Pay for independently-developed software if you care about it continuing to exist. Steal from corporations all you want. But support independent devs (and small teams) to make sure they can keep maintaining the tools you love and rely on. It’s the only way to not get swallowed by the big dogs.
I never heard of this. Not at an age where this affects me anymore, but cool if true. Meanwhile, I will poor shots in shot glasses if we have company and just down my liquor without measuring otherwise.
Changing where you live can really reverse what you’re describing, but I know that’s not always realistic. I live in the Bay Area and I’m middle-aged. The dating pool is full of people who my values and who like doing stuff I’m into, like going to live music and rocking out. Less than with younger people, but that’s about stamina more than interests.
If I lived in the midwest, where my family all live, there’d be nothing. Conservative bland bullshit. Dunno where you live, but something to consider.
Surprised nobody thought to mention Living Colour, but it’s not like racists are thinkers.
And contributing money to shitbags allows them to keep funding terrible values. See Musk.
We all got along great at my last job. Small company, ~24 people. It was pineapple on pizza. We were at war.
My former manager, who is still a good friend, literally someone I go get drinks with to catch up, can fucking die and burn in hell because of this.
I’m sorry, but poor Kensworth threw up and had to take the rest of the day off work. We should probably compensate him with millions of dollars of tax-payer money.
Imagine… people with light and dark skin holding hands. Jeebus.
Dude, have you not heard about Stan? Oh, dude he’s super dark. Like, way worse than Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dalmer. If you wanna be hardcore, worship Stan.
Not anymore.
I was a lot in 2020 and leading up to 2024 USA election. Somewhere along the way, I accepted that we’re doomed and started focusing more on the things in my day to day life that make me happy. I can’t stop the lunatic behavior of my government or the destructive behavior of the people with all the wealth. If they don’t light the world on fire right under our feet, I’ll die from the horrible shit in our food and groundwater.
Whatever… just live.
I can’t imagine a person more for the people than a person with hundreds of millions of dollars. Are you worried about the cost of milk? Why didn’t you become a hundred-millionaire if you cared so much about milk?
People are so lazy.
My family bought an encyclopedia set. My older brother used it to teach me about tornados to help take my mind off my chicken pox when I was a kid.
Well, I know who’s gonna take a beating when the bubble pops and the market falls out from under them. What a stupid decision.
“Hey guys, this AI thing is gonna be like this forever. We’ll never lack for insane demand ever again.”
We’re fucked. I told my therapist this. I told our financial planner that I don’t expect us to survive, but we opened the account for my partner to take care of her. We’re gonna destroy ourselves. Will it be on the timeline I expect? Maybe not. But T2 has already proven that things are moving faster than I had anticipated.
Humans: A nice experiment. Maybe talking dogs will be the next ascendent species.
Remember how Jesus pulled out a demon (or demons) named Legion? They’re in me and I desperately need this woman’s help. Please. I’m suffering.
Edit: Actually, this could have got me to go to church.
My friend was blathering on about Cory Doctorow two decades ago and I knew the name, had maybe read a little bit. I was kind of annoyed how ofter he brought him up. Man did he come out ahead of me on that. This guy articulates the ills of society so well.
They’re not difficult to use. It used to be the primary reason in the chart. Now it’s second nature.
Well, the Roman numeral M is 1000, so this is a pretty good tip. Not sure about the rest, but hey I’ll take.
Maybe I’m just blessed with a nice life, and I try not to take that for granted, but it does give me that feeling unfortunately.
You probably are. Me too, fortunately. But times are hard and bleak for a lot of people. I know cause I went through it for nearly a decade getting to here.
Tribalism. We care more about being accepted by our desired peers than being correct. At least, that’s what articles and podcasts have told me. Also, stupid. Weaken education and make people stupid and unable to think critically. Do you think Ted Cruz (Harvard) was complaining about the Paris Accord because he genuinely didn’t know that it wasn’t Paris-only? His voters are goddamned morons and he knows it. The contempt is sickening, but they see none of it.
If I don’t have intent to commit a crime but I break the law, it’s not an excuse that a cop or judge will buy. Holy fuck.