Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 15/09/2026I wish someone would give me a six-figure speaking gig to teach them how to build something stupid and expensive which (by my own admission!) doesn’t work 110 0
Reposted by Chrisrobert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the tech industry, the fossil fuel industry, and the agriculture industry have so effectively neutered the legislative process that the very idea of, say, a tech privacy bill is psychologically DOA for most Americans. 38014 0
Reposted by Chrisrobert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the datacenter debate feels a little bit like someone claiming that if we just banned private jets, the climate would come around. like, do I hate private jets, or do I hate the guys who own them? the latter, obviously. but just taxing all those guys wouldn't fix this larger, nuanced problem 1511 0
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Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 24/05/2026Credit monitoring is a useful service if you’ve ever been worried that someone is going to pay off your credit cards without your permission 000 0
Reposted by ChrisWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived. 7658051436 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 03/04/2026Every few months Anthropic will publish a paper that’s like “Claude is just a pile of math, but sometimes it acts like it has feelings. Can we learn anything interesting from that?” And everyone on this website trips over themselves to get pissed off about what they imagine the article says. 210 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 15/03/2026You can learn a lot from video games. For instance, Pokopia has taught me that I need to spend more time walking up to my friends, telling them how much they mean to me, and then handing them some crap I found lying on the ground 000 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 29/12/2025my dermatologist just prescribed me Skyrizi which sort of feels like meeting a celebrity 000 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 14/12/2025I’m not a particularly good driver but no mistake I’ve made has had people angrier at me than simply driving the speed limit 000 0
Reposted by Christinybaby @tiny.baby · 19/10/2025people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath 22886551644 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 10/09/2025I haven't talked about this publicly yet but I got carjacked at gunpoint a few weeks ago. I'm fine, I have insurance, the police found my car last week. Anyway, I was thinking afterward about how much worse it would have gone if I was also armed. 110 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 05/07/2025I’m the guy who designed the trucks in Death Stranding. It was my idea not to add roofs even though the rain is incredibly dangerous and the world is full of bandits with guns. I am paid millions of likes a year for my innovations 000 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 16/04/2025Look, YNAB is a great app and I don’t know how I would manage my finances without it, but going to a fan convention for a budgeting app is completely deranged 010 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 19/01/2025YES, I love driving my gigantic pristine truck that I’m too small to climb into comfortably. NO, I will NOT be learning to park it. If you have a problem with that you can KISS MY ASS! 020 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 23/12/2024I’ve been thinking about how easy it would be to build a favstar-like service for this website and debating whether it would be stupid in a funny way or just stupid 000 0
Reposted by Chrisae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21/12/2024being a nerd once meant you were socially ostracized for being obsessed with every little detail of model trains. in 2024 america being in a nerd in many communities means bragging that you self-lobotomize yourself because you're too lazy to read anything 543372 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 17/12/2024My manager somehow sent me an Amazon gift card in Saudi Riyal. Neither of us are Saudi and everyone else on the team got USD or EUR. We’re completely baffled by how this could have happened. 020 0
Reposted by Chrisca-dmv-bot @ca-dmv-bot.bsky.social · 04/09/2024Customer: ITS MY KIDS INITIALS DMV: FUCK YOU Verdict: DENIED 49025 0
Reposted by Chrisspooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 17/04/2024A thing this implicitly sort of gets at is that a LOT of AI hype and bullshit AI products is entirely down to investors who know nothing about the actual technology loudly demanding that every tech company make visibily AI-focused products, whether those products make sense or not 2101 0
Reposted by ChrisMike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 09/09/2023honestly, whatever. you were all warned! 462218522 0
Reposted by ChrisIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/02/2024There's this wild Lovecraftian horror to a grown adult talking about how great it'll be when AI can make full-length movies and books based on a few prompts, because you suddenly realize they've only ever seen shadows dancing on the cave wall for their whole life. Nothing has meant anything to them. 532733746 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 14/02/2024Scientists love saying this sort of shit to sound smart. My man that’s what color is. You are describing color. 000 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 21/01/2024imagine how jealous your friends would be if you rolled up to the court with this bad boy 000 0
Reposted by Christinybaby @tiny.baby · 29/12/2023man there's going to be a whole 5 year generation of tech with useless AI features built in that we'll just have to ignore for the next 10-15 like 3d tvs 423527867 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 13/12/2023Schitt’s Creek is a show with a simple premise: “What if Arrested Development wasn’t funny?” 011 0
Reposted by ChrisWanna Hear Some Halo Lore? @stefanheck.bsky.social · 24/11/2023hm well this is the most insane premise of all time 44636125 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 19/09/2023The Bluesky app I’ve been working on in my free time is almost usable for casual browsing now 000 0
Chris @snakeoil.bargains · 29/07/2023Apache Software Foundation: I am begging you to hire a single graphic designer. Your software is used by the most valuable companies in the world. You can’t have logos that look like this 130 0
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