gloom
Channel motto: Life is pain, only potato.
For sharing gloomy poasting, whining, abd complaining. The more apocalyptic or petty the better. It’s always darkest before it turns pitch black.
@rz
Any places where people are "remixing" or "recombining" ideas today? Or is that all over now?
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@patwater
It’s nontrivially worse than we thought
Doooooooooooom
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/climate/glosat-global-temperature-data
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@ic
Looking for a link to an old Celebrity deathmatch video featuring RAGTM, top links were reports of the death of Zach de la Rocha.
All the reports were hoaxes. Apparently same for many artists.
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@ic
Whether or not you want to pay for LLM services.
From GH mailing list: “introducing a new $0.002 per-minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage”
So we will have to pay for using our own compute. Sure part of it is GH software, but steep price at scale. Enshittification’s crawling for MS to pay OpenAI bills?
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@ic
When you start thinking that making the legal system free may well *reduce* the volume of procedures.
Suing parties are often lions with a sheepish coat. They believe that their superior resources will allow winning by exhaustion. And that happens more and more, even for big tickets like Paramount, medias who are supposed to inform. And getting scary on independent journalism crawling under law suits that drain their little means (when they win, they still have to pay their solicitors, etc)
But if the legal system is free---as in a complete public service, so tax pays for it---the incentive to aim at winning by exhaustion becomes way less appealing. Many would not sue anymore, as the risk to lose is way higher. Such a reset looks like really implementing a notion of equality.
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Perhaps gloomier for daily life is that this'd lead to less exciting TV shows.
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@grin
In a healthy social network, misfortune is less correlated. When one person struggles, others in the community support them.
But ‘round here it sure is gloomy for everyone when the markets down
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@ic
The last time I saw snow over the end of year festivities was in Die Hard 2.
Says a Caucasian living in a country where there has been snow between now and the last ice age, with a climate-change break apparently.
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@anurajenp
jensen eating korean chicken has lots of financial implications in the world
https://x.com/amritwt/status/1985071311895646500
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@ic
Slack just announced end of support next month for iOS 16, which is the max my trusted and in-perfect-shape iPhone 8 is allowed to run by its maker.
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@ic
Freaking depressing.
This screenshot is my ranking according to the car maker (Honda) on gas consumption for last month, compared with people with the same car model. Pretty bad while all I do is accompany children to school. I’ve never been ranked that low on anything, even in finance and economics.
Ranking can be a freaking bad UX. We should just show a top-10 or whatever. Now I just feel like a terrible polluter no billionaire can even imagine.
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@vgr
Xi: 72
Putin: 73
Netanyahu: 75
Modi: 75
Trump: 79
I don’t think we’ve seen such an elderly constellation of leaders at the helm of world affairs since WW1. Trump is barely even a boomer (cusp of Silent gen).
Too lazy to check but I suspect there is a strong correlation between elderly leadership and some sort of slow boil revanchist crisis unfolding.
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