Other comments have touched on the more personally important aspects, but I’d like to highlight:
No final paychecks or anything.
as some fuckin’ bullshit, yo. Are you quite sure that’s kosher? If you worked and aren’t paid for the time, your employer still owes you wages for that time worked regardless of if they’re satisfied with your performance or not.
Author rests the entire argument on ignoring the cumulative effects of individual use on a large scale. Whole lotta writing for such a small idea.
By the same logic, it follows:
IC engines are not bad for the environment.
Consuming meat is not bad for the environment.
A single vote has no effect on the outcome of an election.
One official taking a bribe isn’t a big deal.
pitiful, abject nonsense
It’s a bottleneck. If you are calculating faster than you can record the results, you have to wait for the write operation to complete before you can do the next calculation.
I said wizard you be kind now
I’m in need of some advice
and talk no speak of majick blood
or good-son sacrifice
and I begged to know if justice
is a form far-out or in
he said son, there is no justice
there’s just what
and that just is
Glad to see Stoermer getting posted. I’ve wanted to post some of his stuff esp. recently but never figured the right community fit. This seems pretty good.
Hey yo, can someone with image editing skills turn that thumbnail of sad miller into a sad clown please?
I thought you did it intentionally like the photoshop request meme, it was a bit funny
your name gave me a chuckle
We’re past blasting, so 2018. Now we’re on flaying.
Of course you would, probably at least the first two or three times, that’s why they’re on this trend.
Slam not getting enough clicks anymore, people know “slam” means “gentle rebuke.” Now it’s flay, pillory. At this rate, some time in 2028 we can expect “mild procedural admonition” to be replaced with something like “set off nuclear munitions over home of,” eg. “Judge Obliterates Defendant’s Entire Hometown With a White Phosphor Bomb in Searing Ruling Over Unpaid Parking Fines.” gotta get them clicks
A law without a mechanism of enforcement is just a suggestion.
It’s pretty harsh, bud.
Muppets Christmas Carol
Oh, I see now. I put it in the thumbnail url by accident, so I didn’t understand why it wasn’t coming up as a link.
wasnt it in the post title?
Wetness is an illusion. An artificial category imposed on what we call reality by our minds. Which are also illusory. Everything is an illusion. It’s all as meaningful and purposeful as the patterns dust makes in a whirlwind. That’s all we are- dust in the wind. Everything is dust in the wind.
Ah, I see. My condolences, friend. Mental health struggles are real, but you’ll bounce back and grow from the experience. I know that seems trite, but I’m confident you’ll look back on the experience as something you learned from in the end.