Boozilla @ Boozilla @lemmy.world

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Bosses like that think every problem can be solved with "better motivation" and a "can-do attitude". They are the main reason everything sucks. You can't pep talk failing infrastructure into fixing itself, you dumb mother fuckers.

I hate it, because I like reading and watching videos about physics...but when they throw formulas up there I can't read them. I can read music. I can read code. But I can't read advanced math.

So you don't understand basic American history or what the word ignore means. Got it.

Laugh tracks are awful. So are shows where the live audience has people screaming "Whoooooo!!!!" whenever their favorite actor enters the scene. Married With Children being one example. Jerry Seinfeld calls it "the sound of dumbness".

Two people in my immediate family tried nursing school. One basically finished it, then didn't want to take the cert exam. The other one has dropped out twice. I've heard the stories of how brutal it can be.

I loved math and was good at it until we got to integrals. I could do algebra, geometry, trigonometry, probability, and derivates...and loved all of them. But my brain went splat against integrals.

I barely passed Calculus levels 3 and 4. Honestly, I should have failed them. The professor wasn't very good, he knew this, and he took pity on me. But it was ultimately my own fault.

It was kind of humiliating. I'd always done really well at math, and even tutored other students. Then I just hit a fucking wall with integrals. At that point, I fully understood how other students who struggled with math had felt all along. I had been empathetic to them. But now I suddenly knew what it was like.

I sometimes wonder if a virus or some other unknown medical situation broke that part of my brain. It kind of felt like it. Or maybe it was just beyond my natural abilities, period.

Small Patreon amounts here and there for niche channels. Never any to the big popular ones. I have also occasionally ordered merch.

I have had this same thought many times! Vote with our wallets en masse. It's kind of almost happening to fast food.

The country was founded by slave owners. After that we had various "industry barons" like railroads, petroleum, automobiles, etc. Now we have multinational corporations (with larger budgets and more power than several countries) calling the shots in congress. It's always been like this. Post-WWII provided a brief respite, but that limited run of the "American Dream" was temporary and no longer exists.

Part of the solution would be: worker cooperatives. We need a lot more of those. It won't solve everything, but it's a really good start.

LinkedIn does this. Which is why I almost never look at any profiles on there. Not to mention it just sucks. Necessary evil for working slobs.

It's normal to be curious about people you know. But seeing that someone "looked at a profile" could be misinterpreted in so many ways.

And even if users can't see that info, the data harvesters can.

That episode was so great. It has aged a bit strangely, because now we have 500 streaming platforms and we're still getting screwed.

What a strange way of saying "I can't get laid".

Spez: Guys, we need to brainstorm so hard here. What else can we do to make the site even worse.

Dev Director: Sir, don't you mean more profitable?

Spez: No, dipshit. I didn't stutter. Brain. Storm. Let's hear your shittiest ideas. Go nuts, guys. Nothing's off the table. I fucking hate our users. They must suffer.

Was there a change to YouTube's algorithm and/or payment structure around that time? This is not something I pay much attention to. But content creators complain about it frequently.

Not sure about the news or blogs. Unless their purpose was to drive traffic to their YouTube channels...?

They feel it's a validation that their lives mattered. If your loved ones forget you five minutes after you die, it's like you made zero impact on them. Your life meant nothing.

I don't think anyone expects survivors to sit around grieving and remembering them nonstop for years and years. That would be narcissistic in the extreme. But it's not expecting too much to hope people will think fondly of you once in a while.

I lost a friend to covid. When something reminds me of him, I take a moment to appreciate his memory. Pushing it away or distracting myself to forget him would not make me happier.

No thanks. So-called smart devices = Internet of Shit.

Getting up from my desk with my cup to go get some water from the break room. Stopping at the entrance of the break room because I see That Guy is in there getting coffee. Going back to my desk with the empty cup. Waiting 5-10 minutes. Return to break room to finally get some water.

Thank you for adding this to the discussion. I should have specified that I only print smaller things, maybe 10cm tall at the most. Most things I print are much shorter than that. I have only printed one hollowed print (out of hundreds of objects). For my modest needs, the savings on resin is usually not worth the hassle of cleaning / curing the interior cavities. I can definitely see how having bad geometry could foul up a large, complex and/or hollowed print!

Key lime pie makes a great dessert after spicy Mexican food.

You actually succeeded in the quest from hobbies to career. Well done!