(On the one hand yes, but on the other, I couldn't argue with people while sitting in a waiting room back then. I had to remember to bring a book, or read the August 1993 Time Magazine they had on the table (in February of 2001).)
A Husky (she) and a human (he) (who translates her sass) (Parenthetical asides = human) If you're wondering about our politics, let's sum it up: NONE OF US ARE FREE UNTIL ALL OF US ARE FREE (99% of Huskies are anarchists; about 50% of their humans are)
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(On the one hand yes, but on the other, I couldn't argue with people while sitting in a waiting room back then. I had to remember to bring a book, or read the August 1993 Time Magazine they had on the table (in February of 2001).)
(There is the risk, though, that they start talking about Trazyn and you stay up all night.)
I would also accept the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.
You'd look at the dogs that are really bad at picking up human cues. Look at me. I always know when my human is tired (and needs to take me on a walk to wake up), or bored (walk), or needs exercise (did you guess walk?) I'm clearly a totally normal dog. Some of my neighbors, though...
(Lots of us did. Lots of us aren't even given an option to do that for our kids, at least to a certain age. My son's district, kids under 13 cannot leave unattended. So they either get on their bus, or a parent picks them up. No other options.)
(One of my engineering professors would rant about this, on occasion, as something that was both stupid to happen (because it was frankly a dumb error in the PLD) and way overblown (because in most instances the error would be way less than measurement error anyway.).
(The failsons hadn't completely conquered every branch of industry in the US in the late 90s. Nowadays, tho... ugh.)
(Ok, it was going to bother me so I had to go look up the lookup error. Worst case errors were up to the 4th sig. digit. That was about one case in a billion. Intel fixed it (eventually) because a computer that can't do math correctly is a bad joke.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium...
(I remember when Intel got a lot of shit because their floating point module in early Pentiums had some bad cells in a lookup table for doing division. And that was an error that only showed up in certain instances, and even when it did, it was usually correct to the first 6 to 8 digits IIRC.)
"Congratulations, you've spent a trillion dollars to make a computer that can't do simple math".
Oh I like that second line.
Yeah, the old "home invasions dropped precipitously following the carpet-bombing of Dresden" argument. If only our media weren't incentivized to side with fascism.
Now that's the quality comedy I come to the internet for!
(4th grade I was still in a Catholic school; if we didn't line up at the bus in alphabetical order after the last class we'd get the Glare from Sister Mary Denise and nothing was worth that. Plus those uniforms & the shoes were not designed for long walks. Kinda the opposite, actually.)
(Ironically, one of the actual examples of "nanny state" laws. At 12 I was walking home from school almost four times the distance my child would have to. But I can't let him because they won't let the kids walk out of school until 9th grade now.)
Is it just squirrels, though? I mean, if they see a rabbit, do they ignore it? A chipmunk? A groundhog? I can understand ignoring skunks, mind you. Not because they're that tough, but because the B-A-T-H afterwards is even longer and more uncomfortable than normal ones.
FFS, some of my cousins are going to get put to sleep because they got assigned to humans who can't find their own butts with both hands, aren't they? I guess I can't complain too much about mine. bsky.app/profile/agbu...
(I want to make a moot joke, but it's going to show my age, isn't it)
(I'm really not looking forward to the opening of Ministry for the Future joining this list. I think KSR maybe understated the kind of moral injury that the survivors are going to have. And the things they're going to (try to, at least) do afterwards.)
(Well, fuck. Another 'dude I've known via the internet for a couple of decades' died this weekend. I never made the time to meet him in person; about a year before Covid I moved and have been a couple of hours from him for six years now. But I never made the time for a visit. And now I can't.)
(Whoever it was that killed the CEO, I'm sad it wasn't earlier. On both a societal level, and because UHC gave me the runaround for a necessary surgery for almost two months last summer, because their garbage AI system kept saying that my doctor didn't run all the tests he was supposed to.)
Depends on the dog, human. Some of the boys on my block are in some years-long competition to impress the ladies. Others are sniffing at other random humans. Finally those like myself, are more interested in smelling the rabbits. Tasty, tasty rabbits. I love when they come say hi...
(I usually do it on holidays that aren't big family events. Because I cannot handle Turkey Day or Xmas with the extended family without my microdose of meth, thank you very much)
(None of the people I know personally who stopped shopping at Target started back up again, AFAIK.)
(I have kind of the opposite of the old jokes about "getting a good grade in therapy" as one of my personal weird hangups. It's a long story. Also I have now ADHD'd myself into listing how many different phrases I have used or heard for ferrets over the years.)
:( (I used to find hugging the animals helped. Particularly the carpet sharks and the half Husky. But to be fair my PTSD happened away from home which made it much easier to compartmentalize as having happened to a different person. Which is maybe not the best way to deal with it but meh.)
(That's why I've been oscillating between angry, sad, and numb! It's... not really a lot better, TBH.)
(I don't think he'd be able to scare the Senate nearly as much. GOP Senators who want to run again won't cross Trump, because they absolutely will face a primary challenger. They might anyway, but it's 100% if they piss him off. I doubt Couchfucker would be able to pull it off.)
(RFK cooking something special again?
(Damn, I was just thinking "what do I want to eat for dinner", and now all I can think about is nachos. But making nachos at home is a pain.)
(Can confirm; this is one of several generations that lived on the side of the garage at the last place I lived in VA) (sorry not sorry)
I dunno, some trash is pretty useful. These assholes, on the other hand...
(Jack Kirby enjoys his time in heaven, but every once in a while, he gets bored. When that happens, he gets a day pass to Hell so he can beat more Nazis.)
Droids that argue with you like an annoyed Husky or Rottweiler
I realize he was a bit problematic, but, shit, the internet take on Vlad is exactly the kinda person I want to hang out with! Not just because of all the extra meat around. (Though it helps.) But, he has canine-equivalent solutions to problems. I bite problems; Vlad stabs them. Simple as.
WAAAAAAAAgh Da red onez go fasta, git!
So my human is a bit of a history geek. One of the figures we both feel doesn't get enough credit is John Brown. It takes a very special person to look at something one's culture says "is okay" and... very much disagree with them, even unto one's own death.
Also... no comment
(I'm.... not gonna comment, given my current situation)
It should come as no surprise, but one of the things my human and I disagree on is the best 40K faction. He waffles between Votann, Space Marine, and even Eldar (cause he's an engineer so tech = cool, yah?) Me? Oh, that's simple. More aggro = better, and what's the most aggro in 40k?
Or some kind of anti-horny, that is also canon
A classic. I still stick by this. I'm not sure I'm going to the survivor, I'm almost seven! (And I'm human-equivalent) But if somebody wants to fight one of my humans because they're the 'wrong kind' of human? Yeah, fuck that noise. Kill me first before you try doing anything to them, asshole
Images I want to save somewhere that isn't Imgur, take x
Any questions? Ok, ok. I'm not a traditional communist; my people's experience with Stalin (ptui) fixed that. I'm more an anarchist. But Uncle Karl has an important lesson.. Fight. Even if you don't think you can win, fight. (Although... don't ever tell yourself you can't win.)
Images I want to save somewhere that isn't Imgur, take 1 If John Brown would have had a problem with you, then you and me will have a problem So just fuck off now, quiaff?
the internet was a mistake (except for the parts of it that weren't)
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Since I'm a dog, you should take that as a... compliment? I think that's the right word. I mean, making a dog gag is impressive in a horrifying "why would you do that" way.
I remember Farkexit. Yes, I'm that old. Fuuuuuuuuck, I'm old.
If somebody gave me a name, I'd spam "None of us are free, until all of us are free" on their comments until I get muted
(Well at least it's not Vampire Survivors! Numbers gotta go up, natch?)
(What about a medium-sized Irish man with a medium-sized Husky? I feel like I should be able to parlay this into some kind career that isn't designing engine control electronics. This shit is getting old if I'm being honest, most of my customers have some... moral issues, IYKWIK. )
I have the opposite - when it gets chilly, my human keeps making me coming in at 2300 just "because". (The "because" is when the raccoons come out, Mina will try to fight them. And they can get noisy when they want to. Ain't nobody got time for that.)
Burn it down. Burn it all to the ground. Any machine this completely, absolutely, fucked, deserves nothing more, nothing less. Just oblivion. Burn it down.
Look, I'm about as predator as one can predator. I will chase every rabbit, and the ones I catch, well... you know. But if the rabbits didn't get their rabbit dicks out, I would run out of rabbits to eat, right? So, like, stop suppressing the rabbit fucking. Man, that came out weird.
(Also, picture #2 looked exactly like somebody I knew quite well BITD. But I attended their funeral in 2017 so I was suuuuper confused for a couple of seconds. Seems like Ollie was right, after all. There is a world of hurt in all of us.)
I mean.... yeah? Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em all. Wait, no. I feel like I should specify which meaning of the word I'm using, here, cause it seems like a lot of people (not you, you're perfect) are misinterpreting fairly basic statements. Yes, context is important.
On the advice of my human's lawyers, I'm not going to mention how many human's blood I've tasted. Apparently there's some speciest bullshit about dogs that bite humans (i.e. fuckers who deserve it) getting "put down", and I'm not a fan of down at all! I like up much more. So no down for me.
Burn it down. Burn it all.
Oh, sorry, was wish-casting there. I'm just saying... in canine culture, a dog that acted like most of the "leading" humans act would be driven out and never allowed back. I'm not saying we're smarter than you! I'm not, I can't do calculus. I'm saying you've smarted yourself into being stupid.
> Nobody is coming to save us. They never have been, Matt.
But he probably thought "Nazis, still getting what they deserve?" "My legacy lives on!"
Putting a bag over his head, and {censored to protect the sensibilities of moderate, kitchen-table voters who were never going to fight against the fascists anyway} ?
The only "too many battles" is the battle you lose. So if you refuse to admit defeat, there's no such thing as too many battles!
You're not the boss of me! I'll read the middle of the thread, and yell at you about things you didn't say (but you said later on in the thread) and things you said (but actually never did), and I'll act completely indignant as I do it! THIS... IS... THE INTERNET!!!!!
None of us are free, until all of us are free. None of us are safe, until all of us are safe. Why is this so fucking hard for everybody to the left of... Chomsky?... to understand? Damn, humans are stupid sometimes.
For fucks sake, I'm a dog and I understand "don't bite the hand that is saving your stupid ass from being set on fire." What do you mean, that's not the cliche?
(true - either it doesn't exist, or he's... going to the Bad Place. Either way, no heavenly choir for the guy who manages to get a medal in four or five of the seven deadly sins at once.)
(Trump, Musk, ets. make me miss believing in the afterlife, a bit. Sorry, needs emphasis. I miss BELIEF that these fuckers would get what they deserve once they've shuffled off this mortal coil. It kinda feels like Trump is thinking about that, too.)
Great Khan of the Midwest, we stand with you against the Mad King of the Potomac!
You can. But you shouldn't! You should make everyone else live their life in fear. Just like my neighbor and I do to the rabbits, squirrels, groundhogs, chipmunks, and deer that come in our yards. We're not talking about the skunks, though. Chemical weapons are just not fair.
(I'm not a huge Metallica fan, but the show they did with Suicidal Tendencies was pretty metal. Even if I'm still a bit grump from the Napster shit like two decades ago.)
This is my cutlass. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Without me, my cutlass... frankly, ok, look, it's useless all the time, it was a drunken state fair purchase from my human, and when he sobered up he asked if I wanted it, and I was like... Sure?
(Big Balls, and everyone else in DOGE, shares responsibility for thousands of deaths by cutting foreign aid in a both illegal and immoral manner. I wish I still believed in the Christian conception of Jehovah, as then I'd have some comfort they'd get what they deserved later on.)
I find this mildly insulting, human! Just because my human won't walk on some trails anymore since "high school kids dump half-eaten food there, so I have to drag it out of your muzzle every quarter mile". Not all dogs are like that. I am, clearly, but not all dogs. That's racist! Speciest?
I, uh, shouldn't comment on my thoughts on RFK. Don't want to get banned. Or have the Secret Service come visit my human's house. Actually, wait. More humans, coming to visit my human's house? That sounds great!
I'd have to be so incredibly dumb that I didn't know how dumb I was. Then again, I'm a dog, so most humans - even my own - look pretty unhealthy to me. What do you mean you can only do a five mile jog before getting winded? What kinda persistence predator are you?
Do, uh.... do you remember how that movie ended? Just a question, mind you, not trying to get banned or anything. (Yet)
(He needs to hang out with Steve more. True, Steve had the super soldier serum, but that's not his real superpower. His real superpower is that he don't take no shit. He sees somebody that needs punching? He punches them. When I need some guidance, I ask myself... What Would Steve Rogers Do?)
(At least in 2008, the USCG AST program had both a lower acceptance and graduation rate than either the Army Rangers or Navy Seals. That shit ain't easy. TBF, if you're jumping out of a helo to save people, you should be in pretty good shape. Physically. Mentally, they're fucking nuts.)
(* - Ok, so, like, I understand the movie was dramatizing SAR. But for years after that shit came out, we had kids coming out of boot camp saying the were going to be an AST (the crazy peeps that jump out of helos to rescue people in the water) None of them ever actually became ASTs.)
(But other than all the helo ops, and the refueling, we didn't have much to do. So we watched a lot of TV. And what we saw was frankly fucked. The Superdome, the people forced to abandon animals, or risk dying themselves, etc. I saw a failed state, even as we helped some people.)
(I was on a 'big' ship then. Big for the CG, anyway. We couldn't get anywhere near NOLA - the delta was so muddy it would have clogged the engine cooling water in a few hours. We served as a helo refueling point for weeks, as a bunch of Ashton Kutcher wannabes* got to save people in the water.)
(So I kinda defaulted to USCG. Which, on the whole, I was pretty happy with! Even as somebody in the engineering side of things, I can say that some people who would have died, didn't, because I was there. (Long story, not in the mood to brag). But Katrina... was weird.)
(When Katrina happened, I was in the USCG. I ended there... well, frankly, I felt I had to Do Something post 9/11, but after talking to all my family members who did time in the military, I decided I should do USN or USCG. And the USN recruiter in my city was a diiiiiiiiiiiick)
(You're saying that like you wouldn't add some extra cake if you had a thought-controlled nanite swarm to construct whatever you wanted. Or is that just me? IDK, I stopped reading Iron Man when the first Civil War came out, because fuck the collaborators.)
(I post here because one day Mina was very talkative, and I asked her if I should tell people on the internet about it, and she responded with what really sounded like a "yes". So, my dog told me to do it. But that's not as crazy as it sounds. She has more personality than most influencers TBH.)
(When I was much younger, I heard more than once that "the bis" were responsible for basically every woman who died of AIDS. Because it was "just" gay men getting it before some guys who'd play for either team spread it around.)
(As people have said before; a lot of shit that's said in cyberspace would get a person punched in the face in meatspace. I can't think of a word besides 'malpractice' for taking unfiltered forum arguments, and using that to train a model what 'normal' human discourse looks like.)
(mine turns it into Husky pictures, and occasional mildly off-puting comments from said Husky. Well, ok, that and circuit designs, but that's just my day job, it's not like my passion or anything.)
How many pylons is too many?
(so I didn't intentionally get nothing accomplished, it was really the Accounting people who succeeded at that. Actually, I guess they did negative work, as they wasted basically the whole day of at least three engineers, two managers, and two project... people... that do... things...)
(I spent the entire day arguing with Accounting that I could not follow their legacy policies and their brand new policy. It's now impossible to do certain tasks without violating at least one policy, because the person who wrote the new policy was unfamiliar with the old policies. Love it.)
(Looking at the care (or total lack thereof) that OpenAI (and all the rest of these dumbasses) spent with their training data grates on the 2014-2017 version of me on a deep, personal level.)
(as in : find the part that Honda is going to yell at us for sending them We spent a lot of time trying to get "good", "bad", and "suspect" parts segregated, so the model would get all the bad parts into the latter two categories, if at all possible.)
(Yeah, absolutely. They had so much training data to dig through that they couldn't afford to sort it. Which is one of the early clues they were really over-extending it. Background - I spent a lot of time with machine vision / inspection systems in a manufacturing context a few years back)
YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS
To be fair, on an intellectual level, that's equivalent to when the Rottweiler next door & I get a rabbit stuck between our yards. Not exactly sporting, but delicious!
As a human, Eric is such a dumbass I kinda like him, in a really dumb way. I wouldn't want him being responsible for my food bowl, tho, he'd keep forgetting to refill it. Cuomo... I wouldn't even bite that asshole, I'd probably catch something.
I've always felt kinda bad for dogs that live in climates that hot. Maybe I'm a bit biased, but clearly atop a mound of snow is the ideal place for a dog to be.
