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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It was kind of weird that Nedry's plan in Jurassic Park was to steal the dinosaur embryos and sell them to a company that was operating a rival dinosaur park. It's the start-up spirit, grandpa edit Come to think of it, this is the plot of an episode of Ducktales, the 2017 version. The Mark Zuckerberg bird is about to become a billionaire with his new upcoming social media app sensation, but it turns out  spoiler alert that when he opens his tech vault, it's empty, he was just fleecing his investors in order to become a billionaire, he was a social media genius without a social media app. Jurassic Park was ahead of its time in its criticism of capitalism 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It was kind of weird that Nedry's plan in Jurassic Park was to steal the dinosaur embryos and sell them to a company that was operating a rival dinosaur park. it's been a long time and i don't remember the novel very well (i think they had rocket launchers in the book?) but i think they mention that it's a competing genetics company started by some former executive who copied the "build a dinosaur park" plan when he left, but all his scientist suck poo poo so they have to steal the dinosaurs after the juicero fiasco it seems plausible
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May 7, 2024 00:31
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i have learnt that you cannot change people's minds ever
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May 7, 2024 03:04
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everything sucks
mahershalalhashbaz fucked around with this message at 03:32 on May 7, 2024 |
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May 7, 2024 03:11
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:everything sucks just had a one hour crisis at work
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May 7, 2024 04:17
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GoutPatrol posted:just had a one hour crisis at work
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May 7, 2024 06:07
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a series of things where several people should have noticed a problem going up the chain I think it is resolved now but things could have been very bad, and I don't think I can tell the full story for 24 hours because it is about an exam
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May 7, 2024 06:19
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Last week I did a bunch of network changes and the next day I came in to find that a critical part of the office was cut off from the network, with my changes being the likely cause. One hour later and the boss in to help clean up my mess and we've just given up on solving the problem in the critical location and were heading out to the central server room to see if we could get any clues there and they're just like, "oh, looks like you fixed it!" We'd literally just put everything back as we'd found it in order to go check if the problem was elsewhere. 
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May 7, 2024 11:25
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computers are actually powered by the fae and rituals. you will not be able to unconvince me of this
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May 7, 2024 15:09
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There's definitely a ghost in the machine. The number of times me walking up to a machine fixes it has shown to me that there are powerful forces beyond the rules of electricity.
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May 7, 2024 15:25
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quote:The Pauli effect or Pauli's device corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present. 
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May 7, 2024 15:35
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Yeah see, whereas computer janitors are those who exhibit the inverse Pauli effect, we are found at a young age and immediately brainwashed into the janitor lifestyle (anime and terrible taste in metal).
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May 7, 2024 15:39
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It stands to reason the effect would go both ways, balance in the cosmos and all that
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May 7, 2024 15:46
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:i have learnt that you cannot change people's minds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndsME9Vd4es World Famous W posted:computers are actually powered by the fae and rituals. you will not be able to unconvince me of this Open Sorcery was a neat little game. Didn't care for 2 though
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May 7, 2024 15:50
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The game of moving beyond capitalism
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May 7, 2024 16:15
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The game of calling Steve everyday to spend my own money
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May 7, 2024 16:16
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It's Steve the guy buying your SA accounts?
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May 7, 2024 16:30
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smh at all of you having normal jobs where you hold meetings and touch computers and participate in the economy. shameful e: not you, numbers guy. mahershalalhashbaz fucked around with this message at 03:27 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 03:25
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during the pandemic the australian government briefly doubled the welfare rate so all the temporarily out-of-work people wouldn't realise how crippling it is to be impoverished, and this miracle allowed me to reach my full potential as a source of wealth for jeffrey. golden memories
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May 8, 2024 03:30
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I resent the rote parts of my job for being boring, and the exciting parts for making me put in effort. I was not made for employment, but I have expensive taste in food and alcohol and don't have the body to attract sugarmommas
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May 8, 2024 03:52
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:I resent the rote parts of my job for being boring, and the exciting parts for making me put in effort. I was not made for employment, but I have expensive taste in food and alcohol and don't have the body to attract sugarmommas
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May 8, 2024 03:59
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:smh at all of you having normal jobs where you hold meetings and touch computers and participate in the economy. shameful I dunno if being a teacher is a normal job but now I can say what happened. I teach history, for my last class we only have a class of 1. Everyone else was scared away because it is much, much easier to get a high score if you take economics instead of history. But because this one student has her family in china, we couldn't do the regular history class because that would be talking about china (through 20th century taiwanese history.) I've know several teachers and have had enough interactions online with people where if they were teaching in China, over the past 10 years they haven't been allowed to teach history, or gotta hide the real history books from the party censor when they show up. Currently there are 3 people in the history class behind her, and no one signed up for it next year. womp womp but anyway the usual history class is actually bent for american history - we have units on Canada, Argentina, and the US. But she wasn't interested in those, and because it is a class of 1 I gave her the option on what she wants to do. And she wanted to do Africa and the Middle East, so I had to make alot of new material just for her (that hopefully I can use for other kids or classes eventually.) So she gets to learn about the Ottomans, Ataturk, I/P, Egypt, South Africa. Yesterday was the first part of her final exams from IB. And when I'm talking to her about it, she casually mentions to me "hey, this thing on my stationary kit says Paper 3 - Americas, should I worry about that?" Because it is supposed to say Paper 3 - Africa and the Middle East. So my boss goes to check the exam that was sent to us several weeks ago and was sitting in a literal safe - Americas. oh gently caress oh gently caress This was because the usual class was Americas. So this student, when confirming what exams she will be taking several months ago saw it said Americas and signed okay, her parents saw her class list where is said americas and signed it, my boss saw it said americas and signed it, all the way up the chain. Because well, there is alot of poo poo to look at. And she's a class of one, and there are other classes of 35 that need more work. So several phonecalls to the exam hotline, she gets the right exam, but alot of running around worrying about it all morning.
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May 8, 2024 04:08
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:I resent the rote parts of my job for being boring, and the exciting parts for making me put in effort. I was not made for employment, but I have expensive taste in food and alcohol and don't have the body to attract sugarmommas The secret is to gain a ton of experience and knowledge in an incredibly niche skill that requires very little actual work, but requires a ton of knowledge that is difficult to learn. Suffer through 5-7 years of initial grind and then shitpost at work all day for the next 15+.
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May 8, 2024 04:20
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:how many years have you been in this job now? do you have any control over how land management is done or is it all stuff like temporary turn radii and renegade deer menacing campers? coming up on 3 years, and i actually have a decent say on how land management is done, with the caveat that we have limited time and budget. later this year i'm going to be more involved with youth outreach, which might be more fun than the project management hell i've been in Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The secret is to gain a ton of experience and knowledge in an incredibly niche skill that requires very little actual work, but requires a ton of knowledge that is difficult to learn. i can't shitpost at work, there's no wireless signal and sa is like the only website the it guys have blocked
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May 8, 2024 04:27
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The secret is to gain a ton of experience and knowledge in an incredibly niche skill that requires very little actual work, but requires a ton of knowledge that is difficult to learn. It seems like a lot of people have learned of a way to create this situation for themselves by erecting bureaucratic hurdles at my job - can't say I blame em though.
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May 8, 2024 04:52
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i will defeat australia
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May 10, 2024 14:01
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:i will defeat australia 
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May 10, 2024 14:08
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the resemblance is uncanny, especially in my current state of mind emus are sweet and innocent creatures, the fact that settlers declared war on them is just one illustration of how utterly depraved the colony has been from the beginning. they are holy birds.
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May 10, 2024 14:09
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:i will defeat australia 
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May 10, 2024 14:10
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you either die young or you end up frequenting a bar where the band is playing all of America's greatest hits while you gripe about local politics
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May 12, 2024 03:11
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:you either die young or you end up frequenting a bar where the band is playing all of America's greatest hits while you gripe about local politics "goddamn this is the worst lead singer I've ever heard"
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May 12, 2024 03:53
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the vocalist perfectly captures the old white guy aesthetic
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May 12, 2024 04:08
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:you either die young That's something that Vonnegut wonders about. Should the character called Paul Lazzaro be murdered? Certainly he does not subscribe to Reader's Digest, does not consider the fineties of life.
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May 12, 2024 05:41
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:you either die young or you end up frequenting a bar where the band is playing all of America's greatest hits while you gripe about local politics mahershalalhashbaz fucked around with this message at 19:27 on May 12, 2024 |
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May 12, 2024 19:19
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the world is so stupid, everything and everybody is loving stupid. absolute dumbasses and clowns all around. dire
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May 12, 2024 19:26
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the only thing that gives me any comfort is the thought of my father negotiating with the ghosts on my behalf the last conversation i had with him he was like "do you feel australian? i never felt australian" and then he died and successfully transcended being australian. based.
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May 12, 2024 19:29
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:classic americana gives me a feeling of deep cold melancholy that is quite unlike anything else on earth
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May 12, 2024 19:30
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World Famous W posted:it's like drinking from a cool but stagnant pond mahershalalhashbaz fucked around with this message at 19:45 on May 12, 2024 |
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May 12, 2024 19:36
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:classic americana gives me a feeling of deep cold melancholy that is quite unlike anything else on earth OH YEAH LIFE GOES ON
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May 12, 2024 20:00
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:classic americana gives me a feeling of deep cold melancholy that is quite unlike anything else on earth There�s Polish cos players who rp Midwest backyard bbqs. https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vpbx/poland-larp-america-ohio
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