Lovable Sidekick, lovablesidekick@lemmy.world

Stupid metric system.

uuuuuhhhhhhh and they invented contractions even earlier!!1!

Common people sending or receiving telegrams was miniscule compared to the tens of millions of people who started texting when it became available. Being contrary is fine but not when it makes zero sense.

It does sound like a movie plot the public would believe, further adding to the myth that AI is “almost sentient”.

Tokyo demands the sharpest elbows of the three.

Since it’s a project not just a car, what kind of work are you planning to do on it?

Opposite - give me one nice large, exact number to glance at instantly instead of figuring out which numbers the orange line is closest to.

Same reason most new cars sold are black, white or gray on the outside. Dealers found that those are the colors most customers who come in looking for other colors will settle for if they get a good deal. Same with interiors.

Exactly - and which pants were you wearing?

Dr. Steve “Wrong-Way” Jenkins

I’m only saying this because I care - there are many decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing.

Oh I get it, Americans read left to right and Japanese read right to left.

Interesting variant of this - somebody tried swapping the reels of the movie Passengers - I think they moved the first reel toward the middle, so it starts when Jennifer Lawrence wakes up. At this point Chris Pratt is concealing that it was him who woke her up, and a lot of his behavior is very sketchy and sinister because you don’t see what led up to it. Then after she finds out and hates him you see reel 1 as a flashback, and it flips the whole tone of the story. After thinking about it I really wish the director had told the story that way.

Yeah, there’s a guy in the crosswalk, but are you happy with your hemorrhoid ointment?

And to think Al Franken resigned his senate seat after being photographed hovering his hands near a woman’s boobs. smh

Right, if your personal social justice hero and somebody who clicked Like on a tweet you found offensive say the exact same thing, I’m guessing you upvote your hero and douchevote the other person so you won’t be complicit in their evil. Congrats!

There’s an awesome linux tool called “fuck”. When you make a typo in a CLI command and get an error message, all you have to do is type “fuck” and it looks at your last command and the error message and takes a guess at fixing it. If it’s right all you have to do is hit Enter. Super useful!

You’re welcome! [also notice we both got douchevoted lol]

Exactly! If you offer even a hint of varying from locally accepted gospel, the teeming masses immediately click the down arrow to do their bit for social justice without bothering to read further. OP might have done better with something like, “In a system that’s undeniably evil, how do occasional good things slip through the cracks?”

There’s an early-60s stage play I was in once called Marat Sade, set in a mental asylum in 1808. The central theme is essentially that authority only exists because we let it. There are a lot more of us than there are of them. I think that show is ripe for a revival.

I see your post is being hammered deep into the ground, because at a superficial glance it appears to maybe challenge the local gospel that the system is evil - even though it doesn’t really do that. This sort of thing isn’t tolerated by people who react to the first word they see that raises their shields.

But to try to answer your actual question, I think the reason good things happen even in a bad system is the same as how brilliant ideas can emerge from a sea of ignorance. In the “rise of civilization” it hasn’t really been civilization that’s been rising - as in people generally getting smarter and doing things better. It’s more a process where a DaVinci shows up now and then and contributes brilliant ideas that get adopted by the group. Remarkable individuals show the way, and as long as adopting their idea doesn’t take much effort, the generally clueless public goes along with it.