“I’m insufferable, and always questioning if people like me, because deep down I don’t like myself. I must justify my isolation in both my community and myself by pretending that it is both the right way to live both as an individual and a community, because to acknowledge otherwise makes all the dark thoughts I thought I got rid of swell up out of my control. I am very smart.” - you

Security

This is why I just add a username and password field to all my database tables, then append on the back end “and username is not null and password is not null”

Your right! I don’t have to, I have a wife and kid. The first of whom I met, you guessed it, online dating almost a decade ago, when this old-ass misogynistic meme was made. I guess that’s the difference between us: You deal with online dating, I actually talk to and love a real woman. Sucks to suck I guess.

I mean but then that’s social media. Again, like this post, how many guys posting are posting made up bullshit for engagement? How many girls are giving “tips,” again for engagement? None of this is guaranteed to be real. The data stands, however: Per NBC polling, 44% of people think whoever makes more should pay, regardless of gender. 36% think it should be split, regardless of any factors. Only 20%, half of any other response, thinks it should be the one who asked (which is usually in straight relationships the man). I’m sorry, but all of this is at best a shitty date, and yet is at worst fuel for the fucking mgtow incel crowd.

“Its surprisingly common” OK buddy. Also yes, if you have a misogynistic belief about women, and then act on that belief, then it becomes misogynistic. Following a black person around a store isn’t racist; doing so because you think their a thief makes it so.

This is what grinds my gears. At no point (if this is real) did she ask them to pay for the friend. But because of their own misogyny, they’re being an ass. And that’s not even getting into the probability that his is ALL ragebait to play off misogyny for engagement. People getting pissed off making shit up in their head, then making others suffer for it.

Honestly the era of internet music (privately) is over. Don’t get me wrong; there are anonymizing wrappers for YouTube music, and while you’re not going to find small bands you can still easily pirate big acts. But if you want to find new-new music, it’s time to grab tickets to some local shows again.

I’m not vegan either. I just find that it is healthier for me to not eat meat as often. I’m fine having meat 1, 2x a week.

Kinda fucked up that when coming up with a SciFi dystopia the worst we can think of is the Nestlé-buck.

Idk. I’d never tell someone not to stand for good things. I guess my biggest gripe is that we lionize people who do what they should and yet have no support systems for people who pay the price for doing so, and the people doing the right thing are the people with the most future to lose.

Idk. Look, fuck Israel, and I’m proud of these kids for standing up and saying no. But I also have to be true to my life experiences. Either northwestern caves, and I fucking hope they do (please email ug-admission@northwestern.edu, call 847-491-7271, anything to actively pressure them), or these kids are in for a world of shit. Non-college-educated jobs are fucking dystopian. I went to school in my early 30s, and even if I can argue for better working conditions for ALL workers, Jesus Christ my jobs before going back were in retrospect fucking insanely cruel and demeaning. And I promise you, one day protesting this genocide will be like remote work: Allowed and celebrated in white collar jobs, while a fucking joke elsewhere. I get that we all should be willing to give anything to stand up for what’s right. It just always breaks my heart when that cost is borne by kids.

Jokes on you, they’re the same person

Vague complaints about “Rust evangelism”

Just adding some clarity for anyone who comes by. Just like any other community, you have Rust, Rust devs, the Rust dev community, the Rust dev community social media pages, and then the public perception of those social media pages, typically driven by clickbait “articles” about errant Reddit posts. There was a fair bit of hype at one point for Rust, and given its similar applications as C++, hype around “converting” people. This became a meme a decade ago, which like all memes just became tired thought-terminating slop. Which is how it ended up with Phoronix, but still.

Agreed. Look, I’m all for the dictatorship of the proletariat; that being said, so many fellow leftists think class analysis is some moral framework rather than a systemic analysis of socioeconomic inequities. It’s not. Some prole working their job to survive only to last long enough or perform good enough to get promoted doesn’t make them a villain. Yes, you still have jobs, promotions, and managers under socialism. You just also get a say in those systems.

xcept cops, fuck cops.