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I'm sorry, did you forget the last 200 years of technological progress advancing productivity yet leading us to work even longer hours? If we want to work less, we need unions, not tech.

how many zombies would rob zombie rob if rob zombie could rob zombies

Just occurred to me that Astarion forgets what his own eye color used to be and yet remembers Sebastian’s name and if that doesn’t tell you more about his true character behind the lies and posturing then I don’t know what does
#BaldursGate3

The abyss gazes into you

i'm starting to question elon's commitment to free speech

my cat just gave me a dirty look because I was clumsily bumbling around, and I told him “sorry we can’t all walk around on four feet and have 18 DEX” like he doesn’t also have 3 INT

caught my co-worker using a jpeg of his office as his zoom background so he can less obviously work from home

1. absolute legend
2. why the fuck didn't I think of that

On the bright side I at least informed him that the monastery/creche EXISTS before it’s too late for Lae’zel, and that it’s a REALLY GOOD IDEA to go to Moonrise before finishing the mausoleum

My gym buddy told me that on his multiplayer #BaldursGate3 campaign his friend hated Astarion and handed him over to the Gur hunter first chance he got and it’s honestly unreasonable how offended I am

Like, OBVIOUSLY Astarion is great, but moreso my friend got cheated out of the best voice acting and character development possibilities in the game

#Portland dog PSA! https://www.kptv.com/2023/11/14/director-oregon-veterinary-diagnostics-lab-avoid-dog-parks-boarding-if-possible-until-mystery-illness-is-solved/

does anyone else sometimes get the dark urge to listen to remixes of e1m1 on repeat? no? just me?

very similar to when my cat screams at me because he has never once been fed in his entire life

I guess someone in my apartment complex got a puppy, and is crate training it, because I can hear the vague sounds of Puppy "Torture" ™️ through the walls

So I seem to have accidentally picked up #powerlifting as an old man, and holy ${profanity} it makes me feel good. Not really in a “chasing numbers” way (though I can see how that might appeal to some folx too), but in a very directly physiological “I feel happy like I’m on drugs” kind of way. 🤔 #Endorphins

I so, so, so don't want to drive any new car that can do this:

A federal appeals court refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.

The court ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors, which are defendants in five related class action suits focused on the issue.

The plaintiffs had appealed a prior judge’s dismissal. But the appeals court ruled Tuesday that the interception and recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.

A suit filed against Honda in 2021, argu[ed] that beginning in at least 2014 infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system.

An Annapolis, Maryland-based company, Berla Corporation, provides the technology to some car manufacturers but does not offer it to the general public, the lawsuit said. Once messages are downloaded, Berla’s software makes it impossible for vehicle owners to access their communications and call logs but does provide law enforcement with access, the lawsuit said.

Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. Automakers are exponentially increasing the number of sensors they place in their cars every year with little regulation of the practice.

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

@cy well, Allstate shouldn't need to send me push notifications at all, so they've had that privilege revoked

Ah, it's that time of year again where various apps ignore my notification preferences to interrupt my day and send push messages about fucking sweepstakes and sales I couldn't care less about

So far today it's been Allstate and Zappos,

At the end of the day, COVID-19 made people realize:

- They could work from home and that most offices are shitty places.

- Their job was really shitty.

- Governments could finance pretty much anything they wanted.

- Global warming could be stopped.

- The really important jobs were the ones that are the worst paid (nurses, for instance).

- Most governments are run by idiots, who are in the pocket of the wealthiest.

Trump has a 50/50 chance of becoming dictator and getting away with everything and I still hear people think he's just a big baby floundering. He's better at getting away with crimes than you've ever been at anything. Beating him starts with that realization.

Baldur’s Gate 3 sure has a lot of half orcs considering there isn’t a single orc to be found

it's No November November. we're not doing this month

passwords when you don’t enforce changing them every 2 months: Viy$Ehi8sy3&2WQ
passwords when you enforce changing them regularly: password01!? password02!? password03!? password04!? password05!?

Things that are extremely my shit:

1) Blackreach in Elder Scrolls
2) The Deep Roads in Dragon Age
3) The Underdark in Faerûn (Baldur's Gate 3 specifically, but I remember enjoying it in Neverwinter Nights back in the day, as well)

This probably says something about me?

I actually didn’t realize that Signal leaked my IP address to contacts when I initiated a call.

Ok the option to turn it off is tucked away under Privacy -> Advanced but it warns you that you might experience painful side-effects if you turn it on.

@enobacon good to know, in like 2012/2013 there was a bit where it got pretty hairy with encampments, with people and objects blocking the path suddenly (pretty dangerous for everyone involved at night)

Hey #portland people- has anyone recently gone by #bike on the Springwater near the waterfront, between OMSI and Oaks Park?

How Mad Max is it these days? I used to bike it semi regularly, but haven’t since about 2019; should I expect new hazards, perhaps traps or trip-lines?

remember to change your DNA and don't use any repeating sequences

https://cyberscoop.com/23andme-user-data-theft/

Some shithead tried to steal my bike, but the lock went through the wheel and frame so they just succeeded in cutting two of my spokes to fuck up my day

This is disgraceful that Elizabeth Warren has come out and support a flawed yet true censorship bill in #KOSA which would be a death blow to LGBTQIA+ voices everywhere if passed into law. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/03/senator-elizabeth-warren-supports-bill-to-silence-lgbtq-voices/

For those somehow out of the loop, I encourage you to read these two great pieces posted below:

By the @eff, which delivers two of them: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/get-real-congress-censoring-search-results-or-recommendations-still-censorship

And from @charliejane https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/the-internet-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse/

the most dangerous game:

putting a sharpie in your back pocket and forgetting about it

@tekniklr thank you for gifting us with the phrase “loot goblin sociopath”

Muppet Lord of the Rings, keep Ian McKellen

@microwavenby don’t forget to mention the same copy pasta abandoned facilities with the same corpse, loot, and slate locations spread across the galaxy

@tekniklr Not to give glib gamepinions, but I feel like loot goblin sociopaths have steadily become Bethesda’s core market. Which I’ve always thought was so weird, because the loot isn’t even that good!

@pizzapatch exactly! It’s just rng with the hopes of getting more rng to no other end! the rng loot doesn’t even reliably get better than the previous rng loot you already had!

ALSO, anyone who gave the advice to rush through #Starfield to the ending and NG+ is a loot goblin sociopath

That’s TERRIBLE advice if you approach Bethesda games as I do- from an RP/exploratory angle. As this thread has shown, NG+ retroactively made everything in an otherwise enjoyable game feel trite and pointless to me

But, you do you, I guess

@zenhob I think I might be a bit older than you so got a different story- also, my grandfather (who was in WWII) was mostly Belarusian (which at the time was part of the USSR/“Russia”)