vulgar, absurd, genital injury
*dick snuffling and leaping around inside boxers* What is it, boy? What do you smell?
*pointing at a mousetrap surrounded by mangled bits of and people clutching their crotches and groaning like at the end of that Robocop fan remake scene, you know the one* WUFF BORK WROFF
Ooh, I really shouldn't...
whimper whimper whine
Aw hell with it, GO GIT 'EM BOY
vulgar, absurd, genital injury, Nextcloud edition
Nextcloud Man: 
Google and Microsoft want you to stick YOUR dick in THEIR mousetrap.
What, that's absurd.
It certainly is, friend. Why would you stick your dick in a mousetrap that someone else controls?
Yeah exactly, thank you for making sense, lately it seems like the whole world's gone mad
Using our open-source software, YOU control the dick mousetrap
...what
Stick your dick in your OWN mousetrap
Take back control
vulgar, absurd, genital injury, Nextcloud edition
Nextcloud users, we hear you loud and clear. We hear your yelps of agony.
We hear your anguished cries of "WHY, FOR FUCK'S SAKE WHY"
And we want to let you know that sticking your dick in this is purely optional!
is that why you placed it cocked and ready right at crotch height
For your convenience and empowerment.
vulgar, absurd, genital injury, Nextcloud edition
*looking down at a barely-recognizable swollen purple mass wrapped thrice around the business end of a bloodied mousetrap* You see what the problem is here, don't you.
Yes, everybody sees the problem except you
Hm. Yeah, it's obvious in hindsight.
*waits for it*
This mousetrap isn't open-source
vulgar, absurd, genital injury, uspol, proton
Talk me through what happened here, mister Proton.
Well doc, I went and stuck my left ball in the AI mousetrap
I see, and your right testicle?
Bitcoin
Yes, I thought it might be something like that when I heard you coming down the hall.
'cause of the clapping
The wood-on-wood clapping sound, yes, from not one but *two* mousetraps, extraordinary. So obviously you'd like these removed.
Oh hell no. No, I just wanted your advice, I wanted to know whether these'd interfere with the big one.
The big one?
Yeah, the big one, hang on I got a picture on my phone. Here. Ain't it a beaut.
Mister Proton, this appears to be a picture of a bear trap.
It has "MAGA" written on it.
In what appears to be gold Sharpie. Mister Proton -
Now I know what you're thinkin', but lemme stop you there.
Go on?
What
vulgar, absurd, genital injury, crap tech
SHIT SHIT SHIT JOHNSON GET IN HERE
sir
OUR STOCK PRICE IS IN FREEFALL
A TRILLION DOLLARS JUST DISAPPEARED JOHNSON
sir?
SOMEONE'S GIVING AWAY THE DICK MOUSETRAP FOR FREE
vulgar, absurd, genital injury, crap tech
You look like you've just had a bollocking
I don't understand it. I don't understand anything that's happening.
There there.
You're normal.
It's not understandable.
I thought our mission was to snap everyone's dicks, and now everyone can get their dick snapped, surely we should be rejoicing
Oh honey
It was never about snapping dicks.
I mean, who wants their dick snapped? Do YOU want your dick snapped?
I mean... I kinda went along with it, but I didn't really no
Honey, it was about the waste. Here, have a tissue. Remember the monkey pictures? And the proof-of-waste coins that weren't real?
Kinda?
The waste was the point, dear. The inefficiency was what made it so that only the very rich had the money to burn to run the machines. If you take away the waste, if the dick mousetrap machine becomes more efficient, then you just have a bunch of mangled dicks and nobody making any money.
So now that sticking your dick in a mousetrap doesn't burn irreplaceable resources, the dick mousetrap factory owners are finally wondering whether anyone wants to stick their dick in the mousetrap?
That's right, dear. That's where all the money's gone. Now take a breath. Wipe those eyes. Shoulders back and chin up high.
The people with the deep pockets will be moving on to the next scam, and this time you're going to get a piece of it.
You've got a better mousetrap to build.
Kiss me you animal.
vulgar, absurd, genital injury, USPOL, wordpress
Mister Proton, I'm writing you a prescription for bankruptcy. You can pick it up after three.
Thanks doc
Not at all. Kindly send Mister Wordpress in on your way out.
vulgar, absurd, genital injury, bad tech, classroom
Now pay attention, you at the back. *whips pointing stick against blackboard* THIS SHAPE. Knowing this shape will save you all your dicks.
That's not a shape
I can't draw.
I can't read your writing
Yeah my handwriting's bad too. Anyway look at the previous three mousetraps
You need to start putting these on the board
I'm trying to save your dick here. Anyway, first mousetrap, cryptocurrency, used VAST AMOUNTS OF ELECTRICITY, to do, anyone?
Crime
Excellent, perfect, next one, VAST AMOUNTS OF ELECTRICITY to do,
Ugly monkeys
Brilliant, now you're getting it, then what happened?
Vast amounts of electricity
To do?
Wrong answers!
YES! Good god you lot are clever
So the next mousetrap's also gonna use enormous amounts of electricity to do something ridiculous that nobody wants.
That's it! That's what I've been -
We know.
...sorry?
Dude everybody knows. You're preaching to the choir.
...oh.
Yeah if you wanna save some dicks go talk to CEOs.
No, I don't care about their dicks, honestly I think it's funny when they take turns trying to fuck the mousetrap
You should write a book.
...I should!
You should!
I will! I'll call it "The Shape Of The Mousetrap: How To Avoid Falling For The Next Big Tech Scam" and I'll sell it as an epub for ten grand a copy, and all the ceos will buy it! I'LL BE THE DICK MOUSETRAP! ME!
Great idea! You should end this lesson and write that book!
CLASS DISMISSED!
... thank you,
quickest way to shut him up tbh
vulgar, absurd, genital injury, bad tech, classroom, illustrated, drawing of a dick getting stuck in a mousetrap
See accompanying illustration, Figure 1
vulgar, absurd, genital injury, bad tech, metacommentary
betcha THIS thread won't get posted to one of those proper websites
vulgar, absurd, genital injury, bad tech, metacommentary, horrific realisation
I HAVE BEEN WRITING THIS THREAD SINCE THE TWENTY FIFTH OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FOUR
AND THE DICKS KEEP GOING IN THE MOUSETRAPS
DESPITE ALL MY WARNINGS
AI stock collapse
A trillion dollars disappeared in a day because someone made a garbage generator that uses fewer irreplaceable natural resources than the current garbage generators, and that makes me think about cobblestones.
Remember cobblestones? You could hook your computer up to a big distributed science project, there were tons to choose from, you could fold human proteomes, you could search for extraterrestrial intelligence, you could map cancer markers, develop better solar cell materials, all sorts of stuff. It took the form of a screensaver - whenever you weren't using your computer your CPU fans would spin up and you'd be folding. Move your mouse and it pauses. Great stuff. Something useful for your computer to do when you step away for a minute.
Anyway, you'd get credit for the work your computer had done. Cobblestones, they were called. They were never used as currency, they were just to show off. A cobblestone was a kind of receipt to show that your computer had done something useful.
We never used cobblestones as currency, but we could've. Instead we got bitcoin, which is a receipt that shows that your computer made a bitcoin. What's the bitcoin for? Being a receipt that your computer made a bitcoin.
It served as proof that you'd wasted some electricity.
Proof of waste.
There's other cryptocurrencies as well, some of which work differently to the proof of waste system, and those are worthless, because they're not proof of waste.
The waste is the point.
Now we get this market crash today, money disappeared, because the new AI thing is roughly as pointless as the old one but nowhere near as wasteful.
The waste, is the point. We saw it with cryptocurrencies and we saw it with NFTs and we see it with AI.
The waste has to be the point, because to some people, waste equals scarcity equals wealth equals power. The waste has to be the point because the machines that process the pointlessness have to be expensive, have to be owned by someone, have to be inaccessible to the average person, have to be manufactured and sold and rented out, the means of production of the pointlessness has to be in the right hands. The waste has to be the point, because otherwise we would've decided years ago that a cobblestone was worth a twentieth of a nice sandwich.
The waste is the point.
AI stock collapse
@ifixcoinops ignoring the unrelated thread this ends, many people have made this point.
https://ckraju.net/papers/Entropy-Economy-Environment-Ethics.pdf
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The primary product of economic activity is waste; "use value" is a by-product.
