“Twist-o Eyeball-o!”

Considering this is Apple, they’ll probably scan your happy juices and, like… sell your entire genome to advertisers, or smth…

I knew it! That kitchen table’s ruining my life! And my hips!!!

FEAST ON THEIR IDEOLOGICAL FLESH!!!

My loaf is bigger than your loaf, We take more drugs than a touring funk band.

SING IT!

My loaf is bigger than your loaf.

SING IT!

My loaf is bigger than your loaf.

SING IT!

Picard, hands on face

Let’s turn that frown upside down! Instead of saying “Google failed to generate a useful LLM to bolster its search feature,” say “Google successfully replicated the output of an average Reddit troll!”

Ssooo… a cable package?

Oh, yeah?! What’ your DPS (depressions per semester)?

Can only give you my personal example:

I have a career in software QA, and I got into it because I personally believed in QA and its significance to generating good software for people to use. Hell, I even worked relatively low-paying jobs because it was compensated by job satisfaction.

Then enshittification took hold of absolutely everything, QA started being flushed down the turlet in the interest of cutting costs (and, I suspect, out of management incompetence and lack of perspective), and now it feels as though my passion got stabbed.

I still thoroughly believe in QA as an essential part of software development, I still try to do the best I can not out of dedication to a job, but to my principle-based belief that QA does more good than it does harm when properly performed. But I seldom have the context to be able to do that, instead being stuck with menial shit and/or rushed projects which don’t allow for a lot of testing.

Test your stuff, eat the rich.

“The Children of Asuryan haven’t received any new models since the 90s, y’know…”

Thank you.

Honestly, the most painful part of this is the dichotomy between the internet’s potential to become an evolutionary point for us and help us develop as a species, and the way we’re using it… We have the entirety of human existence digitised for our convenience and available at the push of a button and we just use it to terrorise and hurt eachother…

lights spliff

This must be the most 90s thing I’ve seen in a decade.

At least the water ain’t boilin’! Yet…

Exactly, pointing fingers just eats into problem-solving time at this point. Just shovel’em aside and start digging that drainage ditch, s’what I say… Once the job’s done, we’ll have all the time in the world to poke eachother in the eyes.

The more, the merrier!

Without the slightest hint of sarcasm or irony, this made me want to give you a hug.

Foreword: I’m not being combative, just analytical.

This line of thinking perpetuates the problem. The point is to get good because you, personally, want to get good and derive satisfaction from competence ‘in a vacuum.’ If you seek competence for the sake of its artificially associated value (i.e. productive member of society, validation, etc.), then you’re basically locking yourself into unrelenting standards.