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The dulcet tones of my dog headbutting my office door while I'm trying to work ...

Cryptographers and certificate people freaking out about PKI

Me, a senior security engineer: nods sagely, pretending to understand a word they're saying yup, that sure sounds bad ... So ... Umm

The desire to acquire more coffee mugs, but the mug shelf is already full, and you can't bring yourself to let any of the existing ones go.

The eternal confusion when you follow too many transfems whether FFS is being used to say "For Fucks Sake" or "Facial Feminization Surgery".

Pumping myself with hormones, taking antibiotics and using antibiotic soap, using bug spray - I guess I can't label myself as organic food to the cannibals anymore.

Bring back the Rent Is Too Damn High party. I think that platform has the juice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_Is_Too_Damn_High_Party

I wish Mastodon had a convenient way to mute a conversation thread that you've not participated in. Like it's perfectly fine that people I follow are having long conversations in another language, but I can't read it and it doesn't look interesting or relevant, so it'd be nice to just mute the thread.

There's something satisfying about seeing a job posting that a recruiter reached out to you about 3 months ago and turned down continuing to be reposted on LinkedIn. By now I'm convinced they're just a ghost job after all, because there's more than enough desperate people who will apply to anything.

The ultra wealthy could literally use custom high end designer dresses as toilet paper, and it'd still cost them less than the cheapest sandpaper 1 ply does to you.

Here's this whole garage of supercars.

Yeah, for them, that's like ... $10

Bring back "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"

Except every time they show off some other enormously expensive thing, show what it costs, and then show what it would cost for a person of say, 80th percentile net worth.

I.e.
50 room mansion on a private beach in the Caribbean: $200M
Percentage of their (known) net worth: 0.1%
For a person with a net worth of 100k, that house would cost $100

The last couple times in a row, I've lost the battle. I might have to passively aggressively poke her to do it next time.

There should be a term for that "oh crap the cleaning people are coming, we need to put stuff away and hide it so they don't move it somewhere we can't find it ever again!"

My partner and I each do our laundry separately.

But that also always means there's a quiet battle of "who gets annoyed at the dirty pile of sheets and towels and washes those first".

Hell, I could probably manage with a 1u. I'd just need some higher density disks if I wanted to also use it as a backup server.

I wish colo fees weren't so damn expensive. It'd be nice to have an old 2U server that I could leave online all the time that had a reliable IP address.

Obviously AI isn't alive and doesn't deserve human rights or politeness or whatever else.

But as part of "AI psychosis", many people do end up personifying AI agents, having romantic feelings about them, entrusting them with deep secrets, and so on.

Which then makes it disturbing when people treat agents as slaves, or "torture" them or otherwise treat agents in "abusive" ways. Especially as far too many people see women and minorities as "less than human".

Abusing an AI isn't actually hurting something that's alive and has feelings. But it does say something about the person who is doing the abuse.

Oh wait, that's right, I gave my bottom surgery surgeon permission to post my surgery results on their website. So yeah there's probably a picture of my vagina out there somewhere. Hunh.

Have you ever posted a naked picture/video of yourself on the internet?
(Face obscured or not)
(Large group - you don't know most of the people in the group/small group - you know most of the people in the group)

If I, a highly intelligent, extremely technical, very aware of AI, and very capable at navigating bureaucratic bullshit person can't get my issue resolved because of an impossible to navigate AI bot that refuses to let you talk to a human no matter how hard you try, below average IQ and skills people have no fucking hope. And below average means FIFTY PERCENT OF PEOPLE! What the fuck are companies doing when over half of their customers can't even get their issues resolved no matter how hard they try? I hope "disruptive entrants to the market" start showing up and bragging about "talk to an actual human" level support. Even if it comes at a price premium.

I wish to goddess that somehow someone could make a "this is the right cocktail of brain meds for you" test. (And no, not that genetic testing one - it's a fuckin scam)

Boomer politicians, fuckin retire already.

I don't think there's a single politician over 75 that I will be genuinely sad when they die besides MAYBE Bernie (though he's been having worse and worse takes recently too).

Almost every time a peaceful protest becomes a "riot", the riot was started by the cops.

Okay, signed another year lease for this place, maybe I'll finally get around to hanging some pictures and posters on the wall ... (We have been here for 2 years already and not a single one is on the walls yet...)