When my enemy does good, it’s because they’re self-centered. When my friend does good, it’s because they’re good and generous.

US has societal learned helplessness

The working class

My library has free access, as do any number of local business and location. And I once lived in a building that bundled internet/TV service for every resident.

Your former company is having a very bad week, indeed.

Costa Rica’s doing OK. They figured the US keeps starting military coups in the Americas, may as well remove that attack vector. Nobody’s calling them a superpower though.

OK, hear me out, let’s start a patent troll corp. and file for all the enshittification ideas ahead of the studio owners.

Well-read atheists have more credibility

Why should we give government or politicians a free pass just because they’re “on our team”? If you can’t find something they’re not doing well, you haven’t looked. Also, a single-axis political spread is passé.

That movie was more about the AMOC collapsing (which is projected to happen between now and ~50 years), but uncharacteristically (/s), Hollywood got the science wrong.

Wait, are you telling me deregulation didn’t help the citizens, only the capital interests?

I insist I don’t want to use Chrome, but search suggestions for local IP ranges is really annoying.

The 8 seconds may include looking up how to fix it, since it’s apparently unknown to the poster. But you don’t get any imaginary internet dopamine points for that

Easy to make an app, hard to get the network effect.

When I went out of my way to fix things and make it better, I ended up getting promotions, but YMMV.

At least the people are nice

I also learned I meet hEDS criteria, hypermobile joints needed more care than I was giving them, was having too much dopamine from chasing weight numbers. Hopefully I can at least be a cautionary tale.

Some of my biggest back pains are from going to the gym! 😉

This is good and you should feel good

My newly set expectations are once again subverted!