It’s a fun thought experiment. I’m going to cop out and say I just wish my country had more than Republican and Republican Lite to vote for.

Reminds me of so many people I came up with. They carry so much debt driving fancy cars that wear out and maintaining too-large homes they didn’t really need. Most people are struggling too much now for that nonsense. But it used to be very common and normalized.

Too many people equate AI with LLMs only. LLMs are mostly bubbled bullshit, with a few limited use cases. But AI is a much broader topic. The really scary AI is the stuff we hear little to nothing about.

People also forget how dramatically tech can advance over time. Spoiled impatient Americans in particular want a finished product or they quickly write it off as “garbage”. They forget every product we own and use was once “garbage”.

I’m 56. I hang out with 5 to 6 friends 10 times a month on average. Mostly to play tabletop games. Sometimes I meet one or two for lunch.

Comfortable clothes for myself. I’m pretty much invisible to most other people, which is fine with me.

For whatever it’s worth: in my 20s I went for the obvious/easy/high-paying career and have made enough money to retire early. But I deeply regret working for soulless corporations doing pointless bullshit tasks for 35+ years.

I’ve recently started reading an introductory philosophy book and I love it.

Yup. The rapid respawn stinks of lazy level designs. Respawning can be OK when done right.

I’m surprised old has lasted this long.

Did RFK Jr find us already?

I’ve never understood the massive success of this game franchise. I understand the appeal and that many people find it fun, but it’s just never been all that great, IMO. There are so many much better titles out there. I’m guessing it’s early success plus huge advertising budget and/or paid-for reviews.

They are intentionally making websites frustrating so we’ll use their stupid proprietary apps instead.

In the USA: complicated tax returns that require tax software and/or professional help. It’s a rent-seeking scam.

I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that I am NOT celebrating CK’s death and to make sure you all understand this story is really about me and how I claimed the moral high ground before anyone else even thought of doing it.

I’m really surprised I haven’t been called for an interview. Surely the Nobel folks will be ringing my phone very, very soon.

He’s the kind of evil dipshit who would have legislated to pay people as close to zero-per-hour as possible, hired people at that hourly slavery rate, and then bitch that they weren’t dedicated workers.

Feel like it would hit harder if the first panel simply said “There is no trolley”.

It’s not that I disagree with the premise. Car sprawl sucks. But, brevity pairs well with humor.

Still funny.

Yup. They were already committing violence on the people. They’re just ramping up the rhetoric as usual.

Me: Jokes on you, I can afford a real breakfast.

Also me: dies of heart failure in my 50s

I can’t predict the future, and there will be some short-term fallout (potentially very bad fallout) from this. These young men will hold a grudge for sure, but I think it’s much harder to say how long of a lasting imprint this will make on them.

Many of them will grow up and realize “maybe I need to work on my mental health and general qualifications as a human being and stop thinking we can bully women into being barefoot pregnant tradwives”. The differences between what young men and what young women want out of life right now is truly astonishing. Check the polling data.

Part of this phenomenon stems from the unfortunate biological fact that young men don’t truly mature until about the age of 35. At that point, many of them (not all of them) have grown up and obtained some maturity and perspective. They finally realize that the world doesn’t revolve around me and my shortcomings and grievances. If they want to become better men, they work at providing some actual value and to at least occasionally serve others unselfishly in a non-transactional manner. Thinking you’re entitled to sex and children just because “that’s what real men get” is a road to rejection and solitude. Some will figure this out. Some never do.

As for CK’s legacy… lies and bullshit travel orders of magnitude faster than the truth, but the truth tends to win the marathons.

No, it’s more like telling an addict to stop using.

At some point it’s not about proving anything anymore it’s just self-defense. Violence should always be the last resort. But in case you haven’t been paying attention Trump and his gestapo are committing acts of violence on the American people every single day.