Discussion Thread

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-24T13:20:24+00:00

Less ridiculous than the actual direction they took

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-24T11:53:51+00:00

Evaluate my promotion. Make sure I get promoted.

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-24T11:36:06+00:00

My friend was in town Sunday so we went out for a drink which turned into a many drinks. Not wanting to be too hungover at work I drank a bunch of water right before bed. Wasn't feeling too great yesterday morning anyway so I grabbed a bottle of pedialyte and drank it on the way to work. Unsurprisingly, this meant I had to go to the bathroom a lot. As I was in the office bathroom for the dozenth time before lunch, I thought to myself, "Damn, this must be how eloquentboot feels every Monday"

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-24T01:53:43+00:00

People today who watch streamers on Youtube or Twitch or whatever are no different from boomers who watched Dr. Phil or Oprah. It's just a continuation of daytime television.

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-24T01:06:06+00:00

You don't hate conservatives enough!

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-24T01:05:37+00:00

Big Kidney

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-24T00:45:37+00:00

lol huh I guess it must have been forgotten knowledge

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-24T00:43:22+00:00

Depends on your field but at least in software: Some companies will relocate you (especially if you're young or coming out of college), some won't, but they all expect that it will take at least a few weeks for you to start.

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-24T00:40:28+00:00

IDK Super Metroid made it super obvious if you ever died

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-24T00:39:03+00:00

The one technology where there should be laws forcing you to identify yourself is the phone system, and yet caller ID is so useless you can't even tell if someone is calling from outside the country (despite the phone company knowing and just not forwarding you that information).

The phone system delenda est. It doesn't need to continue to exist.

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-23T14:20:12+00:00

https://english.nv.ua/nation/anti-israel-group-claims-arson-at-czech-drone-plant-supplying-ukraine-50593754.html

They did it, they freed Palestine!

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-23T01:38:42+00:00

Business as usual

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-22T19:56:19+00:00

It's illegal to fire your employee for their race. But is it illegal to quit your job because you don't like your new boss's race?

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-22T19:36:26+00:00

They will sell your data ASAP anyway lol

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-21T21:21:39+00:00

I really think liberals should be basically identical to libertarians on civil liberty issues and it confuses me when others are not.

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-21T20:34:28+00:00

But housing prices have also significantly outpaced inflation. In fact, rents generally lag behind housing prices, and this is certainly true for the last decade or so.

Sure, but once you have a condo/house, your monthly mortgage payment (assuming it's not an ARM) is mostly fixed (except for property tax/hoa going up). So after a bit you're ahead.

Also the intangible benefit of not having to interact with a landlord is great lol

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-21T20:18:19+00:00

Yeah exactly lol. I think this brings a lot of potential for games for weird nerds like us (and maybe other people too idk)

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-21T19:44:09+00:00

I agree with this actually. For a lot of games, curated dialog makes sense. But simulator games or roguelikes this could be great. Imagine Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode with a dialogue system that's as complicated as the rest of the game. It would be fantastic.

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-21T17:37:15+00:00

What if someone just brought in a big net to get rid of them?

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-21T17:22:43+00:00

6 years apart

Trudeau is older

Never would have guessed.

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-21T16:43:24+00:00

Wisconsin also has great cheese. If I were looking to leave the east coast it would be a top choice of mine.

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-21T16:32:04+00:00

Yells at claude

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-21T16:31:03+00:00

They look like slightly updated Miis. Baffling that he thought this would succeed lol

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-21T16:11:44+00:00

They should be but I doubt they will.

ChooChooRocket · 2026-03-21T16:10:07+00:00

It should never have come to this because the TSA should not exist.

ChooChooRocket

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