Should cut off and feed him his own toes then tie him behind a wild horse

I made very fair money from the first guy.

My prices are high but I usually give discounts, I can't remember the last time I actually charged full price for anything. But this guy was a dick the whole way through, "why didn't this work? That should've done this! The server must be so outdated you have to do a better job". He tried to be smarter than me by compensating for lack of a decade and a half of experience with a $20 subscription to a chatbot.

The 2nd guy was completely apologetic, basically said "hey I fucked up, charge me whatever you need to but please don't rake me over the coals", and was just trying to do something unrelated on his own and figure it out with the resources he had, even if he went about it in a silly way. I charged him an hour to clean up the server which was just removing the stuff he installed, and then showed him how to set up stremio on his devices and kodi on his TV for sports stuff.

The first guy probably won't renew his contract, which is fine. The second was easy about it all and I would've helped him set up that stuff for free anyway if he just asked, as I do for anyone who asks.

I don't know of this counts, but I have a side gig making websites and managing servers. A lot of generic WordPress or HTML sites for small local businesses.

In the last month I've seen a huge uptick of people trying to do stuff on the fucking servers themselves.

With the recent PHP CVEs, I patched every server I manage as soon as I got the alert. But that didn't stop one guy who's techy enough to have heard about it and know its an issue, but not techy enough to manage his own systems, use Claude to ssh into the server and ask it to run a security scan on all the packages.

Claude suggested updating absolutely everything, deleting packages that were in use, and installing a bunch of unnecessary stuff.

Needless to say he took his site offline, and I spent like 2 hours trying to get it back in shape before canning it and restoring from a backup. It cost him a nice chunk of change since I charge extra for emergency services.

At the end of all that he still said "here's a list of issues Claude says we should fix".

I had another guy who wanted to start pirating shows and movies, and was "trying to set up kodi" but for some reason the robot told him to install the whole *arr stack. So naturally he used his business server because all its doing is hosting his website and he's already paying for it. He ended up installing every arr software there is, he was almost ready to pirate books and music too. Well his server wasn't prepared for that since all it was doing was hosting a small local websites and only had 4gb ram. All the resources got drained and everything kept crashing, the ai told him to stop nginx since it was using too many resources for him to run his arr stack.

These are 2 pretty intelligent guys, not dumb by any standards. Whose confidence was propped up so high that they trusted fancy autocorrect who told then exactly how to willy nilly take down their own systems.

This was just this week, there was another incident last week and the week before that.

I think that's kind of a naive take.

I think its a fair thought in a perfect world where she could have just said "you must be mistaken" and know she won't get shot just for talking back.

Imagine you're going about your day doing normal stuff, and suddenly you have 4 (5?) armed thugs running at you with guns drawn and a long history of shooting people for fun and getting away with it.

Anyone is gonna be panicked, anyone is going to take a split second to try and decide where their best chances of survival are. Especially with a baby in the car, I can't blame her at all for trying to get away from the situation, regardless of whether she stole fucking diapers or not.

They could have shot her and her baby if she had just stopped and got out too. She made a choice and it ended in tragedy, but it's nowhere near her fault.

Every once in a while I'm somewhere with cable and my wife and I like to watch it and laugh at the commercials. The commercials are not supposed to be funny, but boy are they sometimes entertaining, especially when one of us spots evident AI like how the fuck did that make it past so many people

Oh it's pre-k 4, not technically kindergarten but he's in the same Elementary school building in a classroom right next to the kindergartners with kids 4-5 years old, I don't know how the age cut off works at all but I remember someone saying there's kids in pre-k who are older than some kids in kindergartners. I guess at a certain point you can choose to keep them in pre-k for another year. I've just been calling it kindergarten since he's started and it pretty much is so no ones really corrected me. Of all the available preschools in the area this is the most "advanced" as far as having kids do school stuff instead of being a glorified daycare.

Still I was surprised to hear kids were in diapers and had to look it up. The district changed the rules last year because so many kids who signed up weren't toilet trained.

I'm just glad he told us instead of internalizing those emotions and acting out.

I don't have any good advice to to offer, but I play a couple instruments, work out in the form of carpentry (and other trade skills when they come up), I could go out and do something everyday but opt to stay home by myself most days. I'm in great shape, I make the most money I ever have, and I have everything I ever wanted. I still feel like the biggest fucking loser I know most days.

I spend my days alone by a forced necessity of responsibilities I've made for myself ie. The chicken coop needs work, actually the whole thing needs to be rebuilt, now I need to retill the field again, I can't go out because I put a lunch of electrical equipment in a barn so now I have to spend the next month insulating and sealing the whole structure before winter hits. I'm afraid if I spend to much time with other people they'll see what a loser I am.

All that to say I don't think you need to play an instrument or go to the gym everyday to not be a loser. I think that's the societal easy route that most people default to, but deep down it's something else. I don't know what that is, but if you find out let me know.

Also don't judge yourself based off of other people, everyone's fake in some way.

I have a coworker who went full AI, and I think is actually losing it, like sees them as people. He was telling me he's been asking chatgpt for relationship advice and how I should use it to get advice on my relationships (my wife and I are fine because I prefer talking to her than the robots).

On Friday he was spamming me with "issues" that codex found with my PR. I think he sent over 20 bulletpoints. 1 of them was a small bug that would only apply in a way far out edge case but good to fix. The rest was absolute nonsense, or evidently not an issue if a huge read it and thought about the context.

I ignored him all day, but still had to take the time to read and verify everything. At 4pm he sends me a message asking me to fix the bugs or he can have codex fix them. I told him they were nonsense and not applicable, explained each one in simple terms, then 20 minutes later I got a message "codex said there's still these issue: <the same fucking list that he evidently didn't read>".

This has been going in for a while. I spend half my week fixing his AI slop that he genuinely thinks is gold. I swear 4 months ago he was a very solid developer, today I wouldn't trust him to write an HTML page.

My brother in law works at a pretty big dealership in the area. He said the markets so stupid right now that they're buying new cars from wholesalers and holding them for 30 days so they can sell them as used. Somehow this has been incredibly profitable for them. I don't really understand how but it apparently works out that the customer gets a hefty discount on an essentially new car without the manufacturer warranties and the volume is big enough to where the dealership is hitting record numbers.

None of it makes sense.

I'm 6 years sober this month

Granted I'm not a gamer, but I don't think I've ever even heard of prime gaming. I've heard of steam though.

I got 3 months paid paternity leave through a state program. A coworker who had a kid that same month chose to not use the state program and take 2 PTO days instead. I talked to him before hand and told him about the program but he said something like "I wouldn't be much help, she's done it twice already so she has it handled". It was very evident how his wife felt about him at the Christmas party that year.

She sought out my wife, who she knew had a kid recently too and my wife brought up how nice it was to have me home for those first few months and somehow the state program came up in the conversation. She then booked it over to me and asked me about it, not knowing what was going on or thinking much about it, I told her about it and that I can't believe coworker didn't do it. Then all hell broke loose. This tiny little lady dragged out my 6 foot heavy set coworker by the ear, calling him every name in the book. She made him use all his PTO days and went to spend new years somewhere warm. He bitched about how hard it was taking care of 3 kids on his own for weeks.

'Funny' enough all the guys in the office thought she was being ridiculous but all the women were praising her.

I had a pretty fucked up childhood and hadn't spoken to most of my family since 12-13 aside from funerals. My wife got an invite to the family Christmas party of Facebook and decided it would be good to go. The night before my mom called and told me that one of my uncles was trying find my other uncle so he could kill him, which is pretty par for the course.

We go to this Christmas party, I'm nervous and playing out all the ways it could go horribly wrong. What do you know, no one is drunk, there's games for the kids, almost everyone there got gifts for my son and we even got gifts for our second on the way. Not a single altercation that I saw, not even a casual "fuck you". All of the alcoholic, mentally ill, rage filled relatives that I remember are now old, properly medicated and mostly sober.

I felt like I was in the twilight zone. My wife came up to me at one point and said everyone's so nice especially that guy and I had to tell her he once beat the shit out of me with a bat, breaking my leg and cut my shoes up with a knife all because I left them in the middle of the floor and he tripped over them.

It was absolutely wild but not in the way I thought it would be.

Holy shit I just watched a 7 minute clip. That was a hard watch. What a couple of clowns.

I wild chicken would've been less disrespectful and a better conversation.

That I grew up homeless, got hooked on pills and then started breaking into houses and commited to a life of crime. I have multiple home invasion, assault, and firearm trafficking charges on my sheet, along with plenty of other stuff.

Nowadays I'm a software developer with a small farm that I spend most of my time working on. I'm quiet, don't go out much and just spend my time in nature with my family. I also volunteer at food drives and donate a good chunk of what I grow. I try to give back and improve the community as much as I can. People seem to consider me a good person now and I've been called Mr Rogers a handful of times in the past few years.

It doesn't come up often and I don't advertise it but it does unfortunately come up here and there. I only got my shit together 6 years ago when I got sober and just this year got off probation.

I hate fireworks and always have. I get people like them, but I wish they didn't go all night from every direction. If each area had a central park/spot where they did a big firework show for everyone for a little bit I wouldn't mind it as much, but now every street has they're own fireworks that go off randomly through the night.

Also something I don't think a lot of people think about. In my old neighborhood a lot of us had varying forms on PTSD and couldn't deal with the loud bangs. Holidays where fireworks were heavy were treated as a ceasefire/peace day for the most part since basically everyone who had been involved in a shooting was a mess, which was almost everyone. Others took the chance to disrespect that and use the fireworks as cover, they weren't treated well.

I'm sure most veterans feel the same or worse.

It's not just dogs who lose it at fireworks.

I've seen my neihborhood slowly shifting in the few years I've been here.

I got everyone on my small street to start gardening and they got other blocks to start, we all share our extra crops for the most part. No one is very good quite yet aside from a few houses who've been doing it for years and have been trying to help us non green thumbers.

There's a plumber 2 streets over who's lived there for a decade, I used him for a job and now he's the go to guys for most of my direct neighbors.

I make my own oat milk so I buy oats in bulk. A few people in the neighborhood buy a bunch from me for much cheaper than the grocery store and some have even started making their own oatmilk with me.

Anytime someone needs tech support they come over to me first, I used to see a geek squad van in the niehborhood weekly since there a lot of elderly. I hate doing it, but my god those tech support companies are slimy.

I've done a couple carpentry projects in the neighborhood and helped fix quite a few fences.

I feel like I moved here and said "why don't we help eachother out?" And it was a revolutionary idea that no one had thought about before.

When I was in the city it's just what you did. People survived with eachother but out here in a weird mix between the sticks/suburbs it seems like most people don't even know their neighbors names.

This might be fake, but I have a neighbor like this.

She's been freaking out about groceries, the price of her meds going up, now losing her insurance.

I've helped her out a lot more than any orange has the last few months, yet she still spouts about how great he is. Although now with much less enthusiasm, and if you don't put trumps name in the conversation she sort of comes back to reality a little and can realize that a bill gutting social safety nets to give the 1% a huge tax cut isn't a fair deal.

It's a cult.

"To better assist you please describe the nature of your emergency...... Let's try this again. To better assist..."

I had a coworker over the other day because my wife loves his wife.

At one point he's telling me that they're coming out with AI sex robots that can do EVERYTHING and he's going into detail like he read the spec sheet and got excited. He's telling us how it will be the end of humanity because all men are going to divorce their wives, ditch their girlfriends and stop dating because they're just going to be fucking robots.

I said I don't see that happening on a large scale. I'm sure some guys will, but I doubt anyone who's going to give up women to fuck robots would have been procreating anyway and we probably wouldn't lose out on much in the gene pool. His wife started cracking up and agreeing with me, calling these guys freaks, and my coworker got real quiet and sulked into his chair.

So I know at least 1 person who would love to go to a robot strip club.