There's definitely some poor bastard who just naturally has this face and doesn't deserve all this lmao

This is legit kinda beautiful to me hahahaha. We're all Bob Ross on this blessed day.

My foray into woodworking began and ended with figuring "sheesh, custom picture frames are so expensive, how hard could it be?!"...

By the end of that experience, nothing felt real anymore. Every foolishly pure mathematical concept, every platonic ideal - shameful indulgences of the young and weak. Our grand edifices of knowledge, little more than piles of tattered rags with which we clothe our nakedness, arrogant and hubristic in our vulgar conceits.

Don't do it y'all. That abyss gazes back.

That's really a pretty staggering fact when you think about it. Windows has jumped the shark so completely that you prefer Linux for running old Windows games. I feel like even just 5 years ago, most folks would find a statement like that completely bizarre, and now it's taken as entirely sensible.

It has been so entertaining to watch these idiots trash one of the most dominant market positions in the history of markets. Just amazing stuff. And I really think we're gonna see that get even worse! I should be buying stock in popcorn lol

Yes, this one has tasted blood before. You can tell by the way that it is.

Feels to me like a very normal thing to share with people I'm very close with, just sorta sharing life updates and chatting ("I'm looking for a job", but weightier). But yeah would be really weird outside of that.

But also, no argument about the cliche lol. The one area of human sexuality the US is apparently less prudish about - specifically intending to make babies!

Rubbed me the wrong way too, dude is the exact opposite of AI. He IS clearly vibing in the photo however.

Ah, alcoholic then

I think the joke is just that the individual's subconscious supplied explicit imagery that the consciousness never asked for, like an intrusive thought. Doesn't read to me as a comment on the couple sharing the info.

"Sorry, my brain did a thing", right there.

Edit: it does not seem that the rest of the thread agrees with me lol

Yeah, people got different backs and different injuries. I've done a ton of rehab (just strength training basically) so mine's not nearly as sensitive as it used to be. But the wrong mattress can still leave me in rough shape. Like, hard to get through the day, and I say that as kind of a glutton for punishment TBH.

I'm active, just slightly overweight (beer and pizza, shit goes hard), but I have a couple muscle spasms from old injuries that'll probably never truly be gone entirely.

I'm also a pretty frugal individual, but a decent (for my needs) mattress is non negotiable for me. Legit can't have a normal life with one that works poorly. Just gets worse and worse night after night, no matter what I do, till I can't walk or stand really. Takes like a week or two at max, but I can speed run it too sometimes lol.

We just have a basic Leesa (no idea if they're still around), pretty straightforward latex foam dealie. Think it was around $1k, maybe 7 years ago. Zero issues, sleep like a dream on it, holding up great too. I don't know that it's a one size fits all situation, but it does seem to work great for my spine in particular.

As a (primarily) Python dev, I hope you use this and have a miserable time lol

Sorry about the narrow urethra, Hank.

Nothing Palantir does has peace in mind. And they for damn sure aren't someone's home. Get a grip.

Eh, he's just the one who proclaims his misery most loudly, while somehow just never seeming to realize how embarrassingly revealing he's being.

Make no mistake, whooooole lot of these rich pricks have nothing whatsoever that even resembles what most of us would call a meaningful relationship.

I enjoy and appreciate nature in nearly all its forms. Even mosquitos just tryna live, they're born required to bite somebody 🤷‍♂️

Fuck the Canada goose.

Fuck em as a group, fuck their whole flocks, fuck a flying V of Canada geese. Fuck em as an entire grand, branching lineage of this strange fractal miracle we call life, get rid of the Canada goose and our timeline returns to the more harmonious path it had been on before everything stopped making sense.

Canada is cool, fuck that goose tho.

What a dumbass take, are you trying to be obtuse? Who would make an argument that exploding anything is peaceful?

I'm saying "peace" is not the ultimate moral value you seem to think it is. Fuck being peaceful towards those who want the very worst for us. There's no moral high ground in peacefully letting fascists do fascism, actually the morality of the situation points in the exact opposite direction. I'm guessing you don't actually know very much about Palantir.

Couldn't agree more. Field service is one hell of a drug. Money's good, variety is fun, the chaos and travel are fun too, and you learn a lot quickly. The latter often because some or all of the mfg. plant you're visiting needs you to fix your stuff so they can run, and no one is coming to BFE to help you, lol.

But that all wears off, in time, and it starts to take a huge toll like you described. Never met a long term field service engineer with a healthy home life, or with their health in general. I got out because both of mine were crumbling, for real.

When you've visited enough industrial plants and seen the wildly ranging safety standards and practices, the aggregated statistics just aren't very interesting.

I've been to a plant, a Superfund site that supplies a material strategically necessary to the US, and which will thus never be closed - that released clouds of chlorine gas daily. Staff at the neighboring plant have to literally watch for yellow clouds and fuckin run when they see them.

Paper mills? Even just their "man lifts" (thankfully going the way of the dinosaur), something like a vertical conveyor belt where you stand on this narrow pad to rapidly ascend floors - hilariously dangerous.

Any kind of metal extraction and processing with strong acids, incidents do happen. Worst I personally observed (far from the worst I've heard of) I got called to remotely help assess a refining plant using lots of gross acids, after an earthquake caused a plant evacuation and an unknown cloud of mixed something started building above it.

Some of the high tech processes I've seen are truly chilling. Like, "no one in a 100 ft radius survives at all if this stuff gets released".

I did that work for less than 10 years. Statistics are great, but they also hide nuance like it's their job. Anyone who has done this kind of work understands the elevated danger, though it does vary a lot from place to place (really more industry to industry).

Someone was posting a week or two ago having done something kinda like that. Something to do with magic circles or similar, looked rad.

My favorite author of fiction. Try Revelation Space (a series) for more far-future deep time craziness. Try Revenger for a treasure-hunting romp in a universe with countless fallen space empires and their spooky relics.