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  • Rules of being nonbinary

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  • "You! Justify your happiness to me!"

    Wow, that line triggered something deep in the back of my brain.

    It encapsulates so much of the miserable negativity-first existence of the conservative culture I grew up in. And that's before you get into all the bigotry and that anybody who is different is scary and evil and the enemy.

  • Men r so nonchalant

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  • This is one generalized stereotype that fully applies to my wife and me.

    My chronically fatigued AuDHD ass barely has the mental energy to finish listening to her stories, much less somehow taking my internal state and synthesizing that into human speech.

    Fortunately, the upside to her being the extrovert is that she maintains our relationships with friends so that I get to have a normal-looking existence.

  • Reminds me of certain people and their flock

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  • I really like the Buddhist take, the three poisons. Greed, hatred, and ignorance.

    There are a lot of different ways to state each one, but damn if those don't sound like the RGB components of the varied spectrum of shit we have going on in the world.

  • Meme Checkpoint

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  • That is my right now at the midpoint of this three day weekend.

    Worth it now that I've stumbled upon your comment and this whole damn post!

  • Meme Checkpoint

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  • Thank goodness that isn't their default state. First officer Jean-Luc T. Lincoln over there world be incapable of leaving any women (or men) for the restv of us.

  • a drawing I made

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  • Thought 1: That setting kinda reminds me of pat of the quarters you get as the Arch-Mage of the College of Winterhold in Skyrim.

    Thought 2: So many hands! This image is both full of stuff that a generative model would suck at drawing, while also being a trap for us nerdy humans to examine them looking for AI screwups.

    Awesome job!

  • Does anyone else feel irritated when deeply religious people connect everything with god?

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  • Yeah it's annoying.

    But fairy tale creatures aside, recognizing and being grateful for any good luck, attributes, or privilege you might have is good for you and your empathy for others.

  • I have been logged out of my toothbrush

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  • Definitely this.

    My favorite addition to my HA from earlier this year is a simple waterproof thermometer that supports Zigbee. It has a little segmented LCD that I read when I am near it, but in Home Assistant I can pull up a graph of the readings for the entire year.

  • this xkcd is from 2013 (rule)

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  • Will [____] make us less caring? ...NO

    I love how well most of this has aged, but that line there feels very pre-2016 to me, unfortunately.

    And that's not even just hinting at politics and world events, but also about how much more we know about those empty experiences from the last line, and how they are meticulously engineered to fuck with people's brains for juuuust a bit more engagement.

  • Removed

    me_irl

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  • I haven't been a hat wearer for decades now.

    But getting ouside in full "farmer dad" mode away from the computers and phones and content, and having my toes in the grass while wearing one of my sun hats with the big-ass rim all the way around like a floppy mini sombrero to protect me from the daystar, now that's the stuff. Then I'm ready to get some shit done.

    Aside: I see you, person who is thinking about moving my hyphen. 😏

  • Immigrants don't take our jobs

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  • Sounds like her issue is their otherness, not their medical history.

    Racists and xenophobes are capable of believing some really stupid, easily disproven shit.

  • So easy to control

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  • I think it's not that "the dems" will save us, but that the structural flaws of our system mean that progressives getting into power at the federal level need to do so by winning democrat primaries.

  • Vibe management

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  • You would THINK that of all people on the planet, CEOs should understand the enshittification strategy.

    ...Or the board of directors, or the major investors, etc.

    If you outsource the entire value chain of your $million/billion business to the $trillions guys, how do you think that will go? What would YOU do in their place knowing you have all the leverage and none of the risk (re: the smaller companies being bled dry and left to rot)?

    It's funny to see it happen to other predatory tech companies like uber though.

  • Plex announces borderline offensive Lifetime Pass price hike

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  • I love being able to post this yet again:

    I have a lifetime Plex pass I got during a big sale like a decade ago, at 1/10 the price they are raising it to. I haven't used it in about 6 months and never plan to even log into it again. Jellyfin 4 life!

    I mean, I also have a whole bunch of windows keys from old MSDN accounts and stuff, but I am sure as shit not going to install Windows on my machines just because I can!

  • Accepting Cookies

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  • Yeah sure, give me whatever cookies aren't already blocked. I love cookies. Is that all of them?

    (closes LibreWolf, which nukes everything except whitelisted sites)

    ...pathetic.

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  • I have the fun privilege at work these days of being the guy who sometimes makes things work just by walking in the room.

    It feels like a tale as old as time. I'm one of the few software engineers working on the embedded code in our new product, and occasionally a technician or V&V tester or different discipline engineer will ask me to look at something acting funny. And I fully believe them, not just because they have no reason to lie but because "acting funny" is exactly the lifestyle our system is living!

    Sometimes I get to lean on my experience with the code, then glare at something on the screen and say I don't trust it, and that leads us to the fix. But about half the time, just sensing that somebody called daddy into the room makes it stand up straight and stop fucking around, lol.

  • "I promise you." Bezos says.

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  • The guy with all the money says that other people getting some of the money wouldn't help them.

    And in the US a huge number of people just nod along because our culture tells us that net worth = human worth = intelligence = trustworthiness.

    There's no continuing the thought, like if the money won't help struggling teachers then why is it so important that it stay with the person who already has ten thousand times the amount of money that would make a teacher rich and set for life?

  • We live in the American Nightmare

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  • Wow, you really DO have abnormally good insurance, to only pay a grand in a year.

    For anybody else confused by this because you live in a civilized country, let me translate: The standard offering from employers nowadays is called a high deductible health plan. The deductible is the amount you have to pay* for healthcare before your insurance pays anything, and it is typically several thousand dollars.

    (* There are a few preventive services that are 100% covered, so if you have no health issues whatsoever you can still get a yearly checkup and a flu shot without paying extra)

  • We live in the American Nightmare

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  • It literally depends on how nice your employer wants to be.

    I have a great job now, but I lost two jobs during the covid years. For one of them, my insurance lasted until the end of the next month or something like that, in addition to some severance pay.

    For the other, it ended immediately. Like if you have a doctor appointment tomorrow morning that shit will not be paid for. If you wake up sick, maybe call a bankruptcy attorney because we won't be answering your calls.