jfc can we go back to spending our money on crypto please

Bonkers. Bonkers.

It’s important you know, especially if you are young, that you are currently immersed in a mental environment so toxic, that if you felt good most of the time it would indicate that something is wrong with you.

I know nothing about your life, so I really have little to offer, other than that: it is normal to feel terrible when the world is in the state that it is currently in. Many would say you have to get on with it, and they’re right on a certain level, but you can’t suppress reality 100% of the time.

If was really presuming to help you, we would have to talk a lot and kinda figure out the root of this self-disdain, cause there is something at the bottom of it, and spoiler, I AM 100% positive that someone else put it there, one way or another.

Paid shill drinking an expensive coffee in aisle five.

The second feature for RotNerds, if you’re making an evening of regrettable comedies, would absolutely have to be Hot Dog: The Movie.

Features David Naughton, the American Werewolf In London, the I’m A Pepper guy, the Makin’ It guy, a true icon of the early 1980s.

Also features the line, “Now that’s a girl I can take advantage of!” in reference to a girl who has just been handed and drank a large enough sum of mixed liquor to pass out on the floor.

Came to make sure this was represented, have an upvote.

Having lived through the 90s, in which the future I was promised (checks notes) got shipped to China in the name of seducing everyone to betray the local hardware store and go to Walmart instead

This take has a goldfish’s memory.

The B-52s are looking pretty rough.

I did, loved it mostly, but… they literally erased a brother. There was another one, and he was even more tragic than the one they kept - he was small, and had extremely brittle bones, and the only thing he wanted was to wrestle, of course… and they let him, and he got put out by injury very quickly, and then followed his dead brothers.

I think they cut him out because first off, it would probably have come off to audiences as “overdone” or something because it is difficult to countenance that much tragedy on one family. But also, the ones who were alive to allow that last one to happen bear some culpability in his death. He should’ve been sent to distant relatives and kept completely away from the family wrestling cult.

If you liked The Wrestler and have not seen Beyond The Mat (1998), do that. Randy “The Ram”'s entire story is basically a straight copypasta of the section on Jake “The Snake” Roberts, one of the best wrestlers of his era. “Best” is used here in a very loosely-defined way, because well, we’re talking about Pro Wrestling.

But I was like 12-15 during the high years of the WWF, I was watching some of the most legendary names, and Jake was my absolute… ok well it’s a tossup between Jake and George “The Animal” Steele, who was older, looked like my grandpa a little bit, managed by Captain Lou Albano (both vintage heels turned face) from the Cyndi Lauper videos and had an excellent “crazy ape man” kinda schtick. He also would destroy a turnbuckle every match and I loved the vandalism.

For a kid of the right age, mid-80s WWF was the best entertainment going, in a time when you had 13 channels if you were lucky. VCRs weren’t even completely ubiquitous yet. What else going on? Family Ties, Growing Pains, Lawrence Welk…

But Jake was an absolute dark horse with incredible intensity, and totally unique - most were using steroids then, he had a very basic physique and didn’t give a shit. Most wrestlers would be high fiving and gesticulating and getting the crowd whipped up as they walked out. Jake would just walk out staring at the ring or his opponent, neither hurrying nor dallying, just a purposeful walk, with his grey sack containing a python slung over his shoulder. Great finishing move, great schtick, one of the absolute legends.

Finding out over a decade later that his life was this Shakespearean (think Titus, not Romeo) tragedy the whole time was just wild, but also not at all surprising, because anyone who watched his matches could see that this was a different type of dude from your typical wrestler.

Don’t sleep on Beyond The Mat. It’s also got some amazing stuff with Mick Foley and Terry Funk, two dudes who have done more damage to each other than the Romans did to Jesus, and who love each other intensely for it. Lots “holy shit what the fuck did he just do” clips.

It would be accurate to say that the Internet reached a critical mass of user in 1995. I was here in 1992, and 95 is when media started talking about the internet as a necessary thing for businesses etc to get onboard with, and by extension, when loads on servers started to get wild. A communal pool of servers for the web community to lean on during times of extreme demand is still an excellent idea that can solve a lot of problems, but not if we let capitalists run it for profit. Never work.

Windowpane is LSD, but like I said, mostly marketing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsV-VV-u1Lk

Thai Sticks are probably still available in Thailand and still probably amazing. And in the 70s when Mexican ditchweed was all you’d find in North America, it was worth the peril to import the amazing stuff.

Nowadays, anyone with a light can grow equally amazing stuff. I would love to taste some real Thai herb, but it won’t get me more stoned than my homegrown. Thai smugglers are welcome to come to Manitoba and call my bluff, DM me baby.

Windowpane was more or less a marketing label on the same Shakedown Street sheets that made their way around the country in the wake of the Dead. They arrived up here via letters sent home. You can still get sheets but I have no idea who’s making em, probably dodgy Russian chemists whose families are held hostage…

I know almost nothing about ludes.

Manitoba (rural) driver here. No electric buses whatsoever out here in the redneck sticks. A few very fucking annoying propane ones cause hey why not.

No.

Why not rsync directly? Why insert a network share to muddy the process?

Anyways, this is pretty much the “good” use of AI, as I see it. Indeed, if models are more tightly trained to focus on one specific bit of data, such as the manual for an application, a locally-run LLM could transform the help menu into a chatbot that teaches you the app.

This could be the future reality, if the “throw a firehose of money and a bunch of horrible code at it and hope we can charge people who have no money a lot of money to rent our bullshit” brigade are guillotined.

Whichever side of this you land on… confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.

We are a nation of people who have no choice but to spend our workdays side by side with our high school bullies. Eventually, under them.

The video linked in another comment is just a guy with an annoying voice reading the manifesto, which you can do yourself here. You can even follow down the thread and get a sense of where things are going. It looks to me like a fork is in the offing.

If you have a fridge with an app

GET OUT

They’re not handing over private crypto keys here. It’s a database entry that the person installing the system can put whatever they like in.