Robo

Professional Computerist
Occasional Digital Artist/Designer/Editor

[Robo @REDxROBO]

@vicblends i gotchu big dawg

[Robo @REDxROBO]

Not a Knicks fan. Not a basketball fan. Not even aa NY fan despite thinking their mayor is alright.

But goddamn those fans deserve a win.

Also it would be hilarious to me for Alvarado to immediately join a winning team after years of the Pelicans wasting him.

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

Knicks fans are insane 😭😭😭

“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4!!!”

[Robo @REDxROBO]

Absolutely.

Unfortunately our executive overlords are still fervently pushing it. Because they sit in on these meetings full of marketers, yesmen, and like-minded AI shills with no dissenting voices and no pushback welcome.

All huffing each others farts over how amazing AI is and how useful of a "tool" it is. All dancing around the truth that it isn't merely a tool. It can be, but that's not what people are looking for.

They're looking for a crutch. They're looking to cut labor costs or reliance on humans. They're looking for the intelligence, ingenuity, creativity, and talent they lack and are too lazy or inept to cultivate.

[Robo @REDxROBO]

The replies to every article on this are full of basically every variation of conservative chud. It's like a gallery of deranged, desperate hate as they grasp at every straw possible to cope. It's lies, it's underreporting, it's because everyone left, it's a communist plot, etc.

Yall will run with literally any bullshit rhetoric that comes along against the people you dislike yet you'll completely and utterly ignore the clear reality of your own leadership's numerous abuses and abject failures.

It's crazy. Yall are fucking crazy people and have taken the country far enough down with you. Enough, already.

[Robo @REDxROBO]

He literally did the thing we intelligent people have been saying for decades.

Improve living conditions and crime goes down. Simple.

Not the standard conservative plan of more police, harsher policing, and tougher sentences. Those don't stop crime, they respond to it.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New York City just had its safest first 5 months of a year in recorded history.

Murders plunged 21%, and major crime overall is down 11%.

[Robo @REDxROBO]

@bradluttrell "Data: All traffic data from NSA and AAA showcase that backing out into traffic / pedestrians is worse than backing into a space."

Reverse cameras 100% negate this and literally all of yall's points about backing into spaces.

Join the modern world.

[Robo @REDxROBO]

@ghartman02 @BellaBaddie__ The average modern engine and drivetrain, if maintained even *close* to properly, can do 100mph every day. And EVs care even less (though batteries will obviously have something to say about it just like your gas tank would).

[Robo @REDxROBO]

It's unpopular for sure but technically true. There are very few cases where cars need to exceed like 80-90 mph based on current (decidedly outdated) speed limits. But cars have defied logic from their inception. At this point it's almost just a part of the experience, the idea that you could, if you wanted to, just fuckin floor it.

That said, I feel sort of the opposite. I think America needs an Autobahn where people, as long as their car passes requirements, can go much faster alongside the normal interstate traffic. It would potentially alleviate traffic and accidents somewhat, as that's not the direct result of speeding in and of itself, it's the result of speed differences. It's because one person (or several) are trying to go 60, 70, 80 mph or pass other cars and someone else is just puttering along in their own little ignorant world at 55 like a rolling roadblock or obstacle course.

[Robo @REDxROBO]

By the looks of things there's a whole lot of shit for which we're the last generations.

Adult-level reading comprehension. Paying attention or focusing for more than 10 seconds at a time. Effective research and analysis. Independent thought and critical thinking without outside influence. Looking our age and not 10 years older. Processing and overcoming trauma and disabilities without making it a whole fucking personality. Being queer without making it an entire personality. Flirting with each other without immediately turning it into a harassment case because one party is disinterested. Resisting marketing. Writing in cursive. I mean the list goes on...

[Sierra @Sierra_rak]

I think Gen X and older Millennials are the last generation of people who know how to drive without a GPS.

[Robo @REDxROBO]

@IMAO_ @alsoJMc And your kids pay for their fraction of it. Unless they die early.

I know what you *think* you're saying here. That you aren't producing someone else to add money to the pool. But you also aren't producing someone else to take money out of it.

So your logic is flawed, at best.

[Robo @REDxROBO]

@liam43102 Wait, hold on, I had to come back after applying some logic to Liam's entirely logic-devoid post.

No, you quite literally do not have more visibility backing into a space UNLESS you have a reverse camera. In which case, see my first point.

[Robo @REDxROBO]

In the US, with the backup cameras required on every vehicle over 5 tons produced since 2018, it's safer to reverse *out* (the obviously risky part of parking) than reverse in and pull out from a point of view set back 6-8 ft from the front bumper.

In the EU a similar requirement has applied since 2022 or 2024 depending on the vehicle made. So at least you have SOME excuse if your shit is older.

The surprisingly ass-backward UK doesn't have a requirement on this, no, but it's still safer with reverse lights and brake lights indicating you're about to exit a space.

[microplastics rectifier @facetedcarapace]

I hadn't seen this edit before and it's making me cry laugh

[Robo @REDxROBO]

If you back into a space between other vehicles you're occluding your field of view for exiting the space—notably the most dangerous part of parking and the reason they literally passed federal law mandating rear-mounted reverse cameras. Manufacturers went even further including cross traffic sensors to help people safely exit spaces given the popularity of massive vehicles (primarily in the US). You're negating all that shit because you think you're goddamn James Bond trying to quickly escape a mission.

[Erik Lindberg @ErikLindy]

Only people who know how to drive will back into parking spaces.
We understand that it’s safer, easier, faster to exit, and the best part?
It annoys the people who don’t know how to drive.
Next week we’ll talk about the zipper merge.

[Robo @REDxROBO]

Believing in obviously questionable shit is kinda their whole thing.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

How the hell did donald trump manage to convince Christians that he is one of them?????

[Robo @REDxROBO]

That's because a lot of y'all read "original creator invited to direct film" and assume that means he made literally every aspect of it.

Props (heh) to the artists and production crew responsible for the incredible accuracy of that setting, down to the little stone horse bookends in the background which my parents still have to this day.

[Rory Blank @BoneJail]

I have no problem whatsoever believing a 19/20 year old made Backrooms but it did feel weird to me seeing a movie set in 1990 made by someone who wasn't born until a few years after 9/11.

[Robo @REDxROBO]

Wish I saw this video a couple days ago when I was trying to concisely explain why the majority of these bold little tweets about how much Backrooms "sucked" only highlight a real issue with moviegoers now.

It really is just TikTok brain. It's an inability to sit still and appreciate literally the basic format of storytelling. Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. Actual grammar school shit. At least it was for me.

My only issue with the film was that the feature length format and general audience targeting actually didn't give it enough time to build an unsettling atmosphere, instead, having a few of the 'chase' scenes drag a bit longer than necessary.

If you saw the film and found the opposite, I'm very sorry to tell you, that's kind of a you problem and not one I'd be so proud of.

https://t.co/oZepRtKus4

[Robo @REDxROBO]

@Mike_from_PA Exactly. His more easily liquidable assets alone are worth probably hundreds of millions, that's not even touching properties or business investments.

Probably has a cool 100M just in crypto or some shit because fuck it why not when it's a whole 4% of his net worth.

[Robo @REDxROBO]

@Rebel_ This has been an issue since the start and won't ever change because the folks at Turn 10 who put together those underlying systems disappeared, never to be heard from again, and no one else there knows how to change any aspect of it. It's the only explanation that makes sense.