Don’t kid yourselves. Once Europe develops its own big tech, it’s going to be just as untrustworthy. But at least it will be your untrustworthy.

Hilarious juxtaposition with his latest rant.

they don’t put kids in the smartypants classes for 100 iq

Yep except it’s single-player and the point is to erase all but one of the pieces by jumping over them with other pieces.

confused about that last sentence. in my experience, adding more people to the mix drastically increases the chances of ostracization

the older you get, the more health problems you have, and let me tell you, health problems can make you involuntarily unhappy.

After you die, someone else will be born. It’s literally reincarnation without some kind of persistent self or magical scorecard.

that actually happened to me irl and i’m not upset

idk, i didn’t realize how people segregate themselves by politics when I signed up. I have lemmy configured not to show instances. It’s all the same to me.

Which as a company, you want your app to look like your company, not some generic OS bundled app

Consistency of UI used to be treasured.

One of my favorite books of all time, Evasion, was written by an anonymous person detailing their years-long delinquent protest against capitalism.

They really walked the walk. I’m talking about totally tramping it up. Surviving mostly by dumpster diving and shoplifting. The writing is a perfect blend of practical experience, mundane details, and anarchic romanticism. The book taught me to see all this absurdity as a playground.

depends on how much the job sucks and how good your country’s unemployment benefits are

I find that it does a decent job at not being a yes man if you specifically ask it to be critical, cut the crap, etc.

I cared a little bit. Then the astronauts started blathering about the bible.

Damn Small Media Player. Loads instantly. Plays mp3s. Takes up 850 KB on my hard drive and ~15 MB RAM while playing a song in a large playlist. Now that’s what I call software.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

lets you easily see what old websites and software looked like, often over multiple years.

what the fuck

Roofing during the summer

I don’t see how any utopia could make up for the universes where people are literally tortured their entire lives. Such a multiverse must not be allowed to exist.