Oh I know that voice!

It was the one that told me to “stop torquing now!” When I ended up breaking a crossed bolt off in an awkward blind spot on the side of my engine…so now the VTT solenoid is held in by a little epoxy. Because otherwise the engine would have to be removed and a machinist would likely need to just destroy and rethread that thing.

Oh, the shame…

No I’m not a mechanic, I’m just not “pay a mechanic $600 to install a $40 part” rich. :D

But this is exactly why I won’t get into something like electricianship or other dangerous stuff. ADHD sometimes just squelches that little voice and I’m left asking myself why I did something so stupid and wishing I could go back 10 seconds.

If the consequences were life or death? Yeah no way I don’t need a sudden brain-lapse killing/maiming me or someone else.

I bet you got that toaster to run DOOM didn’t you? 😏

“Sorry your pacemaker has the silliest little flaw but the patented blobbed firmware could only be updated with some vendor program on Windows XP that was reliant on XP-specific libraries but Service Pack 2 broke it after the company went under…”

Same stuff with car electronics. Maddening.

B…bluetooth?

Oh no. Reverse that flow of data and “Hackable brains” are a thing. Cool. /s

“Move fast and break things monkeys before getting FDA cleared to risk humans.”

Oh geeze, so much. “Hey just grab Signal real quick, it’s super simple and private and SMS seems to get worse as time goes on anyway. Plus I can send you better pictures and videos!”

“Lol meh why you tryin to sell it to me.”

It’s weird, the things people really dig in their heels on. They’ll download apps for the silliest thing but “another chat app” is such an inconvenience.

It’s the only reason I think reddit dot com still resolves at all anymore. If the users weren’t the product, to both the company and other users, better alternatives would be the norm by now.

I meant in the way that members of a society interact with each other and how negative and antisocial qualities are reaching mainstream promotion because it’s profitable, but amusing way to pare down 100% of human history into two of the bleakest articles on Wikipedia I guess lol.

Yes people can be awful. Chances are higher than zero that terrible traditions have been a thing in history. Nobody is surprised.

Also catalog filtering. I wish GoG had a search filter half as good as Steam’s!

Although I find the meme hilarious, this makes perfect sense. That’s something I assumed as well. The pommel was likely weighted and heavy, and the shock of it coming at you and the sudden ear-ringing “CLANG” of it bouncing off your helmet was probably just wtf-disorienting enough to allow your opponent into your blind spot or deadly proximity. Ouch.

I’ve practiced something similar in martial arts, where you throw your hands wildly toward the face for a half second and take advantage of the blinking flinch for a sweep or grab.

Thanks for sharing!

Imagine the weird “humane” process.

“We’re draining the bank accounts now…” (watching numbers in all accounts drop to zero)

“And now, we’re gonna pull the listing from the stock exchange…” (onlookers gasp)

“Before we invalidate your business license and jail your entire C-suite, have ye any last words?”

Correct. But that’s the issue right now. People look at the equation all wrong and say “I just wish I could get more hours!” instead of fighting for reasonable pay. If hours go down but pay doesn’t go up to compensate, a ton of people will actually get hit really hard by this and their lives will get worse instead of better.

Companies can use that tired, stupid line that “Washington says you don’t have the eagle-screeching-freedom-right to WORK! How dare they!” and people will buy it.

We don’t want that, because it’ll turn workers against worker-friendly politics, and that would be a Very Bad Thing, given the level of job-simp-indoctrination we’re already combating! :O

Well. Geeze. Scrolling through all the “heehee old tech” posts and now I feel like we’re all sitting around a campfire in something like “The Last of Us” or “Metro 2033” talking about the world that was…

You sure bring up excellent points though. The world needs to know while there’s still something left to save…

Now we’d find that kind of thing creepy and call it “analog horror” maybe. XD

I wasn’t around in the workforce at this point but even I feel like email just doesn’t have the same “hisss-PHWUMPH” to it y’know?

This just brings back memories of the LucasArts classic “Grim Fandango”.

I think that logic didn’t scare as much so they switched to the “HIV needles on gas pump handles and in the Burger King ball pit” stories.

…the ball pit thing might have actually happened like once?

I remember once hearing a random conversation between two people on the AOL login handshake process once LOL. That was a weird one as a kid.

I remember about 10+ years ago when I used to do food service, I made use of this quite a lot to convert wads of nasty dollar bills into magical digital money hahaha.

Oh yes! It’s also so similar to that “new computer smell” when a laptop’s fans would kick on for the first time out of the box. I dunno if that’s a thing anymore…