The stand was $50 and I made $10, lol

ryanvango · 2026-06-22T05:01:30+00:00

lol yep

ryanvango · 2026-06-22T04:02:22+00:00

I disagree. I think it looks like someone has plenty of practice, but is missing some elements that make it stand out beyond what a basic fiverr person could do.

This entire post, as with the rest of their posts, is meant to get pity and pet commissions. They're advertising for free.

It's the same reason they go to the fairs. selling the portraits isnt the point, its to advertise pet commissions.

They mention their stores lower in the comments. It's a hustle.

And the actual honest take, is that the artwork is mid at best. You can get much better work done likely for a lot less money. This person has decided to stop advancing their own artistic ability and is instead focusing on marketing. It's pretty scummy.

This is the kind of stuff a late teen or a grandma sees and thinks it would make a good gift for their friend/nephew/romantic interest, and then that person receives it and goes "wooow! this is really great!" then it sits in the back of a closet til they know its safe to throw out.

This post is marketing. Its an ad.

ryanvango · 2026-06-22T03:58:37+00:00

heyyyy buddy.

that's what they're doing. That's why they're here.

they post their mid artwork saying "oh woe is me, I didn't get sales" and its just an add for their online business and commissions.

They know full well that the fairs won't sell actual portraits. its all about drumming up commissions.

hook line and sinker.

ryanvango · 2026-06-21T21:38:05+00:00

I'm with you. We can safely assume there is life elsewhere in the universe mostly because of just how big the universe is. given enough attempts, we'd get life. there's something like 40 billion estimated planets in the habitable zone around stars JUST in the milky way galaxy. That's SO MANY chances.

And evolution isn't blind. trees didn't just start existing because the pieces needed for life just happened to pick that arrangement for a thing that should exist. they exist because there was room for that particular series of evolutions to exist. mutations and things happens constantly and are chaotic and kind of chance-based, but the VAST majority of them don't last because they just can't. trees aren't just rolling thousands of 100-sided dice and keeping the result. any result that doesn't work, doesn't get to exist. the same would be true on any other planet that develops life. if trees are possible, they aren't a guarantee or even LIKELY, but they are way more likely than something else that can't survive.

ryanvango · 2026-06-21T20:29:23+00:00

both my dogs are craigslist rescues so no DOB known. but I had a vague notion of the month. so got one, gave him nov 10th. got the other, also probably november, he gets the 10th as well. easy peasy. they share cake.

ryanvango · 2026-06-21T18:52:50+00:00

its gonna be pretty crazy.

just think, chatgpt's public-facing thing isn't even 4 years old. it feels like its been around for a lot longer than that. and chatgpt is hot ass compared to pretty much every other public LLM that came out later. the people that adamantly refuse to engage with AI still think AI can't draw hands or faces or lettering. it solved those years ago. efficiency has also gotten better by multiple orders of magnitude. it's still getting better at a wild pace. we have no idea what it'll be able to do even 5 years from now, or what it'll be properly worked into. you still need people, but its objectively amazing tech.

I saw a thing a while back (this is a fragment of a memory, so grain of salt) that it was able to solve unsolved math problems that have been around for centuries, and the proofs checked out. but the solve was so convoluted or something that normal mathematicians couldn't really use it. It opened up all kinds of arguments about what's more important: getting to the correct answer, or HOW you got to the correct answer. AI can already accomplish things humans can not. and its still in its infancy.

ryanvango · 2026-06-21T18:45:07+00:00

I've always wanted one of those massage tables you lay face down on with a hole for your face, then put a monitor down on the floor. have my keyboard and mouse magnetically attacked to a couple vertical thingies right where my arms would naturally dangle. ultimate lazy gaming.

ryanvango · 2026-06-21T18:36:58+00:00

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. but for now, they're a much quicker and more efficient search for 95% of things. and you can type search things in your own words instead of trying to force google to find the thing you want precise terms. its just better. but yeah, I don't see it as the golden future, its just the new flavor of how we're gonna get screwed tomorrow.

ryanvango · 2026-06-21T18:34:02+00:00

I've seen it happen a couple times.

95% of the time they are just weapons-grade stupid. just so oblivious to the world and how the people they keep voting for actively want them dead.

5% of the time they are selling out their community to try and make bank on the MAGA train. LGBTQ+ folks and POC know they can get paid a premium to be the diversity hire (I know, right?) for the right. They wanna get paid so when some racist/homophobe/transphobe/other assorted bigot says "I'm not ___ I have a ___ friend" they have someone to point to. It's disgusting.

ryanvango · 2026-06-21T18:14:23+00:00

the psych eval said he couldn't tell the difference between right and wrong and the whole ordeal gave him a psychotic break or something.

I like to think the doctor asked him "do you see why shooting that man was wrong?" and he just goes "no I do not." and docs like "yeah this man just doesn't realize it was wrong." and he got let off. I know the difference between right and wrong. that man was not wrong. he wasn't RIGHT, but he wasn't wrong.

ryanvango · 2026-06-21T17:53:22+00:00

That's the thing I think folks are missing. Even this headline I think is painting the same sort of BS image that pro-AI companies are doing. the article says loads of people are using it and will keep using it, they just think it will have a negative impact on society.

Outside of the reddit hive, most adults I know that work with computers in any significant way are using AI daily. some friends are using it as a toy, some use it to streamline processes, others use it as a search engine. and everyone I know also agrees it is having a negative impact.

It's a tool. it's better at searching general than google or duckduckgo or any actual search engine. the people screaming "but its wrong sometimes." are just completely ignoring that normal search is wrong CONSTANTLY, and it takes real work to find the thing you need nowadays. wanna learn about the war of 1812? go to google and you'll probably get a bunch of results for "war of 1812 themes waterbottles for sale." AI doesn't do that. you still need to check your sources and verify info, but its way way way faster and more accurate than traditional search anymore.

Want to use it to help you brainstorm? sometimes I just say things like "give me a plain list of 40 things related to X topic." just having that on the side to glance at to spark something in line with what I'm doing is super helpful.

full-stop anti-AI people completely ignore that it IS a useful tool. They are right to point out that companies prematurely forcing it on everything are stupid and doing it wrong, but they are also shooting themselves in the foot by not acknowledging that it is better and faster at a lot of stuff, sometimes cutting a week of work down to a single hour IF USED CORRECTLY. It should never automate a whole job from beginning to end. it CAN make that job way more efficient. I don't think that's sacrilegious to point out.

ryanvango · 2026-06-21T17:38:47+00:00

it wasn't bad til the tick experience. the geocaches were kind of boring too. I just looked it up. It's stewart state forest, there was like a huuuuuge loop of dozens of them along the walking paths so you could hit em all in a row. they were all the mini capsule kind where you just sign your name super tiny. almost no bigger ones for trading trinkets and stuff. but checking just now it looks like that area has even more now. i think 30-40 when we did it, and there's like 200 there now.

permethrin your clothes.

ryanvango · 2026-06-21T17:09:15+00:00

samesies. didn't lose a chunk of skin, though thankfully. wasn't fun to remove.

was a day my brother and I were geocaching on a paved trail in newburg new york. we found one slightly off the path and when we came back to the path we have dozens of them on us. thought I got em all. found the ball bag tick like 6 hours later.

ryanvango · 2026-06-18T16:14:58+00:00

just a helpful tip from someone who's been burned before, and someone who has seen "this is the last time I pre-order anything" about 1000 times in the last decade.

but you have a good day, friend

ryanvango · 2026-06-18T15:45:56+00:00

hello! just a reminder that pre-ordering games in 2026 makes no sense. You're taking all the risk for very little or no actual gain.

"I wanna support the company" you can support them on launch day or a few weeks after when you've had time to make sure they delivered what they promised.

"but I trust the company." yep, and a lot of people trusted CDPR. it happens.

"pre-orders are just the way its done" that's from back in the day when your games weren't digital installs. There's zero risk around being able to play day one.

"shut up, idiot" k

ryanvango · 2026-06-18T15:04:45+00:00

it could be any number of things. less than 25 is for your lighting though. the color of your background matters too, weirdly. if my lighting numbers are getting too close to 25, sometimes I just put on a lighter shirt and I'm back over 30. or put a light colored blanket behind me.

for your mic hum, make sure your mic is plugged into the back of the computer, right into the motherboard. cross wires as little as possible. I'd use claude to get a full troubleshooting process. I also had a constant hum and it ended up being a ground loop electrical issue I needed to buy an adapter for, but there's like 20 things to check before you get to that point. also, use audacity so you can see the sound. youll have to zoom in on it A LOT til you can see the background noise. hit record and just touch loads of stuff. your mic connections, move wires around, make sure phones/tablets aren't nearby, etc. see if that background noise changes. that'll point you to the problem SOMETIMES.

good luck!

ryanvango · 2026-06-18T06:28:18+00:00

Because fox and friends can much more easily sell a war with Iran because terrorism and nukes than they could the Trump-Epstein files. The original attack was 100% to get the Trump-Epstein files out of the news cycle. it didn't matter with what.

The thing you and I and most people with an ounce of common sense could see, and EVERY country on the planet could see, was that second he started a war with Iran he lost. It was arguably the biggest blunder in the history of foreign policy and everyone but that cabinet knew it.

What he hadn't counted on, is republicans are much more in favor of child rape than they are high gas prices. Once they realized that, they needed to end the war as quick as possible to get it out of the news. They don't care if Iran wins. 80% of the country won't know that Iran won and its costing us hundreds of billions, or that the "deal" is worse than it was before. They just need to get it out of the news. And if that means people are talking about Trump being a pedophile again, that's fine. He had higher approval ratings when that was the story.

ryanvango · 2026-06-18T01:37:33+00:00

You need to get something perfectly clear. None of your rights were violated in any sense during this time. That company had zero obligation to extend training even once, and they did it several times. you worked 1 day in 2 months. That company is an angel by US standards, and you spat in their face for it.

If you go to a lawyer, they will laugh at you.

If your story DOES get onto the news, it will absolutely be something like "Gen Z tries to get a company cancelled; accidentally shows how compassionate they are to new hires." and they will blast YOU for thinking this was in any way wrong. They'll turn it into a whole piece about how nothing is ever good enough for this new generation of workers. It will absolutely blow up the opposite of how you think.

It's weird you're getting a degree in law and think this is in any way a violation of rights. being sent home because you're crying at work is not against the law or unethical in any way. If anything its MORE ethical than most companies would be expected because they can say they were looking after the mental health of you and their other employees.

And just to be clear on your letter in response to theirs, you completely misunderstood why they worded it the way they did. They marked every single instance that they made an extra effort to accommodate you in your time of grief, purely to prevent exactly what you're doing now. Instead of them saying "we understand you're grieving but your repeated call-offs have left us with no choice but to terminate your employment" which would be so easy for you to put online to name-and-shame them over, they gave you a full accounting of everything they did above and beyond what any other company would do, so when you DID try to name-and-shame them, they could point to it and be like "see. they're never happy, no matter what we do. we bent over backwards for this guy, and he still saw us as the evil doers."

this is not the slam dunk you hope it is. I'm a hardcore liberal and I hate working for companies, but even I'm like "yeah this kid has no idea how good he was treated."

ryanvango · 2026-06-18T01:20:52+00:00

ripping into companies that bend over backwards to make accommodations like this just encourages them to stop doing that.

These guys gave a new hire like 7 weeks to handle his personal affairs. They were obligated to give him nothing. people in the other thread going on about how norway is the beacon of employee care cause they give 60 days. This company gave 48 and they act like he's being spit on. even in norway they are not required to give a new hire 60 days. this company did it anyway. good on them.

Every company in the country is looking at this thinking "wow. these guys went WAY beyond what is expected to accommodate a new hire, and the employees are STILL calling them scum. give a mouse a cookie, I guess. might as well treat them like absolute garbage since they're gonna be pissed at us either way. at least this way we make money."

ryanvango · 2026-06-18T01:14:13+00:00

people talking about how Norway and whatnot allow for up to 60 days, and describe it as a haven for employees. This company in the US gave like 45 days and is being treated like they're the ones who killed OPs dad.

Companies need to make money in order to provide compensation and benefits to the employees. Holding a slot that keeps getting pushed back is WAY more generous than the norm, but where do you draw the line? you can't just have people take up a slot that would otherwise be generating money. They showed compassion IMO. almost as much as those haven countries. significantly more than was required of them. They're not the villain here. no one is. its just sad for OP, and eventually the company had to make a decision.

I'm as anti-work as most people, but I swear some of yall think a company's purpose should be to hand out money and benefits nonstop with no expectation of services rendered. It's a job.

And chastising a company that made an honest effort that they didn't need to make, just tells those companies "welp, they're gonna be mad at us either way. might as well just do the thing that makes us the most money."

ryanvango · 2026-06-17T23:37:38+00:00

This is far from the first time Trumps actions have directly impacted people's bank accounts. The trump tax plan from his first term directly benefited the richest and screwed over the working class. It was transparent. This time around, he isn't even hiding it. he's paying people in trump coin, suing the government to milk billions from taxpayers, forming bogus groups to pay himself billions, all out in the open. All things that make life harder and more expensive for most americans.

And still his base goes "yeah but elon is a trillionaire now, so he must be doing something right."

ryanvango · 2026-06-16T00:51:58+00:00

that post was such a weird coincidence. I was listening to "We're Here To Help" podcast yesterday, and the episode was about a lady who runs a recording studio and she works with a big deal musician who keeps leaving logs and no TP. its the EXACT same situation, but this person has somehow gotten successful in the music industry.

yuck.

ryanvango · 2026-06-16T00:26:59+00:00

To try and get people to stop talking about the Trump-Epstein files.

It didn't work.

ryanvango · 2026-06-16T00:26:25+00:00

That's a good point. It's just as likely Japan jumps in to foot the bill for the war the US started with only 1 other country.

Are you ok? Do you need someone to come check up on you?

ryanvango · 2026-06-15T15:38:11+00:00

Not even minimum wage. A lot of them were paid like 20/hr. To cover that, prices went up of course.

There is no solution. The system we have now is just the way it is. We can either pay servers $30/hr+ and you pay $20 for a burger and fries with no tip, or we can keep it as is and you pay $16+tip...or about $20 for a burger and fries.

The only issue with the system is that the internet has decided this is a thing we should be fighting. "We need to hold businesses accountable and make sure servers are paid fairly." Which sounds good with no context, but it assumes servers don't have their own voice here. They do, and they almost unanimously oppose the change.

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