I don’t know if I’m doing it wrong, but I soloed two dozen cons over the last two weeks, and my poop still just looks like poop.

I do remember this being a thing when I was a kid though

What’s next, sideloading apps on your desktop??

Yeah or they’re really introverted they’ll at least use their imagination to disassociate.

Like I used to look around and imagine little beings making their way around objects and walls. Or looking into the distance and imagining things farther away were right in front of me, but the same size — so now you’ve got a miniature waiter running around the table, trying to catch the little beings.

My ability to zone out probably masked a lot of brain problems, but it did also make me a champ at sitting in waiting rooms while having the time of my life.

Holy fucking shit, what absolute trash

Is that the stoat?? 😍

Rofl what a snowflake. Like you don’t want to tell your kids where babies come from? There aren’t that many sources…

Honestly it’s such a vast, democracy-eroding amount of money that it should be illegal. It’s like letting an individual citizen own a small nuke.

Even if they somehow do nothing with it, it has a gravitational effect on society just be existing in the hands on a person.

It’s got a lot of stolen data to source and sell back to us.

In before someone mentions P-zombies.

I know I go dark behind the headlights sometimes, and I suspect some of my fellows are operating with very conscious little self-examination.

Yeah maybe don’t use LLMs

I’ve been looking t fulltime for a long time now, and from what I’ve seen there are a tonne of jobs out there, it’s just that are that many more qualified devs than their were just a few years ago.

The way I see it, the hiring bubble that exploded during the pandemic let a lot of people gain proficiency, then followed by the waves of layoffs and you’ve got a lot of talented folks looking.

I blame social media and this perverse need to display notifications instantly. Technically very interesting problem to work on, but basically useless to a customer.

We had a button for that, on demand - it was called F5

But this is at the top of my feed!

I kinda like the ridiculously nasty bathrooms in Morphée’s kingdom.

Phones have become a transparent technology

Lord Vetinari irl

From my point of view something that brings out the worst in us sounds like a really big part of the issue.

We’ve always been modified by our situations, so why not create better situations rather than lamenting that we don’t have the grit to break through whatever toxic society we find ourselves graphed onto?

Sorry I know I’m putting a lot on your comment that I know you didn’t mean, but I see this kind of unintentional crypto doomerism a lot. I think it holds people to an unhealthy standard.

Yeah decentralization and open source software and protocols being big ones. It means that if the “main” culture turns reactionary, that we’re not trapped in the same spaces as the shithead just because we share a platform.

There could absolutely be two main fediverses, with no changes to the technology.

Oh I still got laid off, just later in the day.

I think it messed with their plans to lock me out of everything after the meeting. Must be logistically challenging lining up all those layoff meetings. 🙄

Yeah this matches my experience. HR person is always the one to have a bottle of whisky squirreled away for a good time.

I’ve been let go twice. It’s shitty, but I realise they have very little power in a situation like that.