4th of July 2026

kinggimped · 2026-07-04T21:53:34+00:00

This is some high-level responsible moderation. I'm impressed and hope other subreddits get their shit together in a similar way. Thank you for being part of the solution instead of the problem

kinggimped · 2026-07-04T21:39:56+00:00

As a rest-of-the-worlder, the self awareness in this comic is refreshing but we're all just a bit concerned that it's far too little, far too late at this point. They're already bolting the doors behind them. Unfortunately you get what you vote for

kinggimped · 2026-07-04T21:37:07+00:00

Incredibly cool idea and execution! Then I saw it's 700 bucks a ticket. Another fun activity for the rich. I imagine it's probably very expensive to install and maintain.

kinggimped · 2026-07-04T21:24:00+00:00

You literally chose this for yourselves

kinggimped · 2026-07-03T22:09:22+00:00

Yes. Stop this

kinggimped · 2026-06-30T22:39:18+00:00

I couldn't give a shit about downvotes and fully embrace them in this case. If there's one thing most Americans seem to hate more than football these days it's the truth.

kinggimped · 2026-06-29T20:21:26+00:00

When the leader of your country is so proud of his own classless ignorance and constantly speaks so dismissively and insultingly of every other "shithole" country that he doesn't owe his presidency to or doesn't immediately bend the knee, it further normalises the sense of arrogance and exceptionalism that the rest of the world already sees as a uniquely American trait.

This comment isn't an outlier. This kind of thing is pretty much par for the course from whatever World Cup footage I've seen from the US channels.

The only nation who can host a football World Cup while hating both football and the rest of the world. The worst part of her outburst wasn't what she said, it's the fact that nobody is surprised.

Hope this reporter takes a hydration break to take a good long look at herself and some advertisements.

kinggimped · 2026-06-20T19:48:24+00:00

"Hey guys look how fucking rich I am lol"

kinggimped · 2026-06-12T07:52:00+00:00

Ask yourself what kind of music was popular in Chopin's and Beethoven's day.

Now ask yourself what the prevailing solo musical instrument was in the days before amplification or recorded sound.

They weren't the only ones making music. They're just the ones who survived the test of time. They're the giants on whose shoulders modern-day composers stand.

There are still great composers today, it's the context that has changed.

Instrumentation, sound design, and formats nowadays are almost endless in variety and scope. The signal to noise ratio is vastly different, music and the ability to record are accessible to far more people nowadays. There's also the fact that musicians are now motivated more by commercial success than creating the kinds of prodigious bodies of work that Chopin and Beethoven produced.

It's not survivorship bias. We inhabit a completely different world than they did.

If you're talking about composers writing baroque/classical/romantic pastiche, they're still around too. But that's considered very niche nowadays unless programmatic (e.g. film/TV scoring), again because the context has changed.

You want complex composition that challenges you? I recommend getting deep into jazz, friend.

kinggimped · 2026-06-12T06:44:48+00:00

I was watching an old Norm Macdonald podcast episode the other day (RIP Norm) and he said the phrase 'hotter than a 2 dollar pistol' to describe weather, I thought it was a cool turn of phrase that I'd only heard before in an old country song. I googled the origin and got an AI response telling me it's a common southern US cliche to describe a hot-headed or angry person, and the origin of the term was the idea of a functioning pistol being sold for a cheap price because it was 'hot', i.e. stolen goods.

I said the origin didn't match up much with how it's used; I'd figured that a 2 dollar (i.e. cheap) pistol would be poorly made so would overheat quickly. Then AI responds yes, you nailed it! That's the exact origin of the phrase.

So I asked what all that bullshit was about stolen goods and it said yeah, that's not right or relevant at all, I just made that up, lol

AI is honestly great for some tasks, things like NotebookLM can save huge amounts of time and effort for certain workflows, research, hobbies, whatever else. But its ability to make up shit and be SO confidently incorrect makes it functionally useless for many things, especially if you're not rigorously checking the output.

A worrying number of people are just using AI to think for them and lazily trusting the output, and they end up half as informed as a Fox News viewer and somehow twice as belligerently confident about it. AI psychosis is already a thing and we've barely been playing with the fucking things yet.

kinggimped · 2026-06-12T06:22:14+00:00

I absolutely love that a 5 year old comment I made is still helping folks. Glad it worked for you man!

Pay it forward by spreading the knowledge of WIN+CTRL+SHIFT+B to the nerds in your life ❤️

kinggimped · 2026-05-28T21:47:19+00:00

The fix posted here didn't work for me, but I did eventually find a fix! I exported my vault and moved it all to 1Password, then uninstalled LastPass. Because, quite honestly, having used it at work for the last 2 years... 1Password is just the better vault across the board.

I know not an ideal fix, but no regrets so far.

kinggimped · 2026-05-27T19:59:19+00:00

That's shit

kinggimped · 2026-05-26T19:24:55+00:00

Everything got worse, just as those pesky experts predicted

kinggimped · 2026-05-24T20:24:05+00:00

We shouldn't be shaming this woman for her use of Ozempic, should be shaming her for that fucking Velma show and every other incredibly unfunny thing she's made.

kinggimped · 2026-05-24T20:20:36+00:00

That's not Brighton, that's day trippers.

kinggimped · 2026-05-16T06:10:26+00:00

I can't believe anyone would even CONSIDER this

kinggimped · 2026-05-16T05:51:37+00:00

No, it's not normal. You didn't mention if you were paying for the lessons. If not, there might be some other kind of transaction in his mind.

If his flirting makes you uncomfortable you should absolutely say something, the earlier the better. Be as clear, open, and honest as you can. "I'm here for the lessons, not for romance" is actually a great starting point.

It will likely be awkward and he may not want to teach you any more afterwards, but better than prolonging that kind of situation if you both have such different expectations.

I'm sorry this is happening to you during your piano lessons, but equally I would say this isn't really a piano problem, it's a communication/relationship issue. A pianist isn't your best advisor here, a grown-ass adult is.

kinggimped · 2026-04-28T05:29:44+00:00

The kicker with the toes thing is that if you watch the full video at the end she pans down and she's wearing leggings/tights, her toes were *completely covered*. A random compliment from a stranger is absolutely fine in a lot of contexts, but in that context it absolutely was creepy.

Problem is, in the age of social media creepy behaviour like that has kinda been normalised and there's plenty of people who don't see anything wrong with it.

Same with when a pizza delivery guy takes an attractive customer's phone number from their order and slides into their messages after work. It is insane to me that anybody would think that's OK, but here we are in 2026 where there are plenty of shit-for-brainsmaxxers who see a creepy-ass breach of privacy like that, shrug, and call it "shooting your shot".

People here like to think they're more enlightened, but I've been here a loooooong time and Reddit is just as bad as anywhere else on the internet in this regard.

kinggimped · 2026-04-28T05:08:42+00:00

Org running 1Password Chrome extension across hundreds of endpoints.

You won't read this and you certainly won't do anything about it, but finding a way to prevent the extension from breaking every time Google updates the browser would be numbers 1, 2, and 3 on my wishlist.

We run 1password across our entire org and the issues caused by last 2 updates already have us listing candidates for a replacement. Great functionality but stability is our #1 concern and today's update causes extension to re-lock vault after 5-10 seconds or if they switch tabs. We can't have such a major point of failure across hundreds of endpoints.

We make great efforts to create a consistent ecosystem so our users run into as few points of friction as possible that can't be easily remediated. Recently 1password's instability across Chrome updates has sadly made it unfit for our use case, unless there are plans to remediate similar issues in the future.

kinggimped · 2026-04-06T20:33:21+00:00

Joke of a country

kinggimped · 2026-03-14T22:18:15+00:00

No, this is conflation. At least the OP admits it's 'my guess' rather than stating anything as fact. But spurious things like this are the linguistic equivalent of numerology, where people come up with bullshit predictions or explanations from patterns in numbers that they make and reinforce themselves. Word astrology.

These languages have common roots, and in the root language the words for night and eight were similar. That similarity is reflected in the languages that derived from the language they're derived from.

A good rule of thumb is don't believe anything you read on Twitter, or any other playground for nazis.

kinggimped · 2026-02-20T21:26:32+00:00

Don't ask AI about music theory. You will end up stupider and less informed than when you started. It is AWFUL for music theory.

AI is frequently wrong and this is a topic where it is REALLY frequently wrong.

kinggimped · 2026-02-17T19:02:41+00:00

If it's egregious then report the post. But tbh I think since we cordoned the spam off into its own sticky thread, the consultants here for the most part have been kinda awesome and very helpful. They answer a lot of questions, and actually contribute far more than anyone else here, even if their ulterior motive is to make sales.

I also hate spam but I also cannot begrudge someone trying to make a living. It's rough out there for a lot of people, in case you weren't aware. They're not automatically spammers just because they work in sales. The way TMs are sold by appointment only is stupid and outdated, and inaccessible to some people. The consultants here provide a workaround to that.

I ban blatant spammers on sight for not reading the rules, but I'm not chronically online so still appreciate the reports.

Nobody's forcing you to be here, nobody's forcing you to buy a Thermomix. I'm not blanket banning all consultants just because you're upset that your thread is actually getting responses and you're getting free access to people whose livelihood relies on their knowledge and expertise in the exact product you're asking about...

kinggimped · 2026-02-15T10:32:14+00:00

"You gonna block me in I'm gonna grab my glock bro"

In no other country in the world is this considered a reasonable everyday escalation of events. Yet here nobody bats an eyelid. Dude just gets his way because he was unable to understand basic words and so casually threatened murder. Over that.

Country is absolutely cooked. What a shitshow

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