worst-case scenario engineer

Pinned thread for my attempts at "EnergySky protection class" - I'll be going through various protection topics and relay types as I think of them, for anyone who's interested in knowing about one of the grid's lesser-discussed features. Hope it helps!

this man is a gotdamned patriot

"Donald Trump Is Newly Accused of Rape – and Epstein Allegedly Helped 👀" The president faces horrific new sexual assault claims linked to the old friend he just can’t escape. Plus: a new national poll of Arab Americans shows Democrats slowly winning back their support. First Draft from Zeteo:

I've never had this thought but I'm... *cough* Happy? *wheeze* For Ohio

wait this goes hard as fuck

no amnesty

if you think the candidate did the right tactical move being transphobic why are you worried

This is driving me insane. Why would you get a magnetic AI assistant thing for your phone. You guys keep trying to reinvent the phone because you don't control the phone. Loser shit! Embarrassing! How much did they pay for this?

Lula Goes HARD

Omg no, he was so young. Damn. He was such a talented voice actor. It’s on the mind because I literally just watched it yesterday, but he got asked to do the taken monologue as porky pig and its a masterpiece

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

This story is completely insane, I can't even imagine going through this without snapping

You have to look at where the votes are coming in from at this point - I think they are from somewhere in South America

When Democrats do well this fall, we’re going to see a lot of “strategists” trying to take credit for their approach. The trans panic people have been nothing but a drag on Democratic momentum and they need to fuck off into the sun

Something I wish more people would realize.

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

i wrote about the GORP

Convening a focus group of 30 people who have no idea what's going on and no expertise on basically any topic and just turning them loose. "Fuck me up," I tell them. "Just give me all the dumbest stuff you've got."

"You won't debate me because you can't beat my IDEAS"—no, loser, I won't debate you because your ideas have been considered and rejected and no longer warrant debate, and the very act of engaging in debate frames you as better than you are and your failed ideas as worthy of anything but contempt.

no amnesty

feels a bit undercovered that these programs shift data center flexibility to residential customers for fractions of pennies on the dollar of the compute value hyperscalers are preserving

please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

"Every time I look at a screen, politicians and political operatives are showing a sickness of heart and mind that’s truly horrifying....I don’t think the 50-year relentless upward redistribution of wealth in America is doing the trick for Ohio families." bring back shame 🤝 class war

extremely urgent Bring Back Shame bat signal, special Buckeye edition apnews.com/article/elec...

I should perhaps have said, "Untroubled by social conscience or historical understanding, they cause disaster."

Ok I swear I saw someone on here have a good term for an idiot at work who uses copilot/Claude/GPT to sound smart, anyone know what I'm thinking of?

One thing you learn from reading the academic literature on parental estrangement is that it's rarely *just* about events from childhood. Most adults are willing to reconcile with their problematic parents as long as they can acknowledge their mistakes and own up to them. A lot of them refuse.

Precisely correct.

plugging second monitor in to home desktop: the weekend is upon us. good times are back forever plugging second monitor in to work laptop: the yoke of tyranny weighs heavily upon my cursed shoulders. the long dark midnight of the soul is here.

If "I did my best" as a cardiac surgeon and the patient died, the most important part of that sentence is that the patient died (not that "I did my best"). This is a post about people who go no-contact with their abusive parents.

new tingler 'NOT POUNDED BY THE SENTIENT TESLO FLYING CAR BECAUSE IT’S OBVIOUSLY FAKE BUT I’M SURE PEOPLE WHO THINK THE PIRATES AT THEME PARKS ARE REAL AND BIRTHDAY PARTY MAGICIANS ARE ACTUAL WIZARDS ARE PUMPED.' out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNHXRGJ2/ and patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...

Anyway, what was that you were saying about Tom Morello leaving his ballot blank in a safe blue state?

Much ink has been spilled about mansplaining, but another epidemic has been far less discussed: toddlersplaining Excuse me, but I'm gonna need you to check yourself, little girl. I am perfectly aware of where the sun goes at night

“I’ve already climbed all the way up the ladder. Why does the ladder still need to be there?”

these really demolished rokos basilisk for me personally, and a lot of other things