Maybe it’s inserted into media on purpose, training us like a subtle shock collar to hesitate if somehow, one of the commoners manages to get within range of an authoritarian boss-man.

/Crazy conspiracy lol

This looks like an episode where Big Bird realizes all the really neat grown-up jobs he was telling the kids about this whole time don’t really exist, and he just realized the sheer soul-crushing disappointment of the corporate workplace. :( lol

It probably sounds a little weird, but while I was sitting at the safety of my “occupy a desk until someone asks questions” job that sapped my soul, I often would research places I really, really wouldn’t want to be.

In a weird way I find this “Dark tourism behind a screen” to be a bit fascinating in a "safe danger " kind of way.

Reading the state department’s notices on some countries really puts in perspective. They’re like “Don’t go here without an armored vehicle, armed security detail, and most preferably a good friggin reason. Even still, have a next of kin lined up and ransom plans.”

Edit: also “Oh yeah, if everything goes bad off embassy grounds (if there even is one) our ability to intervene is limited. Don’t expect direct support to come save you.”

Like. Damn.

I’d say inside the country, it’s not as bad as the news makes it sound, because cameras are only pointing at the worst events. It’s a pretty big country and most people are content to just leave each other alone.

…But a huge radius around the borders or airports are “Constitution-free” zones where nobody has any rights, and our borders/customs folks have a reputation for being less than kind. And those zones, bad enough as they are, are so freakishly large that most people in any populated area are within those zones…so…

…Yeah, maybe wait. . .

before I learned about the Dubai porta potty

I was expecting some sort of ridiculous public sanitation custom. I knew about suspicious weird stories about models “getting on flights and never coming back” but the details make it even worse.

Wish there were people like John Wick to move through these grotesque billionaire circles and purge the monsters entirely.

I have always had zero interest of travelling to or supporting the place, and this only reinforces that.

So the State seizing land and demanding tax was really just a ploy to support their vampire masters. I knew it!

Sometimes (often?) at your own peril!

To anyone else following, if you’re mucking around with “I am Root/Admin. OBEY ME!!” you had better have important data backed up!

I once thought an unlisted BTRFS snapshot was an orphan folder taking up space. No permission? Nonsense! Obey my commands!

Suddenly not even terminal commands worked. (“Command ‘cd’/‘ls’/whatever not found”)

. . . it was the “writable snapshot” currently mounted, and the system was so borked it couldn’t rollback, and I needed to completely reinstall.

Fortunately I had things backed up on another drive. Live and learn! But that could have been TRAGIC.

Dunno if she wrote “thumbs” or the collab with Alan Walker, which I always thought were kinda based, but she was just starting to get popular then maybe. Really sad if she’s let the fame go to her head that badly.

A soul is a terrible thing to waste. :(

Naaron (Nay-ay-ron)

Thanks! Added. :D

BTW. . .

“On your left!”

• As you wish.
• If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!
• I rock… And rule!.. All day long! Sweet Susie! / I’m bleeding, which makes me the victor!
• I aim to misbehave.
• Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
• Come with me if you want to live!
• They mostly come at night…Mostly…
• You! SHALL NOT! PASS!!
• Whoever wrote this episode should die!
• Rebellions are built on hope.

Lol I could keep going all night if I don’t stop myself and I’ve work in the morning. XD

(Edit: Some new ones)

• I can do this all day.
• Puny god.
• I am…inevitable.
• Hold on to your butts.
• I’m a dude, playin’ a dude, disguised as another dude!

I saw it in my head just reading it. Absolutely moving.

I can’t get through

With dry eyes either. That speech has kept me going, so many times. I’ve even posted it in various places on Lemmy as a counter to the sheer hopelessness and defeatism (understandably) pervading a lot of threads.

I often consider getting it wholly or partially inscribed on me.

That’s not a cost that kills you.

For real.

Some folks have a vice where they can’t start a single day without a fancy grande latte or whatever, but mostly when I see that, it’s middle-managey types that make more in a month than I’d ever see in my account at any given time.

How many skipped small vanilla cold-brews or boba teas (+a tip for my fellow working class ✊) buys an average healthcare deductible or car repair beyond my DIY abilities? Heck let’s lower the bar…An oil change?

Just filling the tank costs like 8 enjoyable refreshing coffees. What a lame exchange rate!

Even if we struggle, it’s still okay to enjoy things once in a while.

This is partly true. Also, contrary to mall-ninja rhetoric, one doesn’t and shouldn’t primarily carry to go be a vigilante hero, but as a last resort for their own protection. I’ll admit my original comment was coming from strong emotion. Lol

I think the discourse on self-protection has taken a bizarre turn during our lifetimes, where the right and the NRA turned firearms into an unhealthy fetish, and the liberal politicians turned them into frightening campfire stories by spreading fear and ignorance. Both just using it as another tug-rope to “Be opposite those other guys.”

Shockingly, there are plenty of normal, responsible armed people who fit neither category. Even socialists. They’re just quiet and respectable so they go unnoticed.

But on the whole, this cultural propaganda has resulted in a heavily skewed situation where those with the means to deter tyranny are in lockstep with it, and those with the will to deter tyranny get a bit flummoxed when clever signs aren’t enough.

I’m very torn myself, because clever non-violent solutions are obviously preferred, but at the same time these thugs are bullies and cowards, who tend to be confused and frightened when they actually encounter resistance from their would-be victims.

“That’s why my client acted reasonably and dare I say heroically, when they saw these masked men dragging the witness into an unmarked vehicle, drew their legally carried sidearm, and engaged these individuals until they were no longer a threat.”

Why hasn’t this happened yet?!

This country should never be safe for predators who want to throw people into vans.

Super helpful! Thanks! :D

Figures like that are still mind boggling. Like…“We put dudes up there!!!”

I’ll never stop being awed and impressed by the vastness of space and just about anything humanity has done with it.

Especially because from the ground just looking up there, you can almost convince yourself it’s not that far, and if you just believed hard enough, you could simply reach out and touch it.

Many don’t turn around and try making a start-up game though, most just burn out of the industry forever.

I think a big reason for this is because they need to have some kinda airtight clandestine OPSEC if they want to work on anything themselves that they plan to show anybody.

It’s been common practice for AAA’s to say “Anything you make while you’re employed here at all is ours.” Sometimes even if you’re not AT the studio when you do it.

They just simply assume entitlement to your creativity.

So, quit and make that indie darling, right? But then you need a financial “runway” set up, which sets a hard time limit on production and adds a ton of stress, and you’d better hope it sells well enough to make back the lost income.

The indie successes we’ve seen are nothing short of extraordinary, but also a textbook example of survivorship bias in action. For every success, there’s a million projects that never got off the ground, much less sold successfully.

Facing all this…I celebrate the efforts that beat the odds, and love genuinely good games that simply didn’t sell enough to keep the ball rolling.

But I don’t fault anybody for just going into something more stable before burnout hits, and they would be destroyed from the inside out.

…mmm, Riot maybe?

Like thanking that dude for breaking up with Adele since her breakout album was basically a breakup album. If you’re into Adele. Lol

A phallic jape