I agree, it’s a tragedy that the internet and the majority of digital spaces have been captured and wrecked by monied interests.
I would argue that we all probably could do with “detoxing” from digital spaces, as well. Plenty of people seem to be way too into the internet.
Your baguettes and enchiladas are cool posts
I actually just ended a short relationship with a woman recently. She had a kid who was closer to my age than she was, and it was honestly fine until I went over one eve while her child was still there (I did not realise they were going to be there). It was very strange. I had stepdads growing up, and meeting that kid just totally made me feel like I was one of the stepdads meeting me, lol.
I’m not emotionally mature enough to have kids, nor to provide much stability to a woman who has already been married and had a kid, so no - I broke things off.
I would absolutely date a single parent. When I’m older, more mature, and have something to bring to the table.
[religious and existential questioning]
[monkey takeover]
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I’m working! But I’m working from home, which is nice, and there’s only a few other people in. Thankfully the entire “management” (it’s three people) are off, so I can focus on my job.
Or, I would be able to, if the marketer who is in would stop messaging me about random little tasks that they can’t be arsed to do.
No, but that sounds really interesting. I’ve long been frustrated by rampant consumerism, and not just that but also by how blatantly companies will shaft consumers on quality, size, functionality… A laundry list of ways to make their products worse because it nets them a tiny saving per product which all adds up to a new megayacht. Nickle and diming bastards!
Haha fuckin awesome, Jake’s off the deep end again 😂
Isn’t this one unraced?
Edit: oh duh, unraced for now. Serves me right for not reading the article before replying lol, sorry! I guess if the price tag is lower, it’s because the 2026 car has not proven its legacy yet, whereas something like the MP4/4 has a very storied and desirable (and therefore very expensive) provenance.
Is 100% human even an option? Lol
let’s say CHARGED
The commenter called immigrants “parasites”. Let’s not say “charged” mate, let’s say “bigoted”, “racist”, “xenophobic”… “Charged” is a very very very generous thing to call it.
This whole narrative of immigrants “flooding” countries looking for benefits is mad. I hear it all over the world. It’s just not the case. People work hard, whether they’re “low-skilled” (whatever that means) or not, and are not likely to uproot their lives and potentially families to try and head to countries just to try and sponge and scrounge off the system there.
The implication of what you’re saying is, to me, that people are coming into Germany and intentionally trying not to work, instead trying to get money for nothing and sponge off the system. Is that what you’re suggesting?
Agree, ban the spam
I love that you capitalise “THIS” in all of your titles. It’s like a bot programmed to create 2012-style clickbait headlines for spam articles or YouTube videos, but I don’t think you’re a bot. It makes me smile every time I see you do it.
Okay great and this means… What? This reporting is gonna get MAGA people or Elon fans to suddenly realise it’s all lies? Will Elon or anyone involved with DOGE face any kind of consequence for failure? Will anything change in the face of this finding or is this yet another reminder that the rich are immune to consequence, and the willfully stupid and cruel are immune to evidence? Fantastic, happy fucking new year! 🥳
Hey man, I agree with everything you’re saying and I genuinely mourn the freedom of expression that the web has lost. I was using “just tracking and stuff” as a shorthand as part of a conversation, cos I was just asking specifically about what I was missing from what people were talking about.
Yeah there’s loads of funny little quirks to the language. I actually quite like that about it, I think it’s sort of endearing and human, even when I’m frustrated with it.
I don’t know if it’s slow necessarily, but I do know that a lot of things I build (I have to build things designed by other people, I’ve tried to push back but ultimately it’s my boss designing a lot of it) is overengineered and relies on frankly too many moving parts, which could contribute to annoying UX I guess but with all the caching we have in place I’m not sure it’s slow… I’m not a computer science guy though, I might be just too dumb to understand how slow it is
Sorry, I work with a marketing department so it’s just normalised to me to call it tracking despite the fact that yes, I agree with you that it’s surveillance and targeted ads are gross. What distinction are you making between tracking server-side, and spying? For me, I guess I’m talking about things like Google analytics or Google ads or hotjar or MS Carity when I say “tracking” in this context (JavaScript).
I’m missing something here. What’s the big thing people in this thread are hinting at JavaScript being used for that’s so sinister? Is it just like, tracking and stuff?
It might be, but that commenter is an AI user so they might actually just be a freak.
Oh weirdly enough I think I saw somebody replying to your comment! Was it quite recent? The impression they had was that you were banned for ban evasion I think, i.e. that you’d been banned before, then had come back on a new account to call the mods snowflakes.
Not sure tho, don’t quote me, and I don’t honestly care all that much - just saying that might be a reason, rather than what you actually said.