Funny how you use the term “banana republic” to mean “corruption that wasn’t in the US” when the situation that coined the term was created by American imperialism in the first place.

Edit: not disagreeing with you btw, just found that specific use of words ironic, given the background.

You might regret that when you wake up on a life raft in the middle of the ocean with a family of just as confused German tourists, as your subconscious has predicted and is trying to prepare you for.

email: If you don’t forward this message to 4 friends, there will be a school shooting!

ChatGPT: forwards email Crisis averted!

ChatGPT on 3 of the 4 friend accounts: forwards email Crisis averted!

ChatGPT on other friend account: If you want to pull off a successful school shooting, you need to <6 points of advice: 3 eerily on point, 2 irrelevant or obvious, 1 likely to blow up in face>

KP: We have successfully averted 4.166666 school shootings, but might have caused 0.844444 school shootings, for a net of 3.322222 school shootings prevented!

Yeah, the :P version includes some mischievousness that the icons don’t capture. It’s like banter vs goofing around. They are similar but not quite the same, so the icons miss the mark.

For me, it kinda personifies the whole corporate approach to existence, where their understanding is close but also misses the point in very fundamental ways. Like a charicature of itself.

Which will make identity theft profitable but in a subtle way that won’t show up in credit reports.

If grey’s other opportunity didn’t work out, they probably would have unashamedly reached out to green again for a new date, if that exchange hadn’t happened.

Non-zero chance they will anyways, especially if grey is a guy.

Though I had a woman get surprised and upset when I declined a 3rd reschedule after she went uncommunicative twice when I asked the “we still on today?”. Apparently she didn’t have a mobile plan or internet at home and had to go to some public WiFi to communicate and both times had shit come up with her kids, though the second time was her son’s birthday party, which isn’t something that generally just pops up on you by surprise. It’s not even punishment, just the emotional rollercoaster before we even had a first date killed any interest in having a good relationship with her, just like that cancelation message in the OP would have.

Though if that were the case, I’d figure they’d clear that up rather than no reply and posting the screenshot.

I think the screwup started when companies stopped rewarding loyalty and instead aimed for capitalizing on laziness and lockin, giving the discounts up front to attract subscribers in the hopes of keeping them in a more expensive subscription afterwards.

I think the streaming sites could turn it around by instead offering a discounted rate after you’ve been subscribing for x months.

Lol yeah, I should have included that the emotional immaturity was such that they believed wanting revenge on a group for things they had nothing to do with or for reasons of jealousy/envy was normal. It was an attempt to continue your joke that the story creators were didn’t even have the logic to consider that angle.

Or they were smart enough to make up horrifying stories that would stick with people and prevent them from doing dumb shit like going to play in a swamp and just saying “don’t play in swamps” will make some people even more likely to play in swamps to prove they can.

They come from a time before people realized that revenge was an endless cycle. Like the old testament was full of that, where good and evil were mostly framed in terms of “good people are us, evil people are our enemies, and it is good to cause suffering to the evil people. Also, sometimes circumstances make one of us evil, until we stone them or something”.

Hmm this is reminding me of something… Something that happened during the lead up to an event that happened about 25 years ago…

A moment of horrified silence for the scrotums/labia of the 18 scientists that collectively discovered this. Their sacrifices will not be forgotten.

Oops, the AI controlling the magnets just deleted the database with the records, but it says it is very sorry.

Hell, even borking my linux install was a relatively painless experience. I was updating from Fedora 43 to 44 and noticed at one point that my keyboard had power but nothing was displaying on my monitor. Capslock still responded so I wondered if the update had messed up the video display or something and restarted after seeing someone say that they saw the same and restarting seemed to actually kick off the update.

Well, for me, it fucked the dnf5 install, which I tried fixing from the command line for a bit before deciding to just grab the 44 iso and install it fresh. I kept my home and game partitions and just reinstalled the root dir, then created two new accounts, renamed one of them to my old username and took over the old home dir, logged in and it was like the update had just worked. Only thing I need to do to get back to where I was is reinstall some packages or software. All the settings are stored in my home dir, so even the ones I don’t have yet will get their old settings back when I do get around to installing them. All I had to do was install steam and it launched like it normally does, all my installed games still there.

And I’m pretty sure I could have even done this with a different distro and whatever was the same would have preserved settings, too.

No cloud involved or even saving any files specifically. I did ask an LLM what I should preserve to make sure I wasn’t missing anything but everything it suggested waa already in home. It could have gone even quicker if I wasn’t overthinking it so much, but it was just like an hour or so before I was back up and running once I started the install process.

Yeah, I guess it depends on the context. I’ve just always interpreted it as being more about how great the other person is instead of saying anything about the other person. Like that luck could be lucky the timing worked out that you were both available when you started seeing each other. But I can see tones that make it all about the other person instead, deserved or not. So whether that line is a red flag or not does depend on context.

Neat freaks will hate this, but it can be healthier to not make your bed because then the sheets get more of a chance to dry out if you’ve been sweating in them all night. If they don’t dry out, bacteria can thrive.

The first seems reasonable, until the reasoning is given, which reveals the whole message is batshit.

Though IMO someone getting upset at being told they are lucky to be with the person they are with is kinda full of themselves and reading way too much into it. It’s more of a “I wish I was in your place without stating any intention to usurp it” than a “you don’t deserve to be in that place and must be there because things outside of your intent or control got you there”. It’s more non-threatening flattery towards your partner (as opposed to just flirting with her) than anything else and I’d consider taking offense at someone saying that to be a red flag even before he went off the deep end.

It predicts the fragile ego stuff that follows rather than contrasts IMO.

Makes me want to fire up some rock band. That was one of the best songs on the game for fun to play, also helped that it was a good listen. It’s no Green Grass and High Tides, but I think I’d need to check the game song list to be sure it isn’t my #2 song on there.

Here’s some characters you missed, but don’t worry, these ones are pretty subtle and only the most hardcore fans and linguists noticed:

There’s a bunch of characters named Android <number>. You might think that they are all members of the Android family and just really like numbers so use those as names, but that’s not the case. They are all actually androids and their numbers indicate the order they were made.

And the character Cell isn’t named after a prison theme like most viewers suspect, but he is named such because he was built using cells from many other characters.

Also, Roshi means old teacher, but I’m sure everyone already knew that.

I bet you’re still giving them too much credit and most won’t know the difference between a steam deck and all the windows-based clones that popped up when business saw that people wanted something like that so made more corporate versions. A non-trivial portion of them will try one of the shitty clones and decide based on that that the steam deck is garbage.

Because their legal system is captured by people who don’t give a fuck about what’s right and who see “competition” as something that needs to be squashed rather than encouraged.