I’d still have wires IF MY PHONE HAD A PLACE TO PLUG THEM IN.

Don’t think so… Found the HISHE video [here].(https://youtu.be/WG3_gnKSDh4)

Did see that scene in the video. Any other guesses?

This is it. I’ve never been able to learn a new programming language looking at tutorials. I always start with a problem (use case) and build from there. A basic knowledge of concepts like loops, conditionals, and passing/returning values in a function are the building blocks. Eventually you start to get tired of copy/pasting code so you find things like abstraction and inheritance. Then you’ll find ways to optimize or use someone’s library of premade functionality instead of starting from scratch.

And if you get really, really good you start writing things from scratch again in unique and highly optimized ways. Those are the really fun projects, imo, but not the ones that pay.

I created a satirical Employee Handbook that, among other things, mocked the entire management chain and codified some of the unwritten rules among employees.

It was a crappy retail job so no real loss.

Honestly, I think six is likely the right number for this to work. I don’t recall how many boys were in Lord of the Flies, but you get to 10-15 and you’re absolutely going to start forming factions. And a hierarchy. And with more opinions you get more disagreements, and you’re right back to Lord of the Flies.

Worst I’ve seen: Shithead

Pronounced: Shih-theed

Spelled: Shit head

I’m sorry I asked.

Example?

Be me, 16 yo., in basement bedroom chilling. Hear/feel a thud feels like the whole house just got picked up and dropped a few inches. Meet dad’s fiance who had been chilling in the den at the top of the stairs, confused. Eventually look outside through the darkness to see something strange in the front yard. Jump in the car, swing the headlights around to reveal a smoking wreck wrapped around a pine tree in the front yard. Rush out to find what remains of the driver gurgling his last attempts at breaths. Call 911, volunteer firefighters show up within minutes. Nothing to be done. Dude was paste from the inside out. Drunk driving, speeding, and didn’t make the curve.

As an aside, DOT shows up a few days later to trim all of our pine trees with branches at ground level to have no branches below about six feet. Presumably to make it easier the next time? Looked ridiculous.

But yeah, that gurgle was something else. Never heard anything like it before or since.

They’re ads for microphones. Any brand logo you can see clearly in-frame I assume is a paid product placement. Your favorite folksy, down to earth content creator just “keeping it real” has to make a living. And sponsorships and advertising is how it has been done since the start. Your favorite personality, at the end of the day, is an actor working for corporations.

Everyday on Lemmy I see someone’s eyes opened to what is really going on. Welcome. I hope it’s not too late.

Only a few sentences on Lemmy from one person’s pov but that rings loudly of a mental disorder that requires professional intervention. IANAD. But if my SO decided to sawzall a piece of our furniture on a whim my reaction would be, “You’re out of your fuckin’ mind.”

Easy Macius

That sounds completely logical to me. Did having a hunk of aluminum answer the question for you? Or did it only drive a more insatiable desire to hold elemental materials?

Six years later, at least I know how to weld now. Sort of.

The most important part of the Dunning Kruger curve! And welding is a fantastic example. You go from “this hot melty thing is scary” to “dang, I can make metal stick to itself!” to “that weld looks kinda professional” to “holy crap there’s a whole science and art to this I will never have the time to fully learn”.

Is your school bus now something usable? Would love to hear about a successful impulse buy!

Thinking about the whole “Antifa is a terror organization” announcement from our dear leader.

Next step: “It is un-American not to have Disney+ in your household. Only members of Antifa or trans people don’t have Disney+. It will be mandatory for every patriotic God loving US citizen to have Disney+ in their home and on at least three hours per week. Anyone found not to be watching the party approved level of Disney programming will be taxed $21.99 per month and the proceeds put into a new ‘Mickey Patriot Fund’.”

A-fucking-men

I am a good benchmark for this stuff. If I know what Labubu is because I had to find it on Urban Dictionary then it has run its course.

The other canary is NPR. Anything on NPR is a dead meme.

Here’s the thing… I want to be sold something. Not anything, but certain somethings. There was a brief time when Google AdSense was new that I was excited for the experience. (I now know how fucking stupid I was, but hey, I was young).

The idea that a new product aligned to my interests and designed with me in mind would be advertised to me instead of feminine hygiene products or mesothelioma lawsuit ads seemed awesome.

I do not want your bullshit hype machine alpha male inside club cool kid image peddled as the reason I should hand you my money. You’ve got the wrong guy. Tell me what it does with a side of what I can do with it. And the “what I can do with it” shouldn’t be “get laid”.