Rolling coal for tech bros

Ideally. In practice I’ve found they’re more concerned with teaching people how to game h-index and prostrating themselves before fascists in exchange for grant funding

I used to be a bit of a dick about astrology. I still think it’s nonsense, but now I kinda view it as a structure for people to explore their own emotions and as a kind of authority struct to get people to treat those emotions as valid. Ultimately I feel like its no different than me sharing emo song lyrics with an “omg they understand me frfr” type message. Maybe the astrology believer isn’t upset because Venus is in retrograde or whatever, but they are upset their emotions are valid. I don’t gain anything from being a wet blanket about scientific accuracy in that situation, and they feel like I am invalidating their emotions if I choose to be that scientifically accurate wet blanket. Plus, retrograde is a dope word and I’m not sure if I’d know it if not for the crystal girls I’ve dated

I am sorry to hear that :( I think feel where you’re coming from though. It hurts so much when they leave that its too painful to ever get another dog again, but they leave a dog shaped hole in your life. Cheers to you and your hopefully soon to be new pup(s)!

Valid. Tbh I’m happier to hear nice things about her than about the food, haha

If you cook the egg in a frying pan until it’s completely set, you can put the rice straight into the pan on top of the egg and then kinda roll the pan over as you’re sliding the egg onto your plate. It still takes a bit of technique, but imo its easier to do than the method I’ve seen online where you wrap the egg around the already plated rice. This all assumes your egg is flat and entirely covers the surface of your pan, rather than the textured egg pictured here

She was terrified of the kitchen when I first got her. I joke about calling her a begging machine, but honestly I’m stoked that she’s gotten comfortable enough to brave the scary kitchen and help me taste-test while I’m cooking

Being honest and helping people doesnt pay the bills the way flattery does. I’m financially comfortable enough now that I can afford to have principles, but I sure as hell didn’t care about any of that when a missed sale might have meant a missed meal for myself or worse, for my younger brother. Imo it’s a “don’t hate the player, hate the game (capitalism)” situation

I used to sell shoes at a snooty department store, and that sounds very similar to my experience. How to be a good shoe salesman? Present a bunch of options, see which one gets the best initial reaction, then snow them about how good their choice is for whatever purpose they said they want it for. Doesn’t matter if the shoe doesnt match their use case; people dont want to be informed or get the best product, they want to be told that their taste is good and they’ll pay a premium for that service

Our glorious truths, their vile propaganda

If being a professional means providing no resistance while building the machinery of fascism, are you proud of that? Standing by your principles is not free, I get that. Pretending you care about said principles while actively spending your productive time working against those principles is not the kind of thing I’d be bragging about in an online leftist community though. Real “just following orders” energy

I dont mean to call you out, but are you proud of your “annoyed but politely compliant” response to actively being part of a supply chain for surveillance tech? Based solely on this post, your distaste comes off somewhat disingenuous if it doesn’t affect your actions in any meaningful way

Homeboy should have waited til Ogedei was in charge to give that gift

I get it though. Back in undergrad I was really struggling with undergrad quantum 1 until I tried doing homework during a psilocybin trip. It wasn’t like an “aha I understand everything perfectly now” kind of experience, but I went from considering dropping the class to having a manageably difficult time with it after I made whatever brain pathways I did thinking about the subject while tripping

Yeah. The leftist in me thinks it goes kinda hard, but the volunteer social worker in me has spent a lot of time and effort making absolutely sure the homeless folk I’ve interacted with were not armed. I thought it said “arm the hopeless” when I found the picture

Two more for the pile

Edit: ironically, it seems my media literacy could be called into question here too based on the mismatch between the tone of OP meme and the tone of the responses I posted. Context for anybody missing it below.

The punisher is a revenge fantasy carried out on corrupt policemen. The message was basically acab before acab was a thing people said. Policemen, who tend to have IQ that matches their best mile time in minutes, love to plaster his logo all over everything they own.

The bottom photo is Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine. Rather than summarize his story, I’ll share his response when a prominent conservative politician tweeted about RatM being their favorite band. “I wonder what [Paul] Ryan’s favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of “Fuck the Police”? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!”

Is this some kind of windows joke I’m too kill -9 to understand?

Agree. Dogs wear their mood on their body; you can tell how a dog is feeling and what they want in 2 or 3 seconds from their body language. People are way harder to read, and have a much more complicated relationship with honesty. We wear poker faces and learn to hide our tells

She’d be terribly upset if I tried to get her on my lap, haha. She loves it when I lean over the back of the couch and hug on her when she’s sitting on the couch though, I’ll make sure she gets a few extra “couch pets” when I get home today

She certainly acts like she’s human