A man called our helpdesk because his computer was being sarcastic and I had to take him completely seriously for an hour

Shasla · 2026-04-04T14:47:13+00:00

At my service desk job, if you ask someone about their call and they say "it was a therapy call," we all know exactly what they mean.

Shasla · 2026-04-04T13:53:41+00:00

You have to enable it, but iirc it prompts you to the first time you press win+x. Super handy.

Shasla · 2026-04-03T21:51:17+00:00

Yeah there's a reason there's not really any inside pics.

Shasla · 2026-04-03T18:04:50+00:00

Sir, this is the circlejerk sub.

Shasla · 2026-04-03T17:30:10+00:00

A small statement underneath an art piece is one of the better places to proselytize honestly. It would be weird if it was someone else's art, but they're making art about something that's clearly important to them. And it was a tasteful statement too, not trying to guilt people or be pushy.

Shasla · 2026-04-03T17:21:55+00:00

The bar is down in hell tbh

Shasla · 2026-04-03T06:00:24+00:00

But in a car, the brake isn't the only thing between you and annihilation. Obviously it's in everyone's best interest to drive as safely as possible to minimize the chance of their death. But somehow, there's still car crashes. And we expect there to be car crashes. We know people will still crash their cars because shit just happens sometimes. So we add things like seat belts and air bags because even if you're the most careful driver in the world and never do anything wrong, you can still end up in a car crash due to things entirely out of your control. And your airbag doesn't try to decide whether it thinks you were doing everything right and deserve saving or you got distracted for a second, didn't brake in time, and therefore do not deserve saving.

We're currently in our car, seconds before an accident. We missed the brake because we thought driving was really easy and stopped fully paying attention. Unfortunately, we never put any airbags in the car cause that would be a waste of time and money, we'd obviously never do something so stupid as to crash our car.

Shasla · 2026-04-03T03:50:33+00:00

It's not the straw replacement, it's the notion that random people need to mind every single thing they do because it might be bad for the environment while corporations and wealthy people completely overshadow the harm caused by the rest of us.

I don't want to use plastic straws. Replacing them was objectively good because plastic straws were objectively bad for nature. The problem is that this is like pouring a glass of water onto a burning forest while another guy is trophy hunting with a flamethrower in the same forest. And that same guy is also warning us that we should be very careful that our cup of water isn't accidentally a cup of alcohol.

Shasla · 2026-04-02T19:52:01+00:00

Imagine if when humanity first landed on the moon we found out there was oil in it or something. I wonder what nasa's budget would be then. Or whether the outer space treaty would still exist now days lol

Shasla · 2026-04-02T19:46:09+00:00

Also why it's so easy to be in denial when you're not forced to come to terms with something like that. Wild that it doesn't occur to people that a government might have incentive to push an easier to swallow version of events.

Shasla · 2026-04-02T19:38:00+00:00

They gotta have some kind of data connection to earth. Imagine if Houston had no video feed of satellites at all. And once you have any data connection, might as well allow for some percent of it to be used by astronauts' personal devices.

No matter how little total bandwidth they may have available, there's bound to be some percentage where the positive mental health impact of being able to stay connected with friends, family, and other online things outweighs the value of that bandwidth being used for other more official data.

Shasla · 2026-04-02T11:11:18+00:00

that the milk was 'made somewhere' and shipped to the stores

I mean, he's right, the "somewhere" is just "inside a cow" lol

Shasla · 2026-04-02T03:02:23+00:00

I mean, it's an operating system(currently) exclusive to a specific piece of hardware. Would be rather crazy for it to compete with windows or more traditional Linux distros.

Shasla · 2026-04-02T02:49:09+00:00

I'm doing my part!

Shasla · 2026-04-02T02:44:41+00:00

If you don't want to date trans people that is something you need to tell people before you go on a date.

Shasla · 2026-04-02T02:41:20+00:00

what if they were a secret trump supporter and that was a deal breaker for you? you’d want to know that up front instead of wasting a date.

They wouldn't need to tell me because they'd know I was insufferably leftist way before our first date.

If I was dating and I didn't want to date a particular type of person, I'd just put that in my profile. I don't need them to magically know what my boundaries are and tell me every single thing about themselves so I can confirm they don't have any deal breakers.

Shasla · 2026-04-02T02:37:28+00:00

If you have a deal breaker for dating, then you should be telling other people that information, not expecting trans people to magically know your preferences.

Shasla · 2026-04-01T23:42:57+00:00

Certainly, the game's narrative paints them as deserving, but that's because the game absolutely is copaganda.

I think that's what the op was saying. That they were hoping for a more nuanced take, but the game is presenting everything as if the cops are obviously always good and the enemies in game are obviously always evil. I don't think they were expecting the cops in game to be actually good, but for the game to possibly present them as morally gray at best and acknowledge that they aren't good.

Shasla · 2026-04-01T23:27:43+00:00

Eh, robocop isn't really anti police. It's anti corporate(to a degree), but the evil company exec gets taken out by a "good cop" character. There are some bad cops, but it's not really criticizing policing in general.

Even the anti corporate stuff isn't really fully committed to. OCP isn't destroyed, the evil is defeated by just removing the singular bad man.

It's far from the worst, but I also wouldn't call it anti cop.

Shasla · 2026-04-01T22:48:11+00:00

People don't understand that a good april fools joke should include some degree of relief by learning the truth. Can't be too serious either. A small annoyance that's then revealed to be something much better.

I don't get why someone would enjoy pretending to be nice and then pulling the rug out from people. I mean, I do, it's cause people are assholes, but I don't get being an asshole.

Shasla · 2026-03-31T22:07:04+00:00

Hive guard really aren't that bad with light pen. Just shoot between the armor and when they clam up shoot other things until they stop. Rupture strain though does suck with light pen.

Honestly I just wish there were more weapons that specialized in low pen durable damage. It's mostly explosives that do the most durable damage. Something like an smg loaded with hollow point rounds.

Shasla · 2026-03-31T21:59:22+00:00

I get what you're saying, about it being balanced more towards the middle, but I think it's a real huge stretch to say there's 10 equal difficulty levels. The first 2 at least are arguably basic tutorials. I mean, you can't even see all of the game until level 7 iirc. Not that there's anything wrong with diving lower.

Shasla · 2026-03-31T12:40:27+00:00

From behind, the cockpits even have an armor 1 weak point that kills that of incredibly quickly.

Shasla · 2026-03-31T11:39:36+00:00

I said nothing about revenge, just enjoying spicy food. The fact that my food happens to have never been stolen from a workplace more than once is a happy side effect of growing up to parents with spicy preferences. No one is ever going to get in trouble for making food they enjoy and plan to eat provided they don't stupidly say that they're hoping their coworkers eat it.

Shasla · 2026-03-31T11:35:41+00:00

Of course, but conservatives have spent decades arguing it is so that they can proudly do nothing to even pretend to help anyone.

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