How is life like being a lawful good little paladin? I break rules that don’t apply to me. This guy seems to have broken rules that apply to no one.

You’re the guy saying the victim should have complied with the cop that murdered him.

Bruh, I’m digging in my wire drawer or going to the thrift. I cannot imagine how people pay money for new cables of almost any sort.

Same bullshit with guns.

“Hi-tech polymer slide, boolshit, boolshit, boolshit…”

It’s fair-quality plastic, painted silver. My Smith & Wesson EZ is wearing off. :(

Been 15-years ago, but I bet an audiophile coworker, who had a physics degree, he couldn’t tell the difference in a coat hanger and proper wires.

“Well, yeah, but, bla, bla, bla…”

Now I wish I could shove that article up his butt! 😈

Installing cable TV at a man’s house, ripped his Monster coax connector off. He was appalled! (I was appalled!) Showed him what I was replacing it with. Parts guide.

“The shield is quad-woven steel. Yours was 1x of angel hair copper. The dielectric is solid, not a noodle. See? (bendy, bendy) Foil shield? Uh, did yours have one? Oh, I see the shredded bit right there!”

Bent the center conductor on his Monster cable with my pinky. “Try that with mine.” Stopped him before he hypodermic-needled himself.

tl;dr: Whatever the cable guy cuts for you is miles above Monster grade.

It’s like Yeti gear. “So you paid $35 for a cup that’s simply a vacuum sealed canister? I got a 6-pack off Amazon for $25. Cute colors too!”

When we moved to Florida, my friend’s new kid was stumbling around learning to walk in a playpen. Fast forward, “Who the fuck is this 6’-tall monstrosity?!”

His older brother was 5 when I met him. Fast forward, “So, uh, you’re some kind of full-grown man now, somehow?”

Got my kids for Christmas today. My 12-yo daughter, 13 next month, is taller than my wife. I, uh, wut?

Been loving the new colors! Yeah, they’re toned down, not Hot Wheels colors, but I’m into the new grey-blues and grey-greens, never seen those before.

Only one I’m not into is the green-yellow, uh, things, I’ve seen. We have a tiny Florida spider that exact color and it makes me think of an arachnid. (I’m fine with spiders, just not cars colored like the freaky ones.)

I’m white and OP has hella privilege if they’ve never been concerned about cops targeting them. They were all over my ass in the 90s for having long hair and driving beaters. They’d lock on and follow until they had an excuse.

Curious how old you are, because until this century, a car with 100,000 on the odometer was considered a piece of crap no one in their right mind would buy. Powertrain warranties of 50,000 were pretty nice in the 90s and when 100,000 came out people were astounded. 3 years/36K was standard warranty for everything else.

SOURCE: Worked Nissan consumer affairs, late 90s.

I live in America and paid $0 to have both our children. No idea how that worked at the time, but it’s true.

This is going to kick off a major war if the US keeps going.

Greenland is the hottest spot of real estate on the planet. Lots of idiot voters deny global warming, but the powers that be know. A thawed Greenland offers major mineral extraction and will guard the soon-to-be open Arctic waters. There’s probably much more I’m ignorant of, but “~Fifteen million dollars~ Greenland is not money. It’s a motive with a universal adaptor on it.”

Yes, Trump’s a dumbass, was so even before the dementia got hold. Yes, he’s looking at a Mercator projection and thinking, “That’s a lot of land!” But there are people behind the scenes driving this goal or the administration would have dropped it by now.

Think Europe will simply stand by? (Well, maybe, they don’t seem to be doing what needs done vis-a-vis Russia and the Ukraine War.) What if Europe does nothing? The US will take Canada next, that’s what.

Not being funny, but I never thought I’d wish for a military coup in my own country.

We don’t get to choose who and what we are attracted to. 🤷🏻‍♂️ However, that does not absolve one of immoral actions.

“Unify” was the product line I was forgetting.

It belonged to my ex and I and King Soloman gave us a custody choice. 🤷🏻‍♂️

My yacht.

Only manufacturer driver I install is Logitech’s software for their solar keyboard, though it’s not needed. Only driver you really have to install is Logitech’s “shared dongle” tech, forget what it’s called.

This would have landed better when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s.

IIT: People who think they’re oh so smart.

Also ITT: Those same people thinking Trump personally hired the people redacting the files.

Similar story, but I was the guy. Kinda.

Broke up with my gf (both about 50-yo) who lived across the street. (Dumb situation, I KNOW.) We were still fuck buddies. Our friend down the street was having a Christmas party. Told her we’d go as a date, just for the night.

Friend had a couple of young girls over no one knew, but he was, most literally, banging one in his bedroom. Flesh smacking, spanking, walls shaking, all that. Yikes.

My girl was out back talking to a mutual friend. The 20-something girl whose friend was getting banged was mad jealous of her friend getting laid, so she was hitting on me. I was looking sharp, wearing a tux, all that. (Picture for reference, not that night.)

My god. It took ALL my willpower to fight her off.

“I’m sorry, but I agreed to be with my friend tonight and I’m not going to hurt her.”

<grabs me and sticks her tongue in my mouth>

Heaven

“I’m not going to hurt her like this.”

She smelled and tasted like life itself. I now know what melange is. I could see through time.

“I can’t do this. Maybe another night?”

<grabs me, kisses me>

Rinse and repeat for 30 minutes.

Anyway, my ex and I went home and had freaky, tied-up-in-heels-and-fishnet sex. Very memorable. But I’d still kill or die for that 20-something girl. She gave me her number, blew me off the next day. Fine. :(

Anyway, after all the drama my ex caused me a month later, I should have fucked the other girl.

Anyway, I still have some little faith in my moral strength.

Anyway, still mad.

AI code is great for getting over a hump, something you’re stuck on. Used ChatGPT (not the best for coding, I know) to help on a PowerShell script. There was exactly two references on the internet for what I wanted to do (Google Calendar/Sheets integration). Spent hours on the problem.

ChatGPT gave me two things: One solution I didn’t know was a thing, another was a twist I hadn’t thought of. For giggles, I plugged the whole script in. Guess what? Failed instantly. Because of course it did.

No. LLMs don’t write working code. Yes. They can help you, assuming you know what you’re doing in the first place. But here’s the crux of using AI:

It does not, and cannot, give a shit about edge cases, user error and security.

I wrote a simple PS script to swap my TV screens around for work, play and movies. Rolled it out in 30 minutes. Took me 2 more hours to stupid proof it, test it, wrap it an exe, make an icon, deploy it, all that. AI can’t do any of that.