LoamImprovement @ LoamImprovement @beehaw.org

Oh god, please don't make me talk about myself.

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No, it's fine, don't worry about your health, or anyone else's, for that matter. Just let Grandma and Grandpa die for the economy.

Dwarven Forge. I don't use it nearly often enough to justify how much I buy but I love it the same way my grandma loves her Thomas Kinkade village.

To a lesser extent, the Steam Deck is great for gaming on the go, it really is the computer in my pocket (well, backpack) I wished I had when I was a kid, and I do travel enough to justify it.

Yeah, like if you're going to the trouble of getting a faraday bag or a lead lined case or whatever you think makes it untraceable... Just leave it at home? It's a liability.

Don't trust the surveillance device to turn off because you ask nicely. Leaving it at home helps sell the idea that you weren't at the protest you were at.

I got a Serta Lautner executive chair as a gift, normally runs about $300 off sale. It has adjustable air-bladder lumbar support and is so soft I've taken naps in it.

I recently accidentally sheared a bolt holding one of the arms on because I failed to check it every 6 months, I called the support group and the lady on the other end was kind enough to waive the cost of the replacement kit and shipping. Cannot recommend enough.

I live in rural Washington state. The nearest bus station from where I work is a two mile walk. The nearest bus station from where I live is a three mile walk. I live twenty miles from where I work. Biking and Bussing simply aren't feasible.

I like bikes and busses. We don't need bikes and busses to solve this problem, we need telecommuting and walkable communities.

I mean, everything has tripled in price and the reason is corporate greed.

I like it, thank you!

Oh man, where to begin? So there was an event advertised as an 'immersive Willy Wonka's Wonderland experience' with all sorts of AI art and marketing:

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/27/glasgow-willy-wonka-experience-slammed-as-farce-as-tickets-refunded

The long and short of it was that the event, not officially licensed by WB (quelle fucking suprise) hosted in a dirty warehouse with little more than cheap props, tacky holiday ornaments and shower curtains, ended up being a complete shitshow. They gave each child, I shit you not, a couple (literally 0-3, dependent on how early your time slot was) jellybeans and half a cup of Tesco lemonade. No actual chocolate to be found in the entire chocolate-factory-themed event. The actors, including this poor woman, were hired and briefed literally the day before the event, handed 15 page AI-generated scripts that, predictably, made no fucking sense, including original characters like "the unknown," and basically had to just wing it in poundland costumes. And like, in spite of it all, they really did give it their best effort, and from what I understand still haven't been paid for their work.

Predictably, the event organizers ended up having to refund people for this sham of an event that they claim "failed to materialize." Well of course it did, the people who were responsible for putting it together cooked up a dozen AI images and shat out a "legally distinct" script and thought it would all come together. Much like Fyre Festival, it's another failure on the part of hucksters who do not understand that events require planning and don't care to understand because they're just trying to make a buck.

Thank you. I really hope the other photo of her gets some traction because it seems much more indicative of her experience working these sorts of functions:

I feel like I should point out, this woman did not lie on the resume. She teaches yoga to kids and does events for schools, she would absolutely have been qualified had this event not been the shitshow it was.

I found out about both Henry Kissinger's and Toby Keith's deaths through memes. I don't think memes Georg should be a statistical anomaly.

Make it quirky and hang lampshades on every video game trope.

Everyone younger than the boomers. Sorry ma, grandkids are expensive and I'm having naps for dinner as it is.

You math increase!

Not great. I keep thinking about suicide as a preferable alternative to having to work a shitty day job to barely scrape by in a slow-roll apocalypse until I expire of natural causes, or possibly climate disaster or World War III. Maybe I could do some good with it like Aaron.

Quelle fucking surprise, the thing every worker was saying about the relationship between RTO and productivity turned out to be true.

Buddy, they won't even let me fuck the lizard.

I feel like I should be concerned about the emotional intelligence of today's youth, but at the same time I'm imagining this pokemon-esque abomination flying around and saying "Homander" before laser blasting the hell out of things and it makes me giggle as it probably did this child.

I mean, I think Mattel probably would have hard vetoed that. I'm honestly shocked they got the fascist line in.