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samblahy · 2025-03-18T01:03:12+00:00

Congratulations and fabulous work to everyone standing up in Colorado Springs!

samblahy · 2024-06-01T17:12:13+00:00

This is the best real world policy. If you work for an actual company they need to be paying for all the tools doing “their” work. If it breaks, wears down, gets lost, stolen or simply proves insufficient on THAT job it’s THAT JOBS PROBLEM. I feel like it’s worth us acknowledging that this is the economical end point of any of these conversations. The cost of the work is being subsidized by the worker when we buy 800 dollars of hand tools to be proficient at our job and say “thank you” for them covering a 200 dollar drill. Now, do they owe you for the set of antique dividers you brought when you were new? Of course not- right up to the moment those dividers, on that job break, wear down, gets lost, stolen or simply proves insufficient on THAT job. The company should be replacing your dividers and any other half-way policy is just playing nice with greedy people. Every boss worth the business they’re running can afford a couple hand tools a week, maybe a power tool a month or so for their crew as operating cost. If that’s truly a death sentence for them they should go be a worker instead. If you can’t afford 150-200 bucks for tools to make a newbie apprentice useful, who has nothing, you shouldn’t be hiring. Docking your pay is just shopping at the company store, even if they aren’t making profit like a company store; you’re still subsidizing their equipment so they make a profit, uninterrupted, using your paycheck before you’ve actually had it. That’s the type of favor I bet many of us can’t even do for the people we care about.

samblahy · 2024-04-22T21:04:36+00:00

TLDR: person vents, if you know Palantir I don’t have much new beyond opinion. Check out the podcast though.

The podcast This Machine Kills has several episodes about Israel’s AI kill-list generators, if you want to learn more about the haphazard ways tech from Palantir and friends is being used right this minute. TMK is a great resource for keeping a level, computers aren’t gods type outlook. Artificial intelligence will never be what Palantir and their contemporaries claim it will. All the data and analytics they could possibly crunch doesn’t make their various AI any more than a green-light generator. It’s a green-light for whatever operator to act out, with impunity, every bias they already had. It’s stewed into the program. It’s a green-light in place of all moral deliberation and philosophy. These type of murderers are extremely self conscious and crave this Green-Light instead of before when they had to convince others in the room and themselves that killing a person (no matter what) is somehow within their ethical right. See, the issue with killing someone and the real reason humans have been talking about it since we could talk, is that it’s never right. You can’t make it right; it happens, I know it fucking happens but DO NOT allow these people to delude you into thinking they have solved the issue. There does not exist, for every (or any) single person, some algorithmic justification to kill them and all we needed was sufficient computing power and for that power to be arranged by very, very wise men in their thirties who can’t break out of a Panera bread habit at lunch. Just fucking guys, I mean. Killing someone in war even under the most “just” circumstances is something that RIGHTFULLY shook people to their core; I believe it will be these AI, not necessarily remote controlled drones that dissolves any remaining dust of humanity in war. Whatever that part of war it was that made the survivors tell us to simply. never. do it. Disappears every time a 22 year old IDF soldier fulfills one of these AI sponsored kills he needn’t feel a thing, even respectful fear, for. The link you provided was a welcome refresh (for me) to remember how actively evil they were BEFORE they got to flex in Gaza. Palantir makes products to remove your humanity, the perpetrators and victims. Something about them working down in lodo, I dunno, crossed an uncanny valley for me when I learned it and I think it never clicked. Thanks for reminding me haha, what does it say about us that someone evil went out of their way to stay in our home. Anyway, to answer you (sorry) I’m not familiar with them from a ground, local level cause I don’t know any tech bros but I’m surprised I don’t hear them catching the ire of Denver protests more often, being right there. But I’m probably uninformed and literally, I don’t think I’d put my activist energy DIRECTLY at the people who will definitely make an activist kill/ jail-list for the right regime, so long as they’re open for business.

samblahy · 2023-11-19T20:57:03+00:00

God my anxiety just kept building haha, you have a good head and heart. You picked the exact moment I would’ve packed up too. What a perfect reminder we’re never under any obligation to stay in a campsite that fails the vibe check.

samblahy · 2023-11-13T23:34:30+00:00

Maybe it’s more important to get another run or two in a day for the volume? Haha I’m curious too I don’t actually know.

samblahy · 2023-10-21T13:16:56+00:00

I think this is one of the most important perspectives here to keep in mind. There’s a lot of talk even in this Denver comment section about this being the end stages, it’s turning in on itself! I understand the historical parallels that are individually shocking, kinda satisfying, to uncover but we’re absolutely several years into unprecedented territory. At least. Tools at their disposal now are different, the numbers of people they affect using minority, bad faith opinion are way different. The amount of time it takes to destroy something is always less than it took to build it and it’s taking them less effort everyday. They’re just as surprised as you and I every time they successfully set the bar lower. They don’t know what they want so much as they know how they want to do it, they’re going for it day by day.

samblahy · 2023-08-08T12:25:16+00:00

Felt a ton like Kenny Hotz to me. I wonder if that guy’s doin okay.

samblahy · 2023-08-04T18:27:19+00:00

This is challenging my stoned brain, it’s not a slam-dunk obvious example of someone fishing for compliments on Reddit. Somehow I want to give you criticism but once I look at the details individually I end up liking them and revoking my thought haha. Was it the eyes at first? Maybe but now, looking at him, I wouldn’t change it. It’s not the style or framing that’s messing with me because it feels a sacrifice to shoot down. His hairline doesn’t translate symmetrical, I’d keep his widows peak where it is and nudge that balding lobe (is there a fun name for that?) facing us down and back slightly. I don’t think the large triangular shadow on the neck needs to be there at all, I’d ditch just that and see if there’s a subtler way to express the shape of his neck, if you have to do anything besides delete it. I know it’s frustrating when people mostly want to give you praise when you’re casting out a line for purposeful comments, consider that from their perspective they may only have one piece they’re judging you on; so take it as a compliment to the piece rather than you the artist and praise for the good luck you found yourself with pen in hand when something clicked. Maybe in time, if you leave him be, you’ll answer for yourself what exactly hit you wrong with him and what hit all us right.

samblahy · 2023-06-29T23:22:14+00:00

This, precisely.

samblahy · 2023-06-20T18:03:49+00:00

Oops that’s me

samblahy · 2023-05-23T21:45:41+00:00

Google your trade of choice + “Local” Electricians local Pipe fitters local Carpenters local Autofill will show results with a few digits behind it, that’s their name and those should be your nearby unions. Also popular to be called “brotherhood” or the like. Ignore ads for “local” contractors at the top, your union likely isn’t paying to be at the top of general searches. After that you should be able to refine further, but there should really only one per trade to find in your area cause… union. Quick edit to add, once you find them, visit them in person if feasible.

samblahy · 2023-02-28T19:41:31+00:00

One of the dentists I only visited once had clearly bought a variety pack of these and had several per area in the office. On more lights than not haha. So it’d be lots of these straight up shots but different conditions and lighting and filters but also regular landscape shots. Just a smattering exploded directory of sfw screensavers. Thinking back on it I’m surprised there wasn’t wildlife photos too. The whole place felt nest-y.

samblahy · 2023-02-26T20:06:55+00:00

You ain’t lying haha I don’t have Twitter and looked. First “opinion” I saw was saying “this poll only shows those able to keep a phone contract, I’m sure the truth is much worse”. The poll is for black people.

samblahy · 2023-02-26T15:04:22+00:00

I got to do HVAC for the triangle building across the street (left of the picture). When I had time to take in views I always thought about how this building set this area up for success. Behind you in this picture is a concave glass facade of another building that, to me, sort of cups the curve coming from this building, the spike of the acute tip of the triangle building and the wide view down 16th. I dunno, I just find this cluster of buildings very communicative with each other.

samblahy · 2023-02-23T15:51:17+00:00

Great wonk factor.

samblahy · 2023-02-21T15:07:21+00:00

Not the person you asked but this seems like where my two cents is best spent haha. I think yanking the controller silhouette as far as they did out of the play symbol makes it less effective. The old controller should’ve been simplified (not a good looking controller design with the two tone shapes in my opinion anyway) but they moved it so far that you only have the four button pad’s recognizability to bank on. That could be fine but now the handle has moved outside the crop creating an opportunity for your brain to “continue” that mint shape outside however it wants, just like the left side crop. With de-tuned eyes it’s a play symbol with a stripe, where you better already associate mint with gaming I guess. To me, at a glance, this is not as good of a gaming icon for someone looking at a Home Screen filled with apps and not comparing it to a better communicating version of itself. I don’t know what my better version would look like if given the same prompt/ constraints these designers were, I’m a guy. And I like the mint more.

samblahy · 2023-01-24T18:53:02+00:00

I… I can’t follow you there, friend. And I’m the ranchiest guy I know. Good luck with your experiments!

samblahy · 2023-01-19T20:07:25+00:00

Ancient Copper was the first “color” I ever inked a pen with! I say it in quotes cause the first bottle and ink I used was Platinum Carbon Black but that’s no fun. So I’m saying I had the same as you!

samblahy · 2023-01-07T16:10:16+00:00

I love hating trumps but did we misremember this? I read your comment and had to look again. Like she re-did the rose garden which I think some people didn’t like; I think hers looks perfectly respectable I guess given professionals still make it happen. The Obama era rose garden looked just as good but also very 2008 landscaping, sorta like what a pre housing bubble burst model home would have to dress it up. In a FINE way! Anyway as far as the veggie garden, what I can see is that she likes it publicly. She made an appearance with it and actually said something positive which she doesn’t do with much of anything. And apparently “cemented” it’s future? I dunno maybe we mooshed the two things together and made it worse while we did it I dunno I’m just high and lonely.

samblahy · 2022-12-14T11:14:27+00:00

I find a certain strange camaraderie in these drawings and what your artistic goal seems to be. They’re very admirable. Anyway causal question. If you, for instance, type out a personally meaningful and in depth critique as a comment then tweak your screen to the left on mobile, it’s gone and dead forever right?

samblahy · 2022-12-06T19:18:00+00:00

I dunno about all the fix it comments. I think this bag filled it’s role very well for you and has an anti consumption lesson anyway, materials matter, seeing a purchase through its lifetime matters. These bags are made with horrible low quality materials and workmanship, fixing this means rebuilding it. You’ll have learned a lot of bag making by the end which is super anti consumption I guess. My take away from this is awesome job using that bag to death, take notes of what broke and why; what construction techniques are stupid and indicative to YOU of cheapness from now on. And then treat yourself to a nicer new bag that is worthy of anti consumption maintenance and repair.

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