Sure I’ll try to find one.

When right-wing people see the statistics that educated people are more likely to be left-wing, they apply the obvious incorrect logic that ‘education is indoctrinating our children’.

The simple fact of the matter is, that in high school, college, and university, I was exposed to people. I played sports with people from every culture, shared classrooms and completed group projects with them. I was taught by people with different cultural backgrounds and I can promise, not a single word of it had anything to do with politics.

Meanwhile, the uneducated are born in their small town, they go to work in their small town, they are surrounded by the same people they went to high school with (presumably from their own cultural background) and ultimately, they listen to mass-media telling them that X people are bad.

And if you explain this to them, they’ll still say that you’re brainwashed.

The new style is actually worse. They cut / paste other people’s work (usually entire scenes from a movie) and then have an AI talking in the background. Normally the AI is so quiet you can barely hear it, but I guess it’s enough to bypass any censorship.

Yep, should go without saying! I didn’t list every company but there are plenty more who belong there.

not just chatgpt.

Stop using Amazon, Meta products, Netflix, Spotify, etc.

All of these massive corporations are actively making life worse for people, and it will only get worse and worse as people continue to stay subscribed.

The only option is to log off and find an alternative.

As a QA, I raised the very real risk that should tensions with America escalate, they could effectively cut us off and our business would be kaputt.

What happens if AWS goes down? We use Google. What happens if both go down (or cut us off)? We’re fucked.

The answer to me raising the risk was a, “Haha, yeah, true, we’d be in big trouble…” but there’s no actual appetite to do anything about it. We’re so tied up in AWS that I can’t imagine there ever will be.

I used to be a League of Legends only guy. I also played Fifa on the side. Basically: competitive online games only.

The problem is they have a heavily addictive gameplay loop, and it takes seconds to get into a game. Win a game? Dopamine is high and you wanna keep chasing it. Lose a game? Keep playing until you get that high.

I managed to get away from it, and at the moment I’m focusing on ‘hard’ single player games. Hades, Elden Ring, Megabonk (lol), that kind of thing and I am having an absolute blast. I’m realising that ‘hard’ gaming is my preference, whether online or offline.

I think it’s completely normal to have a preference when it comes to gaming. Playing a completely different genre is more of a risk, when you know you prefer e.g., rogue likes, why would you stray from them?

People are genuinely brainwashed. Try to explain that left = for people and right = for profit and they will spout out whataboutisms or just reply with the laughing emoji.

I’m not sure why this is getting so much hate. I find it to be quite true for many peoples perceptions.

How many dads have been called our for hanging around a play area, when there own bloody child is on a slide?

How many mums have been called out on social media for posting a video of their child enjoying a burger?

I think there is truth to the comic. Is it true in every scenario? Does it capture what we all think and feel? Is it profound? No, no, maybe not. But it’s still a commentary on a real divide between parents.

I mean for goodness sake, some people describe a father looking after his children as “babysitting” and mums often have so much expectation on them to be perfect. We all benefit from societal commentary like this.

I feel I’m too old for this meme now. The Christmas period passed me by like a breeze, and then January vanished behind it.

In roughly two or so days I’ll be saying, “I can’t believe it’s 2027 already” whilst 2030 waits around the corner to whack me over the head with a baseball bat.

thing you just can’t buy elsewhere anymore

Yes and no. For example I had to buy double-sided tape and went into four different stores in different areas of my city and only found it in the fourth store after researching.

I checked on Amazon after the fact, and could have had it delivered to my door same-day lol.

I don’t believe there’s anything you can only buy on Amazon… but it IS so bloody convenient.

I am looking at using Eufy, no subscription. Unsure of potential of it joining the darkside.

Edit: China-owned, so it’s a pick-your-poison kind of deal.

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Unironically a sack of potatoes should be an S tier ranked grocery. They are extremely versatile, can be as healthy or as unhealthy as you want them to be, make some incredible delicious things, and are also one of the cheapest things by weight.

What is the best Firefox alternative?

I’ve tried nothing, and I’m all out of ideas!

On the flip side, any time you want to show somebody something that should be working and you suddenly see an error message you’ve never seen before.

Eh, so when I ask a user (who is a programmer) “did you restart your computer” and they promise me they did, they are just being impatient and lying to me?

The amount of times people told me this when I worked IT support, and crossed over to see them on-site, and restarted their machine myself, and found it suddenly magically started working…

I’m not saying they lied, but the ‘IT Support Aura’ may be a genuine thing. Like the computer is afraid of getting scrapped so it quickly starts working.

There is a small bit of intrigue here, imagine you get to a boss and think, ‘this is impossible’ but there is an ability to observe a ghost of your character taking the boss on in your gear.

Bare in mind as well that ‘AI’ has existed as a word in gaming for decades and has nothing to do with LLMs, surely this is achieveable purely with the gaming definition of ‘AI’ simply coding the PC also as an NPC that reacts to things.