I want to believe in it because the thought of hell or oblivion fucking existentially terrifies me. I like being a human. Or at least a sentient self aware creature.

But I don’t know what to believe because I don’t know the truth. :(

finally beating a really tricky level/boss in a video game (but not so tough that by the time you beat it you’re just over it)

usually because I wrote the note before unsticking it from the pad, realize I wrote it upside down (or sideways), and I’m not gonna be arsed to rewrite it

INDOOR PLUMBING

looking into it, seems like you’re actually right. looks like it runs best with a solid GPU. there may be other distributed computing projects better suited for abundant RAM.

seems like the last update was 23 Jan 2025

apparently enjoying hot water is common in east Asia

the folk explanation is that it’s a holdover from when water always needed to be boiled before drinking to kill microbes

the west (mainly Europe) didn’t get that message and decided to purify water by making nearly all of it into beer, which explains a lot lol

Fold At Home!

https://foldingathome.org/

You can essentially donate your processing power to various science projects that need it to compute protein folding simulations. I used to run it whenever I wasn’t actively using my PC. This does cost electricity and increase rate of wear and tear on the device, as with any sustained high computational load. But it’s cool! :]

me who uses Debian at home but SUSE at work: why is the work computer cooler? :[

(tbf the work computer is objectively cooler because it controls a really sciencey machine but still)

I personally beg to differ

Only 20 minutes!? You’re a great internet detective! Thanks so much! Bummer that it’s not some old obscure movie I can watch, but at least now it won’t bug me that I never found out

this was wonderfully written!

no luck using TinEye and Google Images reverse search

sauce? looks like a cool goth movie

Yeah I miss when not every company was just “qUaRteRlY iNcReAsEs OvEr aLL eLsE” and it wasn’t rare for a business to care about safety, quality, the law, etc.

the company I work at has vestiges of safety programs but repeatedly denies my requests for very simple safety controls from not blocking the fire alarm and exits with inventory, to an oxygen monitor in a room full of compressed gas tanks (some of which are hydrogen. fun!)

yeah i gotta get the fuck outta here.

Yup. Just like every other place I’ve ever worked. Can’t see past quarterly profit increases until everything inevitably crashes and burns

That’s what workplace investigations are supposed to be, yes. My workplace unfortunately seems more preoccupied with assigning blame to operators and writing increasingly complex rule changes that wouldn’t be necessary if they spent, let me see, literally more than $0 on upgrading our tech…