These people have 0 usefulness outside of helping the guy print a pdf…

Until you click on a phishing link.

This is the curse of IT. Perpetually undervalued yet absolutely essential. If IT were ever to disappear, the businesses they support become walking corpses.

It chaps my ass that everyone working in business has grown up with computers being essential to business yet its somehow still acceptable for them to be functionally illiterate in using them.

Sometimes its so fucking bad that the equivalent would be someone being granted a drivers license and given a car but they have no idea how to put it in park, let alone use the brakes.

IT are the Dunedain Rangers protecting The Shire. They’re not popular, they’re barely acknowledged, often scorned, but without their presence The Shire cannot be.

It’s definitely not me. I don’t use that shit for anything. I hope it stays down forever.

This might interest you. https://crontab.guru/

I love racing and fast cars and driving fast in general. I’ve also driven the Autobahn and felt no need to drive faster than 130kph. To me its a risk/reward thing. I’d rather arrive alive but a bit late than have something like a tire blowout - which at 120kph is a problem but very unlikely to be lethal - absolutely ruin my day or even my life.

Huh, that’s an interesting one. I’m glad I’m not the only one hearing something weird.

Haha! I’m so sorry. Plz don’t hurt me lol Also, you gotta let me know what you hear when you get around to it! I’m very curious.

I have tried to hear that instead of “Hot pickle!” for years and I just can’t. This feels like another of of those blue dress/yanni things to me.

I heard “Hot pickle!” in a completely unrecognizable accent and have been confused ever since. Was it Mario that said that? Lakitu? Whose voice is that if not Mario’s and if it is Mario… What the hell? Lol

He says it when you select a level to play.

We have fuel tanker trucks and rail cars already. Could we not run a similar arrangement with batteries on a truck or train car?

I’d gladly never touch a computer again before I ever bent the knee to such madness.

Sounds like something a dude named Deviled Egg Dan would do.

Similar story for my wife and I. 10 yrs of friendship before we started dating. I definitely wish we started sooner but I’m just glad to be where we’re at now.

Likely WoW back in the vanilla/BC/WotLK days. The game say something like 2.5 months or so of game time so somewhere around 1,500hrs.

And although I hate to admit it, CoD was a big part of my teens. From CoD:MW to Black Ops I probably put in the same amount of time as WoW.

18 is super young to be having a kid, but man it can be much, much worse than that.

Might need to circle back on that one.

A summary of what you need to know about the state of “business” in 2026.

Its not like there are zero uses for AI, its that the use cases they’re trying to shove down our throats are the worst ones.

I’m a certified AI hater, but I still use it on occasion to help with spreadsheet formulas.

I think the police would LOVE to take the credit…

Are you sure? They didn’t seem interested at all when that fuckface chose Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas as an ideal target for his rage.

They had all the opportunity in the world to make a name for themselves and let a bunch of kids die instead.

[Edit] No shade towards you of course. I’m just still pissed off about this. That much is clear in hindsight after posting this comment.

Quick! Delete this before the Trump admin declares that the existence of loanwords is a war on the American Language®

Prohibition of AI does indeed prevent Bandcamp’s servers from being overwhelmed by the storage needs of slop “artists” and the gruel they call their “music”.

I’ve been re-reading LOTR lately and I like to put on Middle-Earth ambience in the background. Do you have any idea how much LOTR themed ambient slop is on YouTube? There are channels with over 100 videos, each exactly a 3-hour slopfest of sounds with HD/4k resolution slop art playing on screen.

Considering the vast majority of real artists might put out 5 hours of music in their entire careers, why the hell would bandcamp want to host hundreds of hours of fake music from a single source and pay for all that storage?

AI is a plague upon humanity. Bandcamp is on the right side of history and I’m happy to have my music on their platform.