i am harry posted:

it also stole a big chunk of its video footage that plays when you get a world wonder built from a movie called Baraka

Horizon Burning posted:

yeah i just took a look in there and that thread is god awful, people going 'lol the best thing about this is how i can get it to mimic my favorite artists'

Microplastics posted:

Why are they paying a dog sitter 127k for "utmost discretion". What are they doing to that dog

SlimGoodbody posted:

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/elon-musk-says-xai-will-use-public-tweets-for-ai-model-training

It is March 2035. Another year with unpredictable freak occurrence super-weather, meaning that yesterday's hottest day in history has been followed by its coldest. You pee on the handle of your Tesla Cybertruck to melt the sheet of ice that prevents the thumbprint reader from allowing you access to your vehicle. Sitting in the confoundingly uncomfortable cab, you look at your phone and compare the exchange rates between Dogecoin, Pedobux, and the Kekistani Pinar, which Florida switched to in hopes of enticing Elon to rebuild a gigafactory after the previous one was sucked into a sinkhole.

You decide to liquidate 17.83% of your stake in the 1/600th of the NFT of Pantone #7A490B that you keep in your retirement portfolio to pay the Twitter app fee that starts your Cybertruck. It stings, as the royalties you received whenever anyone used that color was a big part of your rent on the 3/4 size SleepCoffin you can afford to rest in for 5 hours a night. After waiting a couple hours for the transfer and paying the costly conversion fee, you put the change into a long position on 62 pixels of a new Wendy's x McKinley Consulting Group collab NFT - "Civil Rights Leaders As Wendy's Famous Square Burgers". Only the brownish and yellowish pixels, though; the more attractive red and blue pixels are too expensive. Hopefully it does well and the returns can make up for the loss of your Pantone.

After an over-the-air update to the Tesla firmware stalls and fails, you manage to get it finished with a few reboots. You are several hours late to your shift at the Meta moderation sweatshop where you look at horrifying pictures of graphic violence and sexual exploitation to decide which look real (and thus illegal) and which ones were Al generated, and thus okay to stay posted in the Teletubbies Nostalgia group. It pays slightly worse than your second job as a training dummy for genetically engineered police dogs, but the only physically painful part is the harness that keeps you from blinking inside the Oculus Quest you have to wear to work in the digital real estate of the Metaverse Cyberoffice that exists at the same location.

The Cybertruck begins driving you to your shift - one of the half dozen locations you've leased vehicular travel privileges to with Twitter Brown - but you have to hit the emergency brake when its sensors detect a child on the sidewalk and it swerves to strike her at lethal speed. This confuses and angers the proprietary Tesla driving Al, which attempts to verbally respond, but its Twitter language model and Brand Suggestion language model begin fighting as its electronic mind schisms.

The last 13 seconds of your life is a cacophonous mixture of your car saying the n-word to you over and over at maximum volume while also trying to upsell you on a new payment plan for your clothing mortgage. The truck accelerates to maximum speed and bumps the curb with its tire, which naturally causes the vehicle to become instantly consumed by an inescapable, white hot chemical fire. You smile serenely. Yes, the coworkers who have been assigned as your next of kin by Meta will be responsible for the time left on your indenture, but at least it will no longer be your problem.

You are free.

skooma512 posted:

Secret Aardvark is good hot sauce, made in the steamy jungles of Portland.

strange feelings re Daisy posted:

Yesterday a guy at work took me aside privately and said "I look at my life and think, what am I accomplishing? Is this who I really want to be? What impact are we having? Look at the state of the world. Is this really it? There has to be more to life than this right?"

The guy was the owner of my company.

wynott dunn posted:

I drink instant coffee because I hate myself

OhFunny posted:

A curse on day light saving time and those who invented it for making my 12 hour shift 13 hours tonight.

Twerk from Home posted:

Where da movies at

blatman posted:

i think if i was trying to break into the cereal market i'd instead go the direction of futurama bachelor chow

cheap, enough nutrition to avoid scurvy, can eat it for every meal

Glumwheels posted:

This sandwich was $9 and with a latte, the bill was $18 (not my picture).

This is why native PNWers are fed up and hate this place now. The influx of tech has ruined a good thing, not made it better.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...807fb8827d0fa21

Willa Rogers posted:

I'm fine doing housekeeping and lawn care in exchange for $100/month rent. Childcare too, if I need to get a granny-nanny gig, which has also crossed my mind in a pinch.

I don't think I've adequately conveyed how earth-shattering it was to have been homeless nearing my 60th bday, especially since it was due to poo poo beyond my control (except maybe for trusting those I shouldn't have trusted). Things have gotten better since then, but I've also gotten older, and I have no family left, so when the money runs out so do I.

eta: this isn't a pity play; I'm perfectly fine going to lie down in the forest when it's my time.

shrike82 posted:

Red Baron posted:

a stoner has never vomited on my couch and poo poo themselves

Abner Assington posted:

doing my part tonight by going after about a bottle and a half of red wine and some Detroit style pizza

BornAPoorBlkChild posted:

does vidya games development count as computer touching? asking for a friend