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This guy's videos are one of the few things on youtube (other than music videos) I'll watch sometimes.

I've got to a couple protests but they feel like they're just for show. They're not disruptive. They're not making clear, actionable, demands. They're better than nothing. i saw people handling out flyers so maybe some people went to more meetings.

But I feel like there needs to be more specific stuff. Like, a demand that musk be removed from government, or trump be removed via the 14th amendment, or whatever, and that needs to be backed by "if you don't listen to us, then you don't get any more labor". (Violence, I'm told, is less effective, but can also be there in the subtext)

But actually organizing large things is hard, especially when the state and the money are opposing you.

I can't even get my friends to suffer the mild inconvenience of getting off facebook, nevermind getting off the couch.

People are weirdly, emotionally, invested in meat. Like it's part of their identity.

I enjoy the taste of meat but I recognize it's not good for the environment or the animals. So I avoid eating meat. It's not a big deal. But for some people they act like you're going to eat them and bury their bones in an unmarked grave.

If people wondered what they would do during the 1930s, now we know.

A lot of people would cheer for the Nazis.

I know I'm not doing enough, and it's depressing as heck. Most people I know are doing less. No protests. Not talking about it. Just head in the sand.

This kind of problem falls under "communicating badly and acting smug when misunderstood". Use parenthesis and the problem goes away.

https://xkcd.com/169/

The other day some guy was walking his dog outside in the city. The dog took a shit, and the guy just kept walking. I made eye contact but didn't say anything. Just shook my head and kept walking.

We were heading in the same direction and after a bit I got to my destination and stopped. He stopped a little ahead and let his dog take another shit. He looked back at me and said something like "you wanna pick this one up? Coward."

I don't know but for that moment I was emotionally ready to murder him. He's literally making the world a shittier place, and for nothing. I don't want that kind of selfish shithead just walking around without consequences.

Well, lucky for me I'm not armed and have impulse control. He was bigger than me and I don't know how to fight. I yelled at him that he's a shithead or something inarticulate, and he laughed and kept walking.

Fuck that guy. I hope he gets hit my a truck and bleeds out in a shit filled ditch.

Most email is short. I don't see a need to summarize it. Google is run by idiots and assholes.

If Biden had been up there saying that about a political opponent … it would make headlines all over the world.

It's like the "only Democrats have agency" thing.

When Democrats fuck up we're like wow they really screwed up, look at these bad choices, they're fucked up.

When Republicans fuck up we're just like well yeah that's what they do. You don't get mad at the sun for setting or a fire burning. Sometimes we act like they're just immutable forces of nature instead of human jerks.

We don't really hold Republicans to any standards.

It went basically like any reasonable person expected it to. Unfortunately many people in the US are unreasonable

Oh yeah that's the Peter principle I think. Or closely related.

Someone is good at job A, so they promoted to B. They're good at B, so they get promoted to C. They're kind of bad at C, so they stay there.

Over time, all roles fill up with people who are kind of bad.

I've been stuck on this thought that people making decisions are often idiots.

We're sort of told that management is smart. That big business leaders are visionaries. If someone's the director of engineering they're probably smart right?

No. They're just people. People that have the skills to get promoted, but those aren't the same skills to do anything else.

I think it would matter less if there was more competition and more stakes. If some business puts idiots in charge and the whole company dies, okay. But instead we have Google just shitting the bed for years, and there aren't consequences.

This is a capitalist hell

MacOS by default hides scroll bars. They're big on form over function which I hate.

Some people are just like that.

I knew a couple that mounted their TV in a way that all the ports (eg: HDMI) were inaccessible. They just didn't care that a big chunk of the TV's functionality was now blocked. They didn't want to see wires.