Skip Navigation

GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
GarfieldYaoi [he/him] @ GarfieldYaoi @hexbear.net
Posts
0
Comments
109
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Unironically the best thing about Hexbear is that it doesn't blast you with pop-ups nagging you to make an account. Even Google on my phone will nag me to make an account when I pull up the webpage like I always have for almost two decades.

  • No particular order:

    • Being a furry/furry sympathetic.
    • A science major of any kind. IMO the S needs more love in STEM.
    • Ever overhear them say "walkable" in a positive light.
    • Hobbies besides media consumption
    • Not "too cool" to learn something. Likes learning for fun.
    • Not to concerned with looking cool or badass, either. Look at CHUDs, I made a joke the other day that I can sense a decent bit of residual 90's 'tude in modern CHUDDery, and I think I'm onto something.
  • The Anglosphere

    The French left.

    "Tables don't have genders, you dumbasses."

  • North Dakota

    White

    Republican

    This should have just been the expectation.

  • Holy crap, Lois. Where do I even begin?

    • Microsoft on my desktop. Want to try out Linux but even boomers would make fun of my tech skills. That, and more games are on Windows.
    • Cars. Born in bumfuck nowhere, and cities with public transit are expensive as hell. If I ever get a better paying job, I'm selling that shit and moving anyways, because cars are also a huge money sink in and of themselves.
    • Google. I'll give them props, it's a good search engine even in its enshittified form, some of the ads I can deal with because if I am looking for a new t-shirt or something, then it would make perfect sense a Uniqlo ad would pop up. But its privacy that's the problem, and I try to be as "normal" as possible in this KiwiFarmsified hellscape. In the panopticon, the winning strategy is to not be interesting.
    • My iphone (inb4 avocado toast Venezuela). It would be silly to trash this thing now by principle, but once when its unusable, I'm going for a Linux Pinephone.
    • YouTube. It's a Monopoly and my broke ass doesn't want to subscribe to curiosity stream. It's like Texas though, while it's mostly derivative cringe, there's small pockets of gold that keep me there.
    • Linkedin. Pretentious garbage
    • Suburban life. Again, I am not a suburbanite by choice, decent paying jobs are tight and it's even harder to find an apartment in a state I know I probably won't be killed in AND I can afford.

    TL;DR: I REALLY need to start learning 2 tech so I can navigate tech alternatives. Oh, and I need to get my shit together in life so I can afford to live in a blue city.

  • Not niche per se, but I do watch BritMonkey and CPG-grey. Both are

    s, but it's nice to hear a voice of someone who disagrees with leftism but doesn't smugly dismiss it all, and actually have someone interesting content. Britmonkey in particular, I recommend enter the pleasure cube and The housing crisis is the everything crisis. The latter even inspired me to take up housing as my "pet" issue to rant about.

  • Now that we're on the topic, an idea for an eCafe where there are plenty of physical books, but you can plug in the reader to a machine to fully download the book so you can read it offline.

    I think I want to learn more about coding and find a bunch of leftist buddies and make shit that's actually "innovative".

  • Normies actually believe what he says.

    Look at 4chan, there's no shortage of idiots who want to believe that porky is our lord and savior and they're actually the good guys when they go around ruining other people's lives "for teh lulz".

  • What are the first ten word of the first amendment you hold so dearly when a minority asks you politely to be nice?

    WHAT ARE THE FIRST TEN WORDS, MOTHERFUCKER!?

  • The profit motive isn't there. Enshittification is, for lack of a better term, digital rent-seeking behavior. An anticapitalist site is ideologically opposed to the profit motive and is not seeking out profits above all else, as long as it is being properly funded by donations: we have nothing to worry about.

    4chan is somewhat similar, 4chan is not a business and isn't looking for a profit. But I get the feeling there is no shortage of megachurches or Koch industries funding the site.

  • : "Cities? Public transportation? That's for poor people!"

    Oh man, I fucking wish.

  • Nazis literally came back solely for, as the kids say, "having rizz".

    Normies just suck.

  • The one good thing about enshittification is that they make the free, open-source versions the superior choice.

    For once, greed actually is sometimes their undoing.

  • WHAT!?!?! But my favorite internet celebrities all said beef is a superfood!

  • Also, it's ironic that cars are supposed to be a status symbol because "public transit is for poor people" but cars are practically mandated and cities where public transit exists are expensive to live in thanks to high rents.

    Actually, it's public transit that should be the sign of wealth and cars that are "for poor people" but something tells me that by some strange alchemy, that means a car is a sign that one is a salt-of-the-earth working class type now.

  • The internet: "ITS DA JOOZ! ITS DA JOOZ!"

    Also the internet: "Israel is completely infallible and and can do no wrong because America says so."

    How the fuck do normies balance these two contradictory ideas?

    • Sly Cooper trilogy: Although it was made in the 2000s, I like Sly Cooper because it gave me a curiosity for other cultures and isn't just set in America. Also, the soundtrack is GOATed.