Don’t sweat it. I don’t know about other people but as long as you’re nice and willing to help people, you’ll do just fine. Also, those daily interactions with people will help you be a better version of yourself even if socializing isn’t your thing. 2016 really isn’t that long ago when you think about it! You’ll do great!

Earlier this week I did 3 nights in a row where I watched a psychological horror film. I watched:

• Longlegs - Creepiest role I’ve seen Nicolas Cage play
• Midsommar - Absolute mindfuck that stuck with me
• Us - Love Jordan Peele, so I found this one to be a lot of fun, even if the plot was a bit weird and not fully fleshed out (which might’ve been the point; Jordan Peele likes to leave some things vague)

Longlegs was probably my favorite among the 3. I love dark pagan thrillers and stuff in the realm of Se7en.

Sounds like you need to diversify your Lemmy subs honestly lmao.

Chikka chikka Slim Weeny!

Based and orcapilled.

Thanks! I’m never getting rid of this URL.

Anyone that uses “woke” unironically is not someone I will ever take seriously. Criticizing someone for having awareness of reality is peak modern day anti-intellectualism.

Thanks! Bookmarking those for later.

It’s one of my favorite recent games. It’s so endlessly pleasing.

Aww what a bummer. It’s been really handy and helps me avoid fraud easily with the one-time use cards. You can also make cards with limits set that cannot be exceeded.

If you’re comfortable sharing, where are you at? I can look around for a similar service.

These big companies have it all backwards. We don’t need them; they need us. I don’t suddenly like slot machine video games just because their fucking bean counters say so. Ever since I bought a Steam Deck, I’ve played nothing but indie and old games, and I ain’t going back. You can keep your 3 bundles and your $70-110 price tags. I’ll play 500 hours of Vampire Survivors before I’ll buy another casino that they happened to build a game around.

In the wise words of the Soulsbourne community: GIT GUD (at not making shitty games).

If the earth is fucked, the art won’t matter anyway. Fossil fuel companies continue to ruin the planet and expensive art is something that only the wealthiest can afford. So I view this like I do BDS: an attack on the things the wealthy need and want (money) because it’s the only attack vector available to the working class. The art is secondary to the message anyway. You don’t have to support the tactics but it helps to understand how we got here and recognize that extreme responses to extremely dire situations are going to become more commonplace as things inevitably get worse.

Also, the art has protective plexiglass over it and soup wipes off.

Spin up a card using a service like Privacy and use that. I make one-time use cards with it all the time.

But the point is that it shouldn’t replace people. I’ve been a programmer for 20+ years and there’s nothing that will make me want to work with tools I know can eventually replace me or someone else. Aside from that, the energy usage is getting batshit insane while we’re all in the midst of a climate crisis.

Never used that one but I use Copilot daily and have tried similar. Copilot has gotten considerably worse since I started using it (I think because they mixed in ChatGPT results), so I rely on it very little.

These tools make people too dependent upon them, similar to how a lot of us can no longer navigate without map software. It feels like I’m slowly building my own coffin the more I use AI to write my code.

Aside from that, when you start to dig into the energy and water consumption required to run these things, it’s kind of insane.

He worked on an Israeli kibbutz in the 60s. He’s also been pretty weak on protecting Palestinians from a genocide, has stated that Israel has a right to defend itself on multiple occasions, and has rejected a ceasefire. He did recently sign a resolution to try to block more arms sales to Israel ($20b worth), but it feels like a weak attempt to try and win back approval from the left.

It’s constantly proving to be a massive disappointment, at least in the hands of capitalists.

My town has some massive trees that I swear drop the temp under them what feels like 5-10 degrees. It could be a sweltering hot day and it’s still lovely under them.

69, dudes!

“it is in the public interest for these emerging technologies to be trained on high-quality, reliable information.”

Oh, well if you say so. Oh wait, no one has a say anyway because corporations ru(i)n everything.

I guarantee 5-10 years from now, those same companies will be complaining that development is not happening fast enough, more developers will burn out, and this cycle will repeat again. Thus starts the new search for speeding things up yet again. The problem is that capitalism demands infinite growth and that translates to speed. So nothing will ever truly be fast enough to meet the demands of people that need their 5th vacation home.

I’m a programmer and I’ve been telling people this for a while now. You will never be fast enough. That’s not a jab or a criticism; it’s the reality of work demands under capitalism. It’s why when a manager constantly says we need to be faster, I start job searching again.

We are witnessing the stage of capitalism where innovation has peaked. That’s why we see ads permeating everything; why live services are in so many games; why data hoarding and required account login is in everything; why we have a seemingly never ending stream of remakes and reboots no one asked for. Capitalism has made it so that there is no time or space for truly new ideas and they instead milk what they can from what already exists.