixes, non-steam games)

aaaand ~/OtherAminals (for stuff I want to keep but have no idea where else to place)

That was why I mentioned Gen 2

It dropped in 2000 after a LOOOONG development hell. And one flap of the butterfly’s wing would have stopped Gold and Silver from being released

Which in turn would have killed the franchise’s momentum.

Do I have the power to change things on a large scale? Cuz like, I was already an adult by 2011, and I still just sorta watched as shit went to shit. I did ‘my part’, and I warned people when I could about alarming trends they were unwittingly contributing to, but no one cared, and to be honest, unless one can actually hit the powerful folks, there is very little an individual can do.

If I have power to change things, to actually affect the powerful people, then I’m going to Y2K and I have a few ideas:

• Stomp Jair Bolsonaro to death a full decade before he becomes popular. When he was a nobody state representative from São Paulo who was only there to generate more seats for his party.
• Arrange a convenient accident for Steve Jobs years before the iPod drops. People talk about technology becoming boring, I place the blame for that entirely at Apple’s feet. And it all began with the iPod, which in turn, if you believe the stories told, was Jobs’ baby, to the point he harrassed the engineers at Apple for years until it was EXACTLY as he had planned.
• Stop 9/11 from happening, which slows down the US’s descent into being a Police State, which in turn slows down the rise of neoconservatism/neofascism pretty much everywhere. Oh it’ll still happen, but maybe if it happens more slowly, there might be fewer victims and people might do something about it sooner.

Oh and

• “Disappear” Peter Thiel. People really sleep on how much damage Thiel has done because he doesn’t post cringe as often as say, Musk. But he’s the high priest for the techbro “we are building god” faith.

I can’t exactly do much about Climate Change with the time given. For that I’d need the same power-scale but to go back to the 60s, when the first scientists took notice of the trend but had their research suppressed by big oil.

Darling if you want to stop Nintendo from becoming Nintendo it’s not the GameCube you have to fuck with. The GC was already a gigantic flop (although home to 5 or 6 amazing games). Nobody cared about it in the early aughts and in fact it carried the stigma of being “for little kids” and you could be bullied in school for having one.

You need to hit them where it actually hurts.

You need to stop Pokémon. I feel stopping Gen2 from dropping might have done the trick, made it into just another fad that passed instead of STILL TO THIS DAY THE BIGGEST MEDIA FRANCHISE IN THE WORLD.

Nintendo would have died in the n64 years if Pokémon didn’t carry them on its back (and also completely change the face of pop culture by getting the west into Anime).

Every time they made a flop, Pokémon is what saw them through it.

Well, according to one really bad video game, it’s a late 90s mac.

Depends

First see it? I must have been eeeeh six. Saw the word in Civilization: Call to Power

COMPREHEND it? 12 years old at history class.

Sorry for your loss, mate

And thanks for the advice. Even if right now I want to make sad animal noises at the idea of “just doing it”.

It’s been about 5 months, idk if that counts as ‘recently’ (but I’m also VERY nd, so maybe you got a point :p)

Sorry, not convinced. Wait, not sorry either.

All the most terrible christians I have ever had the displeasure of interacting with were Protestants, whereas Catholics are just sorta there, honestly. (and I won’t comment on Orthodoxy because it’s too foreign. Like they might be terrible or amazing, I just never interacted with them, not a thing in my neck of the woods at all)

It is Evangelical Churches boosting fascist candidates in the US and my own country of Brazil.

If people want to convince me that Protestantism ISN’T authoritarian ultracapitalism in Church Clothes, they’ll have to show me something that stands stronger than the entirety of the past 10 years

Trump, Bolsonaro, all boosted by Protestants.

I can guarantee you that all protestants here in Brazil are like that.

In fact when you consider that protestantism started as a defence of capitalism when the Catholic Church was condemning it – It’s hard to believe the faith isn’t that at its core.

Protestantism.

Protestantism is Christianity but Jesus is Replaced with Capitalism. If you’re rich, God has chosen you. If you’re poor you have definitely committed every sin.

To help the poor is therefore a betrayal of God.

No, propaganda would convince them standing together is ‘woke’.

Also bots would insta-win any auctions by outbidding any human beings.

they’re the same picture.

Gay nerds.

• Digimon Adventure (1998) – Contains: Divorced parents who deeply love their children and are willing to put their differences aside for their sake, adopted son learning that his parents really love him and that he really loves them, cool older brother who tells overly-pressured kid to stop trying to meet expectations and go do what makes him happy. (also – Kaiju fights, of course) – Plus, christmas miracle, ALL the family members are alive at the end!

If you’re willing to tank a whole heap of tragedy around the wholesomeness –

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brothehood (and the Manga. Actually I prefer the Manga) is a classic about a pair of brothers who face many difficulties together. It’s really sweet how much they protect each other. Shout out also to their not-sister-childhood-friend for being an honorary third sibling. Then there’s their father, absentee for most of the show, but once he appears he’s fully ready to sacrifice himself for their sake and all that.

I vanted orranje. Zey gave me lemon-lime :(

What do those acronyms mean

Google didn’t help

Me who pirates all his music:

A general rule of thumb that I picked up in the Reddit days is that if a community calls itself the “not censored” version of another community, it is 100%, no ifs ands or buts about it, going to be a sewage system.

Populated mostly by people who were kicked from the other community for being assholes but think they’re paragons of telling it like it is.