Random Rants 80: Computer Says No

[Takhisis]

Was it a pleasant surprise, aimee?

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I find myself in a ombination of hobbs' and TK's situations with some of Tak's own™ special ingredients into the mix. Not as bad as either, but…

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Was it a pleasant surprise, aimee?

Yes. My internet seems to be working good now.

 

[cardgame]

More first world rants -
I mentioned before that my apartment removed a bunch of EV chargers to install stupid short term rental cars. Today is the one time I actually need to use the cars to go buy boxes for packing and lo and behold, the stupid app crashes as soon as I launch it.

The air conditioner in my Bolt also stinks of mildew. My Spark had the same issue and I guess they have a common design that includes an s-curve or low point that doesn't drain properly and allows condensation to build up and get moldy. I've only had the car for less than two months and we regularly run the fan without the A/C on to dry out the system and it still developed the problem.

American car engineering

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Spoiler for large image :

And I have to add the top comment I saw under this post -
Don't forget that a single bout of illness can drive you to bankruptcy.


Moderator Action: Spoiler added. ~ Arakhor

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

And I have to add the top comment I saw under this post -
Don't forget that a single bout of illness can drive you to bankruptcy.

And then people blaming it on avocado toast.

I mean, really? Grilled cheese is much better.

 

[Zardnaar]

As some of you know I may be a bit blunt. Just a bit.

Anyway got into arguement with boss over a worksite where I don't like the guy who runs it due to health and safety reasons. Put simply people keep getting hurt and he is push push push while using the bare minimum of people. And the crap falls on my shoulders.

I haven't been in the best of moods for the last year or so. Was planning on leaving anyway to be fair.

I'll probably run out of money sometime next year at least without going into debt. On the plus side it's about the best time of year to get another job. Last time I was on welfare I was on it for a week, don't qualify this time round.

 

[sophie]

Capitalists gonna capitalist.

I'm sorry that happened, and I wish you great success in finding new employment.

 

[Zardnaar]

Communist revolution is starting to make sense

 

[Patine]

Communist revolution is starting to make sense

"Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!"
-Vladimir Ilych Lenin

 

[Zardnaar]

"Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!"
-Vladimir Ilych Lenin

Heh. I use a crying Lenin avatar elsewhere.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Lenin was an idiot.

 

[Zardnaar]

Lenin was an idiot.

Hence why my avatar is crying Lenin.

 

[Patine]

Lenin was an idiot.

He wasn't an "idiot." That's the wrong word. He was very well educated and more with it and cognisant of affairs than many modern Western politicians and leaders today, actually. He was just an idealist who was trying to institute a political and economic system that had never meaningfully been put into practice before anywhere in the world. Also, like many historical leaders who go into a position of power which ends up having few practical limits on their authority, starting with good and idealistic intentions - the type of leader who have come from numerous national, ethnic, religious, economic class, and ideological backgrounds - he ended committing atrocities and feeling they became more and more justified. And the Czars who he led a revolution against were probably and arguably the worst and most horrible monarchy in Europe at the cusp of WW1 - arguably even worse than the Ottoman Sultans at that time - they were absolutely horrid, and completely out-of-touch, apathetic, and even malignantly cruel with regards to vast majority of their people. And, we must remember, that he was succeeded, without any statement from him in his succession, by a man who was absolutely monstrous and probably had no such good intentions or idealism going into his tenure in power at all.

 

[sophie]

And, we must remember, that he was succeeded, without any statement from him in his succession, by a man who was absolutely monstrous and probably had no such good intentions or idealism going into his tenure in power at all.

I don't know if I would go quite that far. But otherwise, I would agree.

 

[Birdjaguar]

He wasn't an "idiot." That's the wrong word. He was very well educated and more with it and cognisant of affairs than many modern Western politicians and leaders today, actually. He was just an idealist who was trying to institute a political and economic system that had never meaningfully been put into practice before anywhere in the world. Also, like many historical leaders who go into a position of power which ends up having few practical limits on their authority, starting with good and idealistic intentions - the type of leader who have come from numerous national, ethnic, religious, economic class, and ideological backgrounds - he ended committing atrocities and feeling they became more and more justified. And the Czars who he led a revolution against were probably and arguably the worst and most horrible monarchy in Europe at the cusp of WW1 - arguably even worse than the Ottoman Sultans at that time - they were absolutely horrid, and completely out-of-touch, apathetic, and even malignantly cruel with regards to vast majority of their people. And, we must remember, that he was succeeded, without any statement from him in his succession, by a man who was absolutely monstrous and probably had no such good intentions or idealism going into his tenure in power at all.

Sure you could pick another. "Idiot" though sets the right tone. Do feel free to give him credit for overthrowing the Tzars and enabling the horrors that followed. Best intentions and all that. He was not a particularly good person in my mind.

 

[sophie]

Sure you could pick another. "Idiot" though sets the right tone. Do feel free to give him credit for overthrowing the Tzars and enabling the horrors that followed. Best intentions and all that. He was not a particularly good person in my mind.

Nobody is denying Lenin was a deeply flawed leader. But to only excoriate him for his failures without acknowledging the good things he achieved is every bit as wrongheaded as the full-throated tankie, though.

 

[Zardnaar]

Nobody is denying Lenin was a deeply flawed leader. But to only excoriate him for his failures without acknowledging the good things he achieved is every bit as wrongheaded as the full-throated tankie, though.

There's nothing good about him and he was worse than the Start and he was crap.

It took almost a decade to recover and had they kept the Nicholas replaced him with his brother and made reforms Russia would have been better off.

The Soviets industrializing us also a myth. Russia was industrializing anyway and may have done it even faster.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Nobody is denying Lenin was a deeply flawed leader. But to only excoriate him for his failures without acknowledging the good things he achieved is every bit as wrongheaded as the full-throated tankie, though.

There's nothing good about him and he was worse than the Start and he was crap.

It took almost a decade to recover and had they kept the Nicholas replaced him with his brother and made reforms Russia would have been better off.

The Soviets industrializing us also a myth. Russia was industrializing anyway and may have done it even faster.

Such a topic would deserve a thread of its own.

 

[Ajidica]

had they kept the Nicholas replaced him with his brother and made reforms Russia would have been better off.

If the Entente had heli-carriers and laser-tanks, the Great War would have been over by Christmas.
Given how closely Nikolai entwined the monarchy with the prosecution of the war, and how much of a failure the Russian was effort was perceived as by 1917, the monarchy was not long for this world. Had Kerensky taken stronger steps to not be seen as continuing all the Tsar's unpopular policies and had the Bolsheviks lost their nerve, a republic or Scandinavian style figurehead monarchy might have made it, but even that is a pretty hard ask.

 

[Zardnaar]

If the Entente had heli-carriers and laser-tanks, the Great War would have been over by Christmas.
Given how closely Nikolai entwined the monarchy with the prosecution of the war, and how much of a failure the Russian was effort was perceived as by 1917, the monarchy was not long for this world. Had Kerensky taken stronger steps to not be seen as continuing all the Tsar's unpopular policies and had the Bolsheviks lost their nerve, a republic or Scandinavian style figurehead monarchy might have made it, but even that is a pretty hard ask.

Yeah it would have been a crap show regardless. Sometimes the alternative is worse though.