Sounds like a typical enlightened centrist.

Curiously, once you Scooby Doo their mask off they’re always quite far to the right of the centre they claim to value so much.

Nah, Sithrak’s followers are chill, they know eternal torment awaits everyone eventually, there’s no rush; they just spread the horrid word, no need to implement it themselves.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Not everyone hates life like you do

Work isn’t life.

It’s the opposite of life (no, death is just its absence).

hang out with co-workers all the time

Bonding over shared trauma and Stockholm syndrome is not a good basis for a relationship (though there’s probably no relationship other than you pestering them while they try to work).

Unions aren’t community.

They’re a necessary defence mechanism against capitalism.

So they ruin it for everyone else.

Sounds horrible, glad I have no intention of bringing a child into this torturous world.

Well, just from reading that I can assure you your coworkers don’t.

sense of community between you and your coworkers, which is a very real and normal thing

No it fucking ain’t.

Forcing people together doesn’t create community, it creates stress, and resentment, and burnout, and migraines.

“Workplace community.”

Biggest oxymoron I’ve ever seen since military intelligence.

ALSO miss the sense of community with my coworkers which I used to get from lunches together, sharing the train ride home, or just working side by side at our desks

Oh, you’re one of those fucking extroverts.

I can’t begin to imagine the extent to which your poor coworkers must have despised you while you constantly bothered them while they tried to work, or have a quick decompressing lunch, or disconnect after a long day of work during the train ride home, the poor bastards. As if work wasn’t bad enough by itself.

No we don’t. Work is work, not fucking community.

Because IBM built the PC as a side project out of mainly off-the-shelf parts, except for the BIOS, never intending it to be more than one of many personal computers in the market… and then Compaq and Columbia Data Products reverse engineered said BIOS making PC-compatible clones a possibility.

Open BIOSes and a personal computer made of essentially off-the-shelf parts led to everyone and their aunt making PC-compatible machines, and the personal computer boom, and most personal computers being able to run mostly the same software.

IBM tried to lock it back down with the PS/2, and Microsoft also later tried to lock it down to Windows with some shady schemes like ACPI, but all attempts ultimately failed because by that point the PC ecosystem was so large that any attempts at lockdown were sidestepped by other vendors, or eventually reverse engineered or bypassed.

Sadly the same never happened with phones. The PC thing was a serendipitous fluke to start with, phones aren’t made of off-the-shelf parts, and manufacturers were wise to the “risk” and made sure to keep as much control as possible.

All according to plan.

The Israeli government needs Israel to be a perpetual victim to justify perpetual war.

When no enemy is attacking they need to force an attack, lest their citizenship stop living in constant fear long enough for them to question the need for perpetual war.

To this day I still can’t tolerate the smell of cigarette smoke.

It killed him in the end, of course, but we’d lost contact for several years by then. I wouldn’t be surprised if it kills me too, even though I haven’t directly smoked a cigarette in my life; my lungs definitely accumulated enough crap over my childhood to kill several grown men; couldn’t breathe properly until I was an adult.

That seems like a tripping powermod problem, not a user problem.

Users can block other users. Mods are unnecessary and harmful. A redundant point of failure.

EDIT: Oh, wait, if it’s the user doing it just block that asshole, it’ll save you the frustration.

It’s usually mods powertripping, though.

Because spez is a greedy little pigboy, that’s why.

Rocky from Hail Mary is sort of crab-like, and I think they’re making a film adaptation…

No, you’re not overreacting.

But, if you’re in north America, you’re probably fucked.

(If you’re in the USA, though, good news is you’d be fucked anyway, so the car thing is mostly irrelevant, except as a means to get out, fast.)

None. Rather, it’s practically a requirement. Hence my question.

Doesn’t really show the friggin’ massive wingspan of the damn things, though…