Remember when it turned out that on top of this the USA was also being run by a cabal of pedophile nazis and then they got voted back in anyway and then the richest man in the world publicly did a nazi salute on stage and then openly went around every government department installing his own servers to do fuck knows what and then the president of the USA sent the military into American cities and talked about cancelling elections and still nothing happened? And also when the president staged an attempted coup, picked up 36 felonies and buried his ex wife under his golf course? And also took a bunch of highly classified documents home and kept them next to his toilet and then his son in law mysteriously got two billion dollars from the Saudi government for no apparent reason?

Currently writing, I'm not going to let AI touch any of the creative stuff, but I might eventually get it to do some of the fiddly crap that requires not much brain work but takes up time, like working out technical marketing things and stuff like that. Essentially I want to use it to free up time for me to do the creative stuff, not to do the creative stuff for me.

I don't think there's anything wrong with a species having intelligence necessarily, it's more that we tend to default to greed and fuckery and irrational nonsense that's the problem IMO. If we were an intelligent species that actually respected the Earth and our fellow living things, it could actually be quite nice here I think.

If you're a piece of shit corrupt politician, he's a godsend. He's loud and distracting, corrupt as hell, doesn't give a fuck about any sort of ethics as long as he's getting his, plus he's dumb as shit and has a massive ego. The amount of mid-level corruption you can get away with while everyone's looking at Trump has to be insane, and all you have to do is chuck him a wad of cash or tell him he's great once or twice a year.

They're going to prop him up for as long as they can, make out like bandits and when his cholesterol finally catches up to him and he dies, they'll all scuttle off back into the woodwork and in ten years you won't be able to find anyone who admits to having supported him at all.

I used to work in a store that was on a busy intersection, and there was a homeless guy who used to stand there all day with a sign. He was harmless and everyone kind of knew him. One day he got hit by a car on the intersection (by accident), so I called 911. I started telling them and they were like "Oh yeah we already had about 10 calls about him, don't worry." Then an ambulance came and got him and he was fine, he was back there like a week later.

My first thought was they'll probably use it to generate endless slop assets for The Sims, since people seem to pick up whatever they put out for that.

Just sitting here playing the long game, waiting for EA to finally implode and get sold off for parts so we can finally get a new Command & Conquer.

I was at a barbecue on a Saturday night once when my boss called in an emergency because he thought we were being hacked. The reason being, because he was in Starbucks trying to look at our website on his phone and it wasn't loading properly. I had to explain that:

1. It's Saturday night and I'm not on-call for IT.
2. I'm also in the art department and IT is in no way part of my job description.
3. Because of 2, if we are being hacked I don't know what to do about it.
4. It's probably just that Starbucks wifi is shitty?

That was a stressful job lol.

I used to have a not well known webcomic and would get death threats/"kill yourself" messages pretty regularly, so yeah for drawing a cartoon would be mine I guess! They never used to bother me especially though, I thought they were funny. I used to have a page up where I'd post the dumbest ones lol.

I have two, one is actually complicated and one was so obtuse that I never would have figured it out in a million years:

Actually complicated: I still don't know how it happened, but somehow an update on Arch filled the boot partition with junk files, which then caused the kernel update to fail because of no disk space, which then kind of tanked the whole system. It took ages, but with a boot disk and chroot-ing back into the boot partition I eventually managed to untangle it all. I was determined to see it through and not reinstall.

Ridiculous: One day when using Ubuntu, the entire system went upside-down. As in, everything was working perfectly fine, but literally the screen was upside-down. After much Googling I had no luck figuring it out, then I accidentally found the solution - I'd plugged a PS4 controller into the USB on the laptop to charge it, and for some reason Ubuntu interpreted the gyroscope on the controller as "rotate the screen display" so when I moved it, the screen spun round. I only figured it out by accident when I plugged it back it and it spun back to normal lol.

I mean you could even take the bottom number and leave them with the top number and they could still live in unimaginable luxury forever. Or just take the lot because fuck em lol.

Proposed solution:

• Make sign that says "please keep this area tidy." Send to supervisor for approval.

• Wait 5 minutes

• Make sign that says "please keep this space tidy." Also send for approval.

• Wait for supervisor to ask why 2 different signs were sent for approval.

• Say you'll look into it

• Do nothing for 2 hours

• Put up a sign that says "Keep this area tidy. Thanks!" Maybe add some clipart for spice.

• Tell supervisor "turns out there was a mixup with the drafts but I went ahead and took care of it."

If done properly that could probably kill half a day or more.