“secret”?

Yeah , if consoles were a good financial deal maybe I’d buy them. They’re not. Steam is good value for the money.

If I was magically in charge, I would make it so if you got an unwanted text or call you report it and the phone company has to pay you like $10.

They don’t deal with this problem because they only care about profit.

. I’m a bit surprised the Christian following hasn’t gone there.

Many Christians are theologically incompetent. They don’t know their scripture. They just like feeling good.

People mandating return to office are climate criminals, all. They should be sentenced to picking up litter and other community service for the rest of their lives.

It’s one of those self fueling problems. Businesses post on Instagram because people go there, and people go there in part because that’s where they found out about businesses doing stuff.

Better options are possible, but the big money is backing this hell. Less money to be made from RSS feeds , web rings, and email newsletters.

I don’t use any social media other than this. I find out about bands I like playing from their email lists or bandsintown. I’m on a couple “things happening in the city” email newsletters. It doesn’t demand my attention.

Living without a car in NYC is pretty great. That’s whole categories of expenses I don’t have.

Took the train last night to an event, walked to a nearby bar, walked to get some pizza, took the bus home. Easy-peasy.

Someone in the friend group took a car (Lyft) home, but I can’t imagine wanting to spend like $30 to save maybe 20 minutes in that situation.

In general, you need to make the right thing to do easy and the bad thing to do hard.

If taking the bus was fast and free, and driving meant you had to file a request to get a day license and drive no faster than 25mph, people wouldn’t drive so much.

I really would like to somehow convince more people to adopt the idea that, like, Facebook and friends are run by bad people and you can choose not to use their products. Just stop. Find another way. Be uncomfortable for a little while.

But people aren’t up to the challenge.

I remember talking to this one woman who was like “I don’t get polyamory and non-monogamy. Why don’t you just cheat?”

Because I have standards and care about other people, which seems not to be true for many people.

Yep. Place I’m at is in some sort of “hiring freeze”. They’re not replacing people who left. They also told the many (probably not strictly legal) contractors that they won’t be renewing them. It’s absurd.

I remember once at a diner with some friends I ordered pancakes and orange juice without looking at the menu, and was pissed when the orange juice was like $10. Now I always check.

“Most of the time, once people have lived with it, the opposition softens,”

That’s because people, even me, are kind of stupid and unimaginative. They don’t like change for primitive reasons.

Taking public transport is not something that you do because you are poor,” said López-Aparicio. “It is something that you do for the common wealth of the whole society

If only we could get that idea in people’s heads.

Good. Fuck all this ai slop.

“there’s toxic, radioactive, sludge all over the front yard! What the fuck this is terrible! We need to get rid of that”

“There’s a huge pile of old tires in the back yard, too.”

“Yeah that’s no good. At least my kids can play on it like a jungle gym. The sludge though, we need to fix asap”

“So you love tires and garbage??”

Why don’t we want to dismantle the business?

We had cars. People still used them a lot instead of walking.

I am going to take this opportunity to shit on car culture. Walking several miles a week because I live in a walkable city is pleasant, and almost certainly good for my health and weight.

I don’t have objections to the rest of your post. I just hate car culture.

I want to say that everyone hates that kind of purple job prose, but I suspect there’s some small minority of people who actually think and talk like that.

I kind of want to build a LinkedIn but you’re only allowed to talk like a real person. If you post slop or whatever that kind of shit is, you’re banned and we all pledge not to work with you.

The whole venture capitalism thing is bullshit. It’s just vibes and rich man hubris.

They’re bad people and too many folks are pretending they’re not.

Is this happening on android, too?