Pico8 is not open source? TIL. That’s so odd.

Yeah YouTube ads are stubborn! But hey, por que no los dos? I run pinhole as my DNS on a little server and Ublock on all my end user machines.

It makes the web…bearable again.

Used to work in a public library. Majority of the job was walking people through “forgot password” which was never a simple affair, and getting to see what a Hotmail/Yahoo/AOL inbox looks like with like 90,000 unread because they gave their email to every store and web form they ever encountered.

Near drove me to madness.

Ah yes, all those books whose plots are being used as manuals these days. :( lol

The Giver was really neat. Accessible too. The movie adaptation was such a bad idea because I thought one of its strengths was how it was set in an ambiguous time, iirc. The reader’s visuals seemed really important for that story.

Oh wow, I actually haven’t read the Rama books (been meaning to!), but I vividly remember the flawed-but-wonderous PC adventure game. Have you played it by chance?

Haha, grokking abstract space-math associations maybe wasn’t my strength when I was like…7 or something (prolly still isn’t LOL). But I sure did enjoy crudely drawing the biots and aliens. :D

The soundtrack is still one of my favorites from any game, ever.

This humorous review is fun to watch, but there’s really good gameplay and stuff without commentary too. :)

https://youtu.be/Pu4n5YXPaMQ?si=adgsTuyyKWRXS8Xc

There’s been some surprising upsets recently though! We were all bracing for a fashy-wave but lots of progressive leaders have been elected lately, after it looked like their hardline iron-fist nationlist counterparts were gaining ground.

By no means a reason to take it easy and give them a breather, oh no! But we should definitely acknowledge every little bit of dystopia we manage to collectively avert. Even if only a little.

This but put your own floppy drives up on local listing sites for ridiculous prices. Lmao it’s almost too evil.

For quite a few years now I’ve practiced Capoeira!

I picked it because it was unique and interesting. Is it a fighting style? A dance? A game? Yes, actually! ;)

The philosophy of using it as a means to obtain freedom and an expression of such really resonated with me. Also, culturally, there’s just so much depth there.

…But also I like to tell people “It’s one of the only martial arts you can really show off at dance parties.” Lol

I actually teach it now. Most of my lifestyle involves a chair and glowing computer screen, so I wanted to look after my health and be able to move in really cool ways! :)

Capoeira for self defense: I’ll be the first to say, if you want the most efficient, quickest way to beat up a human being as soon as possible…this is probably not it.

BUT it’s quite a challenge on your cardiovascular system and you learn to move and flow in really neat tricky ways, which can be valuable to any martial artist or fighter. Over time, you almost learn to mind-read the other player, and even manipulate them into traps.

A Capoeirista with a solid grasp of the art knows when a movement is practical to defend themselves, vs. just for fun in a game, but a perk of training cartwheels and handstands is that “A capoeirista is never upside-down.” We can land on our hands and feet with equal confidence, and retaliate from many different awkward positions.

And I love how it’s a game too, and there’s even a music element to it. The kicks can be SCARY but we also place high value on demonstrating control to not incapacitate our training partners.

(This is why we separately practice contact work for practical scenarios outside the “roda” or circle of the game.)

It’s a lot of fun, and there’s so many nuanced layers to it. I am in agreement with a lot of posters here: “fighting” is a different skillset to martial arts, although martial arts helped.

I myself, thankfully, am not accustomed to violence, but I am always mentally training to spot and avoid trouble. I definitely have a leg up in a fight against the risks of a sedentary lifestyle though. 😆

Oh is that kinda like a raspberry or orange pi farm?

Sounds kinda RISCy in this economy…

I read a book like this once! It was like, “how to code badly.”

It was actually kinda fun.

+esseraC+

🤔

OMG I had a visit in elementary school from these guys! The school was a sad fundie kid-prison, but these guys were pretty neat. Rolled up a frying pan and did the blowing up a hot water bottle thing.

I find it so weird hearing about them again lol.

IDK, power to 'em. (Lol pun) Unlike a lot of nasty political preaching, I hope these guys are just being straight-edge motivators preaching the Gospel.

those who have obligations to the public.

I’m so glad I quit the library.

Same, but was a library clerk that was for “everything even vaguely computer-tasky for geriatrics and people 20+ who never touched a computer and don’t even know how their $3000 phone works.”

Yeah I had a plan when I quit: Quitting was the plan. Instant relief of so many mental symptoms I could name and some I probably couldn’t lol. Don’t care what happens now. Anything is better than that.

Without looking too far my prediction is to see 2 varations of replies mostly:

1.) I do something completely unrelated and enjoyable because my job is chill, or I’m good at it, and so on…

2.) I actually do my boss’s job and maybe even their bosses’ jobs, because I actually do the work that gets done, but am still paid at peon-level.

Used to work in this exact environment. This tormented me daily.

Along with crap like “You look pretty smart.” or “Hey I bet you’re a genius.”

Or just typing their email address into the URL bar.

Or just barking at you “PRINT.”

Or “Why this no work, I click ‘E’ for ‘internet’.” (We had a stubbornly archaic IT lead who insisted on keeping Internet Explorer around for ages.)

singing The Lion Sleeps Tonight…

“reeHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE–EE–Eaally ya-sure ya-wan-nadothaaat?”

(rm -rf, rm -rf, rm -rf)

All sound advice, but coming across the extra capital to invest, much less in your 20’s, is a harder prospect than it sounds for most people these days.

I’m not sure if you can get fractionals of SPY or VTI, but $300-500 a paycheck or even a month of money you can’t use on the moment is a hard ask for much of the working class.

It’s less like “Stop the avocado toast and lattés and netflix” and more “If you stopped buying a new graphics card every month you could afford stonks that will be mature when you are elderly.”

Lol like, we aren’t living in luxury and frivolous with our money in the first place, it usually poofs away into food and rent these days. (And gas and the car, if you aren’t in one of VERY few places that are walk and bike friendly.)

But for people who have it. This is a sound strategy. On that note, I have a relative who’s got very few expenses, often broke…and they’re constantly buying new full-priced releases on Steam. This degree of resource mismanagement vexes me so. Lol

Omg you knocked it out of the park with this one. Everything is such a race to the bottom in this system.

It’s always about competitive undercutting, and what’s the most ruthless cold-blooded calculations one can get away with, and this Type A disease of being obsessed with zero-sum conflict to reveal who’s the absolute best of everything.

“Why can’t we just chill and it’ll get there when it gets there?”

“What?! Look at (for example) China! Do you see them chilling? No! They normalized 12 hour shift burnout before us, this will increase their production 3%, and then undercut us by 12% and steal all our business and we’re screwed! So we need to squeeze our people harder to beat them!”

“…And then they’ll squeeze their people harder…so…?”

“…”

“…”

“This might be a good time to inform you we expect you to train the new overseas team before we’ll surprise ambush-fire your entire department.”

…Repeat the above but for undocumented immigrant labor…then maybe child labor…then probably right back around to slavery again…

“Oh no we all agreed this would be so bad for humanity, but gee, the competition did it and we wanna stay competitive so…”

Man seriously why can’t we all just be doing our own thing lol…

Fantastic thought-provoking points here. You’re right, that’s something I had kinda forgotten about when I wrote before:

Helping-professionals are (ideally) in those professions to help people, so their employers essentially hold patients/clients/students up as shields.

You’re right, to change things would require a cultural shift that sees providers as “people” rather than “services.” But generally it would be an extremely difficult PR war to sell to the people who require such services.

The soulless bosses are basically comic book villains: They know heroes will put themselves at considerable risk for the greater good, but won’t risk the harming of innocents…

…so the greedy ownership class hides behind those innocents and, what’s worse, trains them to accept such a low standard that any action that would drop that standard would turn the peoples’ anger against the heroes who already sacrifice so much to help them.

I hate not knowing what to do past understanding what’s so wrong. :(