Yeah, it was definitely intended as humor an attempt at levity.

Followed shortly by ‘oh shit’ and ‘we dropped two weights’ then ‘guys, it’s getting kind of wet in here…’

Just kidding, mostly.

Serious question: how does a submarine know how much it weighs?

We were doing fine until the SuperCoral™ evolved the ability to breath air back in 2047… must’ve been some of that salamander DNA that we used. 

Clearly Predator porn.

Fair point. In my defense I hit a paywall and just kind of gave up, did a bit of assuming there 😅

Yeah, I wasn’t going to go and call that case-closed; industry tactics exposed, story at 11:00. It’s a theory and intentional or not (misspellings) I think there’s a definite possibility it’s working as described in some cases.

I like the SaaS theory too, ransomware clearly operates using exactly that model… unfortunately there’s been a few investigations and a lot of it is just the intersection of actual and economic slavery. I suspect there’s some of what you propose as well, why not, right? If we can dream it up somewhere somebody’s probably trying it. But I’d also wager that once you achieve any real proficiency at this kind of low level scam, there’s opportunity in organized computer crime, spearfishing and pretexting scams, operations with more sophisticated planning.

Never even occurred to me but it seems obvious now thst you’ve mentioned it.

The assassination attempt was a just a pretext to sell everyone a (check’s notes) Mercedes-Benz, micro mobility concept test vehicle No. 523… come back to me. I can do better 🤔 

Not a lawoligist, but I suspect they plan on pressing charges ;-)

I think my art books would have labeled it “mixed media” that’s a lot of color coordination, definitely hit up the supply closet ;-)

Technically also a wire sculpture ;-)

You can get it in a can, just gotta’ pour it off before you toss all the beans. Or get one of those big boba straws… pro tip: buy a few cans, there’s just not enough in one.

When you decide to donate to locks-for-love but realize to late it was your lucky ponytail.

You guys 🥹

Look the beans were great, but our own bender-hookers-and-blow meme. You shouldn’t have ☺️❤️❤️❤️

Since I was there…

That site’s got some next level paywall nonsense… got about halfway through the article in my Lemmy app, decided I wanted to share the link with someone, opened in Safari and it purposely replaces the content with some kind of automatic greek text.

It’s a shame, archive.org links tend to scare off old people…

I’m just going to go ahead and stir this pot since I love cats.

~2003 Vegan roommate rented a room at my warehouse in one of the shittier parts of Oakland. Neat guy, lot’s of esoteric hobbies, bare him no ill will.

Watch vegan roommate mix up grey goo with water and microwave. Ask what is goo?

Goo is vegan cat food for Soni-chan that roommate gets from wise internet-vegans. Goo contains all essential nutrients and vitamins for vegan cat.

I mumbled something about cats being obligate carnivores without really knowing what it means. Vegan roommate clearly loves Soni-chan and Soni-chan loves vegan roommate.

Fast forward 1 month.

I don’t see the cat much, it stays in his room. I tell him he’s free to let it roam around the warehouse. Vegan roommate says he’s worried that the cat will slip outside… this seems sensible, it’s a small warehouse with roll up doors and no real way to keep a cat from escaping.

Fast forward 2 more months.

I come home one day. Hear vegan roommate sobbing loudly in his room.

Wait a few minutes, because privacy. Knock on door.

Soni-chan has become sick and died.

I offer what comfort I can and leave vegan roommate to grieve. Vegan roommate and friend drive to Los Angeles to bury cat in mother’s back yard. I am very sad.

Vegan roommate returns and accuses other roommate of poisoning cat. Says cat was happy and healthy for years living at victorian house in San Francisco. Cat only started to get sick after moving to warehouse.

I asked vegan roommate if vegan cat was inside/outside cat in San Francisco? Vegan roommate says yes!

My conclusion. Vegan’s are fucking morons. Except for that one guy up there in the comments who loves his cat… oh, and all the other vegans who aren’t complete ass douches… now please go away. 

I was actually really impressed by the turn everything took down under. Lots of little details in addition to overt oddity.

That was delightful, thank you Preacher.

Also a sentence I was almost 100% guaranteed to never say…

Wow… I was kinda worried that the best was behind me after the 10 minutes of actual vintage B&W porn.