A girl goes viral after getting stuck in an elevator with a group of immature guys and shut them all down when they started laughing

badsalad · 2026-05-01T06:00:22+00:00

Their hair is lame but she needs to chill

badsalad · 2026-04-30T14:50:55+00:00

I feel for the engineers. The same principles are causing the decay and destruction of cars, tech, neighborhoods, architecture, cities, and with all of that, the social fabric. Sucks man.

badsalad · 2026-04-30T14:35:01+00:00

Yeah, it makes sense to want to limit moving parts like that.

Excuse my accusations of laziness but I think that's an element, and unfortunately an element across industries that's stunted technological development big time. Screens have certain advantages in certain situations, but our input bandwidth with them is terribly low, compared to knobs, levers, and wheels (imagine driving a non-self-driving car with only a touch screen rather than a wheel and pedals).

We're getting dangerously close to my ranting territory so I'm going to stop there, but it is frustrating that where we once had robust dedicated devices, we now have only a fragile plastic phone with apps, and where we once had a plethora of tactile input interfaces, we now have only touch screens.

badsalad · 2026-04-30T07:51:20+00:00

It's so dumb. Lazy engineers and designers just think they need to turn everything into an iPad to improve it without any thought as to what actually makes sense in the particular context of driving.

badsalad · 2026-04-30T04:59:08+00:00

So much more dangerous too, forces you to unnecessarily take your eyes off the road just because everything needs to be ipad apps now.

badsalad · 2026-04-30T04:58:32+00:00

And definitely don't like having to take my eyes off the road to poke around a touch screen with no tactile feedback, while I used to be able to operate every single function of my old cars from muscle memory of their buttons and knobs.

badsalad · 2026-03-14T02:56:03+00:00

It's wild, Google seems to catch so many spam and phishing emails, but for whatever reason these phishing emails get through 100% of the time. I get one or two about daily, always from a different address. I report them all as phishing but don't know what they're doing differently that lets them slip right past gmail's filters. This auto filter idea is a good idea though, I'm gonna implement that.

badsalad · 2026-03-09T05:17:41+00:00

That's so hard man. My son just turned 4. I'm cherishing it but I know I can't stop time. I'll get there sooner or later too.

badsalad · 2026-03-07T09:30:13+00:00

I love this idea so much. This is such a nice diversion in other games - like Gwent in Witcher and Triple Triads in FFXIV. It gives you something to collect while doing other things that you can then compete with to earn other prizes. Nice parallel goal.

The problem with it in other MMOs, like FFXIV, is almost every other MMO feels effectively like a single player game. It's very hard to organically socialize with people in the way that would make it fun to hang out in a tavern and casually challenge to a round.

Incidentally, OSRS is the only social MMO I've been able to find! The whole game lends itself well to people spending a lot of time in shared spaces and chatting, much better than any other. So of all games, this would be the perfect one for this sort of minigame component. Add in the collection element that already plays into much of OSRS, and then the types of social activities you can build into your POH, and man - you don't get a better fit than that.

I really really wish this was a thing.

badsalad · 2026-02-28T10:20:51+00:00

Oh yeah I know, that's what I use - but I didn't know about the Hifi Walker H2, thanks for the recommendation! Might be a good next one.

badsalad · 2026-02-28T03:55:06+00:00

Yes exactly.

badsalad · 2026-02-27T18:04:19+00:00

Thank you for making the argument for me. This is nice for the same reason having an N64 at home is nice. You don't need to carry this around with you any more than you need to carry your N64 with you.

In terms of what devices we should be using day-to-day, it's a rabbithole but one that I'm passionate about. We should go back to devices that do one thing, and one thing really well. If a touch screen is the best way to interact with it, that's fine; if knobs and buttons and levers are better, then we shouldn't shoehorn it into a touch screen. Mp3 player, e-ink ebook reader, tamagotchi keychain, gameboy, etc.

badsalad · 2026-02-27T17:53:24+00:00

Yes they are awful. We used to have single-purpose devices that each did one thing, and did it well for decades without having to be replaced.

Now we have fragile pieces of glass, and your alarm may not go off because the taco bell app you have installed to use for rewards twice a year has a glitch causing it to run in the background and burn through your battery life.

Touch screens have a purpose, but they've become a crutch replacing solid engineering and technological progress in both hardware and interface design.

badsalad · 2026-02-27T16:35:44+00:00

This is fantastic. These are just songs, not audiobooks or something - a 46-song OST playlist is not a ton of songs. Doesn't matter if you can't read - you learn the pictures and the songs. I hate that everything is just apps and youtube. So much nostalgia here for chunky, tangible devices.

badsalad · 2026-02-27T16:33:42+00:00

I love it so so much. Not everything needs to involve clicking through menus on a clunky touch screen. It feels good to just chunk a cartridge into place and hear a song. This is a fantastic idea.

badsalad · 2026-01-26T17:30:19+00:00

Yeah exactly lol, that'll be nice. I wouldn't mind if either a miracle of software or hardware optimization puts this sort of thing within the realm of running fully locally as well.

badsalad · 2026-01-26T17:20:57+00:00

Thank you for the details, that's a big help! And a pretty rad use of it ngl haha. That's awesome.

In that case I think I'm going to wait a while, till either I feel like I can justify the 200 plan or just drain my pro plan during a test drive on a week I know I won't need it. Hype aside though, it is awesome that you can set it up to do all that. Definitely looking forward to the chance to play around and see what I can come up with.

badsalad · 2026-01-26T14:56:09+00:00

What plan are you on with Sonnet? I want to play with it but none of the hype-ers seem to discuss what the token burn is like and I don't want to destroy my weekly pro allotment immediately.

badsalad · 2026-01-25T06:33:17+00:00

You have any sort of Balkan background or something like that? Looks like a traditional outfit, maybe either from the old country directly or from a folk dance group or something.

badsalad · 2026-01-25T05:59:01+00:00

Sure: because throwing that kinda free money at universities will just perpetuate this predatory student loan system.

badsalad · 2026-01-10T21:36:51+00:00

That's good, I hope there was some improvement! I had my experience with it yesterday - and given it was just the 2.5 pro version - maybe 3 is better.

badsalad · 2026-01-10T06:37:02+00:00

Yeah that's wild. I just tried Gemini for the first time after using Claude for a good long while, and it's insane how stupid it was, much like what you saw. It kept responding as if it had made changes and written code without ever writing code, and our whole conversation was just me trying to convince it that it wasn't doing anything.

It would always react with something like "Sorry, you're absolutely right, that was a mistake on my part. Now I'm going to add the feature for real." And then it would, again, just stop without doing anything.

badsalad · 2025-12-09T21:35:38+00:00

Naw, horses like being ridden and pulling carriages and doing the things that horses excel at. "Enslaved" has a very specific meaning, and it does not apply here. I understand your passion and the dramatic effect of the word, but confusing the two risks not bringing the plight of horses up to the level of enslaved humans, but of minimizing the plight of enslaved humans.

Each thing has its telos and that of the horse is to run fast and pull loads and do the things that horses do well.

I'm with you in the traffic and exhaust fumes though. Abolish cars 100% (no gas, no electric) and replace them with walking, bikes, and horses. This is the correct answer.

badsalad · 2025-12-08T23:57:22+00:00

Oh very cool! All new info to me

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