I know exactly how you feel on a deep and intimate level: I used to be a dev. Today I applied for an apprentice position at a local machine shop. Wish me luck!

Anyone who succeeds in an environment like that would have succeeded even more in a more positive environment. Hardships are never a good thing. Some people flourish anyway, in the same way that some folks don’t let chronic illness or disability stop them. It doesn’t mean we have to celebrate the chronic illness or disability (or poverty). We celebrate the people who achieved greatness in spite of it.

I spent years of my life in hard situations. I got out of them eventually, but it just made me want to do better by other folks. There is no magic “shitty situation makes you a better person,” lots of my peers became deeply selfish & bitter.

Yeah, my parents didn’t “just figure it out,” they put a ton of planning, care, and money into raising me. I’m grateful and my life has been pretty awesome. But, since I make so much less money than they do, don’t own a house like they do, etc, it would be difficult-to-impossible to repeat. So I don’t.

Gonna be honest, I had hoped there would have been a revolution by now lmao. In this current society? Yeah, I’m not having kids just so they can grow up and have to work for assholes.

I mean, it sounds like the court ordered the evidence destroyed, so there’s no way to know one way or the other. But isn’t that like kind of shady

As an American, I have been screaming basically this to anyone who will listen for my entire adult life.

So one year of increase vs 9 years of decrease is still an overall decrease.

Also there’s a difference between China choosing to do something with their planned economy, vs. random wacky shit happening here in Freemarketstan

They’ve been intentionally using coal to develop away from coal for decades. It’s been a long term strategic thing, using coal power plants to build solar panel factories, then shutting down the coal plants. Meanwhile the USA keeps using coal for fun basically, while being like “well the Chinese are using it too!”. It’s hard for me to see China as the villain here

If he was really drowning, he also wouldn’t be an anthropomorphized dog in a comic strip, so I struggle to see your point

Where do you live that Red Bull is age restricted? I’m curious, because anyone can buy it here.

Just looked at the Mexican coke I just finished drinking 😭 39g sugar…

I remember thinking it mostly showed how sexist country fans can be. No one said shit when Johnny Cash was openly against the Vietnam War…

The thing is that the BDS movement specifically asked for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel as well. The same thing happened with Apartheid-era South Africa.

I could understand his point in isolation, but there’s a larger social context here. Israelis (and Palestinians) don’t, I think, need awareness raised, they already know what’s going on there.

I remember I saw a double feature of Lilo & Stitch paired with the Bourne Identity. Never understood the target audience of that one 😂

They’ve done more than a few songs together. I don’t really follow either artist but they’ve been collaborating for over ten years now

If you like Rammstein, you might like Laibach even more 😂 even Laibach says so

Yep, in reality “Ed Sheeran’s backup musicians” have a lot more to lose here than Sheeran himself does, and they’re doing the right thing. He should follow their lead.

Meanwhile, Macklemore is coming out of this looking better than ever 😂

The dude who made Stardew Valley started it as a project in between job interviews after he graduated with a CS degree in 2011. He ended up just finishing Stardew Valley before he got a job…

God these people are really not paying attention to ANYTHING 😂