The Snark Urge

I hear that. I work from home and I’ve yet to make friends in a new country. It would be downright monastic if not for my family, instead it’s more of an insane asylum vibe.

I’m not even convinced happiness and fulfillment are the right thing to be actively seeking in life. If you have purpose, these things will come in time. If you chase them as your purpose, you will never truly have either.

That’s how you talk to someone with depression? Validate their hopelessness? Fuck off.

OP, voting is the bare minimum. You’re going to feel much more empowered joining your local climate protest group.

2.0 is playing clean as fuck. Very pleased.

If you knew what came next in the ST timeline, you would not wish for it

I’ve been quite coffee dependent ever since about age 16. Sometimes I like to take a week off, facilitated by a massive two litre teapot. In summer, iced tea is my crutch of choice.

Fuck the junta

Go on long walks with a litter bag cleaning parks etc while listening to books and music. Get really in shape. Cook every meal for my family. Write fiction. Get involved in helping local political movements. Attend more protests.

Not Difficult: the harrowing tale of a man who should not have existed, didn’t know how, failed professionally, socially, and academically, and still managed to put the fucking shopping carts back when he was done

Ever since I settled into the “laptop with mechanical keyboard plugged in, screen turned backwards, directly in front of my unused dual screen computer” configuration my desk has looked like the glasses of a fucking skekse. Why do I do this? Send help.

Thanks!

We love to hate AI because it is overvalued, at the same time I’m currently 90% done with my work week thanks to some cheeky AI use. Guilty pleasures.

I’m liking Kagi at first blush, thanks for the tip

That’s what that is. Shit.

Well, brave search works. Any others?

Dear diary, today my palantir put me in touch with a pretty chill wizard…

Proof is perhaps too strong a word for it, but whatever spends is money, eh?

That stuff is behind me, for now. The fact that I’m a bearded recluse in a tower who makes a living staring long and deep into a glowing piece of glass that is slowly driving me insane is pretty cool though

Most people who know me think I’m a just swell normal guy with perhaps some offputting vibes. But I was raised under circumstances that would fuck up most people. Turning out well-adjusted, educated, and starting a stable family all basically started as a rebellious phase. I still am gutter trash deep down, but I’ve got a wife and a kid now who I somehow support on a single income working 100% from home. I’ve overcommitted to this bit and there’s no going back. I have to “be a sane human” who doesn’t “sleep in storage units” now. I’ve become a man who “updates underwriters” and doesn’t “dress like a wizard, cast spells in public parks, and barf on the sidewalk”. God help me.

Debt jubilees used to be a thing. I guess we kind of get a limited version of that with student loan forgiveness

I just figured out I can see my own playback stats. For this year, my top ten in order of most played:

• Last Podcast on the Left
• Behind the Bastards
• Harmontown
• Hardcore History
• Wizard and the Bruiser
• That Happens
• The Bugle
• State of the World, NPR
• Hood Politics with Prop
• The Rest is Politics

I think I like your list better.