The violence wouldn’t have been escalated if

1. The cops didn’t chase them down for a measly fare
2. The cops weren’t absolute monsters that shoot first and ask questions never

Simple cause and effect, coupled with pre-existing fear of cops because of the multitude of times they’ve shot a person dead over nothing, or kneeled on their neck until they were dead over cigarettes.

Work makes us feel like we have purpose because capitalism has deprived us of the opportunity to fill that void with anything that actually enriches us as humans. If we’re not working, we feel worthless because that status quo mindset has been forced into reality, while things like homelessness have been criminalized, and everything else has been pushed to the redline of profitability.

I just want untainted Battlefield 4 with bugfixes.

I learned recently that it’s called “unregretted attrition”.

They could’ve done that without the greedy crypto aspect, but as the enshittification trend goes, they just couldn’t help themselves.

But Gametech’s efforts to legally acquire the Flappy Bird name seem to go back much further than that. Back in 2014, an outfit called Mobile Media Partners tried to claim the Flappy Bird trademark in a filing made mere days after Nguyen pulled the game from the App Store. Coincidentally enough, the specific New Jersey address listed by Mobile Media Partners on that 2014 application matches an address used by Gametech Holdings in the paperwork for its 2023 legal efforts.

Purely opportunistic bullshit and painting it as anything innocent is disingenuous.

This is why I stopped identifying myself as full-stack and only do front end.

• Joplin has a lot of customization
• Can store your notes wherever you want (Dropbox, WebDAV, OneDrive, Nextcloud, Joplin’s own cloud service, etc)
• Backups can optionally be encrypted (you set a password used to decrypt them and store that somewhere)
• You can make multiple notebooks in the hierarchy structure you want
• Open source
• Markdown (if you’re into that)
• Plugin support
• Tags

Love that you have Joplin on the list! I started using that recently to handle all of my notes and it’s been great.

Project Zomboid. That’s the most recent game I can think of where I reduced the difficulty (and that’s coming from someone that has nearly 400 hours into Elden Ring). It’s not that the game is tougher than ER or anything like that. It has a ton of cool mechanics and detail that are really enjoyable if you’re into zombie survival games, but the zombies can really swarm you in that game and you won’t live long.

It also has sandbox mode where there’s no zombies and you can focus on farming, building, etc.

If you don’t have 3 part-time jobs, you have 1 full-time job that is an absolute brain suck. At the end of my work days, I get the thousand yard stare. I’m lucky if I can even feed myself an actual meal.

Capitalists don’t know shit about what the working class wants. These video game folks continue to prove this true.

The area I’m in has skyrocketed and has some of the highest rent I’ve ever seen in my life (saw $5400/m for renting part of a house.) The folks moving here are mostly remote workers from what I can gather, so they basically make it impossible for other residents to afford rent. I’ve talked to waitstaff here that say they can’t even live in the town they work in.

I live in the southern US where people keep moving to. I don’t know why they’re attracted to this place. My partner and I both hate it and have plans to move to the northeast where it’s a little more remote and there are less assholes per square mile.

A lot of fun things listed, but they aren’t going to mean anything to any of us when we’re collectively burned out from working endlessly and incapable of retirement… thanks to America’s capitalists.

More context as to how much of a garbage human O’Leary is. https://www.avclub.com/shark-tanks-mr-wonderful-helped-kill-the-educational-1829339516

I’m in tech and could never take myself seriously ever again if I built this.

Screwedmesoft

Sounds weird and dirty.

This is the story of my life right here.

I remember downloading BF4 from GamePass and not being able to play any of it. They’ve truly ruined that franchise.

Simpler times.