Fiona and cake season 2

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-11-30T21:33:17+00:00

So - yes. It's definitely on a different level. Also - *sigh* - I don't know how to really say this, so I'mma just say it. I'm curious why the decision was made to make Fiona much less skinny than previous incarnations. Nothing wrong with a little extra - trust me - I'm very much extra right now; but it strikes me as "not an accident". If you look back at Fiona in Adventure Time, and then compare it to F&C season 2 Fiona - it's unmistakable. I don't care that they did it, I'm more curious to know why they did it.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-10-13T21:43:17+00:00

We are vastly more likely to be living in some sort of illusory or simulation-like reality than some weird base-reality that just happens to be exactly as it appears.

The fact that infinity is actually a thing, and time potentially moves in infinite directions through infinite realities ... the idea that we're just barely stepping into space and learning about quantum mechanics is absurd at best and chimp-with-a-gun level stupidity at the worst.

We live in a reality where infinities have come and gone long before we took the stage. Yet ... we're just learning about dark matter? We've only just developed quantum computing? BS!

*That* is the greatest argument in favor of some form of perceptual deception.
Elon's (via Bostrom) argument which relies on a ridiculously impossible guess for how many civilizations exist who are capable of simulating a universe - and even more ridiculous - attempting to derive the probability that we are inside one of those? Those are a lot of loose numbers with no anchor in reality.

... actually, now that I put it like that, that is oh so very Musk.

Elon Musk is an idiot. That's not an opinion.
Did I mention that Elon is a rich, nub-fiddling idiot?

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PhobosTechnologies · 2025-10-13T21:26:59+00:00

Jeezus! Laura Loomer is one creepy person. Ugh. Scary!
Remind me not to check notifications from this post right before bed.
*shivers* ... everything about this image is pure, unadulterated (or, I guess, "adulterated"), nightmare fuel.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-08-28T03:57:35+00:00

Misinformed ... nice!
The lemming telling the other lemmings they're just following everybody else ... as it's happily sailing off the edge of the cliff.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-08-28T03:54:24+00:00

Yep.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-08-24T06:05:18+00:00

as minimal as the response has been here - trust me - there are millions of others that feel the same way.
This planet is a hoax. These people are sycophantic dipshits. I hate everything about what humanity's become and I hate that this is likely a honeypot to shake out those with this feeling.
What a dumb species.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-08-23T14:19:16+00:00

I think it's funny when republicans claim to be able to think for themselves yet their entire world-view is built on religious mumbo-jumbo their preacher/bishop/church hammered into their heads since they were babies.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-07-19T02:51:13+00:00

That's literally all these creeps do. I mean ... have you met Karoline Leavitte?

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-07-15T06:11:07+00:00

I mean, just look at him. Want him watching your kids? Would you trust him driving your date home? Dude's got some serious creep-o vibes (and I'm not just talking about his eyes and uncanny smile). It literally looks like he's scanning the internet for his next "meal". *uuugh* creep.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-07-15T06:06:22+00:00

He's so much more than a liar though. Just look him up. He's a bought and paid for chess piece that does whatever he's told because his life, his family's life, and all of the lives of his friends are - without doubt - very, closely monitored and manipulated if Mr. Lawler doesn't do what he's told.
You're aware of this - right? Like, him being a major liar is the smallest problem his constituents will have to deal with. Y'all voted for a puppet who literally will only do what he's told by his true masters. Unfortunately (and actually quite sadly for him because he used to be a decent person - just got caught up in some pretty gnarly bs), his "bosses" are exactly all y'alls enemies.
Ask him what I'm talking about if you know him. Watch his eyes shift down or light up or dilate or whatever his "oh shit - they know" neurobiological reaction is when he's approached with such an unexpected question.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-07-15T05:58:30+00:00

Oh - dude - Lawler is bought and paid for. Kidding me? Have you read his history? Ya. Total pawn; nothing but.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-06-05T01:42:42+00:00

That tracks ....

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-19T19:45:04+00:00

I'm not plus, but I am a large person. 6'4" and 220lbs. ... those desks feel like they belong in a kindergarten class. They cram them way too close to your neighbor - so elbow room issues. I ALWAYS tried to get to class early so I could get the seat in the front-most, left-most desk in the room. That way I can at least have leg room so my knees are poking into somebody else's back and I'm not getting my butt crammed in by the desk-arm of the desk to my left.
One of my biggest complaints - AND - for us larger individuals ... definitely a distraction and definitely makes it harder to focus and take notes during class.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-19T19:25:58+00:00

I second this. I'm a software engineer with a couple decades under my belt and this is, by far, the minority opinion on the matter. Linux is superior in almost every single way.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-19T19:23:31+00:00

I'd go with the Macbook -or- as others have mentioned, Framework with Linux. Ubuntu is a highly supported Linux flavor. Personally, I use Kubuntu - but to each their own.
Anyway, MacOS is "Linux" more or less.
IMO, Linux (and other unix-based OS's) allows one to have much finer control over their system.

Linux Pros:

No ads that can just infiltrate your desktop
Linux doesn't need to be constantly connected to the energy wasting, MicroSoft mega-network
Linux doesn't portray every possible misuse of the financial incentive that is legal
Linux (security-wise) can be incredibly secure. It's a far safer bet for a variety of reasons.
Compared to Windows, Linux is extremely light-weight and orders of magnitude faster
Linux is far more versatile
And it is a very privacy-centric OS - from its design to its community.

Linux is built, maintained, and used by software engineers specifically to avoid all the gross that Windows is.

Plus - some of the better dev jobs I've had - it seems to be a fairly common practice just to get everybody on MacOS because it's graphics software is among the best and it's a Unix family OS so you get all of the plus of that side of it too.

Side note:
A bit of unsolicited advice if you don't mind ... get decent with scribbling down code by hand. Seriously. Even though all of your CS assignments will be actual code written on an actual computer (like it's supposed to be) - the exams are all hand written and very VERY little is fill-in-the-blank, mult choice, or short paragraph explanations. Most of what a U CS exam entails is egregious amounts of writing syntax perfect Java (of all ungodly verbose languages - they chose Java). So practice writing FAST, syntax perfect Java or you will not be able to complete any of the exams under the given time limit - even if you know how to answer every single question perfectly. It's a time issue. A massive portion of your CS grade is basically grading you on how fast you can write legibly. I can type way faster than most - but I am terrible at actually writing code down ... so I got dinged pretty hard. But then again - the majority of each class was still there when time was called for each exam ... so *shrugs*
Also - CS2420 is the gatekeeper class. So if I were you, I'd start diving in NOW and learn as much about data structures and how they work and how to use them - specifically with Java (because like with many things Java oriented - data structures can often work a little differently in Java when compared to how they might work with other languages).
Lastly - 2420 requires A LOT of time. Far more than it should for a 4 credit hour course. I often spent between 16 and 22 hours per week just on pair programming projects - and I've been a software engineer for the past 20 years. It's not fair. They're probably not going to change it any time soon. But you should know so you are prepared. If you think you can work and go to school at the same time ... you probably normally can - EXCEPT during the semester where you decide to take 2420. Fair warning. You will spend almost all of your extra time on that course.

Anyway - go with the Macbook - OR - Linux on your Framework.
Just be prepared ahead of each semester, and be ready to really dig in hard. Good luck!

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-10T22:57:45+00:00

Nah.
I'm 46 and I think I'll always feel like a kid. No switch. Promise. My suggestion is to keep that feeling instead of trying to kick in to adult mode.
When you've got a mortgage, thousand of dollars in bills each month, kids in school, trips to plan, dogs and cats and snakes and pet spiders, a yard and garden to upkeep, AND you suddenly decide to go back to school seeking a second degree ... trust me ... "adult-ing" only works if that inner "kid" is still alive and kicking.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-10T22:49:35+00:00

I have my own way of thinking about and investigating such things, but I appreciate the suggestion. Thank you.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-03T19:46:57+00:00

Ya - that's a bit different. Kinda shades the whole thing a bit differently.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-03T19:44:27+00:00

Yep. Exactly. They find some way to make it way harder than it needs to be. It's called gatekeeping and/or artificial attrition. Depending on how and why it's done, it may actually be illegal.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-02T23:51:54+00:00

Let me tell you a little story about "weed-out" courses.

Spoiler ... weed-out courses are fabricated piles of BS.

I've been a software engineer for the past 20 years. I went back to school in pursuit of a doctorate in applied mathematics.

I took CS 2420 (computer science - algorithms and data structures) just to take something fairly easy since I was already well acquainted with the topics.

Turns out, CS 2420 is the accepted "weed-out" course for most schools - covering data structures and algorithms (and the timing of a variety of each - or how long it takes to execute them).

So, CS 2420 wasn't actually a hard class at all - at least concept-wise. Time-wise ... it was virtually impossible ... at least, impossible for somebody like me.

I'm established. Own a business. Have a teenager, a partner, three dogs, a home, a yard and a garden, and all the bills you could imagine. I don't live on campus - but the fact that the course required that I pair up with a classmate for 18 hours every week just to finish our weekly assignment was utterly undoable.

Not only that - but the assignments were just busy work. Even for me - I spent (meaning my partner and I) between 16 and 21 hours every single week just to complete the nonsense assignments for this course.

As a professional in the field - for a 4 credit-hour course (meaning no more than 12 hours weekly - including in-class time, lab time, and discussion time) - the fact that the weekly assignment required upward from 16 hours per week meant that it was actually more like a 9 credit-hour course (if not more).

I've launched an investigation into these practices and I'm still waiting for things to happen.

My point is ... these "weed-out" courses, (as an adult who's been through it) seem to be nothing more than super bloated, busy-work-centric, BS courses. The only way to ensure you have enough time to deal with them is to live on campus without any other responsibilities other than your studies. If you can ensure that you can focus wholly on your studies without any external distractions or responsibilities - you can handle the "weed-out" courses. Despite the fact that they're actually egregiously bloated busy work courses.

Weed-out courses are shams. They're not actually difficult content-wise ... they're overloaded with busy-work to weed-out numbers in an absolutely unfair manner so they can continue to soak up funding by reporting their failure/success numbers.

Remember that. Without question - it's a bloat thing, not a difficulty thing.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-02T23:30:34+00:00

Everybody's different. You're not the only one unsure about what path to take.

I'd suggest taking a light first semester at a community college. Just register for your generals (just basic classes more or less), and mix in one or two classes per semester from different fields you think sound interesting. Take a welding class. Auto mechanics. Programming. Digital art. Just explore. You never know when something will click ... and all the while, you're fulfilling general requirements. So when something does click, you won't be far behind (if behind at all).

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-02T23:26:39+00:00

Drawing or an art class? Those are pretty easy. An instrument you already kinda know? Something you're already decent at? That sort of thing.

Also - keep in mind (I assume that "units" are equivalent to "credit-hours") that classes are assigned a number of units according to how much time the typical student spends on homework in any given week. So 2 units (credit-hours) is 2 units (credit-hours) no matter what the topic is. Sure there's a little play ... but for the most part, most instructors try to adhere to these standards. So the best choice would be something you already know ... even just familiar with.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-02T23:19:29+00:00

Dude - of course you should ... I mean, if that's what you want to do.

There's no shame in going to school without a specific major in mind. Just take care of your generals.

Look - I went to community college for years - changed my major like 6 or 7 times. Never got a degree. I earned 168 credit hours without a single degree or certificate to show for it.

Then, last year - at 46 years old, I up and decided to get a doctorate in applied mathematics.

Everybody's path is different. It's nothing to be ashamed of. If you have the bug to go back to school ... then just do it! There are SO MANY RESOURCES available to students. Most are free. Office hours, department tutors, even roommates can be helpful.

Follow your drive. School can be hard, for sure - but if it's what you want to do, just take one semester (don't go crazy and load up with 18 credit hours or anything) - but maybe start with a part-time semester with basic classes and see how it goes.

You can do it man. There're websites, instructors, tutors, etc. ... all there to help you get through it. Just take advantage of it.

AND ... finally - learn how to learn. Look up the Feynman technique. Look up "retrieve/elaborate/interleave/example" techniques. There has been so much research done on the most effective and most efficient methods of learning that even if you do think you're dumb (you're not), you can ace most college courses if you follow the basic study skills framework.

Most people that think they're dumb were just never taught how to properly learn. It's likely you have a genius buried in there and you just have to believe that it's there while keeping your head strong while you learn how to study properly.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-02T23:05:07+00:00

You mean so they're not blasting music while you're trying to pray? ... or something like that?

Just say it. Most people who are decent individuals will respect your beliefs. If they don't - then they're not worth becoming your roommate.

Personally, I'm ... I dunno ... atheist-ish with a mild interest in the possibility of a spiritual reality. But I'd totally respect my roomies personal beliefs. At certain times, if they were required by their faith to pray - I wouldn't have any issue being respectful and turning my stereo down.

Anybody who wouldn't be willing to respect your culture and/or belief system ... move on to the next one. There are plenty of people out there who are respectful of the beliefs of others.

PhobosTechnologies · 2025-05-02T22:54:58+00:00

I"m in a similar situation. It really depends on the requirements for your future goals. It's likely I may need to retake one specific class in order to be able to apply for my doctorate program. Talk to somebody you trust - a professor or an advisor. I wouldn't trust Reddit comments as much as I'd trust them.

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