mega warehouse detention centers

Aka concentration camps.

Shame on you America. May you end a fiery end, you nauseating country full of nauseating people.

Remember that they were all elected - congresscritters and POTUS alike. That should tell you something about the quality of the electorate.

Yes, we gen-Xers got a lot of things for cheap or free, and we had a lot more opportunities for sure - and our boomer parents even more so - because we rode the tail end of the post-WW2 economic boom.

I totally get the jealousy. What I don’t get is the hate: I can’t count the number of young people who actually hate me because I happen to have had it better than them. Sorry… It’s not like I planned it or anything, and I didn’t set out to ruin anybody’s life after me neither.

I am honestly sad that I never got to experience that America

I’m so sorry. But it was like that. Sure it had its many, many flaws. But it was a place where studying hard, making it to and through college and being educated were valued more highly than being a vocal cretin, where science was respected, craziness was fringe, religion was retreating, working hard gave you a real - albeit small - chance at striking it rich, and where you could expect your children to be better off than you if you did everything right.

All that is gone. I really feel sorry for you and those of your generation who never got to experience the “good” America - at least good if you were white…

…and debugging so much harder.

Always remember that Trump’s unhinged dementia-fueled stuff is of concern because there are morons who listen to him. If nobody did, he’d be as harmless as my stark-raving mad grandfather’s rants were.

As a 40-year Unix / Linux veteran, I will state the only thing there is to say about Windows drive letters: they’re fucking stupid.

…until you look at the power consumption.

It looks like all airlines and pilots are afraid of the threat posed by the rogue country on the American continent - and I’m not talking about the one on the map.

In totally unrelated news, Turkey is a Russian simp.

(And no, I won’t quit calling Turkey Turkey cold-Türkiye, anymore than I will call Munich München outside of Germany, because that’s what Turkey’s exonym is. Fuck you Turkey.)

I’m old enough to remember the America of best education, top science and engineering in the world. The America that proudly went to the Moon. The America that developed the Internet on public money.

I guess I can feel the contrast with the idiocracy of today a bit more keenly than younger folks who have never known anything else.

How a man this crass managed to be President twice, I’ll never know. What a fucking disgrace…

Pointless aristocrats of yesteryear look as pointless as aristocrats of today.

What’s Windows?

Oh, that thing that looks like Linux but works like shit…

As most memes are.

5 isn’t a valid function name, is obviously the right answer.

Mohammed, when I said “You gotta take care of that journalist, chop-chop!”, I didn’t mean it literally!

Yes, nothing like coming out of a rough week alone in isolation in a hospital room, with friends and family not allowed to enter the room, and finding out the system sometimes makes small allowances for kindness and common sense. It sure felt great.

Small things like that give me back hope in humanity. Too bad they’re few and far between.

I went to the ER the other day. I drove myself to the hospital, parked at the short-term parking lot right next to the ER (I was trying to make a beeline there, I really wasn’t concerned about where I parked). I expected to out within 2 or 3 hours but the hospital ended up keeping me for a week.

When I came out, I expected my car to be impounded, or at least covered in parking tickets. But no: there was only one with a warning and nothing to pay.

When I checked the case number on the city’s parking fine webpage, the comment indicated “Driver reported hospitalized - fine waived.”

They actually checked with the hospital. Nice!

Reddit, like Facebook, has the advantage of inertia: most people are on Reddit, so other people patronize Reddit, making Reddit even larger. And just like Facebook, it takes something particularly egregious from Reddit to get enough people to walk out at the same time. And you’re correct: Reddit has learned to slow-boil the frogs to avoid this.

But - maybe I’m naive - I’m banking of the Fediverse offering consistently better quality and less drama than Reddit to slowly attract people who want something better, and I’m trying to do my part to increase the S/N ratio on here.