Thai chillies arent that hot right? Everyone at work who wasnt phillipino was amazed i could eat a raw one. I got good white boy points there but didnt really think they were an extragangly hot pepper. Theye just nice.

The melancholy when you accidentally let poor out the last water in the kettle.

Watching House MD kinda makes me want to become a surgeon for some reason. Or maybe I just want to be really good at something

can the admins make it so that I don't have to see posts with the word "mamdani" in them until like, late january or february, so I don't have to see people rendered apoplectic over literally every single thing said (but not done, since he's still not even the mayor)

edit: i'm not saying ban mamdani posts just make it so that I, specifically, cannot see them, thx

Why isnt the kpop cartoon movie about the dark side of kpop

I love getting emailed AI slop by people who will likely lay me off soon. 2025 is such a wonderful time to be alive

why couldn't Luke Kornet stay with the Celtics

guy who confuses erratic behavior with erotic behavior

Hexbear is just like Danganronpa

There’s always that part of Reddit who has to be contraption even when the site is arguing for something good. There’s a lot more pushback to AI and with it comes redditors going “Reddit hates AI with no nuance 🙄 I hate this anti-AI circlejerk. This is just the industrial revolution and data centers aren’t even bad because of recycled water”

Gonna get a drone to deal with these flegs, good idea?

I also got a realtor pole, and planning to find another pole and stickying it together to make a really tall pole, but making it skinny first

I just finished Leviathan Wakes and I like it a lot more than the show, which is saying something because I really quite like the show. The characters are more thoughtful and the plot has less dramatic contrivance.

By dramatic contrivance, I mean stuff doesn't just happen to the characters as much to generate dramatic moments, meaning the characters feel like they have more agency.

I really love the way Kill Bill mixes all those different film styles

Is there any language where the word for "team" contains the word for "I"?!

I don't really want to use AI, I probably use it at most once a week, but I ended up with a really expensive AI subscription on a corporations dime, so I feel kinda obligated to use it.

Home Alone legacy sequel: McCauley Culkom plays an older Kevin McCallister who has struggled as an adult after being forgotten by his family and abandoned once again but this time it stuck. To mske ends me hes turned to burglary. Cause of his history he knows every trick to get past from security systems to paint cans on doors. Eventually he comes across a house on christmas where a kid like him was forgotten on Christmas and an inversion of the first happens. But this is just the beginning of act 2, dear reader, for there is a twist! A team up! They have a 'We're not so different, you and I" moment, Robbing the kid's parents fucking blind and during a subsequent montage of their following heists they meet a motley oceans 11 style crue of neglected children with Looney Tunes style defense systems, and they recruit them onto the team. You see the events of young Kevin's life spread to the news soon after, leading to more parenrs leaving their kids home and more kids creating elaborate traps, Kevin is a legend in the eyes of these children who were ironically neglected due to his perseverance leading to a more lax attitude towards child attendance. This contradiction comes to a head right before the big heist. Kevin is shattered. He wanders from home to home, stepping on marbles and being splattered with paint, hit by 2×4s and of course being hit in crotch by a loose floorboard, 'that old chestnut' thinks Kevin.

In a despair Kevin wanders the back alleys, looking in a drunken stupor for a poorly guarded suburban home, but alas he has taught these kids too well. But as the story would generally require earlier, he meets a scary old poor person! Just like the other movies! And who is this decrepit elderly who frightens Kevin in this revival? Of course, its Joe fucking Pesci! And he has seen better times even in his burglary days. He tells Kevin that while his being a modern day sun tzu for these rich neglected children who must now fend for themselves. He was always the best. And if anyone could beat these chumps at their own gsme, my gods on Olympus, it was Kevin 'Wil E' McCallister. With Pesci in tow he rounds up the gang, makes a borderline heartfelt apology and they get to work stringing together the most elaborate string of christmas time robberies upon upper class suburbia than could be imagined. These children left at home dont stand a chance and seeing all their worldly possessions in the hands of these bandits, much like the pirates of old, chose to join their motley crue. The film ends with Kevin. At the top of his empire but entirely alone, cause his crew are like 40 years younger at the oldest so a good amount of distance is best to shave the edge off an already steep crime. Fade to black

HR was 40 minutes late to the anti-union meeting they were hosting lmao.

I hate the smol beanification of the rich so much.

For any older comrades, did the ruling class always enjoy painting themselves as poor widdle babies taking on the big scawy world? Any time someone suggests a law that makes “the bargain” better for labor, here come the pigs whining about how this will hurt poor widdle “smol mom and pop businesses/landlords” to paint the haves as the real victims. Of course, they’ll help themselves to capital’s version of a minimum wage hike by raising prices and no one cares about small mom and pop workers. They just eat the losses. Same with HR, full of incompetent dipshits and they’re so extremely picky, but they act like the victim. Watch them whine about how they’re “drowning in applicants” and how the hiring process is disorganized as if those idiots aren’t running the hiring process. Maybe if all y’all stopped trying to pass the buck, hiring would be more smooth. Maybe if you all weren’t so picky and didn’t hire, you wouldn’t have so many choices your poor baby brain wouldn’t shut down.

Has this always been the case? Maybe it’s just an optimistic cope that capital didn’t have such a victim mentality before.

Me as a Starship Captain: launch 2 photon torpedoes, lock the tractor beam onto one and aim it to fly a bit past. When they finish evasive maneuvers, line up the ship and activate the tractor beam.

Also me at some point: engineers, it is super silly we dont have probes wirh transporter relays built in. Then when theres orbital interference or a signal being blocked, we just use some probes. How? Fucking tractor beam again, send the probe down far enough to transfer, and then at the barrier point we use the tractor beam to move the probe with the transport signals past whatever is blocking the transfer. If its out of safe tractor range we can just use a chain of probes and tractor out the last one!

Me again, now nicknamed Captain Tractor: "Cargo bay 8 is full and the diplomat needs space for his dumb alien shit? Jettison anything into space that can handle it and we'll use...you guessed it, the motherfuckin' TRACTOR BEAM!

Me being Starfleet's finest proponent of Tractor technology at this point: we can go into that nebula where their sensors cant find us...they'll still have the option of visual contact, let's tractor beam that meteor and kinda hold it bwtween us and their ship and then fly at...meteor speed.

apparently in addition to a user on here saying very nice things despite just seeing a pic, and my indian boss saying it was v. good, I guess an Indian student told one of the salad bar workers that my chana saag was so good they like called their mom to talk about it

makes me feel real good ngl, I'm an ignorant uncultured cracker who's never even eaten chana saag other than what I've made at work, so it's like, very validating to know that I'm a good enough cook to just read about stuff and vibe out a flavor that matches an authentic cuisine (despite never having eaten it)

I wanna do more indian stuff because it seems like, no surprise given the size of the country and subcontinent, like several entire countries worth of cuisine in there. I was reading about various chaat like this aloo chaat here and it's like jfc that looks great, I could do all that (if they'd buy the spices and stuff, we only have garam masala, no chaat masala, we don't really use a lot of tamarind, etc) and guess what there's like 10 billion variations of sick ass little snacks like this

Guh, a USPS package arrived at a regional warehouse quite close to me a day ago, I could get there no problem, but USPS says it still won't get to me for days and days.

Watching an old Twilight Zone ep that's like 'Hell is a casino where you always win'

Putting my tailor skills to the test with a jacket, and it's gonna be a sick-ass, black faux scale, hexagon-quilted, embroidered communism bomber jacket with a wooly hood and cuffs. The kind of garment a movie "villain" would wear

epic games pioneered releasing buggy incomplete games and finishing it later

want to slap the "me" from a week ago who said "yeah i'll totally refactor my entire code base for the next patch why not"

They trying to make being a "knight" cool again ita over

Haven't been able to work for the last ~4hours because the sysAdmin blocked WindowsFeatures which you need to enable the non-express version of IIS, we're webdevs lol

Huh FBI finally arrested someone for the J6 pipe bombs https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62d8v6jpwzo

USA delenda est

I hate how the internet is so unusable now.

• Everything is ancient history and 404s. I needed to be saving webpages and archiving them yesterday. One of my favorite recipes is now officially lost media.

• Google’s annoying ass AI is shoehorned everywhere. If I add “-ai” like 10% of the time google now just ignores that I explicitly said “no AI”. And it’s stupid AI will try to explain my own thoughts back to me and give me useless slop I didn’t ask for.

• Search engines even without that are still just digital billboards so even if I’m looking for a product, I am suggested things I don’t need, can’t afford, or usually both.

• YouTube’s ads have to be engineered to be as obnoxious as humanly possible. Dear porky, the more you tell the poors “money please” the less I want to give you money.

The stunt the Dells are pulling makes me think of something I read about ancient Rome, I forget where, but one of the reasons why the Republican order broke down and became the Empire can be put down to the fact that Rome was highly reliant on the actions of patriotic wealthy people, which can be viewed as one of the factors that pulled power away from the Senate over time and towards a line of singular dictators and their patronage networks.

edit: also if you really wanted to save the retirement futures of kids being born right now you'd remove the social security income cap and not only would you be able to fund it for eternity you'd be able to bump the payments up and index them to inflation meanwhile ted fucking cruise is acting like corporations and billionaires are going to donate the yearly maximum retirement account contribution into every kid's account like no they fucking won't and the parents are having trouble affording groceries so they won't either and what fucking world do you live in where you think that 401Ks were anything but a fucking disaster for people's retirements they made their shitty 401Ks as a sop so they could take away pensions and they didn't do that because the 401Ks are so much better they did that because they're so much worse and also cuz 401Ks prop up the stock market by a not insignificant amount.

Weird thing ar work today: one server mentioned they speak German and the server she was talking to said not to dsy that around another server who is Jewish. The one who said that walked away and the two of us were like...'wut?'. We both kinda said that was a bit weird, she mentioned it's cause she took a few classes between high school and college to get to barely being able to speak it, she said 'a little bit of German' specifically. She's got traceable German roots i guess and thar gave her an interest when she was a kid and then why not keep learning, but her family, like at least one dude in my family who snuck his last name into a bunch of English people who kept it up, they blasted over in the 1800s. Thinking a Jewish person would be offended by someone knowing how to speak a bit of German is weird.

I also know there would have been a cool snappy line about Isreal to make in all this but anything that couldn't come off really bad didnt come to mind. Its there somewhere tho, I feel it.

Sick and tired of being """"pythonic"""". I'm going to make all of my variables random 4 letter combinations (without checking for collisions) and there's NOTHING you can do to stop me!