People have a psychological disposition to latch on to negative ideas faster than positive ones so it makes sense that negative ideas are more viral online

Depending on how you are being executed it might make the lethal injection more prolonged and painful

My friend was working front of house at a posh hotel in Edinburgh and Irvine Welsh (the author of Trainspotting) tried to pull the “Do you know who I am?” as he was being thrown out for being rowdy. My mate responded, “Yes I know who you are that’s why I’m chucking you out!”

Yes but it needs to be something like Black Flag or Rage Against The Machine where the lyrics and themes are dealing with ideals as opposed to explicitly naming candidates/parties/shibboleths.

Mary Poppins when they fly kites

People seem to have no moral compunctions about digital panhandling under the banner of “mutual aid”. I hope no one falls for it.

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The streets were paved with gold and everyone said “hello” to strangers in the street with a smile. Getting a job was a matter of walking up to a person in a suit and giving them a firm handshake. VAR wasn’t a thing in sports because the referees got every decision right. Cats and dogs got along fine with each other. Everyone had enough friends to play Goldeneye on N64 multiplayer. People didn’t gain weight despite eating no vegetables. They hadn’t invented 2nd hand smoking yet so everyone was free to smoke inside without it affecting anyone else. Musicians did drugs but never OD’d, just produced classic albums on demand. People read books constantly and you could expect to strike up a conversation with a petrol station employee about Satre where you’d get caught for hours marveling at their insight. You could have 3 pints at lunch during the working day with your boss. Concorde took you across the Atlantic in a matter of hours. Everyone had a tamagotchi and none of them starved.

I can use it to track abandoned side projects

ASCII fluid dynamics – IOCCC2012 endoh1.c

Shadow of a Doubt is worth a watch! Was on youtube last time I checked

Aged 32, finding each year more enjoyable as I grow into a career and have more disposable income

Kovid Goyal was extremely unhappy about python2 being sunsetted. He was pondering maintaining it himself at one point because it required such a re-write porting to python3.

Probably shouldn’t have been bringing up my heavy experiences on your light hearted post. Just recently recovered so still marvelling at how thoroughly it messes up your shit.

I had a horrible experience with psychosis earlier this year. The thing I never grasped before is how none of it appears like a hallucination like adventurous people might have experienced in other contexts. The whole thing appears real and totally credible. I had the spotlight effect and had become convinced there was some kind of conspiracy against me where the neighbours had dispatched assassins to my flat.

I seriously doubt someone in the throws of a psychotic episode is able to consent in a meaningful way.

Many people post online because they want to have an argument or bait other people into an argument. I’m not sure how you can correct a fundamental human flaw in a specific online community.

Given my work as a dev I’ve pretty much always got BBC Sounds on in the background while I’m working. Mainly Radio4 but also Radio6 for music and sometimes sports on Radio5 (Australian Open tennis is a personal favourite for cold winter mornings.)

Actual hottake unlike the OP

I use gentoo on my main PC and debian on an old Thinkpad.

Debian is solid as a rock provided you don’t edit the sources to make it a “FrankenDebian” where it is pulling in more recent packages like Ubuntu.

I work at a big company that advertises often at big events. We have internal discussions about making the ads less obnoxious.