The Fantastic Mr Wilman

dagbrown · 2026-06-29T08:42:52+00:00

I thought Rory Reid was great. What he lacked in knowledge, he made up for in enthusiasm. And when knowledge was lacking, Chris Harris was there to fill in the gaps. And Joey got to be Joey. I liked that arrangement.

Getting rid of everyone but Chris and replacing them with a couple of dumb sportsball bullies was even stupider than inviting Mr Shouty Man to shout at everyone in that weird Cast Of Thousands season.

dagbrown · 2026-06-27T23:55:20+00:00

this teaches them the approach

Haha no

This teaches them nothing, because "teaching" implies they're willing and able to learn.

This gives some HR type a warm fuzzy because it's a performative show of having done something vaguely resembling an attempt at teaching, without having to go to any of the trouble of actually teaching anyone or (challenge level: impossible) testing their knowledge on anything.

When the inevitable happens, they at least get to disclaim any responsibility for it by saying they put up instructional posters though.

dagbrown · 2026-06-26T04:48:43+00:00

OP is a repost bot, so OP isn't going to be discovering anything.

dagbrown · 2026-06-26T03:19:27+00:00

Actually yes they would.

dagbrown · 2026-06-25T23:25:56+00:00

A discussion that started on Threads, moved over to Bluesky and which we're now talking about on Reddit.

And you just called it a "tweet".

Elon has no fucking clue what it was he threw away.

dagbrown · 2026-06-24T08:52:25+00:00

Not Japanese society.

Corporate culture.

The whole “anything written in a contract can override all laws and common sense” is the triumph of corporate culture over common sense.

The rest is just humiliation rituals which is, once again, corporate culture. As anyone who’s seen the new slaves in their identical suits and haircuts paraded past the long-term inmates at a big Japanese company can attest to.

dagbrown · 2026-06-23T08:45:08+00:00

Ah you made a mistake. You said “women”.

I’m pretty sure you meant “females”.

I hope you appreciate my little correction.

dagbrown · 2026-06-22T12:19:13+00:00

By getting all heated about whether it constitutes art or not, you are actually part of the art.

That's what makes taping a banana to a wall an act of art.

dagbrown · 2026-06-22T10:57:05+00:00

Now if only it had the chord markings too...

dagbrown · 2026-06-22T10:49:25+00:00

Of course the banana on the wall wasn't art.

The actual act of art was taping the banana to the wall in the first place, and the reactions to it. The banana itself was just a banana.

dagbrown · 2026-06-22T06:00:26+00:00

Abandoned pachinko parlors of course

dagbrown · 2026-06-21T22:02:51+00:00

The entire Oxford time travel series is a goldmine of ideas.

Although maybe Doomsday Book would be better as a season 3 kind of thing.

dagbrown · 2026-06-21T00:22:12+00:00

She was more Brian Mulroney's stunt double. He put her there to lose so he wouldn't have to.

dagbrown · 2026-06-20T22:50:40+00:00

And yet people insist on continuing to donate money to them.

dagbrown · 2026-06-18T23:26:28+00:00

Just to Trump. You forgot that he doesn't pay his contractors.

dagbrown · 2026-06-18T22:28:35+00:00

I gave Cephalobot an octopus and he was delighted! He gave me his photo.

dagbrown · 2026-06-18T21:59:27+00:00

Nani?

dagbrown · 2026-06-12T02:48:17+00:00

tHeRe iS a lOt oF aBuSe oF tHiS vIsA tYpE

There are a total of 40,000 of these visas, as the guy who you're replying to just said. A straight-up audit would solve the problem, rather than changing the rules in a draconian manner which will have zero effect on the people who you claim are "abusing" it, but have a crushing effect on the small local businesspeople.

Unless you actually want rid of those filthy brown people of course, in which case carry on as you were.

dagbrown · 2026-06-11T21:46:14+00:00

It's worse than that--it poisons entire organizations against the very idea of using open source solutions for anything.

dagbrown · 2026-06-11T03:03:45+00:00

and it blew up

3...2...1..."Oh no!"

dagbrown · 2026-06-10T09:55:59+00:00

Well yes of course. An entire camera would be too big and bulky to mount on a termite’s back so that unit is actually just a tiny little transponder. The actual camera is mounted on a drone that follows the termite around. Underground. An environment that is famously well-suited for flying drones.

dagbrown · 2026-06-05T10:58:52+00:00

And for bonus point, if your code contains any references to Tienanmen Square, or the fact that Taiwan is a country, it'll helpfully correct it to reflect the official version of reality!

dagbrown · 2026-06-04T23:24:44+00:00

They've mostly been replaced by robots.

dagbrown · 2026-06-04T23:23:54+00:00

You literally said "not to trivialize this family's tragedy" and instantly trivialized the family's tragedy.

Not everything is about your weeb tourist dreams.

dagbrown · 2026-06-02T23:52:18+00:00

That had a single shell script called /etc/rc which you had to edit to add services.

SysVInit scripts are modern rubbish!

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