Bob Robertson IX @ Bob_Robertson_IX @lemmy.world

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"Remember, no Russian"

"I have a plan, Arthur"

"Pheromones." "Do I smell beef?"

It means you're still in consideration.

I know when I've hired in the past, if I like the first person I interview I still try to interview at least one more person so I actually have a choice. If I don't like someone I'll immediately let them know.

The only time I've ever had my food stolen was when I was working as a deckhand on a tug. I've been working white collar jobs for the past 25 years and haven't had to deal with it since.

Also, my solution was to spray degreaser on my food the next day and wait to see who complains. Turns out, I'm the one who got in trouble for that even though I put a 'do not eat' sign in the food.

When China, the US or Google do break encryption they aren't going to announce it.

Check out your local roasters! After you ask what toothpaste they use, they might also be able to help with your coffee problem.

I am surprised that some of his usual audience joined a platform specifically because of him.

You're surprised that a privacy and security advocate and essayist with a large online following would have people who would take his advice on which social media platform is best for security and privacy?

Exactly!

I don't hate TikTok because of its short videos, I hate it because the app is an assault on privacy and potentially a subversive tool to influence the public.

I rented that game 4 times and never made it past that level. I'm convinced that no one ever did because it was an unfinished game where they just made the last level they had impossible to pass.

Me.

I followed him from Twitter to Mastodon, even though he didn't exactly endorse Mastodon. If he were to endorse a platform I wouldn't think twice about joining.

Half Life 2... The price was right!

Until they restructure the way OpenAI did.

You've gotten a lot of good suggestions, and this comment might get buried but I wanted to let you know that I was there 20 years ago. The future looked bleak, I had a shitty job that was sucking my life force away... one day as I was walking into work through an alley I saw someone had left a shopping cart there. I had the thought that I could just grab that cart and keep walking... turn my back on my former life and just live my way. I passed that cart for 3 weeks... then I realized that I either need to grab the cart or find a different plan for my life. I then looked at my options, found a career path, and then started working toward that plan. It was about 3 years of very hard work, with very little social life. But I stuck with my plan, got a better job and stayed on that career path. There have been setbacks, but looking back those were just blips.

Plans. No threats.

My newborn is now 8 years old and I still think holding her is the greatest feeling in the world.

We were told growing up how decent we should be

This rings so true with me. I was raised in the church and I truly believed in what was taught about loving your neighbor, and caring for the less fortunate as my family and church taught.

Then my senior year of high school my dad (a Deacon in the church) told me that he notices that I tend to make friends with broken people instead of friends that can help me out. And that's when the first cracks in religions hold on me started to appear.

Today I'm the only one in the family I grew up in not voting for trump. I'm also the only one who gave up on church. My sister went even deeper by seeking out a fringe Baptist congregation that believes some really fucked up shit, and my brother followed in my dad's footsteps and became a Deacon. Last week my mom explained to me how it's the culture of the inner-cities that makes violence and crime so common. It isn't race, it's culture. She thinks she's being open-minded. And they all think they are good people. 'They'd do anything for you'... as long as you're part of the church - even then, don't ask too often.

I'm ranting now, but damn, how is it so hard for people to just genuinely be good and helpful?

My mom keeps investing in diamond jewelry. I've tried explaining to her that diamonds do not hold their value, but she won't hear it.

I was in the surgery waiting room for 12 hours while my mom had spinal surgery and some piece of shit Boomer kept watching political commentary videos on his phone and would very aggressively say to people "This isn't bothering you, is it?" And when we let him know it was, he'd just move a few seats away - not far enough to make any real difference. I wanted to beat the asshole to a bloody pulp, but I was equally as mad at the hospital who didn't put an end to it.

Same with fuckers in restaurants watching sports on their phones, or on speakerphone calls, or kids playing their fucking preschool games with their volume turned up. If we can't kill these motherfuckers then we should at least be allowed to smash their phones out of their hands.

But ... there are other billionaires out there who are not going into hiding because they are billionaires.