JFC - of course there is 🤦‍♀️

Why I never ever ever mention my Roma ancestry to any European, ever

Enshittification - Merriam-Webster

The ONLY reason I give a shit about July 4th this year is that it’s a long weekend and the last chance we’ll have to spend with family before we move out of state in two weeks.

I’m even glad it’s supposed to rain the entire time, so I won’t even feel pressured to celebrate with fireworks!

No shit!!! 🤣

I work in the AI field (f.k.a. Tech) and let me tell you: the only ones saying it will have a positive effect on the U.S. are the executives and their lickspittles.

AI may have a positive effect in Europe. They have rules and stuff there.

I only cared when I was poor and living paycheck to paycheck.

I’m glad you’re here to tell us these things!

Guess what? This user has been avidly online since the BBS days and really … posters such as yourself were very annoying back then, too.

This seemingly simple thing enrages me on a daily basis.

How difficult can it fucking be to write some damn code to omit “the” from sorting if it is the first word of a title? JFC

If “the” appears first, then “ignore” must surely be a thing, right??

Blessed be the fruit.

Fair!

…and the women wash the dishes.

It does. My friend just got back from Tel Aviv last week and he had some pictures of ACAB graffiti on buildings there.

iPhone 15 (the most recent model without AI) is perfectly adequate for most people.

Goddamn …. That is a thing of horrific beauty. I saved it immediately.

(I’m a technical writer so it should be fun to go through this ancient tome)

In the case of many GenX folks: “our turn” will never arrive. The Boomers refused to fucking retire and make room for us, and younger generations conflate us with Boomers because “old is old”.

Meanwhile we are working our asses off helping our elderly parents navigate an increasingly hostile health system (yay, capitalism) while giving our adult children a place to live or money to survive an increasingly impossibly expensive society. Can’t afford to save for retirement either.

“Hooray”

(fyi - I also think that term limits are the way to go here - finish your terms, then gtfo. None of this waiting around for 20 years for “my turn” and certainly none of that “just wheel the old corpse in and tell her how to vote” bullshit either)

This is a good one to start with. You can download it for free.

Disengage: Opting Out to Reclaim Your Life from Spammers, Scammers, Intrusive Marketers, and Big Tech

Note: I am not the author of this

This is great!

And thank you for the reminder to dig around until I find that obscure forum post that had the wiring diagram and instructions on how to disable Starlink on Subarus.

This happened to me literally every single session at this one particular gym.

The worst offender was the dude who suddenly plopped down next to me (which was startling) while I was on the floor doing ab work and just started jabbering away. I just pointed to my ear bud and motioned him away.

Mother fucker, I’m here to work on my fitness, not talk to every rando that decides to chat me up.

I cancelled my membership that morning.

(Note that I am a woman)

This is very much my concern as well.