I get this, in a slightly different way. when I really really like someone it starts to feel like they are literally living in my head and I police even my thoughts lest they see them. I know it’s irrational but it’s more of an impulse.

this is what my current boss acts like and I love it. best job I’ve ever worked. I sleep in until 11 almost every day, my boss doesn’t care as long as I’m keeping pace with the things that are needed for the next release. I’ll say “I slept in this morning because I was really tired” and he’ll say “alright, go get some more rest if you’re still tired, update me on your task when you can”. this is how work should be.

Allman changes the way I code. I avoid using imperative constructs so much more because they waste so much more space on my screen.

that’s a great idea!

wow, that’s really sad. I should do something about that. my sadness, I mean. not third world markets.

ads don’t go unless capitalism goes

a nuanced take on the internet, I don’t believe it

buy floss picks. I floss daily and it takes all of 30 seconds.

one of my favorite things about helix is how easily you can check the keybinds for certain actions - just space-? and then you can see a list of every command available (by description) and their keybinds, if they have one

going vegan doesn’t help animals much either. we live in an overproductive society that wastes most of what it produces anyways - even if your personal choice marginally reduces demand, the abuse is ongoing. we need systemic solutions. we need to destroy the meat industry. veganism will never be popular enough to create systemic change on its own.

solves nothing. you eliminate a negligible amount of carbon emissions. focusing on our individual impact is a waste of time when there are companies and their leaders doing orders of magnitude more damage.

people learn things all the time despite phones existing. the issue is not solely being more entertaining. people need to find their learning meaningful and aligned with their own interests and goals. students don’t, and so they go on their phones. go to a college classroom and you’ll see people more engaged on average. still far from perfect, and that system is broken in many ways too, but people are at least studying something they chose and are presumably interested in.

“I’m really rooting for you to figure this out” rings hollow. we all need to be part of the solution. gen Z feels like it’s carrying the expectation of fixing literally every societal problem right now and it sucks.

you can’t be 100% sure about a relationship until you try it. it might work out, it might not. age is not going to be an obvious problem upfront if she seems mature. you just have to accept that you’re taking a risk.

Thank you for this. So sick of pretending our problems are unsolvable when we have both the resources and the knowledge to solve them. “It’s just too big/complex to tackle!” is capitalist propaganda.

automate your life’s menial tasks

steam deck is helping a lot on that front.

maybe you’re taking it too literally

the narrative that our personal carbon footprints matter was created by oil companies and continues to only benefit them and nobody else. changing your individual habits will never address a systemic problem. and this is a systemic problem, not a personal one.

toilet paper mafia.

there is another side to this equation