The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

[bhamv3]

Your speakers would periodically send out static bursts like a frantic clerk was a telegraphing Morse Code on them

That was when someone was about to get a phone call, right?

 

[GasBandit]

That was when someone was about to get a phone call, right?

 

[Frank]

Duckitaduckitadaaaaaaaaaaaduckitaduckduckduckita

 

[PatrThom]

Buddy, we had an IPX/SPX 10 base 2 network. I'm still finding misplaced terminators TO THIS DAY.

I, too, remember Thicknet.
My retro rig even has a BNC/AUI/RJ45 combo card.

--Patrick

 

[Ravenpoe]

I think this sound just activated some Manchurian candidate shit in me.

 

[bhamv3]

There's a guy visiting our office today who looks amazingly like Bryan Cranston. Specifically, he looks like Bryan Cranston playing Walter White at the end of Breaking Bad, with the beard, unkempt hair, and glasses. I had to suppress the urge to stare at him.

 

[IronBrig4]

Stay out of his territory.

 

[Celt Z]

Ask him if he's the one who knocks!

 

[blotsfan]

Tell him he looks like a dying cancer patient!

 

[GasBandit]

Text from dad: "Applying for VA Life insurance, need your SSN to name you beneficiary."

Me: (my ssn)

Dad: Thx. U now have motive for patricide

Me: The last thing I want is to have to go through your house and sort all the crap you have piled up in the rooms. May you live forever.

 

[Celt Z]

My dad it literally a hoarder. I have said more than once when he passes, I'm just burning the house down. Anything else is a waste of time.

 

[IronBrig4]

My great-aunt was a hoarder. I remember this one time when we hadn't heard from her for several days. We went to her house for a wellness check. Apparently she had fallen and couldn't get up. Her house was filled with stacks of old newspapers, phone books, and brochures going all the way back to the '50s. I'm pretty sure they had to pull out all the wallpaper and carpet to make that house habitable again.

 

[blotsfan]

I’ve noticed a lot of ads for companies with the marketing pitch of “we’ll buy your dead parent’s house and take care of all the crap inside it” and it does seem like a good business model.

 

[Cog]

The worst part about going through your father's belongings after his passing was finding all the cards we gave him as kids for Father's Day, birthdays, etc. He also had a little bit of my grandfather's ashes in his sock drawer, in a specimen container for stool samples.

 

[Dave]

The worst part about going through your father's belongings after his passing was finding all the cards we gave him as kids for Father's Day, birthdays, etc. He also had a little bit of my grandfather's ashes in his sock drawer, in a specimen container for stool samples.

Clearing out my great uncle's house when I was a kid is how we found out he was gay.

SO MUCH GAY PORN! Also lots of old coins and bills that were worth a shitload of money. But so much gay porn.

 

[blotsfan]

Maybe I shouldn’t say anything lest I jinx it but I’m surprised republicans haven’t gone after iodized salt yet. It was something added to food that effectively costs nothing, doesn’t change the taste, and has notable health benefits with absolutely zero downsides. You’d think they’d hate it.

 

[drawn_inward]

Text from dad: "Applying for VA Life insurance, need your SSN to name you beneficiary."

Me: (my ssn)

Dad: Thx. U now have motive for patricide

Me: The last thing I want is to have to go through your house and sort all the crap you have piled up in the rooms. May you live forever.

I told my parents this too. Please get rid of your stuff. Don't make me do it.

 

[HCGLNS]

I like the cut of your jib.

So I says it's the only jib I got baby!

You'll never prove a thing copper, I'm just a part time electrician.

Bad is good baby! Down with government!

 

[GasBandit]

It's FRIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

 

[HCGLNS]

 

[Ravenpoe]

View attachment 51025

Random ai image?

 

[PatrThom]

Dall-E does a much better job of this than FLUX, unless the prompt had that much influence (and of course I don't know the entire prompt).

--Patrick

 

[HCGLNS]

Prompt was "hey chatGPT do you know the artwork featuring dogs playing poker? Could you craft an image in that style of dragons playing poker?"

 

[Squidleybits]

He shared the website with me

 

[ThatNickGuy]

I wonder which artists' work was used without their permission to create those prompts?

 

[GasBandit]

I wonder which artists' work was used without their permission to create those prompts?

Pretty much all of them, living or dead.

 

[GasBandit]

So, I was having a conversation with the boy today as we drove back from the store, where he went into the reasons that he, at the wizened age of 20, has just decided to give up on dating and women in general. I just nodded indulgently all "that's rough buddy" and thought no more about it.

I get home and all of a sudden youtube is recommending me four separate youtube videos, all posted within the last 10 days, at the top of my homepage that are all women/dating coaches/etc talking about why men are giving up on women and dating.

Google's definitely eavesdropping at all times. (Not taking one side or the other in the "how women killed dating" debate, just noting that my phone is feeding my verbal conversations to the algorithm)

 

[PatrThom]

I thought we already confirmed this was going on.

--Patrick

 

[blotsfan]

Google's definitely eavesdropping at all times. (Not taking one side or the other in the "how women killed dating" debate, just noting that my phone is feeding my verbal conversations to the algorithm)

IIRC it makes connections via wifi network so it seems more likely that he was watching such videos at your house.

 

[Ravenpoe]

So, I was having a conversation with the boy today as we drove back from the store, where he went into the reasons that he, at the wizened age of 20, has just decided to give up on dating and women in general. I just nodded indulgently all "that's rough buddy" and thought no more about it.

Let him know that you know a guy that's almost 40 that doesn't date and he finds it to be pretty good, actually.

Though I suspect my reasons might be slightly different than his what with, you know, lack of heteronormativity and all that.

 

[GasBandit]

Let him know that you know a guy that's almost 40 that doesn't date and he finds it to be pretty good, actually.

Though I suspect my reasons might be slightly different than his what with, you know, lack of heteronormativity and all that.

I have a feeling his situation is mostly from his ex turning out to be a bunny boiler, combined with insecurity about his current financial status (he's now a part-time personal trainer/coach at an MMA gym, which makes it fortunate for him that his mom is living with a dude that has a spare bedroom).

 

[figmentPez]

IIRC it makes connections via wifi network so it seems more likely that he was watching such videos at your house.

It also takes into account people you've been in the same location with. The boy's searches and watch history impact Gas's recommendations because they've been in the same spots at the same time.

 

[blotsfan]

Honestly the sophistication of the algorithm that makes it seem like they’re listening is more impressive than if they actually were.

 

[GasBandit]

It also takes into account people you've been in the same location with. The boy's searches and watch history impact Gas's recommendations because they've been in the same spots at the same time.

And probably the fact that we're now in the same youtube premium "family."

(I didn't pay for it, I just joined my GF's existing one)

 

[Frank]

Andrew Tate posted proof of his high testosterone. He's on TRT, younger than me and still can't even approach my manly T levels. I need to carry those results around to trump these kinds of absolute dipshits who think that number means fucking anything.