Quote from: Slurpee on April 16, 2025, 01:04:53 AM"smart" by definition means "smarter than average" and we can plainly see that he's a bear

yogi bear's catchphrase should have been "I'm smart"

Yogi is too humble for such an unqualified braggadocious statement

Quote from: Slurpee on April 16, 2025, 12:53:56 AMand then web 3 was just a ponzi scheme lol

it always really put me off that anyone who seemed to be talking about decentralizing the web would be talking about The Blockchain (and, therefore, crypto speculation, or otherwise other gold-rushing) in the same breath. maybe that's one reason i never got into it. maybe it's also that thing where i didn't really want to talk to the type of nerd who tended to be early adopters of shit in that category.

the real wild west 1996 internet was like, non-nerds following the nerds into putting up lil html websites on their school's or tiny local ISP's server, out of necessity. 10000 tiny local ISPs? necessity, or at least they could compete with AOL.

uh, the rub is, with great decentralization (eg running your own mastodon instance or SMF web forum) comes great somebody has to know how to do the technical stuff. maybe not from bare metal, but from an empty folder on a managed webserver at least. a real decentralized internet utopia would have a lot of people stepping into such a role, but until necessity motivates them, who's gonna learn that stuff?

aside: Big Tech targeting technology has turned the whole experience of Internet 'discovery' into some Plato's Cave type shit and it is frustratingly hard to find new, unfamiliar things and non-slop content without Big Tech trying instead to show you what it thinks you would want to see. god help us

I miss good aggregation sites

I guess this is only a small part of how empty the internet feels now, but even what was basically just a blog like transbuddha or uhhh whatever you call what io9 was before gizmodo took over. those. they were part of my "daily destination" type stops

they'd link you to a neat animated short, then a brief article about a cool advancement in science, then a curiosity from history, then a link to a website that does something weird and unexpected (yknow like "what football will look like in the future" or that korean horror story that autoscrolled suddenly or that site where you build a computer from nand gates), then a cool weird artist you've never heard of, and that'd be the basic set for a day, and then they'd do that every day for like a decade
so if you were bored, you could just go see what they posted on transbuddha today
https://web.archive.org/web/20080526014825/http://www.transbuddha.com/
oh look, an article about an archeologist that may have inspired indiana jones, a french animated short that's a "love letter to hong kong", that first Alice in Wonderland remix by Pogo, an article on the contra hearings, an obituary for sci-fi writer robert aspirin, a little indy video game called knuckleheads by something called nitrome, a couple of comedy sketches from collegehumor/funny or die (board game mystery and internet party 2), an article from a nerd poking at the managerial structure of the star trek universe, ... episode 8 of something called "the writers room" starring t.v.'s frank(? idek what this is), a top ten list of movies about the cold war (back when listicles used to be written by an actual person), and a couple of cool music videos

(curiously absent: politics, shilling for massive media conglomerates, culture war bullshit, weird fake articles for advertising obvious scams)

I miss this sort of website existing so much that I have thought about creating one myself

I feel strongly that some vague bastards have somehow stolen the act of going "hey check this out, this seems cool" from us and we deserve to have it back

be the changeset you want to see in the repo

I have decided to forgive justin timberlake

first day on my work term and the office guy offered me a job following the term for $20/hour but i swear to god they had a job posting listing entry level positions for $22/hour and i said that and now im scared i fucked my chances at the job but also the minimum wage is going up to $17 come October and i;'m thirty fucking years old i cant get by on 3 above minimum anymore what did i go to college for please god kill me

what's "following the term" mean?

in my understanding asking for what you're worth doesn't really hurt your job prospects that much. employers will do what they can to lowball you, but they're just seeing what they can get away with

that's what I heard anyway, (as you know I live in a palace and have never seen the suffering of the outside world)

rob lives in a minecraft wood house he right-clicked together himself, you show some respeck for his suffering

also this is standard anxiety and that is a good thing to be anxious about, i hope it works out for $22/hr





i have no real comforts or insight, sorry

sword of damacles but it's the Smash Bros off-screen indicator showing Mario doing a butt-stomp an indeterminate distance above the throne

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on April 24, 2025, 12:56:57 PMsword of damacles but it's the Smash Bros off-screen indicator showing Mario doing a butt-stomp an indeterminate distance above the throne

it turns out mario can't do the butt stomp in smash bros so I had to photoshop that together

but I strongly feel that this joke has legs so here is the asset


feel free to use it to make more hilarious edits and impress your friends

I was pretty close to doing it myself but couldn't think of a way to make it clear in the image that mario could be stomping in a second or in four years



beautiful :face holding back tears emoji:

"sword of damacles but it's the Smash Bros off-screen indicator showing Mario doing a butt-stomp an indeterminate distance above the throne" is the card i pulled from this tarot deck, though

it's upside-down so i think it means something good