WFH, desk job, multiple monitors, remain sitting at the desk after work because fuck outside.

THERE’S A DONUT SHORTAGE IN INDIANA??!

I’ll airlift some in, you can price gouge them, we’ll split the profits.

I’m sure that by “outsiders” you mean “people who go outside,” and I agree.

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

Because you clearly do not know what that term means.

I am right now sitting on a Steelcase Series 1, and while it doesn’t have great lumbar support, it is far better than any shitty $150 “gaming” chair, and is right in your price range brand new.

Tangent story, I was in Manitowoc, WI, on a motorcycle trip. In WWII, they built submarines there, and they have a US submarine at a museum on the lake.

You might remember Manitowoc as being the area where Making A Murderer happened. Turns out that series only gives a light impression of the local accent there. The tour guide for that submarine sounded like he was speaking a completely different language from English.

Why have I never seen this before?

Ellen Pao.

That’s so reddit.

ACAB … including Sting.

This is especially true if a simulated universe is indistinguishable from base reality - so perfect in all its aspects that it is identical.

You can also get into the fact that we do not and can not objectively experience reality, simulated or not. Our experience and perception is based on the senses we have, which are inaccurate, and the brain that interprets the inputs, which makes shit up and is wrong all the time. Yes, we can use tools and measurements to enhance our perception and make it more accurate as far as understanding is concerned, but we actually each live in a universe manufactured by our own mind.

I don’t find the distinction particularly useful. We seek to understand more accurately how our universe works, with disregard to whether it is direct reality or simulated reality. The increased accuracy that we discover may result in our knowing whether we are in a simulation, or it may not.

Either way, something is base reality, whether it is our universe as we observe and experience it, or some number of simulated levels “below” it. Our own state as simulated or real doesn’t change that. There is isness.

And it’s really kind of not.

Bring a second bike along with you, and lock it with a $10 combination lock chain.

I was so confused for a moment.

While that’s not strictly a Guy Fawkes mask, holy shit does the non-blurred version get even stupider. It’s like the people who picked the image for the story thought, “Even we can’t put up something that stupid.”

I haven’t even gotten to the text of the story, because I was stopped in my tracks by the stupidest stock photo I have ever seen, wherein someone in full riot gear with an ultra-modern machine pistol is prepared to shoot someone at point blank range, when they’re already in handcuffs, which are, inexplicably, in front and not behind. And how cold is it in that basement that you’d be working while wearing a hoodie (with the hood up, of course) and a jacket zipped up over it?

Huh, kbin.social ate it then.

Edit: I’m seeing it there as “deleted by creator.”

I mean, it was a Black Lives Mystery march.

The protests, one of several in recent years meant to “protect” the National Electoral Institute (INE), come after Lopez Obrador sent a sweeping package of constitutional reforms to Congress, which would include an overhaul of the INE.

Yeah, they really should.

Edit: This was initially a response to someone else’s comment calling my “medial [sic] literacy” into question. That comment appears to have been deleted, and I’m not sure why this response became a top-level comment, but I’m leaving it.