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Wogi ,

Pack it in guys this is the comment.

Wogi ,

Hey now, the felons I work with are all cool dudes just trying to rebuild their lives.

The sons of car dealers are all working in the main office trying to fuck up our lives.

Wogi ,

It’s a failure on a number of levels, failure to maintain a safe pool, AND failure to maintain a safe working environment.

And honestly the employee refusing to review security footage until the police showed up when a child was missing with the fuck?

Wogi ,

As a man who eats peanuts by the pound, I feel every part of this in my soul.

Wogi ,

Your data isn’t yours to keep. It’s already gone, for sale to the highest bidder for pennies, several times a day.

But it IS yours to spoil. Become unhinged.

Wogi ,

Fucking hell.

No they don’t.

These are things they try to sell you when you walk in the door. I’ve been a martial arts instructor. It was my first job. The only qualifications for martial arts instructor are a: kinda knows the dance moves good. End of list.

Some of these guys may embody what you’re talking about.

The vast majority are dude bros who think punching is fun, and their particular variety of punching is the best. They’re not mystic monks, gracefully handing down wisdom of the ancients. They’re wannabe tough guys who either bought the lie, or know full well and are willing to sell it to you. It’s no different than any sport, and they won’t actually teach you how to defend yourself. They’ll teach you dance moves and maybe a few of the people that learn them will be good at self defense too.

It’s a joke. It’s all a joke.

Wogi ,

I’d been at it for about 10 years when they hired me, try again.

Wogi ,

Believe me, we were squarely in the middle. There are a few decent schools, good lock finding them through the thousands of shitty ones

Wogi ,

You know, I almost forgot about the shitty attitudes and tribalism incumbent in the idiots that make dance fighting a big part of their personality. These guys, you included probably, love to preach about their enlightened state because they are just so devoted to dance fighting, and then do shit like you’re doing here. Do you really think trying to insult some random guy online because he dared to criticize the industry you’re a part of is really becoming of the type of person you advertise yourself to be?

Also. Just so you know, the scenario you fantasize about where you get to save the day with your dance fighting isn’t going to happen. At least not organically.

Wogi ,

The deception is the point.

They want you to sympathize with some old fucking rocks more than you want fossil fuel reform.

Wogi ,

I will not be fair, the publication isn’t. Why should I?

Their objective is to misinform you so that you do draw that comparison. Even if it’s not conscious, especially if it isn’t conscious. They want to bombard you with a thousand little points, each one drawing a line between unhinged, violent, destructive protest and fossil fuel reform. You’re no more likely to go buy an F150 as a result, but you are more likely to try to distance yourself from fossil fuel reform movements, and that’s all they need you to do to be successful.

Fuck them. They need no sympathy, no advocate. They need to be held accountable.

Wogi ,

Do you mean “award them more fat defense contacts??” Cuz that’s what we’re gonna do!

Wogi ,

The training is a mandatory 8 hour course, 4 of which are spent at the shooting range, an hour for lunch, 4 15 minute donut breaks, a 30 minute election class (optional) and two and a half hours of “networking.”

Wogi ,

When the punishment is a fine, it’s only a crime for the poor.

Wogi ,

They’re insanely profitable.

Almost as if exploitation is necessary to succeed in today’s economy.

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Wogi ,

But the teenager working the frozen yogurt stand hasn’t washed their hands.

Wogi ,

I want to see someone try.

Not because it’s practical, or because it makes sense. But because it sounds like it makes sense but I’m practice would be so impractical and hard that the solution would be absolutely hilarious.

You’re driving along the freeway at 70 miles an hour, and a jet powered super drone rockets along side the car carrying a 2000 pound brick of lithium and drops it on top of you like a fucking dump truck. The shock crushes the cheap Chinese car like a can of soda and the sudden change in weight sends the drone careening off in to the air at a reasonable percentage of mach 1. The last thing you see on this earth as your brain matter is squeezed out of your eye sockets like toothpaste is a wide eyed driver in the car next to you.

The resulting pile up kills 4 people immediately, and several more later as they get caught in an expanding wave of lithium battery fires that either burn them to death or suck all of the oxygen out of the air.

Wogi ,

I have some questions

Wogi ,

Is this maybe at a hobby lobby?

Wogi ,

They may be preparing for a remodel, in which many of the shelves get torn out and replaced with new ones. They don’t want to shut down the store to do it and need a lot of storage space to hold shelving while they replace units one at a time over night. So already clearance stuff gets clearanced harder to get it out of the way.

This has been brought to you by your surly neighborhood shelving guy.

Wogi ,

There was, back when I was active there. Around the time I migrated to Lemmy there was some drama and I believe that user was suspended. I don’t check it frequently enough anymore to know if there’s a current Picard maneuver surrogate.

Wogi ,

This was a different person. They’d taken a username of someone popular in a number of communities on Reddit and were purporting to be that person.

Wogi ,

Seven dollars to loading screen to your ship, watch an animation of your character sitting down, loading screen to space, loading screen to the system it’s in, Dodge some pirates, loading screen to the surface, hop along the completely barren landscape to go to a copy pasted outpost, loading screen back to your ship?

I feel like you could get all of the value of that dlc by just playing a mission over again.

Wogi ,

I didn’t make it very far in to the game, I’d held on to my game pass subscription just waiting for it to come out, and cancelled my game pass after a few hours in Starfield. I made it to like the first big city a few small settlements after that, and everything felt so fucking lifeless. NPCs just didn’t seem to belong in the space they inhabited. Oblivion and Skyrim NPCs really seemed like they owned the space they inhabited. Fallout 4 even once you got your settlements going really felt like they were home. The constant loading screens just made everything feel like it’s own little universe, apart from the rest of the game. I did have fun raiding some base around the moon, one of the few times I had fun exploring. One of the few times I had fun, honestly.

Wogi ,

We spend more on the military than the next ten countries combined. TWO of which are actively engaged in open conflict with each other.

Wogi ,

Here’s a fun fact that I think of every time I read about light delay.

We assume the speed of light is the same in all directions but there’s no way to prove that it is.

It could be light speed is instantaneous in one direction, and half the speed we think it is in the reverse. Any test we could devise depends on information traveling in two directions, nullifying any discrepancies in light speed.

Wogi ,

Cixin Liu imagines exactly that towards the end of the Three Body series. Among other things, which make the series worth absolutely slogging through at points.

Wogi ,

I mean the anti vax campaign worked well for Russia, so why not sew doubt in preventive measures during a global health crisis?

Wogi ,

They are always with you

Always with you

They are always with you

I can hear them.

With you.

Can you hear them?

I can hear them

With you.

I can hear them calling. Crying. Screaming. Scratching. I hear their voices as a crescendo. I hear them faintly as a soft breeze. They are with me.

Can you hear me?

Wogi ,

By jail do you mean getting fat bonuses?

Wogi ,

That’s been a thing for a while.

When the military sees a problem that can only be solved by war crimes they literally just hire contractors to do them.

But you don’t have to be the US government to hire private companies to do war crimes for you. Any citizen* can hire private military contractors to go out and do war crimes for them.

*A citizen is anyone with a net worth of greater than 500 million dollars.

Wogi ,

I see a hot new name drop coming in.

Wogi ,

That’s exactly what it is. I’m not sure who’s jam it is, but it’s hard to like, hate it.

Wogi ,

I grew up in the 80s and 90s. I like new music.

This is the type of music Joe Montegna was bitching about in Airheads. It’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just so… Bland?

Wogi ,

I guarantee you he was for sale long before the Supreme Court. That’s how he got there

Wogi ,

I got a dollar

Wogi ,

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Wogi ,

I’m learning about it as a result of this thread. I’m still on 10, but I know what to look for when I inevitably am forced to switch to 11.

A number of things I use still aren’t supported on Linux

Wogi ,

I have been a part of a group of people that moved a geo metro across a parking lot. Took 6 high school kids about 5 minutes.

Wogi ,

I have probably a cumulative 2000 hours between civilization 4, 5, and 6. I disliked each as they came out, I had played 3 briefly right before 4 was released. But after a few games in each they really grew on me, and moving back to the older versions just didn’t slap the same way.

I’m sure 7 will be different in enough ways that people will initially hate it, and still spend dozens of hours playing it.

Wogi ,

If you’ve been holding on to civ 5 it’s the best time to move over to 6 that there ever will be.

Wogi ,

He’s gotta share and the manager is buying it out of pocket so they’re gonna cut some little Caesars slices in half.

Wogi ,

I’m willing to bet the payday is so he can get his money without selling the stock. If the stock is artificially inflated the balloon will pop eventually. He’s at least smart enough to know that.

Wogi ,

I can’t count on my fingers the number of automobile manufacturers that have sprung out of thin air in the last few years offering some variation of EV. Two of those you mentioned I had an easier time finding information about their stock than I did finding a picture of their car on the road. Not a good sign for a company that purportedly sells cars. It’s a great sign for a company that just sells stock though.

Wogi ,

Houston is one of the worst cities I’ve ever been to. Fuck you if you’re trying to walk anywhere, fuck you right in the heart. That includes if you’re walking to and from your car. massive truck

Also fuck you are you trying to drive? You fucking crazy?

I’ve hated only a small number of cities I’ve visited. Denver comes to mind, Los Angeles, Wichita Kansas, and if you took all the hate I have for those three cities, injected it with hgh and heroin, it would be a small shadow on the wall for the pure unadulterated rage I have for Houston Texas.

Gary Indiana wasn’t as hostile. Fucking Ferguson during the protests wasn’t as hostile. And I saw a carjacking 10 minutes after stepping off the fucking plane thé last time I was there.

Fuck Texas. Give it back to Mexico.

Wogi ,

And with that Huike was enlightened.

Wogi ,

I’ve never been more am enemy of AI than this moment.

Wogi ,

I’m a machinist, I don’t get to choose my units. We use standard and try to avoid metric dimensioning like the plague. The difference between .005 inches and .005 millimeters is literally an order of magnitude.

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