I don’t know that I want the current elderly generation to live longer. Can we hold off on this for… Idk, say, 15 years until they all die off naturally?

I did an online one in the early days of the Internet, and scored a 137. I have zero faith it has any accuracy. My buddy also did it and got a 145, I believe his is above mine but still, no faith that the numbers are correct.

IQ tests are deeply and inherently flawed, usually based on the fact that you can both quickly read, understand the intent of the question, and respond with whatever the writer of the test feels is correct in a timely fashion.

And if you don’t realize how much of what I just wrote is subjective based on lived experience, and specific parameters about you that have nothing to do with how intelligent you are, then congratulations, you’re probably above average.

There’s a certain mood to someone who speaks in all caps.

ADHD life in a nutshell (because bonus thoughts are always worth it).

As the fifth of five people… How did you know?

I hope the little guy got all fixed up.

Thanks, I hate it.

AI is the embodiment of “oh no, anyways”

Seems pessimistic.

What about the people who can’t afford to live and need to steal to eat? Those downtrodden because some rich CEO asshole decided to try to replace them with AI, and they lost everything being unemployed and having the price of everything shoot through the roof for no goddamned reason?

What about those people?

I’m not saying that there aren’t people who steal to fund their addiction, but that’s not the only motivator.

We’re all humans.

This is my viewpoint too.

If I’m a witness to shoplifting, I’m not a witness to shoplifting.

Unless you’re a kleptomaniac, you’re probably not stealing because you want to. You’re stealing because you have to.

Corporations have insurance, and they’re not people; so if they lose some money in the transaction, I am unbothered.

I hear you, but 5% seems high for that.

Wayyyyyy more than that is wasted.

If you got into the country, what’s to stop ICE from picking you up and sending you to a prison in another country?

I think that’s a positive. Americans, in the absence of law enforcement, will fight to defend themselves and their property (and vicariously, the property of others).

Stopping thievery, is, unto itself, a just cause.

I live in Canada, there’s surprisingly little pickpocketing here too, and we don’t have the same gun/weapon laws.

Like the Americans, we’ll straight up beat you to a pulp if you try some shit, and we’re very sorry about that… You motherfucker.

Hold up.

83% have a driver’s license but 88% have a car?

So 5% of Americans either have a car for the hell of it, or they drive without a license?

And there’s only 3% that are atheists? More people drive without a license than are atheists?

Excuse me?

If these numbers are correct, the US is more fucked than I thought.

My guess is hand/got holds for climbing up the cliff face. Basically an outdoor ladder.

I might be wrong

Almost all of mine are lightbulbs, because RGB.

- Full time sysadmin and it support guy.

Long live gaben.

Honestly, I’m worried for what might happen if steam ever becomes dependent on how happy shareholders are with the amount of money they can squeeze from their users.

A lot of things on steam are not cheap, but the platform itself is really really good.

Keep it up chaps.

Listen. Apple has a vested interest in you buying a new device. They “fix” your phone, it’ll be… What? Maybe $100? … They sell you a phone and it’s like 10x that.

Most people have so little fucks to give and so little free time to fuck around and find out, that they just shrug and go with it. Apple knows this. If they “can’t” (won’t) fix it, then it must not be able to be fixed anymore; the thoughts of a typical normie Apple user with more money than sense (or shits to give).

This is why Apple is a trillion dollar company. They treat their customers like ATMs. Just keep beating that horse until it stops making money.

If everyone simply replaced the batteries on their phones, not using Apple’s service (even when they’re willing to do the work), then they probably wouldn’t be worth a trillion dollars.

Since there’s enough NPCs out there giving them money to replace perfectly good devices with dead batteries, it will never change.

When you “trade in” your perfectly working phone for a new one, Apple suddenly absolutely can replace the battery, and they do, and then they sell your “unfixable” phone to the next schmuck, and make even more money.

I feel like this shit is so obvious that anyone who buys into the line “can’t be fixed” from Apple (or any other vendor), is insane, or mentally incapable of making rational decisions.

I fully accept that if I send my phone for service from the first party (in my case, Google), and they say it “can’t” be done, that’s not a hard no to fixing my stuff; that’s them refusing to serve me. I need to go somewhere else because I’ve been abandoned by the very people I put my trust into when I bought a device.