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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The hypocrisy is unreal. I have been successfully holding onto my final shred of hope in the goodness of humankind, but this tips the scale. I give up. Now I only have despair in the badness of humunkind. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to drown my sorrow by bingeing on Napster, Scour, BitTorrent, newsgroups, and Gnutella.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pipeline⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
COUGH-Applebee’s-COUGH
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Now that right there is some Buddahriffic wisdom. As someone who has destroyed a keyboard in frustrated anguish, I can say the satisfaction was dismally ephemeral and every time I found a loose key for months afterward, I felt ashamed of my impulsive and violent behavior.

Although, in the exact moment in which the keyboard exploded into shrapnel, the satisfaction was intense, although I think the novelty of the situation and the personal distraction it caused were the real source of the delight. When I turned back to my sorely inadequate and poorly behaved workstation, the feelings of frustration quickly flooded back, only worse now that I needed to find a new keyboard…and waste time cleaning up the old one.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That’s pretty wild and really cool to ponder. Battery placement and balancing its weight safely seems like a steep hurdle for bolt-on EV conversions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I like the way you think. When Tesla tanks and gets sold off for pennies, could you please start a Tesla Conversion business? I’d like to have a useful EV pickup that can carry a slide-in truck camper. I don’t need any of that self-driving shit or connections to the Cloud or giant touch screens. Just pedals, gauges, levers, buttons, and a steering wheel.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I have duly upvoted your obvious sarcasm.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Elon Musk's favorite news influencer is capitalizing on his clout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That’s the thing I can’t fully understand. What sticky secret sauce does Twitter have that keeps people on it? I never saw its appeal and never created an account. I tried Bluesky and was underwhelmed. Instagram had some stickiness, but then it got stale after the initial novelty wore off. Maybe my brain just isn’t wired for those types of social media.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Perhaps you should feel concern for that person, because they’re resorting to violence to cope with their feelings of frustration. We’ve all done it and in my own experience, I don’t think I’ve ever come back to my senses feeling satisfaction that I had lost control. I usually feel some shame for the destruction I caused.

Here is the problem: When you spend time thumping an inanimate object, like a pillow, or beating nonliving things in a rage room, you are conditioning yourself to quickly become aggressive next time your anxiety levels rise. So instead of opening up the escape valve on a pot of steam, you are rewarding your distressed feelings with the instant and ephemeral pleasure that comes from throwing dishes against a wall.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Hey, whatever heuristic works for helping people show and feel respect for their environment and the things in it is good in my book. If you’re capable of respecting others in your space without needing to be polite to your inanimate tools, then good on you. Not everyone is like that and if it helps someone feel peace with their surroundings to imagine everything around them has some kind of soul or feelings worthy of consideration, then I’ll take that, too.

Of course, there are limits to everything and if a tool irreparably breaks, hopefully someone is able to discard it accordingly. Pathological hoarding of useless objects is a thing, too, after all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In what activities do you personally engage to cultivate your intellect?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I was of the understanding reading books had fallen out of favor and reality shows, endless scrolling, 24/7 news, and podcasts were the new and supposedly best way to expose oneself to entertainment disguised as information.

What’s your preferred method of acquiring knowledge and exercising your intelligence to hit the proverbial ‘ensmartment button’?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sounds like you better get busy on building that ensmartering button then, because exposure to knowledge through books and other educational media is the only way I know of to become smarter. I suppose healthy living facilitates the process greatly, as well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I mean, c’mon books. Why you gotta be so wordy?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Circle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I want to leave to ensure the safety of those closest to me.

But I also want to stay and fight like hell.

Unfortunately, even if the immediate fascism were beaten back, I have very little faith in anything but capitochristofascism’s resolve to continue to be absolutely shitty, and general American ignoarrogance to reign supreme, for the rest of my life.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I prefer to see things go by the way of The Last Question
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Steal what people have to lose and they’ll start acting like they’ve nothing left to lose…

The sheer unfairness of it stings and festers, I agree and feel the same as you. There’s some solace in knowing there was never really anything I could have done differently, except perhaps lived a little more decadently, although I’m not sure that would have made me much happier at the time and probably would have made me even more poorly prepared, mentally, for the austerity to come.

My parents were strategic geniuses for having this book in the house when I was a kid. I believe it helped my slow lifetime acceptance of the ‘life is no fair’ fact. Image
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’ll be interesting to see if it stands up to the test of time. For better or worse, I replaced my VTI index ETF with VTV to avoid the highest p/e offending tickers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Replace button with book and press with read and yup.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
And stock options.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Circle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Be a Patriot Fleeing America before you are threatened feels a lot like obeying in advance. By George Packer for The Atlantic
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

…warning it could create a culture of fear as the administration pushes employees to report on one another.

Bingo…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists create world-first touchable 3D holograms that float in air⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Perhaps pokable is a more apt description.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The good old days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s blunt.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember how popular the group Head Cleaner was?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Got their CD when it first came out. The weirdest track ran along a ring of little brush tufts coming out of the CD surface. This band had some serious experimentalism happening.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Glad to see you’re all-in on this rebellion, Han. I hope your Isu-Sim SSP05 is in full working order for the actions ahead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Trump Performance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
He’s just playing 5D golf.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Why? She’ll obviously suffer from back problems at some point, compounded by cigarette smoke. She’ll need a good chiro when the aches and spasms start
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not republicountenance? Or visagyny?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WARNING!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My resume/rap sheet lists neither of those labels explicitly, but I’m sure it’s a little of both.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WARNING!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well duh. Why would you buy it when you can just use it in the store and leave it back on the shelf after you’re done?