Now that you mention it, I might be a bit off in my math. It’s not my best subject.

Thinking about it a little more, I probably made the account in 2006 or so.

Deleted my FB account just now.

I’d had the thing since 2003. It was the last non-fedi social media I was holding onto (the only way to keep in touch with certain people, and all that.)

I work in academia. I’m a lowly paid adjunct who teaches 8 classes across 4 schools to make ends meet.

In the lead up to this semester, each school has had a mandatory Zoom meeting to get everyone involved on the same page.

In all 4 instances, I sat there and fucking seethed watching people who make upward of 10 times what I do just endlessly fumble with the technology while saying nothing of value for 2 hours.

It’s honestly amazing just how inept the manager class is.

This is just Socrates.

I saw it in theaters and, yeah, I couldn’t tell you a single thing about this movie if my life depended on it.

I’ve been using Mint and Pop!_OS on two different machines for a few years.

Neither has really required much from me as the user, although I have needed to use the terminal once on each of them.

Personally, I really like the way Pop does window tiling and workspaces.

I’ve been thinking for a few years now that, since no one with power ever seems to know what they’re doing, there’s something about power itself that makes the person who holds it selfish and incompetent.

Teaching people to be compassionate out of a promise of reward was always a terrible idea. No society has ever really rewarded kindness.

We should be teaching young people that compassion is an act of rebellion against uncaring systems and always has been.

https://youtu.be/YDgTRY9vGCM?si=2pZw0h02sAO7pk9R

That’s what I mean by “cold.” More “past the point of emotion.”

Passionate violence is a different thing. Like you say, it looks very logical and planned. Casual.

I’m probably reading into things here, but then again we all are.

I saw cold hate in his posture when he did the deed. This is someone who lost their beloved to an algorithm.

And, yeah, he could be one of literally several million people that way.

Pressure cooker sales to the moon!

Do you know if the doctrine he’s been taken in by is religious or secular in nature?

I ask because I could recommend some books you could get him that just might get the kid to think a little harder about things.

For context, I teach philosophy and religion for some community colleges and have been looking for ways to get these Gen Z alt right boys to quit the propaganda.

While a lot of them seem to be lost causes, there are some who can be challenged to read outside their sphere, so long as what I give them isn’t too overtly “other.”

Depending on what he’s into, there might be some authors who know how to talk to an oppositional reader.

Ibuprofen if I’m at work, but at home I usually take a short nap and have some coffee after, which works better for me.

Disco Elysium

Vampire Survivors

Never forget that Trip straight up got impregnated In season 1.

MikeSmith2.22.1989

See, Mike can’t forget his username if it’s his name and birthday.

I regularly see 2 on my commute. I wouldn’t exactly notice that I have a similar commute to other people, but a Cybertruck sticks out.

1 of them has been painted a matte black that looks like a chalkboard (good luck to them when the road salt comes out) and the other is the regular finish.

Either way, I’m always thinking about just how fucking dorky the things look compared to everything else on the highway.

And it’s not like they’re using it for anything cool. They’re both just stuck in the same traffic as the rest of us.

You can buy something like this here in the US.

The roll is smaller, and they market it as being made for camping (takes up less space in the pack, etc). It also, of course, costs more because of this, since modern camping gear loves to price gouge.

If you’re going to pack TP though, just spool what you need around something smaller in diameter (like a skewer). Or if you know what you’re doing then just use leaves instead, those are free.