• Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager
• Fear of Girls
• The Steven Segal Show (Ken McIntyre)

In the early days of Windows, it was semi-common for people to customize their cursors. You’d see some pretty weird and fun stuff sometimes.

I think Windows becoming the standard locked-down for work platform contributed to stifling that creative impulse in users.

https://www.thedissident.news/the-last/

It’s a sobering article. Predicting the economic future is always going to depend on numerous variables. Hopefully it won’t be this bad.

In addition, some couples will even divorce when one of them gets a terminal diagnosis, just to avoid screwing the survivor.

In the US: a big gotcha is medical debt.

Surviving spouses are often stuck with the debt after the patient dies.

It’s one of the many reasons that when you check into a hospital they make you and your spouse sign all kinds of paperwork.

It’s usually the first thing they make you do, and why they roll out that stupid computer cart. Making sure you can and will pay (even after death) is all they really care about. Doing it right when you come in (scared and seeking help) is when they love to pounce.

Providing actual healthcare is way down the list of priorities. I’m talking about owners and admins, not providers.

Yes, it’s very predatory. Murica.

Reminds me of all those “tech magazine” articles years ago saying “akshually Edge is a really good browser” after the entire planet only used it to download some other browser instead.

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Very little on here or reddit is worth preserving IMO. Sure, there are some gems in the mountains of shit. But those are mostly the “technical answers to technical questions” variety.

Was watching TV with the dog next to me on the couch. A song I like came on and I sang along and my dog stared at me in amazement. Since then, she doesn’t care when I sing. I think it was just a one time surprise.

10 moneys minus 2 taxes plus 0.44 scintillas plus 69 because pr0n.

Being adult is highly overrated. Look at all the “serious” people ruining the world with their greed and selfishness. Never let the inner child die. Children inherently understand morals that adults corrupt with religion and over-thinking.

The last guy we want promoting good things. He will curse them with his waxy Elder Things notions.

Nobody wants Clippy OS, Microsoft. Good part is, they are edging more people to Linux.

There are so many users on both that exclusively (or nearly exclusively) contribute “gotcha” replies only. Never an original thought or comment. They only want to “call out” others. Sniper-camper mentality. You can easily see it in their histories. I block them aggressively.

“Men don’t communicate.” There are multiple modes of communication. If you know, you know.

Dumb. One of the few things LLMs are good at is correcting spelling. That’s a lot of effort for an ineffective “poison”.

Local Discords are hit or miss, but at least where I live (mid sized city) there are several for various hobbies and activities. There’s also one for the city itself that’s active. People on the city channel mostly bitch about local news/politics, but will try to help folks looking for social groups.

Nextdoor has a shitty reputation (for good reason) but sometimes you can find a few sane / helpful people on there, too. They might be able to at least suggest some local groups and events in meatspace.

Hot and Sour soup always makes me feel better.

Can only speak for myself. I use AI tools almost daily to help me pursue my hobby. I find it very useful for that. But when I enjoy art produced by a human, on some level I want to connect with the human experience that produced it. Call it parasocial if that helps. But I’m always at least a little interested in the content creators, not just the content.

I know some people consume content like a commodity or product. I’m not judging those people at all. But I’m generally not like that myself. I want to know the story behind the creation.