Every country at this point, whether good, bad, democratic or evil autocracy, should all have one thing in common at this point. And that is collectively telling the U.S. to shut the fuck up.

No one gives a fuck about your opinion anymore, 'Murica.

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I’ve struggled all my life at finding the time to actually finish anything of note. I have folders full of notes, snippets of chapters, character profiles, etc…

All are ideas that I adore, but while I used to consider myself an “okay” writer, it’s very much like any other muscle, if you don’t use it regularly it atrophies. The longer it’s been, the harder it is to get back to it without feeling defeated by the mental effort it suddenly takes to think of one damn metaphor.

And no… i refuse to use A.I. to slop out some books. That would betray every ethical belief about human creativity that I have; which is that there is no “accomplishment” without “struggle”. The time, training, sweat and learning ARE the entire point of creative endeavour.

Camera pulls back yo reveal a drop that in no way whatsoever would hurt any cat that actually knows how to cat.

Then again, judging by this guys struggles, its best not to rely on his natural cat skills to land on his feet.

I’m a single, Gen-x male and I despise cooking. Twenty minutes to prepare something, five minutes to eat it, and then another 20 minutes to clean up afterwards is, IMO, the most insanely inefficient use it my time.

Frankly I have better things to do. when a pill comes out that I can just pop in my mouth a couple of times a day I will be the first person in line.

For now, sadly, the best I can do it keep things as simple and as easy as possible prep wise (or order in… which gets to financially prohibitive sometimes)

I’ve just considered it a casualty of the privacy wars.

I don’t know if they’re deployed as a “weapon of annoyance” or anything, but I do notice that when I’m using a) a degoogled browser, b) an ad-blocking dns, c) mask my location, and/or d) block my IP. Suddenly (almost) every website makes me wait by throwing that at me.

I think it’s lowkey trying to annoy me to the point where I give up on having those privacy measures, but they underestimate my hatred of corporate fuckery.

There’s a reason Kegsbreath announced an increased military presence in D.C. the day after the elections.

I firmly believe they’ll just refuse to seat anyone and then deal with the inevitable shit storm that results.

This isn’t over. Not by a long shot.

It all sounds good. But with Trump moving more military into DC, my gut tells me that come January they’re simply going to refuse to seat the new members and then deal with the inevitable march on Washington that results…

Yes. That’s true as well.

I’m weirdly great at parallel parking. Its my only real marketable skill, so I tell everyone. Lol.

I’m pretty simple.

Hunting to eat it? Great. I love me some deer sausage.

Hunting to chopoff its head and mount it on your wall like some ghoulish asshole? Go fuck yourself.

I feel like trophy hunters don’t show any respect to the animal, while hunters for eating do.

Have voters not made it clear enough that YOU don’t get to decide what is or isn’t a priority…they do.

The entire election was about Republicans doing whatever they wanted regardless of the wishes of their electorate. You sure you want to burn down that same bridge, Hakeem…?

No…the reason you lost is because you’re literally a dick head on ever…single…issue that the working people care about.

It’s as though MAGA and Trump loyalists make a fucking spreadsheet, cross reference it with current events and the opinion of the working class, and then mathematically determine the exact opposite and most infuriating take on it, and then disseminate that out to their social media influencer army.

Get fucked, Vance.

Pfft… Why don’t we just start publishing scientific papers on the loch ness monster and bigfoot too, now!

“likely”

I do not think that word means what you think it means…

In my defense, those stairs are pretty small…

Pretty bold words from a guy who looks like the Downs Syndrome gene just narrowly missed him by less than the width of a chromosome…

Red Letter Media

Holy shit. I thought i’d be the only one too say RLM.

I’ll generally fall asleep to old random episodes of best of the worst for some odd reason.

Firing?

Out of a cannon?

Into the sun?

Pretty please?

You just are getting the fruits of those advancements due to politics.

I’m not entirely sure what you are meaning with that. So forgive me if I’m misunderstanding you. But the fruits of those advancements (loss of privacy, destruction of the environment, etc…) are not political (or at least they shouldn’t be). They are very real and very dangerous consequences of an economic system that demands continuous growth for the benefit of shareholders.

Think of it this way. In project management we learn about stakeholders. When making corporate decisions, a stakeholder is defined as “any person, entiry, or thing that will be affected by that decision, good or bad”. If a company decides that they are going to cut health benefits, who is going to be affected by that decision. The employees, negatively. The shareholders, positively. The consumer, potentially positively if those savings equate to lower costs for the company’s products.

When techology was new, the decisions that were being made included us the end-user. We were a stakeholder that was considered when facebook/twitter/google would decide to add a feature, or remove a feature, or whatever. Around the same time that advertising revenue overtook subscription models and premium services as the way for these tech companies to make money, WE stopped being stakeholders. Any tech advance after that, stopped being about us and started being about profit extraction. If we didn’t like the change, well fuck us…we were now just the product because the advertisers were the ones paying the bills.

Just because on the rare occasion, these corporations happen to put out a product that has potential to improve things, doesn’t make it better, because WE, the users were never asked whether we wanted it, or whether or not we were willing to accept that tradeoffs that came along with it.

It’s like building a new sweat-shop in India in order to put out a new style of running shoe without bothering to do any market research to figure out if your customer base actually wants it or not. Because we, the customer base don’t fucking matter anymore.

Gimp is designed entirely to be personalized to whatever workflow works best for you. You open some tabs that you want. Pin some tool boxes. move them around to anywhere on the screen, etc…

You can easily make it look like Photoshop if you want. Or you can make it look and function however you want.

Hell, I have three different layouts for Gimp that I use regularly. One for photo editing that keeps the colour and light functions front and centre. One for drawing, which keeps the symmetry tools, colour picker, brushes and paint dynamics front and centre. And one for some basic graphic design, with fonts, gradients, etc… front and centre.

That’s literally it’s design ethos.

If you’re not willing to spend five minutes doing that, that’s fine. But that’s entirely on you, not them.