@tosensei you upvoted each other for saying wet things are wet!

@tosensei it was new to me and I only learned about it now due to seeing a guy talk about Burkina faso where such things were being used

if I don't know about it lots of other people also probably don't. we don't really pay attention to poor countries in the western world. I heard such things in passing by some Indian PhD woman but I didn't believe her because I didn't find her to be a credible source because at the time I was quite new to perspectives of people from other countries and had no way to corroborate what she was saying. so this was the first time it occurred to me that this actually happens and it was used in Burkina Faso to keep the people poor, like as an actual specific case, strategy, with all the drama that such would ensue, which made it feel real to me and I wanted to share that feeling

@tosensei it's not that I need it spelled it out, it's that you wanna dunk on others when it doesn't even factually apply

@lorentz what, how would billions make sense

rude hyperbole

I'm starting to not like you. started going down when I got excited when you said you had a female YouTuber who coded but it was not... that was very rude. and you have not redeemed yourself in attitude since then

I see you guys upvoted each other but not me, who originally brought up the topic. sigh

@tosensei also it is GMO. weren't you the dude shouting how GMO is good to eat and I'm nuts for mentioning it?

if "capitalists" would ruin seeds, how congruent is the idea that "capitalists" would GMO-engineer plants that would give you illnesses so they can sell you the cures, like these people sold these seeds? doesn't take much. lots of natural toxins in nature. just splice them in (I'm being facetious here, I don't think it happens through that route)

@tosensei wait til you find out who made the federal reserve

or what the federal reserve even is... I guess most people never looked into it. it's pretty crazy we use money and don't know how it works. if school should've taught us anything it should've been that

put on an AI hat, speak robotically, see if that tricks them

the interesting thing is there's a difference between rote memorization and actually understanding something

I guess it makes me think of that more now with the AIs. understanding something gives you some magical quality of being able to pull answers as if out of a hat. your intuition somehow knows where to go

AIs when faced with this problem struggle. I wonder if that intuition is otherworldly? the soul, consciousness, perhaps? if the AIs can't mimic it despite people trying that would be an interesting way to test my hypothesis!

with thinking models they probably are more likely to engage double checking subroutines

@tosensei ye ye ye ye ofc

acidic as always

@retoor hey they gave me beer

I don't dislike pizza parties and stuff either

definitely on the respect. despite offering beer. arbitrarily they would... once you showed to the bar. just decide that you couldn't drink anymore. they're like we will have a 3 hour party at a bar at dinner time. they order no food, and regularly they paid for everyone's alcohol for the 3 hours but sometimes they bait and switch it -- so you showed up and they cut you off an hour or 30 minutes in. people weren't abusing it either but it just felt so dishonest and arbitrary

I don't even like being drunk. I hated pizza, and this was an Italian place so they did fancy pasta places also, but I hate carbs. I don't want to put carbs in my body. they make me feel terrible. so I never liked the pizza thing. but I always loved the beer thing. sometimes they did lunch and I could order ribs at a tavern basically (they didn't pay for that but still)

I guess it's the thought that matters -- and if the thought sucks?

@retoor ironically this is the first time one of @tosensei 's comments can be interpreted as supportive

hey I used to have 145 IQ. I was the smartest person in every room I ever went to. not anymore because the vaccine mangled my brain. but I still have the egoic intelligence of 28 years of being smarter than every person I ever met

also tosensei is actually unironically like, really dumb. if I was judgemental against dumb people though my life would've been miserable. I had to learn how to exist with people who were dumber than me. otherwise I would've had a very lonely life. so I can't even take the "dumb" comments seriously lmao. even with my brain damage I'm still smarter than most people, even the people who are regarded as very smart by their communities. so what am I even whining about!

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for context this was my first and only job and I can't bring myself to try another. because I think it will be as fucked up. felt like prison. I decided I would rather die instead

probably could have an AI do it

naw I would rather be forgotten, just as nature intended

my roommate had 12

sometimes 18 or sometimes 8. but normally 12

he would make them and retire them throughout his life

and basically they would debate in his head when he wanted to make any decision

in retrospect it is no wonder he had analysis paralysis. that's a lot of overhead

@AvatarOfKaine you're wearing the glasses

@dIREsTRAITS I don't know if right or wrong

I would put in contract if nonpayment then services will be taken down

and also that you own the intellectual property rights to everything you built for them and if they still have copies you'll sue them for violating the copyright (it's actually not worth suing them unless they're making profit off it though -- you'll just lose money doing it, but if they made profit you get the profits)

only on payment does ownership of the services and intellectual property become theirs. that sort of thing

it's all about thinking of it ahead of time

@Chewbanacas you're not terribly good at being understandable

I don't understand your point either. ok. if gasoline had lead and now it doesn't cuz we tinkered on the technology, good. but why are we switching to a more inefficient, admittedly more pollutant form of energy? just for kicks?

@kiki lions have a natural evolutionary engrained fear of humans actually

cuz apparently we hunted them so much in the savannahs way back when

@Chewbanacas I don't even know what you're saying

I think the green energy thing is a cult though. so I think you misunderstood me

we're investing into inefficient technology... just because some globalist elites cronied up into investment companies and governments. it makes me sad

nor is it morally superior. those batteries are so dangerous. the chemical runoff from green energy things is horrible for the environment, for real unlike CO2, and they are not even required to do end of life plans to clean those things up in Canada. in Canada to get mining or oil extraction approved you have to present how you will clean up the land afterwards and pay upfront for those costs. but if you setup windmills, solar panels, which will degrade and rot, there is no such thing. now they're putting those damned solar panels above water. where they will degrade and leach into literally where most of the clean drinkable water resides on earth. it's a travesty

fucking radioactive bucky balls

@iiii vulnerabilities and bugs are the same thing to me...

vulnerabilities are far far far more serious bugs actually

a typical bug just annoys the user. you know an icon just disappears under your mouse when it shouldn't. stuff like that

vulnerabilities? you just cost your company 20m and now it's going through restructuring because you whoopsie bankrupted them and also ruined their reputation, tehe

@gitstashio eh they can give me the cheapest. I'll clean it so it runs faster. if I can't then I guess my work will be slower and it's their loss. I'll tell them the issue but who am I to judge

it's actually immensely surprising how much bloat improvement and performance you can squeeze out of things though when you get really into it. I might innately enjoy such weird things though

probably reached max storage or something

I also noticed sometimes the app loses network connection or the connection goes slow. and I don't think it's me because everything else worked fine for me in those moments

and also marinates itself in the guts of other mice it's killed so that you have a harder time smelling it. it wears their scent like humans wear a mask on Halloween!

you had me up until you mentioned electric

I'm very good at finding those spots. people call me uncivilized because of it I think. alas

though in "stable" conditions I try to shut up as much as possible. I honestly can't predict when something I'll say will set someone off. in my head I'd rather know stuff than not know it so the whole idea of being upset about it seems weird. I would feel in debt and super excited if people told me such things!

I could probably sell things really easily

sell what?

it's actually kind of strange and I've never used the ability. as a kid my friends were suuuuper annoyed at me. because I'd get excited about a video game and talk about it and everyone would go to it because somehow me just existing would sell them on every single video game I ever talked about, and then I would get bored in a week and leave when they were just getting started lol

but also I can intellectually bludgeon people over the head in debates and stuff. not really useful for sales probably but I'm oddly good at being persuasive

it's kind of weird because I actually despise salesmen but I think I'd make a good one, provided I didn't have shitty constraints on me. like people often say working a call center or a sales job was super good for them because they learned a lot but that shit seems depressing to me. whereas if I got to sell things however I wanted to I might actually like it 🤔

that's how the lizards getcha

he be stuck in hell and can't escape it

*getting annoyed by this rate*