tombruzzo [none/use name] @ tombruzzo @hexbear.net

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"Allegedly" in Vienna before World War One

I saw this with a member of the Global Leadership team at work recently, and the appeal of AI to the executive class made sense.

All they do is write reports and presentations. That's what AI is good at since it's just a text extrusion machine, and the documents these people ask it to make are very generic and could just be templated.

But they feel better thinking they got AI to generate an original report for them instead of filling in the blanks in a word doc on the intranet.

It saves them time and makes them feel important, so they think it can do the same for everyone else. They don't realise some people need to actually get things right, or need to do things so specific an AI couldn't just fill in the blanks for them.

I love this meme format because it doesn't even consider the possibility of Kamala winning.

Pirated games are one use case for desktop shortcuts. I'm not going to try search for whatever the .exe is called or dive into folders to launch it

I always turn on the setting where I can decide where each download goes and set my Downloads folder by Most Recent for anything without a specific home. I never really look at my desktop

I have a theory that car-brain is taught and we naturally love public transport. I ask my kids what they want to do on the weekend and they always say 'Train station!' They love cars as well, but they want to see trains and busses, and they never enjoy a car ride as much as the train or bus.

We're trained to hate public transport through our deliberately inadequate services and forced to accept the car as the only answer.

And I get the backpack thing. They're the sort of thing where all backpacks seem similar, but there are a lot of nuances that make the difference between a good backpack and a bad one when you know what to look for. And you don't want to be stuck with a bad backpack because you already bought it.

I see this with my boys as well. They call EVE from Wall-E 'Girl Robot', and when they have similar toys where one is bigger than the other, like two trains or busses, one becomes 'Daddy Bus' and the other becomes 'Mummy Bus'.

I ask them why EVE is a girl or why the smaller bus is the Mummy Bus but I don't get an answer from them yet. I hope they think about it a bit more though and I can talk to them about it some more when they're older.

No, I haven't. The fanciest I know of are Carbon and Titanium. I'll need to look them up

I think it looks like that so you can get the matching bottle cages that slot in and make it Even More Aero. Completely undone by the physic of the 50 year old dentist riding it though

"I blockade Naboo"

"I'm Naboo"

OK, but that Pinarello looks light as fuck. I just need a better bike and my times will go through the roof

Just for lookin like that

They knew it was cheaper to buy one ticket and go in a really big trenchcoat

If you can hit Alt+Enter on a file I think you've got a future as a Render Pipeline Analyst

"There have been so many assassination attempts on US presidents, you could write a book about it!"

The book in question:

Remember, there where about 6 future presidents in Dallas that day

I'm "stuff"

"A case of 'Walk-in' 'ere' was reported in LA today"

I haven't read this specifically but I've seen these sorts of boomer-ass jokes around the place