Misread as 71% of Americans want [Taylor] Swift to end Trump’s Iran war. I was like I didn’t know she was in politics, or had that power.

And the people who run this shit need to go to jail. I’m sure a lot of them would rat out their corrupt buddies for a reduced sentence.

There’s that political cartoon that’s like two people on bikes through a beautiful downtown, and one says to the other “If anyone tried to add bike lanes like this back home, I’d murder them”

Good. I look forward to a future where people who fought transit have their lives improved by it, even if they’re too small minded and foolish to recognize it.

I went back to windows for a little bit a couple years ago because when I tried to install mint on the new desktop, Ethernet WiFi and HDMI didn’t work. I tried some fixes but it was a real shit show.

After a little while on windows, I went with pop!_os , which worked out of the box

They’re not smart or visionary. They’re just rich. They sell us a myth that they’re titans but it’s a lie.

It’s all projection. They have poor empathy and poor critical thinking, so they think everyone is basically like them. That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, except they’re also a bunch of toxic submissive types that will always yield to perceived authority.

They’re shit people. Failures to live up to human potential.

It would be cruel to make this a gif that every few seconds changes the text to clown goths only

I don’t think so. I think it looked like a normal rectangle flash drive, but with some buttons on one side.

Oh! It was the creative nomad muvo, the model without the screen. Looking online it was actually two pieces- the flash drive part slid onto the audio part? Man, it’s been a while.

Maybe around 2003? It was a weird little device that was also an MP3 player. It had a headphone jack, play/pause/next/prev, and that was it. Was like 128mb and played mp3s in order they were written to the device, I think.

I thought it was really cool, but maybe not my best purchase.

Nationally, 66% of young people ages 18-29 voted for a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, compared to 31% for a Republican candidate (NORC Civic Health & Elections Project).

There’s always this ~30% insane floor. Like, about a third of the population are just broken in their heads. I don’t know how you can run a society indefinitely like that.

I’ve been applying to jobs because this is the bad place, and one of them required applicants take this horrible “Rembrant Portrait Personality Test”. It was like a mix of this and Bladerunner “you look down and see a tortoise” questions.

They don’t care about facts. They just say stuff for the effect. Which is a kind of stupid but maybe also just a different thing, something broken in their soul.

I work at a multinational mega Corp, but not one you’ve probably heard of. I am very disengaged.

For one thing, I’m technically a “contractor”. I have to go to all the meetings, but I don’t technically work for them. They give me the legal minimum of paid time off, but only after I looked up what my rights are and fought them for it. They don’t pay for holidays. They say “have a nice Thanksgiving” and then dock me two days pay.

The pay is insulting. I’m making less than I made ten years ago.

There’s no technical leadership. These people are supposed to be doing python. They don’t know what unit tests are. They barely know how imports work. Trying to change everything is a months long battle and emotion massaging exercise. The people in charge don’t understand or care.

They do love AI though. Lots of AI generated code. They don’t understand it but it looks so slick. Vomit.

So fuck them. I used to go out of my way to fix problems and promote good practices. Not anymore. I hope the upper management and owners suffer.

They’re probably not even renewing contractors past the end of the year anyway.

The part of capitalism where the owner sits back, the workers do the work, and the owner keeps the profits is not necessary. It is in fact fucked up.

You can have competition without that. (You can have other bad things too- it’s not a magic cure-all for workers to own the business)

Good. I’m sick of this “oh you’re not an employee we just treat you like one” nonsense.

The place I work abuses “contractors” like that. Full time responsibility, but less pay and no benefits.

This is a hard hitting point. We could have a better world, but a few rich people and their enablers don’t want it.

I wouldn’t be interested in going hunting myself.

I would disapprove of hunting for sport.

If someone does hunt and it’s actually for food or whatever, I don’t like it but it’s not such a priority that I’m going to die on that hill.

That’s a lot of money that could have been spent on useful things. What a scum bag

I haven’t heard of it being banned. Source and details?