SnotFlickerman
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- Comment on May your dumpster fire burn far and wide 1 hour ago:
Hide it in a dumpster, NO! I’m gonna let it shine.
- Comment on I want a boyfriend, but I feel like I don't deserve to have one, and I keep alternating between those two thoughts which is making me feel confused. Is this normal? 2 hours ago:
That’s… Depression.
- Comment on I want a boyfriend, but I feel like I don't deserve to have one, and I keep alternating between those two thoughts which is making me feel confused. Is this normal? 3 hours ago:
I’d find it embarrassing because I’m gross.
It sounds like you’re suffering from depressive issues. Everyone deserves love and nearly everyone is sexually attractive to at least someone. With roughly 4 billion potential mates (give or take a few hundred million), you have what is honestly near infinite possibilities for finding someone who loves you for who you are.
However, it might help to get help for the depression first. Anyway, everyone deserves love and to be desired. That includes you.
You have been single for ten years, it’s time to free yourself and at least try to find someone. As someone else who is single and also struggles with depression, I wish you all the best.
- Comment on Most time travelers probably have investments in Apple and Micosoft 9 hours ago:
I don’t remember a time travel plot in that show.
Rob Corddry was in Hot Tub Time Machine though.
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 1 day ago:
To be fair, Joshua R. Simmons has since changed their name to Robin Riley and now goes by they/them pronouns which I did not notice noted anywhere on the matrix.org website. They’re still the same person who has been running the foundation for a long time, so I hope I can be forgiven for not realizing their updated pronoun status. So, you’re correct that they are no longer going by he/him pronouns, but I really don’t know much past that.
I mentioned in the original post that I found a reddit thread where they talked about their pay and the breakdown of finances. They pull in roughly a million a year, and 50% roughly goes to staffing, which means with 8 other people in the organization, everyone else is making about $60k a year if we’re going to talk about underpaying people for their jobs. That’s all the other executives and the entire trust and safety team.
Once again, if they’re failing at their job to keep the project funded, that’s when you make sacrifices to make it work.
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 1 day ago:
Does that matter if he is failing to secure enough funding to run the non-profit? If they’re risking shutting down major portions of what they do as the guiding foundation for the Matrix protocol, isn’t that literally his fault since he’s in charge? If the non-profit fails are all the people who donated their fucking money in hopes of it succeeding going to be happy that instead of being willing to take a haircut on pay to save the damn organization he was instead using their donated funds to fund his fucking lifestyle instead of, I don’t know, living in a more modest area and doing more of the foundation business remotely?
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 1 day ago:
If they have to pay their Executive Director that much as a non-profit and are failing to meet their funding goals as a non-profit the amount he gets paid has fuck-all to do with where he lives, and has everything to do with him failing at his job to secure funding.
So we’re supposed to fund this guys lifestyle as people who donate to the project while the project itself twists in the wind? Give me a fucking break, dude. This is how you set your organization up for failure.
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 1 day ago:
Not trying to be a dick but the Executive Director can take a fucking pay cut.
I found a reddit thread from 4 months ago where he said his salary was $170k/year. I’m not saying he is making obscene money, but if that’s nearly 15% of all operating costs he can shave that down to $80k-$100k and still live comfortably if he’s willing to accept a more austere standard of living.
I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve to be paid well, but he’s getting a damn sight better pay than moderators and community managers who seem to make up 30% of the budget for multiple people.
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 2 days ago:
And take a burner phone if you must absolutely bring one.
- Comment on Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted 3 days ago:
My front-line guess is “Erotic Role Play” but I am not familiar with character.ai
- Comment on Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted 3 days ago:
It’s like cloud strike again
When The Cloud goes on Strike. Damn it they’re just asking for more power, Scotty!
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 3 days ago:
I think what a lot of people are missing here it’s that it’s a dialectic. It can be true that reading is important and it can also be true that reading isn’t always the best medium for understanding certain concepts. It’s not an either-or situation, rather it’s both, at the same time. I’m glad someone else recognizes that as well.
- Comment on Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted 3 days ago:
*Laughs in self-hosting services.
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 3 days ago:
Dad How Do I Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCNepEAWZH0TBu7dkxIbluDw
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 3 days ago:
to multitask with.
Rule 2 of adulting: Stop trying to multitask. Multitasking is a myth and impossible for humans to actually successfully do. The more things you try to do at once, the less effective and capable you are at each individual task. Literally not a single human alive is actually good at multitasking. I understand you have issues, but whether you like it or not, you’re reducing your effective capacity to “get shit done” by choosing to try to do this impossible thing called multitasking.
hbr.org/2010/12/you-cant-multi-task-so-stop-tr
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7075496/
…clevelandclinic.org/science-clear-multitasking-d…
npr.org/…/think-youre-multitasking-think-again
…mit.edu/…/multitasking-why-your-brain-cant-do-it…
neuroleadership.com/…/the-myth-of-multitasking - Comment on the illusion of human thinking 3 days ago:
You’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.
- Comment on Can't get DNS to work on web server 3 days ago:
Have you set up certificates with LetsEncrypt or something similar?
Since you’re running it on your own hardware and obviously have admin privileges, you could try out Certbot:
- Comment on Progressive values clashing 3 days ago:
endo and pcos are such horrible maladies… I wanted to laugh at this but it just made me wince.
- Comment on Spiritfarer Developer Thunder Lotus Reveals At Fate's End, An Action Game With Dialogue-Driven Combat 4 days ago:
Insult Sword Fighting taken to a new level.
- Comment on Super Meat Boy 3D: 15 Minutes of Gameplay 4 days ago:
I’m gonna love/hate this game just like the original.
- Comment on ChatGPT Mostly Source Wikipedia; Google AI Overviews Mostly Source Reddit 4 days ago:
Reddit, where the sources are made up and the points don’t matter.
- Comment on How to celebrate Pride 5 days ago:
Tops need support, too!
- Comment on How much support does the idea of "Mass Deportations" (in the USA) actually have? Do you actually know Americans IRL that support these policies? 5 days ago:
For context, two years after 9/11 upwards of 70% of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was directly connected to the attacks and wanted to invade Iraq.
Americans are not smart, and they are very racist.
Those of us who lived through the Dubya Bush years can attest to this. Even Dubya Bush wanted to give illegal immigrants amnesty and a path to citizenship but it was deeply unpopular so it never happened.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 5 days ago:
The police are violent thugs everywhere, not just Republican cities and states.
It’s because they have almost complete immunity from being prosecuted for wrongdoing and also, well, they are incredibly well armed and often use their monopoly on violence to threaten blue politicians.
I grew up in a city where cops didn’t like their own chief of polcie because he wanted to drug test the force regularly after several got caught doing drugs on the job. The chiefs own force stalked him, harassed him, made violent threats against him and his family, until he was ran out of town. The police union sued him and said drug testing them violated their rights. The police union won in court. Those drug tests never happened.
- Comment on Kept you waiting huh 6 days ago:
You saved this country and I still owe you dinner.
- Comment on Only $50? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Winging it 1 week ago:
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 1 week ago:
The story in 1 was also weak. When you’ve got shit like Disco Elysium out there, the pandering “ooh capitalism is big bad” while also not giving it a serious critique falls pretty flat.
The trailer for 2 even jokes about how its “by capitalism.”
- Comment on HIGH ON LIFE 2 Official Trailer 1 week ago:
They lost their main VA. I wonder if they’re gonna hire the same guys Adult Swim hired to replace Roiland on Rick and Morty.
- Comment on HIGH ON LIFE 2 Official Trailer 1 week ago:
Justin Roiland hasn’t been with Squanch Games since the abuse allegations and lawsuit regarding his sexual harassment of an employee. Roiland was not named specifically in the suit, but the suit was settled out of court and Roiland left Squanch at the same time, so we can all put 2 and 2 together and make “Roiland is a disgusting freak.”
He wasn’t even in the DLC from the first game, High on Knife.
So yeah, no worries on that front.
