The fact that you tried and failed to justify a nonsensical position upon someone else. I presume you’re a frequent flier in this regard.

Fyi, I know that you DESPERATELY want the last word. You will not get it.

See you soon!

If that were you and it were a pizza that size, I would steal it from you, gleefully skipping away whilst stuffing my fat face with it. I might share a piece with an along-the-way bulldog if one were encountered.

Man I love pizza!

My point of view is valid, trying to construct some argument around it changes nothing. You just dont like what I’m saying. You dont have to like it. You’re just going to have to be OK with being intellectually inferior (and incorrect as a result).

You will get over this in time.

I’m not a hypocrite when I’m right–and I am 100% right. You can call me whatever you like, it won’t change the truth.

Wasting time on useless pursuits is time wasted. There is no resource more precious than time. Wasting it is a sin. Encouraging people to waste time and defending the act is worse because now many people will waste time. That is a bad outcome. There no upside.

Nothing useful was produced, nothing useful was learned in the process. Even if there was some peripheral learning that took place, it was accidental at best.

This is my hill and I will die all over it. Youre welcome to be here if you like, but this corpse is in it for the duration. You may not enjoy the aroma.

Quantity does not equal quality. You can keep going if you like and seek to justify your folly, but my original assertion stands. Making a pile of old forgotten modems download a file at .6 MBPS is not an achievement to be celebrated. It is a waste of time, and people that want to attempt to justify a total stranger wasting time on pointless activities are doing little more than showing that they too waste a lot of time on pointless activities.

When we are on our respective deathbeds, I am going to presume neither of us will go down thinking “I regret doing useful things with my time…”.

I use ai tools to fix spreadsheets, make schedules, and help me solve technology problems. I find it useful.

This just seems demented. This is a twisted caricature of a person that is just what studios and producers want. This is born of greed. Now your favorite “celebrity” can be sold to everyone. They can do cat food commercials. They can speak at any function. They can be sold as a virtual ai friend in your phone and they won’t ask for a penny. GREED.

I don’t shed tears for rich celebrities, but if making shows and movies with fake actors becomes the norm, the performing arts will be reduced to a sad husk.

Some might argue that the player piano did not replace pianists, but they’re not looking at the whole picture. Technology that created automated and recorded music did replace a whole lot of live music, and musicians.

I’m sure the studios and the jackwagon “actor” who stuck her name on this will say that this is a means of expression and that the artist is not the brush, but they instead control the brush.

Not buying it. This is one place that should not be encroached upon. Without performers who think, feel and emote, the performances will be hollow. Of course, once it takes over, most people won’t know the difference.

Emotions like sadness, yearning, and fear are a liability and a weakness.

That’s why men are taught to get angry rather than crying. Anger is strength, crying is weakness. Being an asshole is a performance that shows everyone that you’re not weak.

Most people, men and women, are repulsed by vulnerability and attracted to confidence.

Until people become aware of their own prejudices, they’ll keep picking people for the wrong reasons.

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“You’re wasting time and conceited!!!”

I’m still right.

Clearly, I do not. You got me. Am dead.

However, the effort that goes into a good fuckery should correlate the the quality of it.

This is at the level of , ha that a funny goof. If this were done on a bored Sunday afternoon, I’d say “ha ha this is funny”. Since I don’t have a sense of humor, there is not even a single ha evoked.

Haa, you found my weakness. I fucking HATE it when adults play with legos. I could not think of a greater generational embarrassment. Grown ass men who never graduated past playing with a child’s toy is so very telling of a sad story of arrested development.

Go build a shed, a bike, a birdhouse for fucks sake! Grow up and stop playing with kids toys. They are a fantastic learning and skill building toy for a child. However, as an adult, you now have the agency to apply what youve learned to things that can be useful! Get out there and do something with it!

Crosswords, eh I don’t see the point. I’d rather read a book and learn something.

What is the point of learning useless skills? What is the point of executing pointless tasks? Humans should aspire to learn things that lift humanity and do something with them, not partake in endless navel gazing. Saying society comes second demonstrates a very self-centered orientation which is detrimental to society at large. Look around at the world and tell me that isn’t coming home to roost.

(Hot snakes BTW, wow)

As much as I enjoy shitting on things, I have no interest in doing it to baseball.

Not my interest, but it clearly means a lot to a lot of people. It is likely also true that if there was a change to game play that the excitement has picked up.

Still, if I’m going to watch a sport, it would be basketball. Lots of action, little fluff. Indoor soccer is fun to watch (and to play) but its extremely unpopular.

I don’t like baseball, no. Of all the sports, it is the slowest moving and the least exciting.

Also, I like playing sports (less so, now old) not watching them. The value of sport, is exercise, stimulation and camaraderie. Watching it provides so little of any.

If you paint a painting, you refine a skill in the process. Also, you get a painting when you’re done.

When you mush together a bunch of obsolete junk, you get nothing when you’re done but a heapnof obsolete junk your wife will yell at you to get rid of.

Now, if the person who made this turns it into some sort of sculptural decoration or interactive art work, now we’re talking. Even if that was not the original goal, flipping it into something thought provoking now has value.

That would be the best ending to this story. Art has value.

Rebuilding a turbo is useful not as a single activity, but because there are a number of transferable skills involved. Way to think deep on that one.

Where messing with ancient junk fails is because it is obsolete. The person who did it, had to know how to do it already. They dont learn anything new by applying old knowledge to do something useless. The activity lacks the acquisition of transferrable skills and there is nothing useful created at the completion.

Not sure if you’ve noticed, but I’m going to die on this hill. You’re more than welcome to be up here with me, but you may tire of the activity. I have IBS so I’m on the toilet a good bit, I have the time to keep going unfortunately.

You’d build one and drive it. That has value as you will have something useful and you will learn things as you do it.

You would not build one that doesn’t function in any useful way and you wouldn’t use completely obsolete stuff to do it.

That would be like making a car out of plaster that uses a hot bulb engine.

Intellectual would be something like reading enriching books or contributing something useful to a broader body of knowledge that others can use.

Creative is making something new, special or meaningful.

This is none of those. This is taking old junk and wasting lot of time to make something useless.

It would be like going to a junkyard and using a bunch of old engines to make one one car move slower than even the cheapest car from 20 years ago.

This is pointless and wasteful. People that defend this are part of the problem.

I fixed the transmission in my sons car and rebuilt the turbo. Taught him how to do it.

I did something meaningful. I wrote the comment while I was taking a shit. Consequently, taking a shit has more value than fucking around with a bunch of obsolete technology to accomplish a useless task. What is the point of spending a ton of time to make something that is worse than a cheap network interface that you can buy on amazon for $10?

Going to keep saying it.

This is stupid and only morons are impressed with doing useless things. Do something meaningful with your time on this earth, dont fucking waste it on pointless bullshit.

No, it is a waste of time with no value.

Do meaningful things. Society suffers under the weight of pointless nonsense like this.

If you are intelligent enough to make old hardware do things it was never meant to, you are wasting your potential and time.

Use your brain to solve a problem, not make up a problem for which the solution is useless.

Yes, I hate stupid shit it is true.

If you like stupid shit, you should think about why.

I don’t hate because I don’t care, I hate because I do care.

People should not hold pointless and stupid acts in high esteem, especially when they require a lot of time and effort, displacing meaningful activities.

This is how idiocracy takes root.

I am proud to hate on moronic activities. Stop doing them and stop defending them. Not every viewpoint, activity and past time has value.

People have nothing more important going on? They did all the stuff that needed to be done and now theyre doing this?

I get having some stupid fun, but I’m going to guess this was harder than anticipated and probably took quite a bit of time.

When theyre done they have a pile of obsolete hardware laying around. When you whittle at least you get a pointy stick.

Call me a hater if you will, but this is a stupid waste of time.