No, just little attachment (metaphorically and soon to be literally, by the sound of your workplace) to your genitalia and a love of pain, I assume. I can think of a lot of people who fit that profile.

Also,

thousand plus degree metal

What kind of metal? I can think of at least one gentleman who canonically would be in the market for an unfortunate schmelting accshident if you had the right kind.

today, I am instead playing Steam games for hours and wishing death would hurry up already.

yup. at the moment if you want a truly private, properly useful local AI agent you basically have to set one up correctly, manually, yourself. Having one come as part of the OS already largely set up for the user would be a massive W.

but yeah, If.

the fact the world functions at all while running on matryoshka doll levels of bullshit and duplicity is equal parts impressive, terrifying, and depressing.

Think about this for a moment.

We made bullshit generators that ingest all the actual knowledge we feed them and manage to vomit out bullshit that’s so close to perfect most of the time that we now need a second bullshit generator to re-bullshit that output into a more palatable form of consumption for us. And it’s being sold to us for an additional $4.99 a month.

Fuck me.