They’ll get more votes but people are still going to vote strategically because what choice do they have.

There are more useful web apps than before but blog/affiliate sites are a plague.

That said if I could make a ton of money by clogging up the internet with garbage content then I would. There is nothing holy about this place.

I don’t think it’s about being doomed and giving up. For me it’s just accepting the fact that a change of course is going to happen at whatever rate it is going to happen because the people who are driving it will do whatever they are compelled to do or want to do. Whether that is fast, or slow, or not at all barely feels like any of my business. I do what I can individually.

I went to a climate protest in Canada last week and it was way to tame to actually get anything accomplished.

The main part of the protest was walking down a main artery. For protesters, there is incentive to walk slowly and spread out to make the walk longer and disrupt status-quo longer, but the organizers clearly only had permission to march for a specific duration so they were in the back hurrying people forward so we’d stay within our allotted time window. Maybe 30 minutes. Once a year. It was pointless.

Add to that that 90% of the people there were exactly the people you’d expect to be there and it just felt like a waste of time.

Ugh I really want to out the company I work at. Of all companies we should be going and advocating for remote.

But we aren’t. ‘Because being with each is SO valuable’.

Some actual low-res examples:

https://thedebrief.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-10.44.44-AM-1024x804.png

Political or not a non-profit is a non-profit. Unity defines charity some new way I guess.

I had a different reaction to the notification led. I don’t like my electronics glowing or blinking in the dark. I still liked my old android tablet, but it had to sleep face down because I could not turn the LED off.

A little less than the last big one I went to, but not bad. Several thousand people for sure. Critical mass during the walk. The large majority of people bail during the end speeches.

I feel the same way about durability but apparently usb-c is rated to 10,000 insertions. Idk though. The lightning port has been very solid in regular use but I can’t say the same about the usb-c ports I’ve known.

Eventually wireless charging will be the standard so it might not matter as much for phones.

I went to one on Friday (not NY) AMA

Overrated. The real perk is learning how to not eat it all at once

Is there a word for it? When I posted it I was hoping someone might correct me :)

I definitely do! But you go on believing what you need to believe babe.

I made the argument that it’s expensive but it was more based on the idea that I can get a cheapo used console with a few games and that’ll do me for a whole generation. That and I think that PC gaming has a deeper void to get sucked into (mainly keyboards and monitors)

But now a couple weeks later and I realize that I really enjoy my crappy business desktop PC and I could see building a PC in the future.

They each have their advantages. When I go to a friends house we play console. At home I’d rather play PC, if I had the choice.

Ya I think that’s a common sentiment when looking at the out-group but I don’t think it says all that much about me.

Huh? What’s a self referential comment?

I feel like you are all trying to make me upset and it’s just not going to happen. I think too little of you.

I do love ma burgers. You like… what? Grass? Maybe starving if the mood is right?

It was built for rich republicans and now it’s home to their base.

Not american but I get the memo that you think everyone who disagrees with you is a specific brand of person.

Bunch of qtard lookalikes to me.