How do you keep your sanity? Do you just have to compartmentalize everything as extremely abstract and comical when your task is detangling someone’s 25,000 line spaghetti God classes and obscure async timing bugs?

I loved the fact that I didn’t need an emissions test for several years after buying a new car, but I hate that it essentially boils down to an inconvenience, a tax of sorts, for less financially inclined people. Even if emissions tests are free, it’s still time wasted, but only if you’re not wealthy.

Orrr, another solution is… what, class?

Can’t let fear control you

I first discovered /b/ in '09 so I can’t attest to anything prior, but it always met my expectations of what a free as in freedom social space would be like. It won’t be the idealistic pretty picture most people wish it was. It will be a mirror reflection of life and humanity. The good the bad the ugly no more no less. Don’t like what you see in the mirror? Take it up with the big man upstairs I guess.

Gotta learn to extract the good from the bad. It’s always worked that way.

Typical conservative strategy:

• Public thing exists
• Become a lead weight in government so public thing gets underfunded and cannot adapt to market changes.
• Public thing no longer meets expectations.
• “See? It should be privatized and you won’t have this issue”
• Privatize thing. A few people make a crap load of money in the transition. Thing starts out acceptable for the first few years.
• “Oh no, capitalism uses an infinite growth ponzi model. How do we increase shareholder value this year?”
• Private thing gets underfunded and consumers get manipulated and abused.

Are we winning yet?

I see, taking notes from their overweight neighbors across the pond, they’ve chosen the way of teh hambruger

We’ve entered the Twilight zone. Where Ben Shapiro and Gavin Newsom are on the same side of a debate, and they’re fighting against Tucker Carlson and the unions.

Edit: piped link

Assholes never miss an opportunity to vote. Failure to vote means willingly allowing assholes to win elections. Failure to vote is equivalent to saying “this is all fine and I don’t mind whichever way things turn out, better, worse, worse even, or worst”.

Course you will. That’s what they already anticipated.