Well there's the disaster that was hexbear...
HarkMahlberg
joined 1 week ago
Wow... That's quite the journey. Thank you for sharing it.
It's particularly enlightening is that the diversity of information presented to you is what helped you change. Not just one "gotcha" quote from some online commenter, one snippy remark about a noticeable hypocrisy. Not one source of disruption, but many. I think that's fascinating, and extremely helpful for those of us with family who only get their news and opinions and politics from one place.
Again, thanks for telling your story.
ICE requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
You gotta actively try to reach that kinda score, it's almost impressive. You have to go out of your way to be a jackass.
Yesss, go bankrupt to own the libs!
I missed an opportunity to say the bunkiest of funches, and I'll never forgive myself.
hear ye hear ye, behold the funkiest of bunches
I'm with you. I used to build maps, models, and textures for Battlefront 2 and share the files for free on Filefront. I got into programming for the joy of creating things that make people happy, or solve some little problems they have. I still make mods, the communities are out there and I'm glad I found them.
But tech evangelists and bro culture ruined the idea of programming as a career for me. The greed of late stage capitalism infected our industry the moment Facebook hit the scene, crypto accelerated it, and AI may as well be the final nail in the coffin. It's no longer a worthy or noble profession.
Yeah that about sums up how I view the rest of my life playing out.
If it helps you sleep at night...
Two weeks...
Yeah I can tell you're not commenting to convince anyone, you're just commenting to vent your frustrations. I get it, no worries. I mean the world is pretty shitty right now, and if you're thinking Canada and China and equally evil authoritarian regimes, yeah I guess all us commenters are equally not worth the effort. Have a good weekend mate, keep up the good fight against... everyone.
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The papers we hold up and say "this will be the foundation of our government, society, and economy" can say anything we want, but none of the words on the page matter once the people in the system abdicate their responsibilities to point at something wrong, refuse to participate, and work against it.
SOX controls are the result of the Enron fraud, but those are also just words on a page. The US Constitution is just words on a page. SCOTUS may very well rule this year that the US government cannot deport native-born, tax-paying, passport-holding, lived-here-all-their-lives US citizens.
Watch as the Trump administration does it anyway. It's all just words to them.