I’m just much more on the cbd oil, multivitamin, and a 2 day fast side of wellness.

@Hazarth I would think this runs text processing in the client’s machine. Not like it’s some big miner or ai model to do OCR. There might be CO2 impacts on a coal grid but not much more than just running the laptop for any other purpose.

I thought you were a god?

@fullstackcircus what blows my mind is it all charges to to my Apple Card in USD at the end of the day?! Literally what the hell.

@lungdart this is known as taking the piss mi amigo

You know how to get ahead in business: make friends and influence people 🙃

@jestdotty also I’m calling it that the fear of falsification is projection. I can take my stances on issues to the mat in a debate.
I’ve changed my mind in my life and I’m open to new info. Are you?

@jestdotty ??? It’s demonstrable lived experience.
If you enjoy living a consistent, live somewhere where nothing ever happens, then ok, you probably don’t feel this way. I lived 20 some odd years in such a setting.
But if you get out and engage, it’s hard to miss.
And sure it’s bitching thread. I’m not unhappy but these are in fact problems.
And that the thing with first world problems, the feel so solvable of only we were as free as we claim to be.
Not that we’re oppressed, by comparison, just not quite as free as we wish to be perceived.

Obviously this is all better than being in an actual war zone but if it’s built on so much exploitation and inequality it feels like a powder keg just waiting to detonate.
Weirdly, at the current moment, the people who have benefited the most from the inequality and oppression are largely the ones causing the most disturbance, but that can shift in a minute.

A problem is that it is crushingly lonely & difficult to build community and friendships.
Everything is capital driven so you can be forced to move or your friends can be flung across the country or world for money.
Simultaneously, everyone is aware of the fact we are precariously not in a conflict zone, but violence pervades the world. So they are reluctant to connect w/ strangers.
No one seems to care about the absolute slaughter that is car travel and pedestrian deaths. The death toll is like 9/11 happens every month in the US nobody bats an eye.
In fact when we propose developments that deprioritize cars or some limits to make them safer, there is immense pushback.
To solve this many of us desperately want to live in a walkable city block,
But recalcitrant nimbys block every walkable development leading to those of us who want to live somewhere fun and social crammed into the existing developments leading to a choice between a disconnected existence or skyrocketing rent.
people delude themselves about the monetary cost of driving alone so even if you do get cheaper rent it’s almost always eaten up by car maintenance.
You can go in to 6 figures of debt for a degree that won’t land you making 40k per year (this is not enough to pay back the loan maybe unless you live with parents, the take home on 40k is usually closer to 30k and then that assumes your health care isn’t crazy)
But if you have a great business idea, no one is going to loan you 100k unless you have experience running the type of business you are asking for a loan to run?! The business might make money, the degree definitely won’t!
In general there’s a feeling that it’s harder to get started and move up, and the people at the top view your success as a threat and will attack you to stop it. The market is not free, it’s oppressed.
And it kind of makes sense, silence and security is cheaper than innovation and care.
Also, you could get sued anytime.

Antisocial media. This is so apt. Socials are to the internet what car dependency is to cities

@shovethisrant I am not familiar with the government of No, but in the US a good way to move to something more… interesting than web dev is to get a job in defence contracting. They are short in all areas and all experience levels. If you don’t have a criminal record getting a clearance is pretty attainable. First job to get the clearance will usually suck and be at a smaller company. It’s the second job once you have the clearance where you can shop companies and technologies.
My path was private web dev to clearance work on C# monstrosities to Ada for radar controllers and when I left there was something coming up for autopilot dev that sounded cool.
Drawbacks include not necessarily getting to pick your geography, you may have to go to where the cool project is, and total comp is going to be lower since RSUs are rare but it’s not a bad life. Note I’m discussing contractor positions not GS positions. IMO, GS is going to be too stodgy for most people. You’ve got to be someone who wants stability and consistency first.

@MammaNeedHummus in OPs scenario id be fine once I got to the 90s but honestly idk that to buy and sell in the 80s besides cocaine

What country are you in? Do you have a criminal record?

lol why didn’t you pull at the first sign of decline, you made a respectable profit for a. Month of effort until you hodl’d too hard

Also you don’t have to get a referral from the technical side! Think outside the box and meet with folks on the business side. They’re eager to connect.

Go to meet ups and social events

Get in the habit of doing Army style gear check. A quick pat of all your pockets to ensure you’ve got your shit.

@spongessuck I’m with you I’d probably take a pay cut just to work with something so cool in a professional setting

Not exactly but imagine an alert on an interval that every 5 mins or so launches a pop up that says “check your branch dumbass”

It could even have buttons in the pop up that said

“Thanks, I’ll definitely fuck this up again. Remind me in 5 mins”

Or

“Ok I’m on the correct branch, leave me alone for 25 minutes”

Built in pomodoro timer.

Wimpy cannot take rhubarb

Relationships are like contracts. And each side might have different conditions.

@daniel-wu and the Apple said yes funny joke…one time fee of $300-$400 that is funny hehe…$100 / year subscription to be in the App Store..now that’s funny haha

@shovethisrant does this work for past relationships ?

@tosensei likely he smoked his own shit

@c3r38r170 that’s the truth. There’s probably some ancient decayed papyrus somewhere with scrawled hieroglyphs that roughly says “ur mom should have swallowed”
We didn’t start the fire.

Is the internet just a loop? Sounds like an aol chat room in 2002

@MammaNeedHummus I think op needs a handy

Oh the drama

You gotta fight it like hell