If it’s anything to ya, Gaius Julius Caesar saw a statue of Alexander the Great and had an emotional breakdown – Alexander the Great had conquered “the entire world” (or, well, the world as ancient greeks understood it) in his 20s and Caesar was 30 going on 40, and he was “just” a Roman General. – He eventually did scorch his name into the annals of history, but he was over 45 when he did.

And like. We don’t need to be Julius Caesar or JRR Tolkienn. It is more than enough if by the age they became legends you have figured yourself out just enough to be living instead of surviving, especially if, unlike them, you didn’t get a head start by having rich parents. :P

World War 1 was a pretty shit time to be alive. Sure, his family had dosh, which probably protected him a bit.

… But when the world is going to shit (and it HAS gone to shit, many times before), it goes to shit universally.

After WW1 there was the Great Depression and a lot of people (including plenty of old money folks) lost their everything. – And right after that there were the Nazis. Y’know, the original Nazis, the ones that the current US government is trying to imitate. They seem to respawn whenever a capitalist nation is in crisis, I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.

Do not fall into the trap of “the good old days” because that is, ironically, how fascists get you. The past was awful, in different ways but awful.

But by that time he was a university professor… And had fought in the Great War.

Hey it’s okay, some of us get our masochism kick from butt-stuff. Some of us get it from using tools from the 70s.

cfdisk is fine

Masochists use regular fdisk. No curses tui, just a command line designed in the seventies with engineers in mind.

Removed by mod

I’d have to relearn a bunch of shit.

Don’t feel up to it. I’m so used to my setup.

Even using SteamOS (“Arch but we modded it to be sorta kinda like an immutable distro but not really”) miffs me more than it should.

Because Gerontocracy is the true law of the land, and is older than both capitalism and feudalism.

JD Vance just existed

The pope died of cringe from experiencing Vance’s presence.

Here’s the thing.

I really liked the ending of the original series.

And I am very wary of series continuing after a satisfying ending has already been provided. Which is something I think every nerd can relate to in some way or another.

So can you guarantee I won’t be burned?

Since it seems language AIs are going to become inescapable (not a fan, but if you can’t beat 'em…), make it a toggle so that users who want to can have error messages with different “personalities”, and those who don’t can just have the machinelike codes.

Insert that intentionally unhinged thing I like to post here, about how we should bring back victorian servant-to-master etiquette but only and exclusively for computers trying to communicate with humans.

I prefer to man touch 🏳️‍🌈

I don’t know. One of my friends in college was an astrology girl but I made a point to not ask her for details (OR tell her about the thing I learned at my internship–)

HUEHUEHUE please do NOT give stray cats and dogs handjobs.

But as the other poster said – It means “half joking”

Early February 2020. Someone in my main friend-group groupchat posted some news regarding Coronavirus. Me, happy citizen of UnderARockVille said “What the fuck is a Coronavirus?” and got gently made fun of.

A few weeks later aaaaand we were quarantining.

Neither? I’d wash my hands off the whole thing “on your head be it if this goes to shit”.0

Not calling the authorities, also not going to need torture to tell them what I know if you get caught.

Horoscopes on radio shows? Made up on the spot or stolen from google. And I’m willing to bet the ones on newspapers and websites are too.

I wonder how many astrology girlies would have their hearts broken by this.

Learned this when I interned at a radio station. (My field is communications; Journalism + Marketing.)

The cats and dogs out in the street are free. You can just bring a friend home. /hj