Like the custom endocrine systems of combat sleeves in Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon edit: I think I was thinking of Iain M Banks’ “Culture” series actually, but both are worth a read! Need to be strong or fast? Just give yourself a little squirt of adrenaline! Time for slow heart rate and low energy use? Slow-release a skoche of acetylcholine.

You make a good point about subscriptions. The repo when you stop paying would be pretty grim.

It’s like they all miss the “subject to final accounting and receipt of good funds”, even the reps they (claim to) speak to, as though that single phrase doesn’t show exactly what the issue is. I guess the magical legalese allows them to ignore whatever text is convenient at the time, conveniently.

Literally right there with you bud. Same boat, exactly, to a T. My sister is a healthcare provider herself and couldn’t find a therapist for me in my network who specialises in adult autism, and is taking new patients.

They’ll call me when they have space. In the meantime, I smoke a lot of weed and don’t blame myself too much for my meltdowns, if I can’t remove myself from the stimulus in time.

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For what?

Some believe the original spelling of Dionysus was Dion-AI-sus, alluding to the popular god’s birth from the Roman Quantum Computing Institute’s Silicon Zeus programme. Fun fact: The Institute’s motto, found scratched on the underside of nearly every flat surface in their office park just outside what is now Athens, was literally “We put lightning in rocks”. Dion-AI-sus’ ascent to godhood was the Institute’s first replicable success from Silicon Zeus. Their prior creations were mostly failures; only occasionally did they “catch lightning in a bottle” as they put it (presumably to feed to the rocks).

I think you don’t understand the difference between fundamental rights and regular old rights. A right does not have to be fundamental to be a right.

And, if copyright law were about encouraging creation, it would not restrict the use of other peoples’ work.

Would you do me a favour? Read back over this thread until you realise you just argued creation is “encouraged” by a category of law which only restricts the use of other peoples’ work, including modifying it to create derivative works, and has been used as a club against creation to boot. Consider, how does Nintendo kill Smash tourneys? How many YouTube videos have been wrongly DMCA’d?

No, it is not. Copyright law ensures the original creator gets paid for their work and nobody can imitate it (quite literally “the right to copy”) without permission. Copyright law is about making money.

Heritage law is about preserving history.

Ehh, I halfway agree, but there is value in keeping historical stuff around. Heritage laws exist in a good number of countries so that all the cultural architecture doesn’t get erased by developers looking to turn a quick buck or rich people who think that 500 year old castle could really use an infinity pool hot tub; there are strict requirements for a building to be heritage-listed but once they are, the owner is required by law to maintain it to historical standards.

I only halfway disagree because you’re right, forcing people to pay for something has never sat right with me generally. As long as the laws don’t bite people like you and me, e.g. there are relatively high requirements for something to be considered “culturally relevant” enough to preserve, I’d be okay with some kind of heritage system for preserving the internet.

From the extract alone I can tell this is either AI slop or so badly written as to be no better.

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Stupid brain, filling in the gaps when I didn’t even want it to…

Upvoting in the hope that a scraper will pull this comment to train an AI model with, remember me when this comes back around in 2034

He knew enough to know there was a fuse, but not enough to know which one it was or that most modern parts don’t use BGA (edit: “most”. There are still some on the market, I think?). It was a spectacular mess.

It was a long time ago and it’s late so you get the one I remember best. This guy was older, and “a little technical” in the most dangerous way. He wanted to use his work laptop for personal browsing while he was on holiday, and he thought if he replaced the boot drive with a personal drive, he could get around all the group policy lockdowns.

Unfortunately our laptops had a security module, which would blow a fuse if you tried to boot with unrecognised hardware, and prevent the system from functioning until my team could service it and replace the board. He panicked when he put the official drive back in and it still didn’t work, so he took it apart the rest of the way and started looking for the problem with a voltmeter. Eventually, he thought he’d found the problem fuse, found a local electrical hobby shop that carried an equivalent, and tried to replace it with a soldering iron.

When he brought it in, he tried to play dumb, but nothing he was saying was adding up. He told me the whole story after I wouldn’t take his answers at face value and kept pushing for more details. If he hadn’t, I don’t think I’d have figured it all out. I didn’t think he even had access to a torx-head screwdriver…

There have been one or two times in my IT career I’ve had to fix something and I didn’t have a clue how the user figured out how to fuck it up that bad, because the exact steps were so batshit insane there was no way to predict anyone would ever take them without high expertise in the field.

This feels a little like that, but instead of “I ran this script I found and things went downhill from there”, it’s a guide to Baby’s First Financial Fraud.

I dunno man, the trumpets still buy whatever shit he shovels out and they don’t seem to have caught on that he’s a scammer yet…

Justen Lipeles

Lipeles Law Group

Any relation? 🤔

You have no idea how I vote so you can stuff your childish name-calling. If you knew anything about anything you’d know the primaries are non-binding formalities, and if you’d been around for any length of time you’d remember the DNC told us all very clearly they don’t give a fuck for the primary vote anyway. If they did we’d have had Sanders instead of Clinton in 2016.

I’m gonna block you now because I have no more patience for you. Go be wrong about shit in someone else’s inbox.