OnlyPhones is the future they want. Walled gardens and highly addictive apps and subscriptions and micro transactions. Freedom and real compute power will be locked away in their servers. And the top of the line phones are already expensive enough that pretty much everyone that has one is on a payment plan for it

It’s the grift that keeps on grifting. How long can it keep going

Only time I’ve seen a full cyber truck was at a ski resort parking lot.

Dude was well studied in his psychological manipulation. I was browsing the files and found a research paper on memory suppression/manipulation of children aged 4-13 or so. Supremely fucked up

I don’t think making pipe bombs is as addictive as using AI, but sure

Yes, really. Pretty much any time you can visibly see an arc through the air it’s in the thousands of volts range. If you walk around in socks and zap something and you can feel a shock from your fingertips it’s probably 2-3 kV at least, can be up to 15+ kV, but very low current

Yep, stuff like that and rubber bullets

Which instance should I join if I just lost half a big toenail? Surely someone’s into that…

Fuck CrossFit and fuck endurance sports, I was a sprinter swimmer until it injured my shoulders. I did have a brief vegan phase though. I still eat some of those recipes, but it’s not a full time thing.

Hmmm let’s see what else might check some boxes. I hate coffee, so not that.

Ah shit. Today is 3 years since I quit drinking, but I still drink (non alcoholic) IPAs. That’s a massive check…

I’m currently wearing a plaid flannel. I have a full beard at the moment though, not just a stache.

Hmmm. Yea I’m at least part hipster. Hopefully not more than 50%

Fuck. I’m catching strays over here.

I briefly had a manbun in 2011 before they were a huge thing (I was like 20 or so and just wanted to grow my hair out, give me a break), I’ve had a curled handlebar mustache for shits and giggles, and I now use an Arch based OS (CachyOS btw).

The original before and after is bad enough, but this is a photoshopped one with extra inflated cheeks.

I don’t know why parents never brought it up, but same. Rarely talked about the uncle that died early after a life of drug and alcohol abuse. I didn’t find out that my dad’s sperm donor committed suicide until I was in my 30s. Geeze, the depression and self harm and substance abuse makes more sense huh.

The only way I’ve ever gotten significant raises is job hopping. My last job, I finally got an overdue promotion with a solid ~10-15% raise. But it was too late, I already had a job offer in hand, and put in my 2 weeks a few days later for ~30% more

I had to wait a few days so my 401k was 100% vested before I bailed, put in my 2 weeks on the exact day it vested, internally was laughing my ass off while saying thanks for the promotion

Beat and tortured for hours and “found only 93% of his skeleton”

Fuuuuuck

Not that I’ve seen. There’s stopdrinking with a daily check in post, but not a ton of activity outside of that.