I don’t know what it does on Lemmy but I’m clicking the gold star on this reply

Generally speaking, snakes only attack when they feel threatened.

Well, a lot of conservatives feel threatened. The fear isn’t justified, but it’s real.

Conservatives are such a heady mix of stupid and dishonest.

Without jeopardizing your academics, prioritize rare things.

TV and video games will always be there. Your friend asking you to come play tennis won’t. Go play tennis even if you don’t think you’ll love it.

Not easily and safely. You could try to talk to them, but most people are kind of brittle and will get defensive if you so much as suggest they are not saints.

Recognize that behavior in yourself, and try to be better. We’re all vulnerable to getting defensive when we’re wrong.

When I was a kid, I’d usually get As or B’s. This other kid told me whenever he got an A, he’d get $20 each. I said to my mom, “why don’t I get anything for my As?”

She said, “Because [other kid] is kind of stupid, so it’s a big deal when he gets one”

This was not a satisfying answer.

I also remember in late middle school, we were in the computer lab (I’m old) given a sort of free form assignment to do something for whatever book we’d read. I made a basic little game in BASIC (I’m still old). Some kid wrote the book title in WordArt. The teacher gushed over it, and I got a “that’s nice” for my fully operational game. Infuriating. Had a huge impact on my respect for authority and academic career, probably more than warranted.

My therapist tried to make me see the teacher’s point of view. Kyle was always fucking up and off task, so rewarding him when he’s not a fuckup for once must have felt like a big payoff. But I was always good, and she didn’t really understand what I was going on about, so she didn’t engage with it.

I’d love this in the US, but we’re ruled by the wealthy assholes here. They have personal assistants to screen their calls.

I despise interfaces that try to be “friendly” by showing relative times. It’s not helpful. It’s counter productive. If you tell me it was at 08:45 I can look at what time it is now and fucking figure it out. Not so if you say “20 minutes ago”

And then some of them have fucking javascript to update the text. Fucking insanity.

Sometimes I think we should get rid of 3/4ths of the “product people”, but then wi the just engineering websites would just be like plain text and the occasional still photo. Which, honestly, sounds okay.

It’s infuriating that the mob just went on with their day.

I do wonder what the right wing fanatics are going to say about gun control when someone shoots a would be lynch mob dead.

This is as much a movement as it’s going to get. Peer to peer.

I know. People are an endless source of disappointment.

Refuse to pay. If we all just refused to pay, they would have to change.

But too many people don’t care, so I guess we’ll all just suffer.

I will continue to not buy EA products. Fuck 'em

Google is run my by assholes and idiots. Break it apart.

Edit: fixed silly typo

Conservatives are often nice to people they know. The in-group. The problem is when it’s a scary other. So they’ll let Jose couch surf for a week while he sorts out his housing situation, because he’s a good guy down on his luck, but they’ll rage against Those People getting anything.

I feel like we should run honeypots like this, and anyone who falls for it goes right to, like, therapy and “how not to be scammed” training.

WhatsApp, sms, and Google chat (hangouts? Meet? The thing built into Gmail)

None of them are great.

One of my friends is some sort of neurodivergent and just… won’t install signal. It’s “too much”. I don’t understand this. It’s 30 seconds of “click this link I sent you, then click install”.

The “american dream” has always had a problematic contradiction. You should work hard. Working hard is good. You should work hard so you don’t have to work anymore. Working sucks and you don’t want to do it. You want to be the guy on a golf course getting money while those hard working people assemble widgets for you.

Well, which is it then?

The freedom was always kind of dicey. Sedition act of 1798, for example.

Women also historically had a bad time of it. And the native peoples. Queer folks, too. Religious freedom is hit or miss.

It’s been pretty good for wealthy people, historically. They’ve been pretty free.