I’m tired of all these profiles of trump voters. Profile sane people.

Sometimes I get really depressed when I think about problems that could be solved if people would just behave slightly differently.

If people would just stop buying lootbox slop, it wouldn’t be a problem. it’s not asking a lot. It’s not asking you to change your diet, or ride a bike twenty miles in the snow. Just stop buying that shit. I just want to smack impulse buyers on the nose with a newspaper, or squirt them with a spray bottle. Stop it!

But that’s not how people work. We barely function at all.

People think “violence is never the answer” even when violence is being done to them. People are stupid.

I like to think in the future maga-hats will be fodder enemies in video games like Nazis. You can just kill them without remorse because they are scum.

Someone in another thread recommended the book “dying of whiteness” and it’s absolutely horrifying. We all know conservatives vote against their self interests. Well, they know too. Many of them know. They’re happy to die for their beliefs if it means no {slur} gets anything nice.

I’m not here to watch a movie. I’m here to take this axe and hit monsters with it.

I’m sure bloodborne has a very deep story. I had a great time just hitting stuff with that axe and occasionally shooting things. That’s the bulk of the content.

• They still put crap in the environment from the tires
• much of the energy powering them isn’t green
• car culture still creates horrible spaces to live in
• crashes are still a common, ruinous, event
• doesn’t solve DUI
• still is expensive to own, maintain, insure
• car culture promotes isolated, sedentary life, which is bad for physical and mental health

Just off the top of my head. If you swapped all the gas cars for electric cars, you still have all those problems.

I think some people enjoy the thrill of discovery more than the depth of experience. Which is fine. No judgment.

Personally I’d rather have 10 albums that mean a lot than 100,000 albums I listen to once.

EVs mitigate one tiny slice of the problems caused by car culture.

Bus lanes and trams are a symbol of “communism” and car is a sign of “freedom”

This is basically it.

I saw a post the other day that argued to the conservative mind there must be an underclass. There must be poor people whose lives suck. If you try to make things good for everyone, you’re going against nature and will just make things bad for everyone.

Thus good public transit is bad. If different classes of people all mingle then it’s like mixing your food up on the plate and that’s just wrong!

They really are like children

People may have heard of these things, but I don’t think most people could give an accurate description of what they are.

why don’t they look into ways that cars might cause fewer injuries instead of abandoning the injured?

I’m pissed they’re repaving the streets near me but they’re not taking the time to make them any safer. No curb extensions or daylighting. Certainly nothing so extreme as a separate bike lane.

I’m optimistic that they’re more likely to learn something during that process, but that might not be a well founded belief.

They’re just so… unimaginative. There are so many things other than coal and mining people could invest in.

I think a lot about the time a junior developer on the team was like “I’ll use chat GPT to reverse this list” and I was just like my guy we’re working in Python that’s a one line expression.

I use keyword arguments in Python to minimize this pain. Instead of

create_user("Bob", True, False)

it’s

create_user(name="Bob", admin=True, send_email=False)

JavaScript makes that more cumbersome with the object thing , but it’s better than nothing.

Right?

It drives me nuts that they want to spend trillions of dollars on technology to write for people instead of teaching people how to write.

Sure, and many some things are more easily conveyed in text.

There’s also a mass illiteracy problem. I expect that’s part of why youtube et al are so popular - many people can’t read well. I think many of them don’t even realize they’re semi-illiterate, and think reading is just uncomfortable, and they don’t know why anyone would do it on purpose.

For very visual things, video can be understandable. “How do you do this jumping sequence in this game?” or “how do you assemble this doohickey?”

I am probably the weirdo but I absolutely do not want video on as “background”. I don’t dual-screen, either. I’ll put music on when cooking sometimes.

Windows is pretty bad. Microsoft should be split up. If I had the magic powers, its leadership would be stripped of wealth, barred from holding similar positions for life, and have their faces on some sort of wall of shame. Everyone is allowed to throw trash at them, and they have to pick it up.

He’s a broken person on the inside. He’s like homelander in the boys. All this power, but he’s still a sad little boy no one likes.

Unlike Homelander, Musk is not impervious to conventional hazards.