Xero

@Xero@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's scary"- Scientists finding mounting evidence of plastic pollution in human organs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And one of the most powerful characters in the DCU, godlike power and immortality. He was Luffy long before Luffy was a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything old is new again.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why I prefer them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything old is new again.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I value those licenses and medallions more than any rideshare contract.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything old is new again.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I will, I prefer taxis and never use the apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started working at age 13 back in 1980 because I wanted money to buy GI Joes, and comic books. So I started going to construction jobs with my shithead father on Saturdays and helped him put up sheetrock. My first legitimate job was the summer I turned 15, I was big for my age so I started doing deliveries for a furniture store, worked there for two summers until I was fired after a workplace injury. The guy I worked with was a racist Italian from Whitestone New York, and I was a smart slightly autistic black kid. His delivery truck only had one seat so I stood in the open door on the right side holding on for dear life. One day we were moving a heavy office desk upstairs and I was bringing up the rear, he lost control which resulted in the desk sliding downstairs and slamming me into a wall. My ribs were badly bruised so after I got home the store panicked and fired me, they probably thought we were going to sue. Anyway I went into a deep depression and couldn’t leave my room for a month. One of my therapists later told me that it was the first appearance of my bipolar disorder.

  I was legally employable, and of age but still got hurt on the job. I just had shithead employers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg: Actually, Threads Is Great, Approaching 100M Monthly Active Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it weird that I think of an ouroboros every time I see the Threads logo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨98 years worth of progress.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The brain drain on Reddit now makes reading some of the forums I used to follow very painful. The level of discourse, the turn of phrase, the obscure references that now now end at the 2000s instead of going back decades. The depth of knowledge there has shallowed because the kids who grew up reading and upvoting our posts, who lived vicariously through our old ass generation, are now in charge, and many of them have no real world knowledge to share.

  I remember life before the internet, I remember black and white television, I remember seeing the Beatles live on television, I remember how rap started because I was there, I remember nuclear drills because I lived under Reagan, I remember MTV when they played music videos, I lived through the first World Trade center bombing, and 9/11 in New York.

  I went from the Commodore 64 and dialup internet in the 80s, to building my first computer in the 90s. I remember buying Red Hat Linux in a box at Barnes & Noble, and then slowly watching Linux get better, I even watched Android mature from nothing to where it is today. Working in publishing for two decades allowed me to see the development of ebooks. I even saw portable music develop from my walkman, to a CD player, to the bulky ugly ass mp3 player I defaulted to because I rejected Apple.

  These kids on Reddit now remember some basic ass shit from the oughts.

  I apologize for the old man’s rant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A long time ago I reasoned that the poorest least educated of us would be functional illiterates for whom a separate glyph based language would be created. A smiley face does not require reading comprehension or analysis, nor does it produce a populace that asks questions.

  I don’t think the landholders who run this shit want more than fifty percent literacy from the serfs who will be beholden to their grandchildren. Too many smart serfs would endanger their legacies, and too few would render the industrial collective serviced by their human capital uncompetitive.

  The next few decades will be about them figuring out just how many smart motherfuckers they need, and how to keep those firecrackers too frightened to start a revolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel Studios' The Marvels | Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here here. I loved the Ms Marvel series and didn’t hate the Captain Marvel film.