Happy “wait for your windshield to defog” season to all who celebrate

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

at least i finally got the shirt i wanted might see about the jacket as a holiday present to myself c_c

as of the shutdown, no courier can seem to find my house to deliver packages. we have the number on both sides of the mailbox AND the house and now I have gotten misdeliveries twice with FedEx, once with Amazon, and now once with USPS. what happened, man

The fact this country would rather spend the money on the police than the food help tells you everything wrong with America.

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?

i went to the tech recycling store for mac2vga adapters and failed to beat temptation

luckily i learned early on that the stock market is a fake facade that sells lives for fun, so i don't have too much to worry about when this bubble goes thermonuclear

who the hell even uses LLM stuff my normie housemates barely have a grasp of it and all my friends know this garbage is all a malicious joke

again i fall asleep at 6:30PM after long workday again i am up at 2:30AM no work today but man

how come everyone gets an aesthetic except for me sucks to be the most indiscernible and average presence ever

no overtime next week, bless

Like, even snake oil salesmen had to promise their customers a benefit. This snake oil will heal your ailments. It will benefit you. You get something out of buying my snake oil. These fash tech dipshits can't even do that. It's just "if you buy my snake oil I get to have more money."

I wish I could be as into stuff as other people are. Never feel like as big of a fan of anything, so being even halfway excited about something ends up feeling like a farce and self fulfills the decline of purpose in liking things.

Grifters all the way down

Things don't feel like an escape anymore and it sucks to have life feel either bad or just the same and losing that spark of unique excitement.

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

2DAY IS MEYE DAY 2 SHINE

Just wanted to relax after work but spilled a big cup of water and now laundry has to be done again. Man, I just wanna rest 🥲

nothing like waking up 2 hours before your 430am alarm to feel tired and lonely at the same time. realized i havent changed my discord status in over 5 years and there's still no reason to because things never seem to not be busy and crazy. i wish life just felt easier sometimes.

I need to make my next hobby a minimalist one; not going heavy on extra peripherals/accessories/parts. I want to do guitar or piano, but i do not have really any extra space to play with right now and it's easy to overbuy when starting a new thing.

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. levernews.com/book

maybe one day it will make a difference, but it's still worth trying.

if work is this breakneck now, i don't know what i'm gonna look like after the holiday recording season on top of day job 🫠

NFTs are amazing because you apparently “own” them but the AWS outtage yesterday took out everyones apes lol

AWS outages are interesting because each time it affects more and more disparate things, each is a snapshot scan of the metastatic cancer infecting the internet.

Car: "Depress clutch to start." Me to clutch: "The planet is being ruined by billionaire sociopaths, everyone's house is grey, the internet was a terrible mistake and I can't stop thinking about all the stuff I put in bins in the 1990s that I should have recycled. Also I think I've broken my toe."

a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning

about to go into a week of 9-hour shifts with mandatory OT on saturday x.x Really hoping no mandatory weekend OT the weekend next, since I have a long drive and having to work and then drive after a like 17-18 hour day on that friday sounds like the worst

nice For-parts gamecube i bought just for the controller connection board fully works. Said the disc drive was broken too, but just needed the little close switch tweaked. But, even reads games. Shell will work just fine as a test bed for boards

Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.

The fact that remote work has been able to be just outright murdered so widely so quickly is baffling, depressing, and scary all at once. Just binning marvels of life balance and efficiency and championing the generative horror machine at the same time is just.. man, i dunno

One reason behind Western decline is that US capital gave up on investing in productive forces long ago. The current system is all about looting / grifting through financial engineering, rent extraction, and speculative bubbles. When the system rewards that, reversing it is near impossible.

Since the Endangered Species Act became law, ~1.36 million species have gone extinct. It’s funny how easily we speak of humanity’s “salvation” while driving every other form of life off the planet.

WE'RE LIVE!!!! #KICKSTARTER share.google/sZxvXN11q9nt...

oil change, speaker replacement, n64 cleaning, and nice hike in the park made for a decent long weekend.

door speaker monday now i know i need rears too

ough Tried my steam cleaner to do the prep step and it worked decent, but my back hurts from bending over the sink to scrub/rinse these properly 🥲 Same for all the little parts, and the blue/clear still needs retrobrite treatment 🫠

It should be illegal to not respond to job applicants and to say you're hiring when you're actually not

very lucky that some neighbors were honest and kind; package with my parents' laptop got misdelivered to their house and i had to look for doorsteps matching the fedex picture x_x

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

fell asleep at 9P up at 2am need to be up at 5:30 for work bleh z.z

don't care + huge paws + heavy tail

This video is about the accurate level of hate and questioning that I feel about all of this right now. youtu.be/Vz0oQ0v0W10

Yes! My disability got approved again but won't see anything of it until the 25th of this month. I hecking appreciate you all, you are more giving than I deserve. But if you help me survive until then, only if you can, I am so thankful. <3 paypal.me/firefrost

So at what point (or ever) will "advertising companies" be held responsible for any of this shit? The way that the general internet has become so hostile that we need active defences saddens me and fills me with anger. I guess we can't have shit anymore.