That’s just what they want you to think.

iPhone 3GS. Lovely little thing. Mine was white.

It’s really tragic how these people never learned to build an identity of their own and fall prey to these “secret knowledge” patterns of thought.

You’re not more special than other people due to the legal fan fiction you’ve concocted. However you are special in the sense that I wouldn’t let you near my family.

Oh America, get it the fuck together.

Some fast food travels well. Much of it doesn’t. I am baffled as to which idiots are ordering some of this garbage.

When I got my original iPhone it wasn’t because it has more features than the competition - it was because it had less but better implemented. These days new “features” seem to mostly involve making the experience worse in pursuit of ever more money.

I’ve not bought an iPhone in fifteen years.

Options for renters are sorely needed.

Making everything about money turns out to have been super bad for society.

As in we seem to treat money as the ultimate form of success. Sure, we pay lip service to other things, but in reality we don’t really acknowledge other accomplishments on the same level.

You see it in the way the culture sector is expected to make a profit, rather than the goal being to make culture. Much like healthcare - you put money in and get a healthy population out. It’s not supposed to make money!

I’m thinking that if a successful career as a politician was based more around improving our society, rather than being a great way to make pots of cash, then the goal would be to have a memorable (positive!) career in politics.

Putting money on a pedestal is such a fucking lie. It’s essentially a boiled down version of the classic advertising lie - “Buy this thing and you will be happier” (perhaps not stated as such but that’s the general pitch). Satisfaction and contentment isn’t something that can be achieved by ticking a box - it’s a journey and a learned way of framing one’s life. There’s plenty of ways to spend money to reduce negatives, and money can definitely lubricate the gears of life towards happiness, but ticking the boxes won’t actually unlock those things.

You don’t wake up one morning after achieving whatever tickbox and suddenly become a different person.
“I’ve got my PhD, now I’m satisfied with life!”

Doesn’t work like that! You can’t flip a switch in your brain and change the way you’ve been interpreting your situation.

It’d be lovely if it did work like that, so I can see why it’s so easy to get people to buy into it. It’s an easy answer to a difficult question.

Instead I think we need people chasing after different needs. The need to make a positive difference (and be known for it), to make a contribution to our culture, etc… There’s a bit of ego about it but that’s humans for you. Use that lever for good!

Whilst as an adult I can see it, I’m perplexed by adults that can’t see the child’s perspective in situations like these.

Having grown up in the countryside without siblings, to this day I don’t understand what it was that I was supposed to do on my own. So boring. As a result I associate time spent there with isolation and boredom. Good job, parents.

Seems like an odd place to post this but I’ll bite.

Even the things I love doing involve work. If I want to do some sewing I still need to tidy up before and afterwards, for example, or spend time pinning stuff (and then taping up the numerous stab wounds). It’s a bit reductive.

Instead I try to get paid for things that require minimal emotional “work” from me - that is to say, things that don’t leave me sapped of energy to work on my passion projects. I don’t dislike what I am paid to do but I’m not super enthused about it. That means that when I’m done working I’ve still got the creative juice to work on stuff I actually want to do.

If instead I have to spend my working days pushing myself through stuff then I tend to be left with nothing in the tank, even if I still have time left at the end of the day. Instead I get paid to do something I’m good at but that doesn’t usually involve extended periods of advanced problem solving or frequent uphill battles of effort (there’s always a bit, of course, it’s not a perfect solution!). That isn’t to say what I do is easy, but much of the stuff involved is stuff I’ve been doing for twenty years so is comparatively easy for me.

The notion of having this many lanes in a built up area is insane to me.

What a soundtrack!

Is the goal to ensure the US falls behind the rest of the world?

Fortunately their driving tests are extremely rigorous.

Now I’m thinking about the old e-penis hardware algorithm scripts for IRC!

That’s an interesting way of phrasing “has actively enabled corruption for decades”.

No, thanks.

Say “yes” to Judge Dress

APNG wasn’t officially part of the spec?!