overview for GaveUp

I've tried to "be normal" and fit in for the past 9 years of my life in an ocean of children from bourgeois immigrant families, the most insufferable flaccid energy, cabbage for brains STEM bros called Stanford/MIT/Berkeley students, and carbon copy clones of elite Silicon Valley coders so predictable it's like they're all Nano Puff jackets from the same Patagonia factory and it's caused irreparable damage to my personality and thought patterns

It's ironic that all they do is type 0s and 1s into text files on their computers all day yet they're all fucking 0s. As in Zero chance of avoiding the Wall. Zero chance of redemption. I will re-educate these pickle-ball playing pickle-dick pickles so thoroughly historians will call it the fucking HoloKafka (Streams)

If I was in a room with Hitler, Churchill, Bush, Zuckerberg, a random Google coder, and a gun with 2 bullets in my hand, I'd shoot the coder's index finger off so they can't rock climb any routes harder than a V2 anymore and then

CW: non serious self harm

blow my brains out through the roof of my mouth so I don't have to be subjected to this mind poison anymore

This nightmare labyrinth of tech companies is like Scandinavia, where all of its residents are smug bourgeois-proletariats completely drunk on the social democrat lifestyle and benefits but instead of being trapped by artificial human inventions like "borders", I'm trapped by equally dumb bullshit called "shit healthcare", "ever increasing rent prices", and "being born to factory workers instead of wealthy doctors"

You wanna know how I got these scars? After my co-worker said it was a good thing his teammate got laid off and deserved it because he was a slow coder, I bashed his nerd skull into his mechanical keyboard over and over till he was throwing up Soylent and La Croix and accidentally cut my hand on the MX Cherry Red key caps while doing so

Use this one weird trick to have correct opinions on the USA by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago

90 is genuinely an undercount imo

Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

Are you fucking stupid, you think Japanese cars used to run on rice?

Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The source for that claim is entirely from the US state department. Not to mention some expert disputed that claim

"The estimated all-time high for opium production was set in 2017 at 9,900 tons worth some $1.4 billion in sales by farmers or roughly 7% of Afghanistan's GDP, the UNODC reported."

"Mansfield says his field studies show the most the Taliban can earn from illicit opiates is about $40 million annually"

So the Taliban made at most 40 million per year while the entire country (under US occupation and control) made over 1 billion per year

Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago

What's wrong with Russian memes lmao

Are you scared of their memes?

China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No one in China is ever asked what they want or what they believe in

Thousands in China were asked every single year from 2003 to 2016 by Harvard in an intensive study that they've described themselves as "nothing comparable done on this scale, over such a long period of time, and over a large geographic area"

The conclusion they found is that 95%+ of Chinese citizens are satisfied with the government

If you tell me Harvard is a Chinese propaganda institution I'll take your word for it though

What's the deal with Hexbear? by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Easy to admit their country is shit. Harder to admit their country is worse than the Asians'

What's the deal with Hexbear? by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

downbear

China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago

Fascist states famously sold off large amounts of state assets to capitalists. Nazi Germany even inspired a new word for this, called "privatization" because they did it so much

It's okay to not have opinions on things you don't know. Learn so that you can create informed opinions

What's the deal with Hexbear? by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 81 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It was absolutely not obvious at all to Americans back then. Or more accurately, they wanted to believe the lies so they did

73% of Americans were in favor of invading Iraq

What's the deal with Hexbear? by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago

Exception in thread "main" IllegalArgumentException: 23
at parseLlamaTokens.main(parseLlamaTokens.java:28)

What's the deal with Hexbear? by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 47
at paginateLlama.main(paginateLlama.java:28)

What made you choose your instance? by GaveUp in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago

I was on lemmygrad at first but then they banned me for being a liberal so now I'm on hexbear