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I like it, do it! Have you read Altered Carbon? Has some similar themes. I loved the book, might be some good inspiration. I’ll read yours when it’s out, love that genre :).

I mean, that was the entire premise of the show, a good person who breaks bad. You are supposed to like him, and supposed to have complicated feelings about his character arc as he devolves deeper and deeper into the dark side. Of course there will be moments during the arc when you still root for him as the badass but that should all be gone by the end, when he’s just a bad guy who got a deserved end.

he’s got harry potter money, takes roles for the fun of it now…

OMG, I do this when a drop is about to spill, it’s reflex, Can’t help it. But I’m always terrified someone will see me being so weird.

Glad to know I’m not alone I guess.

It’s a tough one these days because if this was an absurd art piece I would love it too. However, if this was an average AI fuckup, it’s still funny, but more in the funny weird sense. Yeah, I still kinda like it, but the element of human creativity is gone, and that’s precisely what I love about it, imagining how they would come up with this confusingly hilarious thing. Plus, I can’t stop myself from thinking about all the implications of AI, including the amount of wasted resources for generating this thing.

I think that’s was pisses me off the most about AI, it’s ruined my ability to just appreciate things, now it’s all so fucking complicated.

I was going off about passwords last week because of exactly this kind of shit. Who in the goddamned fuck needs a pringles.com account.

We live in insane times.

Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but the US is filled with shitty people.

Sure, but I still think there should be a way to do this without the need. Password managers are fine, again, not upset with them but still, it should be easy enough to not need one, at least for a normal person.

A lot of this is due to dealing with my elderly parents. They have so much of their lives reliant on services, but they are no longer capable of even figuring out a password manger. Even for important shit, there should be a better way to do this than having to keep track of hundreds of pieces of information. Passwords shouldn’t even be a thing we ever need to use unless we need to break glass. There are methods out there that work, but it’s so disjointed but also interconnected.

Honestly, no idea how it could be solved other than through legislation maybe. Fat fucking chance with the way the world currently works.

Oh, agreed, I do this as well. Again though, so much bullshit, why should we need dozens or hundreds of email addresses?

I feel like everyone is so used to needing accounts for everything, it’s just accepted as a given. When you go to the store to purchase a newspaper, should we have to bring our passport?

I agree, and I do use an open source one, but I disagree that we need to identify ourselves for everything. You can’t even look at a resturaunt menu anymore without signing up for an account. Everything is gate kept behind an account, and those accounts are all so interconnected that when one is compromised, it might for multiple and often you will never know (and I’m not talking about password reuse).

Password managers are a good solution to the problem, I’m not mad at them, I’m mad at the problem that necessitates them.

The fact that modern life basically requires a third party app to prevent instant identity theft and fraud is a real problem.

It all comes down to the fact that every fucking service in the world is just there to scrape data. I don’t need to logon and provide my every detail to check the local weather, I shouldn’t have to give my social security number to play video games…

It was my favorite Star Trek since TNG. It is part of the canon in my head.

I learned at a very young age that church’s real purpose is to make shitty people feel better about themselves.

Well said, I feel the exact same way.

I love this idea. Libraries should provide free hosting for people in the community.

Im all about democratizing the internet, and im all about self hosting. Libraries could be just what we need for that.

Brilliant idea my friend.

I have, but they wouldn’t take a fist born, nor magic beans…

I try to keep one or two near collections at all times. Makes me feel like someone cares…

This is a joke (although I am often behind on bills).

I use Dr. Bronners hemp peppermint for everything. Soap, shampoo, toothpaste, dish soap, dog shampoo, hell, I once washed my car with it.

Ok, so I only use it as toothpaste while camping, but still, I could.

Right, I subconsciously rip off all my tags and even try to buy things without them… I always figured they were meant to be removed because they are so annoying.

It’s true. I have had a good number of jobs, I come, work on things, make improvements, then move on when I’ve grown or they are in a better spot. I honestly thought I was the guy coming in to help fix things and then move on once things are stable.

Instead, I have created a series of opportunities for them to blame the last guy to leave.

No matter how good of a job you do, unless you are there to remind folks, they will forget and use the easy scapegoat. I’m still very popular with the folks I worked with on the ground, but management types are primarily after someone else to blame…