Author Topic: Random talk thread: It just keeps happening (Read 3374550 times)

shosta · « **Reply #34380 on:** January 25, 2020, 02:12:46 PM »

Having a normal one in a free and democratic society

TVC15 · « **Reply #34381 on:** January 25, 2020, 10:04:48 PM »

Lol I just got a reminder on my phone that I have tix to a Laurie Anderson + Mike Patton vocal jazz concert in an hour. I don’t remember when I ordered these. This is a really strange event to get an unexpected reminder for. I guess I need to find some non-pvc clothing to put on

It is this: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870490/hear-laurie-anderson-push-musical-boundaries-with-mike-patton

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It's a pairing that feels fundamentally bizarre, but also somehow inevitable. She's an avant-garde artist who has dabbled with pop; he's an experimental rock star with a penchant for surrealism. And together, Laurie Anderson and Mike Patton are going to be performing a 16th century text by a general from the Ming Dynasty. No, really.

team filler · « **Reply #34382 on:** January 25, 2020, 10:15:13 PM »

sounds like a great show to watch while having some cold ones with the boys

TVC15 · « **Reply #34383 on:** January 25, 2020, 10:22:22 PM »

There are no boys, filler. There are no boys

team filler · « **Reply #34384 on:** January 25, 2020, 10:25:13 PM »

not after you get done with them

bork · « **Reply #34385 on:** January 28, 2020, 11:43:45 PM »

It's been months now and people in the general area continue to put up Ring alerts about stuff being stolen from their cars. Like almost daily at this point. And it's because they continue to leave valuable shit in their cars and/or leave the doors unlocked.

WHY DO THEY KEEP DOING THIS?

Every. Fucking. Time.

nachobro · « **Reply #34386 on:** January 29, 2020, 10:35:47 AM »

the downside of working for a non-profit is people sometimes deciding to donate their garbage to you and expecting a huge receipt from it. like today i pop into my office to find a random hp pavillion pc sitting there. upon further inspection its about a decade old, filled with dust and with incredibly outdated amd parts and the keyboard and mouse caked with filth plus a note that says "supposed to be worth $500 and it runs windows 10! what can we do with it?". gonna be a bummer to whoever accepted it when i suggest throwing it in the trash

reminds me of when we got a donation of a wii, three games, and a balance board with the person wanting to claim $750 on that donation.

bork · « **Reply #34387 on:** January 29, 2020, 01:15:02 PM »

Quote from: bork on January 28, 2020, 11:43:45 PM

It's been months now and people in the general area continue to put up Ring alerts about stuff being stolen from their cars. Like almost daily at this point. And it's because they continue to leave valuable shit in their cars and/or leave the doors unlocked.

WHY DO THEY KEEP DOING THIS?

Every. Fucking. Time.

Another alert- same people who stole some shit out of cars last night did it again.

"They stole my purse from the front seat!" FUCKING BRING IT INSIDE, IDIOT.

nachobro · « **Reply #34388 on:** January 29, 2020, 01:49:12 PM »

and i thought old bay potato chips were the peak of human culinary innovation. we've gone beyond, folks

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #34389 on:** January 30, 2020, 01:02:30 PM »

I made soup that was too spicy so I cooked rice in it - it's so damn good.

nachobro · « **Reply #34390 on:** January 31, 2020, 08:43:36 AM »

was testing out the new edge browser at work to see how it faired compared to the old and

it's actually really good. feels faster than chrome, works better than old edge or chrome with the wack gov't sites we need to use, and has more GPO controls too...just need to see how well it plays with some of our custom forms and such. i'm legit surprised at how much i like it.

i even installed it at home, though i'll probably keep using ff as a main browser cause of the anti-tracker and privacy options. but i'm also the type of crazy person who uses three browsers at home.

nachobro · « **Reply #34391 on:** January 31, 2020, 02:22:43 PM »

was just browsing around at work during lunch and happened upon this article
https://www.koat.com/article/apd-unknowingly-hires-3-time-felon/30716033#

the name sounded familiar to me but couldn't remember why. ended up looking through my email and noticed we hired a dude with the same name a while ago and he starts on monday. forwarded it to hr and got a reply back that it's the same guy and he used fake info to apply with us and he seems to have forged college records as well.

Nintex · « **Reply #34392 on:** January 31, 2020, 02:30:53 PM »

Quote from: nachobro on January 31, 2020, 08:43:36 AM

was testing out the new edge browser at work to see how it faired compared to the old and it's actually really good. feels faster than chrome, works better than old edge or chrome with the wack gov't sites we need to use, and has more GPO controls too...just need to see how well it plays with some of our custom forms and such. i'm legit surprised at how much i like it.

i even installed it at home, though i'll probably keep using ff as a main browser cause of the anti-tracker and privacy options. but i'm also the type of crazy person who uses three browsers at home.

Need to test drive it some more but so far so good

+ very fast
+ new tab features are neat
+ video playback seems really good
+ easy to get your previous data from chrome

- I don't like how the scrolling feels, too twitchy and fast

BisMarckie · « **Reply #34393 on:** January 31, 2020, 02:32:34 PM »

Fuck those tech companies, Firefox is the browser of the people.

nachobro · « **Reply #34394 on:** January 31, 2020, 02:45:17 PM »

at home ill pretty much just use it for second screen video watching. its much faster at loading video and generally feels better than chrome. the power of ms can only improve on the offerings of google in both the browser and game streaming worlds

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and in search engines but only with safe search off

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Rufus · « **Reply #34395 on:** January 31, 2020, 03:49:28 PM »

Quote from: nachobro on January 31, 2020, 02:45:17 PM

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and in search engines but only with safe search off
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Earning Bing points to put toward Game Pass extensions while you're at it.

team filler · « **Reply #34396 on:** February 01, 2020, 09:26:45 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #34397 on:** February 01, 2020, 09:29:05 PM »

RIP Ice T

Nintex · « **Reply #34398 on:** February 01, 2020, 09:33:39 PM »

Johnny Depp really needs to get his shit together and get on the Joe Rogan podcast

bluemax · « **Reply #34399 on:** February 05, 2020, 01:02:43 AM »

What qualifications are needed to become a director of coffee at an artisanal coffee company anyhow?

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Stupid podcast ads.

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team filler · « **Reply #34400 on:** February 05, 2020, 01:10:12 AM »

just learn to burn coffee beans and you're in!

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #34401 on:** February 05, 2020, 12:33:25 PM »

Is there a better prog rock band than Yes? No.

team filler · « **Reply #34402 on:** February 05, 2020, 12:41:42 PM »

mars volta 444 lyfe dawg

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #34403 on:** February 06, 2020, 06:49:52 PM »

New life goal: karaoke hot in herre by nelly with enough drip to see at least one titty

EightBitNate · « **Reply #34404 on:** February 07, 2020, 10:48:27 AM »

I use the USPS email service to see what letters I’m getting in the mail. Currently at work, and I can see the IRS sent me a letter. I don’t think it’s my tax refund check, since the status website says it hasn’t been approved yet. This was my first year applying with Turbo Tax and my return looked bigger than it should. Kinda nervous lol.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #34405 on:** February 07, 2020, 10:59:06 AM »

You‘ll do well in prison

EightBitNate · « **Reply #34406 on:** February 07, 2020, 11:59:27 AM »

Quote from: BisMarckie on February 07, 2020, 10:59:06 AM

You‘ll do well in prison

EightBitNate and Christopher Goldberg take on the world together

BisMarckie · « **Reply #34407 on:** February 07, 2020, 12:04:30 PM »

Eightbitnate starring in:

My career criminal cellmate can't be this cute.

BIONIC · « **Reply #34408 on:** February 08, 2020, 11:58:38 AM »

BIONIC · « **Reply #34409 on:** February 09, 2020, 12:37:36 AM »

Fuck you all.

VomKriege · « **Reply #34410 on:** February 09, 2020, 05:35:56 AM »

Imgur has cropping options (on desktop though, mobile is not working fine in my experience) and you can use the bbcode share link to enter in the avatar field (with http instead of https and the [-bbcode] tags out).

toku · « **Reply #34411 on:** February 09, 2020, 06:04:49 AM »

I would have done it but that style of crop I'm not good at unless it's on a empty bg so I can just use magic tool lol.

Raist · « **Reply #34412 on:** February 09, 2020, 08:40:10 AM »

Quote from: BIONIC on February 09, 2020, 12:37:36 AM

Fuck you all.

What are you, 5?

DIY you lazy git.

Trurl · « **Reply #34413 on:** February 09, 2020, 04:00:01 PM »

Last night I had a dream where I bought some nice cigars and then smoked them. They really do symbolize dicks.

skullstorm · « **Reply #34414 on:** February 10, 2020, 02:34:48 PM »

I had a dream last night that I was playing RDO and my character got into the middle of a massive ambush and suddenly the leader of the bad guys was chasing me and it was a huge fat Sonic the Hedgehog, like a really crappy looking one, like if a massive fat dude was cosplaying the movie version, badly. So I was thinking why is Sonic so popular, he's a total dick and shot him and then my alarm woke me up. I remembered the dream and had a good laugh at the thought of that stupid looking giant Sonic suddenly appearing in RDR, quality dream content for once

Also I googled fat Sonic, was not disappointed.

Kunai With Chain · « **Reply #34415 on:** February 11, 2020, 09:45:41 AM »

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/

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For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.

The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machines for U.S. troops during World War II. Flush with cash, it became a dominant maker of encryption devices for decades, navigating waves of technology from mechanical gears to electronic circuits and, finally, silicon chips and software.

The Swiss firm made millions of dollars selling equipment to more than 120 countries well into the 21st century. Its clients included Iran, military juntas in Latin America, nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, and even the Vatican.

But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence. These spy agencies rigged the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages.

Makes me wonder how many VPN companies are front companies for one espionage agency or another. If they were gonna spy on me, I wish they would at least do a better job of unblocking shit like BBC iPlayer and other geo locked content.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #34416 on:** February 11, 2020, 09:59:38 AM »

NordVPN would never!

Raist · « **Reply #34417 on:** February 11, 2020, 10:53:21 AM »

More like NoradVPN amirite.

Tuckers Law · « **Reply #34418 on:** February 11, 2020, 11:34:18 AM »

Bless up to kinky grocery store management.

kingv · « **Reply #34419 on:** February 11, 2020, 05:10:42 PM »

I am listening to a podcast on the John at work and let out a massive fart. Immediately after the dude on the podcast said “Jesus!”

And I was like “whoa, he heard me!”

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #34420 on:** February 12, 2020, 09:36:59 AM »

Quote from: kingv on February 11, 2020, 05:10:42 PM

I am listening to a podcast on the John at work and let out a massive fart. Immediately after the dude on the podcast said “Jesus!”

And I was like “whoa, he heard me!”

Was it a Maria Sharapova podcast?

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #34421 on:** February 12, 2020, 09:44:54 PM »

I fell down a youtube hole of watching people clean their dreddlocks ... again

shosta · « **Reply #34422 on:** February 12, 2020, 09:53:44 PM »

yo... are there Indian people with dreads

team filler · « **Reply #34423 on:** February 13, 2020, 01:36:59 AM »

had no idea teepo loved talking shit so much

Raist · « **Reply #34424 on:** February 13, 2020, 05:22:08 AM »

Quote from: shosta on February 12, 2020, 09:53:44 PM

yo... are there Indian people with dreads

Yes, and it's very likely that they contributed to the origins of Rastafaris. Which makes it particularly funny when a bunch of angry african americans scream about cultural appropriation when they see some white dude/gal wearing locks

Look up Sadhus

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #34425 on:** February 15, 2020, 09:46:24 AM »

Yesterday, I recognized a fitness influencer at my gym. I wanted to double check, so I went on Instagram's "search & explore" tab. Without typing anything into the search box, the results had a thumbnail-video of her at the top-right corner (the thumbnail that's 4x larger than all the others).

Spooky.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #34426 on:** February 15, 2020, 09:53:07 AM »

Stay safe.

Kunai With Chain · « **Reply #34427 on:** February 15, 2020, 11:54:48 AM »

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51330261

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Sex robots may cause psychological damage

US researchers have warned that the availability of sex robots with artificial intelligence (AI) poses a growing psychological and moral threat to individuals and society. They say the technology is escaping oversight because agencies are too embarrassed to investigate it.

The scientists want action to prevent the unregulated use of such robots.

Dr Christine Hendren of Duke University told BBC News that "the stakes were high".
"Some robots are programmed to protest, to create a rape scenario," she said. "Some are designed to look like children. One developer of these in Japan is a self-confessed paedophile, who says that this device is a prophylactic against him ever hurting a real child. "But does that normalise and give people a chance to practise these behaviours that should be treated by just stamping them out?"

Kathleen Richardson, who is a professor of the Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI at De Montfort University in Leicester, wants this kind of marketing outlawed.

"Are we going to move into a future where we keep normalising the idea of women as sex objects?" she told BBC News.
"If someone has a problem with a relationship in their actual lives you deal with that with other people, not by normalising the idea that you can have a robot in your life and it can be as good as a person."

Thirsty nerds have actually got some women shook at the prospect of an overpriced fuckdoll

shosta · « **Reply #34428 on:** February 15, 2020, 01:46:28 PM »

https://twitter.com/HartYT_/status/1228149203261698048?

shosta · « **Reply #34429 on:** February 16, 2020, 06:23:36 PM »

team filler · « **Reply #34430 on:** February 16, 2020, 06:39:15 PM »

Quote from: shosta on February 16, 2020, 06:23:36 PM

brb

brawndolicious · « **Reply #34431 on:** February 18, 2020, 01:30:55 AM »

Gonna go to Austin Texas for a week. Is there anything fun to do there? I asked my friend and he said visit Dallas or Houston or something.

But like I mean, is there anything cool IN Austin?

BIONIC · « **Reply #34432 on:** February 18, 2020, 02:10:29 AM »

Quote from: brawndolicious on February 18, 2020, 01:30:55 AM

Gonna go to Austin Texas for a week. Is there anything fun to do there? I asked my friend and he said visit Dallas or Houston or something.

But like I mean, is there anything cool IN Austin?

Get blackout drunk on 6th.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #34433 on:** February 18, 2020, 03:31:03 AM »

That's enough, I'm sold.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #34434 on:** February 18, 2020, 08:56:04 AM »

Austin has lots of live music and hippie liberals.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #34435 on:** February 18, 2020, 02:20:50 PM »

Just came back from jury duty. Was just in the pool, didn't have to sit in on a trial. Almost pure silence for the initial two hours where the room got to hear a dude rip ass in the far too close bathrooms. Dude straight up painted the bowl with one mighty heave.

I also dressed business casual where most of the men my age and younger didn't give a fuck. Felt good looking fly.

Fortunately, as jurors, we were able to bring our smartphones with us. Diming out your fellow jurors has never been easier.

TVC15 · « **Reply #34436 on:** February 18, 2020, 03:30:29 PM »

team filler · « **Reply #34437 on:** February 18, 2020, 06:43:57 PM »

TVC15 · « **Reply #34438 on:** February 19, 2020, 08:32:35 PM »

Algiers looks like a really cool city. Has anyone been there? Honestly I don’t even know if it’s a country people visit. I know nothing about the country outside of what I learned from great African writer Albert Camus’ biographical details. So I basically don’t know anything about it post-1950something.

team filler · « **Reply #34439 on:** February 20, 2020, 03:08:16 AM »

I'm goddamn hilarious, brehs

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