I weighed several responses to your reply, and even tried a few out before backtracking, more so for the benefit of the other readers, but I think I will settle on this:

I agree with the spirit of your response. I’ve heard variations of my own post for years, before there was an actual public Internet, on BBS and the like.

And I have made the same reply as you, almost word for word, to them.

While well intentioned, I realize now that the exasperated and cynical nature that results from watching the pot boil for years and yet the frogs still aren’t jumping out, makes my responses to others sound abrasive and arrogant.

From this point forward, when ever I see people waking up to the shit storm that hasn’t even happened in full force yet, I am going to be gentle and encouraging with them.

And remind people that the strength to carry on in a challenging world comes from investing and developing the community, the friends, family and neighbors, around us.

For sure

deleted by creator

Yeah, the bear trap has already sprung. The people haven’t realized it because they haven’t tried to pull their leg free yet.

I honestly didn’t mean to doom post so early in the day. It started as a pithy one-liner and snowballed the more I thought about it.

I’m fully soap-ed and not afraid to flail

No. You’ll have to drag me out.

Man, I was just trying to enjoy my coffee before heading into work. Feels like some Prophet of Doom just stepped into my mind and took a piss all over my thoughts.

Now I am late. Ugh. I hate this timeline

Usually somebody would come busting through the front gate yelling “THE POLICE ARE HERE! DA GONNA BEAT YO ASS!!!” and everybody would take off running.

I’ve lost so much which would be considered deeply personal that none of it matters anymore, but you know what I don’t miss? Fucking fast food. Sounds like a giant ad in here.

Porter used to make some great stuff (probably still does). Pretty sure they made my favoritiest dark beer, the Russian Imperial Stout. Phenomenal.

I’m having that same experience with Honkai Star Rail. This is coming from a guy whose first games were on an Atari and pretty much quit any new gaming about the time Skyrim came out.

I dill not see that coming.

…I’ll show myself out.

You shower with pickles?

No. But I wasn’t doing anything particularly complex, just a LAMP stack server for some game forums. Think I had a Dell desktop. Was a dishwasher at the time.

Took a few days fumbling through tutorials but I eventually got it up and running. Repeated that a few times over the years, once to host a blog, stuff like that.

Would like to get into it again but all I have now is a tablet.

Ah, a fellow controls guy out in the wild.

Like the shower?

Fun fact: Napoleon had a set of dining utensils made out of aluminum, which for its time, was considered rare and luxurious.

I tried Bluesky before I found Lemmy. I really wanted to like it but after a few months I decided it wasn’t for me. It’s got a chicken-or-egg problem and you need to bring your own fanbase if want to have any interaction.

I never liked Twitter and don’t feel it’s a particularly good model for actual socializing. I think it was created back when people were still hacking together ideas, it sort of worked, and it hasn’t changed much since.

It’s great for disseminating stuff, terrible at creating space for discussion.

The founders seem like a bunch of young ultra-capitalists who sensed an opening in the market and are just shooting their shot. The app reflects this in subtle ways.

Thanks, I hate it.

I think the two cc’s offend me somehow. But kudos for word making