I was hoping step 2 was going to be “and then they don’t leave”, but your plan is pretty good too.

Turning off almost all notifications, running adblock , and ditching social media (except Lemmy, if that counts) , seems to really limit the damage.

I am a few steps removed from his social circle. I’ve never met him, but a few friends of mine have. They all have said he’s a sincerely good person.

Now, that’s just a second hand story from the Internet, but for my part that’s helping me be optimistic about him.

It’s always just emotional slop. Conservatives’ words don’t mean anything. There’s no internal logic beyond “in-groups to protect and out-groups to bind”, and “no one tells me what to do. I tell you what to do”

I’ve read that conservatives model the world as “strict rules that have exceptions made on a case by case basis”. That maybe works if you’re in a small village. Smarter people realize that doesn’t scale and you should write better rules in the first place.

Installed Pop!_os maybe a year ago. It’s been fine.

I couldn’t quite figure out how to make the bg3 mod tools play nice. There’s probably some proton prefix stuff I’d have to do and I gave up before getting too deep.

I bet the next time I want to play a game with mods it’s going to be a bit of a headache.

Other than that, it’s fine. I ran mint for about a year before this, with an interlude of windows 11 that came with the desktop.

My cat likes to drink from people cups. Sometimes I “accidentally” leave one on the table for him to discover.

There’s a recurring problem where the people who make decisions aren’t the people who should make decisions. And many of the people who should be making decisions are too bogged down to deal with everything.

Oh man kids and making shit up.

There was a kid who told me he had all these new mortal Kombat games. Just complete fabrications.

I told another kid that if you got all the chaos emeralds in sonic 3 (I’m old) you could turn into super sonic. Imagine my shock when that turned out to be true.

• Bandcamp
• see who tours together. If you like A and they open for B, you might like B
• indie record labels
• see who’s playing at local venues.

Justin Humphrey should be removed from office.

Cliché shitty man unhappy that women aren’t tailored for his personal tastes.

Extra funny that he jokes about banning a book, as if his villain status wasn’t already abundantly clear.

Yet once the measures are implemented and people become accustomed to their new, more pleasant surroundings, the benefits become clear.

Conservative thought is inherently stupid. Thoughtless. It just wants what is, without considering if the change is good or bad.

Vivek Tiwari, an investment banker, loves the new road for taking 45 minutes off his travel time. His office is in Nariman Point, the southernmost tip of the city, and home is 12 miles north in Bandra.

“It’s an amazing piece of infrastructure and driving on it is glorious,” he says. “Not all infrastructure can be equally parcelled out among the rich and the poor. Yes, only a minority like me use the road but maybe it’s going to help us generate more economic growth ultimately, which will benefit everyone.”

Vivek can fuck off.

Yeah I thought “campus” said “compus”

I didn’t do all the optional bosses in expedition 33. I finished the plot and was so powered up the story bosses didn’t even get a turn. But fighting the billion hp “dodge 13 hits in a row or die” just wasn’t fun for me.

False dichotomy

Yeah… my current job like…

• doesn’t do real code reviews. They just kind of eyeball it, from what I can tell
• doesn’t do automated testing
• Doesn’t write tickets with enough information for anyone to figure out what to do

But they’ve been doing it this way for years, so changing it is a long road.

Did zuck personally buy these or did a team of analysts doing research make proposals and he picked some?

Sure. But I don’t want to live there full time. I want to be able to walk to the bar, take a bus to the show, and so on.

Honestly, the distant sounds of humans can also be comforting in a white noise kind of way. Sometimes I think about how they’re all part of someone’s life story.