[-] SnotFlickerman 56 points 21 hours ago

I used to work in local television news production and one of the most common occurrences was something not working, someone calling engineering, and then it starting to work when the engineer walked in the room.

[-] SnotFlickerman 27 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

If you're not on a list of people to harass, terrorize, abuse, or possibly deport in the Trump administration, make sure you are are on one of those by signing this public petition! /s

I'm actually joking, because letting that kind of fear stop us is how they've won so far and how they'll win in the future, unless we stop being afraid of the consequences of living in a corrupt USA and speaking truth to power.

Just ask Fred Hampton.

[-] SnotFlickerman 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They already owe their livelihoods to Blockchain Capital, and venture capital firm of crypto-bros.

The bait is out and the switch is coming.

[-] SnotFlickerman 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

People forget that Biden wrote the PATRIOT Act. Which opened the door to unprecedented spying on US citizens.

"It's a big club, and we ain't in it."

[-] SnotFlickerman 24 points 1 day ago

How will it handle the surge?

By enshittifying to make those venture capital bucks back.

[-] SnotFlickerman 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well yeah, let's get the Mastodon devs a cool $15 million so they can hire more devs and compete. /s

You fail to understand open source. You want it better? Get fucking involved and stop asking people who are coding for free to compete with the code of an organization that has millions in dollars backing them and a team of professional developers.

Either get involved or start dumping money into the Mastodon devs patreon accounts.

Whichever you do is way more constructive than bitching about an open source program made by volunteers and comparing it to a slick corporate product with literally millions backing it and it's development. That's just sucking corporate dick by any other name.

Further, pretty sure block lists were and are available on Mastodon.

No wonder Trump won, everyone wants to suck at the teat of the rich instead of saying "we don't need you."

[-] SnotFlickerman 16 points 1 day ago

Dang majority ruining it for the majority

[-] SnotFlickerman 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital

In other words, the enshittification is coming. Because Bluesky is backed by crypto-bro venture capital.

A lot of hay is being made about Bluesky but despite literal oligarchs taking over the country, I guess rich people dictating how our systems work is what people want because apparently Mastodon is too much to ask of individuals.

We can talk about Bluesky and how great their tech is all we want, but unless we address the elephant in the room, venture capital that wants a return on their investment, we're just spiraling the same stupid fucking drain we've been down with every social media preceding it.

[-] SnotFlickerman 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not just control, but Christianity specifically (as well as a few others) is really good because it promises a paradise after you die.

You can get idiot plebes to spend their whole lives dreaming about it all being better after they die, because they were pious and accepted abuse during life.

So, control through fear and hope.

EDIT: Also Christianity is inherently misogynistic and that's very appealing to disaffected young men who hate that women won't fuck them. Angry young men with no direction or group to belong to are one of the most dangerous and destabilizing groups a country can have.

[-] SnotFlickerman 146 points 1 day ago

They also successfully killed public education, so literally the citizens are too stupid to understand they're being conned.

[-] SnotFlickerman 84 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's also why repair costs an arm and a leg.

It used to be a bumper was just filled with foam, so getting in a fender bender was a pretty cheap fix.

Now a bumper has upwards of $5000 in technology and sensors sitting in it, and a fender bender can often make the car considered "totaled" because the cost to repair is now more than the total resale value of the car.

Get a bike, ride a bus, fuck surveillance capitalism.

1
2
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/bloomcounty@lemm.ee

America 2025: Women begin to buy chartreuse flamethrowers for "feminine protection." Proving once again Breathed is actually a modern day Nostradamus.

This one's been on my mind the last few days. Also, those commercials aren't vague anymore.

3
I can't sleep. I'm depressed. (self.casualconversation)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

I can't even think of anything to say. I guess just talk to me about whatever, Lemmy. Please and thank you. I'm tired of being alone with my thoughts.

EDIT: All right, gonna turn in. Love ya anyway, Lemmy. Goodnight.

51
submitted 2 months ago by SnotFlickerman to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Don't make me tap the beam.

133
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
279
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/achievers@lebowski.social

I can't shake this vision from my head when looking at Tim Walz and all the "Are you employed, Mr. Lebowski" energy his look brings.

Hope this isn't seen as too political or endorsing a specific candidate. It has more to do with how much Tim Walz looks like The Big Lebowski. Not trying to upset anyone as much as be a dork, hope the Achievers see it for that. If its not appropriate, removing it is fine. No real loss.

100
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/news@lemmy.world

This was always the plan. They will contest any replacement and then only Trump will be on the ballot. AOC tried to warn you fucking people. This is why Biden needed to go over a year ago and the PARTY said "fuck you guys" until it was too hard to fucking ignore.

131
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

As stupid as it says on the tin. Can you remove hair clogs with Nair?

EDIT: I don't actually have a drain that needs to be unclogged. This is a showerthoughtquestion.

71
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/techtakes@awful.systems

Do they think the hands-off treatment that giant corporations that basically print money get is going to somehow "trickle down" to them, too?

Because last I checked, the guys who ran Jetflicks are facing jail time. Like, potentially longer jail time than most murder sentences.

...but letting OpenAI essentially do the same without consequences will mean Open Source AI people will somehow get the same hands-off treatment? That just reeks of bullshit to me.

I just don't fucking buy it and letting massive corporations just skirt IP laws while everyone else gets fucked hard by those same IP laws just doesn't seem like the best hill to die on, yet plenty of people who are anti-copyright/anti-IP laws are dying on this fucking hill.

What gives?


I am personally of the opinion that current IP/copyright laws are draconian, but that IP/copyright isn't inherently a bad thing. I just know, based on previous history in the US, that letting the Big Guys skirt laws almost never leads to Little Guys getting similar treatment.


Also, I hope this is an okay place for this rant. Thanks for keeping this space awesome. Please remove if this is inappropriate for this forum, please and thank you.

110
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

EDIT: Thanks so much everyone. Great answers. This has been fun. Keep it going as long as you want!

DISCLAIMER: Silly Thought Exercise: NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF REPLACING BIDEN. I personally do not think replacing Biden is a good idea at this stage in the election. I think that's more dangerous than keeping him, sadly, but he's who we've got. I'm just looking for shitposty thoughts on this question, please and thank you.


What-over-the-top absurd person would you choose to replace Biden who you think could actually body Trump, and why?

For an example, my choice would be based on the idea that the only thing that makes a bully like Trump wilt is a bigger bully. Secondly, US citizens love trash talking and sports and absolutely will vote for someone who is already famous, they certainly love their celebrities. Finally, what better sport for trash talk than basketball?

In that, my choice would be basketball legend Larry Bird. (he's famously apolitical, so it's hard to know if he would actually be politically aligned against Trump.)

...but, the thing is, Larry Bird is a masterclass trash talker.

And that is really what throws Trump off and throws him into obscene tantrums where his composure is lost and he comes off like a whining loser: when he's been taken down a peg by someone else. Nothing sticks deeper in his craw. I don't think he could handle Larry Bird's level of shit-talk, Bird is like god-tier.

I can imagine Bird calling Trump out and saying he can smell his shit-filled diaper from across the auditorium, obviously Bird would describe more colorfully than I. The thing is, I can also see that absolutely throwing Trump into hysterics.

Also, at 67 Bird's a fucking spring chicken compared to Biden or Trump.

So, I'm hoping for answers that are a bit silly, like this. Larry Bird is obviously not actually a good choice for this. I just like chuckling at the idea, because real life has gotten so absurd I need to hide in even deeper absurdity.


What's your absurd Biden replacement? Please, I think we could use some laughs.

94
submitted 5 months ago by SnotFlickerman to c/gifs@lemmy.world

I'm bored and making Hundreds of Beavers gifs.

29
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/technology@lemmy.world

Copied from Reddit's /r/cscareerquestions:

The US Department of Labor is proposing a rule change that would add STEM occupations to their list of Schedule A occupations. Schedule A occupations are pre-certified and thus employers do NOT have to prove that they first sought American workers for a green card job. This comes on the heels of massive layoffs from the very people pushing this rule change.

From Tech Target:

The proposed exemption could be applied to a broad range of tech occupations including, notably, software engineering -- which represents about 1.8 million U.S. positions, according to U.S. labor statistics data -- and would allow companies to bypass some labor market tests if there's a demonstrated shortage of U.S. workers in an occupation.

Currently the comments include heavy support from libertarian think tank, Cato, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association

The San Francisco Tech scene has been riddled with CEOs whining over labor shortages for the past few months on Twitter/X amidst a sea of layoffs from Amazon, Meta, Google, Tesla, and much more. Now, we know that it's an attempt at influencing the narrative for these rule changes.

If you are having a hard time finding a job, now, this rule change will only make things worse.

From the US Census Bureau:

Does majoring in STEM Lead to a STEM job after graduation?

The vast majority (62%) of college-educated workers who majored in a STEM field were employed in non-STEM fields such as non-STEM management, law, education, social work, accounting or counseling. In addition, 10% of STEM college graduates worked in STEM-related occupations such as health care.

The path to STEM jobs for non-STEM majors was narrow. Only a few STEM-related majors (7%) and non-STEM majors (6%) ultimately ended up in STEM occupations.

If you or someone you know has experienced difficulty finding an engineering job post graduation amidst this so called shortage, then please submit your story in the remaining few days that the Public comment period is still open (ends May 13th.)

Public comment can be made, here:

https://www.regulations.gov/document/ETA-2023-0006-0001/comment

Please share this with anyone else you feel has will be affected by this rule change.

view more: next ›

SnotFlickerman

joined 1 year ago
MODERATOR OF