Labor should keep the profits of its work. The owners just sit around and make bad decisions. Fuck them. They’d be lucky to walk away, if there was justice in this world.

Peer pressure is one of the only things that can change minds. Facts don’t do it so much as your friends and people you look up to pushing back on you.

I don’t relate to why some people need a call instead of just writing their words, but I guess that’s just how some people’s brains work. I’d almost always prefer clear written words I can refer back to.

Assuming they’ll respond in a timely manner. Some people seem to send a text message, then throw their phone out the window, and only reply again once they’ve fetched it.

Maybe! I’ve been a few times and it was fine, but you don’t really get a sense of a place staying a weekend.

I think Chicago you can get by without owning a car? That’s one of my top priorities

I haven’t done any blogging myself, but I believe the singer from the band Worriers moved off substack to ghost and was happy: https://ghost.org/

Not sure how much a second hand rec is, but that’s all I have.

It’s weird to me when people shit on NJ despite never going there. It’s the same energy as when people repeat stupid jokes from reddit to feel like they’re part of the group. Makes my skin crawl a little.

Also weird, but understandable I guess, is when people’s only experience with NJ is like the airport, or the Secaucus train station, and they assume the whole state is like that. Like thinking all of Nevada is Vegas’ strip. It’s not representative.

NJ is fine. I mean, I detest the suburbs so large chunks of it are not for me.

At this point I wouldn’t go back to NYC unless something pretty compelling made it worth dealing with the bullshit New York puts you through.

NYC does have a lot of stuff happening. Pretty much any band on tour will play NYC, for one thing.

Capotalism. Workers aren’t the ones making the decisions or keeping the profits.

I guess we’ll keep discovering this in new contexts without ever addressing the problem.

Don’t like substack as a platform but the post is pretty good.

No. There are plenty of other people out there. Plenty of people who would be kind to you. These people sound horrible.

Maybe we can work together with Gen z to overthrow the capitalist hell scape that has made a handful of people disgustingly rich while the world burns.

I expect not to buy it because fuck Microsoft. There are other games and other entertainments.

I expect I’m in the minority.

Projection is a psychological defense mechanism that involves attributing one’s undesirable traits, feelings, or impulses to other people.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychological-projection-defense-mechanism.html

Javascript is a language full of weird quirks. A language with fewer footguns would probably be smoother for learning fundamentals. Python is pretty good in terms of letting you do the thing, instead of making you find a third party library (not that one, that’s deprecated) or having unexpected default behavior ( in JS [1,2] + [3,4] is the string 1,23,4, for example)

TypeScript adds more guard rails, but is a little more complex to get going.

This shouldn’t be allowed. We need to stop letting corporations consolidate.

That aside, I don’t think I’ve ever used either of these. I used to use seamless for restaurant delivery, but not so much anymore. Shit’s too expensive.

This meme was posted pretty recently.

Dating apps are pretty bad. They’re not optimized for your happiness. They want your money. But they can get you dates, and some of those dates can be good. I’m a pretty average guy who doesn’t date men, and I could get a few dates a month by writing real messages and honestly engaging with people. Some of them were really good.

But no matter what your strategy is, it’s going to have a big “garbage in -> garbage out” factor. I’ve had friends who half-ass the apps, and then wonder why they don’t have good outcomes. I don’t mean paying- never pay for this shit. I mean actually reading the profile and, if there’s something you can engage with, actually write something. Yeah, it’s work, and most of the time it goes into the void. But just looking at it for 20 minutes and writing nothing deeper than “lol” and “hey” is counter productive. It’s like going to the gym and just looking at your phone. You’re not going to get fit like that. You’re just going to feel bad about yourself.

It’s fine to be like “i don’t have the energy for this” and spend your time doing something else. And it’s fine to take it seriously, write good messages, be present, be genuine. But half-assing it is the worst. Half-assing it sucks for you, and everyone you engage with.

I can imagine a nightmare where they add a monthly subscription for something to get a foot in the door. “Just $1.99 for unlimited cloud saves! Storage isn’t free you’re supporting the devs!”

A lot of people will pay it because “gamers” are, famously, little better than children.

Then it’s downhill from there. More subscriptions. Free service thinned. Popularity gone.

It’s what always happens when that kind of person gets in.

I hope the ultra-rich lose everything. I hope they weep.

I thought this was the onion. This is real? What’s the opposite of eating the onion? Crying?

It’s a big multiplier on incompetence. It lets someone who’s kind of bad at their job produce a lot more bad than they could before.

Dislike headlines that platform unfounded ideas

Fears new cycle lane will cause huge disruption

Could be like

Fears new cycle lane will anger the infernal gods

Just made up nonsense