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Skates ,

I even got them to secure me a refund against the Australian government after they refused to issue a refund after directing me to apply for a tourist visa with the wrong visa process.

I love this result. It’s really damn hard to protect yourself from government failure, especially in cases where you are owed money. It’s awesome that you not only got your money back, but also got to play the “fuck you, if you take my lunch money you can fight my big brother” card.

Skates ,

another old man yelling at clouds

Skates ,

That too. But he’s also really angry that the world passed him by. That his understanding of AI turned out to be less than others’. That his skills couldn’t make it happen and while he was on the side of the road watching everyone else try and commenting on their failures, someone actually kind of succeeded. Not completely, of course. But enough that it eclipses all of his career and makes him seem like just another naysayer that’s been proven wrong. Like someone who can’t make things happen so he resorts to laughing at those who even try. Like an old man yelling at clouds.

So yeah, now the narrative has to change and he has to yell at the bad capitalists who are bringing about the destruction of our way of life. Otherwise he looks like a hasbeen yelling about the people who could do more than him. So he does this yelling at capitalists from the comfort of his home, typing on the technological achievements of the last hundred years, without needing to worry about making and washing his own clothes, walking to the village 50 miles west, his wife dying in childbirth or him catching a stomach bug and shitting himself to death, all because we had a fucking industrial revolution that took care of those aspects and so many more, and those capitalist pigs saw there’s money to be made in technology improvements so they invested in it. Did this benefit the few more than the many? Yes. Did many people find themselves out of a job, needing to adapt to strange conditions they were never trained for? Yes. Did it also bring about incredible quality of life improvements, especially to this old useless fuck who wouldn’t even have a job without the last few decades of tech advancement, if he could even stay alive through the last pandemic? Also yes. So sitting on the sidelines crying about capitalism while at the same time enjoying its benefits is nothing more than a hypocritical plea for attention, all stemming from the fact that he can’t seem to be able to stand having been wrong. Which, holy shit - get that narcissistic crap outta my sight.

Skates ,

Hey, if you’re into checking items off a list, Legacy of the Dragonborn might squeeze some more hours out of skyrim for you. It’s about creating a museum with everything in the game. You have to get pretty much everything, from a leather armor set to daedric weaponry, and store it in the museum. You can still keep the cool items by making replicas for the museum instead(and you can always take the item back from the museum also). It’s been a while since I played so maybe some things have changed in newer versions, but after finishing that mod I pretty much put down skyrim - nothing else to do at that point (other than mods with new quests, or skill/perk overhauls)

Skates , (edited )

Shoot the fucker.

Skates ,

I want to save to onedrive. So I can create it from my desktop, modify it from my laptop next week when I’m out of town, and send a link to it to the printer shop that’s gonna print me some copies. Why are you like this?

Skates ,

You’re out of your mind if you think the regular guy off the street should:

  1. Know the difference between IMAP and POP3
  2. Know the inner workings of iMessage

If Apple requires proof of understanding to sell their tech, they should submit users to a test. Otherwise, their tech should work how the users expect it to. And deleting messages when I press the damn “delete” button is how any sane person expects things to work. Now, if Apple wants to make a copy and store it in their asshole, and I have to penetrate them anally to delete it as well? That’s fucking debatable in court if it’s a reasonable expectation for a user to have.

Skates ,

What the fuck do you mean crime is out of hand. Motherfucker, you had nazis putting people in concentration camps, your current crime is well in hand you literal fucking 16 year old. This is really getting on my tits.

Skates ,

It took a war to contain nazis the last time. Maybe it takes a war this time around as well. And truthfully? Better to have it be a civil war when the head of state is a Democrat. Because if this won’t be a civil war or if Trump is in power when it starts, nukes will be used.

Skates ,

It’s just Linux. It chases you and your mouse throughout the fediverse, and when it catches you and you install it, it crashes your computer because the mouse drivers are written by a 12 year old with undiagnosed ADHD.

Skates ,

I think there is quite an easy solution to the housing issue we’re facing: exponential tax increase per property.

There is no reason for someone to own more than one property in a city. No reason at all. But even if you could find one - let’s say the first 2-3 properties (defined as houses/apartments of less than X area each) have regular taxes. But then? Then it gets retarded. 500k more per year for the fourth one. 4 mil extra a year for the fifth. 50 mil extra for the sixth. One billion for the seventh. You’re a property developer? You have until 2 years after the property was finisbed to make sure someone has bought every little bit of it, otherwise that 40 apartment building will end up costing you twice the foreign debt.

Can’t pay the taxes? You can always sell the place, at a fair market value. Let’s say your two uncles died in a short timespan and they both left you their houses, but you had some property already and now you’re up to 5 residential properties but you’re not prepared to pay the extra few million. You can always list their houses. Every month they are listed and don’t get bought, you reduce the price by 5%. Overvaluing the property gets it confiscated - you surrender your property to the state, which then distributes it to those in need in a lottery. You can also opt to just give away some of your less desirable properties directly instead of trying to sell them.

But no, that’d be sudden death for all the retards who keep building, all the fuck heads who keep buying and holding, and all the politicians whose pockets get padded for listening to whichever lobby.

Skates ,

Some keep ignoring the part where retaliation against a foreign nation conducting genocide against you for 70 years is not only justified and easy to understand, but fucking commendable. If Hamas weren’t in fact backed by Israel, them taking hostages would’ve actually been something to get behind.

Skates ,

Heh, _sideffect of drinking while pregnant.

Skates ,

I’m afraid at this point it’s obvious it’s the other way around, and there is no end to the Gaza war until Israel is dismantled, its leaders are given the Gaddafi treatment, its settlers are hung and Palestine is restored.

Egypt changed terms of Gaza ceasefire deal presented to Hamas, surprising negotiators, sources say (www.cnn.com)

Egyptian intelligence quietly changed the terms of a ceasefire proposal that Israel had already signed off on earlier this month, ultimately scuttling a deal that could have released Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and set a pathway to temporarily end the fighting in Gaza, according to three people familiar with the...

Skates ,

I forgot about personal greed

Oh wow. Wherever you’re living must be nice.

Skates ,

It could be, if she wants it to be.

It could also be the type of case where her lawyers stop openAI from ever using her voice again, if she wants that to be the case.

Being rich opens up options. If openAI would be using my voice instead, they’d have a wildly less popular product but nobody to sue them for it, cause I’d be using my money to still dream about home ownership at some point before I die, not to hire lawyers or fight windmills.

Skates ,

International waters music or gtfo

Skates ,

We’re talking about sexual attraction to children that don’t know how to file their taxes

Motherfucker are you in the IRS or why the hell do you think a boner is somehow related to following processes? “Oh god, yeah baby file that W2, I’m so hard right now” gtfo outta here with your weird ass fetish, what a fucking shit show.

Skates ,

Ahahahah imagine writing a short story to install a browser

Skates ,

Oh, you want only good reviews? It’d be a shame if people reviewed your game like “I apologize, I have nothing to say - I am under contract to say nothing bad about the game, and I have nothing good to say about it either.”

Skates ,

It’s worse.

Playtest results inhibit you from disclosing things because they are subject to change. They take gamers’feedback, decide if they want to act on it, and at the end of the day the finished product may look different so it makes no sense for people to loudly state “they have feature X, and they don’t have feature Y” because by release it may be the other way around.

Whereas this type of contract says “idgaf what’s bad about the game, you can only sing its praises online”.

Silence > dishonesty.

Skates ,

millions of years of evolution wiring our brains to make sex feel good so we don’t accidentally kill off the human race by forgetting to do it

dumbasses want to play badminton or some shit instead

Well ok.

Skates ,

They’re talking about a chicken. Source: they wrote the word “chicken”.

Skates ,

Wtf? Why not just imprison the pro-genocide fucks? Why limit education instead?

Skates ,

This is a very dumb comment.

Proceeds to write a very dumb comment.

Hey, I appreciate the honesty.

Skates ,

/c/fuckcars is that way, thanks for stopping by

Cars will never be dethroned. Yes, trains are cool - choo choo motherfucker. Yes, bikes are environmentally friendly. Yes, the car is a truly fucking horible answer to the question “how to get from A to B”.

But that’s because cars are the answer to the question “how to get from A to B comfortably”. I don’t want my baby and my in-law to get on the back of my bike when we’re going camping. I don’t want to take the train and then walk 2 miles from the station every single fucking day with 20kg of tools in my hand, because shit, the train doesn’t stop next to my house, and it doesn’t stop next to my work. I want to be able to have acces to comfortable transportation.

So the answer will still be the car. Even with everyone crying about it. Cause the cat’s out of the bag with cars, we made them efficient and cheap enough to not be considered luxury items anymore. And some countries (see: US) have their entire infrastructure built with cars in mind. You’re never putting the lid back on this, even if it’s a decent idea.

Skates ,

Yes. As it should be. I’ll buy the car that chooses to mow down a sidewalk full of pregnant babies instead of mildly inconveniencing myself or my passengers. Why the hell would you even consider any other alternative?

Skates ,

They’re not trolls, just Unix-pilled dumbasses who can’t accept their 4% club isn’t the literal holy grail they want it to be.

Linux is great, yeah. You know what else is great? Playing games. Not debugging drivers. Stable configurations. Not sucking Torvalds’ dick. Coming home after my job and just doing whatever the fuck I want on my PC, instead of putting on my “Linux user” overalls and going back to what is basically another job, trying and failing to get the fucking OS to do one teensy little thing that there are 50 half-documented solutions for, 49 of which don’t work.

Skates ,

Gotta suck being a teacher for this class when you just know Jorch is gonna end up framed by Tom Riddle for opening the chamber of secrets.

Skates ,

Since we’re 'what if’ing, what if we bombed the shit out of every Israeli embassy in every country?

Skates ,

Who asked Vatican? Don’t they fuck kids? I’m not asking my local child molester what they think about my wife pegging me, let’s stop giving fucktards a platform.

Skates ,

Hey man, you’re kinda narrowing down the entire problem of the right to privacy being consistently shat upon by your government into “well I knew one person where it was justified so this means those who argue against it fuck kids”

I understand what you mean and if you want to carve an exception into the law for CP I’d be all for it - maybe everyone is a mandated reporter of child porn, and all suspicions MUST be reported to the FBI and the evidence handed over. But I don’t wanna get swatted just because my wife and I are into BDSM and we photographed a particularly rough session. Or because I took some pics of some clear plastic bags filled with flour that I put in my trunk to prank a friend. Or a million other things a geek squad guy might misinterpret and call the police for.

Skates ,

That probably would be the opposite extreme, and I have a feeling entirely different situations will rise out of that.

Tbh idk what I’d do. It’s good I’m not in a position to decide. I just think the federal government offering people incentives to bypass privacy is dangerous and wrong.

Skates ,

If this were a just world, this dude would be left in the gorilla enclosure to find himself at the mercy of a bigger mammal and get beaten to death. But life’s not fair, so let’s penny-pinch: is this guy worth anything to society? No. Will his continued existence (when he is allowed to be free again) be beneficial? No. Is his continued existence in prison more expensive than a bullet? Yes. So let’s just pull the trigger and move on.

Sometimes you need to cut your losses. This one was fucked up. Take it out the back and dump it in the trash.

Skates ,

I just want to be absolutely clear

No you don’t, you just want me to give you enough arguments to make your case. Which wouldn’t be necessary if you had a case at all.

should we apply this same “your life is only tolerated if you’re worth something to society” to, for example, the severely disabled?

It’s interesting that you think disabled people are worth nothing to society. I guess you’ve never of Stephen Hawking, Stevie Wonder or Michael J. Fox? Or maybe you’ve heard of them, but think they’ve brought nothing to society? Or maybe you’re aware of them and acknowledge their impact, but you still think you’re better than them, just because they’re disabled. Yeah, option 3 sounds like you. Cunt.

Skates ,

Gotta claw back that moral high ground

I’m not sure where you think the moral high ground is, but there’s nobody for me to claw it back from - or at least certainly not you. I’m amazed you’ve even heard of it, because you’ve obviously never seen it considering that I’m advocating for killing people who are leading an animal abuse group, while you’re literally saying people are worthless because they’re disabled.

I’m skipping the middle paragraphs but I’m gonna assume you realized you Freudian slipped your way into showing you’re an ableist cunt, so now you’re trying to prove you’re not, or that I’m the bigger asshole, or some sort of last ditch attempt to make yourself sound reasonable. “Haha I’m not a dipshit I was trolling all along” style. As if anyone in their right mind is just going to skip past the fact that you’re suggesting disabled people are worthless to society.

Oh shit sounds like I’ve made your “okay to shoot in the head” list.

You’ve gone through this entire conversation the wrong way, tbh. This is what happens when you try to put words in people’s mouths to make your shitty arguments, you reveal your own thought process along the way. Let’s go through it just to be clear: you obviously made the cunt list, because you’re being an ableist cunt. But you seem to think the cunt list is the same as the “okay to shoot” list, and that’s on you again. Because just like your previous “disabled people are worthless” opinion, it says more about you than me.

Skates ,

Americans are out here needing 100 degrees of magnitude between “it’s really cold outside” and “it’s really hot outside” while ignoring the scientific uses of anything outside of those values and you expect them to understand decimals?

How many “it’s really hot outside” until iron melts, or water boils, or meat cooks? Fuck knows. But I’ll be damned if I use punctuation in my maths, this country was founded on addition and subtraction and that’s all the founding fathers ever needed, now gtfo with your letters and periods and symbols in my mathematics.

Skates ,

Of course you could, but good luck letting Leo agree to that, he was even squeamish about the anal sex.

Skates ,

I have shat upon better people for lesser crimes.

Skates ,

It’s a VERY good spiritual successor to titan quest. I’ll recommend last epoch too, if you like the genre and are interested also in multi-player (it has an offline mode as well)

Skates ,

I hate shit like this. I honestly do.

Yeah my man, congratulations. Biden is better than Trump. Hear ye, hear ye, from the top of the terraces and down to your piss-infested alleys, you should know that today the Democratic party has found us someone you can vote for that is better than Trump. You’re welcome, mortals. Now hurry down to the booths and do what we want you to do. No questions please, there is no time for your theatrics. Just know that he’s better than the worst president you’ve ever had.

You know what, how about fuck you? How about we let the country burn? I mean, it’ll burn for me anyway. Whether it’s that alt-right fucko, or your shitty party’s “moderate” alternative. But maybe with the other guy, it burns for you as well. Maybe when stocks go down because the orange clown shat out another retarded idea you’ll remember that you offered moderation when people asked for a serious leftist choice. Maybe when the Supreme Court continues to remove rights from women, minorities and oppressed groups they’ll get organized into a party that actually represents them and pushes for social change, instead of just being a shade less dark than their opposition. Maybe when the MAGA retards burn the fucking world down, some rich Democrat fuck’s house just happens to get caught in the fire as well, and they can live to regret pulling the wrong strings for so many years. Because there’s no fucking way the regular people get through any of this shit unscathed, might as well pull a few of the ‘immortals’ down with us and remind them that they too can bleed.

So fuck right off with your shitty choices. You made the retarded decision to have Hillary as the opposition to Trump, you saw how well that went for you. You made the same mistake now, offering people another impossible choice. For once in your fucking life, accept responsibility - the Democrats have chosen who should represent them, and they have chosen wrong. If they lose, that’s not on the voters - that’s on the people who made the choice.

Skates ,

I’ll take the uranium. It doesn’t matter what I blow up with it, the butterfly effect will mean the rest of the world is changed forever. Because fuck you, you should’ve asked before sending people to the medieval era.

Skates ,

Are you sarcastically implying there’s no way someone would fear for their life in that situation, and then in the next sentence that the shooter is an easily frightened person who might’ve feared for their life?

Skates ,

What fucking dysfunctional system are you from that shouting is your go to?

  1. Task the kid with something you never taught them how to do
  2. Kid fails because they don’t know how to do the thing
  3. Shout at them because you don’t know other parenting methods
  4. Do it yourself
  5. Lessons successfully taught to your child: it’s normal to not teach your children, it’s okay to shout, you can’t do anything as well as your parents, you can use your inability to do things to force others to do them

Hey, thank your parents next time you see them, I think they might’ve helped raise my ex girlfriend.

Skates ,

Yes but how

Skates ,

This reeks of small tits energy.

Skates ,

A group of Alabama residents decide to rob a bank. They put on their ski masks, grab their guns, run in, yell for everyone to get down and they start looking for the vault. They ransack every office, but all they find are some fancy coolers. Tired from the search and hot from wearing ski masks in Alabama, they open one of them up to find a bunch of cool refreshing yogurt. They drink it, cool off a bit, and then they go looking for the manager. They find this nice looking guy in a suit and tie:

“Hey, are you the manager of this bank?”, they yell, pointing a gun at his face.

“Yes sir, I am”, the guy is shaking and scared, but tries to keep calm.

“Take us to your vault, right fucking now!”

“Vault? Sir this is a sperm bank”

Skates ,

Just shit on this person. What a fucking hick. Just straight up pull your pants down and shit on him.

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