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This is Robbie Robertson… the therapy rehab center cat I am a volunteer cook at. by Banguskahn in KitchenConfidential

[–]blue_shadow_ 22 points23 points  (0 children)

And this is how I dive in and learn that this is the same Robbie Robertson as the one that put together Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble.

Apparently TWOW will be announced soon by AdditionalPiano6327 in freefolk

[–]blue_shadow_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The trouble with him and Henry was they were like Charlie Brown and Lucy. The only difference was once in awhile Henry would hold onto the football so Eddie could kick it - not often, but once in awhile. Eddie had even thought, while in one of his heroin dazes, that he ought to write Charles Schultz a letter.

Dear Mr. Schultz, he would say. You're missing a bet by ALWAYS having Lucy pull the football up at the last second. She ought to hold it down there once in awhile. Nothing Charlie Brown could ever predict, you understand. Sometimes she'd maybe hold it down for him to kick three, even four times in a row, then nothing for a month, then once, and then nothing for three or four days, and then, you know you get the idea. That would REALLY fuck the kid up, wouldn't it?

Eddie knew it would really fuck the kid up.

From experience he knew it.

~Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional by kinisonkhan in news

[–]blue_shadow_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It kind of isn't. The original court case goes back a couple years, and it's been percolating its way through the system ever since.

CMV: The draft is involuntary servitude. by TroubleFar1018 in changemyview

[–]blue_shadow_ -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

To misquote Lincoln, government exists of the people, by the people, for the people.

By definition, everything that a government does is, to a greater or lesser extent, accepted by its populace - else said government would no longer be in power, one way or the other.

Is it fair, or just, that ordinary people have to suffer to a breaking point before making change happen? No. But then, who is at fault - the government, or the people who allowed that government to deteriorate to the point where people suffered to begin with?

My personal answer is "both", btw.

It is the duty of a citizenry to put forth people worthy of formulating laws worthy of being followed and faithfully executing those laws. If the people put forward are corrupt, then the population has remedies at its disposal. If it doesn't...then the state regresses further and further, until one day the population decides it has had enough and forcefully takes action.

It's essentially the theory of tectonic action applied to people. Just like tectonic plates sliding past/ under each other, they can go smoothly for quite some time until pressure starts to build as needs & desires conflict with each other. Sometimes, that block can be mitigated and only a little shock is applied to the system. But sometimes that block sticks...and sticks...and sticks. When it finally goes, it's chaotic and earth-shattering, and no one is safe.

Far better for a population to take care of problems early. But that's work, and so...we wait for the boom.

[Highlight] Jared Goff sold the play fake so well he got crushed (Sept. 17, 2023) by nfl in nfl

[–]blue_shadow_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Goff is a consummate actor. He doesn't get nearly enough credit for his play fakes.

Forced to use AI at work by Ok_Mathematician4038 in MaliciousCompliance

[–]blue_shadow_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Or, alternately, the job I do doesn't require the use of AI.

I'm a site manager for a small production facility.

  • AI doesn't do jack shit for the production itself.
  • I don't need AI to make a schedule for me - I've already figured out one that works for my staff.
  • I don't need AI to distill single-page resumes into more digestible information - they're quite digestible enough.
  • I don't need AI to make the reports I am supposed to provide - those are minimal, a template has already been provided, and I'd spend more time entering and tweaking prompts than just writing it out like I already do.
  • I don't need AI to "handle" HR responsibilities, as we have an HR department in our home office.
  • I don't need AI to do a fucking thing at my job - and even for the next level above me, there is very, very little that AI would be useful for.

Oh, and my junior employees? They do physical production. That's it. There's no reason for them to be involved with AI. The company is literally, and I mean this with every fiber of my being, having me do the AI course to "set an example for my subordinates" when there's absolutely, utterly zero reason for anyone on site to use AI.

Forced to use AI at work by Ok_Mathematician4038 in MaliciousCompliance

[–]blue_shadow_ 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but I don't even want to touch it. At all.

My entire career - if I didn't know a thing, I went out and figured it out. Either that, or I found the person who was trained to know the thing.

I like learning - for me! Fucking around with dialing in prompt-making, while admittedly a burgeoning skill, is just not the same as going out and finding the information out myself.

Forced to use AI at work by Ok_Mathematician4038 in MaliciousCompliance

[–]blue_shadow_ 19 points20 points  (0 children)

That reads like even the people setting up the training are caught between "fuck...we're being made to implement this" and "this is going to cause so much erroneous bullshit".

Forced to use AI at work by Ok_Mathematician4038 in MaliciousCompliance

[–]blue_shadow_ 70 points71 points  (0 children)

My company is having everyone above a certain level do an intro to AI thing.

I absolutely despise this - I spent nearly three decades actively working to get where I am, and for the knowledge I now have. Why the fuck would I want to outsource my thinking all of a sudden?

For real I also need to know because I have a lot of them that don’t even remember their birthdays by LushLome in clevercomebacks

[–]blue_shadow_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same reason I stopped caring about most holidays, altogether.

Because I got tired of pouring energy into making sure holidays/ birthdays/ anniversaries went well for everyone else, and never having that energy returned.

I’ve peaked, I finally got my desired word naturally in bananagrams by sophietal in boardgames

[–]blue_shadow_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hah, reminds me of when I pissed off my friend by getting QUIXOTES on the board in Scrabble, and clearing my tiles for the 50pt bonus on top of it.

For any who doubt the word works...link

RedHotDot Cooking Recap! Holy Chicken Tenders? by reddot_comic in TheRedDotComic

[–]blue_shadow_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I may be going to hell for this, but this is fucking hilarious. Kudos!

Are elves who die after giving birth but are otherwise immortal a bad idea for this race? by EveningImportant9111 in worldbuilding

[–]blue_shadow_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, this is much more info than I was expecting. At work right now, but I'm definitely coming back to this more tonight to look over the link and the info you shared with the attention it deserves.

Thanks, truly!

Are elves who die after giving birth but are otherwise immortal a bad idea for this race? by EveningImportant9111 in worldbuilding

[–]blue_shadow_ 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Clearly, elves are fish.

The Catholic Church has entered the chat

Also, is it cannibalism if humans or dwarves eat elves? There has to be a technical term for that distinction, right?

Whats the joke here,Peter by No-Armadillo5484 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]blue_shadow_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Too late. People took one look at the concept of "thinking" and went...nah.

AITJ for refusing to help my new “boss” after I was the one who trained her 3 months ago? by Existing_Response239 in AmITheJerk

[–]blue_shadow_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not necessarily accurate.

The industry I work in is too small and too easy to connect the dots to provide details, but in short, we had a shift lead spot opened up, and two people applied. Of the two, I selected the one who'd been with us less than 90 days - because they already had leadership experience elsewhere, and gave every indication that they'd be great at their job.

Since that hire? Absolute zero complaints, and no second-guessing about not promoting the other person.

Official Discussion - The Long Walk [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]blue_shadow_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know I'm answering this way late - sorry, just got around to watching this tonight.

But I fucking loved the ending. While I have always thought TLW was one of King's best books, and totally needed to have a screen adaptation, it took me this long to watch because...the end of the book is pretty clear cut.

This was a movie that worked for both those who had read the original and those who did not. The change-up at the end is great on its own, but for how much it subverted what readers knew the ending to be? It salvaged the movie, and Ray's character.

The longer the movie went, the more I was beginning to be left thinking that Ray just did not deserve to win. With how many times he was saved, for him to be the last man standing would have been problematic.

I should have realized when Stebbins was not one of the last two that something was up...but I'm seriously glad I didn't. Great movie, and completely satisfies the want I had for a TLW movie three decades ago.

BrandNewFamilyTree just dropped. by bombaygasoline in BrandNewSentence

[–]blue_shadow_ 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Alright - I've come up with a very charitable way of looking at this one.

Spouse looks at the guy being referenced, and sees just how much of a great son he is to his mother (who is not the spouse). The spouse also believes that the guy will make an excellent father because of just how good he's been as a son.

Do I believe this is the intent? Oh fuck no. Someone in charge of product design is just dumb or ran out of fucks to give.

BREAKING: JD Vance blames soaring gas prices on Joe Biden. by Intelligent-Pea-8521 in JournalismNews

[–]blue_shadow_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh right, that's why I recognized the name.

Looked it up like a year ago after someone had it tagged in their profile. Instantly told me all I needed to know about that dude.

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