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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

i love getting scolded about voting when even if I personally managed to pull off a miracle and convert one thousand people to vote for biden, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

yeah no fucking shit, can we stop pretending this system is effective or worth defending?

A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

- Henry Adams, 1906

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (67 children)

imagine showing this post to someone in 1995

shit has gotten too bloated these days. i mean even in my head 8GB still sounds like 'a lot' of RAM and 16GB feels extravagant

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (10 children)

they get paid like $2/hr when actually out on a delivery, it's pathetic and is absolutely no reason to justify the fee

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

people love acting like they're perfect and always make perfect decisions in these posts. like, you can easily advise the OP and sympathize but people love to be smug instead

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

oh well that seems like such an elegant system, thank god it's working so well. let's keep defending it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

since this country has such a long evil and stupid history there are probably more documents you could pull out against this, rather than just being normal and evaluating the law on 'does it seem normal or moral to ban this' like a human fucking being would. almost like ConStITuTUiOnALiTy is a dumb fucking way validate the law.

oh and what, at least half of these guys are outlandishly corrupt but still get to sit there?

just send out little ballots in the mail for every case instead of relying on these scum, jesus.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's a perfect way to put it. I remember starting college and being really excited about the cloud, having my stuff accessible anywhere, changes automatically saved, etc etc. but now I don't want any of my shit anywhere near their servers, it's mine and mine alone and I'll manage it myself and buffer against losses the best I can. I'd rather have myself fuck up and break a hard drive rather than let microsoft or apple wipe my stuff over a bug or because I didn't pay them enough. Horrible, misleading bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (8 children)

why does everyone have to have "excellent" skills? just logically not everyone can have excellent skills, or there wouldn't be excellent skills. i very much doubt everyone currently working there also has equally "excellent" skills. you can't just say you have to be perfect. i fucking hate this shit

 

america is so fucking based man

in any proper country that company at least gets forced to pay by the government then ordered to shut down forever due to wanton cruelty. all the employees get generous severance except whoever made that call. depending upon your view of carceral punishment there are a few ways to go with that guy.

 

it feels similar in egregious price to getting room service, and you don't even have to talk to the guy, and you can convince yourself it's nice to treat yourself you've been working hard etc etc. you don't have to do any dishes or think about all the rotten shit in the fridge. it can feel like a legitimate mental break, horribly

i've worked too too many years doing delivery and honestly on good days it feels like being on vacation , just out there driving around somewhere peaceful without a boss over my shoulder

but whenever i actually order the garbage myself too much it can lead to a crazy period of overspending. i already spent $30 on a burrito that sucked why not spend $20 on a film i know is good, etc etc

 

i wanna go to a real one but they're open like 5 hours a day

well 7 but i am not voluntarily leaving the house before noon

 

esp if you're one of the devout ones who think they've been really good

 
 

i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.

 

you know -- this is always represented in the news/etc as 'a starbucks a day' but i mean moreso a gadget or a shirt. i'm splurging on deodorant right now. is that immoral? are you meant to have a mostly austere budget until you're a boomer with a house and a fence?

so uhh what's the last little thing you bought to not go insane?

 

currently jamming on this toasted bread with butter. someone else woke up to work baker's hours at walmart to bake this loaf, then i bought it, then toasted it, then added butter. a veritable feast

 

"presumably love" is so aggressively neutral it sounds a bit insulting

 

how is the value proposition here? was this an adequate use of money?

(keeping in mind as well fwiw i don't eat meat)

 

i recently lost my job and it's horrible being in the 'unemployed' class -- you're made to feel worthless, you have to take advice from people, perfectly well meaning of course, that are basically encouragement on digging your own grave - i love being in the position where i have to do some fake elizabethian courting ritual where i have to pretend i'm super excited to do whatever tf they do, oh and i'm the best man for the job! -- when you've just sent in 200 applications and gotten nothing back, when you've just been let go for dubious bullshit reasons, you're supposed to act like you're ready for a challenge!

important video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkYHNO2vNG4

 

reddit is shit and makes me annoyed, twitter is shit and makes me annoyed, tiktok is shit and makes me annoyed, pure news sites are boring, cracked is dead, google doesn't work anymore, lemmy is only memes and news and fairly slow

i feel like i used to be able to sink into an activity on this machine, but now i just spend 5 minutes somewhere, the algorithm runs out of content, i get annoyed and go somewhere else, same process happens. i feel like i have amnesia, i used to enjoy this but i have no idea how.

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