Chapotraphouse

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it turns out the real survival horror was the life we lived along the way 😌

~~WHY DON'T MY POSTS SHOW UP, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK~~

had a post in the making since yesterday, tried posting it right now. it's somehow invisible. i can't get a link for the hexbear version, it's supposed to be in the games community

edit: dunno what went on but here it is. foss sweep, everybody!

I hate the smol beanification of the rich so much.

For any older comrades, did the ruling class always enjoy painting themselves as poor widdle babies taking on the big scawy world? Any time someone suggests a law that makes “the bargain” better for labor, here come the pigs whining about how this will hurt poor widdle “smol mom and pop businesses/landlords” to paint the haves as the real victims. Of course, they’ll help themselves to capital’s version of a minimum wage hike by raising prices and no one cares about small mom and pop workers. They just eat the losses. Same with HR, full of incompetent dipshits and they’re so extremely picky, but they act like the victim. Watch them whine about how they’re “drowning in applicants” and how the hiring process is disorganized as if those idiots aren’t running the hiring process. Maybe if all y’all stopped trying to pass the buck, hiring would be more smooth. Maybe if you all weren’t so picky and didn’t hire, you wouldn’t have so many choices your poor baby brain wouldn’t shut down.

Has this always been the case? Maybe it’s just an optimistic cope that capital didn’t have such a victim mentality before.

Watching an old Twilight Zone ep that's like 'Hell is a casino where you always win'

lemmy's rate limit is stopping me from achieving post today

They trying to make being a "knight" cool again ita over

The stunt the Dells are pulling makes me think of something I read about ancient Rome, I forget where, but one of the reasons why the Republican order broke down and became the Empire can be put down to the fact that Rome was highly reliant on the actions of patriotic wealthy people, which can be viewed as one of the factors that pulled power away from the Senate over time and towards a line of singular dictators and their patronage networks.

edit: also if you really wanted to save the retirement futures of kids being born right now you'd remove the social security income cap and not only would you be able to fund it for eternity you'd be able to bump the payments up and index them to inflation meanwhile ted fucking cruise is acting like corporations and billionaires are going to donate the yearly maximum retirement account contribution into every kid's account like no they fucking won't and the parents are having trouble affording groceries so they won't either and what fucking world do you live in where you think that 401Ks were anything but a fucking disaster for people's retirements they made their shitty 401Ks as a sop so they could take away pensions and they didn't do that because the 401Ks are so much better they did that because they're so much worse and also cuz 401Ks prop up the stock market by a not insignificant amount.

Yeesh, the YouTube algorithm allegations seeming pretty true. Clicked on a "comedy" short because I thought I spotted a dogwhistle (it was) and when I clicked back to the homepage there were 3 recommendations from reactionary channels.

So the only legacy this cointelpoints person whatever the fuck her name is has after years of overrated video essays is........ A meme used by liberals whenever they wanna shut down leftists making points like... Genocide is bad.

Said meme has her applying makeup with a condescending tone in a rich home with marie Antoinette esque tone of being detached from working class realities. What an unfortunate legacy. Libs turning into the caricature of what chuds paint them as is hilarious

I'm definitely allergic to eggplant but it's such a mild allergy that I tolerate it cos it's so yum

I love getting emailed AI slop by people who will likely lay me off soon. 2025 is such a wonderful time to be alive

Me literally every time I get the step ladder at work "its not the step ladder. Its the ladder that stepped up" or "i never met my birth ladder".

Home Alone legacy sequel: McCauley Culkom plays an older Kevin McCallister who has struggled as an adult after being forgotten by his family and abandoned once again but this time it stuck. To mske ends me hes turned to burglary. Cause of his history he knows every trick to get past from security systems to paint cans on doors. Eventually he comes across a house on christmas where a kid like him was forgotten on Christmas and an inversion of the first happens. But this is just the beginning of act 2, dear reader, for there is a twist! A team up! They have a 'We're not so different, you and I" moment, Robbing the kid's parents fucking blind and during a subsequent montage of their following heists they meet a motley oceans 11 style crue of neglected children with Looney Tunes style defense systems, and they recruit them onto the team. You see the events of young Kevin's life spread to the news soon after, leading to more parenrs leaving their kids home and more kids creating elaborate traps, Kevin is a legend in the eyes of these children who were ironically neglected due to his perseverance leading to a more lax attitude towards child attendance. This contradiction comes to a head right before the big heist. Kevin is shattered. He wanders from home to home, stepping on marbles and being splattered with paint, hit by 2×4s and of course being hit in crotch by a loose floorboard, 'that old chestnut' thinks Kevin.

In a despair Kevin wanders the back alleys, looking in a drunken stupor for a poorly guarded suburban home, but alas he has taught these kids too well. But as the story would generally require earlier, he meets a scary old poor person! Just like the other movies! And who is this decrepit elderly who frightens Kevin in this revival? Of course, its Joe fucking Pesci! And he has seen better times even in his burglary days. He tells Kevin that while his being a modern day sun tzu for these rich neglected children who must now fend for themselves. He was always the best. And if anyone could beat these chumps at their own gsme, my gods on Olympus, it was Kevin 'Wil E' McCallister. With Pesci in tow he rounds up the gang, makes a borderline heartfelt apology and they get to work stringing together the most elaborate string of christmas time robberies upon upper class suburbia than could be imagined. These children left at home dont stand a chance and seeing all their worldly possessions in the hands of these bandits, much like the pirates of old, chose to join their motley crue. The film ends with Kevin. At the top of his empire but entirely alone, cause his crew are like 40 years younger at the oldest so a good amount of distance is best to shave the edge off an already steep crime. Fade to black

Weird thing ar work today: one server mentioned they speak German and the server she was talking to said not to dsy that around another server who is Jewish. The one who said that walked away and the two of us were like...'wut?'. We both kinda said that was a bit weird, she mentioned it's cause she took a few classes between high school and college to get to barely being able to speak it, she said 'a little bit of German' specifically. She's got traceable German roots i guess and thar gave her an interest when she was a kid and then why not keep learning, but her family, like at least one dude in my family who snuck his last name into a bunch of English people who kept it up, they blasted over in the 1800s. Thinking a Jewish person would be offended by someone knowing how to speak a bit of German is weird.

I also know there would have been a cool snappy line about Isreal to make in all this but anything that couldn't come off really bad didnt come to mind. Its there somewhere tho, I feel it.

https://youtu.be/6AYv6rV3NXE

Me as a Starship Captain: launch 2 photon torpedoes, lock the tractor beam onto one and aim it to fly a bit past. When they finish evasive maneuvers, line up the ship and activate the tractor beam.

Also me at some point: engineers, it is super silly we dont have probes wirh transporter relays built in. Then when theres orbital interference or a signal being blocked, we just use some probes. How? Fucking tractor beam again, send the probe down far enough to transfer, and then at the barrier point we use the tractor beam to move the probe with the transport signals past whatever is blocking the transfer. If its out of safe tractor range we can just use a chain of probes and tractor out the last one!

Me again, now nicknamed Captain Tractor: "Cargo bay 8 is full and the diplomat needs space for his dumb alien shit? Jettison anything into space that can handle it and we'll use...you guessed it, the motherfuckin' TRACTOR BEAM!

Me being Starfleet's finest proponent of Tractor technology at this point: we can go into that nebula where their sensors cant find us...they'll still have the option of visual contact, let's tractor beam that meteor and kinda hold it bwtween us and their ship and then fly at...meteor speed.

Just realised that all my handwringing, as a fairly long in the tooth software engineer, about “why am I failing to stop these companies from building dogshit architectures and forcing awful process on everyone” was just base–superstructure doing its thing. The job I was hired for multiple times was literally impossible given the material conditions. Good old Marx. Undefeated.

I keep thinking about writing a blog post on why architects that prattle on about Conway’s Law are missing the point and the real issue is the logic of capital, not the org chart…but, honestly, nah.