Haha thanks, fixed. Autocorrect + sleepy morning.

Common problem with a lot of meds, including antidepressants and antipsychotics. I knew someone who didn’t want to take their meds because it made them fat, and that was to counteract delusions and paranoia from schizophrenia. It’s been decades, so I think the meds are better but the point is, yeah, lots of people have to pick and even if the side effects are less bad, you’re actively having to choose to cause that to yourself.

When I needed to pick up on some basics, it actually did help but ultimately not as much as actual guides and tutorials written online. This image of a chimera certainly matches the kind of Frankenstein code I was getting.

That said, when I was having some very interesting ideas about making automated code in R, it did make for a good sounding board. You don’t need to Google when everything in R has documentation but you do when you’re combining libraries in unique ways to automate 98% of the stupid shit you do at your data researcher job (e.g. can you look up in our database how many students pick their nose during philosophy class on a Friday?)

I just some a lot of Lemmy are neurodivergent and do in fact require /s.

Which is actually halfway true, the other half being a more international crowd that aren’t on the same page as whatever perspective you’ve got. That said, I got the joke and second you on spending more time with my feet on my desk while the boss pays me for my 20 minutes of work.

I should use this as an excuse to finally get a NAS setup. Maybe.

Yeah, I’m afraid the tech bros cut costs by not saving backups and removing all the old ones. Hell, all our changes are made in prod, no staging allowed here.

I’ll be honest, I was just thinking about the lack of school shooting news. Is it just getting buried or do those kind of assholes just feel too “seen” by this administration to take it out on kids or something?

I’ve met the type who run businesses like that, and they likely do deserve punishment for it. My own experience involved someone running gray legality betting apps, and the owner was a cheapskate who got unpaid interns and filipino outsourced work to build their app. Guy didn’t even pay 'em sometimes.

Granted, you could also hire inexperienced people if you’re a good person with no financial investor, but that I’ve mostly seen with education apps and other low profit endeavors. Sex stuff definitely is someone trying to score cash.

I mean, they will likely add to the deficit mostly because they won’t collect taxes on the rich. The current spending, if I’m being honest, isn’t really an accurate prediction of their actions since contracts are still playing out and plenty of money is still being spent, although I’m betting additional costs are incurred if it’s covering severance costs and legal bills, which could be temporary if they have their way.

We’re two months in; if in a year they “win” and a ton of people aren’t still sueing them (which honestly is unlikely unless we really go full nazi) then sure, it’ll cost less because it won’t be doing jack shit for the American people. Still not a win, of course, since it’s like saying you lost weight after a quadruple amputation.

That’s why you always go for the porn family plan, much better value and you can share it with Grandma /s

I wonder if this and others will force US rebuilding efforts to include governmental reform if and when Trump is out. No amount of Obamas can reassure people the US isn’t just going to flip out the left time it changes hands again.

Depressing, but just the other day at a USC coffee place I overheard some rich white girls make a joke about something “being a DEI thing!”, albeit with the same kind of slight hesitation as one would have with the N-Word. So yeah, that’s their slur now, I guess.

Kinda like how self driving cars are still safer than the average driver, ya. Do they make mistakes? For sure, although the bigger annoyance is just how slow they are to turn sometimes. AI would be so so at leading but man is the bar low with Americans.

Oddly, I feel Mexico is a better fit for my state of California, especially with their recent cool shift in an educated President. Maybe we can get a sort of E.U. style thing except for Canada, Mexico and blue states, plus whoever else would make sense.

My students said it was awful. They actually like the actress in that role, btw, but just… Everything else is awful.

There’s no way to really test to see if women experience the same level of shock when their junk hits the frost, as it’s subjective. I bet it’s still a bit of a quick jolt, though, at best as good as when my armpits hit the water.

That said, men literally have their junk go up in them when it’s cold enough, so…

As fucked as this all is, it really is a “they’re just like us!” group running things. It might as well be on fucking Discord with people going “gg Yemen.”

Note: you do not want laymen running your fucking military, let alone the whole government.

…I don’t think it says what the driver was driving, and somehow that’s driving me crazy. I thought to look it up because I figured it’s gotta be a Tesla, but “a car” could mean any brand and another source suggests it’s a fucking Nissan Pathfinder!

Reminds me that conservative fucks don’t even drive EVs, it’s really fucking funny to me that even this guy is driving a Japanese SUV instead of a Tesler.

Wow, that sketch makes the youthful and confident looking Luigi look more like a mob underling from a GTA game. Yikes

I’m not convinced at least half of those communities trust Reddit and Discord enough to leave forums, but then again I stopped using them mostly because I haven’t had time for those hobbies. My emulation groups are still active on forums, at least.