The hold outs for these sites are so fucking dumb. They act like social media is somehow an important part of their existence when just 10, 20 years ago it was an emerging technology. These early iterations of social media are toxic as fuck. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They don’t deserve your patronage and are taking your goodwill and turning it into social decay.

10-20 years and you people can’t give it up for something better. There is no argument. You don’t owe them loyalty. They aren’t innovating. They have contributed to the rise of authoritarianism.

Yeesh.

For sure. How many times has the end is nigh reared it’s head in the last 40yrs

I’m trying man but all I see is hate and fear win. Like just now I was thinking we know trumps going to make another authoritarian grab for power. No matter the results. I know they put some protections in if he loses and they seem pretty decent.

What about if he wins, though?

He’s signaled his intent should we not warn our citizens about what to do when certain things happen?

When Trump exercises the new powers that the supreme court granted him, what should the people do?

When Trump expels anyone not loyal to him from the government? What do we do?

When he opens concentration camps to round up immigrants, what should we be doing?

It’s all but too late but how stupid it would be if the DNC left it all up to chance.

Apologies

It’s pessimistic but it does help calibrate you on what to be grateful for. Say, somehow, we are on the brink of a utopia and we just don’t know it. Except the people today won’t be alive to experience it. For us, this would be as good as it gets.

That one article claiming to have cured a person with type I diabetes. I don’t really put stock into it but at one point HIV was thought to be incurable and they made breakthroughs like this, one at a time.

I’ll go. One thing that always gives me pause is crime rates are way down in the US.

I think Beverly Hills is supposed to be grating. Like the people from Beverly Hills.

You have exclusive rights to any foam peanuts that come my way.

The older I get the more impatient I get with stupid tasks that take longer then they should. I simplify my life by focusing on the task ahead of me. Knowing these small tasks compound into the final goal.

So when I am looking through 17 different folders for a file I can’t remember what I saved it as and I’m sorting by date and opening things frantically…

‘it’s been 20 fucking minutes, should I just take the rest of the day to organize my shit? But if I get this fucking thing done I can setup a meeting on this today and fit it in this week before Juan goes on vacation and I have to wait two weeks to place an order that will take 6 months to deliver.’

‘Fuuuuuuuuu where the fuck is this file, I’ll just start from scratch and I’ll be done by 2pm just in time for it to go on the calender so everyone can seee. Or maybe i just look another 15 minutes wheeerreeeee the fuckkkk did I save this?!?!’

'Bullshit bullshit bullshit!"

Google: how to find file.

Google: how to find file just working on.

Google: how to find excel file by date, most recent.

Google: file not in recent, why come?

Google: did I dream this nightmare wake me, wake me, wake me.’

Lol, hear comes the captured supreme court defenders.

Ok, but like, it’s not wrong.

If you can’t say anything nice skibidi

Yeah, something morally ok. Legality is not in play here. This is the untied states king we’re talking about. If he does it, it is legal.

Ok, cutey

I would have said ponyo or maybe spirited way.

No, this is how my wife describes it, lol.

Hah, I made this username as tribute to the best dog I ever had. We put her down 2 years ago today. Depression was something we had in common. Her sigh was more recognizable than her bark. When she passed we had to get our aging cat a new friend and got her the most skittish little kitten pal. They get along ok, bout the same as with the dog.

Eitherway, it’s just cats from now on. The dog took up too much space in my heart and don’t want to have to make room for another.

Good luck with 3 catgirls, tho. If they are anything like my cat they will leave a mark.

Yeah, never been a big football fan my entire life. After starting a serious career I kinda got swept up into it.

I realized in my early 20s I do actually enjoy spectating when I started following e-sports. I was disaffected for a while when that whole space got taken over by influencers, though.

To me it comes down to story lines. I love a great story, as we all do, and professional competition you get to see them unfold in real time. You get to root for your side as it happens and then connect with the people who were there too.

So, hoping to expand my list of topics for small talk football seemed like an easy win. I dunno, not everyone needs social lubricant but it helps for me to have something to ease my anxiety.

I still am a bit behind on all the mechanics but started playing fantasy and it helps get more fimilar with the players.

People reading this probably think I’m a real doofus because this comes natural to them. For me though, it’s like discovering a whole new genre of music and getting to hear the hits for the first time.

That someday I would be free from the social trappings that invade our personal lives.