VitoRobles

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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago

I've been spending the past hour before bed just going hard on my writing. I like writing fiction for fun, but I also like spending time writing backstory/world building that I'll never use. So I do that part right before I fall asleep.

Last night, I fell asleep to writing how my alien race uses food utensils. It's pretty boring in general for me, but it helps my brain get to a happy spot for dreams.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 6 points 10 hours ago

The photos of trash all over the street, melting in the hot summer? That's how you do it.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 0 points 17 hours ago

Sorry - I'm too old to understand. Is the controversy good or bad?

Like, how South Park would actively mock religions because they knew the news would give them more exposure?

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 19 points 17 hours ago

I hated working in startups and I'd get so many wackos pitching their bazillion dollar ideas to create the next Facebook.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

It's crazy how many cool local arcades exist on the West Coast of the US.

I lived in the East Coast and they're all shitty chains like Dave and Busters, selling you $20 microwaved chicken wings and watered down beer, while charging you $3.42 in D&B Fake bucks to play Mortal Kombat 3.

While West Coast, you spend $10 to play hundreds of SNES games and they give you a bowl of Fruit loops and milk so you can relieve your childhood.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but before, we could eat BBQ and blow off fireworks and pretend like America is going to fix itself.

Literally nobody I know is doing a cook out.

We have some scheduled on July 12th.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 9 points 23 hours ago

A cyber truck parked in my area. Out steps a 50yo woman. I live near an organic spa treatment place.

All I did was give her a wtf face when she exited. And she rushed back to her vehicle when I saw her again an hour later.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 points 23 hours ago

The neighbor who had a massive Trump sticker on his car no longer has that sticker.

There was a RV camp on my way to work that has multiple Trump flags. It's gone now.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Like the McRib and chlamydia, we're back baby!

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

2017 - this has to be satire

2018 - oh wow, I didn't know that was a thing

2019 - oh wtf nobody's going to stop him?

2020 - Oh cool, pandemic. He wants to inject bleach and horse juice. Cool cool cool.

2021 to 2024 - the great unfucking

2025 - haha we're so fucked

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago

Mate, going to say this honestly and directly.

You loved the idea of her in your head. And that idea took over.

She didn't share the same feelings and now you're running off emotions, rather than logic.

Spend a week recovering, then move on.

 
 

I work downtown. I personally take the bus to work and walk.

While getting feedback from our paid intern's experience, one complained about having to pay for parking.

Because I naturally always support the interns, I pushed for that perk. Why shouldn't they get all the help they need? They're young, they have a busy life and they're trying their best.

But my coworker (who drives) said, "Theres street parking and they are complaining they have to walk 14 minutes over."

Now my internal "Fuck Cars" position is battling with my "Give the Interns everything".

I'm not the deciding factor. Just wanted to share this.

 

John Schwarz, the 57-year-old founder of The People's Union USA, is calling on Americans to boycott Amazon and its companies, including Zappos, Ring, Whole Foods, Twitch and Prime Video, for one week.

 

Summary

Alan Filion, an 18-year-old from California, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for orchestrating 375 swatting incidents between August 2022 and January 2024. Operating under various aliases, Filion charged clients for making false emergency calls that prompted significant police responses. His hoaxes included threats of school shootings and bombings, targeting institutions across the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Despite being questioned by the FBI in July 2023, he continued his activities until his arrest in January 2024, where he pled guilty to multiple charges.

 

A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.

The updates, shown in Github commits, are to a database for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Head Start program. They show a project called “Remove-DEI,” which reveal some of the back-and-forth that is happening behind the scenes to align federal agencies with Donald Trump’s executive orders that forbid almost anything having to do with race or gender within federal agencies. The Github pages show software engineers discussing amongst themselves how to best remove all instances of “forbidden words” from a specific database, and the code updates they used to do it. The changes also show that, while thousands of government datasets are disappearing from the internet, even ones that remain are having parts of their utility deprecated or broken in a way that may not be visible to those outside the government.

 
 

The new phenomenon involves Gen Z employees accepting job offers but not showing up on their first day without informing their employers.

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