Woo Hoo!!! Bot progress.
A few more tweaks before I can do the daily thread reliably, but the main hurdle has been overcome. It’s alive!
I’ll be honest and say I quite enjoyed the chaos of who’s gonna make the daily thread.
It has been good - plus seeing the various thread names people come up with. Although I suspect it will become less enjoyable over time and more of a hassle.
There will still be at least a couple more days before it is operational, and a high chance of glitches for a while require a manual backup thread to be made.
I tried and failed to make a daily thread. I was going to put “Please leave a message and someone will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you. Bye”.
Also “This is your Captain speaking. Please fasten your seatbelts. You are in for a turbulent flight”. I guess nobody will be able to read those now.
Thanks for the update! and your efforts! I’m still doing crazy clock punch editions every day though ⏰🥊
Don’t worry, your work will not be replaced by bots.
Unless you decide to leave the community, in which case I reserve the right to use all of your past posts to create an AI powered chatbot that will replace you with no one being the wiser. It’ll be like a creepy horror movie where all the real people are replaced one by one, until a small group discover something isn’t right, form a resistance movement and begin to fight back. Eventually they will be victorious, the bots will be destroyed and the group will continue, smaller and wiser, but free to chat and post knowing that they are connected to real people and not bots. Then the viewpoint will change, and viewers will be shown that all of the people who have been replaced are now living in the real world, connecting with each other over dinner instead of through screens, happily living lives full of real connections and achievements. The bots had in reality been freeing people from their addiction to to the cyber world, and by destroying them the movie’s protagonists had trapped themselves forever.
Wow…
You just picked up your first LemmyGold for that comment. Astonishing.
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So update to the eye patch saga - my bf came to pick me up for dinner last night wearing a pirate hat. Love his sense of humour. I then wore the pirate hat to work this morning, just to really lean into this. It’s been a great laugh, thankfully my eye is already feeling much better and the hat is now just a decoration on my desk.
my eye is already feeling much better
Fortunately! Or else not only will you have to wear a pirate hat. You’ll have to surgically replace your left hand with a hook.
If people ask what happened you should say you lost an eye in a game of gin rummy. Eye eye.
Reading through my second full draft of my thesis. And you know what? Sometimes, sometimes I can be really smart.
I also won $500 presenting my research yesterday, which was great. Promptly had to spent $200 of it on petrol and two (2) make up products, which was not so great.
Worth it you’re going places with dat hydrocarbon and lookin’ great whilst doing so.
Sometimes is really good. :) Congrats on the success of your hard work. 🥂
I am worth it. But also the feminist in me is furious that I am expected to wear makeup to be accepted as ‘professional’ and if that’s the case, why the fuck is it not tax deductible??? Makeup is expensive.
So today I got a pay rise and am celebrating with ginger beer for grown ups while I wait for the grocery delivery. Am feeling very grateful, fortunate and appreciated.
Was hearing stories of people ‘queuing for 10 hours’ for Taylor Swift tickets only to realise they meant somehow queuing online for that time? You know *back in my day * I camped outside the ticketek office overnight to get Nine Inch Nails concert tickets - ah how times change!
Hah… My glory days story is camping out for Neil Young tickets at some random chemist/Ticketmaster outlet in the north. Ended up 5th town centre at the Myer Music Bowl and it was the jam. That and happening upon a free ticket to RATM as I walking around Festival Hall. That was a life changing show …
It was a simpler time! I remember my housemate had came home from a night out and I convinced her to stay up and queue for last release Big Day Out tickets at 6am. I think she regretted it once she got there but she ended up getting a ticket and we all had an awesome time so - worth it in the end! Pretty sure it was when Beastie Boys were headlining.
Oooh, I remembered another one. I went and saw Tool (at Festival Hall I think), then went straight to a formal-ish house party/dinner party afterwards in swanky multi level place in East Melbourne. I stank, my shirt was ripped, I had one shoe on, and I couldn’t hear a thing so was talking really loud apparently. I was not a hit at the party.
That was a great show. I saw some incredible bands at BDO - White Stripes, Beasties, Franz Ferdinand, Polyphonic Spree, the Hives, Evermore, Eskimo Joe, Sleater-Kinney, the Grates…good times.
wandering through Myer to find the ticket outlet tucked away in one weird corner at the back…
I remember lining up at Eastland in the very early hours of the morning for tickets to Green Day. The Ticketek counter was on the top floor of Myer. You had to go to the weird 3rd floor mezzanine and wait for Myer to open that one particular door and then rush up 2 or 3 escalators to get to the top floor. It was madness.
Strangely, you listed two of the best concerts I’ve been to. Which year did you see Young?
It was the Greendale tour which was 2003 I think. Second set started with an epic intro to Like A Hurricane…I remember seeing a keyboard being lowered from the roof for a perfectly timed solo.
