For real. Also 29 and have been taking night classes. After 2 years of school Ive changed my mind again. I just have no idea what I actually want to do.
I grew up always being told I was really smart and would go places. So I’ve built my life goals around trying to do something “grand”. I’ve only recently realized that I don’t HAVE to do anything. It’s OK to just exist and enjoy life. I’m still struggling to fully accept that, but I think I will eventually.
Combine that with fortune and throw it in your bash script and you get a new message every time you open terminal.
This comment reminds me of the Eichmann trial. He wasn’t inherently evil like we want to believe. He was just a man doing his job, sending jews to their death. It’s pretty chilling to think about the evils he carried out when he was just doing what he was told to do.
Another somewhat counterpoint, I think in today’s society it’s harder than it traditionally has been. Specifically, I would love to go to protests and be more active. But for me it’s really hard to do that because I have obligations. Specifically, I can’t take a week off of work to go to DC and hold some signs. It’s not that I’m refusing to do anything, I just don’t have the time when I’m more worried about my mortgage. I do donate to charities but it’s very difficult to do much more because of debt.
I’ve got two:
“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.” by Terence McKenna
And the other is from an old salty chief when I was in the navy. This is paraphrasing but:
“Every fuck up comes down to a combination of three root causes: didn’t know, didn’t care, or a material problem”
Someone gets hurt on the job? Well, did they not know they were doing something wrong? Did they not care enough about safety? Or was it simply because something broke? Maybe they didn’t know AND they didn’t care to find out.
Let’s not forget that Nixon also got the controlled substance act passed in 1971 and kick started the war on drugs.
I’ve been doing that for things like shampoo and detergents. But unfortunately I’ve got celiacs. All my food HAS to be packaged so that I know it’s safe to eat.
Set up a Minecraft server back when you could run the Java files off of a USB. ran for a while, nothing fancy.
I also renamed every calculator icon to “cockulator”. Boy oh boy did I think that was funny back then. (it’s still a little funny)
My favorite has always been that falling coconuts kill more people than sharks
It’s not super niche, but I’ve never met anyone outside of the hobby that even knows it exists.
Anyway, I enjoy car audio competitions a lot. One version is SPL (sound pressure level) where the goal is to build a system that can get as loud as possible. Then there’s SQ (sound quality) that’s more about making the best sounding system you can, which is also fairly artsy (make it look pretty).
There’s a lot of people who are assholes about it, they’re the kid down the street blaring his music at 10 o clock at night. Every who does it for a hobby are very respectful of other people and recognize that the vast majority of people don’t wanna hear your music.
I enjoy it for a few reasons. Firstly, I just love music. Music is a while body experience. It’s not just your ears, but your skin reacts to the vibrations as well, and you just aren’t gonna get that experience with cheap speakers. The car is a great place to feel music because it’s enclosed and you can generally go somewhere to not bother people.
The other part, is that its very hands on and problem solving. You’re doing woodworking, electrical design, maybe fiberglass. Lots of different engineering.
Oh for sure. I understand the reasoning. But it’s still a lack of options. While apple has a good track record, they’re still asking me to blindly trust them, and them alone.
I agree except for third party apps. I used the iphone 12 for about a year before I switched back to android. Now I have an iPhone for my work phone and an android for my personal. Yes, some third party apps are better supported. But in my experience, it’s only the big name ones. When you start getting into “indie” apps, I think android wins. The number of time I have tried to do something with my iPhone only to discover I can’t is way too high.
And it’s usually small things that add up over time. For instance, I use Alarmy for my alarm. With android, you can have the app lock down the phone. You must turn off the alarm the designed way (photos, barcodes, math, etc. It’s a really cool app and I highly recommend it). If you try to close it out, it’ll start itself again and start alarming. But with iPhone, I can close the app and the alarm goes away and won’t ring again. It made it pretty useless when I could still just dismiss the app anyway.
Wanna torrent with your phone? Nope. Want a different keyboard? Sure, unless your typing in a password, then you must use IOS keyboard.
Those are some notable examples I remember off the top of my head.
One of their slogans used to be “don’t be evil”
Obviously they dropped that a while back.
Easy.
The ability to make and manipulate portals. You can travel anywhere nearly instantly. My version of this power assumes you can make the exit portal without physically seeing it. So you could make one at home, one at your work and never deal with traffic. Want to go to London for the weekend? Done.
The cool thing is that you could also bring things to you. Craving a soda? Pop one portal under the coke in your fridge and the other just above your hand. Boom! Gravity pulls the coke through the portal and drops it into your hand. So now you can summon items to you as well.
My version also includes manipulation of your portals. You placed them but can move them while they are active. This allows you to effectively “scan” things. Need to dig a trench? Keep one portal stationary and just pull the other through the dirt. Whatever you scan gets immediately teleported elsewhere.
If we are assuming a world in which superheroes are a thing, you become an absolute badass. Not God like. But you can’t be arrested because you’ll just leave. You can easily make “rods from God” a reality. You could “scan” a spear fast enough that it’s like shooting it from a cannon and impale your enemies. You can use your portals as perfect shields. All attacks would just be directed elsewhere.
I think about this power a lot. To be honest, It’s based on Gilgamesh’s powers from the Fate anime.
So I’m a technician at a research lab. 8/10
The benefits are absolutely amazing. We do a lot of government work and have one of the highest budgets, so very good job security.
The work does get pretty technical, but it’s all OJT. And they give plenty of time to get qualified. The work is a lot of setting up expirements for scientists. Lot of mechanical installations and a hefty amount of computer operations for gas operations and cryogenics.
We work 24/7 (the lab). I work 13 hour shifts 3/4 days a week. One week is 3, the next is 4,the next is 3. Rinse and repeat. So i get a 3 or 4 day weekend every week. That’s absolutely beautiful to me.
My main complaint is that we don’t have enough work to actually fill 24 hours a day. I work the night shift, so I have quite a bit of down time. I don’t like downtime personally. If I’m gonna sit and watch YouTube, I’d much rather be in the comfort of my home. But I’m hourly, so I can’t leave. For some people, that’s the fucking jackpot, but I like staying busy.
Im prior military so it’s very nice seeing how much they care about making our jobs easier. There’s schedule pressure, but management does an extremely good job about not letting that trickle down. So i never feel rushed to get stuff done. It’s lots hours but fairly stress free.
Same here. Steam says 200 hours. Which is a lot for me. The next closest is NMS at 50 hours.
My play time is also higher because I have played many hours offline and then reset my computer so it didn’t track that time.
It’s such a ridiculously addictive game. I regret nothing.