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@xwanyex to be fair, i don’t think people are much if any more productive at the office. very few people have a job that actually requires them to do meaningful work

I’ll never stop taking victory laps about this. From the second remote work became a hot topic in 2020 I have been consistent on the view that it is impossible to believe that human beings are more productive at home.

i had to wear husky jeans when i was a kid complete with my mom yanking on the fly button in front of the dressing room and asking if there was enough room. i graduated high school 6’2”/172 lbs.

@FowderSoap @MarsAutomatic @dyingscribe I haven’t followed this very closely at all and that’s the feeling i got

@MarsAutomatic @dyingscribe Like I said, they basically all know each other through friends of friends, etc. I have no fucking clue what my exes are doing. The fact they're all sort of in contact with each other points to a small, insular scene.

Seriously, what did flesh simulator even do to have people on his neck like this?

@WallStreetApes yeah, but do you have experience as a cashier you fucking twat? what stupid post.

This is how bad the job market is “I just got denied a job from Target. I have a f*cking bachelor's degree. I spent 4 years on a bachelor's degree, and — I can't get a cashier's job. I cannot get a minimum wage job” This is not uncommon. On average in 2026, Americans must apply for over 100 jobs before being hired In tough fields that number climbs to 100-200+ on average She says she was interested in getting a Masters but if she cent even get a cashiers job with a bachelors degree, what’s the point

@fleshsimulator i'm not defending the doxxing, but i can't imagine that a relationship that was at least partially based on being afraid to be publicly tied to the person you're dating was bound to fail eventually. i feel for you though. do what you must.

Hey I'm a free agent again! You guys broke up a ten year relationship by doxxing my GF, so point to you there

@nealmohan @YouTube hey, how about braking on the new features and start cutting bullshit like the automatically generated playlists when you play a fucking song you useless fucks

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@YouTube could you pass a memo to the useless idiots that make feature decisions to please remove the automatically generated playlists every time i play a song. it's incredibly fucking annoying.

group chat about to be unbearable tonight 😂 NFL Draft week is here

I have built a spreadsheet. It has 847 rows. Each row is a community bank in the United States with a market cap below $200 million, a price-to-tangible-book ratio under 0.85, a non-performing loan ratio below 0.4%, and a CEO who has been in the role for at least twelve years. I update it every Sunday from 6 AM to 11 AM while my family attends church without me. I have visited the headquarters of nineteen of these banks in person. I have eaten a complimentary lobby cookie at each one. The cookies are how you can tell. A bank with a good cookie is a bank that respects its depositors. A bank with a stale cookie is a bank that will be acquired within 36 months at a 40% premium. I am never wrong about the cookies. The cookies have never lied to me. The cookies are the only thing left that tells the truth.

@paleochristcon Thank you for your service sir

Sewing circle christians going nuts. My work here is done.

It finally happened, after 2 decades of flying an older guy asked me to move so he could sit with his very small son. When I hesitated the guy stripped completely naked and began devouring his son, just straight up ate his head while buck ass nude and screaming

@catturd2 What? The loudest ones get blackmailed into resigning by a bunch of women who decided to completely reinterpret the reality of what actually happened?

Remember - Eric Swalwell was one of the loudest voices on releasing the Epstein Files to protect the victims. It's the loudest ones - Every. Single. Time.

@fleshsimulator most amount of time; least amount of responibility

My musical output arguably peaked with this album I made when I was 19 and sleeping 20 hours a week due to a combo of working overnights at a warehouse every day and trying to beat Master Extra on Super Monkey Ball 2

It may be time to start distinguishing between classic two-sided enshittifcation and a more general single-sided variety. When Corey Doctorow originally defined the term "enshittification" he was describing a very specific thing that can and does happen when a platform like Amazon or Google acts as a two-sided market-maker. They start by reducing friction for both buyers and sellers, get everybody locked in by the higher cost of doing volume business anywhere else, then start charging tolls on both sides and injecting spamware that nobody wants. Eventually even their search function becomes completely shitty. The increasingly horrifying "agentic" train wreck that Windows 11 has become isn't a two-sided platform in the same way, but the feel of its late stages is depressingly familiar. It's so stuffed with bloatware, spamware, and spyware that its nominal function as an operating system to run programs for its users feels almost like an afterthought. I'm going to call this "single-sided enshittification", and point out that both kinds stem from the same fundamental disconnect. They're both things that happen when the dominant revenue stream from a product is disconnected from the needs of its original users. In both cases, an important factor, though not the only one, is the attack of the adtech vampires. So very much of the ugliness in enshittified platforms is downstream of the easy money that they offer product owners for allowing them to sink their fangs into the information stream. I don't have a solution to this problem. But if there is one, it starts with identifying the problem correctly. Enshittification - it's not just for two-sided platforms anymore.

Fast, cheap AI-assisted decompilation of binary code is here. Which means code secrecy is dead. Decompilers in themselves are not a new technology. Security researchers have employed them for years to analyze compiled malware. There's been some limited use by others, notably by hobbyists decompiling abandonware games. But there were a couple of issues that prevented this from becoming common practice. One is simply that running decompilers was difficult. It wasn't as simple as feed in binary, get out source; it needed a person with specialist skills prepared to do spelunking through wildernesses of machine code and object formats. The other problem was that decompilation didn't give you anything like the explanatory comments that had been in the original code, so you could easily wind up with code that you could read without being able to understand or modify it. Now large language models are busily smashing both of those barriers flat. They're better at the kind of detail analysis required to run the human side of a decompilation than humans are. More importantly, in the process of decompiling code, they rather automatically build a global model of how it works that can easily be expressed by high quality comments in the extracted code. All you have to do, basically, is ask for the comments. I'm going to reinforce that latter point because it may not be obvious how good LLMs are at this, and how much better they're going to get. When they decompile code and comment it for you, they're not just working from that one piece of code you have put in front of them - they'll have in their training set hundreds, possibly thousands of pieces of code similar to it and with comments. This will give them superhuman levels of insight not just into what it does at the microlevel, but what it means to the humans who wrote it, and what technical assumptions it's embodying. Compilation no longer guards your secrets. Or, to put it more precisely the expected time span in which you can still count on it to obscure them is measured in months. Possibly weeks. What does this mean? It means you're in an open-source world now. All it's going to take for anybody to bust your proprietary IP open is care enough to spend tokens on the analysis. You will maximize your chances of survival as a software business if you get out ahead of this rather than trying to fight it. This isn't exactly the way I expected open source to win. But, you know, I'll take it. Good enough.

@wil_da_beast630 the same thing that made feminism possible: the massive devaluation of physical labor. i really should have went to college and said all this 25 years ago

Sounds horrible to put it this way, but what made slavery unnecessary/non-tempting was real machinery. We may soon see something similar with lab-grown meat.

the kids are alright

anything that can be catalogued must have a dollar value

real life Sif

@bronzeageshawty I’m going to guess that the major factor that change was the “moving to the Mediterranean” part, something we can all just do!

There's someone really hot inside of you. But that hot person is underneath years of accumulated inflammation and poor lifestyle habits.

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