This reminds me of the similar map of names for soft drinks. You have your soda vs coke, but I live in one of the “pop” regions which is admittedly a larger area than these little “bubbler” enclaves.

I mostly switched over to “soda” once I went to college though. A nationwide and international assortment of group members will encourage that.

I’m genuinely glad to hear you say that.

My country may well have more men who agree it’s touching, since this place is huge, but I’m sure the percentage of men who agree is far lower.

You may have heard we have some slight imperfections in our culture over here. ;)

Most people reading your comment, sure.

Most people in my general area, in the US, in a red district inside a swing state? Ehhh I hope they are much more emotionally mature in private than in public. Unfortunately in many cases though, that is where the even worse stuff comes out.

It’s like whoever is directing his actions just wants to twist the knife a bit. But there are so many evil fucks to choose from that it doesn’t really narrow it down. Could be a Putin “fuck the americans” thing, could be a Miller “fuck everybody” thing, who knows.

I have been existing in a superposition of both of these states for a few years and really like it.

During the day I’m a senior engineer on embedded c/c++ stuff. During free time at home I dig in the dirt and build shit and do my “farm chores” like tending to my koi pond. Feels good man.

I think most people would agree that fresh air, exercise, hobbies, and personal goals are good for your body and mind. It’s still wild when I notice it actually working.

That makes me think of how much it annoys me when things are really messy and disorganized in our house, which is very often.

It’s like there’s no indexing. Where is thing X that somebody else used last? Time to start a fresh empty-cache brute force search of the whole space!

I definitely agree with you there.

Reddit, unfortunately, does not. I am not suggesting that Reddit’s bad intentions necessarily make removing one’s past contributions a good thing or a necessity – but I do understand why folks might do it.

Vandalism does still feel like the wrong label though. With Reddit you are the sole creator and controller of your comments and their contents (except mod/admin actions, of course) at all times. And even though those comments are part of a larger structured collection of comments, it still isn’t like a Wikipedia edit or a contribution to the Linux kernel, where a multitude of other individuals have to approve the change and can edit the exact same spot in the future.

You are definitely taking stuff away from your fellow man, and it may be a net negative for humanity, but it is still at least YOUR stuff that you are sabotaging. Usually messing up your own stuff isn’t called vandalism. I think that’s why we jumped on that word.

When you try to sabotage a wikipedia page or some FOSS project, that is OUR stuff that you’re sabotaging, even if you created that part originally.

That was probably too much text to try to describe the manner in which I am splitting this hair, lol.

You’re using a non-profit knowledge sharing organization as an example in a discussion about Reddit, which is quite the opposite.

Literally just today on the drive home I was wondering to myself what would be the best way to generate a list of like 100 songs that are exactly like the handful of best ones that I never skip and that hit every time.

I didn’t know this was an ADHD thing!

What has worked best for me in the past, funny enough, was to discover music the old fashioned way. I started with songs, bands, or sub-genres that I liked, and just loaded albums and discographies rapid fire into my jellyfin server.

I’ll occasionally listen to an album, but when I’m feeling adventurous I typically just hit shuffle on the entire library. Every once in a while, a track that belongs on “the list” will light up my neurons and hopefully I have a hand free to add it. Otherwise, it may be lost to the sands of time.

In my case “the list” is comprised mostly of thrash, groove, or industrial metal that is energetic enough to occupy the music box in my head so I can calmly get some work done or enjoy a stretch of country road.

Honestly I think it’s a tried and true shameless asshole business strategy of his or something. You tell everybody you made a deal and brow beat the other party into just going along with it instead of trying to correct history.

It might not work for many people and businesses, but it probably works for a narcissistic trust fund scumbag that was handed a real estate empire and taught strategy by the very man who raised Donald Trump to have the personality he does.

Ya know, while at work today I took a break from the computer stuff to sketch out some concepts for plumbing that I’m going to rework at home for one of my hobbies, a pond.

Maybe I would be the guy in the OP that goes around fixing pipes! Then once I’m in the door I’d offer to install Linux on any computers I see.

My experience being born into religious conservative white america is that phrases like “I don’t believe in” or “I don’t agree with” are just the politically correct language and/or dog whistle for “I hate that shit but I need to act polite.”

Ooh, a headline that might get me to pay attention to an upcoming phone. How fun!

Oh no. We can’t have enshittification cross over into our actual shitters!

With the stupid numbers being thrown around in the AI “industry,” buying up a company like Toto to harvest its organs seems run of the mill stuff for private equity.

I think it’s only a question of WHEN the population decline in the developed world affects economies enough that countries offer immigrants incentives and actively recruit people to move there.

That is awesome, and it sounds like something I would totally do.

…if I didn’t already have enough pets of my own that scare birds out of the yard, lol. Fortunately I have pets that will eat worms. I have been thinking of building a nice bird feeder just outside the fence though.

Yeah bro and their new track is fire!

Don’t forget that the same system teaches all the regular people that wealth is a sign of virtue. That silly thought is not limited to the people who have the wealth. Much the opposite, in fact.

They also like to pretend that luck is minor part of it or even a non-issue. It’s crazy to imagine how much good could result from eliminating the concept that people are where they are solely because they “deserve” it and they “worked” for it.

I worked for the stuff I have too. That doesn’t mean I am not incredibly lucky.

My son was the prime age for Baby Shark when it blew up a few years ago.

I remember we were on a ride at a little local amusement park and some girls started singing Baby Shark.

I was the dad that stepped in right on the beat and bellowed out “DAAAAAADDY SHARK DOOT DOOT…” with as much bass in my voice as I could manage.

I grew up in a conservative household. Fuck that whole universe of attitudes.

Did anybody else here make the grave mistake of doing this in Oblivion, the game notorious for enemy auto-leveling?

I went off doing random shit the moment that Captain Picard let me out of that sewer, and by the time I showed up to be the Hero of Kvatch I was this crazy invisible assassin of doom, and probably at the top of the thieves guild or the dark brotherhood or both.

So then if memory serves, the town is under attack from monsters and is on fire. The game drops me into a small walled-in arena and instead of whatever lv 1 imps and cockroaches are normally there, I’m holding my bow and arrow and looking up the fiery eyes of half a dozen 12-foot-tall giga-chad linebacker demons from hell. Oh and look they are already sprinting in my direc-- DEAD!

I probably took some creative liberties there but you get the idea.

I think I had to lower the difficulty slider to get through that room. Then I put it back to normal assuming the worst was over, only to have the game put me through a CORRIDOR of hyper-strong enemies next! So twice I had to lower the difficulty.

On one hand, this happened because my character was a min-maxed glass cannon, and a stereotypical one at that (stealth archer, how original! /s). But that same character had no problem with the entire game before or after that town because the whole point of the game is to have the freedom to approach encounters as you wish.

So in many ways that situation was less about auto-leveling, and more about the meme-worthy situations where a boss late in the game requires completely new mechanics the player has never seen. Or even better, it was the anti-forced-stealth-mission!