MonkeMischief

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Hehe so funny seeing Trogdor references in 2024. :D

YES!!! I used to take so much pride in theming!

It's actually one of the reasons I really enjoyed Windows ME. Usability was awful, yes, but it came with so many icons and sound packs and wallpapers and screensavers!!

Back in the day I even amassed a bunch of .WAVs cut from movies for computer sounds. It made frustrating fatal errors softer when accompanied by "Bring out yer deaaad!"

Linux really does feel like that again, except it's actually usable.

Also I'm so glad KDE has login sounds now, so I hear the MechWarrior startup sequence whenever I log in. :)

taking other people's time very seriously

This is a kind thing to do, but I also put it squarely in the "respect is earned" category.

I wouldn't give someone hell for being 10 mins late because traffic or whatever, but if their standard is expecting me to be there half an hour early, just staring at the clock, won't let me clock in early and just get to it, burning time I'll never get back, anxiously awaiting to clock in on the dot and not a minute more or else...

...They clearly don't think much of my time and therefore the relationship is going to be adversarial in nature.

until it is wrested from their cold dead hands.

Does the wresting happen often or do most folks just wait for Father Time to do all the work? :( lol

Exactly. The desperation is a workforce supply assurance feature, not a failing of the system as designed.

I think this is a big stumbling block with Lefties we need to get over, especially young and eager ones.

People want so badly to belong, but there's so much of a culture of purity-testing and pre-judgement that they're terrified of being eaten by their own for doing any wrong whatsoever.

I appreciate trying to minimize harmful impact and maximize helpful impact, but people get so hostile because someone like, buys anything, or has a job. Get over yourselves, kids.

Absolutely. There's a line between "willfully sold out to Evil Corp because money good and I like money lol", and "I need a job because eating is nice and they were hiring."

The original post about Lockheed makes sense, but someone's gotta be on an extremely privileged self-righteous high horse to shout "Baby killer!" at like, the dude working the lobby desk. Lol

Thank you for this incredibly rational take.

What I personally have changed to is judging people for being gung ho about a company, happy with what the company is doing, or are they just there as a job. If you're in accounting and you just loooove working for Amazon and think they do no wrong, then yes I judge a lot

This. I'll usually get along fine with my fellow working class folks in the trenches wherever I end up, and I'll make friends with the cool managers even if they're managers.

Few people are excited to be forced into a corrupt and awful system to justify their existence.

But more often than not, they're the True Believers(TM) that are so utterly brain-warped into thinking some job actually cares about them, and make it part of their identity to "represent the brand". I give these simps a wiiiide berth.

When it's a grunt employee with that mindset, it's even more pathetic.

Bang on. Right there with you.

I'm working on becoming a game developer but I live in a place chock full of casinos, so looking up "games company" on a map is very disappointing here.

They can sure pay well sometimes, though. The temptation is real. But I really couldn't have any sort of passion for even sweeping their floors, much less constructing flashier products that merely serve to more-efficiently short circuit people's rational thinking into emptying their wallets.

I think the loud secret is that these "games" thrive on desperation en masse, rather than the comparatively few wealthy and "responsible gamblers."

I don't judge the plenty of good folks who make a living doing it because they need to make a living, but I'd rather struggle more towards something I can believe in that doesn't compromise my soul or contribute to ruining anybody's life.

Now if only high moral standards could pay the bills...

Oh well, I'll just keep remembering Matthew 6:26 :)

My first glance I thought it was a narwhal tusk o_o

So, the Punisher is a comic book character that was formerly a villain but became somewhat of an anti-hero in the 80's, when vigilante heroes were very popular due to right-wing sentiment that lawful "red tape" meant bad guys ran amok because they had...y'know...human rights.

Unlike a huge majority of Marvel characters, Frank Castle not only disregards that pesky "due process" and all that jazz, he straight-up goes and kills the bad guys , like gangs, mafia, and so-on.

Military guys started adopting the skull logo for intimidation purposes, and the cops who think they're military thanks to crap like the "war on drugs" and whatever, adopted a "thin blue line" version of the logo, which basically screams:

"I have fantasies of violence and would probably take the opportunity to 'clean up the town' by just murdering people I thought were bad without those pesky 'laws' and 'rights' in the way."

Or

"I support cops who would do that."

It's worth noting the authors of the comic book character included an issue where cops wanted a selfie and clearly idolize him, and Frank Castle "The Punisher", tells them off because they're supposed to uphold the law , and they should be looking up to Captain America instead.

So, you'll see these bumper stickers proudly displayed (with many different variants), and they scream the same thing: "I'm a self-centered, self-righteous jerkface who hates everyone who isn't me, I wish someone would just kill everybody I'm pretty sure is bad, no questions asked."

It's since gone even further through the MAGA-filter like everything else once-even-vaguely-conservative.

--Source: Am Damn American, but don't use so broad a brush. We're screaming right along with you. :)

For YouTube stuff I'd recommend an alternative front end like freetube.

Just wanna add I've REALLY struggled with YouTube and found success with Firefox add-ons. One is called "unhook" which has a range of features, but namely it disables the front page and the side recommendations that keep you infini-clicking through more videos! (All of this is toggleable as well, in case you want to go on an algorithm odyssey for a bit.)

The other one is "clickbait blocker" I think it's called. It replaces the video thumbnails with a frame from the middle of the video.

I swear both of these have seriously given me SO MUCH time back. YouTube opens to a main totally blank page now so I can go straight to my music playlists without getting mentally-hijacked, or search specific Blender tutorials or something without infinite recommendations. It's awesome!!