High density is pretty sweet. I walk outside and there’s like 3 groceries within a short walk. Sprawl and wastelands kind of suck

I’ve been saying for years “self driving cars are solving the wrong problem”. The problem isn’t that I have to steer my car. The problem is I need a fucking car to go anywhere worth going.

I get a lot of music from Bandcamp. Unfortunately while unemployed I’m not spending much money on fun

I’ve read that a lot of users, including youth, don’t really understand file systems because modern computers don’t make you.

Personally I think just letting people live in ignorance is a mistake. Some people can’t be helped but I think many could, if presented with learning opportunities, if the default wasn’t bad.

Sounds good. Having all the houses over there while everything else is over here was a stupid idea.

I’m sure there are people who like their rolling sea of samey houses with no commerce, but some people have poor taste and bad ideas.

The CEO at my old company really likes the expression “Let’s fucking go” for some reason. Lots of “LFG” in the work chat. I guess he eats a lot of LinkedIn slop or something.

But to me, “LFG” means looking for group. I’m sitting here like why is the CEO spamming for group content during the work day, and he’s not even saying what role he’s playing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite_bourgeoisie ?

Although members of the petite bourgeoisie can buy the labour of others, they typically work alongside their employees, unlike the haute bourgeoisie. Examples can include shopkeepers, artisans and other smaller-scale entrepreneurs.

Ive been assuming since Sarah Palin that Alaska is majority idiots.

That’s not even a sensible usage of “exception proves the rule”. Not surprised a shithead uses language poorly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule

Good to know. I had some trouble a couple months back getting wifi and Ethernet working, and learned my phone can provide Internet over USB.

Things like this make me terrified to ride a bike on the street with nothing but a painted line between me and tons of speeding metal.

We just need to get people to link RTO mandates and jury nullification in the public consciousness, and the problem will sort itself out.

Like, it’ll be weird that the whole staff was in the office and not a soul saw how the CEO drowned in the toilet, but who has time to investigate little quirk of office life?

Unfortunately some people probably read it and go “Yeah I should be the owner fucking this family over”

Some people just don’t care about other people and they should absolutely not be allowed to have power.

Without defining any of what that means, of course.

I think this is one of the core problems of humanity. People are driven mostly by feelings. I guess that works mostly okay on smaller scales or simpler worlds. Feeling like this field is better for grazing than that one is probably pretty harmless, and if your little 2000bce tribe dies out it’s not a global problem. But now we have very complex systems that affect millions of people, and idiots are still going “Well i just feel like shaking things up would be good”

This should surprise no one.

Anyone who thought “doge” was a good or even acceptable idea should not be allowed to participate in politics. Or play with small objects that may be a choking hazard.

I know a guy that’s doing at least once a week, probably more, commute from DC to New York City. To be a product guy at a like 5 person company. As if you really need to be in a shared office to move jira tickets, ask eng again “How’s that feature coming?”, and so on. The CEO is a crazy person.

The CEO is also making the front end developer guy who lives in Connecticut come into the office 2-3 times a week. So he can work on his web page, the one with the code stored on github.

I hate all this “return to office” stuff. I don’t care about management’s feelings or real estate investments, and I don’t care about people who hate their family and can’t focus at home. Making people commute is a pay cut and a blow against labor.

Go look at “Wealth to Scale” if you haven’t already: https://dbkrupp.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

The amount of money the rich have is obscene and hard to visualize.

Bandcamp gives you drm free copies of the music. I think you can do flac, mp3, or ogg. They do recommend downloading your copy after buying it because in rare cases something can be removed

I’ve bought some CDs directly and then ripped the music myself, too.

I’m from the US, but I don’t know its origins beyond what that wiki page says.

We need to find out who the guards and staff were so they can be held accountable.