Join community groups and socialize in meatspace.

This is probably what I’m most interested in, but I find it to be a drag to even locate. I’ve gone to meetup groups and even helped organize a meetup group before but everything about them seemed pretty worthless. It could just be my particular circumstances or my particular location, but it seems like it’s difficult to find any regular community group, and then any – even sporadic – activity outside of work mixers, happy hours, ticketed events, and concerts.

At one point I took a look around the area for mutual aid groups and found only one – and this was mid-pandemic when they were getting a lot of attention and hype – and it didn’t even appear to be active anymore. I think the web link I got was dead or something.

My working theory of why this country is so far off the rails is multifaceted, but one big aspect is that meatspace is deader than myspace.

I’m still waiting for whatever the hell is supposed to happen after electoral politics has failed us, because it has.

I was told by people pushing for people to not bother voting in 2024 that voting was meaningless and that Trump would be no different than Harris. People told me that the solidarity of grassroots organization was the only way to see any real change, and that we had to reject the DNC at all costs. Well, we rejected it. What now?

PS: I don’t even mean this sarcastically or to win internet points – that are even more meaningless than on reddit – on this site. I’m actually asking, what are we doing now that this happened?

It didn’t have to be this way; in a different kind of society it could have been a boon to everyone.

Please continue to espouse this viewpoint even under serious argument from those opposing it. Technology isn’t inevitably shit. There are other types of software we can write, and other types of technology we can develop that isn’t the result of some sweaty CTO hovering over our shoulders demanding that we make the world shittier for the sake of the shareholders.

We have to imagine the worlds we could’ve created through better choices. We have to imagine that we can change the course of things.

The overwhelming majority of software ever written is fucking terrible and causes more problems than it solves.

Since software is easily copiable and mutable, that small sliver of good software gets replicated all over the place and serves as a foundation for other software, both good – and at the risk of repeating myself – and mostly bad.

People would be better off considering new tech as the tool it is rather than seeing every piece of software as inherently better than the thing it replaces.

Wizards / steppers

They suck and I’m tired of pretending they’re in any way a good design.

Maybe optimize your fucking code you bunch of stupid losers.

That wouldn’t allow him to also simultaneously pay low wages.

Yeah because that’s how prosecutions start…by dumping troves of documents into the public domain so that we can do a citizen’s arrest!

These breathing MAGA bots moonlight as fucking clowns.

I think they worship opulence rather than power honestly. While it’s true that wealth and power are basically the same thing, many people you bump into in America don’t understand or believe that is the case.

I was told by a German person on this very site that they’d never go right wing again because of a unique type of centrism in the country that’s hugely popular and that my tiny American brain couldn’t comprehend. Oh well, guess that’s just another common centrist L.

Eventually the only way rich people can get richer is by stealing from other rich people because the economy is so heavily weighted toward the rich that there’s just no money to extract from the poor. I think that’s related to what we’re seeing here … And probably everywhere else as well.

They should like… Be politicians though. We get they can’t pass legislation, but be fucking politicians.

Republicans out of the majority make you sniff their shit daily and are all over the news cycle. Democrats seem to think it’s ok to just say they’re concerned and send me fundraising emails.

We are actually that stupid.

Why don’t we just wait and see if even these idiots want that in a few years? It’s been a couple of weeks and it’s already starting to look like most of the polling locations will be covered in rubble by 2028.

Is that what the “you can’t download your shit anymore” is really reaching at?

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I can’t imagine this will reach the right audience, but in the lead up to the superb owl this year I was saying that a great sketch about this country would be to have this giant hyped up spectical where everyone’s getting all fucking jazzed up and talking about how all of this epic shit is going to happen and then at the climax of the sketch you get to the actual “action” and it’s just a dude flipping a coin once.

That’s America IMO, and it’s definitely illustrated fully in the super bowl: six hours for ten seconds of actual action interrupted constantly by bullshit and commercials and followed by idiots tearing “their city” apart because their laundry was crowned “world champions” of a sport only played by people in one country.

That manual correction: installing Linux.

Yeah the hypocrisy is deeply baked into the culture.

Whenever I watch a true crime show where they start out with “and they’re good, churchgoing people who could’ve expected this?” I’m like 🙄…me, that’s who.

I’ll go shittier phone before I’ll go phablet ever again. I bought a motorola razr 2023. I bought a foldable because I want the shit to fit in my pocket. It also is the only flip phone I’ve seen that hasn’t made the imbecilic decision to coat the entire front panel in glass. I don’t need a full miniature phone making my shit more fragile when it’s clamped shut. If they continue to glass panel it up on the outside of newer editions I’ll try to find a case that just covers the entire outside.

But ultimately I’m holding onto this thing as long as I possibly can.

I have no idea why everyone – including the reviewers – think people need a glass panel on the outside of a flip phone with all kinds of smart capabilities. The phone is fucking closed. If I want to use the phone I’ll open it. All I need is maybe the time.