Greens are in bed with Putin, same as the GOP. They never attempt any campaign that can have a positive impact. They’re not leftists or worth support from anyone who is remotely left of center.

If we can’t believe good things can happen, then what would be the point anyway…

Two things:

1. Being kind to others, making their lives a bit less painful and hopefully a bit more joyful.
2. Spite. Opting out would be making the lives of the bastards who are inflicting the bullshit on the rest of us too easy.

I don’t expect things to get better within my lifetime and I’m not yet 40. All that I’ve witnessed in my lifetime is an accelerating decline in financial stability for people who work for a living and continual degradation of the quality of basic goods that people are able to afford.

I managed to not get totally fucked during the pandemic after having been set back probably about a decade and a half by The Recession. Now, my field is getting hit by regular layoffs that don’t actually benefit anyone but make the line go up. Shit is not looking good in the near future.

At this point, it’s gotta be in the high six-figures with the decades of unending price gouging.

That’s something that noone should accept, much less whole generations. I’m not working for someone else for my while life.

The US still has subsidies going to petrochemical companies, despite being insanely profitable. Basically, just extracting the country’s wealth in addition to natural resources. Ending those or forcing them to be spent on recycling would help here immensely.

I’ll pick three: Bad Religion, The Dreadnoughts, and Days 'n Daze.

In some ways very similar - they’re all “punk”. However, Bad Religion has its roots in early 80s hardcore punk and has, with some notable exceptions like the song Cease (and the album Into the Unknown, which is hilariously bad and they wish the world would forget), maintained their “wall of guitars” and “oozin’ awws” sound throughout their 40-ish years as a band. Also, their lyrical content generally is about societal and global issues.

The Dreadnoughts are a cider punk band that, at times is a bit like a Canadian incarnation of The Pogues or Gogol Bordello. They feature accordion in most of their songs, have done an acoustic album and a WWI concept album, and have a great catalog of acapella and accompanied shanties. They very much embrace folk music, especially polka. Lyrically, their most frequent themes involve sailors during the age of sail and shenanigans that they personally got up to.

Days 'n Daze is, what I’d say, straight-up folk-punk. All acoustic instruments that are fairly busking-friendly (guitar, gutbucket, washboard, trumpet) and vocals go from pop-punky to thrash screaming. Their lyrical themes generally involve anarchism, struggles with mental health and nihilism, parties, and interpersonal conflict.

While all three are “punk”, they are very different musically and lyrically.

Both books and TV series are worth it. There’s enough difference to make both interesting and the authors were involved enough in the TV series that it is still good.

Bonus: The book series is complete and, while there is another book and some short stories of narrative content, the show ends without a “we got cancelled” cliffhanger and the final book is a bit of an extended epilogue with a significant time gap, so, maybe we’ll get a production of another season in another decade.

Double bonus: The authors’ new book series, which just has its first book released last year, has already had a TV series deal signed.

To be fair, some of them are members of the Church of Accelerationism and believe that making life worse for people and offering up vulnerable populations as sacrifice will magically lead to the world getting transformed into a better place, despite no historical data backing such an idea. So, they want Nazis to win, despite claiming to be leftists who care about fellow human beings.

I do use AI for simple questions, and it works fairly well for that, but this claim by MS is just marketing bullshit.

This is my experience. It can be useful for simple things that used to be found with a web search before AI slop broke things. For example, I was having trouble getting a simple CGO program for a POC to communicate with the main Go process. This should have been solvable easily with documentation but the CGO docs are pretty bad and sample code was near impossible to find due to AI slop in the search results. GPT was able to provide the needed sample code to unblock me.

Is that why I thought it was so shit? I was somewhat tempted to rewatch and see if it was any better than when I watched it on broadcast TV and episodes seemed out of order.

That’s who people (non-)voted for. Anti-electoralists/accelerationists must be having trouble containing their joy at the human suffering that’s building.

(I have to assume wealth and intelligence have a decent correlation sometimes, but Heritage proves the relationship is certainly not 1:1)

They decidedly do not have a correlation. The majority of wealthy people inherited their wealth. Inheriting enough wealth to pay a competent finance professional has been the primary means of accruing wealth since at least the 80s. Those getting wealthy from startups and the like are outliers.

If we could stop accelerating into full-blown fascism, that would be great. Stay safe out there.

The only thing that it is really useful for is getting possible solutions for simple problems that don’t pop up in search results anymore because of all of the slop that it was used to generate for scummy advertising dickheads. Even then, it’s not trustworthy and requires verification, wasting time that would not be needed if the official docs came up consistently on the first page of search results.

But they will also be falling apart too.

It would be like castrating the entire penis and testicles.

That is very much not accurate. Genital mutilation (of both genders) generally focuses on removing the ability to obtain pleasure from sex while maintaining reproductive capability.

Circumcision is roughly analogous to clitoral hood amputation (one type of FGM). The foreskin also contains a substantial number of sensory nerves (Meissnar’s corpuscles, and ~10k-20k nerve endings specialized for pleasure). Additionally, the glans (head) is subjected to the external environment in a manner which it was not adapted for, resulting in formation of thickened, layer of skin to protect it. These two things, taken together, result in greatly reduced sensory and pleasure capabilities in the penis. The reason for its commonality in the US is the historical puritanical belief that sexuality is wrong and desire to repress sexuality in little boys.

FGM is wrong. So is male genital mutilation. Inflicting either on those who can not consent is a crime against humanity that should not be accepted as commonplace.

Thank you. It’s exhausting and cathartic at the same time to call the little shits who go through mental gymnastics to support their anti-electoralism/accelerationism as the literal cause of the current state of the world. Yes, bad actors have been doing bad things but they’re basically just holding the door open for the guy walking up to the house with a can of kerosene and lit blowtorch.

Those two commentors genuinely brought relief to the unexpected anxiety that abandoned-quiche caused.

As a white dude, I really wish. I don’t see much evidence of it though.

An AI company not respecting copyright and licensing? I’m shocked.