Ok, boomer Agreed, dark ager.

Hmm. Interesting, indeed. Now please excuse me while I, once again, sacrifice my own bodily fluids on the modern-age altar of fertility which has been optimized over ages and ages into the convenient shape of a… sock.

That reminds me of three cities I used to frequent. You could predict their economic and political situation based on the way desire paths were being handled.

• Place 1: poor, left-wing. Nothing, the desire paths were left alone.
• Place 2: rich, left-wing. Desire paths were nicely paved over.
• Place 3: rich, right-wing. They placed big branches on a desire path to block it. After people started climbing over them, they fell a tree on it.

Nice, she got a facelift and dyed her hair black.

We Interrupt This Programme
(Yeah, I’m oldschool like that)

These days, what’s an ashtray in a car for if you can’t fill it with couscous.

Church events work fine, too. My buddy and me went to one in a damp basement and it was about 30 people. 100% women. Average age about 22 I guess. All were dancing. They all immediately started staring at us as if we were edible. Within the hour, my buddy met what would soon become his GF, and I was approached by this amazing girl. I then went on a string of remarkable dates with her.
The kicker: It was a Christian event, but the girls we hooked up with weren’t Christians at all.

I gotta disagree with you here. At least on the sub(s) that I still - on the occasion of big events - take a glance at. To me, Reddit comments are the epitome of staleness and predictability. Also, their user base seems like a bunch of 40-year-old dads that mentally peaked at 16, but keep getting more racist by the year.

Precisely this. From a philosophical-logical POV, it doesn’t make sense. From the POV of establishing and maintaining power/ dominance/ oppression/ hegemony, however, it’s the only thing that makes sense.

I’m getting a sort of buffer underrun when doing routine so I’ll always try and make trivial tasks or busywork faster, more efficient, or superfluous through process design. When I cannot do that, I’ll listen to music or podcasts, that helps somewhat.
The main drawback of this condition is that many employers think I simply “like to work” and bury me in even more busywork.

I’m certain my productivity at work dropped significantly because of this fucking upgrade. It’s slow as molasses, at times unstable and 50% of the time I send the laptop to “hibernate,” both it and me wake up to yet another update cycle, meaning it did a completely unwanted hard restart and my unsaved work has been lost without a warning. Crazy my company is paying for that shit.

Now show Uranus.

Clinical insanity, that’s what it is.

Millenia Nova - I’m Dead

Yeah, it would be so much better if everybody was just upfront about it during anamnesis:

How, do you think, did this contraption become lodged in your rectum?
I put it up my ass.
Why did you put it up there?
It was an experiment.
What was the purpose of this experiment?
To find out what I can put up my ass.

I feel like we’ve arrived at a low point of personal computing, whereas the arrival of the Amiga marked the high point. “Here, have some affordable hardware and software, we leave you alone to run wild.” And people did, resulting in amazing outbursts of creativity. Of the people, for the people. In fact, I’d liken it to the discovery of fire or writing.
Nowadays, computers are a lot more powerful, but they are not equally more empowering. Unless you think making or watching trite, interchangeable corporate puppet influencer videos is worthwile. Software is bloated, repulsive, intrusive, and you have to fight ads, upselling attempts and recurring fees on a daily basis. It appears to be a losing battle…

Hawk Tuah would have been a better fit.

Wow, Bruce Springsteen looks a lot rougher than he did just a few days ago.

Hungry hungry hippos.

Middle manager.
At least in my current job. There are nice AND useful ones out there, but in my dept., there’s positively neither.