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  • My first speeding ticket happened during college. I had to take a few weeks driving course, cut luxuries out of my life for a month, and pick up extra shifts at my job for a month to handle it. It was an overall miserable experience.

    My next speeding ticket happened while I was an engineer. I literally paid it off on my phone while the officer was doing paperwork on the side of the road AND gave them an extra $100 because I could do that instead of any kind of driving course. I stopped caring about it at all 10 minutes later. It was fucking wild to see “laws are only for the poors” in action like that









  • Gustephan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThat crisp spring air (at 150mph)
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    2 months ago

    > be me. Business trip to Texas fml

    > get some shitty subcompact rental car

    > try to drive to some state park on weekend

    > the location? About 3 hours driving away

    > the cell tower reception? KEKW

    > the road? On a 20 foot raised ridge for some texan fucking reason

    > the wind? 42069 mph, perpendicular to the road

    > literally turning the steering wheel against the wind to maintain driving straight

    > literally feel like I’m going to get blown off the road and die

    > in Texas so actually do want to die

    > wish I was in a big truck for the first time in my life

    > after hours of white knuckle driving finally get there

    > Amarillo texas, the biggest pile of shit I’ve ever seen in my life

    > literally. Active mountain of cow shit being farmed and sold as fertilizer right next to the town

    Texas. Not even once.







  • Gustephan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldAI sucks
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    3 months ago

    It gives people context for what kind of ai math I’m familiar with/formed my opinions about ai on (ie, generally lightweight transformer models rather than LLMs), as well as a small logos appeal of “hey I spent years of my life researching that shit, I at least kinda know what I’m talking about”



  • Gustephan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldAI sucks
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    4 months ago

    This. I was a phd seeking cybersecurity researcher leaning heavily into AI up until last year, and it bothered me to no end that some of the most promising technology I have ever seen was being primarily used to enhance the police state or increase BP profits by a few %. AI is literally a step towards a utopian post scarcity future, but instead of being used that way it was immediately weaponized against the working class for the benefit of the parasite class.