I'm glad it's not just me lol every so often I'll think "I haven't done a python project in a while I'll try FastAPI" or something and I have so many issues just getting the env set up.
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This is such a bullshit take. "Oh sure, American cops are brutalizing children now but did you know they also brutalized children before? Oh you didn't? Oh, you aren't completely numb to the encroaching totalitarianism of the American empire? You know it's been happening for decades, right? Why bother being upset about it now when you should have been upset about it in the '70s? and by '70s I mean the 1770s lmao"
Seriously STFU with this. We know it's been happening. The problem is that it's still happening, and as long as it is happening it's newsworthy.
There used to be a tool called WheelOfLunch that would grab nearby restaurants and put them on a giant Wheel-of-Fortune style wheel and let you spin it. Used it to break many "where should we go" logjams in the office. It was nice
I know I was being flippant. What I mean is, the few (several...) times I've gotten into internet arguments I am always drained and unhappy and profoundly do not want to do it anymore, even if I am arguing over sincerely held beliefs. I guess I can see why trolling can be addictive, eliciting engagement is a kind of power over people, and power is addictive. And arguing over things I don't care about probably takes a lot less emotional investment than things I do care about... I feel like I'm talking myself into being an internet troll. Still though, seems like a miserable way to get your rocks off :/
Well this is bullshit I have ADHD where the heck is all the dopamine?
A practical addendum to that last point: I am eternally grateful that I am too old to have had to deal with the current landscape of app-based dating, so I am definitely commenting on something out of my experience, but I would advise trying to meet people in real life and make non-romantic friends, rather than "trying to date". Book clubs, Ultimate frisbee leagues, activism groups, etc. I met my partner doing community theater. I think if you want to find someone you can be friends with as well as partners, you have to try being just friends first. And it doesn't always progress beyond that, and sometimes that sucks like a bastard. But I still think it's better than the alternative methods I've seen.
Who's going to be doing this railroading? It's going to be up to you and whoever you decide to have a relationship with to decide what your roles in the relationship will be. When I started getting serious with my partner (now cohabitating over a decade and going strong), we both thought we were cishet little ex-christians. But we were buddies from the start, and that hasn't changed even when we started to question our gender identities. For all I know, it may have been the fact that we were in a stable, loving relationship for the first time in both our lives that made it safe enough to start exploring that aspect of ourselves. I know for us it took (is taking...) a while. I loved them when they thought they were a woman, I love them now as their NB self, and if they discover more about their gender identity I'll love them then. We're still, and will hopefully always be, partners and best buds.
So if you want to try being in a relationship with a girl, find a girl you like, and love her.
Haters will say it's fake:
I wouldn't say it was a number one favorite, but I feel like the internet isn't the same without timecube.com
TW: conspiracy nonsense, racism, crimes against grammar https://web.archive.org/web/20050829015921/http://www.timecube.com/
I wonder if MTG is the Republican Party experiencing the 4chan effect: if you build your community around pretending to be batshit insane, you'll eventually attract genuinely batshit insane people who aren't in on the joke. It could be that she doesn't realize most of the elected GOP is just pretending to go along with the right-wing outrage du jour to support their cult, and she's genuinely confused about why they're no longer interested in the epstein affair.
That, or she just sees the writing on the wall and is trying to distance herself from it. Either way, fuck her and the shitbags she made a bed with.
Dinosaurs are a profit center, fences are a cost center.
Speaking of, I am a little familiar with this group https://generalstrikeus.com/
I don't see it discussed much in fediverse channels, and I don't really know why. Curious to hear what people think of them. But they're the only group pushing for a general strike that I can think of off the top of my head.