I, too, am passionate about dental hygiene.

I'm technical in a broad sense but not in the tech industry. I'm a production engineer putting in production lines for the auto industry.

How do you know this? What capitalist society has fallen apart that you can point to as an example?

Agreed. I have a similar critique of some of the other comments. A lot of people are pointing to problems right now and drawing the conclusion that capitalism caused those problems. No doubt that capitalism was part of many problems but I think it's flawed to say the problems of today are uniquely caused by capitalism.

I can't think of a country that is purely capitalistic. They're usually some mixture of free-market with government intervention where needed. I think the US is in a period of transition but that description will likely hold for the future.

Management was really worried they didn't have enough bugs. They were so released when QC came back with a laundry list. Wouldn't want to damage the brand's future by setting the bar too high.

Yeah he mentioned things like that were happening during the blackout but he said it's mostly back to normal for him now. He also watches TV and movies with all sorts of ads. For me, that's an instant pivot to find something else to do. My dad has repeatedly asked me if I want some product he sees in an Instagram ad. I eventually had to tell him to specifically never get me a product he sees in an ad. People on the fediverse aren't normal. We care a lot about things most people don't really mind.

I'm not disagreeing but it's still kicking. My friend who is on reddit said it was weird for a couple days during the blackout but it's back to normal now. He also wondered why I didn't use the official app. Like it or not, most people are like him.

Ok maybe you can tell me. Is this referring to Boulder Colorado? It doesn't mention the state anywhere in the article.

I play the Furi soundtrack whenever I'm heavily caffeinated trying to get shit done

Second for Reborn. It's solid front to back. I'm a big fan of the Zenith, Vigilante, Zombie stretch from the album.

I don't think this is a practical take. If I'm driving a car, I'm in control and know my intentions. If I'm responsible for an accident, it's because I wasn't fully alert or did something stupid.

If autopilot is driving the car, I don't know the car's intentions. It might cause a dangerous situation before my brain can process that it has bad intentions and take over. If it sees something in the road that isn't there, it might swerve or brake and I won't recognize until it already happened. That's considering an alert driver with full concentration behind the wheel. The whole point of autopilot is to reduce the driver's workload. It does that by requiring less concentration. I think it's inherently dangerous to require human intervention in autopilot systems.

I don't think we can say "consistently" when the largest instance federated with the largest tankie instance.

I get your point but the sun does give you cancer.

America is definitely pretty deeply invested in car-centeic living. But I don't think it's impossible to get out of it. There's rising pressure to lower housing costs, traffic, and improve infrastructure quality. My city (which is about as car centric as it gets) is growing fast and most of that is with infil development. It's going to be a slow transformation but I think it will happen. I don't think American cities will look like European or Asian cities because they won't evolve the same way. But they will look different to how they look now.

Remember when Michael Scott "declared" bankruptcy?

I play Smash Ult every weekend with my buddy. During the pandemic, I got so fed up with Smash online that I picked up SFV. I was an Akuma main. Now I'm learning Dee Jay in SF6. Fun stuff.

I used to make my own booch. I didn't even know it was some health drink. I just liked it. When people heard I made my own, they assumed I was really into gut health when I was really just into drinking booch but didn't want to pay the high prices for store bought.

I like them but I get it when people don't like them. I describe their music like an ice cream brain freeze. It's something that's plain and pleasurable with all it's qualities pushed to the point of blowing out your senses. I like the grating overblown insanity but I understand it's not for everyone.

Hip hop is pretty mainstream now but it started as counter culture. And I don't think a sample in a song makes it similar to the sampled song. A lot of tracks that rely on samples completely create something new. Look at J Dilla who relied almost entirely on samples. His music isn't a collection of old songs, it's entirely new songs. I guess this thread is for boomer takes.

At least for me, I don't hate the Beatles because they made bad music. I hate them because they sound generic. Of course, they sound generic because of their far-reaching influence but that doesn't change my perception of them.