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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • “A non-vote is a vote for Trump”

    Trump did not gain a whole lot of raw votes compared to 2020. Last I saw he had figures of a net gain of ~500k

    Harris fell 4 million short. If you didn’t vote because of some stupid protest, you voted for Trump. Netanyahu publicly wanted Trump to win.

    AFAIC, every protest-voter, every third-party voter, every “BlUe MAgA” screecher is a MAGAt who directly contributed to this shit show we’re about to have.








  • Unless you find someone like Obama. Well even then, honestly I doubt someone like Obama could even win in today’s political climate.

    Harris could have been that, it was mostly the fact that her campaign focused on COMPLETELY the wrong things and tried to go right in an attempt (Classic DNC honestly) to capture R votes

    I think AOC could be an Obama as well, she’d definitely tell the R votes to fuck off and run a left leaning campaign so that could work. Which is also why the DNC will Bernie her :(




  • Health, Financial and Education are some of the worst sectors to work in IT for differing reasons. (And usually, DON’T give a salary to match)

    Health, because if something breaks people might just not be able to work, people might die. And regulatory environment.

    Financial, just sucks because of the regulatory environment and banks are some of the worst offenders of “IT is just a cost center”

    Education, (Well funded colleges/universities might be different) because of lack of funding and annoying bureaucracy

    I’ve worked in 2 of the 3 (education and financial) in IT and they SUCKED, but probably would have been a bit better if I had a good paycheck to match the suckiness.

    I will never work any of those three again.





  • Who are you to dictate who needs what? I definitely “need” a smart fridge from my example because I always forget to make a list before I go to the grocery store. It would save me so much time and money.

    You honestly sound like the old fucks of ancient times past who always bitched about new “tech”:

    • Damn smartphones, ruining society
    • Damn internet, ruining society
    • Damn personal computers, ruining society
    • Damn video games, ruining society
    • Damn television, ruining society
    • Damn comic books, ruining society
    • Damn rock and roll music, ruining society
    • Damn jazz music, ruining society
    • Damn movies, ruining society
    • Damn automobiles, ruining society
    • Damn telephones, ruining society
    • Damn electricity, ruining society
    • Damn novels, ruining society
    • Damn newspapers, ruining society
    • Damn printing press, ruining society
    • Damn written language, ruining society
    • Damn iron tools, ruining society
    • Damn bronze weapons, ruining society
    • Damn agriculture, ruining society
    • Damn fire, ruining society

    Nothing is stopping you from running away into the mountains to life a tech free life


  • Are you mad about the technology or the underlying reasons it was born of? Honestly most people’s anger towards tech isn’t about the tech itself, but what it’s really used for

    For example, the smart fridge, on paper most people would find it a fantastic idea. But then the user-hostile features set in. An internal camera could helpfully analyze everything in your fridge and put together an ez shopping list, but then in reality we kinda get that because it was designed around things like selling data collection and ADs and then designed to break in a year or 2 and take out half the fridge along with it because they want to make more money off you every 2 years

    Now take the smart fridge in a world with strong privacy and consumer protection laws (and maybe even a capitalism free world) and it would be totally different, not only would you get cool things designed properly with heart and soul, but it’ll also last a long time. Modern tech doesn’t have to be as fragile as it is, NASAs space probes and rovers and satellites prove time and time again that “High Tech” can last with proper design and manufacturing. In the depths of space their shit is routinely lasting their original mission lengths. In space, in the top 10 most hostile places we know.