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I was the guy building linux systems from the trash in 1999. And then complicated distributed systems for fun. Now I want to leave everything at defaults, or just turn on dark mode and be done with it.
Working in tech has ruined tech for me. Hopefully not forever…
Unhealthy food
Me too! I don’t know if it’s my mind or body that doesn’t want it
Aging. Hate entropy a lot.
Myself
Aging
Capitalism and people that say they would be in the “political center” or “unpolitical”.
Yes, let’s always be on the extremes. Yes No, Left Right, Up Down, Good Evil. Having no middle ground is amazing. It’s done wonders for the US.
In the US progressives are as far left as you get.
Almost anywhere else in the world US progressives would be centrists.
So you’re right, the US being so far right wing is really problematic.
Great USAian take. I guess the cancer of two party system thinking has spread.
ah yes both my username and avatar just scream america
No they don’t, but your mind has been infested. It’s been infected to believe that there is no middle ground. That if I’m not with you, I’m against you. That there is no center, because the center means being right-wing. If you see the center as an enemy, you have already given into the USAian mindset.
I invite you to consume less USAian media, go outside, touch grass, talk to people who have differing opinions that you do, try and ask them why and how they came to their conclusions, ask them where they come from. I would even encourage you to join a political party of your choosing and try to see how consensus is formed within it. You might come to realise that world isn’t black and white.
The problem is when those people with differing opinions want to see me in an asylum for daring to not fit into their narrow view of gender roles and sexualities.
I don’t know in which utopian country you live but in mine the centrist parties adopt more and more policies of a party that would stand close before being banned if they didn’t get a fifth of the votes in the last election meaning that the vote to ban them will now get delayed until the fascists are in power.
There are nazis that call themselves left because they have the word “socialist” in their name. Pepe was used by nazis and the news focused on that despite it being used for nothing related to right-wing shit for ages before. I could claim I’m a cat and that the trees are blue. J.K Rowling can claim she’s a feminist.
Making arguments as if there is no middle ground, no center, no gray, no middle, is an absolutist, USAian perspective.
i’m literally a member of the socialist party in sweden but pop off my man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7Ol0gz11kI’m guessing it’s not doing you much good if you still think there’s only 2 sides.
People.
Working in a cubicle.
Kids.
Honestly, I’m kinda the opposite these days.
- People suck in general. But once in a while you meet someone who makes it worth everything
- Working in an old cubicle sure beats a noisy open floor plan with white noise generators to compensate by adding yet more noise
- I like (mosr) kids more than I like their parents
Hard rock and metal—I used to love them. I would buy any and all albums, from the most popular to the most obscure. Now, it all just sounds like manic noise to me. Even most of the 80s pop I liked is too manic for me. I never thought I would turn into this.
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Money and the wealthy. Everything I was told to look forward to when I got older was smashed and lit on fire in front of my fucking eyes by people who have never wanted for anything. I’m 40, now. I saw the birth of videogames and the Internet, only to watch it get burned down around me so some nepo-baby with a silver spoon can have another zero in their bank account.
We are one of the only generations to have their life be WORSE OFF than their parents, and it hurts the most because those parents likely participated in, or voted for, the very mechanisms that led here. If I’m ever terminally diagnosed with some illness, you’ll see me become the Mario to our modern Luigi.
Sweet foods, my tolerance for sweet things decreases with age. Overall I feel more tolerant, like many more kinds of music, food, drink than I did when younger. But less and less sweet stuff.
Late nights and late meals. In stereotypical old person fashion, I prefer lunch or tea as a big meal and in bed asleep before midnight.
Good shoes - I am kind of sad about this but I just don’t feel like putting on “real shoes” it’s converse or jogging sneakers all the time.
Good shoes
it’s converse or jogging sneakers all the time
Are running shoes not “good” shoes?
For the office, no. I had lovely loafers, high heeled pumps, good looking shoes. They didn’t even allow sneakers until post-Covid, the dress code relaxed.
high heeled pumps, good looking
Oof, sorry to hear about the restrictive dress code. Glad to hear it’s since been relaxed.
candy, though i think it’s more that i’ve gotten better at eating healthy as time goes on.
but man, i just don’t really find most candy appealing anymore, why would i eat candy when i could instead eat the same calories worth of schnitzel?
don’t worry they tell you
who’ll tell me what?
You know that old joke, “How do you know when someone is cruel to animals?” “Don’t worry, they tell you.”
what? that doesn’t make sense and i don’t see how it has anything to do with my comment.
yeah no sorry, even after editing your comment to be almost completely different that still makes no sense
They’re botching an old joke by trying to hammer it into your bit about schnitzel.
The old joke: “How do you spot the vegan in the crowd?” “Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.” It’s a commentary about how vegans will insert themselves into every conversation, on any topic, and somehow make it about veganism. (You know. Like what just happened, just very incompetently.)
It seems @[email protected] is a vegan, if this post of theirs has any meaning, so they’re trying, rather incompetently, to flip the joke on its head and say that no it’s actually the people who eat normally that somehow have this behaviour (even though it makes no sense on the face of it).
The complete disintegration of what I used to stand for.
In what sense?
If they are US, as I am, and over about 30 or so the values we were raised on, ideals if not reality, have disintegrated.
Nailed it. I will be turning 50 this year and as a birthday present I am sure I will be presented with the decline of the United States as a world power. Yay for me.
Noise. I want to go quiet places and do quiet things. When I was older I loved dancing on tables in nightclubs now I just want silence
I’m exhausted by modern music blasting in retail and restaurants. I’ve started wearing earbuds with white noise everywhere.
Over-auto-tuned hip-hop and reggaeton in Japanese themed restaurants. Might as well play death metal. Neither fit the vibe at all.
US American culture and politics. I wish people would stop worshipping that country just because it exports popular films and music. They have destroyed and still destroy democracies all over the world, fuel wars, exploit developing countries, still sell the image of them being “a free country” and “the american dream”.
