Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Was this why your wife divorced you?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Was this why your wife divorced you?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
If the fate of every generation to look at the next and think: They really haven't a clue.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd they don't pay tax then they are a burden to the economy - so their leaving will still be beneficial.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
X is a bastion of scared little snowflakes.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
If there are any jobs that would be better replaced by AI, it's the managerial ones.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
There's a YT video that dissects the contemporary symbology in this painting, and it's a lot worse than "irritating".
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Didn't he say he would be?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
"There were lots of people and books everywhere, but i was the only one dancing!"
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
There's an AI with your job spec.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Judging by the parachute-in MBA managers I've experienced, pretty easily. It's far better suited to replacing those roles than the "lower" echelons of engineers, designers, and other positions that require insight and creativity.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Very inconsiderate to the other gym goers.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Full circle.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
* does not apply to ICE.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
"Are 'they' in the room with you now?"
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no ... not concessions to Ukraine. He means concessions to Trump.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
I think I threw away two cups of your coffee this morning. (Office coffee - no wallet was harmed)
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social)
Dear #NYC Drivers, I'm sure that eternally holding down the car horn will make the gridlock magically go away. I look forward to seeing you proven right. Thoughts and prayers, Chap now in noise cancelling headphones.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
* may play or run. You need the game before either.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
The machines only have to wait. People are getting stupider.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Now? They've been training humans since the Sahara was green.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Are they still hawking their #BorisBoats?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Look down, not up. Kick down, not up.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
You're welcome son.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
If Schrodinger had known anything about cats, then he'd have realised that the cat was both inside and outside the box already.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep. The name "AI" is just marketing for suckers. It doesn't _add_ anything to the data - only finds and blindly copies patterns. At best, slightly worse than what went in. Worse, if that data is the output of AI, then it's a shit-eating feedback loop. It has its use, but it's not intelligence.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
She's a trans porn star.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd have to pay Disney+ more money to get this in the US; or wait till I come home and binge it for a week. Or get finally that VPN, which seems like something that's become a necessity in the UK now, anyway.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't forget survey foot and standard foot are different as well. The former is what most of the US maps are measured in, while standard foot is used for aircraft altitude. So you have to convert between feet and feet when calc flight plans.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
"4th of July"?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Portfolios will snap them up. Why waste a good investment on people who just want to live there?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Fibber. You don't need to book at McDs.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
But not giving all your hard earned money to billionaires would be socialism, which is bad, according to billionaires.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
That's a Domesticatrix.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't worry, rich peeps using offshore companies to buy their properties won't have to pay it - like they skip past stamp duty already. Wouldn't want to tax your donors, would you?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Or pantomime.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social)
What happens when a sheep in wolf's clothing meets a wolf's in sheep's clothing?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
So: "you shouldn't be voting for him, because he's one of you. You should ne voting for us, your betters."
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Why do none of the attempts to solve the homeless "problem" actually involve providing homes? Oh wait, Finland did, and it fixed it.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
If this were still a free market economy, the competition in supply/demand would keep the prices down. This is a corporate economy now. It's something governments were supposed to protect their citizens from. We see the same on a lot of other sectors besides food supply.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with subs and sarnies." - Albert Einstein, approximately.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Since the Russians just hacked the NYC court records and copied unspecified sealed records, that'll be Putin doing the show and tell this weekend.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
The mini-series hadn't even finished before someone turned up at games night with a "V" #ttrpg.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
As long as you suspend your disbelief of how just about everything works - technology, people, doors - then it's a forgettable 90min run around. It misses the point of the original story by so far that I'm surprised it wasn't titled "H.G.Well's War of the World".
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Except not in the US.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
This is bad for an economy. Their increased wealth is money that has been taken out of the economy and no longer flows through it. When this was paid in wages, it was taxed and spent multiple times (×4-10) as it circulates. Society is being starved because of this.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no, I was looking forward to reading a fish related flame war. Let loose the chip buns! Or is it chip baps? Chip barns? Butties? ...
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
You may enjoy pottage.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the coolest year in the rest of your life.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Is that even AI or just text-to-speech?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Disney+
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm going to KIT and getting a snack from FRG, but first, I need to use BOG.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
The Future was better in the Past.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Expect Trump and Putin to sign a peace deal in which Putin gets Ukraine, and Trump gets Canada.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Just pretend no one else sees them.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
I only know when new eps arrive when I see these posts. I could remember which day, but that would be more effort.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
They'll be in the CIA World Factbook. The USA is the only country that isn't covered there.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Ford is (has been) a major car brand globally, but the vehicles it sells to the world are made outside of the US and are completely different models to the domestic ones. However, I am sceptical when any legacy automaker claims something fantastic just around the corner...
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Just get any 13 yr old to show him. MPs and Lords seem completely computer illiterate. "VPN" was only mentioned twice(?) in Parliament in the last few years? And inaccurately. This law just means kids become more unsafe online, and harms UK online businesses whose customers route via VPNs.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
The Maplin catalogues were collectors' items. Itinerant MBAs came in, didn't understand its USP, tried to compete with high street electronics stores, and failed. Same with a number of other lost household names.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder how they'd cope with the travel time equations in classic Traveller. I mean, they're just Newtonian, and we learned them pre teen. But if subtraction is a problem...
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
I have never understood why peeps think that THAC0 was hard. It was a breeze compared to the tables. Perhaps we did it differently? I can only assume that it requires subtraction - but that can be expressed as addition to the other sides of the equation. (We used it well before AD&D e2)
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
There are a lot of rituals in IT, lost to time. To shut down our Sun machines we recanted: > sync > sync > halt Why sync twice? No one knew, but i wasn't going to be the one who found out.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
That's why the crack monsters haven't got you.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Even MechaH!tler can't stoop as low as Farage.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone shot a Health Insurance Exec in NYC, and we know the inside leg measurement of his first diaper.
Meidas_SocietysChild (@societyschild.bsky.social) reposted
Not only will we continue to demand the release of the unredacted (other than that of the victims), Epstein files, we demand the victims be heard! We don't care what a convicted sex trafficker has to say. The only voices that matter are those of the victims. 1/2
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
She sounds different without the mic filter.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
* hot key
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
There were some DOS games with a work hockey, which put up a mock spreadsheet. On the flip side, early versions of MS Excel (?) had a hidden flight sim.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
So a victory for Putin. That seals WWIII in the next year.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Does the P in GOP stand for Pedophiles?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
I often wonder whether the participants know about Trump's peace deals.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Our "new" office (past job) replaced the filter coffee with a vending machine that was supposed to grind beans and everything. It certainly ground something, and produced lots of waste from it's backside. But that seemed unrelated to the muck that came out of the front.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't like big butts and I never have.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Why spoil good clickbait with actual facts?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Your colleagues don't give a sh!t.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
I was impressed by how cheaply they could have made it.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Always knew Wigan was the next stop on the train when the arome from Uncle Joe's wafted in through the windows.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
The value you put on your teachers and education is the same value you place on the future.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Be careful what you order.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
According to the methodology used by the CIA to classify foreign governments, the USA is an Anocracy.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
The problem with income tax is that the richer you are, the better lawers and accountants you can hire to prove you have no taxable income. The more complex the tax system, the better, and easier, it is for them.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
😿 That's a scary experience, but remember you have more experience than before, so you'll find a better job. I've been thru this twice and came out with significant pay increases each time.
Bagpuss Grognard (@davepaters.bsky.social) reposted
Quote from Lady Harvey (1687) which I shall use for all the idiots voting for Brexit and Trump "You have made a turd pie, seasoned it with passive obedience, and now you must eat it yourselves."
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Higher Therefore Superior.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Small boat crossings were a trickle until Boris' regime. In many senses, it was a deliberate policy, as it gave them more victims to blame: Keep the people kicking down, lest they start to kick up.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
We had this discussion in the 80s - production has access to better FX. In world reason? Different subspecies. Pedantic? Why do we have three different Kirks and Spocks now?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
And it looks like China isn't going to be buying those bonds.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
According to "RH: Prince of Thieves"; a son has nothing to fear from their father's sword. So it doesn't inflict any damage on the dad's offspring. However, that film also claimed Hadrians Wall is between Dover and Nottingham, and that Picts can drag siege engines thru a forest undetected. So...
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Chickened out there. (What? No one used that yet - I checked the whole thread)
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
The logo in the bottom left should tell you that this is a fictional satire of a dystopic world.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
This has been known for literally thousands of years. Growing plants absorb sunlight and convert it into sugars. Inorganic material absorbs sunlight and re-radiate it as heat. Tree lined avenues were not just for aesthetics. Moroccan gardens didn't just look pretty. Even just real grass!
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Somewhere today, diaries like that are still being written.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
The only surprise here is that Trump couldn't find a flat-earther to appoint as head of NASA.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Reality doesn't care what "alternate facts" you choose to believe.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
*dies
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, are you alright?
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
All greedy businesses do act like this already. This is why prices go up in a crisis, but come down slowly afterwards, if at all. In a free market system, supply and demand should optimise prices down. We're not there anymore.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
As kids, we were completely unphased by the flight mechanics in Traveller. Now people complain if a game expects them to do subtraction.
Simon Watts (@simonwatts17.bsky.social) reply parent
Missing text between "is" and "AI": " to kill everybody and replace them with ".