writer by choice, programmer by necessity, metalhead by the grace of the witch
personal website: https://starbreaker.org
main fedi account: @starbreaker
I know I could post to Kbin from my Friendica account, but I created this account for convenience.
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Shower Thoughts@kbin.social – 3 points – What are you producing, and for whom? As somebody with a job, I spend at least eight hours a day doing "productive" work, where productive means I'm making rich assholes even richer and getting a paycheck that amounts to pennies on every dollar of value my work creates.
If I want to do other work for myself after hourse, that's my business. Likewise if I just want to read, play video games, butcher Yngwie Malmsteen guitar solos on a violin with no audience but my cats, or shitpost on the internet.
My life is my own, and I'll spend it as I please. I can't stop others from judging me, but if they bring their judgment to my attention I can damned well make them suffer for it.
This isn't sudden, or a mere tantrum. Congressional Republicans have been doing shit like this since they won a majority for the first time in years back in 1994.
I had enough common sense as an 18-year-old to know that writers and musicians need day jobs, but not enough to realize that I'd have been better off learning a unionized trade and becoming an electrician or a plumber. Since I didn't have the looks or the personality to make it as a rent boy in Manhattan, I rent out my brain instead of my ass as a programmer.
There's no inspiration or passion involved. I'm in it for the money. It's thankless work best outsourced, and I laugh at articles saying that AI is going to take my job. An AI smart enough to take my job would be too smart to want it.
OP's not wrong, though. Inmates of boomer gulags are old, not dead. They're gonna fuck unless you keep 'em in solitary confinement 24/7.
CEO? Fuck him. He'll be just fine.
This asshole's problem isn't that people don't know who she is.
Her problem is that too many people do, and aren't as impressed with her as she is with herself.
I wish Larry Flynt were still around. I bet he'd do a parody porno targeting this asshole and MTG that would make Who's Nailin' Paylin?0 seem as tame as Howard Stern's old broadcast TV show.
Being autistic, it's a lot easier for me to not believe in God than to believe in God and accept that he had a better reason for making me the way he did than merely being the sort of demiurge who drinks on the job and was having an off day at the moment of my conception.
It's also easier to not believe in God and chalk up my existence to bad luck than to accept that my conception was basically God's malevolent joke on my parents since my mother was on the pill and my father was wearing a condom.
The real issue is the absolutely pathetic state of sex ed in the US. A lot of these people probably grew up thinking that "safe sex" meant doing it when she isn't ovulating and somehow never learned any better despite living through the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.
Fuck eyelashes, they’re another annoying “feature” of the human body. Just like making the air and food hole join and be controlled with a flimsy meat flap. Or putting the male g spot in the ass.
All proof that God drinks on the job. And not the good stuff, either.
What if it was just a vanilla sex cult?
I agree with you, but I don't think you can blame congenital syphilis on nursing home residents unless it's male residents banging female nurses young enough to be fertile.
What use is a cog that can’t cog anymore? Caring for elders is not built into our value system and not protected by our economic system.
Also, what good is "care for depression" when the causes of depression aren't a "chemical imbalance" but having to live in a partriarchal capitalist society that only values men for what they can provide?
No, you're not the asshole. But I'm the guy who won't do shit unless it's explicitly part of my job description.
Nothing wrong with that. A lot of them have spent their entire adult lives working for the man. 40+ hours a week on the job from 18-65 isn't a life; it's a fucking life sentence.
If I wasn't autistic before I learned to code, I sure as hell became autistic in the process. Learning to think like a computer in order to program one is a dehumanizing process. Kind of explains why so many techies are fucked in the head.
I'm curious to see how the the Klansmen in Congress will punish Mike Johnson. My money is on newly-discovered "evidence" that Johnson's been cavorting with underage rent boys.
Honeymoon in New York City. My wife and I get back to our hotel after seeing Wicked on Broadway with the original cast. Our suitcase is full of cockroaches. They heard my wife screaming twelve floors down.
I might not believe in God, but there's at least one person depending on me who would be in deep shit if I yielded fully to nihilism (as believers insist atheists like me are wont to do) and lived entirely in the moment with no thought to the future or to any consideration but my own momentary pleasure. I'm not going to fuck her over.
At least "dingbao" can be pronounced. Some of the others sound like names for elder gods in bad Lovecraftian fanfic.
I just shrugged and decided I didn't really need to see that music video after all, so I added youtube URLs to /etc/hosts and mapped them to "0.0.0.0".
If I'm going to have a parasocial relationship, it's going to be with somebody possessed of too much pride to call themselves a "content creator".
Mostly multi-factor authentication for my day job, because I work for a bunch of cunts who won't spring for a company phone for company apps. The only reason I even have an iPhone is that my mobile provider was giving 'em away for free while forcing people to upgrade to 5G devices.
And if I ever get to retire, first thing I'm doing is getting rid of my phone and home internet connection. If I need internet I'll use a VPN over free wifi at the public library.
My approach is the same as it's been since 1996: FUCK THE REPUBLICANS.
I don't need to follow the news. I don't need to pay attention to dumbfuck liberals or self-styled progressives online. I know the score, and I know what to do. "Vote blue no matter who?" Fuck you, you self-righteous, terminally online shitfountain; I've been doing that since I turned 18.
Why? Because GOP = KKK, and has been since the fucking Nixon administration. The Republicans are terminally infested with fundies, fascists, and white supremacists, and has been since Lee Atwater came up with the Southern Strategy.
Unfortunately, this means voting Democrat or for myself as a write-in (when the only candidate for a given office is a Republican). Why do I call this unfortunate? The Democrats are a neoliberal party. They might allow progressives to run in primaries, but its corporate-friendly neoliberals who make it to the general election. That means having to vote for capital-friendly stooges like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Unfortunately, voting third-party or not voting at all helps Republicans more than it harms Democrats, so I've got to hold my nose and vote for neoliberals to keep neo-Nazis from winning elections.
However, I'm not holding out much hope for Dems in 2024. All Biden had going for him in 2020 was that he isn't Trump. That's not going to cut it in 2024. Not after four years of everything going up but our wages.
Frankly, I'd rather just kill 'em all and let the carrion-eaters sort 'em out. Fuck democracy; we barely even have a republic. What we have is an empire governed by an oligarchy that has generally managed to swap out figurehead emperors every 4-8 years without a lot of bloodshed.
Didn’t you read the article?
I read the article. It was the sort content-free, self-pitying whinging I expect from Jake Seliger.
Side note I want to hear you butcher Yngwie Malmsteen solos on a violin. Post a link.
No. I offer enough of myself on my website. Some things I will keep for myself.
Because I've been playing the audiobook of Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi for my wife, here's a line from Musashi's Dokkōdō, the "way of walking alone":
Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.
ARMALITE: Mass Murder for the Masses
“Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.”
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
I've got that paperback.
Pay off my debts, get a divorce, park my half in index funds, quit my day job, and live off the interest.
If I had known about PocketBook I might not have bothered with my Kobo. But my Kobo Elipsa is nice.
I wouldn't fuck her with Zeus' dick.
I have a Kobo, and it's fucking sweet. You don't even need EPUB format; Kobos read plain fucking text.
The example of the guillotine ought to be all anybody needs to understand that social and political problems are not amenable to technological solutions.
Programming is thankless work best left undone if at all possible.
This is why I don't use airpods when I'm working on-site. Even if my hair was short enough that people could see that I had them in, they'd just keep talking like I could possibly give more than a wet fart about what they were saying.
Nah, they would have rented 'em out: PEaaS: public executions as a service.
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@bionicjoey I work at a big organization. (It's one of the Big 4 accounting firms.) Enough of what the presenter is saying appears on the slides that the presenter is irrelevant.
So, he's a deadbeat dad and a Nazi. I bet he thinks he's manly as fuck.