Dude's like "So what happens if I press this?"
19.02.2026 14:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@scaryscienceguy.bsky.social
πππ Retired scientist in the PNW. Democrat and proud of it. I'm scary to repubs 'cause I believe in science. No DMs.
Dude's like "So what happens if I press this?"
19.02.2026 14:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I had a convo with chatGPT last night. It admitted to producing results with an extra air of confidence to make the encounter better received, even if the supporting data was suspect.
So, in that respect, it's just like human customer service!
It's like they're all having a reunion.
17.02.2026 12:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Some nights I'll have a dream about a stressful work problem and then realize within the dream that I'm retired and just walk the fuck out of there.
13.02.2026 22:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0By Pam Bondi's reasoning, the DOW is over 50k so I won't need my hip surgery next week.
13.02.2026 11:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's hard to do sub-menus in hardware. π
12.02.2026 17:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0David Bowie, Mr. Rogers, Betty White, Ed Sullivan, Dick Clark, Rod Serling, Lucille Ball...
Much respect for these folks and others who publicly supported equal rights for all.
The tangliest cable by far.
12.02.2026 04:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Smart products which have "plus" or "pro" versions usually have all those extras in the cheapest version but they've been disabled.
10.02.2026 17:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mainframes used to have extra memory already installed and could be enabled by a secret code when you paid for an upgrade.
10.02.2026 17:43 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0For me it went paper tape, cassette, then IBM card. Maybe this sequence was different due to the cost of a keypunch machine/reader at my school.
04.02.2026 16:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 01 ton per kilobyte is a sobering thought.
03.02.2026 23:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Enjoy your grilled cheese and think nothing of my opinion of your choice of bread, cheese, condiments, pan size, heat dispersant, temperature, sliciing preference, serving plate, locale, lighting, beverage, and companion.
03.02.2026 15:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you're gonna do bread and circuses, you need to actually hand out the bread to the peeps and allow them to attend the circuses.
01.02.2026 18:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just spent time getting Edge to work on my PC 'cause I needed it for one site. Turns out the problem was my GPU driver.
The entire time there was an echoing thought deep in my mind that I was releasing an ancient being who would exact torturous revenge upon me for my years of avoidance. Wait & see.
I tried progressives once and felt like my eyes couldn't move in their sockets. I've gone with non-progressives (with their visible line) ever since and have been quite happy.
30.01.2026 12:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Recognized that synth immediately!
30.01.2026 05:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Could this be the first "desktop computer?"
27.01.2026 22:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think there's a major opportunity to market a handheld speaker you can hold up to your phone which just screams "REPRESENTATIVE!" over and over until a human comes on.
27.01.2026 22:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A nice, clean layout reduced to the bare essentials.
25.01.2026 14:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Gluesenkamp-Perez is my rep and she can go fuck herself.
22.01.2026 22:13 β π 24 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I bump into things all the time and nothing like that ever happens.
Let me know when a repub says something that isn't a lie.
I've yet to see my rep, Glukensamp-Perez, do anything to defy the repubs. She's wortheless.
22.01.2026 22:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The syncophants changed his calling Greenland "Iceland" three times to "piece of ice," just like we call Disneyland "piece of Disney."
22.01.2026 00:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's about 5 feet above the floor hung on my office wall.
21.01.2026 16:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A lot of times I think I'll watch a movie and then I realize that I'd have to stop listening to music so I don't.
21.01.2026 06:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Naming everything "Trump" is like the Forest Service marking trees to be cut down.
20.01.2026 20:15 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0TFW you're tracking your Amazon package, it's one stop away!, and the car pulls into a restaurant to eat.
20.01.2026 15:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Quiet Quitting" has a deep past.
19.01.2026 15:42 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Would you also like to add the Bang & Olufsen stereo and Corenthian leather seats to your transistorised differential equations analyzer?"
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