brb committing massive industrial sabotage with a mid-level engineering position, a useless test suite, a git push, and a deadpan “oops”

humans are evil in the same way that if you teach a dog to bite, it will bite. nature is made and social creatures are constructed by the society left to them. the villains that inspire you to vilify humanity itself have a specific history, and it is not the story of all peoples everywhere.

the real joke is that the doctor knew he was pagliacci all along

@brennen ruby is fucking impenetrable. so much shit is just invisibly inserted into scope. i'm sure it makes someone out there feel very clever and it makes me hate them

"the code is there. take it and do what thou wilt"

the code: an inscrutable tome of interlocking puzzles

so hacking on masto is actually really fun* and easy** once you have your dev environment set up

*great way to wreck your instance
**ten years dev experience

tell me nice things

*puts on my anprim hat* this is bread’s fault

tricking sand into thinking was bad enough but then we made them think about timezones? oof.

wow, ok. just got back from the alternate timeline where kraft hot singles (cheese elementals) instituted a theocratic republic in the ruins of montana. my spotter was shouting “hot singles near you!!” over comms and shit i nearly got swallowed by some sentient cheddar whizz.

the year is 2029 and burger king tweets “move over, religion. the $420.69 whopper pak is the opiate of the masses”

i told him i was into crypto, but he didn’t seem interested in my mothman fanfic

@batterpunts yeahhhhh, my therapist has basically punted on stuff like this to my community a few times now, with whom i'm essentially already on the same page 🤷♀️

@batterpunts yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh pretty much

but hunting for therapists is so shitty and it's better than nothing. at least it motivated me to post this question? fucking idk

basically my therapist told me i need better coping mechanisms than smoking weed and having a significant personal routine (working out, etc) but i'm kinda at wit's end about what that is.

how do you cope with *gestures vaguely* pending social collapse?

@poiseunderchaos it's like the idea of "labor power" is a bizarre combination of inverted and unthinkable to these dolts

i feel like i'm watching idiots go nuts for a particular type of rivet, which they assure me will increase in value. see, this rivet has a monkey carved on it. wow!

i didn't imagine i'd get into database tech only to see a distributed database become the cornerstone of a ponzi scheme. i definitely imagined this stuff was too arcane for that

> hey i’ll check in on ipfs, it’s been a second
< introducing decentralized dns, “handshake”
> ok
< instead of paying for a domain name,
> i’m listening
> you can pay us for a database entry for a TLD that virtually no one can access
> well that fucking sucks