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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • why do people put the extra X in there? indolence?

    My best guess is it’s become a sort of linguistic meme, poking fun at incels who’d ramble on about things like “looks-maxxing”.

    Or maybe it’s a combo of that and “min-maxing” from gaming communities. The extra X makes it more maximum. LOL

    Taxing, faxing, relaxing…

    "…Shootin’ b-ball…

    When a couple a’ guys, who were up to no good…

    Started making trouble in the neighborhood…"

    –Prince William Smith of Bel Air


  • LOL fellow American also bamboozled by this concept. “Burnout leave” to us is when you finally snap and quit, cutting off your healthcare and income all in one go.

    Hope you have multiple “streams of income” and “side hustles” if nothing else is “lined up”!

    For the majority of us burnout isn’t a pathology, it’s the most American state of being. 😂



  • I understand and respect where you’re coming from, especially with your added context. I’m also sincerely happy for you living in a functioning state where people can still civilly disagree and discuss the merits of various viewpoints. :)

    (I’m in the U.S, so yeah kind of surrounded by all this nonsense haha)

    I too, find exaggerated and tilted reactions from any side to be exhausting. I know especially online these days people can be especially “knee-jerk” in how they respond, but at a core and human level I appreciate you trying to see this thing objectively. That’s very valuable.

    But…yeah. That’s what these monsters do: They masquerade as “reasonable”, push views to extremes, pollute our discourse, and turn us on each other.

    But I think that you and I simply having this conversation is a point for an optimistic outlook. :)


  • I think in a normal society, such ideas could be engaged with and weighed and measured as you say.

    However right now, we’re in a ridiculous parody-like peak of modern corruption and shameless greed.

    These screeds are written to sound intelligent in order to welcome this “debate of ideas” and lower our guard, but simply by the context of those pushing them, we know it’s just another attempt at manipulation and manufacturing consent, in order further farm the poor to enrich the rich.

    It’s just mental ransomware: It’s constantly hammering us looking for any open port, any vulnerability, any slip-up, so it can take everything from us and rent basic humanity back to us with interest.






  • Incredible. Absolutely amazing how they can, straight-faced, declare a “golden era” after: War crimes, a botched random war Putin-like military operation claiming countless innocent lives, insane energy prices, unemployment and poverty rapidly approaching Great Depression levels (did we break the record yet?), various high ranking officials getting canned for incompetence and corruption, not to mention massively growing protests in the streets after citizens are politically gunned down by armed goon-clowns.

    All because Great Leader refuses to confess to his heinous rapes of countless children likely including his own.

    It really is just magical “emperor’s new clothes” thinking. It’s Kremlin or North Korea-esque dictatorial absurdity.

    Oh yeah, this big stupid waste of precious metal and pompous ceremony is YET ANOTHER DISTRACTION FROM THOSE FILES THEY’RE ALL IN.

    They’re planning this “award” yearly?! LMAO. They’re gonna give him one of these stupid things once a year and everybody’s supposed to act like it’s a surprise?!





  • “…enabled me to deliver value in a fraction of the time I expected.”

    I don’t wanna flame you for it.

    This is kinda where I see vibe coding taking off the most: The same phenomenon as using LLMs to summarize and reply to pithy business emails.

    Business gets so unbearably businessy, people are using machines to bypass the inherently un-human “professionalism performance” for them.

    It might not be work anybody can claim to be proud of, but right now success for the professional-managerial class runs on looking busy and circling back to synergizing the workflow with best practices for optimal returns regarding key performance metrics 🤢 or whatnot.

    I don’t blame people for it, in a work context. Looking impressive with AI tools is now a survival tactic when working under normies holding the purse strings and investing stupid amounts of money into the bubble. They’ve forced people to be part of a circular, self-reinforcing imaginary reality they’re profiting from.

    So, I don’t wanna flame you. I just hope you’re doing something fundamentally human to keep your soul alive on the side, at least. Something you as a unique human being on this earth can be proud of. <3


  • Annnnnd in my case, running very complicated scripts provided by genius level volunteers to overwrite the bootloader (to Libreboot I think?) so it could accept a Linux OS because Chrome OS told my mother in law:

    “We decided we’re done caring. Throw this device out and buy a brand new one.”

    She’s been happily running Mint and getting her browser and security updates ever since.

    Chromebooks and ChromeOS were an e-waste generating scheme from the start.