every time someone says "I didn't realize covid was still a thing" around me I feel fucking crazy. everything about this entire world sucks, and I don't think any of it is ever going to get better, and here I am, looking like a crazy person for being the only person still sane

This fucker sounds like Badger from Breaking Bad. When he's done here he's going to go try and score some crystal meth.

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April Fool's Day is really popular among small children who haven't learned how to tell jokes yet make of that what you will and carry on, internet

the only safe computer is no computer

please have a terrible Do Not Trust The Internet Day

Great news, America! 🥳 If your router is authorized for use in the USA, the FCC (run by Project 2025 co-author Brendan Carr) will generously allow you to receive security-related firmware updates for another 11 months.

Reminder that tomorrow is "do not trust anything you read on the internet that seems even the slightest bit off" day.

trans rights are human rights and if you don't agree with this I hope you die alone and unloved, and ideally before you cause even more societal damage with your hateful bullshit.

maybe if the world ended i wouldn't feel so bad all the time

i got a sick looking party invite

rip to my boy tony mcquail. I knew he wouldn't get the nom but it's deeply disappointing to see NDP supporters backing an AI using guy who showed no platform at any point during his run over a candidate that had a real plan forward.

paxlovid is fucking torture. worst prescription I've ever been on. if I end up with long covid bullshit anyway I'm going to become the fucking joker.

Epic employees' failure to unionize is paying dividends for Tim Sweeney.

This remains one of the most relevant analyses of what's going on with LLMs and the people who fall for them softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

the only two great zelda games are link to the past and wind waker

these feel like the same picture

'Indie will save us' is rooted in consumer thought, not creator. 'Indie will save us' is about how big games are meaningless and novel small games, usually with a gimmick, are better so it's okay to buy them. They don't care about workers, they care about feeling good about the treats they consume.

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sickos yes

I am old enough that I remember when consoles used to get cheaper with age.

paxlovid is $1500 in canada and honestly? execute all pharma ceos. people who need paxlovid probably have chronic illness. people with chronic illness are often disabled. disabled people don't have income. and here's a potential live-saving med you can only have if you are well off.

(reading between the lines) nasa asked astronauts to jerk it in space

"I just want to enjoy things without thinking about their politics." Cool. I want a magic pony that shits gold. Art is political. You spend money on Harry Potter stuff, you're being political. Can't be avoided.

this covid fatigue is insane, I have no idea how people experience this and say to themselves that it's no big deal and then keep taking major risks

Ontario's health system sucks so much. sick with covid. wife tested positive, I'm not yet, but come on. I'm immunocompromised. Doctor will only see me if I go into the office. Doing that means significant travel... while sick as fuck. Fully expect to not even be prescribed antivirals.

i told my therapist about my current game project and i could practically see her put it on a list to talk about later

Awful. Conditions just continue to worsen for Colorado's snowpack (and across many other western U.S. states), with average snow water equivalent nosediving after the historic March heatwave. (which actually continues today with more record heat!) Graphic: nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-p...

that's not a skeleton person it's my mental health

"Disregard that!" attacks - why you shouldn't share a context window with others

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how do people have two hobbies seems unsustainable but I can't convince my brain to let one of them go

Reading an article about youth unemployment in Canada “You can have experience, you can have the proper qualifications, but now everyone needs experience with qualifications,” Goldsilver said. “There will be 20 other people just like you, lining up to get that same job.”

airports: notorious for people traveling in and out of the country without valid documentation

CEO of Golden Egg Food Supply announcing that to create value for shareholders they have killed the goose

don't travel to the US

hell yeah I can't wait to see how this can possibly go bad

This is an *excellent* read, from an early AI adopter.

If the game industry had realized a decade ago that minecraft represented a hard branch in the games medium, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in today. But the game industry believing they could chase every dollar at the same time is why we're here.

these morons would instantly die in a real industry where they have to make a business work on 3% net margins

I'm sorry but if you have 4,000 employees and your revenue is 6 billion, you make 1.5 million per employee and if you can't make a profit margin there, you are simply embezzling it.

There's just no way that having so many devs operate under a cloud of misery for so many years on end doesn't result in the games themselves beeoming depressed and blah. We were a discpipline that thrived on energy and curiosity and play, and it's all been sucked dry by capitalist vampires.

guess jacking the prices of vbux while giving people less credit from them didn't make epic a billion dollars so workers have to suffer

thank you collective society for ignoring the needs of the chronically ill anyway, covid has entered my household so I guess if I die I die!

If you live in the US you must *immediately* find and buy an open source firmware compatible router because there's no way this is anything but a way to either spy on your home network or lock down the entire country's internet.

This is precisely how a government sets up the framework to install a backdoor, create a firewall, and switch off the internet when it's convenient for them.

y'all I think I'm doing it I think I'm making a video game (please don't tell the last video game I said this about)

visited my home town over the weekend. hell place, I hate it. familial obligations. but the fun part was finding out that at least 10 buildings have burned to arson in the past six months. Apartment buildings, businesses, houses, event centers. in a town of 6000. small towns eh

like if orwell wanted to give everyone whiplash we have always been everything and nothing at the same time. quantum superposition stupidity.