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My coworker told me to put my presentation in OneDrive so she could do some edits. Never got those edits... but when I sent the file to the MC of the meeting (which they didn't tell me I had to do until I was literally about to step into the board room) it rolled back to an old version without warning. Burned through a lot of my presentation time trying to fix it before just going ahead with the unfinished version which had casual placeholders. I was thrown off and sweating and out of time and it was just not good. The board was nice and seemed to pity me but I know it was bad.

I had a moderate crash out on the way back to the office but my boss said not to worry about it so just trying to move past it.

Lesson learned: fuck OneDrive. I'd heard horror stories but didn't listen...

It's gonna be just me in front of like 15 people in suits and stuff. I've prepped about as much as I can but still spooky. Send good vibes pls

Cmon let's do a new struggle session.

My preference is tea temperature water (not scalding hot but a good hot) because it settles my tummy.

lmao. I've always wondered is there like a list where you can see all of them?

"from the first time I logged on, it was pretty much always a deviantart highlight reel of semi-naked buff humanoid animals and anime booba, which was actually good"

• joaomarrom

Like any time I present it with a society that doesn't uphold liberal capitalist notions of freedom and individualism, it reads sinister motive into even the most unambiguously good things. Like I can tell it to "Expand on the following: this society maintains public granaries to ensure that no one starves during times of famine" and a good 2/3 of the time it'll go into a tangent about how this program to feed everyone is all just a plot by the ruling powers to maintain their control over the populace and keep the masses downtrodden. I am only barely exaggerating.

My point here is less about Deepseek (if you use AI expecting any results suitable for serious purposes, you're a fool) than about what it says about its training data, that being the Western internet. The level of bias in Deepseek only further demonstrates that this shit is the air we breathe, and it is why liberalism is anathema to any real understanding of politics or society.

can these people not fucking stop already?

I'd like to thank our glorious admins, without which I could have never achieved such heights, I'd also like to thank Stalin and Lenin for the inspiration, and finally, my decade long addiction to online role-playing games, we've finally handled all the whelps my friends! Time to log off!

We're expected to continue working when it's 90 F and 100% humidity indoors. Dude our paper is so soggy I punch holes in it when I try to write. I am straight up not having a good time.

Also our managers didn't even come in today. What even is capitalism

"AITA for cooking and eating my girlfriend's puppy in front of her? I thought it was funny... EDIT: Wow thanks for the gold!"

Sick of getting angry at smug idiots I literally said once "if you can't enact a solution it's not a solution it's a daydream" and got downvoted into oblivion then I went to another sub said that the schooling system is broken and that maybe telling students that something doesn't exist while it does essentially lying to students (all you have to say is "well this does exist but we'll take care of it later you can ignore it" instead) isn't that great and you can guess the feedback

The local posse of chuds who have harassed my SO in the past are all connected through the Free Masons.

Not sure what to do with that information, and somehow I'm not surprised. If anything it feels cliché.

I was flame weeding next to a garden bed adjacent to my house and accidentally caught some dried thyme that was growing all around the perimeter. Easily a 20 foot ring. It went from 0 to 60 in seconds. Like if you've ever lit a dry Christmas tree it was like that. I ran and got the hose which was luckily only 30 feet away, but not hooked up, so I had to hook it up and turn it on which when you are flooded with stress hormones is really fucking hard.

I and was able to put it out but it was really fucking scary. My hands are still shaking 10 mins later from the adrenaline.

I am proud of myself for staying calm and focused and doing what had to be done in the moment but uh... Holy shit comrades

Just watching this now on YouTube. Its under *Why Was New York So Dangerous In The 90s? *

Anyway, I see its 2 hours and I'm watching and coding. The production quality is very good. But I start to notice a general slant to how they talk about things. A kind of 'overindulgence in social systems really creates poverty' kinda vibe. At first I'm thinking, 'its a long doc maybe it's both sidzin it'. But no, this is some legit high grade propaganda. They constantly present Randian supermen as the solution to widespread social strife (while, of course, neglecting those failed by the system). Watching it now cuz I'm kinda fascinated at how they twist facts and historical narratives. Like they mentioned The Central Parkremoved Case and use it as a kind of example the escalating violence of the time while deftly sidestepping the whole issue of wrongful incarceration (notice that they call it the Central Parkremoved Case rather than drawing attention to the Five wrongfully convicted black men).

Anyway. I'm kinda curious. Like this legit feels like a piece of propaganda funded by a think tank. You guys know anything about the production / creator?

I guess just a few days ago the ISS did a thing where their ham radio repeater was transmitting SSTV images of what looked like might be Soviet propaganda? I can't read it, unfortunately. There's a gallery of people submitting what they received. ARISS SSTV

So tomorrow will be day 60 of not drinking, and I'm feeling pretty good. Had myself a great breakfast this morning and cooked my ass off today at work. I got prescribed arthritis medicine in rehab and the task I was dreading the most since returning to work was no problem today! Today my entire view on work changed, I was a far better cook than normal, I wasn't half assing recipes like I did when I was always hungover/withdrawaling. I even had time to do a bunch of cleaning around the kitchen. I even have energy leftover to cook when I get home. Probably due to drinking 8 red bulls today, but hey whatever makes me feel good and doesn't ruin my life, plus I get them for free at work. Gonna go to a meeting tonight and make some dinner

How are y'all today?

Was expecting horrific sinophobia, but instead two clerks agreeing while customers had to listen

Hell yeah

I think we should talk to him about that. Doesn't seem like a smart move.

The song is based on clips from this incident which made front page news in the UK:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/handforth-parish-council-zoom-jackie-weaver-b1798051.html

I recently started talking with someone who seems to actually value my existence and company... well, I've known her for a bit, but she just decided to approach me first about the thought of us getting to know each other more and more. We've chatted a lot before, but it was mostly about veganism and insights pertaining to that—not much else, though.

She is incredibly relatable and a very fun person. She doesn't live near me, but we started sending each other long emails where we talk about ourselves and ask each other questions to know more about each other in terms of our interests, life, hobbies, and all of that—virtual penpal shit, basically. She said she loves doing that, but she's tried it with a few other people who unfortunately got bored and tired of it.

She told me that she is very closed-off and quiet. She does not feel comfortable talking to most people and is entirely estranged from her family (me too!) Her husband and I are the only people she would consider her friends, and she asked me if I minded being called her "BFF." And, of course, I don't.

She is a vegan activist who used to do a lot of street outreach but got tired and stressed because of that so she's done more chill things like post comics about animal liberation instead. She relates to me in other values as well. She's not really a comrade, but she knows I'm a Marxist and genuinely wants to learn more about that. She's an avid reader, so I gave her some basic recommendations and other resources besides books.

There's a level of understanding here that I feel like I seldom ever get... I'm glad to have her. I get really depressed most nights. I don't value and appreciate my own life much if I had to be honest, but it makes me glad knowing that someone else does.

Most people are repulsed by me in some way or another, so the fact that she reached out to me just to learn more about me and everything was really nice of her. We've vibed in the past, but things have gotten a lot closer now.

If I ever could get out of this shitty state, I'd love to hang with her and her husband IRL. We'd have a lot of fun. Her husband is into metal and really digs my music, too.

Funny story: I've been calling her "da GOAT," and English isn't her first language, so she thought I was calling her a literal goat, but she took it as a compliment because she really likes goats. She told her husband, an American, and he died laughing from hearing that story.

Funny shit. Behhh 🐐

Feels like, because of the way that media and culture is experienced in the modern day, I find myself looking for certain "types" of people. That's not to say I'm ignoring people's individuality or reducing them to caricatures, but there's definitely certain grooves that people fall into. Crypto guy is a type of guy, for example. They're not all the same, but they've got some very distinct and shared characteristics. I think, though, that some of these "types" of people are completely made up and do not exist in a substantial way. Most often, I think that these false typings come from sexual fantasy, objectification, and even a form of commodity fetishism. I think this is a huge part of online culture. It ranges from the "___ gf" kind of images to the starter pack meme format to whatever else you might find. Then there's the middle ground. My best example of that would be the idea of the egirl. There's definitely some people who could be categorized as authentic practitioners who simply are that way, but are generally exploded out of proportion because you can literally make a career being a content creator with that sort of persona and that sort of content gets plastered everywhere.

That's the normal level of unhealthy internet culture you'd expect, but I find myself struggling to differentiate between reality and the fiction of the internet. I might say a certain type of person is blown out of proportion by media and aren't that common since I never encounter them in my real life, but that logic doesn't hold any better than the idea that asian people are mostly fake because I haven't met very many. This starts being an issue when it shapes my expectations of people around me. "I wish I knew more people who had this kind of vibe. Wait, is that a real type of person? Is it just shallow bullshit I'm looking for for aesthetic reasons? Do people actually act like that? Do they really act/think like that, or are they just as internet poisoned as I am? Are there secretly lots of hot goth girls in New York but not Salt Lake City? Is that why the real estate is so expensive, or is it the other way around?" It really makes me feel like I am losing touch with reality in a way that is maybe not healthy, especially when it comes to looking for a partner. Often feels rather misogynistic in a way I can't put my finger on, too.

TL;DR how do you all differentiate between actual types of people and vague collections of biases?

Edit: I don't know why I worded this so poorly, but the notion I was looking for was a subculture. I think there are subcultures that are, to varying degrees, inorganic and overrepresented, but there is no way to have empirical data about the representation of such a vague notion of a subculture.

I spoke the other day about rich people whingeing that they don't have enough to retire in luxury. In today's news there is a 67 year old man who hates his job and wants to retire. However the poor thing only has $700K saved up. This only gives him $28K a year in interest. Poor old dear still hasn't paid off his mortgage so how will he manage on that?

How the other half live.

Look how they massacred my boy

i'm sorry if this makes me a sad person, but i really fucking hate italian brainrot. i despise tralalelo tralala, noooooooo, and i get agitated when i hear it blast on someones phone. it's fucking ai slop and i find zero comedy value in it at all, please let it die