Tar_Alcaran

You’re not going to enjoy that competition though…

Ohhhh, you’re the mysterium zxqwasball champion?

I don’t have a food-only budget, but our “supermarket + food” spending for 2 humans and 2 cats last year was ~280 euros per month. That includes takeout/delivery but not restaurants, cleaning materials, catfood (but not the vet), alcohol, snacks.

This is truly, truly the stupidest timeline.

All cats look like that

Has it got what plants crave?

Except this is just “some canvas effects” on a picture. It’s not remotely how a real painting in canvas looks

Of course it is?!

So, for someone who isn’t American… What?

That’s a very good point

Probably by image searching it, and finding the r/whatisthisthing post where both this pic and the joke are from.

You underestimate the level of “Fuck you got mine” in most cousin fuckers

I feel a great AWWOOOOOWOOOOwooooWWWWOOOO in the near future.

And this is exactly why I have SO much closeted caulk, just standing there, getting hard without ever getting released.

Age helps. Our cats took 3 years before they could lay down within slapping distance of eachother, and another 2 before they could actually cuddle up.

I wanted to design bridges and/or so something with history. So I went to school, took one year of civil engineering and realized that the last on earth I wanted to do was design bridges.

Switched to chemistry, got a PhD, realized the second-to-last thing I wanted to do was academia, followed closely by lab work.

Unfortunately I finished right in the middle of the housing crash, so I did QA for a factory for a bit (which combined a little policy stuff with a lot of labwork). Then went back to civil engineering, aiming for something chemistry ike asphalt or concrete.

That didn’t really work out, but I did end up being vastly overqualified for my job there. Rolled into safety and compliance by virtue of being the least unqualified person there. They paid for another college level degree during office hours, and then fired me after restructuring (thanks for the free degree guys!) so now I’m self-employed in safety and compliance, I do audits and help people and the environment stay safe and clean.

I do historical reenactment as a hobby, because history is cool!

Nooooo, do you really think we’ll need a computer to run it? You don’t say, and I thought we’d just use one of the big 1920s lever boards with lots of Frankenstein style switches and big manual valves and just work really really fast.

It’s hilarious that you’re phrasing as if the software is the problem, and the gigantic, multi billion dollar facility that is required to do it.

That’s not even a joke.

The most pessimistic cost for ITER, the first real fusion reactor, is 65 billion dollars in total.

In the last two years, we (people) have spent over 600 billion dollars on LLM shit. Mostly datacenters and GPUs.

I just realized I’m an adult too. Hmmmmm

I don’t recommend investing to anyone, because this is absolutely bound to happen. I just say “Hey, I invest via [broker], and mostly in broad ETFs”.

If they want advice, I’ll tell them anything except for names, because the minute I do, they’ll buy, the price will drop and they’ll sell and get angry at me.