A general rule of thumb that I picked up in the Reddit days is that if a community calls itself the “not censored” version of another community, it is 100%, no ifs ands or buts about it, going to be a sewage system.

Populated mostly by people who were kicked from the other community for being assholes but think they’re paragons of telling it like it is.

It’s not

But when you have an anxiety disorder paired with a lifetime of observed terribleness from the world, it can feel like it is.

So you’ll excuse me if I’m holding the celebration in fear of the other shoe that might not even drop.

Dead Charlie Kirk

Bolsonaro off to the slammer

Things have been going pretty well. Can’t wait for it all to go to hell again

“Thingie”

Or in my language – “Negocinho”.

A Negocinho and a Cabo (“a thingie and a cable”) make a phone charger (“carregador de celular”)

I’m going to work

But you can help yourself to my gaming PC.

👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅 👢 👅

I know I’m very late to the party and any comment in a thread with 200+ posts is like yelling at the void.

BUT

My experience with Windows has hardly been “it just works”. In fact it has been a history of decades of tinkering and messing around with it to try and get it to do what I want.

The only difference is that Windows obscures everything, so when something breaks it does so quietly. Meaning you might not notice… Or. More likely. It’ll just crash out and you don’t even have an error code to google.

This isn’t to say that Linux isn’t a balancing act of constant maintenance. It is. Just… The Windows experience was never “better” for me from that angle. And… On some level, I enjoy all the tinkering. I think all Linux folks do.

I do

Largely because the CIA still exists and who knows if they won’t miss the good ol operation condor days.

Cyanide and a belief in reincarnation.

Because often the reason your turds are Like That is genetics and the only solution would be to become a different person.

Exactly at 0

Stepping back and looking at technology as inventions and the stuff they do and the ingenuity that goes into them, tech is dope. And even useless tech is fun as a toy.

But for Capitalism Reasons, whenever some new technology gets announced my first thought, by necessity, is “okay cool. How are they gonna use this to fuck us over and/or to kill people here in the global south”

Because the answer is not, has never been, and never will be “they won’t”. There is ALWAYS a knife under the pillow with capitalism.

🙄

Because you touch yourself at night

sorry. I had to say that.

More like a squat or flophouse for nerds. Daring to exist in the middle of a gentrified area.

There’s a lot of it you can just tune out

Not because it doesn’t matter, but because it’s not actually new.

“oh Israel is still doing its genocide. Yeah, they would, no one is bothering to stop them. Don’t give me details. Let me know if something CHANGES”

The “news” cycle has a way of always finding further details on what is actually very old information, and those details serve you, the reader, no purpose other than creating emotional distress.

one of the most numerous and arguably the most influential religious group in modern times is not representative of religious people

Are you being serious right now?

Though I will happily agree that evangelicals are in fact the worst religious people.

Bold of you to assume incompetence and not malice

They did

And make no mistake Lula is also a crook, he just so happens to be a crook I’m aligned politically with (reformist leftist rather than neofascist)

But that just further proves the Teflon claim:

He did get locked up.

And now he’s president again.

Idk how it is in the first world

But over here it’s pretty much a known fact that every politician is a Mafioso first and a politician second. When they do get in trouble it’s usually because they messed up enough in the political sphere that the other crooks decide to use the apparatus of law to fuck them over. Because if it were about their crimes they’d ALL be behind bars.

I would say “and THAT is how you do it, America”

But I have no faith in this sticking. Mr. Pockets is made of Teflon.

Right?

With hindsight, now being more or less the target audience (a 30+ year old disillusioned with life) – A lot of the books they pushed on us (I’m in Brazil, so of course they pushed the Brazilian canon of Literature) were objectively super good?

But y’know

When you’re 15 years old, and have to read a book that is not only very old (thus has a vocabulary you are already struggling with, just because OLD), but is written by grown-ups for grown-ups (ergo, a lot of the fun leans on heightened versions of life experiences adults have all either lived or seen someone live through) – AND you have to do it in a hurry (because you’ve got like 4 other assignments for that week, and the deadline looms) – AND you are expected to not only get into the nitty-gritty of its themes and such, but to do so in a way that your teacher approves of?

Like how can you not hate reading after that? I was lucky I’d been exposed to literature I liked prior to that, so instead of thinking “I hate books”, I just thought “wow all these books suck”.

They didn’t suck. But they just… Were very much not for me?

Like. Senhora, by José de Alencar, is a deeply enjoyable book if you’re a grown up. Two rich people who married for money and hate each other’s guts, playing the perfect husband and wife to society while shooting subtle barbs at each other whenever they get the chance? AND then they end up fond of each other after years of this? Inject that into my 30-year-old historical-romance junkie EYEBALLS please. But at age 15? I hated it.

Humans being gluttonous motherfuckers who will consume stuff until we’re wrecked is indeed older than dirt. Some of the oldest records we HAVE of humanity involve people committing excesses of the sort.

– Having a bunch of organisations driven by profit independently come to the conclusion they can exploit this flaw in human persons to maximise their profits, leading to a systemic vicious circle where we consume more, so they create more artificial needs for us to consume, so we consume more, so (…) – Is, in fact, a product of capitalism.