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Meanwhile in Scotland we are testing out national 4 day work weeks, lol

Hayame_Zero posted...

My headcanon is that it's trying to mock TikTok news and AI algorithms because that was too much of a bizarre mess to be unintentional from them.

Sadly, that is every video on the channel now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF6ieC_XkG0

This is what their content is like now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FPpwIzEaiM&

Were they bought out, lose their budget? This is like comedy written between a zoomer and chatgpt.

Or maybe reality just got too ridiculous for them to be relevant anymore

Revelation34 posted...

The act of going on a date is physical by definition.

The guy wants her to go to his hotel room and watch in person.

Revelation34 posted...

This isn't an escort. Escorts go on dates with the person and is physical.

I don't really see what you're getting at other than being incredibly pedantic. If someone offers you money in return to satisfy a sexual fantasy, you'd be considered an escort under most definitions, even legal ones.

Escorts often don't do anything physical at all, for that matter.

Sadly Rowling and co have convinced a considerable amount of people that trans people are just men dressing up as women for the primary purpose of raping people. It's a fucking wild timeline we live in.

Even taking aside the sheer transphobia of it, the hilarity of worrying about your sexual dignity in hospital seems so removed from what hospitals are actually like. You're butt naked a lot of the time, nurses of any gender are examing and wiping your bits, you're soiling yourself, you're pissing your pants, you're struggling to so much as walk without someone helping you...

but yes let's focus on the big issues, facepalm.

Revelation34 posted...

Escorts typically have sex too.

How are we defining sex? This guy probably gets way more out of someone watching him masturbate than just fucking someone. Sometimes people have kinks that have nothing to do with PIV intercourse.

PMarth2002 posted...

Did she take the offer or turn it down?

She didn't elaborate so I'm guessing she's seriously considering it but doesn't want people to know, lol

Revelation34 posted...

I don't care how much money they have. They are still idiots.

If you sift through your spending, are you smart about everything? Like do you sometimes get a coffee from a bougie little coffee place instead of make your own, or sometimes buy a game you probably aren't going to play?

For some levels of wealth, that is literally what it would feel like to get an escort.

GranAures posted...

Was this the child that now has nothing to do with him?

Or another one?

Not elon musk, on of his fanboys.

Yeah, that's how elon musk brain melt works. Endangering your children to win Internet arguments.

Revelation34 posted...

Nah it's more because guys like they are idiots. Same reason why anybody who subscribes to a non nude OF is a moron.

I don't think it's that tbh.

I mean yes, it's objectively not a sound investment, if your criteria is "what kind of sex you can get for 1k".

But I think if you are fuck-off wealthy then stuff like this is just a kind of power play. It's a trifling amount of money to you and you have a specific kink, so you have the power to get hot women involved to indulge it. Like that tech tycoon who pays for women to dance in his estate or whatever.

Or maybe he is just an idiot.

are you ok bro

I was about to say something and then I remembered the new rules

It makes me wonder, what do the instagram thots get offered?

Like this girl I know is really super hot, but she's not super famous or anything. She doesn't have 3 million followers on instagram.

I wanna know what like, sunnyray or whoever gets offered for money.

Remember when that tech bro put his literal flesh and blood child in front of his moving tesla to prove that the system works?

"Hey sweetie, so daddy hedged all of his investments into tesla stock and now I need you to stand in front of my 4000lb truck while it drives at you at 40mph so that I can show the internet that beta testing is going really well and they're all idiots"

Like you could go to sleep in your car and it would drive you across the country? lol

And no, red tape is not the problem. Tesla cars will try to run people over if you let them drive for more than like, 3 minutes

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

this is how you know it's a fake story

Or that I don't want to divulge any details about the person involved in this, duh

It's a real story. I saw the fetlife messages. This girl is like a 12/10 hot, so it's not surprising.

A friend of mine was just offered 1k to watch a man masturbate. Literally just that. He was very explicit about her not being physically involved at all.

This isn't news or anything but it got me thinking. If the tables were turned and women paid lots of money just for me to exist, I would be the world's biggest whore.

Humane pin: garbage
Rabbit R1: garbage
ChatGPT: I mean it was alright but somehow it's getting worse and it's still just a web app

All these things are weird gadgets that are supposed to assist your life in some way but they are just shitty chatbots that kinda sorta get questions right if you ask them (but you still need to check to be sure).

At some point, Google or Apple or Amazon is going to release some AI product that will actually do the thing that these products promise to do and make phones a thing of the past.

Hayame_Zero posted...

The reactor at the beginning? How have you been there for 7 hours?

Nah I passed that. Currently in another reactor or giant plant or something after the train sequence

Ok, slight fib. I played like the first 30 minutes of the original.

That's why I feel somewhat qualified to say, holy shit are they milking this. I've put in like 7 hours so far and nothing of importance has happened. There's not even really a villain yet. We've not left the factory. I'm pretty sure this was the original 30 minutes of gameplay I played on the original game.

Looks fucking sick though, and that soundtrack and that combat *chefs kiss*

I think the people who say this have never been near a foxhole and likely have romantic power fantasies about guns and war.

AceMos posted...

thats the intent

UnsteadyOwl posted...

When you do this to someone who's already going to have a difficult time getting a job because of their criminal record you're just locking people into cycles of poverty and debt that are extremely hard to get out of even if they're trying to do everything right. Which I suspect is the point.

I honestly think you guys are giving republicans too much credit. Cynically locking people into poverty and debt is far too elaborate a plan.

No, I think the simple motivation is "criminals are scum, let's punish them and make them PAY". It's literally just that, with no further thought about the consequences or harm that causes.

If you gave me a 6 figure bill just for existing the first thing I'm doing is turning to crime.

Euripides posted...

I am following. There are several shows like this (Arrested Development, for example, which is amazing).

I'm not "offended" by the show. If I was, I would've stopped watching after the first episode.

One can enjoy a show and still recognize a few "ehhhhh" moments in it.

What's REALLY funny is the number of people in this thread tripping over each other to hand wave those moments

Ah, fair. I think people are just protective of TV like this, because its amazing.

Euripides posted...

Multiple jokes about how she's a...

I'm not sure you're following so let me help you: every character in that show is an absolutely awful person, that is the entire bit. The joke isn't the stuff they say, they are the joke. It's a joke that they think and do that stuff.

This is the the same way that Tropic Thunder's blackface worked. The joke was that that character was an unbelievable racist.

*idly checks a website to calculate what my finance/loan options might be in a couple years time*
HELLO SIR, HELLO, WE HEAR YOU WANT MONEY NOW WE'LL GIVE YOU MONEY NOW

fucking phone ringing off the hook every day for the last fortnight. Last time I put a real mobile on one of these sites

Tangentially related but honestly, you could not have convinced me that the alt-right would be coming out to bat for jewish people in 2024.

Or more specifically, they still hate jewish people but they LOVE israel and all its actions, somehow

My Google thinks I want to read an article on every non statement the man has made

Pow_Pow_Punishment posted...

The good thing is it's just 1 set of hell. I know of some routines like Deep Water that are a sustained effort of torment (10 sets of 10 reps), but once you've done the single squat set for that session, your other exercises almost come as a relief.

After the 20 reps, you're supposed to take a light weight (15-20 lbs) and lie down on the bench to do 20 pull-overs. It's an old school idea to further stretch out the ribcage after doing so from the deep breaths during the squat set (bodybuilders back in the day were big about working the "rib box"). Being able to lie down after those squats feels like a reprieve from death.

I get a weird enjoyment in learning about the "wisdom" of old school lifters. Like so much of it worked because those dudes were just hard as fuck, regardless of what their justifications were.

Yesterday I saw this clip of Kirk Karwoski putting an entire can of beer in his protein shake and the guy behind the camera confidently saying that it's better for you than milk. Motherfucker could squat 1000lbs for a double and really thought it was the beer. Incredible.

TheOtherMike posted...

I played FFX back in 02/03, and for various reasons didn't like it. I don't remember how far I got, but it was at least to the Blitzball tournament. I won the first game or the tournament or whatever and my friend was shocked. He didn't think you could win it.

This is unironically one of the hardest things to do in the entire game, significantly hindered by RNG mechanics. It's pretty impressive that you won it.

It's a really stupid way for them to introduce blitzball because it makes you want to never play it again, which is a bit of a shame because it's way easier later on and more fun.

The Sphere Grid still annoys me. I can see ability spheres are going to be a bottleneck. Anywhere I'll be able to farm these?

Yeah those become really easy to farm. You have 3 methods:
1) an attack skill that lets you hit an enemy and steal an ability sphere after winning the fight.
2) a weapon attribute you can customise onto a weapon - you get an ability sphere everytime you attack
3) a late game hack against a particular enemy that lets you pick up 99 in a single fight.

It's really only a concern very early on. You'll end up picking up plenty later on.

Other than that, I'm concerned about missables. I looked up a list and thankfully there don't seem to be many. I did get the staff from the Cloister of Trials before Yuna joined.

The main missables you want to be concerned about are the secret chests in each cloiser of trials. You can get them way later on but they are gatekeeped by some of the hardest post-game bosses in the game.

Pow_Pow_Punishment posted...

That's a huge part of it. It just teaches you a lot about effort, digging deep, etc. But aside from that, 20-rep squats are just a fantastic way to build leg mass and raise your squat up. I broke through a plateau using it.

I'm not one of those people who say you HAVE to do a certain something to see results, especially when it comes to the 3 powerlifts if you're not a powerlifter, but I highly recommend it as a program.

I like the sound of it. Gonna milk GZCLP for a while and once that starts drying up I'll run super squats at some point. I guess I actually enjoy how hard squats are...

Japanties posted...

My calves, hamstrings, and glutes have atrophied since the covid lockdown and working from home became my paradigm. Is it time for me to finally nut up and attempt Super Squats?

Are you saying you haven't been training at all for 4 years? If that's the case, maybe start with something a bit more low volume. I doubt you'd have the pre-requisite conditioning for it.

Or did you just mean you're still training but not getting in as much general activity

Btw Pow Pow, why do you say this?

Also, everyone should run the program Super Squats at least once in their life.

I'm assuming mostly as a kind of crucible/experience/rite of passage? I know I start to see stars at 12 reps for squats...

Pow_Pow_Punishment posted...

Great post, but then I saw your username and suddenly wasn't surprised.

That fuckarounditis article popped into my head...

Did they add the "fun" feature as an update yet?

Fitness AI...

I can potentially see some utlity for people who genuinely need to min-max their training variables. This is not 99% of people. There is a specific market out there of smart people who think that training is complex and that "optimal" routine or diet is a thing you can read. These people are forever changing from app to gadget to whatever new science-based marketing trend forever looking for something that will help them avoid genuine effort and consistent work.

I.e. fitness AI is a meme and will inevitably be picked up by the forever-weaks who think that the body is some code you can hack, rather than a long term project you need to build.

Imagine what NASA could achieve if its budget was more than 3% of the US military's budget.

s0nicfan posted...

That works great until you realize that most banks are going to give you something like a 0.1% interest rate on a savings account with only 10K in it. You could maybe get two or three percent if you locked it into a cd for a few years, but for the sake of your estimate it might be better to say that you put that 10K into an indexed fund on the stock market.

Things seem to work differently in America. Interest free savings accounts here are currently offering between 4.5% and 5.2% with a minimum of 500.

(topic 3 about how much I hate cars and how stupid they are to buy)

Andy is 20 years old and the the car he wants is 15k. He has 10k in the bank. He reasons that he can put down 10k as a deposit, get a 5k loan and still save around $800 per month while paying it back. He's 20 and lives at home, what does it matter if he spends all his savings on a car m i rite

- 10k down on car (cash)
- 5k loan at 10.0% interest, 5 year term
- 105 per month in car repayments
- $800~ a month in a 2% savings account.

After 5 years:
+ car worth about 5k trade in value (- $1300 in loan interest paid over that time)
+ $50k in his bank

Alternatively, Andy doesn't buy the car. He puts that $10k in savings instead.

- 10k into a 5.19% interest-free savings account
- saves 900 a month into same savings account

After 5 years
+ 74k in his bank

$25k difference. Now if he still wanted that car, he could buy for cash and still have $14k leftover.

Or he just does the same again for another 5 years. Now he has $160k to play with.

Topic is based on the dubious premise of steady high interest rates and never needing a car, to keep things simple

There's me looking up game reviews for games from a couple of years ago to see if they're worth picking up, and the comments on the video are like "man I'm so nostalgic about this game, played it all through middle school"

wtf

I haven't played it but I did play Divinity Original Sin 2. That game had a pretty ironic problem of being insanely customisable and giving you so many ways to play it, and yet so brutally difficult that you were somewhat pidgeonholed into certain party builds and strategies.

I've done all three in my life:

1. Miner in australia, earning a 6 figure salary with all travel, expenses and accommodation paid for. Working 12 hour days, 7 days a week, shifting bags of cement in the australian desert
2. Campaign manager for a marketing start up, managing 50+ campaigns across 30 client accounts, basically stealing customer money and dealing with their phone calls every day. 60+ hours of mental hell
3. Current job - software consultant for a software dev company. Cruisiest job I've ever had. 38 hours a week, always leave on time, 1 hour for lunch, virtually no KPIs, management is very easy going. About half the paycheck of the first two.

If I could go back to my early 20s I would work the first job again and this time be really sensible with my money. If I was financially literate back then I could be set for life now. I don't think I could do that job now, too physically taxing and not stimulating enough.

I would never take the second job again. Worst job I've ever had. Paid decently and I got to live in the city, but the anxiety was overwhelming every day.

My current job is pretty good. pay could obviously be better, but I never feel stressed about going to work and that is invaluable.

It's kind of wild noticing how people have changed over time.

Do you mean as the interviewer or interviewee?