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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I try to ask the author to let them know I think it is dank. I don't think it is required. Just think it is nice to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Ah, thanks. I never heard that reference before in regards to fascism and liberalism.

But I'm not a liberal. I'm a leftist.

Also I never said it was possible to go back. I just said it was better back then compared to now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The trick here is they don't actually care if it's autistics or not. They just want want to create another "other" for society to Target. So you'll get them blasting this on news all over the United States of America " see this perfectly normal looking heartbeat, this is the autism heartbeat. We needed to put whoever this terrible person is in whatever terrible position we're going to put them in".

It's just like sending people to El Salvador with mom tattoos. They don't care if they're in a gang or not.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

It turns out all countries have an authoritarian desire and like to do horrible stuff to their civilians. At any point in time some may be better than others. But all of the problems stem from the same root problem of power. It's a human thing and it's unavoidable. Something that citizens will always need to fight against.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You are correct, but the average person is not paying attention to that kind of stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is allowed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What are you talking about? Literally this whole thread started with me pointing out. It's worse now than it was last year. I never said it was the best situation last year. What do you mean talking about Good cop? I have been honest.

You do realize that calling what we had before Trumps second term a democracy does not mean that. I think it's the best right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think we're going around in circles. I've already answered this. I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree here. I haven't found many of your arguments terribly convincing. I'm sure the same is for you on my arguments. Our times are probably better spent elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yeah, I definitely don't care enough to discuss it with you. Have you read what you have posted? You sound like the least reasonable person to discuss this with. You aren't even engaging with what I have posted, you are just activated by the fact that my definition isn't exactly your definition. Go argue about nothing with someone who cares, I am not into this kink.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This is the capitalistic way. The weak must die.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If people don't think there are problems why would people build solutions? Are you offering your boobs or someone else's boobs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I could be both, but I am not.

 

I have been a software engineer of off highway farm equipment for most of my life. I have like 15 years of it. I have just lost the ability to care about it anymore.

I have explored all the things that interest me and now it seems like everything is just turning the crank to completion. A very boring/slow turning with deadline pressure. I am doing less development and more code reviews because I have become a more senor developer.

My position in the company is pretty good and I could probably ride it out until I die or the company picks up on the fact that my output has dropped due to the lack of caring. But that eats at my soul and it isn't fair to my coworkers.

If money wasn't an issue, I would jump to game development but I hear that doesn't pay well or treat their employees well either. I suppose I could start my own company...

I have a wife and we plan to have one kid if that is possible for us.

Burnout is a possibility, but if that is what this is, I am not sure what to do about it.

So here is what I think my options are. I am open to other suggestions:

  1. Stay where I am.
  2. Pivot hard to management where I am.
  3. Try to find a new job within Embedded Systems
  4. Try to do Game Development.
  5. Drop everything, become a philosopher like Diogenes of Sinope

Thanks for your consideration.

 
 
 

I am enjoying the game, except one thing in the story that keeps coming up and causes me cognitive dissonance. I am in the first system and it isn't clear to me why we are not considered Pirates.

The characters are always saying stuff like "Don't be a Pirate" or "Kill all the Pirates". And then we do stuff like steal from factions/corporations that are neutral to us. Why doesn't that cause us to be Pirates?

We literally accidentally kidnapped someone. I am so confused.

 

So, I have come to the conclusion that the word "want" in my brain has two closely related meanings.

  1. Something I want right now for the dopamine. Ex Ice Cream.
  2. Something that I want for my self long term. Ex to be healthy.

It is hard enough to organize my thoughts normally, but when I have competing wants like Ice Cream, vs to be healthy. It really sucks to have the same word for both.

Does anyone else feel this way? Is there other words that you use to help separated these ideas in your head?

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