Walking away from Omelas?

Plus, people quit and get fired, all the time.

In one sense, there’s no point in getting attached to them, because they, like you and me and all of us, are expendable cogs in a capitalist machine.

On the other hand, those networks of “work friends” do tend to get each other jobs when they quit or get fired, so there’s some value in making those connections if you plan to stay in the business.

I have said for years now: the USA is the best possible place to be rich or to get rich. But if you aren’t, and have no plans or ability to be, then it’s the worst in the developed world.

Racism and misogyny. That is all it is.

It is also a bullshit highway, and bullshit can travel faster since it isn’t held back by understanding, logic, or even thought.

Only those who were not tight.

Most change happened with 20% supporting, 20% opposing, and the rest not giving a shit and waiting to get behind whomever wins

Very true, count dongulus.

Exactly this. This is their life’s work. It’s what they are good at and what they love. And often tbe only thing. They would not know what else to do.

My buddy in the 80s drove a shit station wagon from the 70s that his parents gave him that had only an 8 track.

Err, credit card companies have been doing this for decades

If my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bicycle

Who the fuck still used token ring in 2024.

I got PTSD from it even being mentioned.

I’m in this picture and I don’t want to be.

Isnt this the premise of the matrix? Tech plateaued in 1999 and went downhill from there

Zoinks

Found the debian user!

Yes, or Bayonne, New Jersey, which is what I thought they meant

Aggravates the shit out of me. I was reading about some famous person, and it said he’s from Bayonne. And I thought, no shit, he’s from Jersey?

No, not that Bayonne, and not that Jersey either.

Jesus fuck why couldn’t people have made up new names, or just used more of the native names that already existed?